Prosperity Built on Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #220

Does prosperity require competition and capitalism? What if we create prosperity built on sustainability and cooperation instead? If we agree this is a worthwhile idea, working together we could easily combine sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economic design, social architecture, and even fulfilled living practices to provide a self-sufficient living model that would eliminate almost all living expenses and provide a better way of living than the way most people are experiencing now.

We could further share this model as an eco-tourism destination to provide revenue for expansion without people having to work traditional jobs; the experience of how they were living would be enjoyable enough that people would want to vacation and visit. This is the foundation of One Community’s model for world change and we’re open sourcing it as a model for 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

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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 June 11th, 2017 edition (#220) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Prosperity Built on Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #220

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

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @:35

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:19

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

• Created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:43

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:33

• Completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building (see below)
• Working with Ashwin Patil, we continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:18

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PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability 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

The core team continued creating the Open Source Murphy bed furniture step-by-step instructions. As shown here, we revised the layouts, added new pages, new icons, and new photos.

Also our core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in barrels, the central platform, roof hatch entrance, and the ladder.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 72 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was finishing all 4 of these final render views of the northwest living wing of the village:

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 44th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was new textures for the North landscaping area and beginning final-render-perspective testing.

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 26th week of work, focusing on Zone 7 designs and visualizations, as shown here.

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures. What you see here are a combination of the art structure renders and a few screenshots from the weekly collaborative call.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability 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 the core team created the styles options image for the Pipe Furniture page and several single-image renders. We also added all current images to the web page with text and descriptions, hover text, click to enlarge options, and center formatting.

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 38th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued modeling and initial lighting testing within the Social Dome.

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. What you see here are pictures of this week’s updated electrical overview and Ramya and Shubham‘s PV Solar micro-grid and wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes.

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued his work on the City Center basement heating and cooling details. This week’s focus was researching how a climate battery works and can be included in our designs. You can version 1.0 of Aravind’s report here.

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 16th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the moisture control and cinder block wall sections, as shown here.

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped with her 2nd round of website content for the eco-laundry page, updating the text formatting, replacing all the images with higher quality ones, and adding click to enlarge options wherever needed.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability 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 created another 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, for the bulk goods sections, as you see here.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability 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 continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Creativity Lesson Plan and the Emotional States Lesson Plan. This brings us to 26 of 52 finished, which is 50% completion.

We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using a different view point for rendering, and applying several different projected images, as seen here.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating prosperity built on sustainability 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 completed 50% of the final edits to the open source Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page.

Working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) , we also continued developing the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the City Center search engine and another round of edits and revisions for the Earthbag Village search engine.

Additionally, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) completed their collective 6th week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus was continued implementation and coding for the simple authentication model and adding the ability to log time entries.

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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, fostering prosperity built on sustainability.

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 of prosperity built on sustainability, showcasing what is possible.

Throughout our design process of creating prosperity built on sustainability, 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.

PROSPERITY BUILT ON SUSTAINABILITY: 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, promoting prosperity built on sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one, fostering prosperity built on sustainability.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing prosperity built on sustainability 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 in 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, contributing to prosperity built on sustainability.

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.), fostering prosperity built on sustainability. 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, contributing to sustainable civilization building and prosperity built on sustainability.

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 open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All, thus contributing to sustainable civilization building and prosperity built on sustainability.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, fostering prosperity built on sustainability. 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, contributing to sustainable civilization-building.

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 inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating for sustainable civilization building and prosperity built on sustainability.

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, 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, ultimately fostering prosperity built on sustainability.

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. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in 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 needed sustainability resources, but 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, thus contributing to prosperity built on sustainability.

As demand 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, all aimed at fostering prosperity built on sustainability.

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.