Creating a New Earth Paradigm – One Community Weekly Progress Update #174

Creating a new earth paradigm can be accomplished if enough people participate. We can redefine “traditional living” as sustainable living and make current and unsustainable building and living methods history. One way to accelerate the process is gathering like-minded groups together to create and demonstrate open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing combined with equally conscientious approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining all this is what One Community calls living and creating 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 July 24th, 2016 edition (#174) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Earth Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #174

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

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred first 25% of the written content for Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:56

• Doctor Matt Marturano recalculated and made a significant number of changes to the nutrition calculations he created, as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:31

• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reformatted and updated the complete Highest Good Housing open source hub and the first 4 village pages (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued with his 6th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Bupesh Seethala created the 2nd version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:32

• Continued developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D and worked on the natural pool and spa area (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Neha Verma produced the root cellar driveway details and beginnings of a Project Brief that will form the City Center Plans Page when complete (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued her work on the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed spreadsheet (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei worked on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dome beams (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:14

• Recolored 2 complete sets of 28 Highest Good housing Icons (see below)
• Updated the Straw Bale Village color board and icon to align with the new icons and existing renders (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content (see below)

CREATING A NEW EARTH PARADIGM SUMMARY: @8:52

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 transferred the first 25% of the written content for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Honesty & Integrity” is now 25% completed on our website.

Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the third 25% of the written part of the Honesty & Integrity Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Information Lesson Plan:

Information Mindmap – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on finishing and stabilizing the end of the stucco with a waterproof barrier and providing a method of securing a flashing backsplash below the end of the stucco to help prevent moisture damage to the structure. We then entered the new information into the narrative in a step-by-step description. We’d say we are now 91% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

The core team also reformatted and updated the complete Highest Good Housing open source hub and the first 4 village pages. This reformatting included adding new residence and social space details, additional imagery from the design process of each village, an index to the top of each page, What and Why sections to each page, as well as new resources and resource sections.

Reformatted and Updated the 1st Four H.G.H Village Pages – Click to Visit Highest Good Housing Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 9 of this process, with this week’s focus being further development of single-page cutting instructions.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here are two new layouts for the studio living spaces, re-designed to better reflect the sustainability and recreational values of the people who will be living here.

Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 28 of his work that focused on an additional and new shade structure for the roof and beginning the rooftop grill designs.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 6th week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see the final renders of the front perspective…

Shipping Container Final Render of Front Perspective – Click to Visit Page

…1st floor circulation area:

Shipping Container Final Render of 1st Floor Circulation Area – Click to Visit Page

…computer room:

Shipping Container Final Render of Computer Room – Click to Visit Page

…library:

Shipping Container Final Render of Library – Click to Visit Page

….rental room looking in:

Shipping Container Final Render of Rental Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

….outdoor meeting and relaxation area:

Shipping Container Final Render of Outdoor Meeting and Relaxation Area – Click to Visit Page

….northside recreation and dining area:

Northside Recreation and Dining Area – Click to Visit Page

….and a northside circulation space:

Shipping Container Village Render of a Northside Circulation Space – Click to Visit Page

In addition to this, Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) created the 2nd version of multiple renders for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) including additions to 2 perspectives for the game room, 1 for the gym, 3 for the music room, and 1 for the yoga room:

Created the 2nd Version of Renders for Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh also finalized these images looking in and out for the art room…

Recycled Materials Village Final Render Looking In the Art Room – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Art Room Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…this one looking out for the gym:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of the Gym Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…these two looking in and out for the library and computer room:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Library and Computer Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Library and Computer Room Looking Out – Click to Visit Page

…and this one for the recreation and social space:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Recreation and Social Space – Click to Visit Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 in 3D. What you see here are changes made to the dry storage in the dining dome that include the redesigning of the glass sliding doors and walls.

Made Changes to Dry Storage in the Dining Dome – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

We also set the height of the basement to 8 feet, adjusted the driveway to the cellar to 20%, and we placed the storage shelves and containers in the cellar area.

Continued Developing the Duplicable City Center in 3D – Click to Visit Page

Additionally, we worked on the natural pool and spa area, where we changed the rinsing station privacy screen from a trellis to in-ground bamboo.

Changed the Rinsing Station Privacy Screen from a Trellis to In-Ground Bamboo – Click to Visit the Natural Pool and Spa Page

Iris Hsu (Industrial Designer), also continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #12 of this work now focusing on researching and trying different art options for the center of the pipe furniture wall.

Continued Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options – Click for Pipe Furniture Page

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) also produced the root cellar driveway details and beginnings of a Project Brief you see here. The Project Brief will form the City Center Plans Page when complete.

Produced Root Cellar Driveway Details and Beginnings of a Project Brief – Click to Visit the Duplicable City Center Building Plans Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued her work on the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed spreadsheet you see here. This week’s focus was on further defining the zones and adding details related to minimum lumens and percentage-reductions possible for each zone.

Continued Work on Lighting Zones, Lumens, and Lamps Needed Spreadsheet – Click to Visit City Center Lighting Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineering Student) also worked on the live load calculations for the City Center dining dome beams.

Worked on Live Load Calculations for City Center Dining Dome Beams – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new earth paradigm 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 recolored 2 complete sets of 28 Highest Good housing Icons. These were to match the color palettes we’re developing to color coordinate the village interior and exterior color plans with the website and all promotional materials.

Recolored 2 Complete Sets of 28 Highest Good Housing Icons

Also this week, we updated the Straw Bale Village color board and icon to align with the new icons and existing renders.

Updated the Straw Bale Village Color Board and Icon – Click to Visit Page

Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) additionally continued her work developing the new website structure we desire for easier and more graphic access to all the One Community open source content. What you see here is week 2 of her work focusing on more details and functionality of the Home Page.

Continued Building the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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