One CommunityImproving Life on Earth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #55
One Community is building open source and free-shared DIY blueprints, tools, tutorials, and resources for improving life on Earth for everyone and everything through a philosophy of living and creating for The Highest Good of All:
- 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#55) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 10th, 2014:
Improving Life on Earth
One Community Weekly Progress Update #55
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH INTRO @1:00
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:42
- Finished the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (see below)
- Completed 90% of the Art/Music and Trade Skills webpage
- Completed the rest of the Health Subject research (topic and images behind the scenes)
- Researched another 225 images for the Science Subject Molecule (behind the scenes)
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:53
- Completed more light studies for the aquapinis and walipinis (see below)
- Began putting the first Zen Aquapini into 3-D, which you can see on the written blog (see below)
- Added all the goat breed specifics, feed costs, and other resource details to the open source goats page
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47
- Finished the Systems Engineering approach to building the Earthbag Village: GO HERE
- Created a new open source furniture portal for sharing the custom earthdome home furniture
- Philip Gill finished the first layout plans for earthdome home recreation spaces (see below)
- Victor Herber also continued calculations and design progress on the vermiculture toilet designs (see below)
- Bupesh Seethala finished about 50% of the 3-D plant placement for the complete outer ring of the Earthbag Village (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:55
- Completed pillar, roof, door, bathroom, and storage details (see below)
- Completed another 20% of the planting plan for this structure (70% done)
- Joel Newman began adding our plant selections to the real-to-life renders of this structure (see below)
IMPROVING LIFE ON EARTH SUMMARY: @7:08
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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
We are improving life on Earth 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 last week the core team finished the Art/Music and Trade Skills subject image (and 90% of the webpage). Here it is:
Art/Music and Trade Skills Subject Image – Click to visit the Arts and Trades page with an image you can enlarge
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
We are improving life on Earth 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: Aquapini & walipini open source hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Aquapini & walipini planting and harvesting | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium P&H
This last week the core team completed more light studies to explore exactly how much direct sunlight each area of the aquapini and walipini structures will get throughout the year. Here are the results of those studies (showing direct sunlight only) broken down by season:
Seasonal Direct Sunlight Study – Aquapini and Walipini
Here are the results for the entire year:
Yearly Direct Sunlight Study – Aquapini and Walipini
We also began putting the first elements of the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapinis into 3-D:
Zen Aquapini Design 3-D in progress
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
We are improving life on Earth 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 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 last week Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) began working on the two furniture designs you see below. These are optional designs for adding a recreation and/or dining dome. Configuration 1 (the images on the left) takes off on the children/student model and uses the built-in bookcases as the back for a TV/entertainment stand on one side and fold out or trundle bed/sofa on the other, with the same chifferobe and two desks at the back. There is also a single ‘armchair’ that folds out into a single bed. One of the purposes behind this configuration is to provide sleeping space for guests.
In the second one (images on the right), Philip has created a curved sofa that can be configured with either a low coffee table (also in the pictures on the left) or a more substantial dining/conference table around which the users can put additional chairs. It also includes the chifferobe and the TV/entertainment unit.
Optional Furniture Designs for adding a Recreation and/or Dining Dome
Victor Herber also continued work on the vermiculture toilet designs. Here you can see the most recent calculations:
Most Recent Vermiculture Toilet Calculations
Also some of the design details taking shape in the form of specifics related to exploring weld points, how the trays will be guided, and our first iteration of how the trays will be able to be jacked up for removal of the bottom one:
Vermiculture Toilet Tray Designs
Bupesh Seethala finished about 50% of the 3-D plant placement for the outer ring of the Earthbag Village:
3-D Plant Placement for the Outer Ring of the Earthbag Village – 50% complete
DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS
We are improving life on Earth through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center open source hub
This last week the core team completed the addition of needed support pillars throughout the building:
Additional Needed Support Pillars throughout the Duplicable City Center
We also added in a new roof to the elevator and stair area to the 4th floor, a bunch of door and bathroom details, and a small floor addition and stair-access storage area:
Other Duplicable City Center updates for the week of 3-10-14
Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) continues to create the real-to-life renders and has also started adding in the sketchup plants we researched to match our planting plan:
Continued Creation of Real-to-Life Renders of Duplicable City Center
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