One CommunityLiving with More fun in Our Lives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #281
Living with more fun in our lives seems like a worthwhile goal. It’s even better if this can be accomplished while also reducing our ecological footprint, reducing our cost of living, and making a positive and objectively measurable difference in the world. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All and we’re creating open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of the living models necessary to demonstrate and replicate such a lifestyle.
- 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
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
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 August 12, 2018 edition (#281) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Living with More fun in Our Lives
One Community Progress Update #281
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES INTRO: @0:34
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:16
- Outlined several alternative options for the Earthbag Village and Dean Scholz will be taking over on these (see below)
- Working with Michael Hagler, the core team updated another 3 spreads for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
- Mike Kowalski continued working on the Earthbag Village and finished two additional renders (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:14
- Began building the Duplicable City Center Time Investment page (see below)
- Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Anvita Kumari Pandey completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs (see below)
- Dehua Feng completed his 15th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @8:48
- Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @9:31
- Began work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:06
LIVING WITH MORE FUN IN OUR LIVES SUMMARY: @10:28
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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:
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- 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
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This week, the core team outlined several alternative options for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1), as shown here. Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) will be taking over on these.
Outlined Several Alternative Options for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page
The core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also updated another 3 spreads for the 7-villages book we’re developing, you can see these updated pages here and now on the website also.
Updated Another 3 Spreads for the 7-Villages Book – Click for Housing Page
Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 15th week helping update our renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer. Mike continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and finished the two renders you see here, both of which are now updated on the website also.
Earthbag Village Communal Shower and Net-Zero Bathroom Render of View Looking Northeast – Click for Page
Earthbag Village Heat-Recycling Showers Render- View Looking South – Click to Enlarge
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week the core team began building the Duplicable City Center Time Investment page. This week’s focus was creating the initial formatting, index and jump-to links, and writing the Overview and Why Open Source this sections. We’d say this brings this page to 30% completion.
Began Building the Time Investment Page – Click to Visit
The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 89th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was finalizing the lighting tests shown here for the Living Dome sunrise patio. This image is now on the website also.
Finalized Lighting Tests for Living Dome Sunrise Patio – Click for Duplicable City Center Lighting Page
Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs. This week’s focus was continued cost analysis for the basement retaining wall and beginning work on costing out the columns and flooring specifics. You can see some of this work here.
Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Materials and Costs – Click for Page
Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 15th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week’s focus was finishing the gallons-per-minute branches and elevation research for the complete system and updating the first 10 pages of the tutorial, some of which you can see here.
Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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:
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- 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
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This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we reviewed and summarized the worm videos. The videos demonstrate that worm farms made from PVC pipe and 5 gallon buckets are suitable for non-winter conditions; and in cold climates, a basement would work well but heat and constant feeding are necessary. You can see some of this work here.
Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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:
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- Learn about the components: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
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This week, the core team began work on the Surpassing Educational Standards page. We redid the formatting and overall outline, updated the initial graphics, added a resources section, and rewrote the What and Why sections. We would say this brings the page to about 30% complete.
Began Work on Surpassing Educational Standards Page – Click to Visit
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community thinks we should all be living with more fun in our lives 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:
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- 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
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