Eco-Flow and Function – One Community Weekly Progress Update #247

Establishing global eco-flow and function would mean creating a sustainable planet that would benefit all life. We can do this if we work together, open source solutions, and create new ways to motivate the average person to participate.

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• 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

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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 December 17th, 2017 edition (#247) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Flow and Function
One Community Progress Update #247

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

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION INTRO: @0:34

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:11

• 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)
• Finished the second half of updating the complete Tree House Village open source hub (see below)
• Started the final review process for the 60+ page Tree House Village online book we’ve been developing (see below)
• Christian Ojeda further developed the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Sangam Stanczak continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 66th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan finished work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis content and associated graphics (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:51

• David Olivero completed the first of 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 61st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Satish Ravindran completed his 4th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ricardo Carrillo helped create the updated City Center wall detail (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:07

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

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:37

• Created the formatting and began entering the content for the Surpassing Education Standards page (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:11

• Continued the process of  launching One Community’s Instagram page (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari,  Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh (the Highest Good Network software team) finalized the application schema, merged the time entry updates, researched front-end role-based functionality options, and tried both collection and separate-collection approaches as a test (see below)

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION SUMMARY: @13:11

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ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 global eco-flow and function with 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 added the racetrack road design, as shown here.

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

And the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, worked on page 6.3.1, and made revisions to page 6.3.2 (wall frame panels) assembly page, as shown here.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

The core team also finished the second half of updating the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub. This included new formatting, updated content, and new and updated images for all the sections related to the design and planning specifics to establish global eco-flow and function. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Updating the Complete Tree House Village Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

We also started the final review process for the 60+ page Tree House Village online book we’ve been developing. You can see some of the review notes here.

Started Final Review Process for the 60+ Page Tree House Village Online Book – Click for Tree House Village

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 31st week volunteering with our team. This week’s focus was further developing the Vermiculture toilet chamber designs by improving the bottom of the container so that it can be bolted together and constructed without welding while also having an easier mechanism for using pins to secure it to the pallet jack to establish global eco-flow and function.

Further Developed the Vermiculture Toilet Chamber Designs – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 93 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was continued work on the stage areas and lights that will illuminate the stages.

Continued Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching and contacting companies for the hardware we’ll be using to sterilize the greywater from the Communal Eco-showers. She also created the updated design schematic shown here for the complete system.

Created the Updated Design Schematic shown for the Complete System – Click for Eco-Shower Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 66th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was the work leading to this additional final render of the Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area to establish global eco-flow and function, which can also now be viewed on the website.

Completed Final Render of Zone 17 Central Play and Recreation Area – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week volunteering. This week’s focus was finishing work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis content and associated graphics, as shown here.

Finished Work on the Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis Content – Click for Page

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 as a part of global eco-flow and function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 5th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was completing the first of 3 analyses for the indoor/outdoor Natural Pool impacts on the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 61st week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing updates to the lighting zones spreadsheet to match all the zone updates made in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.

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

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was writing all the pages of content shown here for the LEED recommendations tutorial.

Continued Working on LEED Lighting Specifics for City Center – Click to Visit

Ricardo Carrillo (Principal Consultant at Acumen Industries) also helped create the updated City Center wall detail you see here.

Helped Create the Updated City Center Wall Detail – Click for Page

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 formulas and data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, bringing it to approximately 90% completion, as you see here.

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

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 for global eco-flow and function: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together for global eco-flow and function: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team continued adding to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. This week we created the formatting and began entering the content for the Surpassing Education Standards page, as you can see here.

Began Surpassing Education Standards Page – Click to Visit

ECO-FLOW AND FUNCTION: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating eco-flow and function 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 continued the process of launching One Community’s Instagram page. We downloaded additional images, created a new Instagram spreadsheet to keep track of hashtags, and added the first 9 images to the account.

Continued Launching One Community’s Instagram Page – Click for Page

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 they finalized the application schema, merged the time entry updates, researched front-end role-based functionality options, and tried both collection and separate-collection approaches as a test. What you see here are some of this work along with pictures from our weekly collaborative call.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, contributing to establish global eco-flow and function. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create, to establish global eco-flow and function. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication, contributing to establish global eco-flow and function. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub, spearheading the science of sustainable ecology to establish global eco-flow and function. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.), contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity, contributing to the science of sustainable ecology. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.