How Can You Change the World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #13

Posted on May 27, 2013 by One Community

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This week’s video goes over the details of how many people are working on all the various pieces of the project, our commitment to open source usability of everything we do (@12:15), how we see ourselves as a stepping stone to the Venus project (@16:00), and a great description of how the open source education for life program will work and provide usable lesson plans for virtually any subject and applicable in almost any environment (@19:30).

How Can You Change the World
One Community Weekly Progress Update #13

HIGHEST GOOD LIFESTYLE CONSIDERATIONS

We’ve complete our Highest Good Lifestyle Considerations page covering the areas beyond Highest Good infrastructure, Highest Good society, and a resource based economy that we consider important for One Community to address so that we demonstrate the most comprehensive approach possible for Highest Good of All living. This page will continuously evolve as on-going and globally collaborative open source portal to the research and development of One Community and any collaborative partners interested in helping us address Highest Good living in areas beyond our core open source project-launch blueprinting foundations covering everything from cleaning supplies and hygiene supplies to electronics and machinery.

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE HIGHEST GOOD LIFESTYLE CONSIDERATIONS PAGE

PROPERTY AND FUNDING UPDATE

The owner of the property we have been working on purchasing for the last two years has offered us amazing seller financing and given us an opportunity to re-engage at a new level those we know who are helping us try and find funding. We still haven’t found the funding we need, but this seller financing option has definitely opened up possibilities and so we are seeking with new vigor the person we know is out there to help us either as a financial investment or donation to our 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

As part of this we are making significant updates to these three funding related pages:

INVESTOR OVERVIEW ● LOCATION DETAILS ● FUNDING OPTIONS PAGE

TROPICAL ATRIUM PROGRESS

The Tropical Atrium is moving forward and this week we’ve finished adding all the associated links to Wikipedia for every plant on the Tropical Atrium Planting and Harvesting page. We’ve also completed as a ton more formatting updates and additional behind the scenes organization and simplification to make all easier to use and understand once we put it up.

Here’s an example of what all 57 of the plants will look like on this page when completed:

#2T :: Celosia argentea (Plumed Cockscomb)

Celosia argentea are brilliantly colored plants and come in three types that are easily distinguishable from each other: plumes, crests, or spikes. These will look like plumes of jewel-colored feathers, wrinkly-looking knobs, or elongated cones. This plant loves direct sun and well-drained soil. It ranges in size from dwarf varieties (4-12”) to vigorous types over 3’ tall.

PLACEMENTS

Aside from culinary uses, primarily we will grow this for its accent color and the fact that these annuals (sometimes classified as short lived perennials) allow us to add variety and constant change from year to year by rotating various colors in different locations. This plant is not labelled on the map but because of its tolerance for direct sun, anywhere on the lower fingers near the middle of the terraces will suit it well.

CONSIDERATIONS

- - Plants will not tolerate wet, soggy soil.
  - Look best when massed in a large groups.
  - High-impact color all summer long with little to no maintenance.
  - Easily grown from seed and takes 90 days to flower after planting.
  - Remove central leader to insure adequate lateral branching and height control.
  - Leaves, tender stems, and young flowers are boiled or cooked with other ingredients

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Wikipedia – Celosia argentea

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TROPICAL ATRIUM PLANTING AND HARVESTING PAGE IN PROGRESS

SEGO CENTER DUPLICABLE CITY HUB

- - Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) and Andrew Sadera (Architect Drafter and Designer) continue to move forward on the SEGO Center City Hub 3D and Karl hopes to have a completed 3D rendering done for us by the end of this week.
- - The laundry details were also completed thanks to the diligent work of Western States Design and Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com) but A) needed some updates and B) contained a copyright and proprietary information clause from her vendor that renders them useless to us. We’re now waiting to see if we can get that removed so we can open source those details. If we can’t get a waiver of that clause, then we’ll need to start over on that piece of the SEGO Center.
- - Aravind Batra (Electrical Engineer, LEED AP, Principal of P2S Engineering) and James Del Monaco (Mechanical Engineer, LEED AP, Sustainability director of P2S Engineering) additionally completed their recommendations for us with regards to the SEGO Center glazing and insulations details. For those interested, here is the download of those recommendations: SEGO Recommendations We’ll be talking with them this week to gather additional clarity and details.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD UPDATE

Charles McLean (Architecture & Urban Agriculture Designer, Professor, and owner of OM Greengroup) has said he’s completed the first generation 3D rendering of the Aquapini Design. We hope to have an export we can share of that this week as well. Here’s what it looks like in 2D:

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Here it is at the beginning stages of 3D:

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Aquapini Design Evolving in Revvit

EARTHBAG VILLAGE PROGRESS

Here is the 1st generation 3D rendering of the earthbag village domes thanks to the help of John Bassist (organizer of this e-group hub wiki as well as this Needs/Instincts Centered Economics (NICE) Facebook page). We’re now working on getting one very detailed dome and then we will duplicate this 75 times and start laying out the rest of the whole village in 3D.

OPEN SOURCE EDUCATED FOR LIFE PROGRAM

All the individual existing educational systems analysis pages are now complete (Montessori, Waldorf, Orff, Reggio, Multi-Intelligence, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and Study Tech) and we are now focusing on the Foundations of Teaching and Communicating component. Stephanie VanderKallen (Mental Health Professional and Teacher) also continues to make tremendous progress on the Evaluation and Evolution component of the Education for Life program and we’ve begun to post this work on these three new pages:

EVALUATION & EVOLUTION OVERVIEW ● ASSESSMENT ● EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT FORMS

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