Advancing Ecological Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #207

One Community is advancing ecological living through open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. The goal is to make these approaches easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate them as beneficial enough that they spread on their own.

• 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 the movement of advancing ecological living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 12, 2017 edition (#207) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

 Advancing Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #207

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

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING INTRO: @1:03

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred all of the written content for the Contribution Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• We have now completed and transferred to our website 100% of the written part of 52 lesson plans; the list is on the lesson plans for life page (see below)
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began adding people and researched Learning Tools and Toys to create these second-generation renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped create images for what will be organized sections on the Learning Tools and Toys page (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:23

• Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 21st week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:57

• Completed conversion of the Compressed Earth Block Village to the new and simplified color and layer format (see below)
• Made revisions to the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium Tree and Sunlight Guide (see below)
• Touched up the Tropical Atrium images previously drawn from Douglas Simms Stenhouse (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 5th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created the Final Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued updating the Tree House Village book (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39

• Continued working on 3D placement and checking of the structural supports for City Center cupola (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 30th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva continued his work on the Control Systems layout (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 7th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 11th week and began work on the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:52

• Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING SUMMARY: @8:39

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ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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 last week the core team transferred all of the written content for the Contribution Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Contribution”

Transferred 100% of Contribution Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

We have now completed and transferred to our website 100% of the written part of 52 lesson plans, which is one per week for one full year! You can see the full list on our lesson plans for life page.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan, as you can see here.

Caring Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. After adding a xylophone to the green room, we created the final render, as you see here.

Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also began adding people and then researched Learning Tools and Toys to create these second-generation renders for The Ultimate Classroom.

Added People and Learning Tools to Ultimate Classroom Render – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create all these images for what will be organized sections on the Learning Tools and Toys page.

Created Images for Learning Tools and Toys Page – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 21st week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was integration of the 3rd major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine, and creation of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Highest Good Food

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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 completed conversion of the Compressed Earth Block Village to the new and simplified color and layer format, as shown here.

Completed Conversion of the Compressed Earth Block Village to the New Format – Click for Page

And the core team made revisions to the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium Tree and Sunlight Guide and added it to the related web pages, you can see the revised image here:

Revised the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium Tree Sunlight Guide – Click for Page

The core team touched up the Tropical Atrium images previously drawn from Douglas Simms Stenhouse, Architect and Water Color Artist, and added them to the Earthbag Village page.

Touched up Tropical Atrium Images Previously Drawn from Douglas Simms Stenhouse – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she further developed the water storage details and researched and integrated vacuum toilets into the design.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 59 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 40 images for the room furniture and lighting for the Eastside living spaces. The 3 images here are new from this week:

Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces – Click to Visit Page

….and this series of 5 images showing test-placing a blanket on the couch:

Created Series of Images Showing Test-Placing a Blanket on the Couch – Click for Cob Village

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) created this Final Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render.

Created Final Render of Compressed Earth Block Village with People – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. Here is the latest updated page talking about insulation.

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click for Page

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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 working on 3D placement and checking of the structural supports for the City Center cupola.

Continued Working on 3D Placement and Checking of the Structural Supports for City Center Cupola – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 30th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was modeling and testing different colors in the City Center Social and Living Dome bathrooms and Living Dome bedrooms.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click to Visit Page

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 on initial wiring layouts for the rooms and additional research into the specific electrical components we’ll be using.

Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was finishing layer and color updates and the majority of integrating the new dome geometry into the Master File, then moving windows, new furniture placement, and beginning to update the elevations. All of which is shown here.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also continued his work on the Control Systems layout, reorganizing it as shown here to spread out the symbols, eliminate overlap, and add pointers as need to make it easier to identify what each component is and points to on the plan.

Continued Working on the Control Systems Layout – Click for Page

And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was reviewing the code for concrete floor design and determining the next steps for the basement wall and construction practice tutorial.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial for Duplicable City Center

And Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 11th week and began work on the City Center heating and air conditioning load calculations you see here.

Began Work on the City Center Heating and Air Conditioning Load Calculations – Click to Visit Page

ADVANCING ECOLOGICAL LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing ecological living 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 finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video:

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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. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

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.

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.

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 these options.

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. Hence, through advancing ecological living we can attain sustainability.

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. A holistic view of advancing ecological living to attain 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.