Restoring sustainable balance and regenerating our planet is possible if enough people participate. Increasing participation can be attained by making sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on it’s own. This is what One Community is doing:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 3rd, 2016 edition (#171) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Restoring Sustainable Balance
One Community Progress Update #171

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

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE INTRO: @1:00

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

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

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the sweet potato recipes which will later be added to our updated recipe strategy page. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:25

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:21

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:30

• Clarified colors and designs for the new 7 sustainable villages icons and created first color template for all the webpages, informational materials, assembly instructions, interior design, and more (see below)

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE SUMMARY: @7:49

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

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RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Humility 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 “Humility” is now 100% completed on our website.

Humility Lesson Plan Now Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

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

Humility Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team compiled the sweet potato recipes, as you can see here. Transforming our food behavior towards restoring sustainable balance is one of the critical steps of progress. We will add them to the updated recipe strategy page.

Compiled All of the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes ” Click to Visit the Main Food Page

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the continued intensive read and dissecting of Section 10 Construction of Stem Wall and Dome. We cross referenced facts and confirmed the accuracy of content, grammar, sentence structure, continuity, and overall presentation. We’d say we are now 88% 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

Completed this Final CAD Drawing of the Slider to Place and Stabilize Finishing Nails – Click to Visit

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 7 of this process and Sal’s 3rd version of exploring instructions for cutting the proper pieces, plus our notes for what will be version 4 of these instructions.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

Ganyang Du (Construction Project Manager) also continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page. You can see week 3 of this work here making the pricing sheet for Wood Doors & Framing, Electrical, and Cast-in-place Concrete.

Continued Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page ” Click to Visit

Began Moving the Earthbag Village Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Design Details – Click to Visit

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the first render for the central 2nd floor patio area looking down.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – 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 25 of his work that continued with exploration of a new and more accurate roof design as seen here.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 3rd week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see final versions of a rental room looking in:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of a Rental Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

….the open area behind the dining hall looking Northwest:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of the Open Area Behind the dining Hall – Click to Visit Page

….and one of the circulation areas:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of One of the Circulation Areas – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also transformed the initial render into an updated render for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Art room.

Updated Recycled Materials Village Art Room Render – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here are updated information and storyboard pages covering the tourism and event hosting with storyboard artwork compliments of Ana Carolina Salomao Faria (Industrial Design and Service Design Student).

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

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

Began Brainstorming the Design and Dimensions for the Root Cellar – Click to Visit City Center

Continued Working on Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area ” Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also took the team’s feedback from last week and started creating this more detailed spreadsheet for the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed. 

Started Creating More Detailed Spreadsheet for City Center Lighting Zones ” Click to Visit City Center

Finished First 50% of the City Center 1st Floor Subframe Loading Calculations – Click to Visit Page

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team clarified colors and designs for the new 7 sustainable villages icons and then created our first color template that will be used for all the webpages, informational materials, assembly instructions, interior design, and more.

Clarified Colors and Designs for New 7 Sustainable Villages Icons and Created First Color Template

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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. These are few steps One community is taking in restoring sustainable balance. 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 also helps in restoring sustainable balance. 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 restoring sustainable balance 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 as building blocks towards restoring sustainable balance. 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.

The time has come to open source the building blocks of ecological living and create a sustainable planet that meets the needs of all of humanity. The technology and ability to globally collaborate already exist, all that remains is to bring together those who share the necessary desire and willingness to do the work and build the open source foundation. One Community is doing this and we call the process 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. These activities act as the first step towards the building blocks of ecological living. This is the June 26th, 2016 edition (#170) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #170

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

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING INTRO: @1:00

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:55

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

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the potato recipes which will later be added to our updated recipe strategy page. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:26

• 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 put the final touches on the excavation drawing (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy began updating an image of the central Tropical Atrium for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Ganyang Du continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page (see below)
• Ray Triboulet continued working on final revisions and edits for the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his second week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:04

• Continued working on what is needed for the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Rendered an image for the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Updated all the Duplicable City Center icons for the open source hub and all the associated pages (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar updated the lighting zones for the City Center and then added details to the AutoCAD file (see below)
• Mike Hogan, Lucas Tsutsui da Silva and Jae discussed more circuit design details for the Control Systems designs (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:53

• Created 7 new icons and recolored and cleaned up several existing icons (see below)

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING SUMMARY: @8:05

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Humility 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 “Humility” as the building blocks of ecological living is now 75% completed on our website:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Humility Lesson Plan ” 75% Complete

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

We also completed the first 25% of the mind-map for the Humility Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Humility Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this last week the core team compiled all of the potato recipes as you see here. They will be added to the recipe strategy pages we are updating.

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Compiled All of the Vegan Potato Recipes ” Click to Visit

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on section 10, where we continued editing procedural steps 1-41, and added new video inserts along with changing some existing video titles to reflect the modified narratives. We also wrote the narratives for steps 36, 38, 39, and 40. We’d say we are now 87% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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

Related to this, Jessica Zynda (Drafter/Designer) put the final touches on the excavation drawing as shown here:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Put the Final Touches on the Excavation Drawing

Also for the Earthbag Village, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) began updating this image of the central Tropical Atrium. This week’s work included adding furniture on top of the structure and trees and rocks throughout the village.

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Began Updating Central Tropical Atrium Image

And Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 6 of this this process and our 2nd version of exploring instructions for cutting the proper pieces.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Ganyang Du (Construction Project Manager) also continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page. You can see week 2 of this work here, outlining the floor, bathrooms, and showers.

Continued Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page – Click to Visit

Ray Triboulet (Web Developer and Active Duty U.S. Sailor) also continued working on final revisions and edits for the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here is the GoogleDoc Trib is working on before beginning to move these details to the website.

Continued Working on Final Revisions and Edits for Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Designs

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his second week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see his first versions of 2 different perspectives of the residences and rental rooms and a view outside the dining area and looking Northwest.

Continued with Photoshop work on the Shipping Container Village Renders – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here are more updated Service Design pages and the first few updated storyboard pages featuring the artwork of Ana Carolina Salomao Faria (Industrial Design and Service Design Student).

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

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on what is needed for the renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on updating all material textures to add more color diversity to the rocks, placing more stones around the mechanical room door and waterfall, and creating shadows for rendering images in two different directions. These contribute in creating the building blocks of ecological living.

Continued Working on Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also rendered this image for the Cupola area of the Duplicable City Center.

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Rendered Image for Cupola Area of Duplicable City Center

We also updated all the Duplicable City Center icons for the open source hub and all the associated pages. You can see the new icons here:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Updated the Icons for Duplicable City Center

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #11 of this work now focusing on another series of exploration for different ways to artistically and effectively integrate the ceiling lighting with the shelving.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options for City Center Library

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also updated the lighting zones for the City Center and then added the optimum and minimum lumens, along with optimum lights, to the AutoCAD file. The results are seen here:

Updated Lighting Zones for City Center & Added Details to AutoCAD file – Click to Visit City Center

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva(4th-year Computer Engineering Student) and Jae then discussed more circuit design details and also how Dipti’s information could best be displayed on the AutoCAD for the Control Systems designs. What they come up with is important because it’ll be the format for all the villages and we’ll use it for the HVAC systems too.

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Circuit Board Testing Discussions for the Control Systems

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created 7 new icons and recolored and cleaned up several existing icons. You can see them all here:

The Building Blocks of Ecological Living ” Created 7 new Icons – Click to Visit Page

Recolored and Cleaned up Several Existing Icons

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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.

THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF ECOLOGICAL LIVING BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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. This will be an example of the building blocks of ecological living to the world.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is time for eco-living and design to progress beyond just food, energy, and housing to additionally include Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices. By doing this we can combine physical sustainability with emotional sustainability foundations and create a way of living that most people will consider better than how they are living now. Open sourcing and free-sharing it all will make it easy enough and affordable enough to spread on its own.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 19th, 2016 edition (#169) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Living and Design
One Community Progress Update #169

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

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN INTRO: @1:00

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:58

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

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the rice recipes which will later be added to our updated recipe strategy page. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy finished render looking Northeast for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page (see below)

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:39

• 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)
• Ganyang Du began working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page (see below)
• Ray Triboulet began working on final revisions and edits for the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the 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)
• Guy Grossfeld joined the team and began adding people, backgrounds, and other details to the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued designing and exploring different Tree House Village bathroom tower options (see below)

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:42

• Continued working on what is needed for the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar completed an analysis of the City Center lighting requirements and suggestions completed by last year’s intern team with the requirements and suggestions from P2S Engineering (see below)
• Neha Verma finished re-organizing the hundreds of City Center files for us (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued with circuit board testing for the City Center Control Systems designs (see below)

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:27

• Created new icons for the Pledge page and added new menus to the tops of the associated values pages for Love and Connection, Honesty and Integrity, FulfilledLiving, Freedom, Diversity, Contribution, Consensus/Decision Making, Community, and Communication (see below)
• Updated icons for the Highest Good Economics open source hub and all pages associated with the hub (see below)
• Lokesh Gopu continued developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ECO LIVING AND DESIGN SUMMARY: @9:09

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ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco living and design 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 Information Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Information” is now 50% completed on our website.

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

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

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

Courage Mindmap ” Complete ” Click to Visit Page

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week we compiled all of the rice recipes as you see here. They will be added to our updated recipe strategy, which is in progress.

Compiled All of the Vegan Rice Recipes ” Click to Visit the Main Food Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finished this render looking Northeast for the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page:

Tropical Atrium View Looking Northeast – “The North 180”

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on section 10, where we analyzed the chronological procedural steps 1-41 for accuracy of content, grammar, and sentence structure. We also changed locations of steps 33-39 due to the addition of 6-mil and 12-mil layers on earthbag course 9 instead of course 8 due to the relocation of the backsplash from the top of the earthbag course 8 to the top of the earthbag course 9. We’d say we are now 86% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions, aimed at eco-living and design. What you see here is week 5 of this process and our first version of instructions for cutting the proper pieces.

Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Began Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page -Click to Visit

Ray Triboulet (Web Developer and Active Duty U.S. Sailor) also began working on final revisions and edits for the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). What you see here is the GoogleDoc Trib is working on before beginning to move these details to the website:

Final Revisions and Edits for Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Designs

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the 2nd generation render for one of the studio residences within this village.

2nd Generation Render for One of the Studio Residences ” Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders, with a vision of eco-living and design. Here is update 24 of his work that continued with adding more plants, textures, and other outdoor details to the Cob Village overview images you see here.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and began adding people, backgrounds, and other details to the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), with a emphasis on eco-living and design. Here you see the first of these renders.

Began Adding Details to the Renders for the Shipping Container Village

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is another revision of the SWOT analysis page and multiple iterations of the Sustainable Design and Service Design pages:

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

Also working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different bathroom tower options. These will include individual storage spaces below, recreation space above, and be separate from the trees to maximize efficiency and minimize the ecological footprint, all with a focus on eco-living and design.

Working on Tree House Village Bathroom Tower Options ” Click to Visit Page

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – DUPLICATE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco living and design 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 what is needed for the renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on creating three different designs for the waterfall, also arched stone work around the mechanical room door, and a small pond near the waterfall.

Continued Working on First Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also completed an analysis of the City Center lighting requirements and suggestions completed by last year’s intern team with the requirements and suggestions from P2S Engineering. You can see this work here:

Completed Analysis of the City Center Lighting Requirements

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also finished re-organizing the hundreds of City Center files for us. What you see here is about 20% of this work:

Finished Organizing the Hundreds of City Center Files ” Click to Visit

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library, with the concept of eco-living and design in mind. What you see here is round #10 of Iris’s work along with a brainstorming drawing from our weekly call. This work is now focusing on different ways to artistically and effectively integrate the ceiling lighting with the shelving.

Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options for City Center Library

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) continued with circuit board testing for the City Center Control Systems designs, all aimed at eco-living and design. What you see here are pictures from our weekly call with discussions revolving around an overheating issue Lucas was experiencing.

Circuit Board Testing for the City Center Control Systems Designs

ECO-LIVING AND DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding eco living and design 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 created new icons for the Pledge page and updated the formatting for that page and updated the formatting and added new menus to the tops of the associated values pages for Love and Connection, Honesty and Integrity, FulfilledLiving, Freedom, Diversity, Contribution, Consensus/Decision Making, Community, and Communication.

New Icons for Pledge page & Several Pages with New Icons and Formatting

We also updated all the icons for the Highest Good Economics open source hub and all pages associated with the hub:

Icons for Highest Good Economics Hub and Pages Associated with the Hub

Lokesh Gopu (Software Engineer) also continued developing the Highest Good Network software. Here’s a picture of Lokesh and Jae discussing the task management component he worked on this week.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model, focused on eco-living and design, 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, all incorporating aspects of eco-living and design. 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, promoting the philosophy of eco-living and design.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page, which emphasizes eco-living and design. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, with several references to eco-living and design.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more with principles of eco-living and design.  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, all while emphasizing eco-living and design.

How to build a sustainable planet can be defined and outlined in the same manner as building a sustainable structure, business, or city. There are many more elements and steps, but a similar implementable blueprint can be created. The foundations we’ve identified and are working on as part of this blueprint are food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices. 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 June 12th, 2016 edition (#168) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Build a Sustainable Planet
One Community Progress Update #168

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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET INTRO: @1:00

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:57

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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Finished final texture adjustments and rendering for the Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Updated and reorganized the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page to include all the images created by Shadi Kennedy (see below)
• Added instructions for general procurement and preparation of root vegetabless to our website using work from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:46

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:26

• Continued working on what is needed for the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Neha Verma created an updated plan for the sections that her team will be creating (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar completed calculations for minimum number of lumens for City Center areas (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:40

• Continued exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky created images for the food self-sufficiency plan omnivore and vegan meal plan pages and several sets of icon ideas for the different Highest Good Housing pages (see below)

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET SUMMARY: @7:03

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HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courage Mindmap ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the final texture adjustments and rendering for the Tropical Atrium. You can see the new image here:

Finished Final Texture Adjustments and Rendering for the Tropical Atrium

The core team also updated and reorganized the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan page to include all the images created by Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer). You can see examples of these updates here:

Updated & Reorganized the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Plan Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, we added instructions for general procurement and Â preparation of root vegetables to our website, as suggested by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

Instructions for General Procurement and Preparation of Root Vegetables

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on editing and creating accompanying narratives to additional green step headings of Section 10: Construction of Stem Wall and Dome. Due to previous changes that affected multiple areas within the FFF document, we combined some of the multiple entries into single entities and realigned others. We’d say we are now 85% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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

In addition to this, Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the initial layout for rendering one of the studio residences….

Initial Layout for Rendering One of the Studio Residences – Click to Visit Page

…. and the initial render for the communal computer and study room:

Initial Render for Communal Computer & Study Room – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders, aligning with our vision on how to build a sustainable planet. Here is update 23 of his work that continued with adding more trees and textures to the Cob Village overview images you see here:

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

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here is another revision of the SWOT analysis page and the work in progress for the Sustainable Design and Service Design pages.

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

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on what is needed for the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on the new locker and arched stone work around the hobbit door access to the mechanical room and waterfall rock placement and textures for this area.

Continued Working on Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area ” Click to Visit

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also created this updated plan for the sections that her team will be creating:

Created Updated Plan for Sections Her Team Will Be Creating – Click to Visit

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) completed calculations for minimum number of lumens for each of the different City Center areas. The results are seen here:

Completed Calculations for Number of Lumens for City Center Areas

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #9 of this work exploring additional shelving and lighting designs for the main spaces on the walls along with art options to fill the space above.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages. Here are a few image examples:

How to Create a Standardized Presentation for Highest Good Housing Villages

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also created these new images for the food self-sufficiency plan omnivore and vegan meal plan pages and several sets of icon ideas for the different Highest Good Housing pages:

New Images for Omnivore & Vegan Meal Plan Pgs & Icon Ideas

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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, embodying the ethos of how to build a sustainable planet. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet, all integral to how to build a sustainable planet.

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

Throughout our design process, which is a testament to how to build a sustainable planet, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all designed with a question of how to build a sustainable planet in mind. 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, designed as a cornerstone on how to build a sustainable planet. 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 as a part of the grander vision of how to build a sustainable planet.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent, which are pivotal in the mission of how to build a sustainable planet. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet and take actionable steps on how to build a sustainable 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, central to the concept of how to build a sustainable planet, will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

Sustainability and technological ingenuity have advanced sufficiently that we now know how to make the world we want. Implementing this to demonstrate sustainable living as easier, more affordable, and a more enjoyable is the a logical step to increasing involvement and implementation. Scalable, Open source and free-shared models for food, energy, and housing combined with Highest Good approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and stewardship practices are already under development. 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 June 5th, 2016 edition (#167) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

How to Make the World We Want
One Community Progress Update #167

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

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT INTRO: @1:00

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:55

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

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48

• Continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy finished the Tropical Atrium render created a few weeks ago by the core team (see below)
• Shadi then created these new images for the Transition Kitchen designs for feeding 20-50 people in remote locations (see below)
• Added instructions for general procurement and preparation of legumes, nuts, & seeds to our website using work from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)
• Jesika Rohrbach continued designing and exploring different Tree House Village bathroom tower options (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:30

• Continued working on the first renders of the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Neha Verma began organizing the hundreds of files generated through the City Center development over the past 5 years (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei finished the layout of the City Center subframe (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar finished her calculations for number of lamps for the City Center rooms (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mike Hogan and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva talked about and tested Optoisolator connections for the Control Systems design (see below)
• Behind the scenes: James Nance began working on the City Center plumbing layout (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:20

• Began exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages (see below)
• Steven Paslawsky finalized the icons for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages, and for our food self-sufficiency plan and page (see below)

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT SUMMARY: @8:48

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HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community facilitating how to make the world we want 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 Humility 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 “Humility” is now 25% completed on our website.

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

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

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

Courage Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team continued working on the renders for the Tropical Atrium that is the center of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here you can see an incomplete render looking down and South. This week we made adjustments on the textures for the roads and completed work on the shadows.

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

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also finished this render created a few weeks ago by the core team. To do this he added benches and all the plant details so it now shows the Tropical Atrium flourishing with fruit trees, flowers, and the other plants from the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan.

Tropical Atrium View Looking South ” Click to Visit Page

Shadi then created these new images for the Transition Kitchen designs, embodying the vision of how to make the world we want, for feeding 20-50 people in remote locations while more permanent facilities are being built.

Created New Image for the Transition Kitchen Design – Click to Visit Page

Transition Kitchen Render – Click to Visit Page

As part of the development of our our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, we added instructions for general procurement and preparation of legumes, nuts, & seeds to our website, as calculated by Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health).

General Procurement and Preparation of Legumes, Nuts, & Seeds

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want 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 continued the thorough review of Section 10: Construction of Stem Wall and Dome, adding necessary repeating steps like “Removal of the Slider” and “Securing String to the Finish Nails for the Interior Stucco Netting” into the ongoing evolution of the dome. We also added several new steps to Section 9: Foundation Construction. We’d say we are now 84% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two different outdoor picnic areas:

Straw Bale Village Outdoor Render – Click to Enlarge

Straw Bale Village Outdoor Render – Click to Enlarge

….. and the kids’ playground area:

Render of Kids’ Playground Area – Click to Enlarge

Also, here you can see additional brainstorming she did on how to improve how this will look in the online book we are creating for all the villages:

Brainstorming on how to Improve the Online Book – Click to Visit

Additionally, Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team, illustrating how to make the world we want. What you see here is Zachary’s process of cleaning up the background image and redoing the SWOT analysis page.

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

Also working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7), Jesika Rohrbach (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Modeler) continued designing and exploring different bathroom tower options. These will include individual storage spaces below, recreation space above, and be separate from the trees to maximize efficiency and minimize the ecological footprint.

Working on Tree House Village Bathroom/ Shower Floor Plan Options

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders, in line with our vision of how to make the world we want. Here is update 22 of his work that continued with what you see here, creating more high-quality render plants and trees like those we’ll be growing on the property and then placing them throughout the Cob Village.

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

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions, encapsulating the vision of how to make the world we want. What you see here are week 4 of his process of double checking all our pieces and creating SolidWorks versions of them from the Sketchup pieces we already have.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want 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 what is needed for the first renders of the natural pool and spa area aspects of the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was setting up room dimensions, designing the hobbit door and designing the stones/boulders for decorating the waterfall.

Continued Working on First Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area

Began Organizing the Hundreds of City Center Files – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also finished the layout of the City Center subframe, which you can see here:

Finished the Layout of the City Center Subframe – Click to Visit

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) finished her calculations for number of lamps for the City Center rooms. The results are seen here:

Finished Calculations for Number of Lamps for City Center Rooms

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #8 of this work exploring more shelving and lighting designs for the main spaces on the walls along with art options to fill the space above.

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

Behind the scenes Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) talked about and tested Optoisolator connections for the Control Systems design, a crucial step towards how to make the world we want.

Discussed and Tested Optoisolator Connections for Control Systems Design

Also behind the scenes, James Nance, Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager, began working on the City Center plumbing layout. You can see a picture of this work in progress here.

Began Working on the City Center Plumbing Layout – Click to Visit Page

HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD WE WANT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating how to make the world we want 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 began exploring how to create an open source and standardized presentation for Highest Good Housing villages. You can see this here along with the color guide wireframe:

Began Exploring Presentation for Highest Good Housing Villages – Click to Visit

Steven Paslawsky (Graphic Designer) also finalized the icons for our open source copyrights, trademarks, and patenting pages – aligned with our commitment to how to make the world we want, the icons associated with the food self-sufficiency plan and page, and fixed the last icon we needed fixed out of the social media set.

Finalized Copyrights/Trademarks/Patents Icons and Food Icons ” Click to Visit

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM STEVEN!

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courage Mindmap ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

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

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

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

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

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

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

… and an updated render of the community gym.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ECOLOGICAL TIPPING FOR AN ABUNDANT FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

Began Working on Load Calculations and Updating Structural Details

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

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

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

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

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

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

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

One Community is moving towards an ecological tipping point for an abundant future through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

A Sustainable World is Possible
One Community Progress Update #165

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE INTRO @1:03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE SUMMARY @7:33

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

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

We also completed these two renders of this structure:

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

Continued Working on Renders for the Tropical Atrium – Roof Render

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

Images for Tree Aspects of Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting plan

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

Calculated Daily Requirements and Prep. Instructions for Root Vegetables

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book ” Click to Visit

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

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

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

City Center Cupola – Click to Visit Page

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

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

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

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

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

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

A SUSTAINABLE WORLD IS POSSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Caretakers of Our Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #164

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET INTRO: @1:03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET SUMMARY @7:28

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

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

Calculated & Nutrition Information & Greens to Meal Plans

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

Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Southwest

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions

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

Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving Options for Duplicable City Center library

CARETAKERS OF OUR SHARED PLANET – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #163

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

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY : @7:19

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FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

Summer Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Individual Planting Plan Maps for Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting Page

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

Added Plant Details to Tropical Atrium – View Looking Northwest

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creating Professional Do-It-Yourself Earthbag Village Furniture Instructions

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

Compressed Earth Block Village Massage & Treatment Room Spaces

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

… the loft in the Social Dome:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Loft in Social Dome

… and dining area by the Kitchen:

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Dining Area in Kitchen

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

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

Finalized Work on Updated Render Scenes for Rental Room

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

Continued Discussion for development of the Control Systems Lighting

FORWARDING THE EVOLUTION OF SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

Updated Icons for Highest Good Food Sections on the Website

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

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

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

Continued Development of our Highest Good Network Logo

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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