One CommunityRestoring Local-level Decision Making – One Community Weekly Progress Update #280
Sustainable and self-sufficient eco-communities can be a path to restoring local-level decision making for the benefit of residents, the planet, local communities, and more. Through conscious and conscientious stewardship, we can regenerate our world and provide more ethical and enjoyable living environments for ourselves and others too. One Community is supporting this through do-it-yourself open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources.
- 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 5, 2018 edition (#280) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Restoring Local-level Decision Making
One Community Progress Update #280
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: INTRO: @0:34
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING:HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:38
- Continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area (see below)
- Working with Michael Hagler, the core team completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
- Gave another round of feedback, added the 4 of Michael’s images that were complete to the site, and added other finished images to the site too (see below)
- Created the Residential Open Floor Plan graphic and added to the Tree House Village open source hub (see below)
- Hemanth Kotaru completed his 18th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
- Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and created 4 updated renders (see below)
- The core team used one of Mike’s renders to create a Vermiculture Bathroom graphic (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
- Dan Alleck completed his 23rd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:52
- Core team working with David Olivero created overview graphic of HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
- Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering
- Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
- Dehua Feng completed his 14th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:31
- Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:14
- Continued and finished work on the Objective Data and Analysis page (see below)
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:47
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING SUMMARY: @12:06
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RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is restoring local level decision making 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:
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- 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
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This week the core team continued testing the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions for the back changing and storage area. We do this by building it in Sketchup 3D and noting mistakes as we go. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
Continued Testing Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions for Back Changing and Storage Area
The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also completed another 6 pages for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these finished pages here.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Completed 6 Pages for the 7-Villages Book we’re Developing
We also gave another round of feedback, added the 4 of Michael’s images that were complete to the site, and added other finished images to the site too. This included updates to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), Cob Village (Pod 3), Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), and Tree House Village (Pod 7) webpages. You can see some of this work here.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Gave Feedback and Added Images to the Site
The core team additionally created and added to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub this Residential Open Floor Plan graphic.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Residential Open Floor Plan Graphic & Added to Tree House
Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was more nail embedment calculations and research on the engineering details of the earth and cement mixture used to fill the bags.
Continued Helping with Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village
Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 14th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and created the 4 updated renders you see here.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Created 4 Updated Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page
One of these renders was then used by the core team to create this Vermiculture Bathroom graphic, which is now also on the website.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Created Vermiculture Bathroom Graphic and Added to Site
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates also. Here is update 125 of Dean’s work that produced this final view of the Dining Area looking South. Due to the complexity and number of light sources, this image took his computer over 12 days to render.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Cob Village Central Dining and Stage Area Render
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 23rd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished this render of one of the living units, which you can now see updated on the site also.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is restoring local level decision making 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week, the core team working with David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) created this overview graphic of the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This is for the 7-villages book we’re developing.
Created Overview Graphic of HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page
The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 88th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was initial lighting tests for the Living Dome sunrise patio, cupola and surrounding patio, and mezzanine level.
Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was finishing the spreadsheet for wind load calculations on the cupola roof. You can see some of this work here.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was cost analysis for the basement retaining wall, footers, foundation, Civil and interior work, and plumbing. You can see some of this work here.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs
Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he continued updating the piping details in AutoCAD, checked the sprinkler pressures in zones H, K and L, caught an error in the calculations, and redid and updated them for all zones.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Fire Suppression & Safety Systems Design for the City Center
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is restoring local level decision making 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:
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- 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
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This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we researched and added latin names Wikipedia links for the food plants that we’ll initially be growing. This included researching and excluding plants that were not appropriate for zone 5 in our outdoor gardens. Additionally, we completed some of the summaries for worm videos on pages 8 & 9 of the food rollout doc. You can see some of this work here.
Restoring Local-level Decision Making – Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is restoring local level decision making 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:
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- Learn about the components: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
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This week, the core team continued and finished work on the Objective Data and Analysis page. This included writing the rest of the content, creating the graphics, and finalizing the formatting. You can see some of this newly complete page here.
Finished Work on the Objective Data and Analysis Page – Click to Visit
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is restoring local level decision making 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:
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- 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
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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, with a focus on restoring local-level decision making. 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 of 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.
RESTORING LOCAL-LEVEL DECISION MAKING: 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, restoring local-level decision making, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet while restoring local-level decision making. 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, including restoring local-level decision making, 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.
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.), including restoring local-level decision making. 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, including restoring local-level decision making. 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.
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, including restoring local-level decision making.
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 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, while also restoring local-level decision making. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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, restoring local-level decision making.
