One CommunityCreating Eco-Permanence – One Community Weekly Progress Update #269
Eco-permanence is ecologically sustainable living. Creating eco-permanence globally can be accomplished if enough people want it. We see the path to creating this as making global stewardship practices easy enough, affordable enough and attractive enough to become self-replicating. Open source and free-shared sustainability components covering food, energy, housing, education, economics, and more can make this possible by improving accessibility, lowering costs, and being combined to provide a higher quality of living.
- 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 20, 2018 edition (#269) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Creating Eco-Permanence
One Community Progress Update #269
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
CREATING ECO-PERMANENCE INTRO: @0:34
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:06
- Shadi Kennedy completed his 8th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
- Dan Alleck completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
- Mike Kowalski finished his 7th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
- Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 14th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:56
- Continued work on the bathroom designs for the City Center, further testing our designs in 3D (see below)
- Working with Dipti Dhondarkar, the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering by finishing the snow load calculation spreadsheet for the roof of the Living Dome (see below)
- Yun Lin completed his 7th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
- Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
- Dehua Feng completed his 3rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:58
- Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
- Researched and began creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:51
- Began the process of finishing the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:23
- Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
CREATING ECO-PERMANENCE SUMMARY: @12:17
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is creating eco-permanence 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:
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- 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
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Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 114 of Dean’s work. This week Dean focused on more edits and test rendering the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor.”
Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 20th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished one final round of edits adding missing shadows to this render. This render is now updated on the website also.
Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page
Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 7th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. This week Mike finished rendering the huge amount of renders you see here, which are also now integrated into the website.
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Playground and Obstacle Course Looking Northeast – Click for Page
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Playground Looking Top-down View – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Playground Collage of Features – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Game Area Looking North – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Obstacle Course Looking Northeast – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Obstacle Course Looking Southeast – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Game Area and Obstacle Course Closeups – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Volleyball, Basketball, and Soccer Areas – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Skate Park View from Above – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Yoga Area – Click to enlarge
Recycled Materials Village | Concept Render – Outdoor Exercise Area Closeups – Click to enlarge
Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 14th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she finished the renders shown here for the downstairs hostel living area, which can now also be seen on the website.
One Community Tree House Village | 1st Floor Hostel Layout – Concept Render – Click for page
One Community Tree House Village | 1st Floor Hostel Layout – Concept Render – Click to enlarge
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is creating eco-permanence 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week the core team continued work on the bathroom designs for the City Center, further testing our designs in 3D. This week we worked with the adjustment of the lights, as shown here.
Continued Working on the Bathroom Design for the City Center – Click for Page
And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 75th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different diffused sconce lighting fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.
Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by finishing the snow load calculation spreadsheet for the roof of the Living Dome, which you can see here.
Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page
Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he worked on joist design for the cupola on the 4th floor and began research for seismic load and design.
Continued Helping with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was initial research and updating of material quantities and costs for the DIY furniture components of this structure, finishing updates to the basement layout in AutoCAD, and developing new area and perimeter sections for the AutoCAD Master File.
Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page
Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he split the residential zones in AutoCAD, calculated the required sprinkler head and system demands, and updated all the related tutorial details.
Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is creating eco-permanence 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:
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- 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
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This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This past week we designated time frames for when we will initiate setup of the apiary, water lab, and acquisition of farm animals, all based on having the manpower & knowledge with our 20-50 on-site Pioneers and Volunteers. We also added clarifying information to our garden establishment section and researched worm towers.
Continued the Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for the Various Stages of Development – Click for Page
The core team also researched and began creating the Apiary parts and cost analysis list, adding images and descriptions to the Google doc, as shown here.
Researched and Began Creating the Apiary Parts and Cost Analysis List – Click for Food Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is creating eco-permanence 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:
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- Learn about the components: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
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This week, the core team began the process of finishing the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies resource. You can see some of this last week’s work here and we’d say we’re about 30% done with the page update and redesign.
Began Finishing the Learning for Life – Ongoing Growth Strategies Resource – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is creating eco-permanence 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:
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- 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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This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they set up the ability for the software to send emails, created password reset functionality, alphabetized projects and teams, fixed leaderboard time bugs and bugs to reset the projects list when admins create time entry for others, implemented weekly trend analysis charts using actual data, and added active/inactive filter options.
Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
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