Human Eco-Synthesis – One Community Weekly Progress Update #261

It’s time for a human eco-synthesis capable of regenerating our planet through intelligent and conscientious stewardship. One Community is forwarding this process through open source and sustainable approaches to all aspects of living. A global cooperative of teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities are purposed to lead the human eco-synthesis and regenerative process.

• 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 March 25th, 2018 edition (#261) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Human Eco-Synthesis
One Community Progress Update #261

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

HUMAN ECO-SYNTHESIS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:44

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:58

• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• David Olivero completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:11

• Continued work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis (see below)
• Continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:01

• Continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:36

• Ashwin Patil tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

HUMAN ECO-SYNTHESIS SUMMARY: @11:46

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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

This week the core team finished the rest of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Finished the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also developed the next steps for the rest of the Shipping Container Village layout within the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Continued Working on Shipping Container Village Layout Within the 7-Villages Book – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 106 of Dean’s work. This week he continued development of the landscaping details, added the playground equipment, and roads.

Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 48th week of work that created this version 1.0 of Zones 6 and 19.

Continued Her Work on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click to Visit

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 10th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she created the three final renders you see here. These renders are now live on the website also.

Created New Tree House Village Residents Render – Click for Page

Created New Tree House Village Residents Render – Click for Page

Created New Tree House Village Residents Render – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei(Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. This included creating a dead load calculation table for the restroom on first floor, adding functional area figures for second and third floor, revising the beam design chapter of the live load and dead load report, and adding a beam layout sketch to the appendix.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 15th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was further research into minisplit application and beginning the AutoCAD design process, as shown here.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 67th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finishing fixing errors and filling in the final details on the lighting spreadsheet and beginning testing different lighting strategies for the basement. 

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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 work on the complete Highest Good food rollout plan and cost analysis. We began writing detailed information of activities for the initial 3 people, and added items and links to the details list for 20-50 people, as shown here.

Continued Work on the Complete Highest Good Food Rollout Plan and Cost Analysis – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and development of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. This week we started evolving our zone plan by further exploring property elevations, water flow, road access, and structure placement.  

Continued Research and Design of the Open Source Permaculture Design for the Property – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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 continued developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial page. This week we wrote the final example lesson plan called the “Advanced Learners – Reserved” example. You can see some of this new content here.

Continued Developing the Lesson Plans How-to tutorial Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating human eco-synthesis 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

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) tested approaches to improve our search engine usability on mobile devices. What you see on the left of this picture is the new mobile presentation. On the right of the picture is the desktop version.

Tested Approaches to Improve our Search Engine Usability on Mobile Devices – Click for Home Page

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 Asha Tadimari (Software Engineer). This week the team created the time log screen, upgraded Ember CLI version from 2.17 to 3.0, fixed the errors in the radio buttons showing the active/inactive status of the project, implemented the functionalities of canceling tasks, fields editable by admins only, tooltip hover and transition back to the projects page once the project is created/saved…. and we launched beta version 1.0 of the software for initial testing!

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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