Open Sourcing Sustainability Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #200

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit open sourcing sustainability hubs for all aspects of community and sustainable living. This includes open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of open sourcing sustainability hubs as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 22nd, 2017 edition (#200) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Sourcing Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #200

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:

• Transferred all the written content for the Sharing Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scene: completed 100% of the written part of the Caring Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Cognition Lesson Plan (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:

• Added Dr. Matt Marturano’s food bar information to the Food Bars page and organized it into sections (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:

• Created/revised several new icons for Highest Good housing (see below)
• Tested various platforms for hosting the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 5th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template and started researching additional HVAC options for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Shilcy Augustine started updating the layers and color details for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create two new final renders of the Cob Village (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 28th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:

• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld developed final version of the City Center root cellar where large-scale food storage will be maintained (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal continued his work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished integrating last week’s basement and Dining Dome equipment updates for the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:

• Continued exploration of a video effect that we’ll share on our website and in our new introduction video the locations of everyone who has volunteered with our organization (see below)
• Hannah Gibbs completed her 2nd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou completed another round of edits to Search Engine for the Highest Good education component and Highest Good housing villages (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @8:

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainability hubs 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 all of the written content for the Sharing Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Sharing”, is now 100% completely written on our website, along with our initiative of open sourcing sustainability hubs:

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan.

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainability hubs 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 added Dr. Matt Marturano’s food bar information to the Food Bars page (currently behind the scenes) and organized it into sections, bringing the page to approximately 15% complete, alongside our ongoing efforts in open sourcing sustainability hubs:

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This last week the core team created/revised several new icons for Highest Good housing:

And we tested various platforms for hosting the 7 villages online book. You can see some of this work and the related testing notes here:

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the floor, adjusted the lighting, and added internal walls and appliances.

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 5th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template and she started researching additional HVAC options for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and Duplicable City Center, in alignment with our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. What you see here is a collage of her work on both of these areas:

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) started updating the layers and color details for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2), as shown here.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing sustainability hubs 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, Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. What you see here is her 18th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was finalizing the data needed for the website and graphics creation and creating open source spreadsheets so others can duplicate this work too.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also developed this final version of the City Center root cellar where large-scale food storage will be maintained as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative.

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are the newest calculations for wind and snow loads.

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued his work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center, as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. This week’s work focus was beginning the development of a spreadsheet and tool outlined here for calculating battery and solar array size and cost comparisons for grid versus non-grid setups.

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished integrating last week’s basement and Dining Dome equipment updates for the Control and Automation systems layout, as shown here.

 

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued exploration of this video effect that we’ll share on our website and in our new introduction video the locations of everyone who has volunteered with our organization as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 2nd week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page, in line with our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. What you see here are the first round of images she’s created that will link to the tax codes for each state.

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed another round of edits to Search Engine for the Highest Good education component and Highest Good housing villages, as part of our open sourcing sustainability hubs initiative. This included modifying existing links and adding new links to live search engines and sets of code developing behind the scenes, as seen here.

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

 

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

 

SUMMARY

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