Addressing Climate Change with Sustainable Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #257

How about addressing climate change with sustainable communities? One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit forwarding this through a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet using open source and free-shared sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

• 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 February 25th, 2018 edition (#257) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change
with Sustainable Communities
One Community Progress Update #257

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

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:28

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:35

• Completed the final rollout and implementation details for the Highest Good Energy page (see below)
• Completed a thorough review of the materials analysis and dead load report and tutorial (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 12th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29

• Continued work on the food plans on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:57

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:15

• Updated the Team page to reflect changes to our active volunteers (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @11:14

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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 continued research and design of the open source climate battery designs. What you see here are the newly updated pipe sizing and changes to the orientation and depth.

Continued Working on Open Source Climate Battery Designs – Click to Visit Page

And the core team returned to working on the 7 villages online book. This week we updated and added missing images to the Compressed Earth Block Village spreads, updated all the main village images, and started researching images for the maker’s spaces.  

Continued Working on the 7 Villages Online Book – Click to Visit

The core team also created the complete Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Cost Analysis page and shared it across all our social media platforms. You can see some of this new and finished page here.

Created the Complete Recycled Materials Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 102 of Dean’s work, exploring new bathroom layouts.

Continued Helping with Cob Village AutoCAD Layouts – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 46th week of work that created this final presentation for zones 14, 15, and 16. It is now on the site.

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

Aparna also created this 2nd generation of the complete landscaping plans overview and summary.

Created 2nd Generation of the Complete Landscaping Plans Overview and Summary – Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week volunteering and finished another round on the cost analysis calculations for the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page. What you see here is a sample of this additional completed work.

Continued on Cost Analysis Calculations for Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 6th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she finished the AutoCAD floor plan updates and started working on the final texturing and lighting details for the interior. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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 completed the final rollout and implementation details for the Highest Good Energy page. You can see some of this work here, covering each phase of the energy infrastructure that will supply power to the City Center and other Phase I construction areas.

Completed Final Rollout and Implementation Details for Highest Good Energy Page – Click to Visit

The core team also completed a thorough review of the materials analysis and dead load report and tutorial, which you can see here.

Reviewed the Materials Analysis and Dead Load Report and Tutorial – Click for C.C. Engineering Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 12th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was researching and creating the initial equipment plan.

Continued Helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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 continued work on the food plans on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created two additional days of meals and recipes, as you see here.

Continued Work on Food Calculations on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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
      

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with sustainable communities 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 updated the Team page to reflect changes to our active volunteers, moving all inactive volunteers lower on the page and updating their bios to reflect the work they performed.

Updated the Team Page to Reflect Changes to Our Active Volunteers – Click to Visit

This last week the Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team finished the UI for the logout option and changing a person’s password. Also timelog screen integration of notifications, management of action items for self and team, and ability to log time, scrolling for the badges display, and mouseover text for the badges. 

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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