Sustainable Happiness – One Community Weekly Progress Update #325

We did research on the 6 foundations of human fulfillment and used what we learned to create the best model we could for sustainable happiness. We’re open sourcing all the components so they can be replicated and improved upon. We’re designing this to build the first (One Community) as a teacher/demonstration hub 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 for sustainable happiness as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 16th, 2019 edition (#325) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Happiness
One Community Progress Update #325

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

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS INTRO: @0:29

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:00

• Rebuilt the whole Murphy bed changing area again in 3D and made a list of corrections, piece changes, numbering changes, and other instruction updates that were needed (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued researching the most sustainable insulation options; focused on digging deeper into the unique characteristics of each insulation product, ranking them from best to worst, and eliminating toxic choices (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; continued designing the South wall (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; beginning final revisions and updates for the Bed Frame section (see below)

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:15

• Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh continued helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details by updating some of the Social Dome loft furniture and finalizing the mezzanine, sunrise patio, and central pool-area furniture (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; researched the pool evaporation rate and calculated the thermobridges for our original wall design using THERM (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn continued researching the most sustainable faucet options by researching the sustainability goals, reports, initiatives, and affiliations and benchmarking the sustainability of all the major faucet-providing companies (see below)
• Zeyu Zhu continued increasing the capacity and finalizing the rainwater catchment designs for the City Center; created the initial zonal graphic for rain collection, calculate the areas for each zone, and created the the 2nd-generation 2D design for the water collection system (see below)

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:16

• Continued our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; began building the webpage by creating the initial page graphics, social media imagery, and formatting (see below)
• Began organizing and writing the final content for the Goats page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:20

• 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 HAPPINESS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @13:06

• Core team working with Brian Gilb fleshed out details for the Consensus and Groups of 200+ governance structure of One Community (see below)
• Brian took above information and several hours of related discussions and created the first draft shown here of the Highest Good Network Software Charter (see below)
• Jin Hua created new custom Adwords Campaign management reports and two tutorials for using them (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued as part of the marketing team by verifying our Google Ads and Google Analytics updates, using Data Studio to start generating reports, starting research for a new Donations campaign, and creating the new One Community Branding report (see below)

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS SUMMARY: @14:29

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SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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 for sustainable happiness: 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 rebuilt the whole Murphy bed changing area again in 3D and made a list of corrections, piece changes, numbering changes, and other instruction updates that were needed. You can see some of this work here.

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 2nd week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she focused on digging deeper into the unique characteristics of each insulation product, ranking them from best to worst, and eliminating toxic choices. She also did more research into R-values to understand exactly what it is and why it may not be the best way to define an insulation’s efficiency.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #162 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he continued designing the South wall as a part of sustainable happiness.

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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 for sustainable happiness: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Design Pros) completed their 25th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was updating some of the Social Dome loft furniture and finalizing the mezzanine, sunrise patio, and central pool-area furniture.

Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 4th week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week’s focus was researching proper window and sliding door products, updating the AutoCAD detailed drawings, remodeling the pool transition door in AutoCAD and Sketchup, and updating the furniture details in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

This week the core team continued with week 13 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial. This week we began building the webpage by creating the initial page graphics, social media imagery, and formatting shown here.

The core team also began organizing and writing the final content for the Goats page. What you see here is the editing and content organization happening on the behind-the-scenes Google Doc.

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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) fleshed out details for the Consensus and Groups of 200+ governance structure of One Community. We created the graphics shown here to explain how the consensus process will work with groups of 1700+ people.

Then Brian took this information and several hours of related discussions and created the first draft shown here of the Highest Good Network Software Charter. This charter outlines how the software will help manage the consensus process, the social architecture, materials and labor tracking, educational tracking and evolution, and more.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) created new custom Adwords Campaign management reports and two tutorials for using them.

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 33rd week as part of the marketing team by verifying our Google Ads and Google Analytics updates, using Data Studio to start generating reports, starting research for a new Donations campaign, and creating the new One Community Branding report as a part of sustainable happiness. 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 the sustainable happiness. 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 sustainable happiness. 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 the sustainable happiness. 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 the sustainable happiness. 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 sustainable happiness. 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 sustainable happiness. 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.