Every one of us is a contributor to our local communities and the global environment. Human ecosystem construction takes a proactive and regenerative approach to this contribution. Through permaculture and holistic sustainability practices, we can live better lives while also being part of the global solution.
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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 January 13, 2019 edition (#303) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION INTRO: @0:34
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:45
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:53
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @9:15
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:10
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:30
HUMAN ECOSYSTEM CONSTRUCTION SUMMARY: @12:54
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One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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:
This week the core team fixed our Highest Good Housing online book functionality and created a short code for more easily updating the related code in the future.
The core team also finished updating the complete Vermiculture Bathroom page. This week we added all the design-version 2 graphics and details. You can see some of this work here.
Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) created the 6 icons shown here. These include the icon for the new most sustainable toilet options page and icons for all the other upcoming sustainable infrastructure pages.
Created 6 Icons Including the Icon for the New Most Sustainable Toilet Options Page – Click to Visit
Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 35th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was updating the parts lists, graphics, and layouts to reflect new design changes and brainstorming a new design for the top part of the bed that will house the lights and related wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #145 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was continued 3D-model updates to the entryway and windows.
One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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:
This week, the core team finished our final review of the City Center lighting spreadsheet, light placement, symbols, and layers in AutoCAD, and correlating website details. Next is integration of the changes still needed and we’d say we are about 90% complete with these designs.
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs with additional details for the City Center HVAC Designs. She improved categorization of all items and added more images and reference URLs. She also researched HVAC parts lists and specs sheets.
David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) continued helping finish the City Center HVAC Designs. This week he wrote more content for the tutorial, some of which you can see here.
And James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 6th week researching the best, safest, and most sustainable paints. This week he finished draft 1 of the tutorial for purchasing responsible paints. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.
One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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:
This week, the core team finished work on the open source Apiary page. This included adding more resources and completing the section with instructions for building your own hive. You can see some of this work here.
The core team also did a complete update of the open source goats page. This included adding all our latest research, new graphics, and new resources. You can see some of this here.
And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week he created the 19 icons shown here.
One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
This week the core team worked on the structural aspects of the Ultimate Classroom. We cleaned up all the content that needed to be removed so we can focus on the structural design and then updated the outside walls to use 2x6s for the frame and added all the planned 2’x3′ windows.
One Community is assisting human ecosystem construction 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:
This week Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 13th week as part of the marketing team. This week he added additional keywords for each of the Highest Good Housing models and also started all of the research for two of the Highest Good Education pages. You can see some of this work here.
In addition to this, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), Jordan Miller (Web Developer), and Tyler Calvert (Full-stack Software Engineer) continued developing the software. This week the team updated our workweek definition from Monday to Sunday to Sunday to Saturday, updated all our Readme content for new developers, fixed a Redux error, added Post/Put actions and reducers, updated routes, fixed a security vulnerability and improved team access and monitoring to address these in the future, reset the GitHub flow, and continued working on rewriting our leaderboard to use Redux. You can see some of this work here.
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