Open Sourcing Sustainable Civilizations – One Community Weekly Progress Update #50

One Community is open sourcing sustainable civilizations for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

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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. Here is our weekly progress update (#50) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 3rd, 2014:

Open Sourcing Sustainable Civilizations
One Community Weekly Progress Update #50

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

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS INTRO @1:00

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed 25% of the Values Subject visual representation (see below)
• Completed 50% of the Art/Music and Trade Skill Subject image research
• Completed 50% of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:29

• Calculated Tropical Atrium Solar Heat Gain with respect to azimuth direction for 90 deg windows (see below)
• 30% done adding Tropical Atrium plants in 3-D (see below)
• Re-Calculated 60 degree South wall for the Large-scale Aquapini with 50% East-West walls
• Calculated the utility of water as a thermal mass including quantity and temperature
• Calculated sun declination to size the Tropical Atrium South wall glazing

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:14

• Completed Earthbag Village central Tropical Atrium walkway redesign in 3-D  (see below)
• Completed the Straw Bale Village open source portal redesign
• Bupesh Seethalla completed the first round of plant additions to the Earthbag Village central ring (see below)
• Philip Gill began adding details to the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:57

• Completed internal sliding glass door framing and library hallway doors in 3-D  (see below)
• Completed 30% of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a redesign of the 3rd to 4th floor stairs (see below)
• Rob Gjerde finished the natural pool design and complete hardware plan (see below)

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS: @6:12

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OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including 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 team began work on the Values Subject Molecule. Here is where we’re at so far:

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team finished about 30% of the 3-D plant additions for the Tropical Atrium:

We also calculated the Tropical Atrium Solar Heat Gain with respect to azimuth direction for 90 deg windows. Here are some screen shots of what that looked like:

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including 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 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 also redesigned the Tropical Atrium walkways in 3-D to lower them sufficiently to allow for landscaping up to these paths so we won’t need safety railings.

Bupesh Seethalla completed the first round of plant additions to the Earthbag Village central ring also using the Sketchup Plants Page:

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. This last week he added textures and started detailing the specific furniture pieces.

OPEN SOURCING SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATIONS DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are open sourcing sustainable civilizations including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team completed all the internal sliding glass door framing and library hallway doors in 3-D:

Rob Gjerde (Swimming Pool Design & Construction Expert and owner of Sorico Design and Consulting) also finished the pool design and complete hardware plan. Now Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) is pricing everything for us. We’ll be adding the complete page to the website as part of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign happening now. Here are some of the results of Rob’s work:

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also fixed the Dining Dome stairs, moved the Dining Dome exit door, fixed the loft area in CAD so it matches Sketchup, added in the elevator to the 4th floor, and redesigned the 4th floor stairs:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

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 through open sourcing sustainable civilizations. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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 of open sourcing sustainable civilizations will predictably expand on its own.

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 open sourcing sustainable civilizations globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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.