Forwarding a Global Collaboration of Sustainable Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #51

One Community is creating open source and free-shared blueprints to build a global collaboration of sustainable communities working together 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)
  

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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. Here is our weekly progress update (#51) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of February 10th, 2014:

Global Collaboration of Sustainable Communities
One Community Weekly Progress Update #51

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42

• Completed the Values Subject visual representation (see below)
• Completed 100% of the Art/Music and Trade Skill Subject image research
• Completed 70% of the Science Subject topic research
• Completed 75% of the new Social Sciences Complete Subject web page
• Completed 50% of the English Subject research and image selection

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53

• Finished adding all the Tropical Atrium plants, trees, and slopes by the pathway in 3-D (see below)
• David Sweet completed initial roof plan, layout, and cross section in CAD (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:36

• Added new realistic renders to the Earthbag Village Open Source Portal (see below)
• Completed a shower water experiment (posted here) to determine what we can expect in the way of shower water heat retention for use as an additional heat source for the Tropical Atrium
• Completed detailed water and energy needs for the earthbag village (posted here)
• Bupesh Seethalla completed final 3-D plant updates to the Earthbag Village central ring (see below)
• Devin Porter completed the rest of the earthbag village in 3-D
• Philip Gill finished more details on the 2nd set of furniture designs for the Earthbag Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:32

• Completed more 3-D details (see below)
• Completed 40% of the Duplicable City Center Open Source Portal redesign (behind the scenes)
• Karl Harris finished a redesign of all 4 storage areas adjacent to the stairs, plus the 4th floor bathrooms (see below)

GLOBAL COLLABORATION OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @6:46

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 completed the Values Subject visual representation:

Education for Life – Completed Values Subject “Molecule” (click to enlarge)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 finished adding all the Tropical Atrium plants, trees, and slopes by the pathway in 3-D:

Tropical Atrium in 3-D with Added Plants – Click for the Open Source Planting and Harvesting Page

David Sweet (Architect – DSweet.biz) also completed the Large-scale Aquapini initial roof plan, CAD floor plan, and cross section in CAD:

Aquapini CAD Export 2-10-14 – Click to Enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 the core team took the combined work of Bupesh Seethalla (BupeshSeethala.com) and Devin Porter (DevinPorter.com) and created our first realistic renders to the Earthbag Village:

Earthbag Village Central Ring and Tropical Atrium Render – 2/20/14 (click to enlarge)

Devin Porter (DevinPorter.com) also completed the full Earthbag Village layout in 3-D:

Complete Earthbag Village Layout in 3-D – Click to Enlarge

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) also finished the 2nd set of furniture for the Earthbag Village:

Earthbag Village furniture designs – Click to Enlarge

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are forwarding a global collaboration of sustainable communities 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 completed the spa, indoor/outdoor natural pool transition, fixed a conflict we had with the rinse-off showers, removed windows and added doors to the south-facing cupola, and installed elevator doors to all 4 levels:

Duplicable City Center 3-D Export: 2-10-14 (click to enlarge)

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) also redesigned and added access to the storage and elevator machinery room on all 4 floors. He also redesigned the 4th floor bathrooms:

SEGO Center Storage Room Update CAD Export 2-10-14 – Click for the Open Source Hub

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