Creating an Age of Ecology – One Community Weekly Progress Update #215

Creating an age of ecology and sustainability is arguably the next great accomplishment for humanity. We now have the technology and ability to do this if enough people want it. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing a replicable teacher/demonstration sustainability hub to help with this.

• 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 May 7th, 2017 edition (#215) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Age of Ecology
One Community Progress Update #215

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

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Completed the first 25% of three mindmaps: Fulfilled Living, Consensus and Decision Making, and Contribution (see below)
• Continued process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research to create updated renders of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room and Purple Room (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:09

• Created 2 new images to the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:37

• Created 33 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages (see below)
• Continued creating the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
• Updated these section-cut views of the Murphy bed inside one of the student domes (see below)
• Added Photoshop edits and details to open bed view of the Murphy bed from last week and updated view of the children’s shared room furniture design (see below)
• Ashwini Ramesh created a work breakdown for the Earthbag Village and related crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Alena Thompson completed her 12th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Christian Ojeda completed his 13th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld helped create this new 3D tree texture for the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:14

• Created 6 new pages and updated the Duplicable City Center main open source hub (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center energy details with Mike Hogan (see below)
• Jin Yu continued writing content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha completed his 3rd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:36

• Updated entire website to a new level of internet safety by adding an SSL certificate, updating all URLs to https vs http, and fixing all non-secure elements throughout the site (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Jono Lewis completed their collective 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network (see below)

CREATING AN AGE OF ECOLOGY SUMMARY: @8:13

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating-an-age-of-ecology 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 first 25% of three mindmaps, which are for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan, Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan, and the Contribution Lesson Plan, as you can see here:

Mindmaps for Fulfilled Living, Consensus, and Contribution – Each 25% Complete – Click for Lesson Plans for Life

And continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Relative and Dimensional Space Lesson Plan, Signs and Symbols Lesson Plan, and the Social Relationships Lesson Plan. This brings us to 16 of 52 finished, which is 30.7% completion.

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued adding people and elements from the Learning Tools and Toys research we’ve done to create these updated renders of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page

…. and this one of the Violet Room:

Created Final Render of the Ultimate Classroom Violet Room – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating-an-age-of-ecology 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 created 2 new images for the Food Bars and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here:

Created New Images for the Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating-an-age-of-ecology 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 created 33 new pages related to the open source hubs from each of the 7 villages. You can see some examples of these new pages here.

Created 22 New Pages Related to the Open Source Hubs from Each of the 7 Villages – Click for Housing Page

We also continued creating the demo set of structures and layouts for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was a more organized layout, adding more layers, and creating the Furniture and Symbols sections.

Continued Creating Demo Set of Layouts for AutoCAD Template and Tutorial – Click for Page

In addition to this, and working on the Earthbag Village, we updated these section-cut views of the Murphy bed inside one of the student domes.

Updated Section-Cut Views of the Murphy Bed Inside One of the Student Domes – Click to Visit

…and we added Photoshop edits and details to this open bed view of the Murphy bed from last week:

Added Photoshop Edits and Details to Open Bed View of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

….and updated this view of the children’s shared room furniture design:

Updated View of the Children’s Shared Room Furniture Design – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) created this work breakdown for the Earthbag Village and related crowdfunding campaign we are developing.

Created Work Breakdown for the Earthbag Village and Related Crowdfunding Campaign – Click for Earthbag Village

And Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding the urinals and associated piping and researching the details needed for integrating the vacuum plumbing in with the non-vacuum plumbing.

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

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was 2nd-generation septic research and the designs you see here.

Continued Helping with Heat-Recycling Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click for Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was fixing an issue with the Straw Bale Village search engine that was creating a 4th column and finishing integration of the final edits needed for the Highest Good food search engine.

Continued Developing the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 67 of Dean’s work. This week’s focus continuing development of the three Northeast wing perspectives you can see here.

Continued Work on the Renders for the Cob Village – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 22nd week of work, focusing on the seating, children’s play areas, and planters shown here in zones 5 and 6.

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

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped create this new 3D tree texture for the Tree House Village (Pod 7).

Created New 3D Tree Texture for the Tree House Village – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating-an-age-of-ecology 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 6 new pages and updated the Duplicable City Center main open source hub to include them all. You can see examples of this work here:

Created 6 New Pages and Updated the Duplicable City Center Main Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

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. What you see here is version 2.0 of the wind energy design and implementation tutorial developing behind the scenes.

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

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the concrete foundation details. This week’s focus was writing more content for the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. You can see examples of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week of work helping with the City Center basement finite element analysis. This week’s focus was the initial heat transfer specifics for the boiler room, as shown here:

Continued Helping with City Center Basement Finite Element Analysis – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating-an-age-of-ecology 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 updated our entire website to a new level of internet safety by adding an SSL certificate, updating all URLs to httpS vs http, and fixing all non-secure elements throughout the site.

Updated Entire Website to New Level of Internet Safety – Click for Home Page

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Jono Lewis (Software Developer) also completed their collective 3rd week of work on the The Highest Good Network. This week’s focus, as you can see here, was working on the login page, function for adding new users, and testing the initial database structure.

Continued Working on the The Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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