More Good Things in Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #317

More good things in life seems like a worthwhile goal. Sustainability can support this by reducing our living expenses. Community can support this by better meeting our emotional needs. One Community is designing open source and free-shared teacher/demonstration hubs to demonstrate and share both as replicable components of a global collaboration 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

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 April 21st, 2019 edition (#317) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

More Good Things in Life
One Community Progress Update #317

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

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:10

• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; finishing the housing dome structures and working on the new doors and above-door window designs (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 47th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions; creating a new “Pro Tip” icon (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 33rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:30

• Continued the process of 3D modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library (see below)
• Created a template and started testing different colors combinations for the sun graphic we’d like on the City Center Library wall and Social Dome floor (see below)
• Redid the AutoCAD lighting specifics for the City Center Library to match the recent interior design updates (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 112th week volunteering by re-modeling the library in DIALux to test these new furniture layouts and developing the lighting designs (see below)
• Anvita Kumari Pandey continued helping with the Duplicable City Center Costs; researching new LED bulb options and continued updating the paint, primer, and sealer costs and area calculations (see below)
• Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details (see below)
• Sneha Dongre continued with her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn began researching the most sustainable hand dryer options for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:54

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 15th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:47

• With over 8 years of development invested in the Education for Life component, this part of One Community is now complete enough to no longer focus and report on it with weekly updates. That is, of course, until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students. Visit the Education section below for links to all the completed elements of this component and details on the final remaining action items for this area of One Community before moving onto the property and fully launching it.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:53

• Core team working with Brian Gilb continued with our 2nd week of updating our business plan and editing related content to simplify several of associated overview pages (see below)
• Emilio Nájera created the campaigns for the Sustainable Community Building, Taking care of Earth, Water-Saving Toilets, and Water-Saving Shower Heads (see below)
• Jin Hua helped review Emilio’s work and created another tutorial video to help Emilio continue to refine the ads as he posts them (see below)

MORE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE SUMMARY: @14:05

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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, Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #155 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was finishing the housing dome structures and working on the new doors and above-door window designs.

Finished Housing Dome Structures and Worked on New Doors and Windows – Click for Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 47th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating a new “Pro Tip” icon that will include a QR code for additional web and video tutorials for improving the designs and another round of additions and updates to the electrical details. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 33rd week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he added cost analysis details for the nails that pass the engineering tests and finished the final version of the tutorial for the nail and rebar selection and spacing tool by adding cell number references and final content details. You can see this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Structural Engineering Research and Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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, the core team continued the process of 3D modeling the new Duplicable City Center interior design details for the library. This week we updated the texture for the brown sofa’s pillows to leather, changed the color of the green bean bag to red, and added books to the bookshelves on the right side. We also added a 1″ divider between the floor colors and placed different color pads on the bench.

Continued Modeling the New Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details for Library – Click to Visit

And the core team created a template and started testing different color combinations for the sun graphic we’d like on the City Center Library wall and Social Dome floor.

Started Testing Sun Graphic Color Combinations for Library Wall and Social Dome Floor – Click for City Center

The core team also redid the AutoCAD lighting specifics for the City Center Library to match the recent interior design updates.

Redid AutoCAD Lighting Specifics for City Center Library – Click for Page

And then Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 112th week volunteering by re-modeling the library in DIALux to test these new furniture layouts and developing the lighting designs. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Developing Lighting Designs by Re-modeling Library in DIALux – Click for City Center

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued helping with the Duplicable City Center Costs. This week she researched new LED bulb options and continued updating the paint, primer, and sealer costs and area calculations. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with the Duplicable City Center Costs – Click for City Center

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was floor, furniture, and table research and finalizing the windows for the Social and Dining Dome storyboards, some of which you can see under development here.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was researching solutions to dome-design and import challenges with ETABs, then switching to SAP2000 and working on newly identified AutoCAD errors when importing there. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping with Duplicable City Center Structural Details – Click for Page

Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 14th week as a researcher with our team. This week she began researching the most sustainable hand dryer options for the upcoming most sustainable hand dryer options page. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Began Researching Hand Dryer Options for Most Sustainable Hand Dryer Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in life 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 writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan. We continued revising our goat care details by reviewing “Our Daily Goat Routine at Chick-a-Woof Ranch” video that focuses primarily on one farm’s daily goat routine, and then transcribing the steps and adding them to our Goggle Doc. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued with Behind-the-scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan for Various Stages of Development – Click to Visit

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 15th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. This week he finished final edits and additions to wrap up his part of this open source component.

Finished Final Edits and Additions to Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping people achieve more good things in 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 week the core team working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) continued with our 2nd week of updating our business plan and editing related content to simplify several of associated overview pages. This week’s focus was rewriting the Values page and writing draft 1 of the SWOT Analysis, Open Source Library Charter, and Village Construction Charter. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Updating Our Business Plan and Editing Related Content – Click for Home Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 27th week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was creating the campaigns for the Sustainable Community Building, Taking care of Earth, Water-Saving Toilets, and Water-Saving Shower Heads. You can see some of this work here.

Created New Campaigns for Four Pages – Click for Site Map Page

And Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) helped review Emilio’s work and created another tutorial video to help Emilio continue to refine the ads as he posts them.

Reviewed Emilio’s Work and Created Tutorial Video to Help Refine the Ads – Click for Site Map Page

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