A Better Way to Live – One Community Weekly Progress Update #193

Posted on December 4, 2016 by One Community Hs

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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 December 4th, 2016 edition (#193) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Way to Live
One Community Progress Update #193

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

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

Transferred final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
Behind the scenes: wrote the second 25% section of the Cognition Lesson Plan
Completed third 25% of the mindmap for the Individuality Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

Began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:27

Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
Completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
Shilcy Augustine continued with her help creating and testing a standardized color set for all our AutoCAD files (see below)
Fernando Remolina continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
Hamilton Mateca finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
Guy Grossfeld continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village labyrinth meditation walking path (see below)
Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements and converted Guy’s 3D bench design into the AutoCAD design (see below)
Yee-Cheng Ho finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village renders for the living units (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:27

Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center and preliminary render position testing for outdoor aspects of the natural pool area (see below)
Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
Shuna Ni continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
Jennifer Zhou and Ashwin Patil continued working on the open source pipe furniture page (see below)
Ramya Vudi, Shubham Agrawal, and Mike Hogan continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems (see below)
Lucas Tsutsui da Silva did cable tests for the Pi2, updated code, and updated the current requirements spreadsheet (see below)
Renan Dantas continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:19

Ashwin Patil and Jennifer Zhou continued developing the new site search engine (see below)
Yuri Witte completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

A BETTER WAY TO LIVE SUMMARY: @10:03

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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 the final 25% of the written content for the Consciousness 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 “Consciousness” is now 100% completed on our website.

Transferred Final 25% of Consciousness Lesson Plan to Site – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the second 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

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

Individuality Mindmap – 75% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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 began to reformat and add sections and anchor links to recipe pages for our Transition Kitchen strategy. You can see a before and after image of a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page:

Reformatted and Added Sections to Recipe Pages for our Transition Kitchen Strategy -Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

The core team and Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 15 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was the behind-the-scenes content editing for the Site Selection and Preparation page and detailing the AutoCAD images needed for all other sections, as shown here:

Continued Editing the Site Selection and Preparation Page Behind-the-Scenes – Click to Visit Site Selection Page

The core team also completed another large round of revisions for the upcoming 7 villages online book. You can see some of these revisions here, including an updated and color version of the Duplicable City Center floor plan, and new imagery and descriptions on the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) and Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) spreads.

Continued Revisions for the Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Highest Good Housing

Shilcy Augustine (Architect) also continued with her help creating and testing a standardized color set for all our AutoCAD files. This work is happening on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) file you see here:

Continued Creating and Testing a Standardized Color Set for all our AutoCAD Files – Click to Visit Earthbag Village

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 7th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 3rd week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was beginning clarifying task assignments and beginning the foundation work with his team.

Continued Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 45 of his work creating all the iterations you see here:

Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

…leading up to this final rooftop view looking Southeast render:

One Community Cob Village Final Render, Roof View Looking Southeast

Cob Village Final Render – Rooftop View Looking Southeast

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 20th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on testing and updating textures for the bricks, frames, and railings as shown here:

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued with 3D earth block construction for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) labyrinth meditation walking path. This week’s focus was working on the dark-to-light texture pattern shown here and minor layout corrections:

Continued w/ 3D Earth Block Construction for Labyrinth Walking Path – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 9th week of work, focusing on merging the code-compliant fire road with the surrounding where appropriate and a completely new central play and relaxation area.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit Page

Aparna also converted Guy’s 3D bench design from a few weeks ago into the AutoCAD design shown here:

Aparna Tandon also converted Guy’s 3D bench design from a few weeks ago into the AutoCAD design shown here:

Converted Guy’s 3D Bench Design Into the AutoCAD Design – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Yee-Cheng Ho (Interior Designer) also finished her 9th week of helping with the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) renders for the living units. This week’s focus was finishing these two back-to-back single-residence designs created using 3 shipping containers.

Final Renders Finished of Two Back-to-Back Single-Residence Designs Created Using 3 Shipping Containers – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included continuing the structural column updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome as seen here…

Duplicable City Center Kitchen Render, One Community

Continued Structural Column Updates for the Kitchen in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Page

…and preliminary render position testing for the outdoor aspects of the open source natural pool area:

Worked on Render Position Testing for Outdoor Aspects of Natural Pool Area – Click to Visit Page

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was continuing development of the assembly instructions with the most visible changes being the new imagery for showing changing the lighting color in the library:

Continued Working on Recycled Pipe Shelving for the Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work focused on calculations for the added braces you see here that will support the 4th floor and storage rooms attached to the elevator area.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 13th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was explaining and graphically showing the water and energy comparisons of conventional washers with Energy Star washers.

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis – Click to Visit Page

Also, Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) and Ashwin Patil (Web Developer), finished their 4th week of collaboratively working on the open source pipe furniture page. This week’s focus was working on improving the slider image function and finalizing the general layout shown here for the different tutorial sections.

Continued Working on the Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. What you see here is this team’s 5th week of work on focusing on research and planning for the control panel size and placement:

Continued on Electrical Design for Control & Automation Systems – Click for Page

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also did long cable tests for the Pi2, updated code he’d been testing for functionality, and updated the current requirements spreadsheet to include the total current information for the main controller box.

Continued Working on the Control Systems – Click to Visit Page

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 3rd week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was primarily on adding more section details, creating a better layer system for the complete structure, and updating the colors for the different layers so everything is easier to see:

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is generating a better way to live 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) and Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed what is, collectively, the 9th week of work developing the new site search engine. This week’s focus was inputting the details for the first half of the Highest Good education section and writing the code for the rest of that same section.

Continued Developing New Site Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

And Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 5th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was another new intro, changes in the transitions between the music and where the different intensity builds happen, and adding new drum details. You can here some of the track in the background here and listen to all the progressions on Yuri’s SoundCloud.