Building Sustainable Villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

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Building Sustainable Villages, One Community Weekly Progress Update #180

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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 September 4th, 2016 edition (#180) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Villages
One Community Progress Update #180

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

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

  • Transferred third 25% of written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
  • Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.
  • We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:49

  • Added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen (see below)

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:15

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:25

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:04

  • Jennifer Zhou completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES SUMMARY: @7:20

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                                                               ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS                                                          Building Sustainable Villages

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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As part of building sustainable villages this last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Beliefs” is now 75% completed on our website.

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Beliefs” is now 75% completed on our website.

Beliefs Lesson Plan – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% of the written part of the Personal Growth Lesson Plan.

We also completed the third 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 75% complete, which you see here:

Honesty and Integrity lesson plan mindmap, 75% complete

Honesty and Integrity Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

This week the core team added additional images, references, and resources to the behind the scenes version of the Transition Kitchen. You can see images of that work here:

Added Additional Images/Descriptions for Transition Kitchen Equipment to Site – Click for Main Transition Kitchen Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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As part of building sustainable villages The core team continued updating the formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages. This week’s work focused on new introduction pages and new images for the Straw Bale Village.

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Continued Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit Page

We also created 3 new Earthbag Village icons shown here and integrated these into the pages.

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Created 3 New Earthbag Village Icons and Integrated into the Pages – Click to Visit the Earthbag Villages

And we put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 88-150, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added a 6d galvanized finish nail photo and replaced all 16d finish nails throughout the document with 6d galvanized finish nails. We’d say we are now 97% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

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Continued Work Updating AutoCAD Drawings for Footer and Foundation – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean’s computer.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 34 of his work that focused on shadows, additional textures, and (thus far unsuccessfully) attempting to overcome computer crash problems during the final render process. What you see here are some successful renders and renders that froze and then crashed Dean’s computer.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 6th week of work here showing aligning the 1st and 2nd floor, seating ideas for the dining area, more roadway and column changes, expansion of the 2nd floor private events space, and a new design for the West recreation space.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

Building on Hamilton’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer), also completed his 1st week of 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) for quality render creation. What you see here are the beginnings of the structure taking shape in 3DS Max.

Began 3D modeling of the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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As part of building sustainable villages this week the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here are the updates to the Dining Dome, where we placed the basement retaining wall and structural columns, and created detailed measurement images for the basement staircase updates we’ll be doing in AutoCAD.

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Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Renders – Click to Visit Page

We also updated the Transition K itchen designs in Sketchup, replacing a double-compartment sink with a 3-compartment sink and adding a dish-drying shelving unit and a sink for pots and pans.

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Updated the Transition Kitchen Designs in Sketchup – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar(Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 14th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued with final revisions and defining of the zones as shown here. We’d say we are now 95% complete with this component of the City Center.

Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements, discussing structural walls, and how to better design the geometry of the dome.

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements, discussing structural walls, and how to better design the geometry of the dome.

Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center – Click to Visit Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture), also continued developing the City Center Project Brief that will update the City Center Plans Page when complete. This week’s focus was beginning the chart seen here exploring the features of each dome.

Continued Developing the City Center Project Brief – Click to Visit the City Center Plans Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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As part of building sustainable villages this week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure, adding more formatting updates, and continuing to test different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

This week Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 8th week of work developing the new website structure, adding more formatting updates, and continuing to test different layouts for the responsive screen-size changes and how to integrate our logo into the different layouts.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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 for 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 foodenergyhousingeducationfor-profit and non-profit economics designsocial architecturefulfilled livingstewardship 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. 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. 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.  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.

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.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable foodenergy, and homes, to the social architectureOne 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

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.

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