Living Simply – A Key to Happiness – One Community Weekly Progress Update #260

Is living simply a key to happiness? We think it is worth finding out and we’re creating open source and free-shared designs to help others who agree. They are DIY replicable, sustainable, and cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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 18th, 2018 edition (#260) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living Simply – A Key to Happiness
One Community Progress Update #260

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

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:24

• Created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page (see below)
• Finished the rest of the Tree House Village Cost Analysis page (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his second week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village AutoCAD layout updates (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village residential designs and renders (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:32

• 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: @10:30

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:20

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:57

• Vivian Rodrigues finished translating the Methodology page in Portuguese (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, Priyanka Singh, and Asha Tadimari continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

LIVING SIMPLY – A KEY TO HAPPINESS SUMMARY: @12:59

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply – a key to happiness 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 created the first 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page, some of which you can see here.

Created the First 30% of the Cob Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished the rest of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) Cost Analysis page, some of which you can see here.

Finished the Tree House Village Cost Analysis Page – Click to Visit

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his second 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 some of Mike’s second round of corrections within the model.

Continued Helping with Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) AutoCAD layout updates. Here is update 105 of Dean’s work. This week he created the rooftop plan to match his 3D designs and continued development of the landscaping details.  

Continued with Cob Village AutoCAD Layout Updates – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 16th week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he focused on adding water details to the two renders shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village Render Additions – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 9th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential designs and renders. This week she continued finalizing the final texturing and lighting details for the complete interior, as shown here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Designs – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply – a key to happiness 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 Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei(Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by addressing the areas identified by the core team. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

David Olivero (Mechanical Engineer & Data Scientist) completed his 14th week helping with the HVAC Designs for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was more research, starting to create the HVAC zonal details, and initial HVAC layout sketches.

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

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 66th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was correcting errors and doing additional calculations on the lighting spreadsheet shown here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply – a key to happiness 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 created the initial 2-3 person due-diligence food rollout plan and action list and continued to develop the implementation details for 10-20 people, as shown here.

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

The, the core team also researched soil lab equipment needs and costs, as shown here, determining that the costs make external testing a better option for food rollout plans like ours.

Researched Soil Lab Equipment Needs and Costs – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued research and design of the open source Permaculture Design for the property. What you see here is our first sharing of some of the data we are gathering for the design.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply – a key to happiness 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. We created new imagery explaining the most complex steps of the design process and finished the second 50% of the “Intermediate Learners” example and all of the “Advanced Learners – Accelerated” example.

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating open source blueprints for living simply – a key to happiness 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

Vivian Rodrigues (Translator) continued helping translate our overview pages. This week she finished the Methodology page, as shown here in Portuguese.

Finished Translating the Methodology Page in Portuguese – Click to Visit

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 made changes to the user profile to support read-only mode when a non-administrator user views a colleague’s profile, made Timelog changes to remove the ability to edit action items and notifications when not viewing own profile, updated the code to bring up bigger badge images with new description details, and completed the leaderboard development and presentation – which you can see here.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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