Ecological Outreach – One Community Weekly Progress Update #248

One Community is creating an ecological outreach program based on open source sustainability solutions. These solutions include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. They are designed to be implemented as individual components or complete teacher/demonstration hubs, communities, villages, or even cities.

• 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

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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 24th, 2017 edition (#248) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecological Outreach
One Community Progress Update #248

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

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH INTRO: @0:34

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:27

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:53

• Finished first 30% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 6th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Oruba Rabie continued working on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 62nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Satish Ravindran completed his 5th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:34

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

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

• Created the formatting and began entering the content for the Information Maintenance and Sharing page (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:44

• Continued the process of  launching One Community’s Instagram page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil created version 2.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari,  Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh (theHighest Good Network software team)  implemented model, controller, and routes for ‘Project’ and ‘Team’ entities and performed unit test using Postman (see below)

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH SUMMARY: @12:58

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ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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 researched exercise equipment ideas for the Gym, and continued the racetrack road design, as shown here.

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

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions, finishing the first 10% of page 6.8.8 – table trim cutting, shown here.

Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page 

Updated Earthbag Village Electrical Design Formatting and Added Details for the Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click for Electrical Design Page

The core team also finished the complete Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis webpage. This included adding and editing all the content, images, menus, and more. You can see some of this work here and the rest is live on the website, complete with links to all the open source spreadsheets used for our calculations.

Finished Compressed Earth Block Village Materials Cost Analysis Webpage – Click to Visit

And the core team finished creating the thermal lag page by creating the header image and adding the final updates and edits to the main content.

Finished Creating the Thermal Lag Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 14th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was an extensive review of existing thermal lag and earthbag construction resources, helping us rename them all, and then we added them all to the website.

Continued Research and Running Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 67th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was this new render perspective for Zone 17.

Continued Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click to Visit

Aparna Tandon(Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 41st week of work, finishing the design overview image for Zones 12 and 18. This content is now live on the site also.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also joined the team and completed her 1st week taking over development of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she updated the AutoCAD layout and fixed the walls and roofs to match the new floor plan.

Took Over Development of Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click for Page

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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 the first 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.

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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his calculations for the materials’ dead loads for the triangles that make up the domes themselves.

Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 6th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was completing the second two of the 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

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was importing and beginning the process of applying loads to the dome structures.

Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 62nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the modeling of the mezzanine areas in the central area of the City Center, as shown here.

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

Satish Ravindran (Senior Mechanical and Industrial Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with the LEED lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was double checking the bulb count, lumen, and wattage details on our spreadsheet for the entire City Center, as shown here.

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

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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 95% 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

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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 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 Information Maintenance and Sharing page, which is about taking records of your learnings with you beyond the education program, as you can see here.

Began  Information Maintenance and Sharing Page – Click to Visit

ECOLOGICAL OUTREACH: HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is leading ecological outreach 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 by adding 27 new images to the account, as shown here.

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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued working on the search engines for the website. This week we created version 2.0 of the Highest Good of All search engine. You can see some of this work-in-progress here

Created Version 2.0 of Highest Good of All Search Engine– 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 the team implemented model, controller, and routes for ‘Project’ and ‘Team’ entities and performed unit test using Postman. They also created the query structure for dashboard/leaderboard data using promises framework, completed the setup of the GitHub from Atom, and investigated role-based access and authentication.

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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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, fostering the science of sustainable ecology. 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 the science of sustainable ecology. 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. 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 with the help of the science of sustainable ecology. 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.

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.