Stewarding Global Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #327

Is it finally time for humanity to start stewarding global sustainability? One Community thinks it is and we’re creating open source food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic models, social architecture models, fulfilled living models, and global stewardship tutorials to help. Together, these will be implemented in teacher/demonstration hubs to help others replicated and further evolve all these foundations as a pathway to global sustainability 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 to start stewarding global sustainability as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 30th, 2019 edition (#327) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Stewarding Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #327

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

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:29

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:26

• Used the Murphy bed assembly instructions to test build the benches and a table again in 3D (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued researching the most sustainable insulation options (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; researched stair and window codes and updated those areas to fit the new south wall (see below)
• Dan Alleck continued helping with Earthbag Village renders; finished work on the people, plant, and texture updates to final view of the Earthbag Village looking Northeast (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; integrating last week’s feedback on the storage and changing areas (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

• Anvita Kumari Pandey measured all the floor areas in AutoCAD and created the initial cost analysis for these areas in the Duplicable City Center Costs spreadsheet (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files; further revised the swimming pool details, Social Dome loft and main door details, laundry room details, and central pool and front area furniture (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; modeled the refrigeration systems and began creation of HVAC system model (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details; adding 3D surfaces to the Social Dome triangles and testing them in SAP 2000 (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn finished the Why and detailed introductions for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:34

• Continued with week 15 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; added and tested initial formatting and anchor links, edited and created and added a new dam-summary image and the image from last week (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:10

• 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.
• Continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom; added ceilings and lights and produced the new set of renders shown here (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:24

• Core team working with Brian Gilb created version 1 of our Communications Procedure and manager-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software (see below)

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:00

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STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding global 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 to start stewarding global sustainability: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team used the Murphy bed assembly instructions to test build the benches and a table again in 3D. Only a couple fixes were needed this time. You can see some of this work here.

And Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 4th week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she emailed companies again about the outstanding questions related to the insulation products being evaluated, finalized details for the generic wool and straw insulation, and wrote the first parts of the article covering airkrete.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #164 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he researched stair and window codes and updated those areas to fit the new south wall.

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 47th week helping with Earthbag Village renders. This week he finished work on the people, plant, and texture updates to this final view of the Earthbag Village looking Northeast to start stewarding global sustainability.

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding global 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 to start stewarding global sustainability: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) measured all the floor areas in AutoCAD and created the initial cost analysis for these areas in the Duplicable City Center Costs spreadsheet.

Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 6th week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week he further revised the swimming pool details, Social Dome loft and main door details, laundry room details, and central pool and front area furniture. You can see some of this work here.

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding global 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 continued with week 15 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we added and tested initial formatting and anchor links, edited and created and added a new dam-summary image and the image from last week.

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding global 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. 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. 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

This week the core team continued working on the redesign of the Ultimate Classroom. This week we added ceilings and lights and produced the new set of renders shown here.

STEWARDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is stewarding global 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 week the core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional ” PMP) created version 1 of our Communications Procedure and manager-user functionality of the Highest Good Network Software. 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 stewarding global sustainability. 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 stewarding global sustainability. 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 stewarding global sustainability. 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 stewarding global sustainability. 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 stewarding global sustainability. 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 stewarding global sustainability. 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.), contributing to stewarding global sustainability. 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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. 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, contributing to stewarding global sustainability. 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.

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.