Regenerative community living can offer a way of life that most will consider far better than how they are living now. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit supporting DIY replicable models for this with open source and sustainable tutorials covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.
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 December 30, 2018 edition (#301) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: INTRO: @0:34
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:56
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:01
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:55
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:50
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:56
REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY LIVING: SUMMARY: @14:00
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One Community is facilitating regenerative community living 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:
This week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. We finished building the updated Murphy bed wall, fixed parts needing adjustment, listed all the new dimensions, and labeled all the parts. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
The core team also continued development of the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options. This week we finished the regular water-saver toilets sections and started on the composting toilet sections.
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 29th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she continued to update the spreadsheet quantities, materials, and resource links and made a new AutoCAD drawing of 1 dome to better calculate the earthbag and cement quantities.
Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) completing this final 2nd-generation view of the Complete Village looking West.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 33rd week helping with Earthbag Village render additions with a focus on the pond and human elements in this image.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #143 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was 3D-model updates to create a correct entryway.
And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 4th week researching and writing the content for the most sustainable toilet options. This week she returned to researching composting toilets, created a new resources section, and researched online purchasing options for all the other toilets she identified as the best. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
One Community is facilitating regenerative community living 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:
This week the core team finished developing the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs page. This included finalizing all the text and adding new icons for each section of the building, adding new images, and writing the Summary, Resources, and FAQ sections. You can see some of this work here.
The core team also began research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. You can see some of our initial research notes here.
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs with additional details for the Sprinkler and Emergency Systems and City Center HVAC Designs. She added fittings quantities, researched prices, and added source URLs for the Sprinkler system and started calculating the ducting and copper pipe needed for each line of the HVAC units.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs too. This week he finished color coding and separating the layers for the complete designs, verified the final equipment details, and began outlining the tutorial, some of which you can see here.
And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 4th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by finishing research on the WELL Standards system, sorting the LEED and WELL components in to a table of contents formula to make the research more readable, and beginning research into responsible paints. You can see some of this work here.
One Community is facilitating regenerative community living 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:
This week, the core team continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page. We added additional graphics to all previously finished sections and completed a new “Selecting Your Apiary Location” section. You can see some of this work here.
The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we reviewed and addressed comments on the recent food forest edits and added further details to the rollout for the food forest test plot, fuel tank research, and portable steel chicken coop for 6-8 chickens. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.
One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.
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:
One Community is facilitating regenerative community living 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:
This week the core team finished the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. This has eliminated database connectivity errors and dramatically improved site performance.
Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 11th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for five more of our top-level food and housing-related pages: Aquaculture, Wildlife Stewardship, Aquapini/Walipinis, Tropical Atrium, and Earthbag Village.
And Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped create two more keyword tutorials, reviewed Emilio’s work, and reactivated all our Adwords campaigns now that our database is functioning again.
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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 regenerative community living..
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 what is possible, showcasing regenerative community living.
Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, emphasizing regenerative community living. 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.
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, emphasizing regenerative community living.
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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet, promoting regenerative community living. They will also transform the global lifestyle into 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, focusing on regenerative community living.
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, centered around regenerative community living.
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, grounded in regenerative community living..
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, fostering regenerative community living..
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, fostering regenerative community living.
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 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, promoting regenerative community living.
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, promoting regenerative community living.
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, fostering regenerative community living.
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, promoting regenerative community living.
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, all contributing to regenerative community living.
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, all in support of regenerative community living.
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 in support of regenerative community living.
We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.