Abundant Natural Systems – One Community Weekly Progress Update #266

Abundant natural systems already exist that are capable of supporting our global and growing population. What is needed is intelligent and ethical stewardship to help protect, develop, and further leverage their effectiveness and application. Integration and expansion of these systems with open source and free-shared sustainable approaches to foodenergyhousingeducationfor-profit and non-profit economic designsocial architecture, and more is what One Community is doing.

Abundant Natural Systems, One Community Weekly Progress Update #266

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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 April 29th, 2018 edition (#266) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Abundant Natural Systems
One Community Progress Update #266

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

ABUNDANT NATURAL SYSTEMS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:04

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:38

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:05

  • Continued working on the Garden Tools list by researching and integrating large-scale machine plans like tractors and their attachments (see below)
  • Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:46

  • Completed the initial review, formatting, editing, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:16

ABUNDANT NATURAL SYSTEMS SUMMARY: @13:36

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week the core team continued with testing different redesigns of the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. What you see shown here is the most recent of these.

This week the core team continued with testing different redesigns of the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. What you see shown here is the most recent of these.

Continued Testing Different Redesigns of the Murphy Bed Storage Area in 3D – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Continued Edits of Compressed Earth Block Village Parts of the 7-Villages Book We’re Developing – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi finished the rest of our updated layout for the 5-page assembly instructions for the night stands. You can see these here as version 3.2 of these designs.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi finished the rest of our updated layout for the 5-page assembly instructions for the night stands. You can see these here as version 3.2 of these designs.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 111 of Dean’s work. This week Dean began working on the textures and lighting for this new “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 111 of Dean’s work. This week Dean began working on the textures and lighting for this new “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”

Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 6th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here is a collage of all the renders he finished for the outdoor dining area…

Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area, One Community

Outdoor Dining Area Renders – Click for Recycled Materials Village

….plus these three updated final renders including 2 more of the outdoor exercise area…

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Outdoor Exercise Area Final Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Outdoor Exercise Area Final Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

……and this updated final render of the dining area that also shows the exercise area in the background.

Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area looking Northwest, One Community

Outdoor Dining Area Looking Northwest Final Render – Click for Recycled Materials Village

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 13th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished the textures and other design details needed to produce these three final external renders.

 Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 13th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished the textures and other design details needed to produce these three final external renders.

Final Tree House Village External Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar(Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 72nd week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different diffuse fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

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Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by reviewing the new beam calculation and testing spreadsheets we’ve created. We’d say this review process is now 80% complete.

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by reviewing the new beam calculation and testing spreadsheets we’ve created. We’d say this review process is now 80% complete.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he added TJI deflection criteria and required web stiffeners into the spreadsheets and researched the impact of utilities holes in the joists.

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he added TJI deflection criteria and required web stiffeners into the spreadsheets and researched the impact of utilities holes in the joists.

Continued Helping with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was completing the second floor estimations, working on third and top floor estimation work, and developing a summary sheet. You can see some of this work here.

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was completing the second floor estimations, working on third and top floor estimation work, and developing a summary sheet. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week, the core team continued working on the Garden Tools list by researching and integrating large-scale machine plans like tractors and their attachments. You can see some of these new additions here.

This week, the core team continued working on the Garden Tools list by researching and integrating large-scale machine plans like tractors and their attachments. You can see some of these new additions here.

Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can version 2 of this work-in-progress here.

The core team also continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can version 2 of this work-in-progress here.

Continued the Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Second Landing Party Group of 20 People – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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This week, the core team completed the initial review, formatting, editing, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now about 50% complete.

This week, the core team completed the initial review, formatting, editing, and content creation for the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now about 50% complete.

Completed Initial Review & Editing of Assessment Forms Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer)Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager)and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they filtered the users in the front end depending on active and inactive users, changed the table headers to fit in single line, removed tasks options, updated the timelog page to show the number of notifications and number of action items for user whose timelog is being viewed, and fixed issues with adding personal links, duplicate project names, and deleting active projects. They also updated the reports bar charts to show the total hours contributed by each member in the current week in descending order with a drop down to include/exclude members from the chart, included a pie chart to show the number and % of members who have contributed and not contributed in the current week, added an arrow function to show if hours increased or decreased from the previous week, and added functionality for seeing who has contributed to projects and for adding and removing members from project reports.

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they filtered the users in the front end depending on active and inactive users, changed the table headers to fit in single line, removed tasks options, updated the timelog page to show the number of notifications and number of action items for user whose timelog is being viewed, and fixed issues with adding personal links, duplicate project names, and deleting active projects. They also updated the reports bar charts to show the total hours contributed by each member in the current week in descending order with a drop down to include/exclude members from the chart, included a pie chart to show the number and % of members who have contributed and not contributed in the current week, added an arrow function to show if hours increased or decreased from the previous week, and added functionality for seeing who has contributed to projects and for adding and removing members from project reports.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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