One CommunityStewarding Our One Shared Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #356
It seems we’ve reached the time where stewarding our one shared planet should be a top priority. One Community thinks the best way to help support this is modular and open source solutions for individual and large-scale implementation of sustainability. So we are creating free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources for replicable and sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, and fulfilled living models.
- 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
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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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 January 19th, 2020 edition (#356) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments for stewarding our one shared planet:
Stewarding Our One Shared Planet
One Community Progress Update #356
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is stewarding our one shared planet 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 created the initial layout and content additions for the new “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” section on the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance page. You can see some of this work in progress here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say we’re about 70% complete with this section.
Created Initial Layout and Content Additions for New “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” Section – Click for Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page
Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 13th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. Oluyomi completed the design details and DIY tutorial for creating a mini-trompe system. This included a cost analysis for the simple DIY trompe of approximately $158 USD. Lastly, he researched and wrote the first draft explaining what a ram pump is and how it works. You can see some of this work here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 60% complete.
Completed the Design Details and DIY Tutorial for Creating a Mini-Trompe System ” Click for Hydro Energy Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #177 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing the rest of the work on the railings around the rooftop-patio and working on the doorway that will access the spa. You can see some of this ongoing work here that promotes stewarding our one shared planet.
Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page
And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 76th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he made the final edits needed to send this to the core team for final testing with 3D assembly. What you see here are some of the newer pages created as part of the final review and the list of everything needing to be reviewed/confirmed by the core team. We’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 92% complete.
Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is stewarding our one shared planet 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 36th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron completed the baseline model using the revised occupancy loads and electrical heating for the hot tub and began updating the proposed model with the revised changes. You can see some of this work here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.
Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification ” Click for Page
Gevork Asatryan (Electrical MEP Engineer) also joined the team and helped write the first draft of the Basis of Design (BOD) we’ll be using to create the final Duplicable City Center electrical designs. You can some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.
Helped Write First Draft of Basis of Design We’ll Be Using to Create the Final Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is stewarding our one shared planet 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 work on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was working on the door assembly instructions and fixing a hinge problem we identified. We’d say we’re now about 90% done with these.
Continued Work on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions ” Click for Chickens Page
And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was continued work on Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” This week we began developing the base map and explaining the rollout process, along with how our 1-year of observation phase differs from that of typical permaculture implementations. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.
Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page
Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 9th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he redesigned and remodeled the pond area to produce the following results:
- Pond diameter is 24′ 8″
- Pond water level is only 9″ below level
- The difference between stepped seating areas is about 10″
- Paths width is 4′ 2″
- Seating area fits 78 people (chairs) not including the ADA row
- All paths and railings are according to codes and ADA requirements
You can see some of this work-in-progress here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 80% complete.
Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 7th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the soil thermal properties for use in the first model for the climate battery. He also worked on the first 2D model of the climate battery to study the airflow inside the room and the pipes as well as the transfer between the pipes and the soil. For the first model simplifying assumptions are made for initial evaluation.
More accurate assumptions will be considered later. Results show the fan is correctly functioning in the simulations and initiates the flow inside the climate battery. Also, the transfer of heat is correctly captioned at the interior of the pipe and the soil domains. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.
Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page
And Stefanie Dean (Researcher) joined the team and completed her first week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and menu creation. This week she began recipe build out by creating a framework on how to propose recipe recommendations to obtain manager approval and developed an updated initial recipe format to complete final recipe builds in preparation for adding them to the website. You can see some of this behind the scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet.
Began Helping With the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and Menu Creation – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is stewarding our one shared planet 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 Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 10 as a member of the team. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by adding opaque natural-lighting windows and skylights to the bathroom area and finishing the overhead storage areas. You can see some of this work here for stewarding our one shared planet.
Ziqian Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is stewarding our one shared planet 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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This week Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) completed her 8th week designing the new version of the One Community Homepage overview video. This week Deema continued to make revisions to the One Community Overview video by reviewing and integrating core team feedback, adjusting/retiming composition scenes, replacing and adjusting the placement of imagery, adjusting transition sequences, layering video clips, and reviewing and making final touches to version 8 of the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here for stewarding our one shared planet and we’d say we are now about 90% complete with this video.
Continued Designing the New Version of the One Community Homepage Overview Video ” Click for Homepage
Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao started modifying components to connect them with Redux, which would make sharing data between components easier. He finished the modification on Login and Header this week and you can see some examples of this work here demonstrating the idea of stewarding our one shared planet.
Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 2nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry completed an Entity Relationship Diagram for the HGN database, coding conventions, and restructured the source code. He also successfully ran the database and source code. You can see some screenshots related to this work below focusing on stewarding our one shared planet .
Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
And last but not least, Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) joined the volunteer team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he completed the ability for a user to upload their own photo for their profile, the ability for a user to edit their name associated with their own profile, and the phone number “Publicly Visible or Not” box/option. He also refactored the code and made sure the libraries are up to date and started working on the ability for a user to edit their professional title for their profile. You can see some of this work here towards stewarding our one shared planet.
Began Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
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STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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.
STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 by stewarding our one shared planet.
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 stewarding our one shared planet model.
STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 for stewarding our one shared planet 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 stewarding our one shared planet 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 towards stewarding our one shared planet, 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
STEWARDING OUR ONE SHARED PLANET – 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 such as stewarding our one shared planet. 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.
