Helping People Make a New Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #58

One Community is purposed for helping people make a new life through open source and free-sharing do-it-yourself tools, tutorials, resources, plans, and instructions for all areas of fulfilled and sustainable living. Our goal is to leverage the personal and global benefits of this style of living so we can create positive and permanent global transformation 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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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 (#58) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of March 31st, 2014:

Helping People Make a New Life
One Community Weekly Progress Update #58

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

MAKE A NEW LIFE INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:45

• Finished the Health Subject webpage
• Finished the English Subject cross-checking with the California Core Standards (behind-the-scenes)
• Finished all research for the Science Subject Molecule

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:40

• Continued progress on the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design (see below)
• Added the roof and created high-quality renders – central area plants are next (see below)
• Updated our open source hoop house portal
• Created our open source large-scale gardening page and added our first section of content: Beans (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:32

• Bupesh Seethala helped us create new Earthbag Village renders (see below)
• Populated our open source architectural file sharing and brainstorming group on Facebook
• Created the Earthbag Village fire and emergency medical plan (behind the scenes)
• Victor Herber finished the vermiculture toilet structural engineering calculations for the frame (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:13

• Creating a Dining Dome internal render (see below)
• Began our work with P2S Engineering on the heating, cooling, and energy specifics for this structure
• Karl Harris completed more work on the elevations in CAD. Here are some screenshots of Karl’s work in progress on those details. (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:16

• Created a Highest Good society summary poster (see below)
• Finished a complete rewrite and update of our values page covering Love and Connection
  
• Finished a complete rewrite of our values page covering Evolving Sustainability
• Updated the Highest Good Network page content and images (see below)

MAKE A NEW LIFE SUMMARY: @8:16

• How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

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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: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team made more progress on the Aesthetic and Diversity-focused Zen Aquapini Design in 3-D. You can see that here where we added a built-in bench, a table and chairs in the corner, resized the sump and adjusted the water levels, eliminated the water trough around the perimeter, added piping, and added plants on the pond and terraces:

Zen Aquapini Sketchup Export – Click to visit page

We then created this new render showing the addition of some of what we’ll be planting in this structure:

Zen Aquapini Render, Click to visit page

We also created a new open source large-scale gardening page. Behind the scenes we’ve completed the initial research on heirloom carrots, cole crops, beats, celery, corn, cucumbers, and eggplant. On the page we’ve already added the specifics of our organic and heirloom bean selections – 32 different varieties of beans from around the world with 10 featured to show the diversity we’ll be growing, testing, and developing through our open source botanical garden model:

Beans, Large-Scale Gardening – Click to visit page

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 the core team created complete village renders of the plant details added by Bupesh Seethala (Architectural Drafter, Designer, and 3-D Visualizer – BupeshSeethala.com) and the village 3-D design mostly created by Devin Porter (3D Graphics Design Specialist – DevinPorter.com):

Earthbag Village Renders of the Plant Plan – Click to visit page

Victor Herber finished the vermiculture toilet structural engineering calculations needed for us to finalize the foundational designs for the removable trays and separate removable tray frames:

Vermiculture Toilet Removable Tray Designs – Click to visit page

Here are the calculations:

Vermiculture Toilet Structural Engineering Calculations – Click to visit page

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

One Community is focusing on components to help people make a new life 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 our first internal render of this structure. It shows the Dining Dome with the kitchen in the background and dining in the foreground:

First Internal Render of the Duplicable City Center – Click to visit page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) continued work on the elevations for this structure too. Here is his most recent screenshot of work-in-progress:

Duplicable City Center continued examples of Elevations in CAD – Click to visit page

One Community is focusing on components to help people make a new life 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

This last week the core team created this summary poster for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge that we entered:

Summary Poster – Click to enlarge (then click new image again)

We also update the Highest Good Network page content and images to include these two images:

Time Tracking and Reports Function for All Projects and Project Teams – Click to visit page

Integration with the Education Program and All Other Open Source Components – Click to visit page

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