Engineering Our Own Green Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #116

Engineering our own green future is possible and beneficial for all people and life on our planet. For the first time in the history of humanity, open source sustainability components can be developed and globally shared and produced. Putting these open source ideas together as a self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration model can further this idea and goal even more by inspiring and educating people with a complete living model. We see this as The Highest Good of All and having the ability to create a New Golden Age of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainable living, and increased happiness for everyone and everything on this planet:

• 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 May 24th, 2015 edition (#116) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

Engineering Our Own Green Future
One Community Weekly Progress Update #116

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

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – INTRO @1:00

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00

• Transferred the first 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication“
• Paige Allison Donatelli finished the first 25% of the image creation for the “Outer Space” lesson plan mind map (see below)
• Featured new “Movement and Development” lesson plan image across social media that Paige helped us create (see below)

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:28

• Finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source radishes hub and our open source tomatoes hub (see below)
• Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source potatoes hub (see below)
• Added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:37

• Updated over 20 pages of the custom furniture for the final instruction set for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Added 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures (see below)
• Moved another 25% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website (see below)
• Sheng Xu finished his final round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
• Jorge Antonio Ricardo began work on dividing the 3-dome cluster into pieces that can be 3-D printed to show its modular components (see below)
• Song Dong finished the first round of elevation and cross-section modeling of the 3-dome structures in AutoCAD (see below)
• Sayonara Batista de Oliveira completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of cob construction. Her work was added to the new Cob Village (Pod 3) page (see below)
• Sayonara also created these design ideas for the new Cob Village (Pod 3) (see below)
• Nelli Levental completed her second round of Cob Village (Pod 3) sketches (see below)
• The Architecture and Planning Team members from Team Brazil created their second series of designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) (see below)

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:16

• Mayke Balbino completed revision 4 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Lucas Silva completed extensive research into different Control Systems sensors and controllers (see below)
• Mike Hogan also helped organize the necessary Control Systems design criteria

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:21

• Vassili Biserov finished translating our Highest Good of All webpage into Russian (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Binru Chen helped us create open source for-profit and not-for-profit income statements that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)
• Finalized and added the Community Member agreement to the One Community legal page. This is the work of Yusuf Sulayman (see below)

and more…

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE SUMMARY: @9:21

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ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is 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 last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website, including all of the icons and some of the written content. This lesson plan teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication.

Communication Lesson Plan – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” – which now brings that to 100% complete.

Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished the first 25% of the image creation for the “Outer Space” lesson plan mind map, which you can see here:

“Outer Space” Lesson Plan Mind Map – 25% Complete – Click to Visit Page

Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Movement and Development” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:

“Movement and Development” Lesson Plan Featured – Click to Visit Page

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future 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 last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source radishes hub:

Featured Radishes Hub with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

And we did this for our open source tomatoes hub:

Featured Tomatoes Hub with New Social Media Imagery – Click to Visit

We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source potatoes hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature potatoes will be added here in the future.

Added 2 Potato Recipes – Click to Visit the Open Source Potato Hub

Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Oat flour Pancakes with Mango Puree, Pesto Pasta Salad with Arugula, and a Creamy Fennel Coconut Soup:

3 New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future 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 last week the core team updated over 20 pages of the custom furniture for the final instruction set for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This is the final image review and update series and this series of updates brings us to 30% complete:

Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures. This brings the page to about 40% complete:

Dome-Home Waterproofing Strategy Page 40% Complete – Click to Visit

And we moved another 25% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 60% complete on the site:

Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes – 60% Complete

Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his final round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign that prepared these domes for structural calculations and 3-D printing:

3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (Final Round) – Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page

Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student) then began work on dividing this structure into pieces that can be 3-D printed to show its modular components. These pieces include a roof option:

3-Dome Structures Divided into Pieces that can be 3-D Printed – Click to Visit Earthbag Village Portal

Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) also finished the first round of elevation and cross section modeling of these 3-dome structures in AutoCAD:

1st Round of Elevation and Cross Section Modeling of 3-dome Structures in AutoCAD – Click to Visit

Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of cob construction. You can see the details of Sayonara’s work here, added by the Core Team to the new Cob Village (Pod 3) page:

Researched Benefits and Challenges of Cob Construction – Click to Visit Page

Sayonara also created these design ideas for the new Cob Village (Pod 3):

Design Ideas for Cob Village – Click to Visit Page

Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) additionally completed her second round of Cob Village (Pod 3) sketches. What you see here are 4 distinct aesthetics purposed to create an artist’s village. Each structure represents a different artistic discipline:

Second Round of Cob Village (Pod 3) Sketches – Click to Visit Page

The Architecture and Planning Team from Team Brazil also created their second series of designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). The primary focus of these changes was moving the entire 2nd and 3rd floor forward and reorganizing it to maximize passive solar:

Second Series of Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) – Click to Visit Page

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future 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 its function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This last week Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed revision 4 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD. This included new bathroom designs that eliminated the need for an entry door, new locations for water fountains, new second floor table layouts in the dining dome, some slope additions to the 3rd floor, and more cupola edits to the 4th floor.

Revision 4 Duplicable City Center in AutoCAD – Click to Enlarge

Behind-the-scenes, Lucas Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) completed extensive research into different Control Systems sensors and controllers. You can see this work here:

Research into Control Systems Sensors and Controllers for Duplicable City Center

Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also helped organize the necessary Control Systems design criteria. We’d say we’re done with about the first 20% of the research and organization process.

ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is engineering our own green future 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 Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) finished translating our Highest Good of All webpage into Russian! This is our first page to be translated into this language:

Highest Good of All Page Translated into Russian – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has helped us create open source for-profit and not-for-profit income statements that will soon be part of the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 40% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site.

We also finalized and added the Community Member agreement to the One Community legal page. This is the work of Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association), added as an open source template for others wishing to form similar agreements with their incoming members.

Community Member Agreement Added to Legal Page – Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.

Throughout our design process, we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. 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. 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.