One CommunityMaximizing Sustainability Evolution – One Community Weekly Progress Update #219
Open source and free-shared sustainable food, energy, and housing infrastructure is one path to maximizing sustainability evolution within our lifetime. Adding education, sustainable economics, and social architecture can further this goal by making sustainability more attractive to the average person. In this way, One Community is building a global all-volunteer team collaborating to create a self-replicating model for positive and permanent global change 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. This is the June 4th, 2017 edition (#219) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Maximizing Sustainability Evolution
One Community Progress Update #219
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION INTRO: @0:35
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:39
- Created 7 new eco-laundry icons and new eco-laundry header image (see below)
- Updated the Earthbag Village living dome beds render (see below)
- Created new Earthbag Village furniture header (see below)
- Created new Tree House Village layout for the 7 villages online book (see below)
- Integrated a new search engine into the Straw Bale Village open source hub and updated that page (see below)
- Continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files (see below)
- Alena Thompson completed her 16th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
- Christian Ojeda completed his 16th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
- Hamilton Mateca finished his 43rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
- Guy Grossfeld continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village furniture and building textures (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @11:03
- Created initial image collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei, Shuna Ni, and Aravind Vasudevan continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
- Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (see below)
- Ramya also worked on developing the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)
- Shubham also worked on developing the wind power tutorial (see below)
- Jin Yu completed her 15th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial (see below)
- Jennifer Zhou helped create this first round of website content for the eco-laundry page (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @12:50
- Created 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @13:15
- Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
- Continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @14:05
- Ashwin Patil,working with the core team, continued helping develop the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate (see below)
MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABILITY EVOLUTION SUMMARY: @14:25
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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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The core team created 7 new eco-laundry icons….
Created 7 New Eco-Laundry Icons – Click for Page
Created New Eco-Laundry Header Image – Click for Page
Updated Earthbag Village Living Dome Beds Render – Click for Page
Created New Earthbag Village Furniture Header – Click for Page
Created New Tree House Village Layout for 7 Villages Online Book – Click for Page
Integrated New Search Engine Into Straw Bale Village Open Source Hub – Click for Page
The core team also continued updating and revising the Earthbag Village open source AutoCAD files, making them clearer and easier to read.
Continued Updating and Revising the Earthbag Village AutoCAD Files – Click for Page
Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was adding more details to the related calculations and beginning the process of final renders for the final presentation.
Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was the initial layout for the piping that will supply the fountains and spigots.
Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click for Eco-Toilet Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 71 of Dean’s work that continued developing the lighting and texture details for renders of the Northwest residential wing, as shown here.
Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village – Click to Visit Page
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 43rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was continued work on the landscaping elevation, textures, and layout details around the meditation labyrinth, as shown here.
Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page
And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the updates to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) furniture and building textures, as shown here.
Continued with Updates to Tree House Village Furniture and Building Textures – Click for Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 created initial image collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial.
Created Initial Image Collages for the City Center DIY Pipe Furniture – Click to Visit Page
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer), Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD), and Aravind Vasudevan (BA Mechanical Engineering) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations, roof design updates, and exploring wood connections and a wood frame option to replace our original plan for steel.
Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the City Center electrical design and tutorials with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant. Here are pictures from our weekly collaborative call continuing to discuss and refine the overall layout:
Continued Working on the City Center Electrical Design and Tutorials – Click for Page
Here are pictures of Ramya‘s work this week developing the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial behind the scenes.
In Process Developing the Photovoltaic Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Solar Energy Maintenance Page
Here are pictures of Shubham‘s work this week developing the wind power tutorial behind the scenes.
Worked on Developing the Wind Power Tutorial Behind the Scenes – Click for Wind Energy Maintenance Page
Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 15th week working on the City Center Footers, Foundation, and Flooring tutorial. This week’s focus was writing more content for the water proofing and workflow sections, some of which you can see in these behind-the-scenes screenshots.
Continued Working on Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details for the City Center – Click for Page
And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create this first round of website content for the eco-laundry page.
Helped Create First Round of Website Content for Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 created 3 additional new header images for the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, as you see here:
Created Additional Images for the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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 last week the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Civilization Lesson Plan and the Courage Lesson Plan. This brings us to 24 of 52 finished, which is 46.1% completion.
Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page
We also continued working on the renders for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome feature. This included using the projector option of the lights tool of Twilight Render to generate a couple of renders with different projected images, as shown here.
Continued Working on Renders for Ultimate Classroom Projection Dome – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is maximizing sustainability evolution 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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Working with the core team, Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also continued helping develop the new search engines that will make our site easier to navigate. This week we finished the Straw Bale Village search engine and another round of review, edits, and updates to the City Center and Earthbag Village search engines. You can see some of this work in progress here.
Continued Helping Develop the New Search Engines for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village
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