Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry – One Community Weekly Progress Update #84

One Community is building an open source foundation for revolutionizing the sustainability industry through self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities 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 October 10th, 2014 edition (#84) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Revolutionizing the Sustainability Industry
One Community Weekly Progress Update #84

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

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY INTRO @1:00

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:01

• Finished the first 25% of the Love Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
• Finished the first 5o% of the Love Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Finished the final 50% of the Signs Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we finished another 20% of the Recreation lesson plan – now 70% done

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:22

• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Corn page (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Cucumbers page (see below)
• Finished large-scale gardening breakout Eggplants page (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• Finished another 25% of the dome energy infrastructure instructional webpage (see below)
• Behind the scenes we’re now done with 15% of the plumbing instructional
• Added the energy rollout and phasing-in details for 50-100 people (see below)
• Completed peak wattage and total energy contributions assessments (see below)
• Dave Walen began a redesign of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:31

• Completed the final Duplicable City Center 3-D video (see below)
• Finished the first 50% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:59

• Updated and featured our World Change Strategy Overview page (see below)

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY SUMMARY: @8:36

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REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 finished the final 50% of the Love Lesson Plan behind the scenes, then we finished the first 25% of the related mind map, and we got the first 50% of the webpage created. You can see all of this work here:

We also finished the final 50% of the Signs Lesson Plan webpage teaching all subjects to all ages using the central theme of Signs and Symbols. This page is open source and usable right now in any educational environment. Here’s the new additions:

Behind the scenes we also finished another 20% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation” bringing us to 70% done there.

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 last week the core team finished three more complete breakout pages from the large-scale gardening page. These included the Corn page, the Cucumber page, and the Eggplant page. All with detailed descriptions, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and this new format that loads faster and gives us the space we’ll need to add recipes, gardening tips, harvesting and canning tips, videos and more. Contact us if you have any great resources related to either of these plant species. Here are snapshots of the three pages:

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Corn Breakout Page	Cucumber Breakout Page	Eggplant Breakout Page

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 finished final formatting and additional details for another 25% of the earthbag construction dome home energy infrastructure instructional webpage component of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This brings us to 75% complete here and, when we’re complete, this will be the most detailed and comprehensive dome-home electrical instructional available.

Behind the scenes we’re also now done with 15% of the plumbing instructional that will be equally as detailed.

In addition to this, we added the energy rollout and phasing-in details for 50-100 people creating off-grid village energy infrastructure. You can see see this here and the rest of the phase-in details for 10-20 people and 20-50 people are on the complete page:

We also completed an assessment of all components in the sustainable village models and their individual peak wattage contributions that you can see here:

We combined this with this new assessment of the total energy contributions. All of this was to assist with our strategy in the event of a power emergency. If you want to read about it, complete explanations are in the new FAQ section of the Highest Good Energy page that can be reached directly by clicking on either image:

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also began a redesign of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) to eliminate the rounded walls to make this village model significantly easier and more affordable to build. Here is this redesign:

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 last week the core team completed the final Duplicable City Center 3-D video renders for revolutionizing the sustainability industry and wrapped up the video with last week’s still renders. Here is the complete video showing this structure in 3-D from start to finish:

We also finished the first 50% of the property-wide hydronic setup details page that you can see here. This covers setting up the hot water heating systems for portable showers and the initial building teams with a short discussion of how the components will later be integrated into the Duplicable City Center and other permanent structures.

REVOLUTIONIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY INDUSTRY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for revolutionizing the sustainability industry 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 updated and featured our World Change Strategy Overview page that is the simplest overview of what it is we are creating and why. It outlines our 4-phase strategy that we are implementing and how we see this as a path to a new era of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainability, and increased peace and happiness for all of humanity. Here is a screenshot of part of the page, click it for the complete page:

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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.

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. 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, 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.

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, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to 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 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 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.). 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.

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.

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: 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. 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.