People Making a Difference – One Community Weekly Progress Update #60

We are a group of people making a difference. Our goal is to help others make a difference too. We are doing this through open source and free-sharing the path and the resources to make it easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread Highest Good of All thinking and creation globally:

• 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#60) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of April 14, 2014:

People Making a Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #60

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

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:05

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:50

• Finished another 15% of the Science Subject Molecule (see below)
• We also researched just under 100 images and created a new literature section for the English Subject Molecule (behind the scenes)

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48

• Added 8 new breakout pages to the open source food forest portal (see below)
• Created 3-D terrain for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design (see below)
• Added diversity and purchasing details to the heirloom carrots section of the Â large-scale gardening page (see below)
• Completed sourcing, researching, and choosing the rest of our large-scale gardening plants (over 500) behind the scenes

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:12

• Updated 3-D plant details for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Completed more Earthbag Village dome-home heating calculations and created new heating plan (see below)
• Finished the rest of the open source village emergency fire and medical page

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:16

• Began the initial heat calculations for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Researched a new solar option: www.cogenra.com/product
• Karl Harris finished most of the East-view elevations in CAD (see below)

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:15

• Created information sharing archives on our Highest Good Facebook page (see below)
• We also finished the last details of the Highest Good Network version 1.0 Requirements document

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @7:00

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PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are improving life on Earth through Highest Good education that is for all ages, for people making a difference, 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 finished another 15% of the Science Subject Molecule. Here it is:

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PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are people making a difference through open source sharing 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: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team added 8 new breakout pages to the open source food forest portal covering each of the sections of the food forest plants in detail. As of this posting, that page has gotten over 1600 Facebook shares.

We also created 3-D terrain for the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design. This terrain will also be used for the earthbag village an other renders:

And we added the diversity and purchasing details to the heirloom carrots section of the Â large-scale gardening page – this includes 7 featured carrot types and purchasing details for all 11.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are people making a difference through open source sharing 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 returned to working on the 3-D details for the earthbag village because we’ve needed to update the planting plan. Here is a collage of that work in progress:

We also dove deeper into exploring the options for heating the homes within the Earthbag Village in cooler climates and when focusing on our maximum affordability goals, 2-year plan for village completion, and working with a limited energy allowance. This chart shows the calculations we made to determine that the best approach will be:

• Tapestry application for added R-value in the winter and easy removal for passive cooling in the summer
• Electric blankets and backup space heaters with a specific energy ration for the coldest nights
• Using the consensus process to agree upon and explore other heating and insulation options beyond this foundational strategy once we’ve built the first half of the village and lived in it though a full year of seasons.

In addition to this, the Duplicable City Center will be a constantly maintained environment for large-scale recreation and relaxation. Here are the calculations showing cost, labor, and BTU production comparisons.

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are people making a difference through open source sharing 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 core team began the initial heat calculations for this structure. The key determination we need to make is that heating this structure will be possible with 100% off-grid energy in an area where temperatures can reach as low as zero degrees Fahrenheit. Here’s a screenshot of the beginning of this process:

This last week Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished most of the East-view elevations in CAD:

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY

We are people making a difference through open source sharing a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This last week the core team created super easy to use information sharing archives on our Highest Good Facebook page. These archives can be added to by anyone, shared with one click, and they cover Food, Energy, Education, Life-hacks, Housing, Energy, Water, and more:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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, creating a ripple effect of people making a difference.

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 empowering people making a difference.

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 and promote people making a difference. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, thus empowering people making a difference.  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, empowering people making a difference.

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, empowering people making a difference. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

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 and empowering people making a difference. 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, ultimately empowering people to make a difference. 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, providing opportunities for even more people to make a difference.

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, thus fostering people making a difference. 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 themultimately leading to more people making a difference. 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 of the collective effort of people making a difference and because:

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. 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, ultimately creating a model solution that empowers people making a difference.