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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 ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

One Community Welcomes Hamilton Mateca to the Design Team

Posted on September 28, 2016 by One Community

One Community Welcomes Hamilton Mateca to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer: Hamilton is a space planner, drafter, and CAD operator from Angola who has been living in the United States for the past 15 years. He is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, and is currently learning Albanian. Hamilton has an extensive Interior Design education from The Art Institute of Philadelphia as well as AutoCAD certification from Ashworth College. He specializes in design development, architectural drafting and design, mechanical drafting and design, and 3D modeling and illustration. He possesses the creative ability of manipulation and coordination of materials, technology, light and shadow. He also has Photoshop training and advanced Revit and CorelDraw skills. This combined experience and education makes him the ideal consultant for planning and designing spaces with ambiances that reflect aesthetic functionality for technical, social, and environmental purposes. To boost his creative thinking, Hamilton maintains a curriculum of traveling, studying, and spending time with loved ones. He also loves snowboarding, which in turn keeps him entertained during the winter. His contribution to One Community has been in the design of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), where Hamilton has had the chance to develop most of the foundational aspects of this building.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HAMILTON!

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Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #183

Posted on September 25, 2016 by One Community

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating a global sustainability cooperative through open sourcing and free-sharing replicable sustainable village models. These villages are combining sustainable food, energy, and housing with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

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 September 25th, 2016 edition (#183) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on creating a global sustainability cooperative:

Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #183

Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative - One Community Weekly Progress Update #183

Watch this video on YouTube

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @1:03

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:45

Added some additional content, reviewed, and made edits to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:13

Continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Updated the Sketchup image with the new EPS layout numbers and a corrected width of the wet dome (see below)
Brianna Johnson created five finished renders and six 2nd generation renders of 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 continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued using Hamilton’s work to build the Compressed Earth Block Village in 3D (see below)
Yee-Cheng Ho began helping us create new exploded views for the Shipping Container Village and Recycled Materials Village (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:12

Continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome (see below)
“Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work and completed what we think will be the final placement for the City Center columns (see below)
Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 16th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:42

Further updated our Terms and Conditions page with the help of Oz Czerski (see below)
Jennifer Zhoucompleted her 11th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @8:21

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CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

As part of creating a global sustainability cooperative this last week the core team transferred the second 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 50% completed on our website:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - This last week the core team transferred the second 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 Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of creating a global sustainability cooperative this week, the core team added some additional content, reviewed, and made edits to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - This week, the core team added some additional content, reviewed, and made edits to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Content, Reviewed, and Made Edits to the Transition Kitchen Page ” Click to Visit

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

As part of creating a global sustainability cooperative this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s work focused on multiple revisions and updates of the Duplicable City Center pages and and the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) presentations, which you can see here:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - This week the core team continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week's work focused on multiple revisions and updates of the Duplicable City Center pages and and the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) presentations, which you can see here.

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

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we finished!! our comprehensive review of the FFF doc and passed it forward to begin professional review and editing by Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager). This done, our efforts then moved to researching waterproofing paint where we found appropriate options to effectively use against stucco cracks because the product contains Portland cement. We also wrote a new narrative for the EPS puzzle based on a different numbering layout.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we finished!! our comprehensive review of the FFF doc and passed it forward to begin professional review and editing by Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager). This done, our efforts then moved to researching waterproofing paint where we found appropriate options to effectively use against stucco cracks because the product contains Portland cement. We also wrote a new narrative for the EPS puzzle based on a different numbering layout.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Here is the updated Sketchup image with the new EPS layout numbers and a corrected width of the wet dome:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - eps-layouts-b183-640

Updated the Sketchup Image of the EPS Layouts ” Click to Visit Footer and Foundation Page

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), added final Photoshop details to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) Apartment Loft render:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), added final Photoshop details to the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) Apartment Loft render:

Apartment Loft Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

…this finalized version of the Apartment Living Room:

Apartment Living Room Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

….this finalized Apartment Bedroom render:

Apartment Bedroom Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

…this finalized Apartment Bathroom render:

Apartment Bathroom Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

…and this finalized Library Workspace render:

Library Workspace Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village Page

Also these 2nd generation renders of the gym… kitchen… outdoor benches… outdoor fire pit… playground… and outdoor walkway areas:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- Also these 2nd generation renders of the gym… kitchen… outdoor benches… outdoor fire pit… playground… and outdoor walkway areas:

Straw Bale Village 2nd Generation Renders – 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 37 of his work that finalized the overview render and further developed the shadows, textures, and other aesthetic details of this perspective render looking East from in front of the village:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 37 of his work that finalized the overview render and further developed the shadows, textures, and other aesthetic details of this perspective render looking East from in front of the village:

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

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 9th week of work here that primarily focused on redesigning the rooftop recreation space:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 9th week of work here that primarily focused on redesigning the rooftop recreation space:

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

Also, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued using Hamilton’s work to build the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) in 3D. What you see here is his 4th week of this work inputting all the primary walls and other structures in 3DS Max.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- Also, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued using Hamilton's work to build the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) in 3D. What you see here is his 4th week of this work inputting all the primary walls and other structures in 3DS Max.

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

Last but certainly not least, Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) began helping us create new exploded views for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). You can see her initial renders here:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- Last but certainly not least, Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) began helping us create new exploded views for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). You can see her initial renders here:

Began Creating New Exploded Views for the Shipping Container Village and Recycled Materials Village

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

As part of creating a global sustainability cooperative this week the core team continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. The texture of the first floor was changed from wooden to polished concrete, two structural columns were decorated to look like beautiful trees, and a couple of different benches were placed around columns. We also updated the texture of the water in the pool and added a couple of underwater lights.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- This week the core team continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome. The texture of the first floor was changed from wooden to polished concrete, two structural columns were decorated to look like beautiful trees, and a couple of different benches were placed around columns. We also updated the texture of the water in the pool and added a couple of underwater lights.

Continued Aesthetic Details on the First Floor of the Social Dome ” Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work and completed what we think will be the final placement for the City Center columns, as seen here:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - Haoxuan

Completed Placement for the City Center Columns – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was the chart seen here starting to outline the specific square footage of every room and the type of flooring they will each have:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE- Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor's of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week's focus was the chart seen here starting to outline the specific square footage of every room and the type of flooring they will each have:

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 16th week of work on the lighting zones, completing what we think are the final outlines. Her last areas revised can be seen here:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 16th week of work on the lighting zones, completing what we think are the final outlines. Her last areas revised can be seen here:

Continued Work on the City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

As part of creating a global sustainability cooperative this last week the core team further updated our Terms and Conditions page with the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law. The additions shown here are in response to litigation making news because it involves a company selling and trying to limit use of someone else’s intellectual property that was placed by the intellectual property owner in the open domain for free use.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - This last week the core team further updated our Terms and Conditions page with the help of Oz Czerski, Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law. The additions shown here are in response to litigation making news because it involves a company selling and trying to limit use of someone else's intellectual property that was placed by the intellectual property owner in the open domain for free use.

Updated our Terms and Conditions Page – Click to Visit Page

This week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 11th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on properly coding the responsiveness details for the header, introduction video, and newly added information box:

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE - This week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 11th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on properly coding the responsiveness details for the header, introduction video, and newly added information box:

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

SUMMARY – CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE

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 Welcomes Jennifer Zhou to the Web Design Team

Posted on September 20, 2016 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jennifer Zhou to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Self-Taught Web Designer: Jennifer has been an overachiever in everything she participates in. Her dedication and perseverance has given her numerous leadership opportunities, leading her to become the Vice President of Science Olympiad, President of The Hugs Project, and Youth Ambassador for Animal Assisted Happiness. Her love for the sustainability movement started with a competition called Green Generation. After participating in this competition, she realized how unsustainable our life is, which motivated her to become an active participant in the green movement and to join One Community. As a member of the One Community Team, Jennifer is creating a completely new One Community website design that will better organize all our open source content, make it easier to find what people want, and look more professional.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JENNIFER!

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Improving Life for All People Everywhere – One Community Weekly Progress Update #182

Posted on September 18, 2016 by One Community

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

Creating a sustainable planet is a path to improving life for all people everywhere. An open source evolution of sustainability that combines sustainable food, energy, and housing with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is one way to accomplish this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 18th, 2016 edition (#182) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Improving Life for All People Everywhere
One Community Progress Update #182

Improving Life for All People Everywhere - One Community Weekly Progress Update #182

Watch this video on YouTube

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

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE INTRO: @1:03

Transferred first 25% of written content for the Personal Growth Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: completed the image research for the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

Added additional descriptions, images, and information about hexayurts to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:21

Continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Updated the Sketchup image of EPS layouts for insulating the ground around the domes (see below)
Ashwini Ramesh completed her 3rd week of taking over Project Management of the Earthbag Village (see below)
Brianna Johnson created six finished renders and two 2nd generation renders of the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed one last render for the Shipping Container Village and continued building the Compressed Earth Block Village in 3D (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:26

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (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 and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)
Neha Verma reviewed and provided feedback on Bupesh’s work from last week while also helping make several updates to the Master City Center AutoCAD file (see below)
Jinxi Feng joined the team and began the research needed to create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:42

Jennifer Zhou completed her 10th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE SUMMARY: @8:59

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IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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 improving life for all people everywhere this last week the core team transferred the first 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 25% completed on our website.

personal-growth-lesson-plan-25-b182-640, This last week the core team transferred the first 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 Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we completed the image research for the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan.

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

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

Beliefs Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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 improving life for all people everywhere this week the core team added additional descriptions, images, and information about hexayurts to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see images of that work here:

This week the core team added additional descriptions, images, and information about hexayurts to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page.

Added Additional Descriptions, Images, and Information about Hexayurts to the Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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

As part of improving life for all people everywhere this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the pages for the upcoming 7 villages online book. This week’s work focused on the updates shown here including cleaned up and new versions of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) presentations:

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

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we continued the comprehensive review of the FFF doc, with the focus on pages 150 to the end of the document, where we made updates related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also made corrections throughout the document that were related to those updates. We’d say we are now 99% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Sketchup image of the EPS layouts for insulating the ground around the domes:

Updated the Sketchup Image of the EPS Layouts ” Click to Visit Footer and Foundation Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) also completed her 3rd week of volunteering with One Community, taking over Project Management of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). For her first three weeks Ashwini began the organization you see here of the 100s of Earthbag Village files and professional review, re-organization and feedback on the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page.

Began Organizing 100’s of Earthbag Village Files – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), created these two finished exterior overviews of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2:

Brianna Johnson Final Render Straw Bale Village Exterior Overview, One Community

Straw Bale Village Exterior Overview Final Render – Click to Visit Page

….this finalized version of the Apartment Exploded View:

Brianna Johnson Final Render Straw Bale Village Apartment Exploded View, One Community

Apartment Exploded View Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

….this finalized Game Room render:

Brianna Johnson Final Render Straw Bale Village Game Room, One Community

Game Room Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

….this finalized Cafeteria render:

Brianna Johnson Final Render Straw Bale Village Cafeteria, One Community

Cafeteria Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

….and this finalized Playroom render:

Brianna Johnson Final Render Straw Bale Village Playroom, One Community

Playroom Final Render – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

…. Also these 2nd generation renders of the auditorium:

Straw Bale Village Auditorium renders blog 182

Auditorium 2nd Generation Renders – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

…..and outdoor barbecue area:

Straw Bale Village BBQ area render blog 182

Outdoor BBQ Area 2nd Generation Renders – Click to Visit Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 36 of his work that focused on more color, shadow, and texture adjustment to make these renders more and more real. He also began work on the initial perspective render looking East from in front of the village:

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

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 8th week of work here showing more updates to the public bathrooms area, South recreation space, and rooftop patio:

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 8th week of work here showing more updates to the public bathrooms area, South recreation space, and rooftop patio:

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

Also, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed one last render we requested for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) upper dining area:

Shipping Container Village Upper Dining Area Final Render – Click to Visit Page

After that, he continued building the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) in 3D. What you see here is his 3rd week of this work as he continued development of the foundational walls and other structures in 3DS Max:

Continued 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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 improving life for all people everywhere this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome and basement. This week we moved the door to the utility room that is under the staircase to face the kitchen and added additional movable storage drawers. We also updated the placement and size of the supporting columns.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders ” Click to Visit Page

We also continued developing the aesthetic details around the natural pool in the Social Dome by adding texture to the supporting columns around the pool, added more branches to the columns, and making adjustments to the lights.

Continued Aesthetic Details on the First Floor of the Social Dome ” Click to Visit Page

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #18 of work on these designs. This week’s focus was color matching and adjusting the column width and ceiling height down to match the work we’re doing with the engineering team.

Began Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving & Overhead Lighting Options ” Click to Visit Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was additional load calculations and updates to the column placements as shown here:

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also reviewed and provided this feedback on Bupesh’s work from last week while also helping make several updates to the Master City Center AutoCAD file.

Reviewed Last Weeks Work and Made Several Updates to the Master City Center AutoCAD File – Click to Visit City Center Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also joined the team and began the research needed to create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her first 3 weeks of behind-the-scenes research into this area. When complete, this work will be used for all of One Community’s laundry machinery purchases and as an open source guide for others that we’ll share on the City Center Eco-laundry page.

Began Research Needed to Create Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click for City Center Eco-Laundry Page

IMPROVING LIFE FOR ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is focused on improving life for all people everywhere 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 improving life for all people everywhere this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 10th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on aesthetic edits, formatting updates, different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes, and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

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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.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point – One Community Weekly Progress Update #181

Posted on September 11, 2016 by One Community

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

How to make a global sustainability starting point: open source all aspects of a sustainable living model that most people would consider better than the way they are living now. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit doing this for â€œThe Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 11th, 2016 edition (#181) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments on how to make a global sustainability starting point:

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point
One Community Progress Update #181

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - One Community Weekly Progress Update #181

Watch this video on YouTube

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

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT INTRO: @1:03

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

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

Added initial cost analysis document and the behind the scenes work to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

Continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Used Sketchup to Explore Different options for EPS Layouts (see below)
Created new and clearer images for the vermiculture bathroom open source page (see below)
Sal Rubio completed his final week of volunteering helping on the Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson created two new overview renders focused on the Straw Bale Village social spaces (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 2nd week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village for quality render creation (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:02

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Added supporting columns into the first floor of the Social Dome (see below)
Bupesh Seethala created version 1 of all the Duplicable City Center elevations (see below)
Iris Hsu began render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 15th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
“Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:44

Jennifer Zhou completed her 9th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT SUMMARY: @7:58

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How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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 demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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 “Beliefs” is now 100% completed on our website.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point ,this last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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

Beliefs Lesson Plan ” Final 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point ,we also completed the final 25% of the mind map for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here.

Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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 demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week the core team added the initial cost analysis document and the behind the scenes work from the last few weeks to the live version of the Transition Kitchen page. You can see some of that work here:

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point , transition kitchen blog 181

Added initial Cost Analysis Document and Other Work to Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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

As part of demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week’s work focused on the updates shown here including cleaned up and new versions of the Earthbag Village, Straw Bale Village, and Cob Village presentations.

As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point ,this week the core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week's work focused on the updates shown here including cleaned up and new versions of the Earthbag Village, Straw Bale Village, and Cob Village presentations.

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

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we continued the comprehensive review of the FFF doc, with the main focus on pages 150-154, where we made updates related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also made corrections throughout the document that were related to those updates. We’d say we are now 98% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point ,the core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we continued the comprehensive review of the FFF doc, with the main focus on pages 150-154, where we made updates related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also made corrections throughout the document that were related to those updates. We'd say we are now 98% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

We also used Sketchup as seen here, to explore different options for EPS layouts for insulating the ground around the domes.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - insulation-b181-640

Used Sketchup to Explore Different Options for EPS Layouts – Click to Visit Footer and Foundation

And we created new and clearer images for the vermiculture bathroom open source page, you can see these images here:

As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point we created new and clearer images for the vermiculture bathroom open source page, you can see these images here:

Created New and Clearer Images for the Vermiculture Bathroom Open Source page – Click to Visit Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also completed his final week of volunteering helping on the Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is his 14th week of helping and the final product of our collaboration to create the layouts for the intro pages to each section… and the tools page that is planned for the intro to the entire instruction set.

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Worked on Layouts for Earthbag Village Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also created these two new overview renders focused on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) social spaces.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also created these two new overview renders focused on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) social spaces.

Created Two New Overview Renders Focused on the Straw Bale Village Social Spaces – 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 35 of his work that focused on fixing the problems that caused computer crashes last week and the series of final render tests seen here… adjusting colors, shadows, and textures to make these renders more and more real.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 35 of his work that focused on fixing the problems that cause computer crashes last week and the series of final render test seen here… adjusting colors, shadows, and textures to make these renders more and more real.

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

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 7th week of work here showing updates to the public bathrooms area, driveway areas, and West and central social spaces on the 2nd floor.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 7th week of work here showing updates to the public bathrooms area, driveway areas, and West and central social spaces on the 2nd floor.

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

Building on Hamilton’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 2nd week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are his continued developments of the foundational walls and other structures in 3DS Max.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - Building on Hamilton's work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 2nd week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are his continued developments of the foundational walls and other structures in 3DS Max.

Continued 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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 demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome basement where we relocated the boiler room, made corrections to the retaining wall location, and rearranged the storage shelves and supporting columns.

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - cc-181-640 , How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point ,

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Additionally, we added supporting columns into the first floor of the Social Dome and continued developing the aesthetic details you can see here.

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Continued Work on the First Floor of the Social Dome – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also created version 1 of all the elevations you can see here:

How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point - As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point , Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also created version 1 of all the elevations you can see here

Created Version 1 of All the Duplicable City Center Elevations – Click to Visit Page

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), began render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #17 of work on these designs that now include books, columns, and furniture layout details.

As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point , Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), began render-testing the recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #17 of work on these designs that now include books, columns, and furniture layout details.

Began Render-Testing Recycled Pipe Shelving & Overhead Lighting Options – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 15th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here, plus double checking the calculation and spreadsheet details. We’d say we are now 98% complete with this component of the City Center.

As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point , Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 15th week of work on the lighting zones. This week's progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here, plus double checking the calculation and spreadsheet details. We'd say we are now 98% complete with this component of the City Center.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was designating additional structural walls and more updates to the column placements.

As part of How to Make a Global Sustainability Starting Point ,Haoxuan "Hayes" Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week's focus was designating additional structural walls and more updates to the column placements.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center ” Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY STARTING POINT HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point 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 demonstrating how to make a global sustainability starting point this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 9th week of work developing the new website structure. The focus continued on formatting updates, different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes, and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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.

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.

Building Sustainable Villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

Posted on September 4, 2016 by One Community

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One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing and free-sharing the complete process of building sustainable villages.

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 September 4th, 2016 edition (#180) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Villages
One Community Progress Update #180

Building Sustainable Villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

Watch this video on YouTube

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

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

Transferred third 25% of written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.
We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

Added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:15

Continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages (see below)
Created 3 new Earthbag Village icons and integrated into the pages (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village for quality render creation (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:25

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Updated the Transition Kitchen designs in Sketchup Â (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones for the City Center (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)
Neha Verma continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:04

Jennifer Zhou completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES SUMMARY: @7:20

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Building Sustainable Villages

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building 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

As part of building sustainable villages this last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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 “Beliefs” is now 75% completed on our website.

Building Sustainable Villages - This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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

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

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

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

Building Sustainable Villages - Honesty and Integrity lesson plan mindmap, 75% complete

Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

Building Sustainable Villages - This week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Images/Descriptions for Transition Kitchen Equipment to Site – Click for Main Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building 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

As part of building sustainable villages The core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week’s work focused on new introduction pages and new images for the Straw Bale Village.

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

We also created 3 new Earthbag Village icons shown here and integrated these into the pages.

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Created 3 New Earthbag Village Icons and Integrated into the Pages – Click to Visit

And we put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 88-150, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added a 6d galvanized finish nail photo and replaced all 16d finish nails throughout the document with 6d galvanized finish nails. We’d say we are now 97% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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Continued Work Updating AutoCAD Drawings for Footer and Foundation ” 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 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean’s computer.

Building Sustainable Villages - Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean's computer.

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

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

Building Sustainable Villages - And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

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

Building on Hamilton’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Building Sustainable Villages - Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Began 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome, where we placed the basement retaining wall and structural columns, and created detailed measurement images for the basement staircase updates we’ll be doing in AutoCAD.

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Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Transition K itchen designs in Sketchup, replacing a double-compartment sink with a 3-compartment sink and adding a dish-drying shelving unit and a sink for pots and pans.

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Updated the Transition Kitchen Designs in Sketchup – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Building Sustainable Villages - Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week's progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We'd say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements, discussing structural walls, and how to better design the geometry of the dome.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Building Sustainable Villages - Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor's of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week's focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit the City Center Plans Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building 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

As part of building sustainable villages this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure, adding more formatting updates, and continuing to test different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

GET INVOLVED

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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

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.

Better Living through Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

Posted on August 28, 2016 by One Community

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We have the ability to create better living through sustainability. If we open source and free-share a replicable model for this, we can spread the idea and sustainable lifestyle globally. The ultimate goal of doing this would be to create a fully sustainable planet capable of meeting the needs of everyone living here. This is the purpose of the all-volunteer One Community nonprofit organization.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 28th, 2016 edition (#179) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living through Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #179

Better Living through Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

Watch this video on YouTube

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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)
Completed second 25% of mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Behind the scenes: updated descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:16

Updated all the images on Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers (see below)
Began serious formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
Updated the Earthbag Village page with all new icons and created several new pages that will host all the open source details for electrical, plumbing, window and door framing, and other details (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson updated the colors and created these two new overview renders for 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 continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld completed his photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:53

Continued work on the interior design of the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 13th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:27

Jennifer Zhou completed her 7th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @8:45

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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 “Beliefs” is now 50% completed on our website.

Better Living through Sustainability – Beliefs Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Better Living through Sustainability – Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week, behind the scenes, the core team updated the descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website, as you can see here:

This last week, behind the scenes, the core team updated the descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to the website, as you can see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Updated Descriptions for the Transition Kitchen Equipment

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team updated all the images on the Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers. What you see here is the updated Highest Good Housing page with the new images. The updated individual village pages have similar new header images and identical social media images.

This last week the core team updated all the images on Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers. What you see here is the updated Highest Good Housing page with the new images. The updated individual village pages have similar new header images and identical social media images.

Updated all the Images on Highest Good Housing Page and the Individual Village Headers

The core team also began serious formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages 1-22. This work included laying high-resolution covers, and new intro pages, updating the City Center layouts, making inset images and resizing text, and setting up new page numbers, style sheets, and aligning the elements on these pages to a set grid.

Better Living through Sustainability – Began Serious Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

We also updated the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) page with all new icons as seen here. As part of this, we additionally created several new pages that will host all the open source details for electrical, plumbing, window and door framing, and other details.

Better Living through Sustainability – Updated the Earthbag Village Page and Created Several New ones

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 58-87, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added new materials to the FFF materials list which included 3/4″ & 1/2″ plywood photos with description of usage along with separate narratives on pages 107 & 108. Additionally, we added 2″ finish nails, which are replacing 3 1/2″ finish nails for the slider. We’d say we are now 96% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Better Living through Sustainability – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 13 of this process that focused on updating the main layouts, intro page for each section, and the symbols page to match the appearance and layout we decided on last week.

Better Living through Sustainability – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also updated the colors and created these two new overview renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2).

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 33 of his work that focused on adding foliage around the windows of the central dining and recreation structure and running test renders testing the background tree images.

Cob-Village-Dean-b179-640, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what's necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 33 of his work that focused on adding foliage around the windows of the central dining and recreation structure and running test renders testing the background tree images.

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

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 5th week of work here showing a redesigned central roadway, added ADA units, a redesigned main public restroom area, and test locations for pillars.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also completed his photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5)! This final work included minor updates to the 3rd Floor circulation image you see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Northside Circulation Space – Click to Visit

….finishing this 2nd floor front area looking out:

Shipping Container Village, Floor 2 Front area looking out, Guy Grossfeld, One Community

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 2 Unit Type 2 Front Area Looking Out

….this finalized version of the stairway up to floor 3:

Shipping Container Village, Floor 2 stairs up to floor 3, Guy Grossfeld, One Community

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 2 Stairs Up to Floor 3 – Click to Visit

…and final edits and additions to this front perspective of the stairs up to floor 2:

Shipping Container Village, Floor 1 stairs up to floor 2, Guy Grossfeld, One Community

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 1 Stairs Up to Floor 2 – Click to Visit

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here is the continued work on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, where we added new trees to the area next to the pool and placed additional lights above the pool. A couple of different views were chosen for future rendering.

Social-Dome-DCC-renders-b179-640, This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here is the continued work on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, where we added new trees to the area next to the pool and placed additional lights above the pool. A couple of different views were chosen for future rendering.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on the Interior Design of Social Dome

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #16 of this work showing beginning integration of our final pipe design for the lighting with the pipe furniture, books on the shelves, and texture tests for the walls and floor.

Better Living through Sustainability – Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 13th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued adding additional zones to differentiate areas within the kitchen, social dome, and outdoor zones, and updating the spreadsheet with the new calculations this required.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 7th week of work developing the new website structure, continuing to focus on making the structure responsive to screen-size changes, upgrading formatting, and working on how to integrate our logo into this format.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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

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

INVESTOR PAGES

GET INVOLVED

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

Evolving Global Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #178

Posted on August 21, 2016 by One Community

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It appears humanity is ready for evolving global sustainability to include approaches to education,economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining these with sustainable food, energy, and housing infrastructure has the potential to create an experience of living that is far superior to how most people are living now, while also regenerating our shared ecosystem. One Community is open sourcing DIY components for this as a model for living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 21st, 2016 edition (#178) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Evolving Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #178

Evolving Global Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #178

Watch this video on YouTube

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

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

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

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

Researched alternative sinks for the Transition Kitchen, and remeasured the blueprints to ensure they would fit (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:22

Created 24 introduction images for the Highest Good Housing page and all the associated open source hubs (see below)
Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Vidya Patil continued with her 4th week of cost analysis for 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 continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with his 10th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
Bupesh Seethala completed final Recycled Materials Village renders (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:38

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Worked on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome (see below)
Bupesh Seethala converted our 3D work on the basement, stairs and dry storage areas into AutoCAD (see below)
And Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 12th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued with his 15th week of work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:30

Researched and added resources sections to all 13 of our core values pages (see below)
Jennifer Zhou completed her 6th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @9:04

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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 “Beliefs” is now 25% completed on our website.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Beliefs Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, which you see here:

Honesty and Integrity mindmap 25% complete, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Honesty and Integrity Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

In order to make meal preparation and clean up easier, this week the core team researched alternative sinks for the Transition Kitchen, and remeasured the blueprints to ensure they would fit. You can see the alternatives here:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Researched Alternative Sinks for Transition Kitchen – Click to Visit

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created 24 introduction images for the Highest Good Housing page and all the associated open source hubs. What you see here is a collage of all these new images:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Created 24 Introduction Images for Highest Good Housing Page

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we again updated Section 1: Tools and Materials, making corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also researched soil stabilization and researched and discussed the best size and use of nails to replace barbed wire. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Evolving Global Sustainability – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 12 of this process that included exploring a diversity of different header and footer formats.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is an exploded view of one section of the living spaces.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 4th week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. This week included updates to all previous room costs and the initial cost research shown here for the public restroom adjacent to the dining area.

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 32 of his work that focused on adding more foliage to the outside of the central dining and recreation structure, running test renders, adding more details to the roof, and creating flat trees for the background.

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

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 4th week of work here, showing the redesign of left living units and social space, group meeting space in the North, and dining area. He also added easier road access for kitchen delivery.

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 4th week of work here, showing the redesign of left living units and social space, group meeting space in the North, and dining area. He also added easier road access for kitchen delivery., evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 10th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). This week he finished these renders of the Mezzanine Dining area:

Floor 3 Shipping Container Village, Guy Grossfeld, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Mezzanine Dining Area Final Render – Click to Visit

… Informal Conference Room:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Informal Conference Room Final Render – Click to Visit

… and Game Room:

Floor 1, Game Room, Shipping Container Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Game Room Final Render – Click to Visit

… He also created version 1 of this Living Unit render:

FLOOR-2-Unit-Type-2-Front-Area-Looking-Out-Guy-b178-640, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Front Area Looking Out – Click to Visit

… and this render of the stairway to floor 2:

FLOOR-1-Stairs-up-to-Floor-2-Guy-B178-640, evolving global sustainability

Evolving Global Sustainability – Stairs Up to Floor 2 – Click to Visit

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also completed these final Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders showing the Music Room:

Music Room Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Music Room – Click to Visit Page

… these two showing the Game Room:

Gameroom Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Game Room – Click to Visit Page

… these two showing the Yoga and Meditation Room:

Yoga room Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Yoga and Meditation Room – Click to Visit Page

Yoga-Room-Out-Recycled-Materials-Village-Final-Render-640-high-res, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Yoga Room – Outside – Click to Visit Page

… and this final update version of the Gym:

Gym Final Render Recycled Materials Village, One Community, evolving global sustainability

Recycled Materials Village – Gym Looking In – Click to Visit Page

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the final render updates for the Dining Dome north view of the kitchen. The updates include the placement of additional lights in the dry storage and refrigerator rooms, updated outdoor views, doorframe corrections, and a floor-color update.

DCC-Dining-dome-b178-640-high-res, This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the final render updates for the Dining Dome north view of the kitchen. The updates include the placement of additional lights in the dry storage and refrigerator rooms, updated outdoor views, doorframe corrections, and a floor-color update., evolving global sustainability

Final Render for the Dining Dome North View of the Kitchen ” Click to Visit Page

DCC-Dining-dome-blog-178-640-high-res, This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the final render updates for the Dining Dome north view of the kitchen. The updates include the placement of additional lights in the dry storage and refrigerator rooms, updated outdoor views, doorframe corrections, and a floor-color update., evolving global sustainability

Final Render for the Dining Dome North View of the Kitchen ” Click to Visit Page

We also worked on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, updating the area next to the pool with plants and lights and testing an artistic butterfly design we will use.

social-dome-b178-640, evolving global sustainability

Worked on the Interior Design of Social Dome – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also converted our 3D work on the basement, stairs and dry storage areas into AutoCAD.

Converted 3D Work into AutoCAD- Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #15 of this work showing our final 7 choices for ceiling lighting.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options ” Click for Pipe Furniture Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 12th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress included adding several additional zones to differentiate areas within the kitchen, social dome, and outdoor zones, and updating the spreadsheet with the new calculations this required.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also continued with his 15th week of work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was the plan view for beam layout to limit the space between beams to within 24″.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center – Click to Visit Page

EVOLVING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team researched and added resources sections to all 13 of our core values pages. You can see a collage of these new sections here, including a link on every page for others to suggest resources they feel would improve the pages and, where they are complete, mind maps and links to our related lesson plans from the Highest Good Education program.

Researched & Added Resources Sections to Core Values Pages – Click to Visit the Purpose Mission Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally completed her 6th week of work developing the new website structure, focusing this week on a responsive header that resizes when the screen is resized. These images show this work in progress:

Evolving Global Sustainability – Continued Developing the New Website Structure

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

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

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

Creating a Global Solution – One Community Weekly Progress Update #177

Posted on August 14, 2016 by One Community

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Creating a global solution that simultaneously addressed humanity’s most pressing challenges is possible if we approach these challenges as both interrelated and interdependent. Open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is one way to accomplish this. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 14th, 2016 edition (#177) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Global Solution
One Community Progress Update #177

Creating a Global Solution - One Community Weekly Progress Update #177

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION INTRO: @1:03

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

Transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: Wrote second 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
Completed final 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

Began adding data for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:19

Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Jessica Zynda continued her work updating the autoCAD drawings for the footer and foundation (see below)
Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Vidya Patil continued with her 3rd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
Jaspreet Sond continued with his 3rd week of designing the wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (see below)
Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with his 9th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:00

Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders (see below)
Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:06

Completed Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and Earthbag Village color board and made minor revisions to the Tree House Village color board (see below)
Jennifer Zhou completed her 5th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION SUMMARY: @7:42

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global solution 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 Honesty and Integrity 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 “Honesty & Integrity” is now 100% completed on our website.

Honesty and Integrity lesson plan blog 177, This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity 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

Creating a Global Solution – Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan ” Complete ” Click to Visit

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

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

information mindmap blog 177, creating a global solution

Creating a Global Solution – Information Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global solution 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 began adding the data for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website:

Creating a Global Solution – Began Adding Data for Transition Kitchen Equipment to a Staging Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we verified video and other references noted in Section 16: Resources while making corrections on pages 64-161 relating to reference applications, heading color changes, reaffirming measurements, grammar, sentence structure, and adding 2 additional flashing sizes (12″ for french drain gutter and 16″ for footer). We’d say we are now 94% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

fff-b177-640, This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we verified video and other references noted in Section 16: Resources while making corrections on pages 64-161 relating to reference applications, heading color changes, reaffirming measurements, grammar, sentence structure, and adding 2 additional flashing sizes (12″ for french drain gutter and 16″ for footer). We'd say we are now 94% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes., creating a global solution

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info ” Click to Visit

Jessica Zynda (Drafter and Designer) also continued her work updating the autoCAD drawings for the footer and foundation. Here are the newest drawings as they continue to progress and evolve.

Creating a Global Solution – Updating AutoCAD Drawings for Footer and Foundation – Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is a section view of the living areas.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders ” Click to Visit

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 3rd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. What you see here are her initial analysis results for the game room, library, major hall, and outdoor dining area.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 31 of his work that focused on beginning to add foliage to the outside of the central dining and recreation structure for this village.

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

Jaspreet Sond (Graphic Designer and Computer Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week of designing the wood working maker space for Northwest wing of the Cob Village (Pod 3). What you see here are machines created as part of this layout.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Designing Wood Working Maker Space – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 3rd week of work here, showing the redesign of the laundry area, addition of a 2nd floor group meeting space, and moving all the South bathrooms so they share a plumbing wall.

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 3rd week of work here, showing the redesign of the laundry area, addition of a 2nd floor group meeting space, and moving all the South bathrooms so they share a plumbing wall., creating a global solution

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 9th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). This week’s focus was the initial versions of the 3rd floor dining area:

Creating a Global Solution – Initial Versions of 3rd Floor Dining Area ” Click to Visit

…informal conference room:

Creating a Global Solution – Initial Versions of Informal Conference Room ” Click to Visit

… and this final version of the Yoga and Meditation room.

Shipping Container Village, floor 1, yoga room final render, creating a global solution

Creating a Global Solution – Final Version of Yoga and Meditation Room – Click to Visit

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the render updates in the dining dome north view of the kitchen where updates to the wall color were made and the texture of the floor was changed from tiles to stained concrete.

Creating a Global Solution – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #15 of this work showing two more ceiling designs for the lights.

Creating a Global Solution – Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The images you see here are her updated zones drawing and a collection of edits requested by the core team.

DCC-lighting-zones-Dipti-b177-640, Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The images you see here are her updated zones drawing and a collection of edits requested by the core team., creating a global solution

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

CREATING A GLOBAL SOLUTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team revised and completed the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) color board with final color callouts:

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Revised and Completed the Shipping Container Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

….and revised and completed the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) color board with final color callouts:

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Revised and Completed the Recycled Materials Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

…and revised and completed the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) color board with final color callouts:

Earthbag-village-colors-b177-640, revised and completed the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) color board with final color callouts, creating a global solution

Revised and Completed the Earthbag Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

Also this week, we made minor revisions to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) color board, which is now 99% complete:

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Revised and Completed the Tree House Village Color Board ” Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally completed her 5th week of work developing the new website structure. This week’s focus was on the header and formatting and filter functionality:

Continued Developing the New Website Structure ” Click for Our Homepage

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