Ethical Community Science – One Community Weekly Progress Update #264

Posted on April 17, 2018 by One Community

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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 April 15th, 2018 edition (#264) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethical Community Science
One Community Progress Update #264

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

ETHICAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:20

Michael Hagler and the core team continued working together creating and testing the different layout options for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book (see below)
Shadi Kennedy completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions
Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
Dan Alleck completed his 18th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
Mike Kowalski finished his 4th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
Anvita Kumari Pandey joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:01

Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
Jin Yu continued her work with behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
David Olivero completed his 17th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
Yun Lin completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:00

Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
Finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:35

Finished first 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:10

Worked on beta testing the Highest Good Network software (see below)
Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ETHICAL COMMUNITY SCIENCE SUMMARY: @12:15

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) continued working together creating and testing the different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Continued Creating and Testing Different Layout Options for Compressed Earth Block Village Parts of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was building elements for the drawers pages 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 for the nightstands, as shown here.

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 109 of Dean’s work focused this week on trying to fix lighting reflection challenges caused by the stainless steel in the kitchen area.

Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 18th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished the two renders you see here focusing on the central Zone 17 play and relaxation area. These renders are now updated on the website also.

Compressed Earth Block Village, Zone 17, Final Render with people, One Community, Dan Alleck

Zone 17 Play and Relaxation Area Final Render – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 4th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are the four renders he finished creating this week. Three of these are now on the site and this 4th one showing a skate park will be added later as part of a collage of related images.

Recycled Materials Village Landscaping, outdoor library area, outdoor dining area, outdoor art area, outdoor game area, outdoor exercise area, recycled art area, recycled games area, recycled reading area, recycled dining area, recycled exercise area, recycled materials, building with tires, building with pallets, construction with recycled materials

Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Final Render – Click for Page

Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Exercise Area Final Render – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was developing the initial City Center basement and first floor estimation spreadsheet format and line items, some of which you can see here.

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was developing the initial City Center basement and first floor estimation spreadsheet format and line items, some of which you can see here.

Completed her 1st Week Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 and Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 70th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was round 3 of updating the lighting designs and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms, testing different lighting colors and fixture types, and creating a detailed LEED criteria set so we can finish these rooms to LEED Platinum standards.

Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was finishing the moisture control section of the tutorial. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued with City Center Excavation and Construction Footer and Foundation Tutorial – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 17th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was filling out all our HVAC choices in the zone spreadsheet and reviewing the heat recovery vs. makeup air unit strategy for the kitchen.

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 2.0 of the timber beam design spreadsheet. Now a person can use dropdown menus to choose from industry standard materials lists and the spreadsheet will check to see if the results fall within desired safety standards.

Continued with Beam Design and Calculation Aspects of City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here

Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also finished, edited, and formatted the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the initial 3-person survey team.

Completed the Detailed Food Rollout Plan for the Initial 3-Person Survey Team – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 finished the first 50% of review, formatting and editing content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this work here.

This week, the core team finished the first 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this work here.

Completed the First 50% of the Learning for Life Assessment Format Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating ethical community science 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 worked on beta testing the Highest Good Network software. You can see some of this work here.

Worked on Beta Testing the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer ), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team made the ember model table work with the user management details, added profile pic guidelines and autoresizing, added a link to that profile page that takes a person to that person’s time log, changed relationships of Teams and Projects to be separate from each other, modified the reports bar charts to show both current week and previous weeks data in the same chart, and added options for custom time range functionality.