Conservation Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #300

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating the open source plans and DIY foundations for a global network of conservation cooperatives.

• 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 December 23, 2018 edition (#300) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conservation Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #300

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

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:07

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:52

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:42

• Continued adding more content to the open source Apiary page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:34

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:21

• Continued the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for four more of our top-level food-related pages: Goats, Rabbits, Chickens, and finishing the research for the Apiary Bee Yard (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

CONSERVATION COOPERATIVES SUMMARY: @12:44

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is  open sourcing conservation cooperatives 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 continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly instructions. The focus this week was testing the new wall design in 3D and making update suggestions. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Design Updates to Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

And the core team created the initial setup for the new page sharing our research into the most sustainable toilet options.

Created Initial Setup for Page Sharing Our Research Into the Most Sustainable Toilet Options – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 28th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was another round of new nail stress tests. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued w/Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click To Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 29th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she did more work on the Tropical Atrium materials quantities, prices, and buying options. She also further developed the single-dome cost analysis and quantity calculations, some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #142 from Dean. His focus this week was beginning the process of modeling all the new designs in 3D. You can see the beginnings of this work here.

Continued Updating the Earthbag Village Designs – Click for Page

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 3rd week researching and writing the content for the most sustainable toilet options. This week she wrote the first draft for the tutorial sharing the results of all her past two weeks of research. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is  open sourcing conservation cooperatives 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 developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design page. This week we created and added new preliminary design imagery and finished the parts and calculation processes for the Cost Analysis sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design Page – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 109th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finishing updating all the layers and adding the final missing lights for the Dining Dome main wall, Social Dome, and Living Dome rooms. You can see some of this work here.

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

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they started integrating and testing in 3D all the furniture, floor patterning, and color selections discussed since the last update. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey(Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by adding the pipe cost analysis for the Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design. You can see some of this work here. 

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 3rd week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by researching the W.E.L.L. Standards system. He identified which components are applicable to our project, identified resources, and completed about 75% of his full review and report. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is  open sourcing conservation cooperatives 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 adding more content to the open source Apiary page. We rebuilt the menus, added in two new resource and book sections, and finished the section on checking local codes. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Adding More Content to the Open Source Apiary Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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 conservation cooperatives 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 continued the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. What you see here are some screenshots of the fixes still needing to be addressed on our staging site. 

Continued Process of Fixing Our Database Structure and Testing Our Corrections – Click for Home Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 10th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for four more of our top-level food-related pages: Goats, Rabbits, Chickens, and finishing the research for the Apiary Bee Yard.

Researched Keywords for Four More of our Top-level Food-related Pages – Click to Visit Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team completed the ability to assign teams and projects to users, added the ability for users to manage their social links, added the ability for admins to manage user’s admin links, fixed the issue of multiple submit calls being issued to the server, wrote unit test cases for the leaderboard and header components, and refactored the complete form component. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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