Facilitating Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #47

One Community is facilitating change for the people who want it with a philosophy of teaching people how to live for The Highest Good of All:

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
• We are open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself designs for these areas first: (click icons for details)
  

  CLICK IMAGES BELOW FOR 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#47) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of January 13, 2014:

Facilitating Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #47

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

FACILITATING CHANGE INTRO @0:10

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:05

• Matter and Materials Lesson Plan mindmap is complete! – we’re now working on the webpage
• Values image research is 50% complete – we hope to finish the rest this week
• We’ve started a Strategies for Memorizing and Remembering page as part of the Knowledge and Wisdom curriculum

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:56

• 50 ‘final’ Food Forest page plants researched behind the scenes, images also formatted
• Highest Good food open source portal being redesigned and it’s now 90% done
• Large-scale Aquapini 3-D progress details below
• Aquapini roof engineering design #2 is done compliments of Zdenek Jurik

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:35

• Finished adding metric to the whole website!
• Finished the hands in 3D for the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village
• Started the beginnings of the 2nd furniture design for the Earthbag Village homes
• Finished the final adjustments and additions to the phase-1 Straw Bale Village CAD
• Victor Herber has begun work on the Vermiculture toilet designs

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:25

• Finished the Social Dome fireplace and South-exit/emergency exit in 3-D
• Finished CAD outdoor pool, Dining Dome 2nd floor redesign, and other updates

FACILITATING CHANGE IN DETAIL: @11:30

• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are facilitating 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 last week the team finished the Matter and Materials Lesson Plan mindmap:

Lesson Plan Mindmap for “Matter and Materials” – Click to Visit Related Lesson Plan Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are facilitating 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
• See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H

This last week the core team, with the help of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics), finished the rock aesthetics by the pond, added plant overhang details, Wye plumbing fixtures, and correct 3″ (.91 m) media bed piping:

Large-scale Aquapini 3D Updates – Click to Enlarge

We also did a detailed sun study on Large-scale Aquapini with our current roof design and for our specific location. Here are the results:

Aquapini Sun Looking Southwest – Click to Enlarge

Aquapini Sun Looking Northwest – Click to Enlarge

Zdenek Jurik (P.E. Structural, Civil and Mechanical Engineer and founder of ABC Engineering) also completed the second set of  Large-scale Aquapini engineering outlines for the roof:

Aquapini Engineered Roof Design #2 – Click for the Open Source Hub

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are facilitating 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 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 Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist) finished the hands in 3D for the Tropical Atrium center of the Earthbag Village:

Tropical Atrium Hands Basic Design Completed in 3D – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) has also begun designing the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. Whereas the first layout was purposed for a couple or family with a child, this next layout is being designed as shared accommodations for two students/interns/visiting friends, etc. It will feature two beds and two work stations and the beginnings of it look like this:

Earthbag Village Furniture Design 2 Developing – Click Image for the Open Source Hub

This last week, Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) also finished the final adjustments and additions to the phase-1 Straw Bale Village CAD. Here it is:

One Community Straw Bale Village in CAD – Click for the Open Source Hub with an Image You Can Enlarge

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are facilitating change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub

This last week the team finished the Social Dome fireplace and South-exit/emergency exit in 3-D:

SEGO Fireplace and Emergency South Exit Added in 3D – Click for the Open Source Hub

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) finished the CAD outdoor pool, Dining Dome 2nd floor redesign, and other updates. Here are screen shots of his work in progress:

Open Source Duplicable City Center evolving in CAD – Click to Enlarge

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES