Reinventing Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #176

Thanks to the internet, reinventing sustainability as a primarily open source and free-shared industry is possible if enough people participate. One Community is working towards this as part of a comprehensive and replicable model for creating a sustainable planet.

• 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 August 7th, 2016 edition (#176) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Reinventing Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #176

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

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan
• Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Collated 3 spreadsheets to make one updated, comprehensive, and accurate list for the equipment we will need for the Transition Kitchen (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:20

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Created new more-compact and much clearer images to the new page we’re developing to open source the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Vidya Patil continued with her 2nd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village Â (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 8th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village and finished adding blue accents to the render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book created by last year’s intern Team (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:30

• Continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders Â (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala completed this first section drawing for the Dining Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:37

• Completed 1st round of the Shipping Container Village, Recycled Materials Village, and the Tree House Village color board and we revised the Cob Village color board (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure (see below)

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @8:22

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REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing 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 transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Honesty & Integrity” is now 75% completed on our website.

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing 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 collated 3 spreadsheets to make one updated, comprehensive, and accurate list for the equipment we will need for the Transition Kitchen, as you can see below:

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing 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

This last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we reviewed all content (video and articles) in Section 16 ” Resources to assure relevancy due to significant narrative changes since inception. We also matched up all videos to coincide with those listed in that section, and then numbered all green step narratives in Sections 4, 5, 7, & 8 to coincide with Step Headings for ease of finding them. EPS and red sealing tape photos and description were also added to the materials list. We’d say we are now 93% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

We also created new more-compact and much clearer images to the new page we’re developing to open source the communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet designs. You can see some of these updated images here:

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 11 of this process that included this update to the Table of Contents format.

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are her ideas for the layout of all her renders for inclusion in the online book we’re creating that will be an overview of all 7 villages and the Duplicable City Center.

Vidya Patil (Quantity surveyor and Civil CAD Drafter) also continued with her 2nd week of cost analysis for the Straw Bale Village. What you see here are her initial analysis results for the gym, meeting room, play area, and computer room.

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 30 of his work that focused on final touches and then incorporation of the new rooftop grill and shade structure designs, and then beginning the work of adding greenery we intend to grow on the sides of this village.

Also, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer) continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 2nd week of work here, showing the redesign of the family living units on the North side of the structure so that they share plumbing walls, and the addition of an elevator and 3 more units in the South, and adding individual bathrooms for all of the South units.

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 8th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) and also finished adding blue accents to the render for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), which you see here:

For the Shipping Container Village, this week’s focus were the finalized versions of the dining area looking South:

…this family layout looking out:

…and this family layout looking in:

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. This week he created the page and image you see here.

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing 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 continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the render updates in the dining dome (north view of the kitchen) where new details were added and the lights and shadows were adjusted. We also did the initial render setup for the root cellar and external views.

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer and Drafter) also completed this first section drawing for the Dining Dome:

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #14 of this work showing another ceiling design for the lights.

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones by further cleaning up and clarifying on the AutoCAD file where each zone begins and ends. The lower image is additional zones that still need to be added.

REINVENTING SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is reinventing 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 last week the core team completed the 1st round of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) color board:

….and the first round of the color board for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6):

…and the first round of the color board for the Tree House Village (Pod 7), bringing all 3 to about 85% complete:

Also this week, we revised the Cob Village (Pod 3) color board, which is now 99% complete:

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure. What you see here is week 4 of her work as she continues with a new Homepage design. This week’s focus is on how to feature different languages, updated image and video placement formatting, and beginning to work on the filter and search system at the bottom.

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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 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. 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. 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.

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.

The most profound part is: that 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

 

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.