Experiential Global Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #253

Experiential global change is a methodology for creating a global cooperative of sustainable communities people can visit, join, or build themselves as a path to creating a sustainable world that will benefit us 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 January 28th, 2018 edition (#253) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Experiential Global Change
One Community Progress Update #253

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

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:20

• 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)
• Hemanth Kotaru and the core team worked on the final buttress calculations for gravity and snow loading (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan and the core team created the complete Shipping Container Village Materials Costs page (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below
• Patrick Lübben created an initial equipment list for the Cob Village Metal Maker Space (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 14th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 4th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:44

• Finished another 10% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures (see below)
• Reviewed the complete lighting design spreadsheet for errors and missing content and then added column descriptions (see below)
• Reviewed the wind loads report and added comments to get additional resources, references, and clarifications (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 10th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:04

• Continued work on the data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages (see below)
• Started creating the complete permaculture design for the property and the open source tutorial page that we’ll share and teach the complete process (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:47

• Continued researching images to add to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:19

• Asha Tadimari, Sowmya Manohar, Priti Kothari, Shubhra Mittal, and Priyanka Singh continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

EXPERIENTIAL GLOBAL CHANGE SUMMARY: @12:16

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing experiential global change 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 designed the volleyball, mini soccer and basketball area, adjusted the skate park field size, added benches and tables, and changed the wooden texture to concrete for the field, pools and tunnel.

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

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. This week we added 10 new wire-framed page sections and transferred images from our GoogleDoc instructions to 54 new pages, properly paginated and updated. You can see here an example of one of these new pages.

Continued Working on Murphy bed Instructions – Click to Visit Page

And, the core team, working with Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student), worked on the Earthbag Village final buttress calculations for gravity and snow loading, as shown here.

Worked on Final Buttress Calculations for Gravity and Snow Loading – Click for Earthbag Village

Working with Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer), the core team also created the complete Shipping Container Village Materials Costs page. You can see some of the new page here.

Continued Work on Shipping Container Village Materials Costs – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 98 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was starting the process of test rendering the final perspective you see here.

Continued Helping Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Also helping with the Cob Village designs, Patrick Lübben (Founder of the Ina Maka Project) created this initial equipment list for the Metal Maker Space.

Created Initial Equipment List for Metal Maker Space – Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 14th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished work on this Front View Looking Northeast:

Completed Front of Village Render Looking NE – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

…completed another set of updates and finalized this Front View:

Finalized Front of Village Render – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village Page

….and also finished this final top-floor view looking West. All of these images are on the site now too with click-to-enlarge.

Finished Top-Floor View Looking West Render – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 4th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs. This week she updated the seating areas in the central area and 2nd floor, created blinds and a wall-mounted dish holder, and redesigned the office space under the stairs – all of which you can see here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing experiential global change 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 another 10% of the LEED lighting tutorial details for the lighting design of the City Center and all other One Community structures. This week we added more content, formatting, and a diversity of new images. This brings this page to 70% complete.

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

The core team also reviewed the complete lighting design spreadsheet for errors and missing content and then added column descriptions to make the spreadsheet easier to understand.

Reviewed the Complete Lighting Design Spreadsheet for Errors and Added Column Descriptions – Click for Page

And the core team reviewed the wind loads report and added comments to get additional resources, references, and clarifications where needed.

Reviewed the Wind Loads Report and Added Comments – Click for City Center Engineering

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering. What you see here are his 2nd-generation updated calculations and tutorial content for the live and dead loads.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 10th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was adding pool and other comparison and clarification details to the HVAC presentation. You can see some of this new content here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing experiential global change 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 data for the food calculations on the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan pages, and created additional daily eating plans and meals for 130 pound women, as you see here.

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

We also started creating the complete permaculture design for the property and the open source tutorial page that will share and teach the complete process. You can see the beginnings of the new page here.

Started Creating the Complete Permaculture Design for the Property – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing experiential global change 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 researching images to add to the education Evaluation and Evolution process open source pages and tutorials. We found 12 additional images for the Collaborative Ongoing Growth Strategies page, as you can see here.

Researched and Found 12 Additional Images for Collaborative Ongoing Growth Strategies Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing experiential global change 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

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), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team edited the menu bar to display menus based on a person’s role, resolved GitHub setup issues with Atom, optimized network calls to improve app performance, and enhanced the MyProfile page to enable users to manage their personal links. They also added new fields to the dashboard service to serve data for other cards on the dashboard page and researched a service to integrate the model with the project’s UI.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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