One Community is happy to feature and thank Lucas de Souza as our most recent member of the Electrical Engineering Intern Team. Lucas spent the last two months working on the control systems for the Duplicable City Center.

3rd-year Electronic Engineering Student: Lucas is originally from Curitiba, Brazil and a student at Pontifical Catholic University of Parana. He is currently enrolled in the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program and was recently studying at the New York Institute of Technology, in New York City. Since Lucas was a child he always demonstrated proficiency in math and the desire to be an engineer. Lucas speaks three languages (native Portuguese, fluent English, and conversational Spanish) and has acquired skills in Microcontrollers, Microelectronics, and Digital Systems. Lucas also has experience with programming languages such as Assembly Language (8051), C, and C++. Past internship experience includes working with an automation company as an electrical designer assistant where he helped to design electrical circuits for automation robots on project assembly lines and technical documentation for famous car company sellers such as FIAT and Volkswagen. As a member of the One Community team, Lucas is helping with the creation of electrical designs and control systems for the Duplicable City Center and 7 Sustainable Village Models.

THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THE TEAM, LUCAS!

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One Community is happy to feature and thank Marco Silva as our most recent member of the Software Engineering Team. Marco spent the last two months working on the new open-source Highest Good Network application.

3rd-year Software Engineering Student: Marco is a Brazilian exchange student who recently studied at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). He speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish, and has a basic knowledge of French. Marco left Brazil before starting his third year of Software Engineering at UnB (University of Brasília). During his time studying at SCAD (a college of art and design), Marco has been diversifying his skills as a Software Engineer and developing a broader perspective on the world. On the interactive design side, Marco has knowledge in Illustrator, Photoshop, Maya, and After Effects. He combines these skills with programming experience with C, Java, Processing, Android, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Arduino. Back in Brazil, Marco participated in a project where his function was to assure and to control the quality of applications for mobile devices of the Brazilian company Positivo Informática. Marco was chosen as the student of the month in January for the Institute of International Education because of an essay he wrote talking about how he could change the world in 2015. Since starting college, Marco has also been exploring what is possible with open source. As a member of the One Community team, Marco has applied his programming skills developing the Highest Good Network application for complete village construction and open source data gathering, time tracking, sharing, and reporting.

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Creating a sustainable world is a path to helping all people, everywhere. The components of this sustainable world will spread faster if they move beyond just food, energy, and housing to also include recreation, education, Highest Good economics, 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 the movement of helping all people, everywhere as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 16th, 2015 edition (#125) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Helping All People, Everywhere
One Community Progress Update #125

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

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE INTRO @1:05

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:56

• Wrote final 50% of Planet Earth lesson plan behind the scenes, then added that content to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote first 50% of the content for the Quantity and Quality lesson plan
• Created first 50% of the mindmap for the Planet Earth lesson plan and added it to the web page (see below)
• Featured Outer Space lesson plan across social media channels, using the image that Lucas helped us create (see below)

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:12

• Featured the open source asparagus hub across our social media channels, using an image we created (see below)
• Researched and added additional recipes to open source achochas hub (see below)
• Added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HELPING ALL PEOPLE. EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:18

• Finished the final 35% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Sayonara worked on Earthbag Village (Pod 1) shower dome, Duplicable City Center roof, and floor plans of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)
• Matheus completed LEED Tutorial document behind the scenes, and researched how to achieve LEED v4 certification for each of the 7 villages as we build them (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge completed their work on the vermiculture bathrooms in the Earthbag Village and finished the report for their designs and calculations (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri researched materials for shower heat exchanger and ran simulation on the heat exchanger (see below)
• Welma continued work on waterproofing and composting toilets tutorial and researched and contacted sellers of new aircrete mixers (see below)
• Samantha and Flávia continued renders on Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), Duplicable City Center and Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)
• Raquel and Dianavresearched case studies for the Earthship Village (Pod 6) and developed the layout of its common areas (see below)
• Erika, Pedro, and Victor improved Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) designs and updated lighting reports for Duplicable City Center and Earthbag Village (see below)
• Sarah continued research for Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Thais started developing the dimensions of the rooms for the Tree House Village and worked on the site and floor plans (see below)
• Gabriel finished new renders for the furniture in the Earthbag Village and created preliminary images for the Duplicable City Center’s pallet furniture (see below)
• Gilberto started to create 3D models for the kitchen dome (see below)
• Ana corrected some problems in the structure of the Ultimate Classroom’s projection dome (see below)

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:14

• Began updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Began working on the specifics of the rainwater catchment design for around the base of the domes (see below)
• Renata started the components list, cost analysis, and efficiency assessment for the windows and doors of the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Mayke created an online version of the projects control table and reviewed the architectural designs for the Shipping Container Village and the Earthship Village (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo and the Structural Intern Team completed the analysis of the influence wind has on all the domes, completed analyzing the internal structures for the three domes, and finalized the sizing for the secondary beams for the cupola-system (see below)
• The Hydraulics Intern Team continued work on the cold and potable water layout, started the fire protection sprinkler system and completed designs for the plumbing components (see below)
• Mike Hogan guided the Electrical Intern Team in another round of improvements to the layout for the control panel that makes the electrical devices in the Duplicable City Center automated, intelligent and energy efficient (see below)

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:39

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Lucas created logo options based on the current One Community logo design (see below)
• Manuella and Carolina designed another 10% of the Tree House Village layout book (see below)
• Eduardo created a storyboard for the One Community promotional video and worked on our weekly video blog update (see below)
• Manasses worked on the online presentations he is creating for all seven of One Community’s villages (see below)
• The Software Development Intern Team continued working on the Highest Good Network application and database (see below)
• Gustavo continued work on the One Community iPhone app (see below)

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE SUMMARY: @12:26

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HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

Learn about the components: Education open source hub

Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program

This last week the core team wrote the final 50% of the Planet Earth lesson plan behind the scenes, then added that content to the website, bringing the written part of this lesson plan to 100% complete on the site:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Planet Earth Lesson Plan Complete ” Click to Visit Page

In addition, we wrote the first 50% of the content for the Quantity and Quality lesson plan behind the scenes.

We also created the first 50% of the mindmap for the Planet Earth lesson plan and added it to the web page. You can see that mindmap here:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Planet Earth Mindmap 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we featured the Outer Space lesson plan across our social media channels, using this image that Lucas from the Graphic Design Intern Team helped us create:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Outer Space Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is focused on helping all people, everywhere through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub

See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This last week the core team featured the open source asparagus hub across our social media channels, using this image that we created:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Featured Asparagus Hub with New Social Imagery ” Click to Visit

We also researched and added additional recipes to the open source achochas hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan will be added to each of the individual hubs in the future.

Helping All People, Everywhere – Added Achocha Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Hub

Last but not least, we added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan ” These recipes are: Quinoa Breakfast, Greek Salad in a Jar, and Field Roast Sausage and Latkes Poppers:

New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign

Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models

Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This last week the core team finished the final 35% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

This included a final review of the document and adding FDA approved serving & food prep gloves, auger bits, rearranging the order of entities, adding tarps & sleeping pads, deleting a few items, and researching 4 different types of rope to determine the best choice for minimizing UV degradation.

We are now 100% complete with this document.

Behind-the-Scenes Camp Setup Specifics for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign ” 100% Complete – Click to Visit

Sayonara (a member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team) updated the 3D model of the shower dome in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and the 3D model of a new roof for the cupola of the Duplicable City Center.

She also brought the floor plans of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) to 90% completion:

Updated 3D Model of Earthbag Village Shower Dome and Duplicable City Center Roof

Civil Engineering intern Matheus finished the last 20% of the LEED Tutorial document, so it is now 100% complete behind the scenes. He also gathered all the questions related to our projects that will help us understand how to achieve LEED v4 certification for each of the 7 villages as we build them.

Completed LEED Tutorial Document and Research on LEED v4 Certification – Click To Visit Page

Adolpho and Jorge from our Mechanical Engineering Intern Team brought the design for the vermiculture bathrooms in the Earthbag Village to 100% complete, and finished the report for their designs and calculations.

Completed Earthbag Village Vermiculture Bathroom Design and Finished Report – Click for Page

Fernando and Amauri, who are also both members of the Mechanical Engineering Intern Team, researched where to buy the materials they need so they can build a prototype of the shower heat exchanger.

They also ran simulation on the heat exchanger using ABS pipes, and the results were the same as they were with PVC pipes.

Research for Materials for Shower Heat Exchanger Prototype and Simulations Ran using ABS Pipes

Welma edited, reviewed, and changed the format of her tutorials on waterproofing and composting toilets. She also researched and contacted sellers of new aircrete mixers for further information.

Continued Research on Waterproofing, Composting Toilets and Aircrete Mixers – Click for Page

Meanwhile, Samantha and Flávia, members of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, worked on a process book and additional renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5).

Additionally, Samantha wrote DIALux tutorials and Flavia did the first draft of the recycled pallet bed frame for the units in the Duplicable City Center and designed the interior layout for the Cob Village (Pod 3).

Helping All People, Everywhere – Continued Work on Village Development – Click for Page

Raquel and Diana, also members of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, researched case studies to plan the exterior areas for the Earthship Village (Pod 6) and developed the layout of its common areas. They rearranged the floor plan to add more toilets and fire escapes.

Helping All People, Everywhere – Continued Work on Earthship Village (Pod 6) – Click to Visit Page

Erika, Pedro, and Victor from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team improved their preliminary designs of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) to include the best solar orientation during the Winter Solstice and began designing the village in Revit.

They also updated the final lighting design reports for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) and other Villages – Click for Pod 4

Sarah, another member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, continued research for Tree House Village (Pod 7), and focused on finding sustainable, lightweight, high R-value insulation for the treehouse structures.

Helping All People, Everywhere – Continued Research for Tree House Village (Pod 7) – Click for Page

Thais from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team started developing the dimensions of the rooms for the Tree House Village. She also worked on the the site plan and floor plans.

Helping All People, Everywhere – Tree House Village Site, Floor Plan and Room Development

Gabriel finished new renders for the furniture inside the 3-dome clusters in the Earthbag Village, which include updated lighting and materials. He also created preliminary images for the Duplicable City Center’s pallet furniture.

New Renders for Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center Furniture – Click for Earthbag Village

Gilberto from the Graphic Design Intern Team, started to create 3D models for the kitchen dome. This will be added to our website in a format that user can interact with, with abilities to zoom in and out, and rotate the dome.

Helping All People, Everywhere – 3D Models for the Kitchen Dome – Click to Visit Crowdfunding Page

And finally, Ana corrected some problems in the structure of the Ultimate Classroom’s projection dome.

Corrected Structural Problems of the Ultimate Classroom’s Projection Dome – Click for Page

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center. This weeks’ focus was on the new elevator and stairwell placement and design plus the new cupola roof design. We’d say we’re about 10% complete with the 3-D update:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Began Updating the Sketchup 3-D for the Duplicable City Center

We also began working on the specifics of the rainwater catchment design for around the base of the domes. You can see this work here:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Rainwater Catchment Design – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

Civil Engineering intern Renata started the components list, cost analysis, and efficiency assessment for the windows and doors of the Duplicable City Center, including all the National Fenestration Rating Council values and the code requirements for Egress windows:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Window and Door Work for Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit

Mayke created an online version of the projects control table and reviewed the architectural designs for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and the Earthship Village (Pod 6):

Online Version of Projects Control Table and Review of Architectural Designs for Pods 5 & 6

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) and the Structural Intern Team (Antonio, Gabriel, Beatriz, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Maurilio) completed the analysis of the influence wind has on all the domes, completed analyzing the internal structures for the three domes, and finalized the sizing for the secondary beams for the cupola-system:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Structural Analysis and Continued Work for the Duplicable City

Diogo, Izadora, Joao, Mateus, and Roberto from the Hydraulics Intern Team added an additional 60% to the cold and potable water layout, bringing that to 80% complete. They then worked on the fire protection sprinkler system and brought the 2D image of it to 60% completion and the 3D image to 80% completion.

They also completed the designs for the plumbing components according to LEED V4 specification. And finally, they linked all their individual work together into one final, combined project.

Helping All People, Everywhere – Continued Hydraulics Work on the Duplicable City Center

And finally, Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) guided Fabio, Lucas de Souza, Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, Guilherme, Henrique, Tiago, and Israel of the Electrical Intern Team in another round of improvements to the layout for the control panel that makes the electrical devices in the Duplicable City Center automated, intelligent and energy efficient.

They also worked on aligning the electrical in the City Center to commercial standards according to the 2014 National Electrical Code for U.S. requirements.

Continued Work on the Control Panel for the City Center and Aligning the Electrical

HELPING ALL PEOPLE, EVERYWHERE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society

Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life

Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship

Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This last week the core team continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly. This week’s work included correcting the final 40+ pages of formatting errors. This brings us to 95% complete with only 115 old blogs to be updated.

Helping All People, Everywhere – Continued Updating Our Entire Website to be Mobile Friendly

Lucas from the Graphic Design Intern Team created logo options based on the current One Community logo design, as you can see here:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Created New Logo Options Based on the Current Logo

Manuella, also part of the Graphic Design Intern Team worked with Carolina, a service design student, on correcting transcripts and storyboards for the videos they are creating for the Tree House Village.

They also continued their work on the online presentation book for this village, and added updates to the village’s layout and structures.

Continued Work on Online Presentation Book for Tree House Village ” Click to Visit Page

Eduardo, another member of the Graphic Design Intern Team, created a storyboard for the One Community promotional video. He also created collages, synced the audio, revised, and finished the portion of our weekly video blog update that reports the work the interns complete.

Created One Community Promotional Video Storyboard and Finished the Weekly Video Blog

Graphic Design Intern Manasses created text documents to explain the creation process for the online presentations he is creating for all seven of One Community’s villages:

Continued Work on Online Presentations for All Seven of One Community’s Villages – Click to Visit

Igor, Marco, Matheus, and Natalia of the Software Development Intern Team, continued working on updates to the Highest Good Network application and database, which included programming the report pages, defining the requirements of the badge systems, and completing the setup page:

Continued Work on the Highest Good Network application and Database ” Click to Visit Page

And last but not least, Gustavo (Mobile Software Developer) continued work on the One Community iPhone app included bug fixes, finishing the QR scanner, and work on the comment feature which allows real time communication between collaborators:

Helping All People, Everywhere – Contined Work on One Community iPhone Application

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Eco-renovating the standard of living is one path to building a sustainable world. This means building a new way of life (for all those who desire it) based on sustainable living principles that provide a better and more affordable living experience through collaborative community living. For many this will be a path to more time and less debt, or better education, or social equality and a more fair form of self-governance. Others will choose it for sustainability reasons or because they like to live, create, and make a difference for The Highest Good of All. One Community is doing and open sourcing this for all of these reasons and more:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of eco-renovating the standard of living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 9th, 2015 edition (#124) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living
One Community Progress Update #124

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

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING INTRO @1:04

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:56

• Transferred first 50% of the content for the Planet Earth lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote another 30% of the Planet Earth lesson plan (65% complete)
• Completed and added final 50% of the mindmap for the Outer Space lesson plan to the webpage (see below)
• Lucas helped us create this new image for the Communication lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels (see below)

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Finished final social media imagery and featured our open source bitter melon hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source oca hub (see below)
• Added three new tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Finished integrating the pathway and landscaping updates for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) central area (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Completed another 15% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (80% complete – see below)
• Sayonara calculated and studied shadows in the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) and updated the central building to improve the structural integrity (see below)
• Matheus and Renata completed the final 30% of the calculations for the reciprocal roof in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) shower domes. Matheus also completed several final reports and completed another 50% of the LEED tutorial (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge completed a 3D model of the laundry room heat exchanging system and modeled the shower heat recovery system for theEarthbag Village (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri continued improving the efficiency of the heat exchanger for the laundry room (see below)
• Welma researched aerated concrete and foaming agents and analyzed options for aerated concrete mixers (see below)
• Samantha added modifications to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and generated additional renders. She also worked on lighting simulations for the dining and living domes in DIALux (see below)
• Raquel and Diana continued researching earthship construction methods and designing 2D and 3D floor plans for the Earthship Village (Pod 6) (see below)
• Erika, Pedro, and Victor started designing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) (see below)
• Sarah continued research on how to build and stabilize tree house structures for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Thais and Carolina worked together on finalizing the major decisions for the Tree House Village design and worked on the online article about this village for our website (see below)
• Gabriel used Photoshop to finish painting some of the hand-drawn storyboards for the Tree House Village and completed a 3D model of the 3- dome cluster for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Gilberto created a 3D model of the Murphy bed for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Ana turned her 2D model of the transitory kitchen into a 3D model in Revit and began the selection and design of the projection dome for our ‘Ultimate Classroom‘ (see below)

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:13

• Renata designed the cupola roof for the Duplicable City Center and made models of the roofs for the shower pods in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Flávia started the interior design studies for the City Center and designed a wardrobe made from used pallets for the rental units (see below)
• Mayke added additional new files to the intern team’s file system and developed a tutorial for the windows (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo and the Structural Intern Team finished the internal main structure for the entertainment and dining domes, and analyzed the internal main structure for the residential dome and the cupola system. They also worked on calculating areas to assess wind loads and created a new numbering assignment for the beams to account for the wind (see below)
• The Hydraulics Intern Team finished another 80% of the grey water sewer pipe sizing and layouts and continued developing a fire sprinkler system. They also moved the accessible shower in the bathroom and they completed the cold potable water report and worked on the layout of all the pipes and fittings (see below)
• Mike Hogan guided the Electrical Intern Team in updating the standard design for the control panel that will be used for the bathrooms and bedrooms. The team also created the electrical wiring layout for the main rooms and bedrooms of the Duplicable City Center (see below)

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:24

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Lucas created a new set of additional variations of possible logos as well as an animated logo option (see below)
• Manuella started creating an online presentation book for the Tree House Village (see below)
• Eduardo created collages of images taken from the intern team’s weekly work. He also synced the audio, revised, and finished the weekly video blog (see below)
• Manasses continued preparing the online presentation document for all seven of One Community’s villages (see below)
• The Software Development Intern Team made additional upgrades to the Highest Good Network application and the database, and developed the prototype of the report page that you see here (see below)
• Gustavo continued working on the One Community iPhone application (see below)

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING SUMMARY @12:12

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

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ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating the standard of 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 first 50% of the content for the Planet Earth lesson plan to the website:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Planet Earth Lesson Plan ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit

In addition, behind the scenes we wrote another 30% of that Planet Earth lesson plan, so it is now 65% written.

We also completed and added the final 50% of the mindmap for the Outer Space lesson plan to the webpage:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Outer Space Mindmap Complete – Click to Visit Page

Lucas from the Graphic Design Intern Team helped us create this new image for the Communication lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Communication Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source bitter melon hub:

Featured Bitter Melon Hub with New Social Imagery ” Click to Visit

We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source oca hub. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan will be added to each of the individual hubs in the future.

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Added Two Oca Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Hub

Last but not least, we added three new tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan â€œ These recipes are: Roasted Poblano Breakfast Burrito, Cornmeal & Veggie Pizza, and Roasted Poblano Pepper & Tortilla Soup:

New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating the standard of 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 finished integrating the pathway and landscaping updates for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) central area.

This meant cleaning the file, merging everything, adding rails for stairs, updating the toilet roof, adding the Tropical Atrium, working on a couple of different designs for the toilet building entrance, and merging the final design into the whole Earthbag Village file. 

Here you can see the completely integrated village for the first time with all the new buildings, paths, and landscaping in place:

Finished Integrating the Pathway and Landscaping Updates for Earthbag Village Central Area

Behind the scenes we also completed another 15% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.

This week’s efforts focused on reviews, edits, additions, alterations, and photos of the Camp Setup doc, adding garbage bags, sisal twine, clothes pins, cordless drill & bit.

Eliminating some of the transitory kitchen items not suitable for our needs, replacing range/oven with portable propane burners, determining clothesline design and adding a narrative for tripod design for a clothesline, plus researching pressure cookers.

Here are some of the new additions and this brings us to 80% complete with this action item.

Behind-the-Scenes Camp Setup Specifics for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign ” 80% Complete

Sayonara (a member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team) calculated and studied shadows in the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) by creating 3D models and simulations. She also updated the central building of the village to improve the structural integrity:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Continued Work on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2)

Civil engineering interns Matheus and Renata completed the final 30% of the calculations for the reciprocal roof in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) shower domes, bringing that to 100% complete.

Matheus also completed the final reports for the cistern system, the earthbag village’s new designs, and the structural calculations. He also completed another 50% of the LEED tutorial document, bringing it to 80% complete:

Completed Calculations for Reciprocal Roof in Earthbag Village Shower Domes – Click to Visit Page

Adolpho and Jorge from our Mechanical Engineering Intern Team completed a 3D model of the laundry room heat exchanging system. They also modeled the shower heat recovery system for the Earthbag Village:

3D Model of Laundry Room Heat Exchanging System & Shower Heat Recovery System for Earthbag

Fernando and Amauri, who are also members of the Mechanical Engineering Intern Team, continued improving the efficiency of the heat exchanger for the laundry room, which included trying new angles for the connections and running new simulations:

Continued Improving the Efficiency of the Heat Exchanger for Laundry Room – Click for Page

Welma researched aerated concrete and foaming agents. She also analyzed options for aerated concrete mixers:

Meanwhile, Samantha, a member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, added modifications to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and generated additional renders. She also worked on lighting simulations for the dining and living domes in DIALux.

Additional Modifications and Renders of Shipping Container Village – Click to Visit Page

Raquel and Diana, also members of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, continued researching earthship construction methods and designing 2D and 3D floor plans for the Earthship Village (Pod 6). They expanded the second floor of the village and added balconies to it:

Research & Designing 2D and 3D Floor Plans for Earthship Village – Click to Visit Page

Erika, Pedro, and Victor from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team started designing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). For this, they researched fabrication, construction techniques, and structural behavior of earth blocks.

Then, they determined some initial concepts for this village based on a central theme and created preliminary sketches.

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Started Designing the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4)

Sarah, another member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, continued research on how to build and stabilize tree house structures for the Tree House Village (Pod 7).

She focused on the architectural uses of bamboo and how we may be able to incorporate bamboo and other lighter weight building materials:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Continued Tree House Village (Pod 7) Research – Click to Visit

Thais from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, and Carolina, a Service Design student, worked together on finalizing the major decisions for the Tree House Village design. They researched different themes for the designs and created a bubble diagram of the layout of all of the buildings. They also worked on the online article about this village for our website.

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Finalizing Major Decisions for Tree House Village Design

Gabriel, an Industrial Design Student on our Graphic Design Intern Team, used Photoshop to finish painting some of the hand-drawn storyboards for the Tree House Village. He also completed a 3D model of the 3- dome cluster for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1):

Used Photoshop to Finish Painting Some of the Hand-Drawn Storyboards for the Tree House Village

Gilberto from the Graphic Design Intern Team created a 3D model of the Murphy bed for the Earthbag Village:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Created 3D model of the Murphy Bed for the Earthbag Village

And finally, Ana turned her 2D model of the transitory kitchen into a 3D model in Revit, and then began the selection and design of the projection dome for our ‘Ultimate Classroom‘.

3D Transitory kitchen Model in Revit and Began Selection & Design the Projection Dome

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating the standard of 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

Civil engineering intern Renata designed the cupola roof and measured elevations for the Duplicable City Center. She also made some models of the roofs for the shower pods in the Earthbag Village:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Added Additional New Files to the Intern Team’s File System

Flávia from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team started the interior design studies for the City Center, which included researching sustainable materials and harmonious color palettes. She also designed a wardrobe made from used pallets for the rental units:

Began Interior Design Studies for City Center & Designed Wardrobe Made for Rental Units

Mayke added additional new files to the intern team’s file system and developed a tutorial for the windows, which will be used for all the various types of architecture:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Added Additional New Files to the Intern Team’s File System

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) and the Structural Intern Team (Antonio, Gabriel, Beatriz, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Maurilio) finished the internal main structure for the entertainment and dining domes, and analyzed the internal main structure for the residential dome and the cupola system.

They also worked on calculating areas to assess wind loads and created a new numbering assignment for the beams to account for the wind.

Worked on Internal Main Structure for Domes and Cupula System – Click for City Center Page

Diogo, Izadora, Joao, Mateus, and Roberto from the Hydraulics Intern Team finished another 80% of the grey water sewer pipe sizing and layouts, bringing that to 100% completion. They also finished to about the 70% completion point in developing a fire sprinkler system.

They also moved the accessible shower in the bathroom to create more efficient pipe distribution. And they completed the cold potable water report and worked on the layout of all the pipes and fittings:

Continued Work on Grey Water Sewer Pipe and Fire Sprinkler System – Click to Visit Page

Last but not least, Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) guided Fabio, Lucas de Souza, Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, Guilherme, Henrique, Tiago, and Israel of the Electrical Intern Team in updating the standard design for the control panel that will be used for the bathrooms and bedrooms. The team also created the electrical wiring layout for the main rooms and bedrooms of the Duplicable City Center:

Updated the Standard Design for Control Panel Used for Bathrooms and Bedrooms and Electrical

ECO-RENOVATING THE STANDARD OF LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating the standard of 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

Eco-renovating the standard of living

This last week the core team continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly. This week’s work included correcting another 30+ pages of formatting errors.

Here’s an example of one of these pages where all the icons and images with links had to be manually fixed. We’d say we are now about 90% done with our complete website overhaul:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Continued Updating Our Entire Website to be Mobile Friendly

Lucas from the Graphic Design Intern Team created a new set of additional variations of possible logos as well as an animated logo option:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Created New Set of Additional Variations of Possible Logos

Manuella, of the Graphic Design Intern Team started creating an online presentation book for the Tree House Village that helps in eco-renovating the standard of living. This book is a tool to summarize and market all aspects of that village:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Began Creating an Online Presentation Book for Tree House

Another member of the Graphic Design Intern Team, Eduardo created collages of images taken from the intern team’s weekly work. He also synced the audio, revised, and finished the weekly video blog:

Created Collages of Images of Intern’s Weekly Work and Finished the Weekly Video Blog

Graphic Design Intern, Manasses continued preparing the online presentation document for all seven of One Community’s villages, He researched references for info-graphics, layout styles, grids, and more, and selected the ones he thought were best for our villages:

Continued Work on Online Presentation for All One Community’s Villages – Click to Visit Housing Page

Igor, Marco, Matheus, and Natalia of the Software Development Intern Team, made additional upgrades to the Highest Good Network application and the database, and developed the prototype of the report page that you see below:

Continued Work on the Highest Good Network application and Database – Click to Visit Page

And last but not least, Gustavo (Mobile Software Developer) set up the Amazon Web Services API for One Community and integrated it so it can get live information from the API about how many hours each person logs. This brought this One Community iPhone application to about 50% ready for public launch:

Eco-Renovating the Standard of Living – Contined Work on One Community iPhone Application

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Creating the world we know is possible, a sustainable world capable of meeting everyone’s needs, will happen as soon as enough people want it and participate in creating it. Enrolling people in the process can take many forms.

The approach that makes the most sense, based on other successful movements that have caused paradigm shifts, is making and demonstrating a sustainable way of living that a majority of people will want more than the way they are living now.

If we make that easy enough, affordable enough, and open-source globally accessible, the idea will predictably spread across the planet and evolve on its own. We call this living and creating for The Highest Good of All: Creating the World We Know is Possible

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of creating the world we know is possible as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

This is the August 2nd, 2015 edition (#123) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating the World We Know is Possible
One Community Progress Update #123

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

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE INTRO: @1:04

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:56

• Transferred final 35% of the content for the Outer Space lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 35% of the Planet Earth lesson plan
• Created and added the first 50% of the mindmap to the Outer Space lesson plan web page (see below)
• Featured the Nature lesson plan across our social media channels, using this image that Lucas helped us create (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Finished final social media imagery and featured our open source chayote hub and our open source wax gourd hub (see below)
• Researched and added additional recipes to the open source ulluco hub (see below)
• Added three new tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:20

• Finished the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) landscaping and building updates (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed another 15% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Renata and Matheus started modeling the reciprocal roof for the Earthbag Village. Matheus also continued work on the LEED v4 open source tutorial (see below)
• Sayonara continued work with the 3D model for the roof in the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) and added water features and plants to the model of that village (see below)
• Sayonara also added sky lights in the bathrooms of each living unit in the Straw Bale Village. This design also allowed her to add a loft to half of the units (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge continued work on the vermiculture bathroom design. They also modified the laundry space area and laundry machines to accommodate changes from other teams (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge set up a 3D printed model of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri worked on the heat recovery system for the laundry room (see below)
• Welma worked on a composting toilet analysis and began creating a tutorial on these toilets (see below)
• Samantha and Flávia finished detailed first and second floor plans for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and started research on color pallets and landscaping (see below)
• Raquel and Diana continued work on the Earthship Village (Pod 6) (see below)
• Sarah did research to help design our Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Gilberto continued 3D modeling for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Gabriel finished renders of the Murphy bed and started to create a 3-dome cluster for the for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Ana worked on the transitory kitchen in Autocad (see below)
• And Carolina continued the service design for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:18

• The Architecture and Planning Intern Team continued the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village lighting study (see below)
• Mayke completed the organization of the intern team’s files using the new name format pattern and created a table to control the revisions of all the projects (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo and the Structural Intern Team continued structural designs and testing (see below)
• The Hydraulics Intern Team continued work on the pipe sizing calculations and consulted the Mechanical Engineering Team on the heat transferring piping from the Tropical Atrium to all showers and sinks for all four community bathrooms in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• The Electrical Intern Team continued work on the control systems for the Duplicable City Center’s electrical project and updated the lighting design while working with and under the guidance of Mike Hogan  (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:08

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Manuella, Manasses, Gabriel, and Eduardo continued work on a possible new logo for One Community (see below)
• Lucas did research and created additional variations of possible logos (see below)
• Eduardo also researched music for a new video One Community is working on (see below)
• The Software Development Intern Team programmed, tested, and debugged more of the code for Highest Good Network web application and got a beta version running (see below)
• Gustavo reached 80% completion on connecting the API for the iPhone App to the database of the software the rest of the team created (see below)

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE SUMMARY: @11:39

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CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world we know 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 35% of the content for the Outer Space lesson plan to the website.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Outer Space Lesson Plan Complete ” Click to Visit Page

In addition, behind the scenes, we wrote the first 35% of the Planet Earth lesson plan.

We also created and added the first 50% of the mindmap to the Outer Space lesson plan web page. You can see that mindmap here:

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Outer Space Mindmap – 50% Complete

And we featured the Nature lesson plan across our social media channels, using this image that Lucas from the Graphic Design Intern Team helped us create:

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Nature Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world we know 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 finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source chayote hub:

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Featured Chayote Hub with New Social Imagery

And we finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source wax gourd hub:

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Featured Wax Gourd Hub with New Social Imagery

We also researched and added additional recipes to the open source ulluco hub. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan will be added to each of the individual hubs in the future.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Added 2 Ulluco Recipes ” Click to Visit

Last but not least, we added three new tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan.

These recipes are: Banana Cashew Breakfast Parfait, Twice Baked Potatoes with Mushroom Saute, and Sloppy Jane’s:

New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world we know 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 finished the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) walking paths in 3D, placed new shower buildings, and updated our lower level entrances for the vermiculture toilet buildings and shower buildings.

Also we updated the roof for the vermiculture toilet building and redid the steps going to this structure. This brings us to 100% complete with this phase of the 3D creation – next .

Finished the Earthbag Village Landscaping and Building Updates – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes we also completed another 15% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This brings us to 65% complete there.

Behind-the-Scenes Camp Setup Specifics for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign ” 65% Complete

Civil engineering interns Renata and Matheus started modeling the reciprocal roof for the Earthbag Village. They used special software for testing the structure for wind load, completing about 70% of those load calculations.

Matheus also finished to the 30% point of the LEED v4 open source tutorial.

Started Modeling Reciprocal Roof for Earthbag Village and Continued Work on LEED V4 Tutorial

Sayonara, a member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, is now 80% complete with section 1 and 35% complete with section 2 of the 3D model for the roof in the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). She also added water features and plants to the model of that village, as you see here.

Continued Work on the 3D Model for Straw Bale Village Roof – Click to Visit Page

Sayonara also added sky lights in the bathrooms of each living unit in the Straw Bale Village, providing natural light that maintains privacy. This design also allowed her to add a loft to half of the units.

Sky Lights Added to the Bathrooms of each Living Unit and Loft Added to Half the Units ” Click to Visit

Adolpho and Jorge from our Mechanical Engineering Intern Team researched existing vermiculture toilet systems and came up with a new, non-leaking design for the trays of our vermiculture bathroom design using a sloped floor.

They also modified the laundry space area and laundry machines to accommodate changes from other teams. Adolpho and Jorge additionally set up a 3D printed model of the Earthbag Village.

Continued Vermiculture Bathroom Designs & 3D Printed Model of Earthbag Village ” Click to Visit

Fernando and Amauri, additional members of the Mechanical Engineering Intern Team, worked on the heat recovery system for the laundry room.

They calculated the amount of copper needed to preheat the air for the dryers, and simulated the system to show the variation of temperatures.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Worked on the Heat Recovery System for the Laundry Room

Welma worked on a composting toilet analysis, completing to the 90% point where she also began creating a tutorial on these toilets.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Continued Work on the Earthship Village (Pod 6)

Samantha and Flávia from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team finished detailed first and second floor plans for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), including furniture and flooring, and started research on color pallets and landscaping.

Finished Detailed First and Second Floor Plans for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5)

Raquel and Diana, also members of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team redefined the layout of the dorms for the Earthship Village (Pod 6) to include double units.

They also researched fire codes, fire escapes, direct lighting solutions for the bedrooms, ADA solutions (hydraulic elevator), and construction materials for earthship projects.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Continued Work on the Earthship Village (Pod 6)

Sarah, another member of the Architecture and Planning Intern Team, researched tree house structures, designs, layouts, materials, and construction, as well as resources for existing guidelines and best practices for building in trees to help design our Tree House Village (Pod 7).

Tree House Research – Click to Visit Tree House Village

Gilberto from the Graphic Design Intern Team, continued 3D modeling for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), which included cut views so you can see the layers of bags in the walls, which you can see here:

Continued 3D Modeling for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) – Click to Visit Page

Gabriel, an Industrial Design Student on our Graphic Design Intern Team, finished renders of the Murphy bed and started to create a 3-dome cluster for the Earthbag Village.

Renders of the Murphy Bed Finished and Started to Create a 3-dome Cluster for the Earthbag Village

Ana worked on the transitory kitchen in Autocad. She adjusted the walls and floor plan, and added serving tables, furniture, and appliances.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Worked on theTransitory Kitchen in Autocad – Click to Visit

And Carolina continued the service design for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), dividing the village into 4 main spaces and 4 sub-spaces,  and categorizing them by types of use. She also created these story boards for videos she will be creating about this village.

Story Boards Created for Tree House Village Videos – Click to Visit Page

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world we know 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 Erika, Thais, Pedro and Victor from the Architecture and Planning Intern Team completed 95% of the lighting design for the three Domes of the Duplicable City Center and  85% of the lighting study for Earthbag Village (the kitchen, bathroom, and shower dome).

They also started developing the lighting design for the second bathroom dome.

Continued Lighting Design for the Duplicable City Center and Lighting Study for Earthbag Village

Mayke completed the organization of the intern team’s files using the new name format pattern and created a table to control the revisions of all the projects.

Organization of the Intern Team’s Files

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) and the Structural Intern Team (Antonio, Gabriel, Beatriz, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Maurilio) continued structural designs and testing.

They updated architectural and structural files, analyzed primary and secondary beams, and created and analyzed structural strategies for the interior of the domes. They also studied the structural codes and how to calculate wind loads for the domes.

Continued Structural Designs and Testing for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Diogo, Izadora, Joao, Mateus, and Roberto from the Hydraulics Intern Team finished to the 20% mark with the initial pipe sizing calculations for cold/potable water for the Duplicable City Center.

They also consulted the Mechanical Engineering Team on the heat transferring piping from the Tropical Atrium to all showers and sinks for all four community bathrooms in the Earthbag Village.

Continued work on Pipe Sizing Calcs for the Duplicable City Center & Heat Transferring Piping Work

In addition to this, working with and under the guidance of Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant), Fabio, Lucas de Souza, Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, Guilherme, Henrique, Tiago, and Israel of the Electrical Intern Team, continued work on the control systems for the Duplicable City Center’s electrical project and updated the lighting design, as you see here:

Continued Work on the Control Systems for the Duplicable City Center’s Electrical project

CREATING THE WORLD WE KNOW IS POSSIBLE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating the world we know 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 continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly. This week’s work included fixing charts, learning about and creating short codes for common areas of our site that we update, and reviewing and correcting another 30 pages.

We’d say we are now about 80% done with this complete website overhaul:

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Continued Work on a Possible New Logo for One Community

Manuella, Manasses, Gabriel, and Eduardo of the Graphic Design Intern Team worked together on the definition, selection, complete design, and presentation of a possible new logo for One Community.

They edited alignment and colors of the second logo design and created a few examples of what it looks like when it is applied to various surfaces.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Continued Work on a Possible New Logo for One Community

Lucas did research for type sets and color schemes for the logo and also created these additional variations of possible logos.

Creating the World We Know is Possible – Additional Variations of Possible Logos

In addition to his contribution on the logo, Eduardo also researched music for a new video One Community is working on. These images are stills from the video footage he captured for this project.

Still Images from Video Footage Captured for a New Video One Community Video

And finally, for the Software Development Intern Team, Igor, Marco, Matheus, and Natalia Â programmed, tested, and debugged more of the code for Highest Good Network web application and got a beta version running.

Beta Version of the Highest Good Network Web Application Running – Click to Visit Page

Meanwhile, Gustavo reached 80% completion on connecting the API for the iPhone App to the database of the software the rest of the team created.

Continued Work on the New iphone App ” Click to Visit the Highest Good Network Page

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One Community is happy to feature and thank Gabriel Freitas as our most recent member of the Structural Engineering Team. Gabriel has spent the last two months working on the structural analysis details of the open source Duplicable City Center.

3rd-year Civil Engineering/Construction Engineering Management Student: Gabriel is a student abroad from Brazil majoring in Civil Engineering/Construction Management at California State University, Long Beach. He has already worked for a Master degree student, helping her to find ways to design a building using just natural ventilation for the thermal comfort of it. Also, he has worked for the Brazilian Army where he helped the Engineering Team making budgets for small construction projects. Gabriel believes sustainability is all about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations. He also feels that working for One Community is all about helping himself, others, and the planet for a better way of living. As a member of the One Community team, Gabriel’s contribution is AutoCAD creation of internal Duplicable City Center elevations and electrical layout details, helping with the budget details for the commercial kitchen, and researching LEED Platinum level compliance.

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One Community is happy to feature and thank Natalia Dias da Costa as our most recent member of the Software Team. Natalia has spent the last two months working on the new open source Highest Good Network software.

3rd-year Information Systems Student: Natalia is a Brazilian student from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is a member of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Study Abroad Program. She is seeking a degree in Information Systems focusing on web programing and is currently studying Computer Science at New York Institute of Technology. Natalia always took an interest in the web, and started to learn HTML by herself when she was 13. Later, in high school, she took a technical course where she learned traditional programming languages such as Pascal, Java, and JavaScript. At the same time, Natalia took alternative courses in the web and design field, learning how to use Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Corel Draw. Now, in college, she is learning even more, always studying to learn more programming languages. Back in Brazil, Natalia worked at a school where she helped kids learn about the proper use of the computer. After this experience, she worked at the National Bank of Social and Economic Development, helping with troubleshooting. While Natalia worked at the bank, she also was tutoring for the Programming Techniques II class at her University, assisting students with class-related doubts and helping them understand the given subjects and assignments, as well as assisting the teacher in class. She joined this internship with One Community hoping to gain experience and learn even more about open source and her field of study. She did just that spending the last two months diligently working on the new open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community is happy to feature and thank Ana Carolina as our most recent member of the Design Team! Ana Carolina has spent the last two months working on the details of the Tree House Village function and design.

3rd-year Industrial Design and Service Design Student: Ana is an undergraduate student from Fluminense Federal University in Brazil where she is studying Industrial Design. She is also a part of the Brazil Scientific Mobility Study Abroad Program where she has been exploring a broad diversity of topics about design and its possibilities through SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design coursework in Service Design. Through her independent research, initiative, and self-motivation, Ana has developed a fascination with the service design area and its in-depth approach to user-centered deliverables. Through the process of developing methods that enable the service experience to be user-centered, Ana has learned to combine industrial design and service design to produce universal design. It is this universal design where Ana feels she can truly describe herself throughout all her projects. This means combining the study of people and social participation and its systems into an integrative environment. Applying this passion, Ana developed an academic project called Interactive Recycle Bin that was an O Globo Finalist in the Design Competition Rio. Ana knows design is not just about solving problems, it is also about problem finding and designing to redefine problems to arrive at better solutions and outcomes. With this in mind, and a philosophy that â€œsuccessful design outcomes come from active participation of users and a deep understanding of the problem requiring a solution, even to the extent of re-framing the problem itself,” Ana joined the One Community team working on the specific short and long-term benefits of living in a sustainable home and/or community like the Earthbag village. She spent the last two months diligently working on the details of the Tree House Village function and design.

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One Community is happy to feature and thank Fernando Carvalho as our most recent member of the Mechanical Engineering Team! Fernando has spent the last two months working on the heat exchanger details for the City Center laundry and Earthbag Village showers.

4th-year Mechanical Engineering Student: Fernando is an international student from Brazil’s Scientific Mobility Program, a study abroad program developed by the Brazilian government. He is a student at Federal Technological University of Paraná, now studying at California State University, Long Beach. Fernando speaks three languages, including Portuguese (native), English (advanced) and Spanish (advanced). During college, he participated in two projects: one as tutor for one semester helping students who were taking Mechanics of Solids 2 classes, and the other project as a volunteer (called BAJA SAE) for one year where he participated in the calculations and design of a transmission project for an off-road car. During those years at university and participating in these projects, Fernando developed skills such as teamwork, dedication, communication and organization. Fernando is excited to be working with One Community to implement the knowledge he has acquired over the years with the vision that sustainability becomes something more present in people’s daily lives. He is doing this applying his knowledge in thermodynamics and heat transfer to design and calculate heat recapture systems for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center.

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Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges are needed if we are to create sustainable and global changes. Making sustainable living easy enough, accessible enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough so most people desire to live this way can achieve this paradigm shift. Open source sharing can accelerate the process. One Community is creating this as what we call living and creating for The Highest Good of All: Paradigm Shifting Approaches to Persistent Global Challenges

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 26th, 2015 edition (#122) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Paradigm Shifting Approaches to Persistent Global Challenges
One Community Progress Update #122

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

PARADIGM SHIFTING APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES INTRO @1:05

PARADIGM SHIFTING APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:57

• Transferred another 35% of content for the Outer Space lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 35% of the Outer Space lesson plan
• Added the first 25% of the mindmap to the Quality and Quantity lesson plan web page, which Lucas helped with (see below)
• Featured the Open Source lesson plan across our social media channels, using the image that Lucas helped us create (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucas researched and downloaded images for Lesson Plan mindmaps

PARADIGM SHIFTING APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:25

• Finished final social media imagery and featured our open source turnips hub and our open source parsley hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source asparagus hub (see below)
• Added three new delicious recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

PARADIGM SHIFTING APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:33

• Continued the pathway and landscaping updates for Earthbag Village (Pod 1)
• Behind the scenes: completed another 35% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Sayonara continued work on the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)
• Sayonara also worked with Renata on the reciprocal roof for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Matheus helped in a managerial role while redesigning the shower and water catchment domes in the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge continued with the vermiculture bathroom designs while also modeling the layout of the City Center laundry area (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri continued work with the heat exchanger for the communal showers and obtained the code for the STT simulator and translated to English (see below)
• Welma worked on creating a tutorial for earthship, strawbale, cob, and subterranean structures waterproofing methods (see below)
• Samantha, Flávia, and Victor researched interior design and materials for Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and developed the first iteration in Revit (see below)
• Raquel and Diana created revision 3 of the Earthship Village (Pod 6) (see below)
• Sarah created hand sketches for the layout and designs for Earth Block Village (Pod 4) (see below)
• Gilberto continued 3D modeling for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Lucas continued work on the Master Plan map for placement of all seven of One Community’s villages and key areas (see below)
• Ana finished costing alternative equipment for the transitory kitchen (see below)
• Carolina worked on the service design for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)

PARADIGM SHIFTING APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:12

• The Architecture and Planning Intern Team continued the Duplicable City Center lighting study (see below)
• Mayke organized documents and designs created by all of the interns for the City Center and all seven villages (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo and the Structural Intern Team worked on the structural aspects of the City Center and modeled the domes in 3D (see below)
• Renata adjusted the architectural drawings of the City Center to account for the structural updates (see below)
• The Hydraulics Intern Team designed a dual-tank septic system for the Duplicable City Center, worked on pipe sizing calculations, and worked with the Mechanical Engineering Team on the heat-transfer piping between the Tropical Atrium and the Earthbag Village showers (see below)
• Mike Hogan and the Electrical Intern Team created the energy output table and initial wiring design and control systems features list for the Duplicable City Center

PARADIGM SHIFTING APPROACHES TO PERSISTENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:31

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucy Lu continued creating the charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial (now complete – see below)
• Manuella,  Gabriel, and Eduardo continued work on our new logo ideas and Eduardo also researched music for a video he will be creating for One Community (see below)
• Manasses researched more examples of successful layouts and prepared sketches for the interactive documents he is creating for all seven villages (see below)
• Igor, Marco,

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 paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges, harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges are integral to our methodology. 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, paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges, 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges will be integral to this effort. 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges and 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges are integral to this effort.

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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges will further enhance its impact.

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 paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges and 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges are at the heart of our methodology. 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges 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.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges are integral to this process, as 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. Paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges will be foundational to our efforts, alongside 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, while also employing paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas. This aligns with our paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges, facilitating a more rapid and effective distribution where it can have the most significant impact.

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, utilizing paradigm-shifting approaches to persistent global challenges, 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, incorporating paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges.

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 of paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges and our commitment to continuous improvement and collaboration.:

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. Our paradigm shifting approaches to persistent global challenges will be modeled 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.