A Complete Eco-Design System – One Community Weekly Progress Update #342

One Community is creating a complete eco-design system for construction of sustainable and self-replicating communities, villages, and cities around the world. It is open source and free-shared, includes 7 sustainable village models, food self-sufficiency plans, energy infrastructure, all-ages education, for-profit and non-profit economic options, social and recreational models, and more – all designed with a guiding philosophy and intent to live and create for “The Highest Good of All.”

• 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 this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 13th, 2019 edition (#342) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Complete Eco-Design System
One Community Progress Update #342

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 finished adding the final content to the most sustainable faucet options page. This week we finished all the details and content shown here for our #4 and 6 recommended providers, Grohe and American Standard, completed final editing and proof reading for the page, and shared it through all our social media networks. 

Finished Adding the Final Content to the Most Sustainable Faucet Options Page – Click to Visit

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 16th week as a member of the team. This week she finished writing the updated descriptions for the newest/current technology she researched for the sustainable hand dryer options page.

Finished Writing the Updated Descriptions for the Newest/current Technology Researched – Click for Hand Dryer Options Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 23rd week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was incorporating evaporative cooling and air flow networks to reduce fan and cooling loads. He also assigned nodes in thermal zones and links in between nodes to induce zonal air mixing.

Incorporated Evaporative Cooling and Air Flow Networks to Reduce Fan and Cooling Loads – Click for Page

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also joined the team and started helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. This week she completed the SAP model for the structure of the second floor and started the analysis using wood joists (3 ½’’ x 11 ⅞’’, southern pine) and steel girder (W18x35, A992).

Started Helping With the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

And last but not least, Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 15th week helping update the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files and designing the rainwater harvesting system. This week he finalized the files, finished writing the tutorial summary, and double checked all the parts details. This completes Yuqiao’s work on this and it now goes to the web team for final review and open source sharing.

Completed Updating the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files and Designing the Rainwater Harvesting System – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 researched and found the best videos we could for rabbits, chicken, and lamb that demonstrate ethical harvesting. We then added the 8 of them we thought were most ethical to the behind-the-scenes Google Doc.

Researched and Found the Best Videos We Could for Rabbits, Chicken, and Lamb That Demonstrate Ethical Harvesting – Click for Chicken Page

The core team also redesigned the rabbit tractor. This included removing the separation wall, designing and adding a nesting box, replacing the metal net from the bottom of tractor with 1” rails, removing the wheels, and adding a roof to one half of the run. We also created the material list and began the rabbit tractor assembly steps.

The Core Team Also Redesigned the Rabbit Tractor, Created the Material List, and Began the Rabbit Tractor Assembly Steps – Click for Rabbit Page

And the core team also continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we finished the research and completed writing the behind-the-scenes tutorials for steps 1 and 2 of the design process: “Assess Your Needs and Resources” and “Assess Your Site.” You can see some of this work here.

Finished the Research and Completed Writing Behind-the-scenes Tutorials – Click for Permaculture Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open sourcing a complete eco-design system 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 49th week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on the donation-campaign keywords for the Fulfilled Living and Highest Good Society campaigns.

Worked on the Donation-campaign Keywords for the Fulfilled Living and Highest Good Society Campaigns – Click for Fulfilled Living Page

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