Earth-Care Teacher Demonstration Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #263

Now more than ever the planet could benefit from Earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs. One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit building a global collaboration to create them for what we call “The Highest Good” of all people and life on our planet. We are doing this through open source and free-shared do-it-yourself sustainability components that include food, energy, and housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

• 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 April 8th, 2018 edition (#263) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth-Care Teacher/Demonstration Hubs
One Community Progress Update #263

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

EARTH-CARE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:33

• Updated the Shipping Container Village open source hub with the newly finished overview images shown here (see below)
• Updated the Tree House Village open source hub with new floor plans, images and descriptions (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 2nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his third 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 12th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:02

• Updated the lighting page with the new spreadsheet and basement layout details (see below)
• Jin Yu continued with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 2nd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 69th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:06

• Continued working on the Garden Tools list (see below)
• Researched pollinator attracting and native plants for our area (see below)
• Continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:55

• Finished developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:26

• Rebuilt our search menus and updated the search page (see below)
• Updated Policies and Procedures page and related administrative documents with new guidelines for core team members (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, Asha Tadimari, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

EARTH-CARE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS SUMMARY: @11:41

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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 updated the Shipping Container Village open source hub with the newly finished overview images shown here.

Updated the Shipping Container Village Open Source Hub with New Overview Images – Click for Page

The core team also updated the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub with new floor plans, images and descriptions. You can see some of these new additions here.

Updated Tree House Village w/New Floor Plans, Images, and Descriptions – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was working on the parts and lumber organization and presentation pages, plus the assembly pages for the nightstands. 

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 108 of Dean’s work, returning to lighting and texturing fine tuning for the central dining area.

Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his third 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 his first three finished renders.

Continued Updating our Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the updated central-area renders shown here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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 updated the lighting page with the new spreadsheet and basement layout details you see here.

Updated Lighting Page with New Spreadsheet and Basement Layout Details – 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 retaining wall calculations shown here.

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

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the beam design and calculation aspects of the City Center structural engineering. This week he created version 1 of the timber beam design spreadsheet you see here.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 69th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was round 2 of updating the lighting design and modeling for the ground floor bedrooms shown here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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. We revised the tools list, transferred the info from Excel into Google Excel, and added more tools, images, and prices, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also researched pollinator attracting and native plants for our area, as shown here.

Researched Pollinator Attracting and Native Plants for Our Area – Click to Visit Food Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we finished the Phase 1 zonal planning narrative and graphic updates, as shown here.

Continued Research and Design of the Open Source Permaculture Design for the Property – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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 developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page with the final 70% of the section giving examples of how to use each other component with the lesson plans component.

Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs 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 rebuilt our search menus and updated the search page, some of which you can see here.

Rebuilt our Search Menus and Updated the Search Page – Click to Visit

We also updated our Policies and Procedures page and related administrative documents with new guidelines for core team members.

Updated our Policies and Procedures Page – Click to Visit

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), Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer). This week the team added links to respective profile pages for admins, made all hyperlinks automatically active when entering work descriptions, updated hour and minute inputs to accept zero as an answer, updated the action item section such that only the user for whom time log is being viewed shows up in the select user dropdown, implemented an “add new team” feature to the new project page and the project-detail page, and created several test report options while integrating Google Charts.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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