One Community welcomes Mohammad Almuzaial to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mohammad holds a Bachelor in Architectural Engineering and Master of Science in Civil Engineering. He earned his master’s degree from USC and is a LEED GA and has 4 years of experience in the construction industry as a construction project engineer. Mohammad joined the One Community team to help finish the landscaping, walkways, drainage, and other civil engineering details for the Aquapini and Walipini structures.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MOHAMMAD!

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One Community welcomes Ziqian Zheng to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ziqian earned his Masters of Architecture degree and M.S. in Architectural Study from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ziqian is also working on getting his LEED GA. With a long lasting passion for architectural design, Ziqian desires to apply his skills to improve society through design. With these goals, Ziqian joined the One Community design team and helped finalize the Transition Kitchen designs in AutoCAD and SketchUp and created a video walkthrough, created version 2 of the Ultimate Classroom roof design in SketchUp, a video walkthrough, and the complete structure in AutoCAD, and, if time allows, will be helping with the Pallet Furniture designs and then AutoCAD plans for several structures within the Earthbag Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZIQIAN!

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The One Community model for strategic sustainable village creation is open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed to build a global cooperative of sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will teach others how to build even more teacher/demonstration hubs while expanding their open-source sustainable 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

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 January 5th, 2020 edition (#354) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Strategic Sustainable Village Creation
One Community Progress Update #354

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation 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 Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 11th week with the team. This week Oluyomi continued with the trompe and ram pump implementation research. His focus was primarily on watching videos to develop a better understanding of how both devices work so he could devise a way to use them in conjunction with each other. YouTube was the most useful source of information (which is very limited) and you can see some screenshots here from this research.

Continued with the Trompe and Ram Pump Implementation Research – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #175 of Dean’s work and the focus was adding the railings to the stairway access to the rooftop-patio and emergency-fire-exit windows to the loft areas. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation 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 working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 34th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron created a graphical zonal layout, collaborated to further revise and clarify details in the final report, and identified several areas needing updates to create an accurate and finalized final report and model. You can see some of this work here and the updates we identified as being needed have set up back a bit and we’d say we’re now about 85% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

The core team also began using this work to create the Optimizing Energy Performance (1-18 Points) section of the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling page. This week we created the table of contents and related web outline as well as the sections covering Creating the Model for Analysis, Running the Analysis, Defining the Structure’s Spaces, Lighting, Occupancy, Plug Loads, and Reducing the Energy Needs for Ventilation. You can see most of this work here and we’d say this brings this section of the page to about 10% complete.

Began Creating the Optimizing Energy Performance Section of the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation 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 creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instruction on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing building the frames for the walls and completing steps for building the roof. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 87% done.

Focused on Finishing Building the Frames for the Walls and Completing Steps for Building the Roof – Click for Chickens Page

And the core team finished edits, revisions, and formatting for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page.

Finished Edits, Revisions, and Formatting for the Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations Page – Click to Visit

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 7th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad continued working on the new site design that addresses the issue of the gravity drainage to the central pool ending so low below grade. Changing the design this past week included topography points modification, slopes change, retrofiting the walkways around the pond and their slopes, remodeling the pond and reconnecting the pipes into the pond and testing various ADA walkway options that would connect to additional seating around the upper perimeter. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 73% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 5th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on completing the study on typical Re numbers inside the climate battery pipes to determine the flow types. Seasonal temperature changes in different states and extreme conditions based on the minimum and maximum temperatures were considered. Ali also worked on developing a 2D model for CFD analysis of the aquapinis/walipinis and continued writing and revising the related content. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation 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. 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 62nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his fourth round of revisions and additions that included wall poster fixes, moving the background child, changing the focus of the foreground child, adding the central floor map toy, and other minor adjustments to shadows and other details.

Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click to Visit the Ultimate Classroom

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 8 as a member of the team and now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by completing the first version walkthrough video and skylight design. You can see some of this work here.

Completed the First Version Walkthrough Video and Skylight Design of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source plans for strategic sustainable village creation 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 created the initial setup of our Patreon account. We’ll be using this account to further build awareness of our project and raise ongoing funds for upgrading our website server and other related web expenses.

Created the Initial Setup of Our Patreon Account – Click to Visit

The core team also started fixing a Google/Mobile preview issue someone discovered and ended up spending over 7 hours improving our site speed and fixing other site errors, creating a cleaner favicon, and improving our page loading speed. As just one example, our Homepage loading speed dropped from 7.18 seconds to 2.59. You can see some of this work here.

Started Fixing a Google/mobile Preview Issue Someone Discovered – Click to Visit our Homepage

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 6th week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week Deema added a lens flare visual effect to the “that it works” text to make it stand out more, made the sequence at 1:19 longer so it’s more readable with still some room for the social media sequence, and created a new montage template with the labels to better visualize how the finished sequence will unfold. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click to Visit our Homepage

Last but not least, Alexandru-Claudiu Radulescu (Growth Hacker and fellow community builder) joined the team and researched platforms to extend our marketing reach and get funding, outlined our initial ideas for the Patreon tiers of rewards, and did an initial outline for a new 90-second promo clip we’ll be creating together. You can see some of this behind the scenes work here.

Joined the Team and Researched Platforms to Extend Our Marketing Reach and Get Funding – Click for Patreon Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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No-waste communities are one way to reduce the global buildup of trash. Through community collaboration we can create and share more comprehensive and innovative purchasing strategies, reuse models, and recycling and disposal options. What we learn can then be open sourced and free-shared to help evolve and diversify the ideas into other environments too. Problem solving and sharing solutions like this is one component of what One Community is calling living and creating 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 December 22nd, 2019 edition (#352) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

No-Waste Communities
One Community Progress Update #352

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities 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 began building the new Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. We created the basic page structure, table of contents, and social media imagery and descriptions. You can see some of this work here.

Began Building the New Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Page – Click to Visit

This week Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 9th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of the external Earthbag Village components. This week Yomi edited the wind and hydro power chapters by including more products for comparisons and to achieve more accurate estimations for price per kW. He also added the recommendations for different sized applications for both wind and hydro turbines. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Cost Analysis of the External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #173 of Dean’s work and the focus was continuing to test and develop the rooftop-patio stairway access. You can see some of this ongoing work here.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities 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 working with Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 32nd week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron added space definitions, include plug loads and occupancy graphics, and continued working together with the core team to refine and clarify the content. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 90% complete.

Continued Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for HVAC Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities 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 working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. We cleaned up our the doc by deleting all the individual tables for each breed, summarized them in a few sentences, and worked on revising the rest of the content too. We identified our top 9 videos that will be broken down into time frames regarding the chicken coop and run construction. You can see some of these developments here.

Continued Working on Our Behind-the-scenes Chicken Google Doc for Our Specific Chicken Breeds – Click for Page

And the core team finalized the rabbit hutch assembly instructions by doing a final review and edit, creating new imagery, creating the imagery that will be used to share it on the website, and creating the open source directory.

Finalized the Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content, specifically the Case Study section. This week we added content and further revised Step 1 (Assess Resources and Identify Needs) and added a new Step 0 about familiarizing yourself with the roots of the permaculture process. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content, Specifically the Case Study Section – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 5th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad input actual land coordination to obtain actual climate data to perform thermal analysis, adjusted the structures cool-air inlet heights, and finished all 4 structures’ exterior shells including: Walls, Roofs, Floors, Doors, Skylights, and Exterior Glazing. He also started modeling the interior of the botanical gardens and completed the large-scale production aquapini interior terrace levels & planter soil retaining walls and interior water storage walls & levels. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 65% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on improving the previous transient thermal 1D model. A new dehumidification model was also added to the current model. This new model accounts for the relative humidity and humidity ratio of the air at the inlet and outlet of the climate battery, and determines the rate of condensed water inside the pipes. You can see some of this work here.

Worked on Improving the Previous Transient Thermal 1D Model for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities 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. 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 60th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his second round of revisions and additions to this room.

Continued Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 6 as a member of the team now working on the the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by completing the floor plan in AutoCAD and beginning rendering for a video walkthrough.

Completed the Ultimate Classroom Floor Plan in AutoCAD and Began Rendering for a Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing no-waste communities 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he started creating the keyword list for the Earthbag Engineering Page. You can see some of this work here.

Started Creating the Keyword List for the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 5th week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week Deema continued to tweak and revise the main One Community Overview video. She created a new composite and added new clips and new transitions. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Created a New Composite and Added New Clips and New Transitions for the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Building the sustainable future that’s possible has never been as needed and accessible as it is now. We’re helping make it even more accessible and possible by designing and open source and free-sharing tools, tutorials, and DIY instructions for self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that include all aspects of sustainability. Food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more are included. We call this living and creating 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 December 15th, 2019 edition (#351) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building the Sustainable Future That’s Possible
One Community Progress Update #351

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building the sustainable future that’s possible 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 began building the new Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. We created the basic page structure, table of contents, and social media imagery and descriptions. You can see some of this work here.

Began Building the New Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

And Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 8th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi added images in the introduction of each section, a detailed paragraph description of the four roadway material options, and discussion of the compatibility of the wind and hydro power turbine compatibility for home (small scale) and community-sized (medium to large scale) usage. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #172 and the focus was testing and working on alternate 3D designs for the stairway that will provide rooftop access. This is necessary because the 2D designs did not account for the fact that the dome curves away from the stairs.

Focused on Testing and Working on Alternate 3D Designs for the Stairway – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building the sustainable future that’s possible 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 and Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research to find the right LED lights for installation overhead and along the City Center patio areas. Anvita researched lumen requirements for patios and outdoor areas and the core team reviewed this, made selections, and made related AutoCAD and spreadsheet updates. We’d say we are now about 85% complete with the lighting selection details.

Continued Research to Find the Right LED Lights for Installation Overhead and Along the City Center Patio Areas – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building the sustainable future that’s possible 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 compiling narratives and adding info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. We also added a few chicken resources such as this video regarding what to ask breeders before buying your chickens. You can see some of these behind-the-scenes developments here.

Continued Compiling Narratives for Our Chosen Chicken Breeds – Click for Page

The core team also continued creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re about 80% done.

Continued Creating the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions on Our Behind-the-scenes Google Doc – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction by organizing notes from Geoff Lawton’s videos on the topic and highlighting the information that should be added to the open source tutorial page.

Continued Developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction by Organizing Notes From Geoff Lawton’s Videos – Click for Dam Design Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 5 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week Ziqian finished his part of the development of the Transition Kitchen by wrapping up the AutoCAD drawings, SketchUp model, and demo video. We’d say this brings this component to 95% complete, all that remains is final review of the cost analysis and integration of everything into the website. We will also create detailed assembly instructions, but that will be a new action item.

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 4th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad redesigning the drainage system using PVC pipes, laid out trench French Drains, laid out the structure’s vent pipes, and outlined the drainage & ventilation components. Details used for this round of revisions are as follows: Minimum pipes slope: 1/2″ / 12”, French Drain Slope: 1/8” / 12”, Drainage & ventilation components: <140> LF 8” PVC pipe, <395> LF 4” PVC pipe, <180> LF 4” PVC perforated pipe, <7> 8” PVC Tees, <9> 8” PVC Elbows, <13> 4” PVC Elbows, <7> 8” – 4” PVC Transitions, <6> 12×12 Catch Basins, <4> 22×22 Catch Basins. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 55% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 2nd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on developing a new transient 1D model for the climate battery. The advantage of this model compared to the previous version is that the transient profile of the soil temperature can be calculated as a function of time and no iterations are required for this purpose.

Worked on Developing a New Transient 1D Model for the Climate Battery for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the sustainable future that’s possible 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. 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 building the sustainable future that’s possible 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he reviewed and analyzed the current state of the campaigns in order to get ideas for future improvement. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Our Volunteer and Donation Campaigns – Click for Helping Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 4th week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week Deema implemented new revisions to the One Community Overview video, added new clips, and created a new collage sequence in the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

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One Community welcomes Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Mechanical Engineering Graduate and Technical Writer: Yomi is an ambitious and hardworking Mechanical Engineering graduate looking to make a positive impact on society. His strengths include complex problem solving, working as part of a team, communicating effectively with others, analysing data, and technical writing. Interests include sports, technology, and personal growth. As a member of the One Community team, Yomi has helped write the content for the Earthbag Engineering page, researched and helped write the content for the Hydro Energy and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Related Landscaping pages, and is now helping research and write the content for trompe and ram pump construction and use.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YOMI!

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We’re transforming the global sustainability conversation. We think it should go beyond just food, energy, and housing and also included education, Highest Good economics, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. In support of this, we’re open sourcing DIY plans for all these areas and more. We will then use the combined plans for all of these to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to develop and open source and free-share even more DIY plans and implementation information.

• 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 December 8th, 2019 edition (#350) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Transforming the Global Sustainability Conversation
One Community Progress Update #350

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 did final updates for the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. This included minor wiring changes, checking in with two electricians willing to answer basic questions, and a final review of the current plan to confirm it is the best we can make it until we’ve got a licensed electrician willing to do a comprehensive final review and update.

Did Final Updates for the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for furniture Page

Finished the Resources, Summary, and FAQ Sections of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 7th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed the roadways, walkways, and landscaping research. Cheaper options for roadway materials and drainage solutions were discovered, decomposed granite (DG) and swales. Having completed the primary research for this part of the project, he then started doing the final review, editing, and updating all of the cost analysis data to make the information easier to understand and more presentable for the website. For example, the options for wind and hydro power plants were re-arranged in their spreadsheets from recommended choice to least recommended. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #171 and the focus was adjusting the rooftop patio height and shape and testing in 3D the emergency window exits from the 2nd floor. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 began the final review process for the energy modeling content we’ll be adding to the LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. We reviewed the complete content shown here and added all our questions and comments needed to finish it.

Reviewed the Complete Content and Added All Our Questions and Comments Needed to Finish It – Click for HVAC Page

Working off this, Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 31st week developing and refining the Energy Modeling and LEED Platinum details, answering our questions, revising his content, and adding equipment performance details. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 85% complete.

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling and LEED Platinum Details – Click for HVAC Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 compiling narratives and adding info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc for the specific chicken breeds that will be best for our project. You can see some of these behind-the-scenes portions here.

Continued Compiling Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds We Chose – Click for Page

The core team also began creating the chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. You can see some of this work here.

Began Creating the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team found a new resource for further developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction open source hub. This was two videos by Geoff Lawton about two case studies on dam/swale implementation. We took the notes shown here covering the information we though would be beneficial for the Dam webpage. Next step is the process of going through and organizing the notes.

Found a New Resource for Further Developing the DIY Dam Design and Construction Open Source Hub – Click for Dam Design Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 3rd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad completed the design and layout for the site drainage system. This included creating a linked Revit architectural model in an MEP template to layout the plumping system, laying out two 4” PVC drainage pipes to be connected to the structures to draw cool air – one from the north side drainage to the pond and another from the south side drainage to the pond, and laying out four 8” corrugated pipes that run from the trenches to the pond and each connect with one drain on the lower level using a 4” corrugated pipe. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 45% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and began work on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he began by reviewing and reorganized the previous documents containing One Community’s research on Climate Battery design. He added more notes from more recent resources  and started to evaluate and improve the current 1D thermal model for the Climate Battery. You can see some of this work here.

Began Work on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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. 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 59th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he began revisions and additions to the indigo room representing “Social Sciences.” What you see here are his first round of revisions and additions to this room.

Began Revisions and Additions to the Indigo Room Representing “Social Sciences” – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is transforming the global sustainability conversation 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued work on our volunteer and donation campaigns. This week he further refined our keywords to improve performance and address compliance issues raised by Google.

Continued Work on Our Volunteer and Donation Campaigns – Click for Helping Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 3rd week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week she made revisions to the first draft of the main overview by the core team. This included adding in new video clips, transitions, and visual effects to the video. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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Giving people what they desire is the easiest way to spread an idea. One Community is applying this to global sustainability with open source and free-shared community model for people who want sustainable and replicable food, energy, and housing. We’ve also included education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. We are combining these to help build a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to provide for more and more diverse wants, needs and environments.

• 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 December 1st, 2019 edition (#349) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Giving People What They Desire
One Community Progress Update #349

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D by providing measurements for each wire for each circuit. This identified some wires needing additional clarification, which we are working on now.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also continued construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we finished the sections covering additional recommended tests, using the gravity and snow/win/seismic loading spreadsheets, and additional soil classification training. All the remains now is to finish the Resources, Summary, and FAQ and do a final proofread and review.

Continued Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 6th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed a cost analysis for both simple and complex parking lots and began the analysis and comparison of walkway construction materials. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Cost Analysis of the External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

Dean Scholz(Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #170 and the focus was adding in the new wall locations and testing the rooftop patio designs in 3D. You can see some of this work here.

Focused on Adding in New Wall Locations and Testing the Rooftop Patio Designs in 3D – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 30th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he completed the first draft of the summary report shown here. We’d say this brings completion of the City Center energy analysis component to 80% complete.

Completed First Draft of the Summary Report – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 32nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued her work to create the AutoCAD file for analysis in RISA 3D. She removed elements which were not required (handrails, doors, etc.) and added missing/new elements to the model. She also did research on exporting dxf files to RISA, exploring how to export all layers especially floor/roof areas.

Continued Her Work to Create the AutoCAD File for Analysis in RISA 3D – Click for Engineering Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) also continued research to find the right LED lights for installation overhead and along the City Center patio areas. Here you can see her latest results that should complete this work for us. She just needs to research the patio and covered walkway codes to confirm what’s needed for compliance and then we can make our final selections.

Continued Research of LED Lights for Installation Overhead and Along the City Center Patio Areas – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 compiling narratives for the specific chicken breeds we chose and adding the info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We also reviewed a video pertaining to supplements for animal health, wrote a narrative and added it to all our related animal pages. You can see some of the behind-the-scenes portions of this work here.

Continued Compiling Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds We Chose and Reviewed a Video Pertaining to Supplements for Animal Health – Click for Page

The core team also continued with the cost analysis for the goat and sheep barn. We added the missing images, finished the dutch door and milking stand material lists, and added the total costs for the barn, which now makes the barn cost analysis complete. We also researched milking stand DIY plans, researched dutch door DIY instructions, and researched optional goat birthing pen panels. You can see some of this work here.

Continued With the Cost Analysis for the Goat and Sheep Barn – Click for Goat Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we wrote concise descriptions of the permaculture ethics and principles on index cards to revisit periodically during all project phases. We also completed Step 1 (Assess Resources and Identify Needs) for the case study. You can see some of this work below.

Wrote Concise Descriptions of the Permaculture Ethics and Principles on Index Cards to Revisit Periodically – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 4 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completed the rendering food and people additions, added plugins to finish the lighting plan, and submitted everything for initial review and feedback. We’d say this brings this component to 90% complete.

Continued Work on the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click for Page

And Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 2nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad finished multiple iterations of the Toposurface for the project including water management slopes and water collecting trenches in addition to site stairs and pond guardrails. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 40% complete. 

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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. 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 58th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished revisions and additions to the green room representing “Science.” This image is now on the website also.

Finished Revisions and Additions to the Green Room Representing “Science” – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is giving people what they desire 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 Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) continued helping us refine our adwords campaigns and improve their performance. You can see some of the results of this here.

Continued Helping Us Refine Our Adwords Campaigns and Improve Their Performance – Click for Our Home Page

Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued work on these campaigns. This week he removed all the help wanted volunteer ads’ keywords that don’t include the following terms: “volunteer, pro bono, intern, and internship”. Additionally, he targeted our main campaign to the United States, China and India. These actions contribute to the main goal to display ads in order to attract new volunteers in those countries.

Removed All the Help Wanted Volunteer Ads’ Keywords That Don’t Include Certain Terms – Click for Helping Page

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also completed her 2nd week designing new versions of the One Community Overview videos. This week she continued to edit and completed the first version of  the main overview video by adding more stock footage and content pulled from the One Community’s website, visual transitions, text, and a keyed composite effect.

Continued Designing New Versions of the One Community Overview Videos – Click for Home Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Zero-waste community designs are one way to reduce the global buildup of trash. Through community collaboration we can create and share more comprehensive and innovative purchasing strategies, reuse models, and recycling and disposal options. What we learn can then be open sourced and free-shared to help evolve and diversify the ideas into other environments too. Problem solving and sharing solutions like this is one component of what One Community is calling living and creating 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 November 24th, 2019 edition (#348) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Zero-waste Community Designs
One Community Progress Update #348

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We checked and adjusted the beam locations with the measurements shown here. Now they line up 16″ on center from the left and right, then with the shelving that will be attached to them so it can be anchored properly. Then 16″ from that beam so we’ve got proper structural integrity. This spacing, as shown here, turned out to be the best for function, strength, and symmetry.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

The core team also continued construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we created all the sections shown here covering soil classification, using the soil classification spreadsheet, and using and understanding the nail selection spreadsheet.

Continued Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 5th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi completed the 1st draft of the wind power cost analysis using 11 different sources of information. He also defined the different aspects that make up the hydro-power plant, so that readers could understand their purpose. An estimate for the average cost of constructing parking lots was also conducted.

Completed 1st Draft of Wind Power Cost Analysis and Defined the Different Aspects That Make Up the Hydro-power Plant – Click for Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 74th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he created the icon illustration of the wire coil for 12/3 & 12/2 wire, removed the 3 gang box and added a wiring section to the procurement page, removed excess part numbers W7 throughout the document, created new diagrams illustrating the spread of upright wall support beams as per the new layout described above, and redid pW5 using this new arrangement of upright beams and showing the new measurements.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) returned to helping and completed week #169 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he designed an ADA ramp and began integrating into 3D the AutoCAD updates from the last couple of months. You can see some of this work here.

Designed an ADA Ramp and Began Integrating New AutoCAD Updates Into 3D – Click for Earthbag Village

And Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineer) completed his 35th week helping with the structural engineering research and calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week he created a new seismic calculations spreadsheet and wrote a tutorial and made updates for the wind and snow load calculation spreadsheets. You can see this behind-the-scenes work here.

Created a New Seismic Calculations Spreadsheet and Wrote a Tutorial for the Wind and Snow Load Calculation Spreadsheets – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 29th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he continued working on the summary report shown here and preparing the simulation file submittal.

Continued Working on the Summary Report and Preparing the Simulation File Submittal – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 31st week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued her work cleaning out the unwanted layers from AutoCAD file to set up the file for analysis in RISA 3D (pictures below). Next step is making different layers as columns/beams etc. in AutoCAD file, so that it’ll be easy to design those sets because, currently, RISA is importing those layers as section sets. Cleared 4-5 layers and there are still some small details left to clean.

Continued Cleaning Out Unwanted Layers From AutoCAD File to Set Up the File for Analysis in RISA 3D – Click for Engineering Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 researching chicken breeds for our desired purposes. We compiled narratives for the specific chicken breeds we chose and added the info and photos to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. You can see some examples of this here.

Continued Researching Chicken Breeds and Compiled Narratives for the Specific Chicken Breeds – Click for Page

The core team also continued with the cost analysis and the detailed SketchUp model for the goat and sheep barn. We designed the dutch doors, researched the wall panels, and added rails outside of the milking room. We also finished wall framing the goat area, and the outside wall of the milking room, as shown here.

Continued With the Cost Analysis and the Detailed SketchUp Model for the Goat and Sheep Barn – Click for Goat Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we reviewed the permaculture ethics and principles to be better positioned to complete the case study, completed the SWOT analysis for the case study, and added “natural disasters” to our Business Plan SWOT analysis.

Continued Developing the Behind-the-scenes Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 3 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completed the lighting and plumbing plans and continued working on additions and revisions on the renders of the sketchUp model.

Completed the Lighting and Plumbing Plans for the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click to Visit

And Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) joined the team and completed his first week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week Mohammad started designing and developing the Aquapini & Walipini site that includes designing the drainage system and supply water network. This week the actual location and topography was modeled in Revit to reflect an actual environment that will allow to derive accurate estimations. Additionally, the prospective Aquapini & Walipini site plot was projected in the most suitable location on the master plan. Moreover, more high-definition property maps and GIS elevation data were obtained for more accurate modeling.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 facilitating zero-waste community designs 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 finished the initial review and edits of all the existing business plan pages. We now have 1 or 2 more to create and then a final review to bring it to completion, other than ongoing additions and revisions based on our design work.

Finished the Initial Review and Edits of All the Existing Business Plan Pages – Click to Visit

Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) also joined the team began designing a new version of the One Community Overview video by gathering stock footage and timing them to the beat points of the video, adding transitions, and adding clear text as used in the original video.

Joined the Team Began Designing a New Version of the One Community Overview Video – Click for Home Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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Open source and adaptable solutions for a sustainable world will save money and help regenerate our planet. The solutions we are focused on first are food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Combining these creates what we call a “Highest Good” living model. Open sourcing this model is a path to making it self-replicating and making it self-replicating is a path to global sustainability within our lifetime.

• 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 November 17th, 2019 edition (#347) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #347

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We measured the electrical wires to be 111 feet of 12/3 and 183 feet of 12/2 and also tested several different placements of studs in the wall, as shown here.

Continued Updating the Murphy Bed Electrical in SketchUp 3D – Click for Furniture Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 4th week with the team, continuing cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week Oluyomi finished a draft for the wind farm cost analysis, coming up with a total cost of $4,500 per 1kW turbine. He used 11 different sources to aid his wind system research and analysis. He also continued work on the hydro power systems research and cost analysis.

Finished a Draft for the Wind Farm Cost Analysis – Click for Earthbag Village

Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 5th week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof and floor plan updates. This week Bahy created the final version of furniture layout changes, updated door access to the spa, and new built-in seating and rooftop safety railings.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Roof and Floor Plan Updates – Click to Enlarge

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 73rd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he removed the 3-gang circuit box from the components section, added magnets for holding up the swinging headboard and hinges to the components section, did the various translations for newly added components, added new renders to the front page of the nightstand section, redid the page numbering on the nightstand section, and added new renders on several more individual pages.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 28th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week completed the LEED Report and began the summary report. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Completed the LEED Report and Began the Summary Report – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 30th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she worked on setting up the City Center structural files for use with the new RISA 3D software we’re using for the timber design for this structure.

Worked on Setting Up the City Center Structural Files for Use With the New RISA 3D Software – Click for Engineering Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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

Began Researching Information on the Best Chicken Breeds for Our Desired Purposes – Click for Page

The core team also continued with the cost analysis and the detailed SketchUp model for the goat milking room. We also worked on the cost analysis for the goat barn by researching the type of foundations preferred for metal barns, grade beam footing, and feeders.

Continued With the Cost Analysis and the Detailed SketchUp Model for the Goat Milking Room – Click for Goat Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued with week 2 of his work on the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he completing version one of the sketchUp model and renderings shown here.

Completed Version One of the SketchUp Model and Renderings – Click to Visit Transition Kitchen Plan

He also produced this initial walkthrough video for this structure.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for 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. 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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 57th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his 1st round of revisions and additions to the green room representing “Science.”

Completed 1st Round of Revisions and Additions to the Green Room Representing “Science” – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for a sustainable world 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 updated all 15 of the pages linked to from our help wanted page.

Updated All 15 of the Pages Linked to From Our Help Wanted Page – Click to Visit

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us run a new website analysis to help us improve the loading speed and indexing of our website.

Helped Us Run a New Website Analysis to Help Improve the Loading Speed and Indexing of Our Website – Click to Visit our Home Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) worked on updating and adding additional headlines and descriptions for the Volunteer campaigns related to the help wanted volunteer ads we updated.

Added Additional Descriptions for the Volunteer Campaigns Related to the Help Wanted Volunteer Ads We Updated – Click for Helping Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES