Creating Something Good for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #231

Open source sustainability means creating something good for everyone. Expanding open sourcing and free-sharing sustainability beyond food, energy, and housing to also include education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices is even better. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit developing all of these in support of a global collaboration for The Highest Good of all people and life on our planet.

• 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 August 27th, 2017 edition (#231) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Something Good for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #231

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

CREATING SOMETHING GOOD FOR EVERYONE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:36

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:53

• Added the final updated header and social media images to the Pipe Furniture page and shared it for the first time across social media (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 47th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Aravind Vasudevan and Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on their thermal lag and climate battery research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:10

• Created images for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:40

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Completed the draft of the Orff page, and reviewed and reedited the Reggio, Waldorf behind-the-scenes content and began work on the additional Multi-intelligences research and content (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:28

• Invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, working on the Highest Good Network software, finished coding in Express.js for retrieving data from MongoDB based on a specific id (see below)
• Priti Kothari completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software by finishing version 1.0 of the Leaderboard element (see below)
• Neha Verma finished her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software by finishing implementation of the time log widget (see below)

CREATING SOMETHING GOOD FOR EVERYONE SUMMARY: @12:46

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good 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: 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 continued updating the images and formatting for the Earthbag Village Communal Eco-shower page, separating out the different designs and adding several new sections. You can see some of this work here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Updated Earthbag Village Eco-shower page – Click to Visit

Related to this, we also updated the complete thermostatic mixing valve page. You can see some of the updated page here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Updated Thermostatic Mixing Valve Page – Click to Visit

The core team additionally continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We designed a cable spool table with seats, and finished designing the bench with roof and bookshelves. The team also began designing a table with a bench made from tires. The top-right picture inspired the idea.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Sketchup on Recycled Materials – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team continued development of the two Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders shown here, updating trees, adding people, and other aesthetic elements.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Tree House Village Renders – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 4th week with us by conducting additional Earthbag Village construction research. This week’s focus was more french drain and water proofing research and you can see a summary of the findings so far here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Earthbag Village Construction Research – Click to Visit

And Christian Ojeda(Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with the plumbing details for the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower, Vermiculture Bathroom, and Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s work on the plumbing was focused on the water heater details, integration of the rainwater collection system, and other minor changes. This brings us to 90% complete with the plumbing for the whole Earthbag Village.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Heat-Recycling Eco-Shower, Bathroom Design – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 81 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Help – Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 52nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was finishing this final high-quality render for the East-wing office spaces, which you can see here and is now also added to the website.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Earth Block Village Render East-Wing Office – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 31st week of work, focusing on 3D Sketchup development of the central area between the North and South residential wings, plus zones 12 and 14 by the East offices.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Enlarge

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he made final changes and ran the final master render for the village, which you can see here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Help – Tree House Village Renders – Click to Visit

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) completed her 4th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was mostly work on the staircase, 2nd floor door, and light design.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Tree House Village Interior Design – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good 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 week, the core team added the final updated header and social media images to the Pipe Furniture page and shared it for the first time across social media.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Header, Social Media Images to Pipe Furniture – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering tutorial. What you see here is his 4th week of writing content. This week’s content focus was exposure and topographic considerations.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – City Center Structural Engineering Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 47th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding the loft-overhang accent lights and updating the table lamps and bulbs to better match those we’ll be actually using.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – The Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Aravind Vasudevan: (Mechanical Engineer) and Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on their thermal lag and climate battery research and reports for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are pictures from our weekly collaborative call and some of their work on the fan and heat transfer calculations.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Research and Reports for City Center Hub– Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good 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 continued editing the food pages. We created these images for the Food Procurement and Storage Plan and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, as you see here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Editing the Food Pages – Click to Visit Food

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good 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 week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Diversity Lesson Plan and the Caring and Kindness Lesson Plan. This brings us to 48 of 52 finished, which is 92.3% completion.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Process – 52 Lesson Plans – Click to Visit Page

The core team also completed the draft of the Orff page, and reviewed and reedited the Reggio, Waldorf behind-the-scenes content and began work on the additional Multi-intelligences research and content.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Orff, Reggio, Waldorf, Multi-Intellegences Content – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating something good 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 invested several more hours developing the graphic showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding and organizing what will be the first wave of images that will appear. This information will be featured in our overview video and on the Team page. You can see here this work in progress.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Graphic of collaborators & volunteers locations – Click for Team

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software, finished coding in Express.js for retrieving data from MongoDB based on a specific id. Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 2nd week helping with this part of the project by finishing version 1.0 of the Leaderboard element, and Neha Verma (Software Development Manager) finished her 2nd week helping with this component by finishing implementation of the time log widget. Snapshots of all of this work are shown here.

Creating Something Good for Everyone – Continued Work – Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World.We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability and Creating a Better World . We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.