Give People What They Want – Change the World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #42

Posted on December 17, 2013 by One Community

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One Community Weekly Progress Update #42

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

Overview of this week’s world-changing progress @2:45
Giving people what they want as a path to global transformation @8:25
Education for Life program update @11:50
Food infrastructure retaining walls done in 3D @18:55
Food infrastructure pre-engineering starter and testing houses done in 3D @20:50
We’ve added 11 more complete plant details to the Food Forest page @23:25
Calculating all Food Infrastructure nursery supply details has begun @25:20
The point of Highest Good food @26:20
Formed the necessary partnership with the local fish and game for mussel harvesting @27:25
Earthbag Village – Philip Gill has finished the first furniture layout @29:10
Dave Walen wraps up the Straw Bale Village – new section rough below @30:38
SEGO Center: beginning CAD update – overhaul of floors in progress @32:00
Welcome to The Evolver Network as our newest partners @35:00
Objectively measuring the value of fulfilled living and the ACE App @35:15
How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help @45:20

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD

Aquapini and walipini food infrastructure continues to progress in 3D. This week the team finished the south-slope retaining walls that will provide maximum growing space and sun exposure to all the aquaponics and north-wall plants.

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Aquapini south-sloped wall completed in 3D – Click for the open source design page

We also finished the initial 3D design of the starter-houses that will also be used to test 5 different roofing materials for the south wall.

Initial 3D designs for the R&D starter houses that will also help us test roof materials – Click to Enlarge

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING

Housing capable of supporting the world’s population sustainably, ethically, and affordably.

EARTHBAG VILLAGE

This last week Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design), with some help from Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist), finished the first Earthbag Village furniture designs. Here they are!

Earthbag Village Furniture Designs – Click to visit the open source portal with images you can enlarge

STRAW BALE VILLAGE

Dave Walen (Architectural Drafter & Designer and owner of Dave Philip Walen Design) is wrapping up his outstanding contribution to the Straw Bale Village. Here is a final section rough from him and he’s now working on the several pages of renders we’ll need to communicate the next needed steps to the person we will find to help finish this amazing work: