One Community What Do We Mean by “The Highest Good of All” Video Blog and Update

This video discusses our accomplishments for the last week (the week of 3/17/2013) and what we mean by “The Highest Good of All” and being a Highest Good of All organization. We also discuss creation of self-sufficient and self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

ONE COMMUNITY VIDEO UPDATE BLOG #4

ONE COMMUNITY UPDATE FROM THE WEEK OF 3/17/2013

NEW CONSULTANT TO THE TEAM

Welcome Charles McLean to the team! –> THE BLOG ABOUT THAT (also contains the most recent SEGO Center 3/21/2013 CAD design export)

FIRST GENERATION 3D TROPICAL ATRIUM IMAGES

Thanks to the amazing donation of time (and skill) by John Bassist, we now have the beginnings of a 3D rendering of the Tropical Atrium! These images are only the first generation, with a bunch of fine-tuning tweaks still needed, but they are a step in the right direction and a great example of the Tropical Atrium component in progress.

THESE NEW PAGES WERE CREATED FOR PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR INPUT

We created two pages this week to help people share their ideas with One Community:

• Highest Good Infrastructure Suggestions
• Conscious Music Project Suggestions Page (and “Give Love” our newest addition to the project)

Here are the open source portals that we completed as of this week:

• SEGO Center City Hub Portal
• Sustainable Food Systems Portal
• Tropical Atrium Portal
• Education Portal

We also created an easier to interact with version of our One Community Agreement for Pioneer applicants and added an FAQ to the bottom of the new page:

• The One Community Agreement and FAQ for those interested in becoming a community member

WE MADE SIGNIFICANT SEGO CENTER CITY HUB UPDATES THIS LAST WEEK

Here’s the blog that shows the image for the following updates:

• Addition of 4th floor bathrooms
• New Living Dome central bathrooms
• Removal of walls in the 2nd floor Living Dome area
• Addition of a mezzanine access walkway in the Dining Dome
• Additional expansion of the central natural pool and hot tub area

WE DID A PONDERTALK RADIO INTERVIEW THIS LAST WEEK

Here the link to that interview.

WE ALSO CREATED TWO NEW EDUCATION FOR LIFE PAGES

The amount of time and energy that is going into research and development of this open source and free-shared education program is immense. Here are the two newest pages:

ORFF SCHULWERK METHOD EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OVERVIEW PAGE (click the image)

THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS EDUCATION CURRICULUM PAGE (click the image to visit the page)

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One Community featured on PonderTalkRadio

One Community was featured this week on PonderTalkRadio with Aaron Moritz and Jim Hamell from “The Bridge.” Here is the video of the 1.5 hr interview discussing open source project-launch blueprinting and what’s possible for this planet and all its people.

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One Community Welcomes New Consultant Charles McLean to the Sustainable Infrastructure Team

One Community is happy to welcome Charles McLean to the consulting team working with us to evolve and complete the SEGO Center City Hub and our aquaponics/aquapini sustainable food systems designs. Charles is an Architectural BIM Designer, College Professor, Urban Agriculture Designer, and the owner of OM Greengroup. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture, and a Master’s Degree in Education-Curriculum & Instruction. He is also a member of The Detroit City Council Green Task Force working to revitalize the Metropolitan Detroit area by providing sustainable ideas to implement new infrastructure capabilities evolving around reclaimed water policy issues, urban agriculture policy issues, and Green Building and Infrastructure policy. Charles is also a developer of the world-leading Autodesk Architecture and Engineering Software. With over 15 years of architectural experience, totaling more than 5 billions dollars on architectural projects, Charles applies his leadership skills, experience, and diligent commitment to sustainable design and implementation to deliver qualitative and quantitative results that improve any project at hand.

SEGO Center City Hub Update

Charles has already contributed hugely to the evolution of the SEGO Center by suggesting and helping design with Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs) the move of the Living Dome bathrooms into the center of that dome as well as designs for the 4th floor bathrooms. Here is today’s CAD Export showing the most recent changes:

• Addition of 4th floor bathrooms
• New Living Dome central bathrooms
• Removal of walls in the 2nd floor Living Dome area
• Addition of a mezzanine access walkway in the Dining Dome
• Additional expansion of the central natural pool and hot tub area

Here are Charles’ designs for the 4th floor bathrooms as well:

Next step is to begin 3D renderings as our partners at P2S Engineering are working on their recommendations for us making this a LEED Platinum build.

RELATED PAGES

INFRASTRUCTURE OVERVIEW  ●  SEGO OVERVIEW  ●  SEGO DETAILS  ●  OPEN SOURCE

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The Open Source & Free-sharing Tropical Atrium Design Portal is Now Live

We are very happy to report that the open source project-launch blueprinting portal for the Tropical Atrium (click to visit) is now live! Along with the creation of this page detailing this component of the One Community sustainable infrastructure, we have also open sourced our back office notes and created a Collaborative Input for Infrastructure Page to make it easy for people to send us their ideas and suggestions. As one of the many next steps we will now also be A) adding that Collaborative Input for Infrastructure Page to all the other infrastructure pages so people can more easily share their input on everything we are working on and B) structuring all infrastructure pages as expandable open source portals like this one:

TROPICAL ATRIUM OPEN SOURCE PORTAL PAGE

OPEN SOURCE PROJECT-LAUNCH BLUEPRINTING THIS STRUCTURE

As we continue open source project-launch blueprinting the Tropical Atrium, build it, and problem solve and evolve it for One Community (and with others around the world) we will use this page as the portal to all the open source and free-shared details related to this component including:

● Architectural plans
● Detailed materials list
● Detailed equipment and tools needs list
● Cost analysis and best sources for materials and equipment
● How to build, what to watch out for, how to adapt structure
● How to work with local government if permitting is needed
● On-going maintenance and upkeep details per our on-going experience
● Specifics of everything you can grow and what kinds of yields you can expect
● Complete details on how to build your own Tropical Atrium and how many hours it should take
● How to make your build easier than ours and how to solve any problems we encountered in our build
● Archive and database of others building similar structures including their experiences, adaptations, suggestions, etc.

The list above will evolve into links to individual pages including all the open source project-launch blueprinting details people need to duplicate every aspect of this component of One Community in part or in whole.

RELATED PAGES

HOUSING OVERVIEW   ●   EARTHBAG VILLAGE PAGE    ●    OPEN SOURCE

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New Addition to the One Community Conscious Music Project: “Give Love” by MC Yogi

We love conscious-message-music and supporting artists with a positive message. “Give Love” by MC Yogi is one of those songs and part of our contribution to the Conscious Music Movement to share the most uplifting songs to live, love, and expand with. Our goal with this project is to share songs that increase happiness and conscious and conscientious awareness through the most uplifting music, positive lyrics, and high vibration songs we can find! If you’ve got an idea for toe-tappin’, sing-along-and-smile music to live to, music to laugh to, music to dance to, and/or music to love to with a message of joy – share it with us here (click) and we’ll review it and add it to The Conscious Music Project if it looks like a good fit!

VISIT THE “GIVE LOVE” PAGE AND LISTEN TO THE SONG

To follow updates for ALL our positive sharing, please join one of our social media networks:

● One Community Inspirational Facebook Fan Page
● One Community for The Highest Good of All Facebook Group
● One Community LinkedIn Group
● One Community Twitter Feed

***Song submitted by David S. – THANK YOU DAVID!***

New Aquapini Drawings, Open Source Blog and Updates, SEGO Center City Hub Update, and More

Here’s our sustainable living communities open source project-launch blueprinting update for the week of 3/11 including updated aquaponics/aquapini drawings, the newest SEGO Center City Hub export, open source Education for Life updates, and more. Also our weekly blog update (first three minutes) and a 17 minute discussion about what is open source project-launch blueprinting, what do we hope to accomplish with it, and why are we doing it.

WHY OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE LIVING COMMUNITIES: VIDEO BLOG 3

OPEN SOURCE PRODUCTION UPDATES FOR THE WEEK OF 3/11

This last week’s team accomplishments were primarily in Sustainable Infrastructure, the Education for Life Program, and significan website infrastructure updates.

Sustainable Living Communities Open Source Food Production

Thanks to the consulting of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics) and the amazing architecture skills of Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist), we’re happy to say that the commercial food production aquapini layout and general structure designs are done! This piece of our open source project-launch blueprinting of sustainable living communities is an aquapini purposed for maximum food volume production. In support of our open source goals, this aquapini will demonstrate and share a model of affordable large-scale quality food production utilizing very little water and with built in temperature control for more extreme climates.

COMMERCIAL FOOD PRODUCTION AQUAPINI FLOOR PLAN AND LONGITUDINAL VIEWS

COMMERCIAL FOOD PRODUCTION CROSS SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS

Sustainable Living Communities Open Source SEGO Center City Hub

The One Community SEGO Center City Hub is a foundational component of the One Community duplicable teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model purposed to provide open source project-launch blueprinting necessary for a duplicable city center that will:

• ADA Compliant
• Designed to California code for maximum duplicability
• Be LEED Platinum certified and demonstrate cutting-edge sustainability, be
• Save resources by functioning as a community, village, or city recreation center
• Save resources by functioning as a community, village, or city recreation center dining hall
• Save resources by functioning as a community, village, or city laundry facility
• Offer a green-luxury option to donors, major eco-investors, VIPs, or anyone else that might not feel like they are initially ready to stay in one of our earthbag or straw bale hand-constructed homes.

Thanks to the hard work of Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs), we’ve got this updated CAD export showing the new library and Conference Dome bathroom location, moving the bathrooms of the Living Dome to a central location for increased resource efficiency and demonstration of collaborative living, a new 3rd floor sunrise patio space for congregating, and an open floor plan for the 4th floor.

3-17-2013 SEGO CITY HUB CAD EXPORT

Sustainable Living Communities Open Source Education Program

We’ve added a ton of new content to the Education for Life Program with the most significant contributions being:

• The Honesty and Integrity Curriculum Component Page
• The teaching strategies Waldorf Method Overview Page

For updates as they happen, and a bunch of new images and quotes we also made, visit/join our:

TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION FACEBOOK PAGE

Website Updates this Week

We’ve also spent about 20 hours this past week building out the open source infrastructure details and making significant updates to some of the key pages. Here are a couple of the most significant ones:

• Open Source Page
  
• Tropical Atrium Page
• Becoming a One Community Pioneer Page
  

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