Creating a More Enriching Lifestyle – One Community Weekly Progress Update #78

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle model by combining physical and emotional sustainability. We are doing this to create positive and permanent global transformation and our guiding philosophy is to live, design, and share for 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 August 29th, 2014 edition (#78) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a More Enriching Lifestyle
One Community Weekly Progress Update #78

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

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:41

• • • • • • Satyanna Luken helped us redesign the Ultimate Classroom page (see below)
          • Finished the first 10% of Harmony Lesson Plan webpage
          • Behind the scenes we finished 40% of the lesson plan with the central theme of “Creativity”

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:54

• • • • • • Added the diversity details of the Wax Gourd & Winter Melon sections to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
          • Added the diversity details of the Cassabanana section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:42

• • • • • • Completed another 25% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
          • Completed another 20% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details (see below)
          • Philip Gill helped us redesign the Murphy Bed end tables and we updated the main image (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @4:55

• • • • • • This week the core team completed this additional 30 seconds of the Duplicable City Center 3-D video (see video above)
          • Completed another 20% of the control systems research for this structure and the complete first village model. This brings us to 80% total completion of the necessary research into all the software and hardware options available for monitoring, management, and automation of everything from energy and water to internet usage.
          • Karl Harris finished a complete redesign of the Duplicable City Center elevator specifics and added a boiler room in CAD (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:25

• • • • • • Updated our progress page covering all the areas we’re seeking help (see below)
          • Updated our Who We Are and Who We Are Looking For page (see below)

CREATING A MORE ENRICHING LIFESTYLE SUMMARY: @7:01

• • • • • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 redesigned the Ultimate Classroom page with the help of two weeks of interviews with Satyanna Luken (Author, Montessori Teacher, and founder of Imagine Wisdom Education (I-WE)). This redesign took all of Satyana’s input and suggestions and combined them with our months of additional research into the classroom designs and methodologies of Montessori,  Waldorf,  Orff,  Reggio, Multi-Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Study Tech. Here’s a snapshot of what this redesign looks like:

The Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 finished adding the diversity details to the Wax Gourd and Winter Melon sections of the large-scale gardening page where we featured the 4 your see here:

Wax Gourd/Winter Melon Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added Cassabanana to the page with the 2 you see featured here. Cultural considerations, purchasing details, and planting guidelines can also be found on the large-scale gardening page:

Cassabanana Diversity Details – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 the core team completed another 25% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This brings us to about 40%  complete with this page and you can now start to really see the level of detail we’re providing. The world image you see repeating here is where we’ll be adding extensive tutorial videos as part of the crowdfunding campaign.

Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

We also completed another 20% of the total energy infrastructure rollout details for off-grid community creation for 50-400+ people. What you see here are the new additions happening behind the scenes in our GoogleDocs before being put through a final thorough check and edit as we add it to the website:

Total Energy Infrastructure In Progress

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also helped us redesign part of the Murphy Bed end tables. Our team then updated the main image you see here with all his additions. This design will also be part of the crowdfunding campaign:

Murphy Bed End Tables Redesigned – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 last week Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished a complete redesign of the Duplicable City Center elevator specifics in CAD, requiring expansion of the space needs and an associated redesign of all 4 floors. He also added a necessary 10′ by 20′ boiler room. Here is the updated floor plan:

Duplicable City Center Elevator Specifics in CAD – Click for Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a more enriching lifestyle for everyone 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 progress page covering all the areas we’re seeking help, and the specifics of our design process and areas of focus that you can see here:

Progress Page – Click to Visit

We also updated our Who We Are and Who We Are Looking For page describing the specific skill sets our project and our team embody and seek to work with:

Who We Are and Who We Are Looking For Page – Click to Visit

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