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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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

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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

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

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

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 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

We can create better living through comprehensive sustainability. Truly comprehensive sustainability includes sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. By putting these components together we can reduce our living expenses, increase our free time, reduce transportation costs and time, and provide a broader diversity of social and recreational activities for ourselves and others.

• 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 10th, 2019 edition (#346) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Comprehensive Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #346

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 demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week we created the initial formatting and sections covering What, Why, and the Process Summary.

Began Construction of the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

And the core team continued updating the Murphy bed electrical in SketchUp 3D. We added four missing outlets, rerouted a blue wire next to the entry door, and revised the separated circuits groups with the latest updates. We also modified the support board for reclining while sitting in the bed and set the measurements for the location and dimension of this board and the back-area storage light.

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

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 3rd week with the team by starting a new project focused on cost analysis of external Earthbag Village components. This week’s focus was Hydro and Wind energy components, comparing the prices of different components of each power production system and writing brief introductions for both sections.

Began a New Project Focused on Cost Analysis of External Earthbag Village Components – Click for Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 72nd week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was a first draft of integrating the core team’s suggested changes to the fold-down support board and electrical boards.

Began Integrating Core Team’s Suggested Changes to Fold-down Support Board and Electrical Boards – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design open source hub. This week we finished the initial formatting setup, table of contents links, and the first four sections shown here.

Began Updating the City Center Water Rainwater Catchment Design Open Source Hub – Click for Page

And Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 27th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was continued development of the final energy model report for LEED.

Continued Development of the Final Energy Model Report for LEED – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 29th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she continued watching videos and reading articles to help her learn the RISA 3D software we’re now choosing for the timber design for this structure.

Continued Watching Videos and Reading Articles to Help Her Learn RISA 3D Software – Click for Engineering Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 information on chicken coops. We cross referenced chicken coop features with our coop designs and our most recent coop research. We also reviewed and added to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc various Pete B. videos including a 5-set series regarding a chicken coop build and three others. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Information on Chicken Coops – Click for Page

The core team also updated the rabbit hutch material list and added the rabbit tractor material list for one and three tractors. You can see some of this work here.

Updated the Rabbit Hutch Material List and Added the Rabbit Tractor Material List for One and Three Tractors – Click for Rabbit Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we completed the behind-the-scenes first draft of Steps 4 (Detailed Design) and 5 (Implementation and Evaluation). You can see some of this work here.

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

And last but not least, Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) joined the team and began work on finishing the development of the Transition Kitchen designs. This week he focused on the floor plan, sections, and roof plan.

Joined the Team and Began Work on Finishing the Development of the Transition Kitchen Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 demonstrating better living through comprehensive sustainability 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 added reference links to all of the Work Breakdown Structure action items.

Added Reference Links to All the Work Breakdown Structure Action Items – Click for Google Doc

The core team also finished our open source tutorial about patents and how they relate to open source creation.

Finished Open Source Tutorial About Patents and How They Relate to Open Source Creation – Click for Patents Page

And the core team working with Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also wrote new ads for all our volunteer campaigns and continued fine tuning the Donations campaigns, some of which you can see here.

Wrote New Ads for All Our Volunteer Campaigns and Continued Fine Tuning the Donations Campaigns – Click for 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

One Community welcomes Bahy Ahmed to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Bahy was born in Kuwait, is living in Egypt, and has 10 years experience in big-brand hotel renovations. He has contributed to high-quality names such as Sheraton Cairo Hotel, Conrad Cairo Hotel, and residential high-luxury villas in the north coast of Egypt. He is passionate about his work and joined the One Community team to help with our project’s contributions to better economic housing for the poor. In support of this, his major contribution to the project so far has been helping finalize the Earthbag Village 4-dome residential designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BAHY!

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

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Ecologically addressing education is about sustainable, forward-thinking education to help people become conscientious global stewards. It is about teaching how to learn more than what to learn, solutioneering and thinking outside the box, and understanding how our individual decisions impact the larger whole. It is about living and creating for The Highest Good of all people and life on this planet and considering what is most important to learn and teach each other in support of this.

• 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 3rd, 2019 edition (#345) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecologically Addressing Education
One Community Progress Update #345

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 ecologically addressing education 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 working with Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed the behind-the-scenes formatting, research, and content needed to create the Earthbag Engineering Page. This was Yomi’s second week working on this task and he handled the research, formatting, and initial content creation while the core team focused on editing, feedback and formatting updates.

Completed Behind-the-scenes Formatting, Research, and Content Needed to Create the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

The core team also finished work on the business plan startup-costs and revenue projections for the 7 sustainable villages and the project as a whole. This included identifying and correcting a significant revenue error, developing the Miscellaneous Startup Expenses section, and several other sections.

Finished Work on Business Plan Startup-costs and Revenue Projections for the 7 Sustainable Villages and the Project as a Whole – Click for Housing Page

And the core team worked on fixing outlet and switch details in the Murphy bed 3D SketchUp file. These corrections were needed for the assembly instructions and required researching if multiple circuits require their own electrical boxes. Two switches were then added on the outside entry door light on the left side inside, and another switch was added outside to the left of the entry door.

Worked on Fixing Outlet and Switch Details in the Murphy Bed 3D SketchUp File – Click for Furniture Page

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 71st week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was creating and adding a diversity of renders and additional color and numbering details to the main wall section shown here.

Added a Diversity of Renders and Additional Color and Numbering Details to the Main Wall Section – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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 26th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was finishing the process of adding photovoltaics to the energy model and beginning work on the final energy model report for LEED.

Worked on Finishing the Process of Adding Photovoltaics to the Energy Model and Began Work on Final Energy Model Report for LEED – Click for Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 28th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she focused on learning/exploring RISA 3D software as our new choice for timber design for this structure.

Focused on Learning/Exploring RISA 3D Software as Our New Choice for Timber Design for this Structure – Click for Engineering Page

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued with her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. Her focus this week was learning/exploring/testing the RISA 3D software and beginning the process of creating construction documents for the structural framing plans. The structural plan indicates the location of steel girders, wood beams, and steel columns, the direction of the span, and the size of required structural members. Details will be added later when the structural analysis is finished.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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 reviewing videos on raising chickens. This video was one of the best and we added it and all the primary points (with timestamps) to our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. In addition, we viewed a video on why not to free range and summarized it on the doc as well. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Reviewing Videos on Raising Chickens and Added All the Primary Points to Our Behind-the-scenes Chicken Google Doc – Click for Chicken Page

The core team also made final updates to the multiple-rabbit hutch assembly instructions. You can see some of this work here.

Made Final Updates to the Multiple-rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click to Visit

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we revised Step 3, “Develop A Conceptual Design” and began working on Step 4, “Detailed Design.” This included gathering a list of resources for essential components, making a chart to guide the detailed design process, and starting a detailed review of related video resources.

Revised Step 3, “Develop a Conceptual Design” and Began Working on Step 4, “Detailed Design” of the Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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 56th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. Here you can see his 3rd and final additions to the Blue Room representing “Technology.” This image is now on the website also.

Created 3rd and Final Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue Room Representing “Technology” – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing education 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) also continued with his 52nd week as part of the marketing team. This week he created the Donations campaigns for keywords related to Highest Good Society, Highest Good, and our Methodology and Solutions that Create Solutions pages.

Created the Donations Campaigns for Keywords Related to our One Community Branding Pages – Click for Donations Page

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

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Permaculture cooperatives working together globally can regenerate our ecosystems, address our food, housing, and climate challenges, and create a sustainable planet within our lifetime. One Community is doing our part to support this for “The Highest Good of All” with open source and free-shared DIY resources covering 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 October 27th, 2019 edition (#344) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #344

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 worked on the business plan startup-costs and revenue projections for the 7 sustainable villages and the project as a whole. You can see some of this work here. Health insurance costs are currently the largest expense, we’re going to work on options that will bring these down.

Worked on Business Plan Startup-costs and Revenue Projections for 7 Sustainable Villages and Project as a Whole – Click for Housing Page

Oluyomi Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) joined the team and began the process of final formatting of all the content needed to create the Earthbag Engineering Page. This week he finished the first draft of all the related content. You can see some of his work here.

Began the Process of Final Formatting of All Content Needed to Create the Earthbag Engineering Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 70th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was initial formatting shown here for the electrical installation details.

Began Formatting for the Electrical Installation Details for the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 4th week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof and floor plan updates. This week Bahy created version 4.0 shown here with more furniture layout changes, updated door access to the spa, and new built-in seating and rooftop safety railings.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Roof and Floor Plan Updates – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 25th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was beginning the process of adding photovoltaics to the energy model by using Retscreen to specify the size, capacity, and efficiency of the PV panels.

Began the Process of Adding Photovoltaics to the Energy Model by Using Retscreen – Click for HVAC Page

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 27th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week she focused on finding a better software than SAP 2000 for analyzing wood construction options. RISA 3D software enables timber design, so she downloaded and began learning this new software.

Focused on Finding a Better Software Than Sap 2000 for Analyzing Wood Construction Options – Click for Engineering Page

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued with her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. This week she confirmed 11.857″-560 wood joists are adequate to support gravity load for the second floor based on the deflection limit, completed the SAP model for the structure of the third floor and noticed some wood members didn’t meet the requirement for deflection limit, completed the SAP model for the structure of the fourth floor, and began looking into how to use RISA 3D to finish the analysis.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Structural Details – Click for Engineering Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 reviewed videos on raising chickens and decided to feature this video due to its thorough and comprehensive coverage. We then took detailed notes (with timestamps) on our new behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. You can see some of this work here.

Reviewed Videos on Raising Chickens and Took Detailed Notes on Goggle Doc – Click for Page

The core team also made final updates to rabbit hutch assembly instructions. We raised the hutch to be 3 feet from the ground, removed the plywood floor, and updated the doors and roof, as shown here.

Made Final Updates to Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we finished Step 3, “Develop A Conceptual Design.” You can see some of this work here covering different design approaches available, zone delineation, components lists, and developing additional map layers.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 55th week helping with render additions and finishing work. Here you can see his 2nd-generation additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue room representing “Technology.” One more round of additions and revisions should finish this render.

Completed 2nd-generation Additions to the Ultimate Classroom Blue Room Representing “Technology” – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing permaculture cooperatives 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 the Highest Good Network software page and related help-wanted page. We added content from the HGN business plan Project and Program charters, links to both of these documents, new graphics, and updated the GitHub and other links on the page.

Updated the Highest Good Network Software Page and Related Help-wanted Page – Click for Software Page

The core team also implemented a completely new newsletter system. Here you can see some of the formats we tried out, some of the settings, and the new Subscribe page we created.

Implemented a Completely New Newsletter System – Click for Subscribe Page

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) also continued with his 51st week as part of the marketing team. This week he worked on an expanded keywords plan for the Donations campaign and updated several of our volunteer campaigns.

Worked on Expanded Keywords Plan for Donations Campaign and Updated Several of Our Volunteer Campaigns – Click for Donations Page

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

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Open source sustainability resources are a path to jump starting world change for the Highest Good of all people and life on this planet. Humanity has the ability to create a sustainable world if enough people participate and we are creating open source plans to help. They are sustainable, replicable, and cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We will use them to build One Community as a teacher/demonstration hub to help the world reach the necessary tipping point.

• 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 October 20th, 2019 edition (#343) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting World Change
One Community Progress Update #343

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 jump starting world change 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 finished adding the updated content to the sustainable hand dryer options page. These updated dryers reflect the improvements made by each of the top companies we’d already identified within this industry. The page is now complete until we begin purchasing hardware for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center.

The core team also continued working on the Murphy bed instructions in SketchUp 3D. We combined the latest design with the Earthbag structure and added three scenes: bed-down, bed-up & table/sits-up, and bed-up & table/sits-down. These are to help with completion of the assembly instructions.

Continued Working on the Murphy Bed Instructions in SketchUp 3D – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

And Bahy Ahmed (Architect) completed his 3rd week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster roof designs. This week Bahy created version 3.0 shown here with a new furniture layout, column details, stair details, and rooftop patio details.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting world change 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 24th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week’s focus was incorporating mixed-mode ventilation and daylight harvesting. This successfully reduced the targeted annual total energy consumption by 50% of baseline.

Incorporated Mixed-mode Ventilation and Daylight Harvesting – Click for HVAC Page

Tianyu Zhou (Architect and Structural Engineering Consultant) also continued helping with the Duplicable City Center beam and column structural details. This week she optimized the sizes for steel girders based on the result from SAP analysis, using W16x26 (T=13.625in>11.875in). She also started checking whether 11.857″-560 wood joists are adequate to support gravity load based on the deflection limit (ΔLL=L/360 and ΔTL=L/240).

Optimized the Sizes for Steel Girders Based on the Result From Sap Analysis – Click for Engineering Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting world change 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 ethical harvesting of farm animals. After much review we found a quality step-by-step video for butchering a goat or lamb, including breaking down to specific meat cuts ready to wrap, and one simple but quality article: “Humane killing of sheep”. We also confirmed three quality sheep shearing videos and added them to our behind-the-scenes Google Doc. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Researching Ethical Harvesting of Farm Animals and Sheep Shearing – Click for Sheep Page

The core team also finished the rabbit tractor assembly instructions and began the multiple rabbit hutch assembly instructions. We also made updates to the rabbit hutch with ventilation openings in the nursing area, as shown here.

Finished the Rabbit Tractor Assembly Instructions and Began the Multiple Rabbit Hutch Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

In addition, the core team continued developing the behind-the-scenes open source permaculture design content. This week we made progress on Step 3 that describes design options and processes, along with mainframe mapping, zones, and random assembly. You can see some of this work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting world change 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 jump starting world change 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) also continued with his 50th week as part of the marketing team. This week he continued working on the “Solutions that Create Solutions” list of keywords by adding “donating” prefixes in order to increase the amount of keywords for the Donations campaign we’re developing.

Added “Donating” Prefixes to Increase the Amount of Keywords for the Donations Campaign – Click for Page

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

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

 

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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