Creating global transformational change is possible if enough people want this and participate in helping create it. Making a sustainable way of life that is also more enjoyable to live is one path to building the necessary global desire and participation.

Open source sharing this approach is also important to it becoming widespread and transformational. Putting all this together is what we call 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 creating global transformational change as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 19th, 2015 edition (#121) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Global Transformational Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #121

CREATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE INTRO @1:03

CREATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:55

• Transferred 30% of the content for Outer Space lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote another 35% of the Outer Space lesson plan (see below)
• Featured our Human Body lesson plan across our social media channels with the new image Lucas Almeida created (see below)
• Lucas finished the entire Freedom mindmap (see below)

CREATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:15

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

CREATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:25

• Continued the redesign of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) landscaping after changing the structural design of the net-zero bathrooms (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed another 10% of the open source camp setup specifics for the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Renata continued work on the Central part of the Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira continued work on Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)
• Sayonara and Renata also worked together designing a reciprocal roof for this Village (see below)
• Matheus Manfredini researched LEED V4 requirements for a new village construction tutorial and modified Earthbag Village design (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge continued work on their vermiculture bathroom tray design (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge also created models in Solidworks of the washing machines for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri incorporated the Hydraulics Team’s work into their heat exchanger for the Earthbag Village’s communal showers (see below)
• Welma researched waterproofing methods and products for our earthship, strawbale, cob, and subterranean structures (see below)
• Samantha and Flávia worked on a third redesign of the layout of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) (see below)
• Raquel and Diana started the illustrated version of the master plan for the layout of all seven of One Community’s villages and additional social spaces (see below)
• Sarah did research to get ideas for designs for the Earth Block Village (Pod 4) (see below)
• Gilberto continued 3D modeling for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Gabriel developed a 3-D model for the vermiculture composting toilets in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and continued rendering the Murphy bed (see below)
• Ana did the cost analysis for the footer, foundation and floors and transitory kitchen project and created a Hexayurt drawing of the transitory Kitchen (see below)
• Carolina outlined the personas of people that will be using the Tree House Village (Pod 7) and researched case studies and features of the location (see below)

CREATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:56

• Erika, Thais, Pedro and Victor completed the first step of the Duplicable City Center lighting study (see below)
• Mayke Balbino created a template, a checklist, and a guide to help with construction (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo, Antonio, Gabriel, Beatriz, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Maurilio made design changes to the cupola, created map loads, etc. (see below)
• The Structural Intern Team also worked on the Duplicable City Center dome walls and started calculating structural needs (see below)
• Diogo, Izadora, Joao, Mateus, and Roberto created the AutoCad design drawings for the placement of the pipes and created the Eco Pool and Spa AutoCad plumbing specifics (see below)
• Fabio, Lucas de Souza and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, Guilherme, Henrique, Tiago, and Israel continued evolving the control systems and electrical design with the help of Mike Hogan (see below)

CREATING GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:25

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen researched and created a Statement of Financial Position spreadsheet and tutorial (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucy Lu continued creating the charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial (see below)
• Manuella, Manasses, and Eduardo completed the first step of creating a potential new logo for One Community (see below)
• Eduardo also searched for music options, images, and video styles for the video he is creating for One Community (see below)
• Igor, Marco, Matheus

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. For creating global transformational change, 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, creating global transformational change, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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 creating global transformational change and a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. 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, creating global transformational change, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of creating global transformational change. One Community 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. Creating global transformational change will be a core focus, scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism, which will become 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, creating global transformational change and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models, creating global transformational change and 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, creating global transformational change.

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Creating proactive, innovative, and duplicable sustainability is one path to a world that works for everyone. Through open source and self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models purposed to provide a healthier, sustainable and more enjoyable living experience, we can create world change founded on providing a better way of living that helps others to live better too. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 5th, 2015 edition (#120) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Proactive,
Innovative, and Duplicable Sustainability
One Community Weekly Progress Update #120

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

PROACTIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND DUPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY INTRO @1:05

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:55

• Wrote and transferred another 25% of content for the “Freedom” lesson plan to website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote 30% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Outer Space“
• Lucas Almeida completed the last 50% of the Nature page (see below)
• Lucas helped us create this new image for the “Dreams” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels (see below)
• Lucas created 7 more lesson plan memes that are used to share our lesson plans across social media (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:26

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

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:38

• Continued the redesign of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) landscaping after changing the structural design of the net-zero bathrooms (see below)
• Behind the scenes: finished researching and adding all the waterproofing strategy equipment and materials images and descriptions (see below)
• Song Dong created an open source tutorial for running structural analysis in SolidWorks on complex structures like our domes (see below)
• Samantha and Flávia worked on improvements to the structure, plumbing, interior layouts and exterior appearance of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) (see below)
• Sarah, Raquel, and Diana researched landscape characteristics in the site of and nearest regions to the property we wish to purchase. Sarah used this to place the 7 villages according to sun orientation, topography, and proximity to existing roads. Raquel and Diana then created a “How to Plan the Placement of My Home or Village” tutorial (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge changed the design of the vermiculture bathroom tray and started running calculations for the trays (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri ran calculations for the Earthbag Village communal shower heat exchangers (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira continued work on Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)
• Matheus Manfredini created a complete report for the structural engineering details for the reciprocating roof design for Earthbag Village communal shower and bathroom designs (see below)
• Gilberto began creating a 3D model of the Couple’s Dome design for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and other corrections to prepare for a real-to-life video representation of this structure (see below)
• Manasses researched references for layouts and selected the best editorial examples for a complete 7-village portfolio (see below)
• Gabriel started developing and rendering the Murphy bed for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) final real-to-life renders (see below)
• Carolina began a research process for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) (see below)
• Ana researched non-toxic roof paint, calculated the dome surface area to determine the amount needed for coverage and researched PVC pipe for drip irrigation and its effects for health (see below)
• Welma researched waterproofing and waterproofing products in all kinds of houses from aerated concrete to straw bale and beyond (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:41

• Erika, Thais, Pedro and Victor completed the first step of the lighting study for the Duplicable City Center Living Dome (see below)
• Mayke Balbino continued creating Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the Duplicable City Center and reviewed the water catchment projects (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo and Antonio, Gabriel, Beatriz, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Maurilio developed a 3D model on AutoCAD and modeled the domes in 3D (see below)
• Fabio, Lucas de Souza and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, Guilherme, Henrique, Tiago, and Israel worked on the Electrical Design (see below)
• Diogo Rozada and Izadora, Joao, Mateus, and Roberto continued their water consumption design and started to develop the Fire Protection System (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:33

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen researched and added an additional tutorial for the excel spreadsheet she created last week covering tax considerations and strategies for transparent operation of a non-profit eco-tourism destination as One Community (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucy Lu continued creating the charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial (see below)
• Manuella analyzed One Community Global’s philosophy, communication, and current visual identity. This is the first three steps to create a new brand strategy based on Design Thinking Methodology (see below)
• Igor, Marco, Matheus, and Natalia researched the existing Highest Good Network application and determined it would be better to start a new application from scratch using a common programming language. They then started the new web application requirements and documentation (see below)

PROACTIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND DUPLICABLE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:43

• How you can most help us right now

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. For creating global transformational change, 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, creating global transformational change, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living by creating proactive, innovative, and duplicable sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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.) by creating proactive, innovative, and duplicable sustainability. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards creating global transformational change and a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. 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, creating global transformational change, the model will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of creating global transformational change. One Community 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. Creating global transformational change will be a core focus, scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism, which will become 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, creating global transformational change and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models, creating global transformational change and 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 by creating proactive, innovative, and duplicable sustainability. 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, creating global transformational change.

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

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

SUMMARY

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

Let’s engage in pragmatic utopia creation. The solutions to the greatest challenges our world is currently facing already exist. A world that works for everyone is no longer an unachievable idealistic dream. Through open source and self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models purposed to provide a healthier, sustainable, and more enjoyable living experience, we can create world change. 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 21st, 2015 edition (#119) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Pragmatic Utopia Creation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #119

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

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – INTRO @1:02

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:54

• Transferred final 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Finished final 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map (see below)
• Transferred 50% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Graphic Designer, Lucas Almeida did image research for the entire Freedom mindmap (see below)
• Lucas also helped us create this new image for the “Civilization” lesson plan (see below)

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:17

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

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:32

• Began the complete redesign of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) landscaping after changing the structural design of the net-zero bathrooms (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Began researching and adding waterproofing strategy equipment and materials images and descriptions (see below)
• Song Dong finished the 3rd round of elevation and cross section modeling of these 3-dome structures in AutoCAD (see below)
• Izadora Carvalho completed the cost analysis for the Rainwater Catchment System that will be constructed for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) (see below)
• Adolpho and Jorge continued evolving the vermiculture bathroom designs (see below)
• Adolpho also modeled several additional components for demonstrating the Duplicable City Center laundry heat recovery systems (see below)
• Fernando and Amauri continued running calculations and simulations for the heat recapture designs for the Earthbag Village communal showers (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira began work on Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)
• Matheus Manfredini helped redesign the water catchment net-zero toilet domes and the areas where these domes will be located in the village (see below)
• Renata Maehara continued her third week of work on the Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:14

• Diogo Rozada, Izadora, Joao, Mateus, and Roberto, all members of the Hydraulics Intern Team calculated the water consumption for a day for the Duplicable City Center and the bathrooms from the Earthbag Village (see below)
• They also completed the calculations and design for the greywater and sewer pipes as well as the potable water pipe designs (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo and Antonio, Gabriel, Beatriz, Fernando, Rodrigo, and Maurilio, all members of the Structural Intern Team, began working together on the structural details for the City Center cupola (see below)
• Fabio, Lucas de Souza and Lucas Tsutsui da Silva, Guilherme, Henrique, Tiago, and Israel of the Electrical Intern Team created a tutorial for electrical design and Control Systems item selection and placement and began modeling all the rooms (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Mayke Balbino helped create a comprehensive list of all the remaining components needed for this structure

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:36

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen began working on the financial statement in Excel covering tax considerations and strategies for the transparent operation of a non-profit eco-tourism destination as One Community (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucy Lu continued creating the charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorials (see below)
• Gustavo Romito began working on the iPhone app that will interface with the Highest Good Network (see below)

PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION – PRAGMATIC UTOPIA CREATION SUMMARY: @10:01

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

• Learn about the components: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components work together:

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

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. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations. This helps One Community’s mission of self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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. This helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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 helps One Community’s mission of pragmatic utopia creation reinforce our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This is all supported and made possible because:

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

One Community welcomes Ana Almeida to the Architecture Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning student: Ana is an Architecture and Urban Planning undergraduate from Fluminense Federal University in Brazil. She came to the United States through the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program to study Architecture at New York Institute of Technology, in New York City. Ana has developed her main interest in technology and sustainability in construction primarily through research at the University and due to the new direction the world is taking in relation to green architecture. Ana’s perspective was also influenced through her experience interning for one year at a center of research and housing projects for the slums of Rio de Janeiro. This experience gave her contact with mapping and improved her research and teamwork skills. Ana has knowledge with softwares such as Revit, AutoCAD, and Illustrator. She believes that it is possible to build with low impact, distinct design while using technology in favor of the environment. As a member of the One Community team, Ana is helping with research for the Duplicable City Center Kitchen, Earthbag and Aircrete crowdfunding campaign, Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan cost analysis and temporary-kitchen design, the Ultimate Classroom design, and various elements of the seven village models too.

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One Community welcomes Gabriel Madeira to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

4th-year Industrial Design Student with a Technical in Graphic Design: Gabriel is a dedicated student who is passionate about materials and issues related to sustainability. He believes that thinking about sustainability is no longer an option; it is now fundamental to the world. As an Industrial Design Student, Gabriel’s desire is to help the world by thinking about and rethinking products by analyzing and researching alternative materials that can replace others that are less sustainable. He has taken classes in Emerging and Manufacturing Materials, Theories, Methods of Sustainability, and others to help him grow his understanding of sustainable materials. Gabriel also has related job experience through working in groups for his Scientific Initiation, in which he gave weekly workshops to small entrepreneurs and learned the basics of web design (language HTML and CSS). Gabriel also has a high working knowledge in many software programs including Adobe (Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator), Solidworks, Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, Keyshot, and Sketchbook Pro. With the knowledge of those softwares and with his experiences in 3D modeling and rendering from his previous internships, Gabriel brings his experience to the One Community team to work on the dome-home furniture and Duplicable City Center renders.

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One Community welcomes Fabio Rodrigues to the Electrical Engineering Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

3rd-year Electrical Engineering student: Fabio is a Brazilian student and Mobility Program grantee who attended the New York Institute of Technology in New York City. His Native language is Portuguese and he also speaks fluent English. Fabio has developed skills in softwares including AutoCad, SolidWorks, MatLab, and C++. Back in Brazil he taught basic computer usage classes for poor children. As a member of the One Community team Fabio brings his great desire to learn while helping with the creation of residential control systems, electrical designs and schematics for sustainable housing in all 7 sustainable village models and the Duplicable City Center.

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One Community welcomes Igor Castro to the Software Development Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

3rd-year Management Information Systems Student, Overall Team Lead and a Manager for the Highest Good Network: Igor is a Brazilian student from Rio de Janeiro who attended Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania as an exchange student. He speaks three language (Portuguese, English, and Spanish), and has developed skills in Programing Languages (C, C++, Java, Pascal), Database, Systems Analysis, Information Management, Data Analysis, Project Management, and more. Back in Brazil, Igor participated in a project called SACIS whose objective is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and authenticity of the information and documents sent to the recipient and interoperability between different operational systems. Since he began college, Igor has tried to make a difference, aiming to live in a better world. This desire for the world to improve is also what motivated Igor to use his skills working on software development for the Highest Good Network application and One Community.

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One Community welcomes Gustavo Romito to the Software Development Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!

3rd-year Computer Science/Information Systems Student: Gustavo graduated in Digital Games Development where he had his first contact with programming. Since then, he has started learning how to develop iPhone applications by himself. With the skills that he has acquired, Gustavo got an internship in a company that develops third-party mobile applications, where he was responsible for developing two big projects for a multinational company. Also, Gustavo speaks three languages: Portuguese (native language), English (Fluent), and German (Basic). As a programmer, Gustavo is always seeking new knowledge and challenges. He has been developing his knowledge in other programming languages such as HTML+CSS (for websites), Java, SQL, and C++. To him, a good professional in his field of study is one who identifies a challenge in people’s lives and tries to find a solution for it. Furthermore, he believes this opportunity to build an app for One Community is a chance not only to develop his skills, but also to have contact with engineers from other fields of study. To conclude, Gustavo applies a John F. Kennedy phrase as his motto: “Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

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Global game-changing solutions can transform our planet and create a sustainable future. We believe open source and self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models are viable forms of these game-changing solutions. They can be implemented by small groups in almost any location around the world, making world change easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating an attractive enough lifestyle for others to want to participate too. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All:

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 14th, 2015 edition (#118) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments. This work helps One Community’s mission of providing global game-changing solutions and to help transform our planet and create a sustainable future:

Global Game-Changing Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #118

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

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – INTRO @1:02

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:54

• Transferred third 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to website (see below)
• Finished next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote next part of lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:05

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

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:16

• Moved the final 20% of Antonio Zambianco’s earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website (see below)
• Began updating the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) in 3-D with reciprocal roof designs originally created by Song Dong and then updated a new bathroom layout and more roof details from Matheus Manfredini (see below)
• Song also finished the second round of elevation and cross section modeling of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) in AutoCAD (see below)
• Then Song ran the first set of structural calculations comparing the three most common earthbag construction mixtures and 4 different aircrete mixture (see below)
• Izadora Carvalho designed the rainwater catchment system of the earthbag village East side in Sketchup (see below)
• Adolpho Maia and Jorge Antonio Ricardo began structural analysis and evolution of the vermiculture bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Carvalho and Amauri Tavares began the heat recapture designs for the Earthbag Village communal showers (see below)
• Renata Maehara continued her second week of work on the Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:48

• Diogo Rozada and the Hydraulics Intern Team researched, sized, and designed the complete rainwater catchment, transport and storage system for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo, Antonio Zambianco, and the Structural Intern Team also began working together on the structural details for the City Center domes (see below)
• The Electrical Intern Team began working on and designing the electrical layout for this structure (see below)
• The Electrical Intern Team also outlined the different control and monitoring systems for each of the rooms working off the Control Systems recommendations by Mike Hogan (see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly in coordination with Jin Hua (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen has continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucy Lu began creating a charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial. This work and Binru’s work is all part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs (see below)
• Vassili Biserov completed translating our Methodology page into Italian (click here – see below)

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – SUMMARY: @9:29

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

• Learn about the components for global game-changing solutions: Education open source hub
• Learn how the components for global game-changing solutions work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website. This means that this lesson plan, which teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication, is now 75% complete on our website. This work helps One Community’s mission of providing global game-changing solutions and to help transform our planet and create a sustainable future:

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

We also finished the next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map, which brings this mindmap to 75% complete. This work helps One Community’s mission of providing global game-changing solutions and to help transform our planet and create a sustainable future:

“Communication” Lesson Plan Mind Map ” 75% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the next part of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” ” which now brings that to 50% complete.

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• Learn about the structures for global game-changing solutions: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
• See what we’ll be growing for global game-changing solutions: 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 squash hub:

Featured Squash Hub with New Social Imagery ” Click to Visit

We researched and added two additional recipes to the open source parsnips hub:

Added 2 Parsnip Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Parsnips Hub

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

Added 2 Melon Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Melons Hub

Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your QB?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan. These recipes are: Apple Pie Oatmeal, the ‘Caprese’ Sandwich, and Leek & Potato Soup:

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

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team moved the final 20% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 100% complete on the site. This work helps One Community’s mission of providing global game-changing solutions and to help transform our planet and create a sustainable future:

Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes Complete

We also began updating the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) in 3-D with these reciprocal roof designs originally created by Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) and then updated this last week with a new bathroom layout and more roof details from Matheus Manfredini (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Urban Design).

Earthbag Village (Pod 1) Reciprocal Roof Designs in 3-D – Click to Visit Page

Song also finished the second round of elevation and cross section modeling of these 3-dome structures in AutoCAD ” adding footer and foundation specifics plus elevations and cross sections plans for the 3-dome cluster with a student dome, a wheelchair accessible dome cluster, and a 6-dome cluster:

Second Round of Elevation and Cross Section Modeling of Earthbag Village in AutoCAD – Click to Visit

Then Song ran the first set of structural calculations comparing the three most common earthbag construction mixtures and 4 different aircrete mixtures. You can see all these comparisons here. We’re now completing more research to clarify some of our assumptions.

First Set of Structural Calculations – Click to Visit Earthbag Village Page

Izadora Carvalho (Civil Engineering Student) also designed the rainwater catchment system of the earthbag village East side in Sketchup, including pipes, connectors, trench drains, catch basins and the ponds:

Rainwater Catchment System of the Earthbag Village East Side – Click to Visit Page

Adolpho Maia (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student), both Mechanical Engineering students, began structural analysis and evolution of the vermiculture bathroom designs. You can see this work and these simulations here:

Structural Analysis and Evolution of Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Fernando Carvalho (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Amauri Tavares (BA Science and Technology and Aerospace Engineering Student) also began the heat recapture designs for the Earthbag Village communal showers. You can see the calculations and initial pipe-in-pipe design here:

Heat Recapture Designs for Earthbag Village Communal Showers in Progress – Click to Visit Page

Renata Maehara (Civil Engineering student) continued her second week of work on the Cob Village (Pod 3). This included designing the other two groups of units, including the building inspired by the orange cob house you see below and the music inspired building based on the architecture hand drawing by Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor).

Cob Village (Pod 3) Progressions ” Click to Visit Page

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This last week Diogo Rozada (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics) and the Hydraulics Intern Team researched, sized, and designed the complete rainwater catchment, transport and storage system for the Duplicable City Center.

Researched and Designed Complete Rainwater Catchment System – Click to Visit

Ricardo Carrillo (Design Consultant and Principal of Acumen Industries) and Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and the Structural Intern Team also began working together on the structural details for the City Center domes. This included exploring a different structural design than a traditional geodesic. This different design creates a symmetrical ring that will line up better with the floors and allow for a uniform window design option that wouldn’t be possible with a traditional geodesic.

Structural Details for City Center Domes – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, the Electrical Intern Team began working on and designing the electrical layout for this structure. This included researching the International Building Code, choosing the number and placing all the electrical outlets, switches, and breaker boxes:

Began Designing the Electrical Layout for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

As you can see here, they also outlined the different control and monitoring systems for each of the rooms working off the Control Systems recommendations by Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant).

Outlined Control and Monitoring Systems for each Room – Click to Visit Control Systems Page

GLOBAL GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team, working in coordination with Jin Hua (Internet Marketing Expert and Web Developer), continued the updating of our entire website to be mobile friendly. This week’s work included manually updating about 30 pages, and redoing our key lesson plan pages with new mobile friendly images. We’d say we are now about 25% done with this complete website overhaul:

Continued Updating Our Entire Website to be Mobile Friendly

Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 50% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site.

Behind-the-Scenes For-Profit and Nonprofit Income and Balance Statement Details ” Click to Visit

Also behind the scenes, Lucy Lu (Accountant Specializing in Financial Reporting and Managerial Accounting) began creating a charities and other not-for-profit organization tax filing tutorial. This week’s work covered what still is taxed, how to report these taxes, and what forms are needed. This work and Binru’s work is all part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs:

Behind-the-Scenes Began Creating a Charities and Other Not-for-Profit Organization Tax Filing

In addition to this, Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) also completed translating our Methodology page into Italian (click here).

Methodology Page Translated into Italian ” Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

Click Play to Listen to the Interview

In the audio segment above, HomestyleGreen.com interviews One Community’s Executive Director about our open-source and sustainability methodology. Homestyle Green has created their own post about their interview with One Community’s Executive Director Jae Sabol. Be sure to check out Homestyle Green’s post by clicking here.

Feel free to also read our Open Source and Sustainability pages to learn more about these important topics.