Sustainably Creating Our Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #23

Posted on August 5, 2013 by One Community

create the future, the future is ours to create, One Community One Community believes the designs of the future will be more cost effective, last longer, and built from resources that are readily available. We are operating a non-profit and for The Highest Good of All sustainability think tank to demonstrate and build 7 different communal living mini-village models to demonstrate this. They will each contain 15-100 residences and function as examples and prototypes for self-sufficient and duplicable teacher/demonstration communities, villages and cities to be built around the world. Our open source creation includes Highest Good food, energy, housing, Highest Good for-profit and non-profit business models, an education model, a Highest Good society model, resource based economy implementation, and more. Most importantly, it is designed to provide a standard of living and experience of life itself that we feel most will consider far superior to what they are experiencing now. Here is our progress update (#23) covering our accomplishments for the week of July 29th, 2013.

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Designs of the Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #23

Here is the bullet-point list of accomplishments discussed in detail in the video above:

Tropical Atrium – Behind the scenes editing done through #50 of 60 (@4:00)
Zenapini #1 plants all selected and mapped – list added to the site (@4:40)
2/3rd done with Earthbag Village Cost Analysis (@5:20)
Greywater systems progressing (@6:00)
Strawbale Village 3D design begins (@6:00)
Education Program Strategies of Being – 50% of research done (@6:50)
Overview Page Updated to function as a website guide (@8:30)
Partnership, Rental Revenue, and Residency Pages updated (@11:45)
Satellite Pioneer option is now available (@18:30)
SEGO Center 3D progressing (@21:50)

DESIGNS FOR THE FUTURE: RELATED IMAGES

ZENAPINI #1

The zen aquapini (zenapini) designs will represent two very different internal environments. Zenapini #1 will be the Cloud Forest House. This ecosystem is characterized by high humidity (50-80%) and cooler temperatures than tropical regions (55-80 degrees F). This week we completed selection and mapping of all the plants that will be added to this structure. We’ll add these plants here and update the design drawing over the next couple weeks.

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Zenapini #1 – Click to Visit the Overview Page

EARTHBAG VILLAGE (POD 1)

The earthbag architecture village (Pod 1) is the first of the seven different sustainable village models to be built because we believe it will be the most affordable and easy to duplicate. It’s purpose from a future design perspective is maximally affordable housing. This week we’ve finished up to about the 2/3rds point for the cost analysis details that we will be posting on the Earthbag Village Materials Costs Page as soon as they are complete and we’ve double checked all the details.

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One Community Village One: Earthbag Construction – Click to Visit the Open Source Hub

STRAW BALE VILLAGE (POD 2)

The straw bale construction village (Pod 2) is a teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model purposed for open source project-launch blueprinting and building modularly expandable sustainable housing designs for the future. One Community will begin building this village as soon as the earthbag village (Pod 1) is complete and we just brought on a partner (details coming soon) that has begun working on putting this village into 3D for us.

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One Community Village Two: Straw Bale Construction – Click to Visit the Open Source Hub

GREYWATER SYSTEMS PROGRESS

We’ve completed the first renderings of the earthbag village natural greywater processing system. Complete page dedicated to the evolving details of these designs is coming this week.