Eco-Communities Creating a Global Sustainability Cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #252

Eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative could revolutionize how people live by demonstrating a more enjoyable and more sustainable way that prioritizes cooperation and collaboration over competition. One Community is calling this The Highest Good of All and we’re creating open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and DIY resources to demonstrate and replicate all aspects of the eco-community process.

• 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

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 January 21st, 2018 edition (#252) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Communities Creating a
Global Sustainability Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #252

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

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:07

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Continued working on the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page (see below)
• Added the Labyrinth and Concert/Class Amphitheater description to the Compressed Earth Block Village page (see below)
• Christian Ojeda worked on creating the first versions of the Vermiculture toilet and septic tank parts and cost analysis lists (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 13th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan finished the first half of Shipping Container Village Materials Costs text and graphics updates (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:24

• Finished another 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 9th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:12

• Continued work on the data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:41

• Continued researching images for the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:16

• Working with Ashwin Patil, the core team finished the Stewardship search engine and added it to the Highest Good of All page (see below)
• Added new resources, a new Furniture section, and new formatting to the Highest Good lifestyles page (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITIES CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COOPERATIVE SUMMARY: @11:24

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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

The core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we selected the area for the skatepark, researched skate-park images and ideas for Sketchup models (top right image), and created the initial skatepark layout and designs.

Continued Working on Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit Page

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. This week we set the auto numbering on the sections, added 20 new pages to the wireframe, and refined the section starts for consistent numbering.

Continued Working on Murphy bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

And the core team continued working on the Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design page. This week’s focus was aligning the images relative to the text and spacing. We also worked on adding more alt text to the images to improve the SEO rankings. Finally, the team began working on the table of contents for the page by adding all of the main sections to it and created the first 3rd of the anchor links. We’d say we’re now about 50% complete with the page.

Continued Working on Water Recycling Net Zero Bathroom Design Page – Click to Visit

We also added the Labyrinth and Concert/Class Amphitheater description to the Compressed Earth Block Village page.

Added Labyrinth and Concert/Class Amphitheater Description to the Compressed Earth Block Village Page – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 34th week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was creating the first versions of the Vermiculture toilet and septic tank parts and cost analysis lists.

Began Work of Vermiculture Toilet and Septic Tank Parts and Cost Analysis Lists – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 97 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was finishing the design of the freezer door shown here.

Continued Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 13th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he began work on the front perspective shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

And Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week volunteering. This week’s focus was finishing the first half of the Shipping Container Village Materials Costs text and graphics updates.

Continued Work on Shipping Container Village Materials Costs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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

The core team finished another 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures. You can see some of this work here and the rest is on the site. This brings this page to 60% complete.

Continued LEED Lighting Tutorial Details for Lighting Design of City Center – Click to Visit Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 9th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was creating version 1.0 of the presentation comparing the HVAC efficiencies of square and dome structures.

Continued Working on HVAC Designs for Duplicable City Center – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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 work on the data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created additional daily eating plans and meals, as you see here.

Continued Work on Data for Food Calculations on Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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 researching images to add to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we found images for the Assessment Format and Assessment Forms pages, as you can see here.

Researched Images for Assessment Format and Assessment Forms Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating eco-communities creating a global sustainability cooperative 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 working with Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished the Stewardship search engine and added it to the Highest Good of All page, some of which you can see here.

Finished the Stewardship Search Engine and Added it to Highest Good of All Page – Click to Visit

The core team also added new resources, a new Furniture section, and new formatting to the Highest Good lifestyles page.

Added Resources, a New Furniture Section, and new Formatting to Highest Good Lifestyles Page – Click to Visit

The Highest Good Network software team consists of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast),  Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Priyanka Singh (Software Developer). This week the team resolved application launch errors, updated the node version to accommodate async/await functionalities, created a user management page, improved the formatting of the user profile, and implemented users seeing team names instead of team ids. They also implemented form validations and ability to add/remove personal and admin links as per authorization.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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