Sustainable Economics – One Community Weekly Progress Update #305

Sustainable economics combine all the open source and sustainable components of One Community. We do this as the foundation for reducing or eliminating the most burdensome expenses in people’s lives. We add to that social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices to provide a way of living that we feel most people will consider to be better than how they are living now.

• 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 January 27th, 2019 edition (#305) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Economics
One Community Progress Update #305

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

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: INTRO: @0:34

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:04

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Created an action list of everything needed to be ready for the crowdfunding campaign and complete village construction (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 30th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 37th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dan Alleck finished revisions and additions to the complete Earthbag Village looking South see below)
• Dean Scholz worked on Earthbag Village furniture elements in kitchen and bathroom dome (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:17

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 4th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

• 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.

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:06

• Wrote all the sets of ads for all the AdWords campaigns we’ve been researching all the keywords for (see below)
• Emilio Nájera added additional keywords for Lesson Plans for Life and Resource Based Economy pages and keyword research for Open Source, Thermal Lag, Open Source AutoCAD Template, and Highest Good Food pages (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: SUMMARY: @13:27

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SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics 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 week the core team continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we updated the design to test a 9-foot ceiling. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details ” Click to Visit

The core team also created this action list of everything needed to be ready for the crowdfunding campaign and complete village construction. You can see this action item list here.

Created Action List for Crowdfunding Campaign and Complete Village Construction – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 30th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she continued updating the materials’ quantities, costs, and reference links, and further refined her AutoCAD drawing of 1 dome to better calculate the earthbag and cement quantities.

Continued Helping w/Earthbag Village Materials And Costs – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 37th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was continuing to create diagrams illustrating the wall section assembly, making changes to the under-loft lighting box, and further simplifying the pieces and identifying more areas needing to be tested in Sketchup 3D. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 34th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he completed revisions and additions to this view of the complete village looking South. This is on the website now too.

Completed Revisions and Additions to View of the Complete Village Looking South – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #146 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on the furniture elements in the kitchen and bathroom dome.

Worked on Furniture Elements in Kitchen and Bathroom Dome – Click for Earthbag Village

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics 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 week, the core team continued building the new page sharing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, stains, varnishes, and sealants. We created the social media image and finished all the parts related to the best paints. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Building the New Page Sharing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit

The core team also updated the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems designs page and tutorial by replacing all the graphics referencing 3.5″ pipes and their calculations with graphics showing the much more readily available 4″ pipes and fittings. You can see some of this work here.

Updated Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs Page and Tutorial

And the core team continued with week 3 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week we reviewed video and took notes on what Zachary Weiss had to say on the topic, you can see some of these notes here.

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation for the Duplicable City Center

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 110th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was integrating several rounds of requested changes to the AutoCAD layouts. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they made adjustments to the layout to improve circulation, added more furniture and fixtures, made adjustments to the seating and storage, and created the first round of renders. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details ” Click to Visit

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he focused on AutoCAD updates, finding installation manuals, and helping with some of the cost analysis details, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping Finish the City Center HVAC Designs – Click to Visit Page

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 8th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week’s focus was continuing the process of integrating the LEED points details related to paints, stains, and varnishes. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints ” Click to Visit Page

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics through a 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

Continued with BTS Narrative & Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs ” Click to Visit

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image to Visit

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable economics 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 wrote all the sets of ads for all the AdWords campaigns we’ve been researching all the keywords for. You can see some of this work here.

Wrote Sets of Ads for All the Adwords Campaigns – Click for Helping Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 16th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for the Lesson Plans for Life and Resource Based Economy pages and then did keyword research for the Open Source, Thermal Lag, Open Source AutoCAD Template, and Highest Good Food pages. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Keywords for Several Pages ” Click to Visit our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer) and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team continued the transition to Redux and started exploring future development features, changed reducers to return empty objects/arrays instead of null, added the leaderboard to the timelog page, and started working on giving Admins the ability to change timelogs for anyone. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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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 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 while promoting sustainable economics.

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 what is possible while promoting sustainable economics.

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, all with a focus on sustainable economics. 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.

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS: 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, including sustainable economics.

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, 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, integrating sustainable economics.

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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive, including insights into sustainable economics.

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, integrating elements of sustainable economics.

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.), integrating elements of sustainable economics. 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, fostering principles of sustainable economics. 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, driven by principles of sustainable economics. 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, guided by principles of sustainable economics. 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 sustainable economics. 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. 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, all driven by sustainable economics.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability 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 for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

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

As 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, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

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, all within the framework of sustainable economics.

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, within the framework of sustainable economics.