Solving the Global Housing Crisis – One Community Weekly Progress Update #328

Open source sustainability is a path to solving the global housing crisis. The last time a global survey was attempted by the United Nations, an estimate 100 million people were homeless and 1.6 billion lacked adequate housing.¹ That was in 2005. One Community sees a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs sharing needed resources, open source construction strategies for affordable and more durable housing, and demonstrating living models for The Highest Good of All as a path to solving this.

• 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 to solving the global housing crisis as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 7th, 2019 edition (#328) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solving the Global Housing Crisis
One Community Progress Update #328

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

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS INTRO: @0:34

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:04

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:29

• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; adding 3D surfaces to the cupola and surrounding patio and testing them in SAP 2000 (see below)

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:46

• Continued development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; wrote the Why and Details sections and draft 1 of the Construction Steps (see below)
• Continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page (see below)
• Began researching sheep by reviewing Raising Sheep: The Basics, 5 Reasons to Consider Sheep and What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Sheep Farm, took notes on the relevant content (see below)

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:51

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:56

• Created a new donations page that we’ll be using our marketing grant to promote (see below)
• Core team working with Brian Gilb created a new volunteer on-boarding strategy and process and finished the Administrator-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued with his 35th week as part of the marketing team by researching what is and isn’t working in the new keyword campaigns (see below)
  

SOLVING THE GLOBAL HOUSING CRISIS SUMMARY: @12:56

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 for solving the global housing crisis: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 for solving the global housing crisis: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 7th week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week he started designing and calculating the needs for the rainwater harvesting system, created the first draft of the new zoning and harvesting strategy, and kept adding furniture and window details in the AutoCAD and Sketchup models. You can see some of this work here.

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 9th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he began analyzing and updating the proposed building model to meet LEED requirements. You can see some of this here.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 continued with week 16 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we wrote the Why and Details sections and draft 1 of the Construction Steps. You can see some of this work here.

The core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes content for the Open Source Permaculture Design page. What you see here are some of our tutorial outline and notes so far.

Last but not least, the core team began researching sheep by reviewing Raising Sheep: The Basics. We also watched 5 Reasons to Consider Sheep and What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Sheep Farm, took notes on the relevant content, broke out time frames, and added all we learned to our new behind-the-scenes sheep-tutorial Google Doc.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solving the global housing crisis 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 for solving the global housing crisis: 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 created a new donations page that we’ll be using our marketing grant to promote. You can see some of the new page here.

The core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) also created a new volunteer on-boarding strategy and process and finished the Administrator-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software. You can see some of this work here.

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 35th week as part of the marketing team by researching what is and isn’t working in the new keyword campaigns. The number of keywords per ad group was the main focus this week. You can see some of this work here.

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to solving the global housing crisis. 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, fostering solving the global housing crisis. 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, contributing to solving the global housing crisis. 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, spearheading solving the global housing crisis. 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 with the help of solving the global housing crisis. 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, contributing to solving the global housing crisis. 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.