Creating a Better Planet for us All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #218

Creating a better planet for us all is possible if enough people want it and choose to participate. Making participation easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough is a time-tested approach that has been very successful in traditional marketing models. Using open source principles to apply this idea of “easy, affordable, and attractive” to all aspects of sustainable and self-sufficient living (food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc.) is One Community’s approach to creating positive change for what we call “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 May 28th, 2017 edition (#218) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Better Planet for us All
One Community Progress Update #218

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

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL INTRO: @0:35

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:51

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:40

• Created detailed AutoCAD drawings for inclusion in the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Created and added new render image for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome kitchen area to the site (see below)
• Continued refining the City Center Control and Automation Systems overview image for the online book (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni now joined by Aravind Vasudevan continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Jin Yu completed her 14th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

• Created 2 additional new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page and one additional image for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:00

• Completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Contribution Lesson Plan and the final 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan, which completes all 52 mindmaps, one for each of our 52 lesson plans! (see below)
• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Began working on renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection dome feature (see below)
• Updated the Ultimate Classroom with new render positions

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:03

CREATING A BETTER PLANET FOR US ALL SUMMARY: @12:23

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 last week the core team updated the complete Earthbag Village open source hub with new images and an easier to follow structure. You can see some snapshots of this work here:

Updated Complete Earthbag Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files, making them clearer and easier to read.

Continued Updating and Revising the Earthbag Village AutoCAD Files – Click for Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was beginning to create a parts list, final cost analysis, and the final presentation you see here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 70 of Dean’s work that continued developing the lighting and texture details for renders of the Northwest residential wing, as shown here:

Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 42nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was continued work on the landscaping elevation and layout details around the meditation labyrinth, as shown here.

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

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 25th week of work, focusing on further 3D visualizations and development of Zone 9 exercise spaces, raised planters, climbing bridges, and seating areas, as shown here.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 created these detailed AutoCAD drawings for inclusion in the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial.

Created Detailed AutoCAD Drawings for Inclusion In the City Center F.F.F. Tutorial – Click for Page

And we created and added this new render image for the Duplicable City Center Dining Dome kitchen area to the site. Render updates included placing structural columns, adjusting lights, updating the texture of the floor and the color of the dome.

Created and Added New Render Image for Dining Dome Kitchen Area to the Site – Click for Duplicable City Center

We also continued refining the City Center Control and Automation Systems overview image for the online book, you can see one of our brainstorming images and the polished version of this new layout here:

Continued Refining the City Center Control and Automation Systems Overview Image – Click for Control Systems Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD), now joined by Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering), also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more research and modeling for the the central dome connectors, additional wind calculations, and updating the structural engineering Master File.

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 City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. This week’s focus was more content for the tutorials and discussion and further development of the layout details shown here.

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

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 14th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing content for the workflow section, some of which you can see in these behind-the-scenes screenshots.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 last week, the core team created 2 additional new images for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page and one additional image for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here:

Created Additional Images for the Food Pages – Click to Visit Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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 final 75% of the mindmap for the Contribution Lesson Plan and the final 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan, as you can see here. This completes all 52 mindmaps, one for each of our 52 lesson plans!

Lesson Plan Mindmap for Contribution Complete – Click for Page

Lesson Plan Mindmap for Cosmos Complete – Click for Page

And continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Work Lesson Plan and the Beliefs Lesson Plan. This brings us to 22 of 52 finished, which is 42.3% completion.

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

We also began working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection dome feature. This included learning how to map photo textures to curved surfaces by watching the “Google SketchUp For Dummies“ video (created by Aidan Chopra) and applying what we learned to place a projected image for the Ultimate Classroom dome ceiling, as shown here.

Began Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome Feature – Click for Page

And the core team updated the Ultimate Classroom with new render positions, as you can see here:

Updated the Ultimate Classroom with New Render Positions – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better planet for us all 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

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