Sustainable Civilization Design and Implementation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #117

Sustainable civilization design and implementation can be accomplished through open source sustainability components covering and combining food, energy, housing, education, economics, recreation, and stewardship practices. Self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration models that make all components easier, more affordable, and more attractive to implement can accelerate the process by inspiring and educating people with a complete living model. One Community calls this 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 June 7th, 2015 edition (#117) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization
Design and Implementation
One Community Weekly Progress Update #117

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION INTRO @1:05

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00

• Transferred the second 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first part of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom“
• Finished next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:15

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source potatoes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source peppers hub (see below)
• Added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:22

• Updated over 40 more images for final instructions of the custom furniture assembly for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. We also created an additional 24-page “Bed Materials List” document (see below)
• Added the second 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures (see below)
• Moved another 20% of Antonio Zambianco’s earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website (see below)
• Jorge Antonio Ricardo finished the 3-D printing needs for a 3-dome cluster (see below)
• Song Dong created the first round of reciprocating roof designs for vermiculture bathroom and communal shower domes (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of shipping container construction. Details added to the new Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) page (see below)
• Nelli Levental created a more detailed drawing of the music-inspired communal living structure for the Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)
• Renata Maehara developed the Cob Village (Pod 3) progressions (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:38

• Mayke Balbino completed the first outline of the Duplicable City Center time projections spreadsheet (see below)
• Mike Hogan created the next steps for developing the Control Systems designs (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:22

• Began the massive process (in coordination with Jin Hua) of updating our entire website to be mobile friendly (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION SUMMARY: @8:22

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SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation through the Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is 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 transferred the second 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website. This means that this lesson plan, which teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication, is now 50% complete on our website:

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first part of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Freedom” – which now brings that to 25% complete.

We also finished the next 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map, which you can see here, which brings that mindmap to 50% complete:

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation 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 the final social media imagery and featured our open source potatoes hub:

We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source peppers hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature peppers will be added here in the future:

Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Coconut Pecan & Apricot Granola, Beet & Asparagus Salad, and Creamy Asparagus Soup. Yum!

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation 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 updated over 40 more images for final instructions of the custom furniture assembly for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. We also created an additional 24-page “Bed Materials List” document. This brings image review and updates to 100% complete for these instructions.

We also added the second 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures. We estimate this brings the page to 75% complete… additional graphics and links are next.

And we moved another 20% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 80% complete on the site:

Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student) finished the 3-D printing needs for a 3-dome cluster and we are now waiting on a quote to print an 8″ by 8″ version of this structure showing how it can be built as one dome, as 3 domes, with or without a kitchen and bathroom dome, and/or as an ADA compliant structure with wheelchair access.

Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) also created this first round of reciprocating roof designs for the vermiculture bathroom and communal shower domes:

Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of shipping container construction. You can see the details of Sayonara’s work here, added by the Core Team to the new Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) page:

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) also created this more detailed drawing of the music-inspired communal living structure for the Cob Village (Pod 3):

Renata Maehara (Civil Engineering student) then developed the Cob Village (Pod 3) progressions you see here, building off of Nelli and Sayonnara’s work:

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation 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 Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed the first outline of the Duplicable City Center time projections spreadsheet:

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also created the next steps you see here for developing the Control Systems designs. We’d say we’re done with about the first 30% of the research and organization process:

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating sustainable civilization design and implementation 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, working in coordination with Jin Hua (Internet Marketing Expert and Web Developer), began the massive process of updating our entire website to be mobile friendly. This included updating our theme, fixing all our homepage images and videos, and all our primary menus. We’d say we are now about 20% done with this complete website overhaul:

Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has continued to update the for-profit and nonprofit income and balance statement details that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 50% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site:

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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 committed to sustainable civilization design and implementation. 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 of sustainable civilization design and implementation.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. Sustainable civilization design and implementation 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 of sustainable civilization design and implementation. 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 goal by establishing successful teacher/demonstration centers on every continent for sustainable civilization design and implementation. 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing sustainable civilization design and implementation 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 in 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 carrying out sustainable civilization design and implementation.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

For sustainable civilization design and implementation, 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. This is also our macro approach for sustainable civilization design and implementation.

Our approach to sustainable civilization design and implementation unites the world and leads 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.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. 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. Sustainable civilization design and implementation is 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 solve and open source shares our sustainable civilization design and implementation we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. 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.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. Sustainable civilization design and implementation will also be better carried out. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.

To meet the increasing demand that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies to become an important part of the design and implementation of sustainable civilization.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable civilization design and implementation by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.

As the demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.

In the process of sustainable civilization design and implementation, once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also.