Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #214

The time has come for building a global sustainability cooperative. This means whole-systems approaches covering all aspects of sustainable and ecologically intelligent approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is working to design, open source and free-share, and build these solutions for the benefit of all people and life on our shared planet.

• 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 April 30, 2017 edition (#214) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #214

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

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00

• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create 2 final renders and a second generation render of the The Ultimate Classroom (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:10

• Created new image and added all the recently created images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:29

• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued with his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 10th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 2nd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou helped convert the work from Adrienne Gould-Choquette into the first sections of the new City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:28

• Updated our volunteer collaboration application page to make it easier to understand and complete (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Jono Lewis, and Anil Kumar Malla completed their collective 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

BUILDING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @9:00

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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 completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Reality Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Lesson plan mindmap for Reality – 25% Complete – Click for Page

And we continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Quality and Quantity Lesson Plan and the Recreation and Relaxation Lesson Plan. This brings us to 13 of 52 finished, which is 25% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

And the core team continued creation of the renders for The Ultimate Classroom, setting up and testing this updated overview render:

Continued Creation of the Renders for The Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create this final external render of the complete Ultimate Classroom:

Created Final External Render of the Complete Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

… this final render of the Red Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Red Room – Click for Page

… and this 2nd generation render of the Yellow Room:

Created 2nd Generation Render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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 created 1 new image and added all the recently created images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Created New Image and Added All Recently Created Images to the Food Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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 created 22 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages. You can see 6 examples of these here.

Created 22 New Pages Related to the Open Source Hubs from Each of the 7 Villages – Click for Housing Page

We also started creating a demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial we’re developing. You can see version 1.0 of these example structures here.

Started Creating Demo Set of Layouts for AutoCAD Template and Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated this final open-bed view of the Murphy bed inside one of the domes:

Updated Final Open-Bed View of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Domes – Click for Page

…..and this final view of the Children’s dome:

Updated Final View of Children’s Shared Room Furniture Design – Click for Page

…and we added photoshop edits and details to this section view of the Murphy bed from last week:

Added Photoshop Edits and Details to Section view of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

We also continued working on Murphy bed assembly instructions. What you see here are the new cover design and the newest instructional template for cutting pieces.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding a drain to the bottom of the structure and further updates to all the piping specifics, as shown here.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was septic research and initial designs, as shown here.

Continued hHelping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) and Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) also continued with their 16th week of work on the Vermiculture Bathroom development. This week’s focus, as shown here, was further exploring ways to make emptying easier.

Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was round 3 of our suggested edits to the Straw Bale Village search engine, as shown here.

Continued Developing the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 66 of Dean’s work. This week Dean finished this final render of the SE Living Space looking North cutaway:

Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking North Cutaway – Click for Page

…and this Loft view from the same wing and also looking North:

Final Render of Southeast Living Space Looking North Loft View – Click for Page

In addition to this, Dean started the work you see here for the Northeast wing:

Continued Work on the Renders for the Cob Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 39th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was test rendering the complete external perspectives.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped create these AutoCAD exports of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) in 3D.

Created AutoCAD Exports of Tree House Village – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the wind calculations for the structure. You can see version 2.0 notes for this work here.

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

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s focus of writing draft 1 of the micro-grid tutorial and initial layouts for the breaker panels.

Continued Working on the Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page

Renan Dantas: Mechanical Engineer continued with his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was updating the elevation details and more updates to the bathrooms and kitchen.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was updating the calculations spreadsheets you see here.

Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center – Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was continued analysis of the heat transfer specifics, as shown here.

Continued Helping with City Center Basement Finite Element Analysis – Click for Page

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped convert the work of Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) into the first sections of the new City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub.

Helped Convert Adrienne’s Work into the First Sections of the New City Center Heating and Cooling Hub – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a global sustainability cooperative 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 last week the core team updated our volunteer collaboration application page to make it easier to understand and complete.

Updated Our Volunteer Collaboration Application Page – Click to Visit

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Jono Lewis (Software Developer), and Anil Kumar Malla (Software Engineer) completed their collective 2nd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. Here you can see some screenshots from our weekly collaborative call and code details as we continue to learn Ember.js as our development platform.

Continued Working on the The Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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