Thinking Beyond Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #222

Thinking beyond sustainability is needed if mainstream implementation is to happen. What this means is going beyond the common sustainability areas like food, energy, housing and also including sustainable and forward-thinking approaches to education, economic design, and social architecture. Putting these together and open sourcing and free-sharing them is One Community’s approach to creating a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration communities and hubs working together to live in and create even more of these hubs for The Highest Good of All.

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• 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 25th, 2017 edition (#222) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Thinking Beyond Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #222

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

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: INTRO: @1:03

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:03

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:41

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued the work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:40

• Explored Design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:55

• Sowmya Manohar added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:12

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THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 the Tropical Atrium open source hub with new sections describing all the main features.

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week’s focus included creating and adding new imagery and text to the Pipe Table section and re-organizing the different furniture sections. You can see some of this work here.

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued the work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations and roof design updates, some of which you can see here.

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. You can see some pictures of this work here.

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 explored the design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen. Here’s an image created for this purpose.

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Humility Lesson Plan and the Form Lesson Plan. This brings us to 30 of 52 finished, which is 57.7% completion.

We also created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome, as shown here.

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software. You can see some of the behind the scenes work on this here:

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, thinking beyond sustainability. 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 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, thinking beyond sustainability. 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, while thinking beyond sustainability. 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.

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.

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, while thinking beyond sustainability. 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.) while thinking beyond sustainability. 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.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading 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, thinking beyond sustainability. 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, and thinking beyond sustainability. 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, thinking beyond sustainability. 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 for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors, thinking beyond sustainability. 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.

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

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate, reflecting our commitment to thinking beyond sustainability. 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.

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, thinking beyond sustainability.

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