Highest Good Decision Making – One Community Weekly Progress Update #265

Imagine a world where Highest Good decision making is the norm. It seems reasonable to think that one way to get there could be by providing for people’s needs through a replicable lifestyle of abundance built on thinking, creating, and acting on ideas that are already for The Highest Good. The knowledge and technology already exist to help all people and life on our shared planet while taking into account the short term and longterm impacts of our decisions. The path to achieving this has never been clearer and One Community is designing and open sourcing all the steps and components we see as helpful.

• 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 April 22nd, 2018 edition (#265) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Decision Making
One Community Progress Update #265

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

HIGHEST GOOD DECISION MAKING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:42

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:40

• Working with Jin Yu, the core team completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Enter Materials and Costs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:29

• Continued working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices (see below)
• The core team began 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: @9:47

• Finished the second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:22

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

HIGHEST GOOD DECISION MAKING SUMMARY: @11:12

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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

Began Updating the 3D Aspects of the Murphy Bed Drawers and Changing Areas – Click for Page

The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist), also completed another round of editing and testing different layout options shown here for the Compressed Earth Block Village parts of the  7-villages book we’re developing.

Continued Testing Different Layout Options for Compressed Earth Block Village Parts of the 7-Villages Book – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 4th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was simplifying the materials lists and further developing the drawers and nightstand frame pages, as shown here.

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 110 of Dean’s work. This week Dean finished the main render for the Dining Hall View from the Front Door, which you can see here. 

Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 19th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished updating this render of one of the massage rooms. This render is now updated on the website also.

Massage Room Looking South with People – Final Render – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 5th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. What you see here are two updated renders from before and a new and final render of the West Outdoor Dining Area. These are now updated on the website also.

Recycled Materials Village Outdoor Dining Area Final Renders – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 12th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she started working on the textures and other design details needed to produce final external renders. 

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 working with Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) completed a thorough review and update of the behind-the-scenes development of the City Center excavation and construction of the footer and foundation tutorial work from last week. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued with City Center Excavation and Construction Footer and Foundation Tutorial – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer), continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 71st week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was choosing and comparing a variety of different fixture types that meet the LEED criteria for diffuse lighting.

Continued Working on Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 18th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more additions and development of the HVAC zonal document and working on the Makeup Air Unit and electric boiler sizing challenges.

Continued Helping with HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was summarizing construction materials for interior equipment, taking all the dimensions from the floor plans and calculating materials as well as interior quantities for the 1st floor, and starting the same for the 2nd floor.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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 working on the Garden Tools list by adding even more tools, images, and prices. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Garden Tools List – Click for Page

The core team also began writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the second landing party group of 20 people. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Began 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 facilitating highest good decision making 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 second 50% of review, formatting, editing, and content, resources, and imagery additions to the Learning for Life Assessment Format page. You can see some of this last week’s work here and the page is now complete.

Completed the Second 50% of the Learning for Life Assessment Format Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating highest good decision making 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), Priyanka Singh (Software Developer), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added new sorting functionality to the user management table, made the administrative and social links on the user profile page clickable, tested new designs for the weekly effort gauge in the header, and added a dropdown that lists the members contributing to projects and produces a bar chart showing the total hours spent by a person every day in the current week.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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