Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #311

Demonstrating sustainable sustainability will be easier in sustainable communities. This is because the current “everyone for themselves” approach just isn’t designed with sustainability in mind. Cooperation and collaboration work better, more efficiently, and can more easily problem solve the diversity of challenges truly sustainable food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices require. One Community is designing open source plans and teacher/demonstration hubs to support 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

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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 March 10th, 2019 edition (#311) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Demonstrating Sustainable Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #311

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

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:43

• Continued design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details (see below)
• Continued developing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers page (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 33rd week volunteering and helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 42nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, focusing on the hallway and furniture for the non-ADA bathrooms (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:32

• Continued the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library (see below)
• Continued adding the design specifics and writing the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial (see below)
• Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh completed their 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
• James Herrigel completed his 13th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:24

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Finished the Advanced Composting section of the Soil Amendment open source hub (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 10th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:30

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:36

• Emilio Nájera continued with his 22nd week as part of the marketing team, refactoring more keyword strategies including more for the Soil Amendment page, Apiary page, and Ethical Goat Raising page (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller, Tyler Calvert and Justin Kunz continued developing the software (see below)

DEMONSTRATING SUSTAINABLE SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:48

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable sustainability 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 design updates to the open source Murphy bed furniture assembly details. This week we researched the building code for outlets, made electrical outlet and switch location updates, and made an opening in the wall by the bed to access these new switches and outlets. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Design Updates to the Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers page. This week we added details for 1 more natural paint company and 3 different DIY paint options.

Continued Developing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints, Primers, Stains, and Sealers Page – Click to Visit

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 33rd week volunteering and helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she focused on the Tropical Atrium by adding more items and updating quantities for items like fiberglass insulation, wood railings, metal railings, patio flooring, etc.  You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Earthbag Village Materials and Costs, Focusing on the Tropical Atrium – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 42nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was beginning the final diagrams for installation of lighting from the attic area cut away sections, light-can diagrams, and the installation of wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #152 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was working on the hallway and furniture for the non-ADA bathrooms.

Continued on Earthbag Village by Working on Hallway and Furniture for Non-ADA Bathrooms – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable sustainability 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 the process of modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library. This week we worked on different designs for the tree-stump tables, and updated the tree-branched bookshelf design, as shown here.

Continued Modeling the New Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details for Library – Click to Visit

The core team also continued adding the design specifics and writing the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we started developing the “Applying LEED in the Duplicable City Center” Case Study section and created all the sections shown here.

Continued Adding Design Specifics and Writing City Center HVAC Design Tutorial – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was brainstorming what we think are the final paint, flooring, stall divider, countertop, and tile selections for the public restrooms. You can see the updated selections here.

Continued Helping With Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Paints, Primers, Stains, and Sealers – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was researching what was needed to decide if we’d be using a riser for our domes. You can see some of this research here.

Continued Helping with Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable sustainability 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 continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we continued researching goat care and fencing, reviewed the video “Treating Wood Fence Posts – The old Timers Way” to extend the life of the posts, added comments to the Google Doc, updated the fencing materials list to include gravel, and combined the timeframes with the rewritten steps. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development – Click to Visit

The core team additionally finished the Advanced Composting section of the Soil Amendment open source hub, which you can see here.

Finished Advanced Composting Section of the Soil Amendment Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 10th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable sustainability 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 22nd week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was refactoring more keyword strategies including more for the Soil Amendment page, Apiary page, and Ethical Goat Raising page, and then started building the actual ad campaigns for the Open Source AutoCAD landing page. You can see some of this work here.

Refactored 3 Additional Keyword Campaigns & Started Building Ad Campaigns for AutoCAD Landing Page – Click for our Site Map

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Jordan Miller (Web Developer), Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer), and Justin Kunz (Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team worked on more color schemes research, creating new dashboard color mockups, researched new tools for data visualization on the reports page, and developing responsive tables for the time entries. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

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