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

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

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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.