Ethical Lifestyle Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #268

Ethical lifestyle creation built on sustainable infrastructure. Using this we can live a better life that meets survival, recreation, and socialization needs while also helping others and taking care of our one shared planet. One Community calls this living and creating 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 May 13, 2018 edition (#268) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethical Lifestyle Creation
One Community Progress Update #268

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

ETHICAL LIFESTYLE CREATION INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:41

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:52

• Worked on the bathroom design for the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar and the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jin Yu continued with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 6th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 2nd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:06

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:58

• Finished the creation of the 4 assessment templates that are linked to from the Assessment Forms page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:27

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ETHICAL LIFESTYLE CREATION SUMMARY: @11:20

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation 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 week the core team finished redesigning the Murphy bed storage area in 3D. We marked the same parts with matching colors and added additional parts for stability, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Storage Area in 3D – Click for Page

The core team also updated the living-structure graphics shown here and added them to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) open source hub.

Updated the Living-Structure Graphics and Added them to the Tree House Village – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 7th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi continued refining the format for the nightstand  designs and also explored several proposed design changes that will simplify the construction process and reduce materials too.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the|Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates. Here is update 113 of Dean’s work. This week Dean focused on adding trim and other aesthetic details to what will be the “Dining Hall View from the 2nd Floor” render when complete.

Continued with Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation 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 worked on the bathroom design for the City Center. Testing our designs in 3D, we updated the floor and tiles on the wall, changed mirrors and counter size, and corrected the counter top height, as shown here.

Worked on the Bathroom Design for the City Center – Click for Page

And the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 74th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting and creating (and adding to the website) this comparison of the different direct lighting fixture types that meet our LEED sustainability criteria.

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

Jin Yu(Structural Engineering Designer) continued with her work with the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial. This week’s focus was more research and editing of the Construction Flow section of the tutorial. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued the Behind-the-Scenes Development of City Center Excavation and Construction of the Footer and Foundation Tutorial – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by creating the snow load spreadsheet for the roof of the Living Dome, which you can see here.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering. This week he continued developing the sawn timber design spreadsheet and completed the preliminary beam designs for the entire 2nd floor.

Continued Helping with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was researching and updating material quantities and costs and updating the basement layouts in AutoCAD.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he redesigned the fire zones in AutoCAD and began research on the minimum and maximum operating pressures and sprinkler hardware options.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation 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 second landing party group of 20 people. This past week we established and defined 6 separate trial planting beds so we can compare production rates at high elevation growing under varying planting conditions. We also added a narrative explaining how we will resurrect existing neglected orchard by pruning, adding nutrients, and mulching. And we added a narrative describing the purpose of hugelkultur beds for recycling large branches and trees and turning them into a nutrient soil additive. You can see some of this work here.

Continued the Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Second Landing Party Group of 20 People – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation 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 finished the creation of the 4 assessment templates that are linked to from the Assessment Forms page. You can see some of this last week’s work here.

Finished the Creation of the 4 Assessment Templates that are Linked to From the Assessment Forms Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating ethical lifestyle creation 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 Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they fixed issues with creating new users, started working on a new password process, removed the “search task” option, added a projects filter, added functionality that puts the most recently edited action item at the top of the timelog, and developed a line chart for showing weekly work-input trends with a drop down to include/exclude individual member’s data from the chart.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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