Creating a Global Difference – One Community Weekly Progress Update #52

One Community is developing open source and free-shared blueprints for creating a global difference for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

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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. Here is our weekly progress update (#52) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 17th, 2014:

Creating a Global Difference
One Community Weekly Progress Update #52

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

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:45

• Completed 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
• Completed 70% of the Values Subject web page
• Now 40% done with the complete Science Subject research – topic and images
• Completed the rest of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:52

• Food infrastructure roof and passive cooling design 3-D progress (see below)
• Completed a Duplicable City Center sun study (see below)
• Finished the open source Hoop House Page
• Zdenek Jurik has made progress engineering the new roof design (see below)
• David Sweet completed another roof plan for the skylights (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala is now creating real-to-life 3D models of the complete phase I food infrastructure (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:13

• Started detailing a systems engineering approach to the earthbag village
• We also completed about 50% of the outer ring Earthbag Village planting plan (behind the scenes)
• Devin Porter has begun moving the windows in 3-D for the outer ring – 20% done with that
• Victor Herber has also made huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering (see below)
• Philip Gill also provided complete details for all of the Earthbag Village custom furniture designs he’s completed (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:48

• Completed 3-D details for the library (see below)
• We also completed the initial 3-D layout for the outdoor aspect of the indoor/outdoor pool (see below)
• Along with this we completed about 50% of the new natural pool and eco-hot tub open source page
• Now 60% done with the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a complete redesign of all four floors of stairs

OTHER PROGRESS: @7:17

• Global Food Collaborative software progress by Guy Fraser and Chad Parker (see below)
• New homepage created for the open source city operations software (see below)

CREATING A GLOBAL DIFFERENCE SUMMARY: @8:26

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating a global difference 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 team completed 25% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image. Here is where we’re at so far:

Arts and Trades Visual Representation in Progress – Click for the Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating a global difference 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team started putting the new food infrastructure roof design into 3D along with the passive cooling designs we are exploring:

Aquapini Roof and Cooling Design in 3-D – Click for the Highest Good Food Open Source Portal

We also put together a sun study for the Duplicable City Center planting plan. This is purposed to help us in our plant selection choices for in and around this building:

Zdenek Jurik (P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering) has made progress engineering the new roof design we’ve all agreed on. Here is a screenshot:

Aquapini Engineering Viewed from Below – Click for the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Portal

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) completed another roof plan for us to evaluate the skylights with this new roof too. Here is what that looks like:

Aquapini Skylight Plan 2.0 – Click for the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Portal

Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) is now creating real-to-life 3D models of the complete phase I food infrastructure. Here’s what this looks like as it is developing:

Aquapini and Complete Food Infrastructure Layout Evolving in 3DS Max – Click for the Open Source Hub

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating a global difference 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 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 Victor Herber (Mechanical Engineer) made huge progress on the vermiculture toilet engineering, identifying the stresses we can expect from the weight within these structures using several different design approaches. Here’s what this looks like:

Vermiculture Toilet Engineering Calculations in Progress – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also provided complete and detailed descriptions for the features of the custom furniture he’s designed for the earth dome homes. Here they are with related image collages:

MURPHY BED DESIGN

This first furniture design is meant to accommodate up to two adults. In this version, it contains a queen-sized Murphy Bed, built-in nightstands, shelving, and a combination closet/dressing area. A full-sized bed option is also planned for those wishing to conserve space or perhaps for a single person living alone in a dome.

When folded down, the bed provides comfortable and spacious sleeping for two. When the bed is up, the underside displays a picture-frame design that is both decorative and functional. Decorative in that it enlivens what would otherwise be a plain surface with a pleasing design, and functional in that also disguises a fold-down worktable large enough for two adults to be working on their laptops, one at either end, at the same time. The overhang above contains three recessed lights that provide illumination on the table to work, and at bedtime (with the bed folded down) to read in bed. On either side of the Murphy Bed are built-in drawers that double as storage and nightstands with built-in down-lights and shelves above. Behind and to both sides, each adult has his or her own personal closet/storage/dressing area, and on one side, there’s a ladder that leads to the loft above that could be storage, a small play room, or even a guest bed area.

Murphy Bed Custom Furniture for the Earthbag Village – Click to Learn About the Village

CHILDREN’S SHARED-ROOM DESIGN

This second furniture configuration provides two single beds suitable for children (though not toddlers) up to their teenage years. Below each bed are ample storage drawers on wheels and/or gliders and, behind the bed against the wall, a built-in bookcase with adjustable shelves that takes advantage of otherwise wasted space left by the bed against the curved wall. Each child has his or her own desk with a pencil drawer and a desk chair, and together they share a chifferobe for hanging clothes and other storage. Completing the set is a ladder on casters that provides means to the loft storage above.

Children’s Custom Furniture for the Earthbag Village – Click to Learn About the Village

STUDENT’S SHARED-ROOM DESIGN

The third furniture configuration is designed with two students in mind, ranging from high school through college or university. It is basically the same as the children’s configuration above, but it adds an additional rolling file cabinet/storage unit on wheels. It also has a folding top that opens to an approximately 2’ x 2’ table space. By placing the cabinet on wheels, students can move it anywhere in the dome for their personal use, allowing them to work on their laptops while sitting on their bed for instance. On the front side of the rolling cabinet there is one small and two large drawers for storage, and one file drawer that accommodates standard letter-sized pages. On the back side, it contains a small, six-inch deep locking cabinet door that allows students to secure personal belongings.

Student’s Custom Furniture for the Earthbag Village – Click to Learn About the Village

These custom furniture designs can be built in a variety of wood finishes or paint colors. Regardless of the finish an individual chooses, they will be built using sustainable woods, low-VOC paints and varnishes, and other similar materials.

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating a global difference through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team completed 3-D details for the library, adding in furniture, a waterfall, and building the custom shelving details:

Duplicable City Center Library Developing in 3-D – Click for the Open Source Hub

We also completed the initial 3-D layout for the outdoor aspect of the indoor/outdoor natural pool which is a wading pond and bio-filter for the swimming area that is in the center of this structure:

Duplicable City Center Outdoor Natural Pond/Bio filter – Click for the Natural Pool Page

OTHER PROGRESS

Two other areas that progressed this last week are areas we haven’t reported on in a while. The first is the Global Food Collaborative software partners Guy Fraser and Chad Parker are working on. Here’s a couple screenshots showing they are now focussing on building the open source botanical taxonomy and plant list to start:

UPDATE: A PLANT APPLICATION WITH THE DETAIL, OPEN SOURCE, AND COLLABORATIVE INPUT 
ABILITY WE DESIRE NOW EXISTS: CLICK HERE FOR THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE

Global Food Collaborative

The other exciting area of progress we’re reporting on is the custom open source city operations software. The core team is now completely revamping this software and this is the first screenshot we have to share after weeks of work. In this example, you can see the “Highest Good Network” group (which is the parent/top-level group of the application). From here you’ll be able to navigate between sub-groups using the arrows next to the group title, view members, and click on people’s images for their profile. More coming in the following weeks.

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