Environmental Development – One Community Weekly Progress Update #299

Environmental development can be accomplished ethically, sustainably, and with clear intent. Making these approaches easier, more affordable, and more attractive will speed the process. One Community is doing this open source and for “The Highest Good of All.”

• 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 16, 2018 edition (#299) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Environmental Development
One Community Progress Update #299

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

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:03

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:25

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:30

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:05

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:10

• Began the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections (see below)
• Emilio Nájera researched keywords for three more of our top-level food-related pages: Open Source Botanical Gardens, Large-Scale Soil Amendment, and Apiary Bee Yard (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal, Jordan Miller, and Tyler Calvert continued developing the software (see below)

ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY: @13:24

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting ecological environmental development 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

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 27th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week’s focus was beginning the first round of new nail stress tests. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Helping w/Earthbag Village Structural Engineering Research and Calculations – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 28th week volunteering and now helping with the Earthbag Village Materials and Costs. This week she worked more on the Tropical Atrium quantities and updated their prices and worked on Dome-1 material quantities, added their prices, and url links to purchase. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his work helping with render corrections and PhotoShop additions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week Guy completed two more 2nd-generation views of the Complete Village, both of which you can see here and on the site.

Created New Earthbag Village Render of Complete Village – Click for Page

Created New Earthbag Village Render of Complete Village – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 32nd week helping with render additions. This week he finished this final Earthbag Village (Pod 1) render showing this view looking South from the Tropical Atrium entryway. This image is now on the site too.

Finished Final Earthbag Village Render of View Looking South From Tropical Atrium Entryway – Click for Tropical Atrium

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 34th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he finished the first complete redesign-draft of the support wall and associated instructions. The new design uses less materials and is easier to construct. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #141 from Dean. His focus this week was updating the Murphy Bed designs and creating all the different perspectives shown here of these updates.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 2nd week researching the most sustainable toilet options. This week she researched sinks that can be added to the back of toilets to recycle hand-washing water and other water-saving toilet accessories. You can see some of this research here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Toilet Options – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting ecological environmental development 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 continued working on the Sketchup Duplicable City Center updates for the Social Dome and Dining Dome. We changed door opening directions where needed, updated windows on the Dining Dome second floor, raised the Sunrise Patio deck, redesigned the hexagon windows, redesigned the laundry room door frame details, and updated the Social Dome shell to accommodate the pedestrian door connecting the inside and outside swimming pool area. You can see some of these details here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Social and Dining Dome – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 108th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was updating all the layers so we can turn lights on and off easily for each zone and adding the missing lights for the Social Dome main wall, kitchen, 4th floor, and Living Dome sunrise patio. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) also completed their 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week they finalized the direction of the theme, décor, and the general uses for the library, some of which you can see here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs details by fixing the remaining images on the spreadsheet and making minor updates to some of the prices and URLs. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs Details – Click to Visit

And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 2nd week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, carpet, and other building materials by finishing his review and note taking on the LEED Sustainable Building crediting system. This week’s focus was mostly the Interior Design and Construction rating system. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching the Safest and Most Sustainable Paints, Carpet, and Other Building Materials – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting ecological environmental development 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we reviewed our food forest details, created a list of needed edits, and wrote up the initial food forest rollout and materials and equipment needs plan. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting ecological environmental development 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 began the process of fixing our database structure and testing our corrections. You can see some of this work here.

Began Process of Fixing Our Database Structure and Testing Our Corrections – Click for Home Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 9th week as part of the marketing team. This week he researched keywords for three more of our top-level food-related pages: Open Source Botanical Gardens, Large-Scale Soil Amendment,  and Apiary Bee Yard. 

Researched Keywords for Two More of our Top-level Food-related Pages – Click to Visit Site Map Page

In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team worked on the React version of the component for user and profile management, merged the Timelog Entry component into the Redux branch, worked on more redux action creators, and looked for potential code tests for new developers we intend to bring on. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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