Sustainable Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #249

Sustainable change is positive change that can address the sustainability challenges of our generation with enough adaptability to address the sustainability challenges of future generations too. Open source, DIY, and modular solutions are foundations One Community is developing to support 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 as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 31st, 2017 edition (#249) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Change
One Community Progress Update #249

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

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:57

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:10

• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 7th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 63rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:11

• Continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:42

• Added additional content and resources to the Surpassing Education Standards page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:15

• Aravind Vasudevan continued working on the climate battery designs and research (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh (theHighest Good Network software team) fixed several database errors and completed development of the leaderboard rest service (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUSTAINABLE CHANGE SUMMARY: @12:15

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SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable change 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 sustainable change with 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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we began designing the fitness station (inspired by top right images here), and continued designing the outdoor Gym for sustainable change.

Continued Working on Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit Page

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions by adding new parts, materials, tools, page numbers, and other details. The collage shown here shares these most recent updates.

Continued Working on Murphy bed Instructions ” Click to Visit Page

And the core team began adding our final design details to the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page. This initial work included converting our GooglePresentation images to web images and formatting and editing the related text for sustainable change. You can see some of this work here.

Began Adding Final Design Details to Bathroom Design Page Page – Click to Visit

In addition, the core team added descriptions and features for all the images added over the last couple weeks to the Compressed Earth Block Village page. You can see this new content here. 

Added Descriptions and Features for Compressed Earth Block Village Page – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 32nd week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs by adding more support to the bottom of the container and developing a new method for securing it to the main chamber.

Continued Developing the Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 94 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued lighting and texture updates to produce this newest test renter of the central dining and stage area.

Continued Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 10th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and other aesthetic elements to this final render of the East Rooftop area. This image is now live on the site also. 

Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Additions ” Click to Visit

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 42nd week of work, 3D modeling the central labyrinth area.

Work on Compressed Earth Block Village Elements ” Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 2nd week taking over development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she updated the roof and gutters, added coverings for the patios, designed a new common entryway, and started redesigning the central common space. 

Development of Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable change 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 as a part of sustainable change: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his updated calculations for the wind loads applied to the triangles that make up the domes themselves.

Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 7th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching LEED details for maximizing sustainability points related HVAC design. What you see here are are some of the initial results of this research.

Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 63rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine areas in the central area of the City Center, as shown here.

Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable change 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 for sustainable change for food: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing for sustainable change for food: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued work on the formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, adding additional micro-nutrient information to the food plan based on staple foods we can store in bulk, as you see here.

Formulas and Data for Food Calculations ” Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable change 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 for sustainable change: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together for sustainable change: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we added additional content and resources to the Surpassing Education Standards page, as you can see here.

Began Surpassing Education Standards Page ” Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE CHANGE: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable change 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

Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) continued working on the climate battery designs and research. This week’s focus was additional drawings to help the 3D team and calculations for the fans that will be needed for the climate batteries supporting the aquapini and walipini structures and Tropical Atrium contributing to the sustainable change.

Climate Battery Designs and Research – Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team fixed several database errors and completed development of the leaderboard rest service. They also implemented password hashing for security at-rest data and returning the token on user login.

Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

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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 sustainable change. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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 sustainable change. 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 sustainable change. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. 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 about the science of sustainable ecology. 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. 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.

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.