Permaculture Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #344

Permaculture cooperatives working together globally can regenerate our ecosystems, address our food, housing, and climate challenges, and create a sustainable planet within our lifetime. One Community is doing our part to support this for “The Highest Good of All” with open source and free-shared DIY resources covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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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 October 27th, 2019 edition (#344) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 week the core team worked on the business plan startup-costs and revenue projections for the 7 sustainable villages and the project as a whole. You can see some of this work here. While examining our expenses, we pinpointed health insurance costs as a significant hurdle. However, we’re committed to finding innovative solutions within the ethos of permaculture cooperatives, aiming to lower these expenses while ensuring comprehensive coverage for all participants. Health insurance costs are currently the largest expense, we’re going to work on options that will bring these down.

Worked on Business Plan Startup-costs and Revenue Projections for 7 Sustainable Villages and Project as a Whole – Click for Housing Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) joined the team and began the process of final formatting of all the content needed to create the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week he finished the first draft of all the related content. As we delve deeper into the realm of sustainable practices, including permaculture cooperatives, his expertise will be invaluable in bringing this project to fruition. You can see some of his work here.

Began the Process of Final Formatting of All Content Needed to Create the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 70th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was initial formatting shown here for the electrical installation details. Shadi’s commitment to detail and precision echoes the principles of permaculture cooperatives, where individuals collaborate to design sustainable systems that harmonize with nature.

Began Formatting for the Electrical Installation Details for the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 4th week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof and floor plan updates as part of the permaculture cooperative initiative. This week Bahy created version 4.0 shown here with more furniture layout changes, updated door access to the spa, and new built-in seating and rooftop safety railings.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Roof and Floor Plan Updates – Click for Page

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 25th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was beginning the process of adding photovoltaics to the energy model by using Retscreen to specify the size, capacity, and efficiency of the PV panels. This collaborative effort aligns with our commitment to sustainable practices and fosters a spirit of cooperation within our permaculture cooperatives.

Began the Process of Adding Photovoltaics to the Energy Model by Using Retscreen – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 27th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she focused on finding a better software than SAP 2000 for analyzing wood construction options, aligning with permaculture cooperatives’ sustainable ethos. RISA 3D software enables timber design, so she downloaded and began learning this new software.

Focused on Finding a Better Software Than Sap 2000 for Analyzing Wood Construction Options – Click for Engineering Page

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. This week she confirmed 11.857″-560 wood joists are adequate to support gravity load for the second floor based on the deflection limit, completed the SAP model for the structure of the third floor and noticed some wood members didn’t meet the requirement for deflection limit, completed the SAP model for the structure of the fourth floor, and began looking into how to use RISA 3D to finish the analysis. Her diligent efforts exemplify the integration of permaculture principles within cooperative architectural endeavors, fostering sustainability and resilience in urban development.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 week the core team of our permaculture cooperative reviewed videos on raising chickens and decided to feature this video due to its thorough and comprehensive coverage. We then took detailed notes (with timestamps) on our new behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed Videos on Raising Chickens and Took Detailed Notes on Goggle Doc – Click for Page

The core team also made final updates to rabbit hutch assembly instructions. We raised the hutch to be 3 feet from the ground, removed the plywood floor, and updated the doors and roof, as shown here.

Made Final Updates to Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we finished Step 3, “Develop A Conceptual Design.” You can see some of this work here covering different design approaches available, zone delineation, components lists, and developing additional map layers, all of which are essential for fostering thriving permaculture cooperatives.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator), a dedicated member of our permaculture cooperative, completed his 55th week helping with render additions and finishing work. Here you can see his 2nd-generation additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue room representing “Technology.” One more round of additions and revisions should finish this render.

Completed 2nd-generation Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue Room Representing “Technology” – Click for Page

PERMACULTURE COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 updated the Highest Good Network software page and related help-wanted page. We added content from the HGN business plan Project and Program charters, links to both of these documents, new graphics, and updated the GitHub and other links on the page. These enhancements fortify our commitment to fostering permaculture cooperatives and empowering collaborative efforts within the community.

Updated the Highest Good Network Software Page and Related Help-wanted Page – Click for Software Page

The core team also implemented a completely new newsletter system. Here you can see some of the formats we tried out, some of the settings, and the new Subscribe page we created.

Implemented a Completely New Newsletter System – Click for Subscribe Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 51st week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on an expanded keywords plan for the Donations campaign and and explored potential collaborations with permaculture cooperatives to enhance our sustainability initiatives.

Worked on Expanded Keywords Plan for Donations Campaign and Updated Several of Our Volunteer Campaigns – Click for Donations 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 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.

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.

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.

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 will predictably expand on its own.

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.

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.

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.