Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #211

A whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs that are also open source can provide a pathway to sustainable and better living for everyone.

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 9th, 2017 edition (#211) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #211

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

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Working with Sangam Stanczak, core team continued with 5th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program (see below)
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created two final renders of the green and and orange rooms for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:36

• Continued creating images and content for the Food Bars page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil integrated the 4th major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:22

• Started updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village 3-dome clusters to the new standardized format (see below)
• Made text and formatting updates to the Earthbag Village book and started working the detailed Earthbag Village furniture construction instructions for the Murphy Beds (see below)
• Alena Thompson her 9th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 9th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Fernando Remolina and Lin Xu continued with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 37th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:50

• Created a new outside render of the City Center sundeck (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued with the City Center heating and air conditioning details (see below)

WHOLE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:40

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @8:00

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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs 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 working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued with our 5th week of collaborative calls developing the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Highest Good education program. What you see here is the first behind-the-scenes draft of our proposed evaluation process.

The core team also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Form Lesson Plan, as you can see here. We added the theme images to the website for this lesson plan as well.

We also continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Matter and Materials Lesson Plan and the Movement and Development Lesson Plan. This brings us to 7 of 52 finished, which is 13% completion.

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, adding views outside the windows and educational-subject specific items to the red (Health/Nutrition) room, orange (English) room, yellow (Math) room, and green (Science) room, as shown here. 

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these two final renders of the green and orange rooms from The Ultimate Classroom:

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs 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 week, the core team continued creating images and content for the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~22% completion.

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued with his 23rd week developing the new Search Engines for our site following a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs. This week’s work was integration of the 4th major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine. The search engine is also now live and available on the Highest Good food page.

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs 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 started updating the AutoCAD file for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 3-dome clusters to the new standardized format, as shown here. We’d say we’re about 80% complete with this work. 

We also made text and formatting updates to the Earthbag Village book pages 20 to 25, creating a new One-Acre Footprint image for page 22, and started working the the detailed Earthbag Village furniture construction instructions for the Murphy Beds.

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding a doorway and changing the ladder, determining the pumps for sinks, and further researching the vacuum toilets to identify that pumps won’t be needed for the toilets.

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was researching the water storage reservoir for beneath the Tropical Atrium. You can see some of the results of this research here.

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 14th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was researching alternative gravity-assisted ways to make the dumping process easier.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 63 of Dean’s work. This weeks’ focus was working on the loft and cutaway views of the Southeast wing looking North following a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs, as you can see here:

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs 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 created a new outside render of the City Center sundeck.

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of researching switches on the whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs, beginning to outline the electrical details for the complete structure, and more work on the micro-grid tutorial.

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 14th week with the team. This week’s focus was continuing with the City Center heating and air conditioning details including calculations revisions, researching possible HVAC systems, and discussing humidity and temperature specifics for the root cellar following a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs.

WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs 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

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth by a whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support our whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs.

Whole-Systems Approach to Sustainability Hubs – Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning into whole-systems approach to sustainability hubs.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

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.