Open Source Sustainable World Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #289

Through open source sustainable world building tools, tutorials, resources, and living examples, we can create a sustainable world that will benefit us all. If we do this, we can make sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough for it to spread on its own. One Community is open sourcing and free-sharing everything necessary to make this possible.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 7, 2018 edition (#289) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Sustainable World Building
One Community Progress Update #289

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

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:48

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:20

• Core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by creating and adding new 3D Bed, Chair, and Table graphics as well as new AutoCAD graphics for the Table and Chairs (see below)
• Aparna Tandon rejoined the team and created an initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 23rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:58

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:51

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:58

• Updated all our welcome pages and on-boarding templates for new volunteers so that they reflect that we’re now testing inputting them so they can use the new time tracking software (see below)
• The core team working with Jin Hua continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant (see below)
• Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar and Shubhra Mittal created the initial setup for moving our application to React, a more commonly used application (see below)

OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BUILDING SUMMARY: @14:26

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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 the webpage setup and formatting for the new One Community Home Shares page that shares our structure for individualized and expanded designs of the standard homes in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) and beyond. This week we wrote and added the “Home Shares and Phase 1 Construction” and “Home Shares Legal Structure” sections and updated all the pages related to this one, some of which you can see here. We’d say we’re now about 70% complete with the creation of this page. 

Continued the Webpage Setup and Formatting for the new One Community Home Shares Page – Click for Page

The core team also started updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms page by creating new table of Contents, What and Why sections, building the initial formatting for the new sections on the page, and updating the introduction to the Details section. This is all so we can then bring on the team to finish these designs. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say we’re about 30% complete with this round of necessary updates.

Started Updating the Vermiculture Bathrooms Page – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 24th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week he further updated the assembly diagrams by adding in 2-inch board updates for the benches, redoing the parts page, and comparing measurements on part B8a against smaller pieces. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

Continued Development of Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #132 from Dean, his focus this week was creating the new layout shown here for the bathroom and kitchen structures. This layout separates the shower and bathrooms for easier use by multiple people and adds a urinal to help with saving water.

Continued Work on New Earthbag Village Layout for the Bathroom and Kitchen Structures – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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

The core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 97th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was testing lighting options and finalizing the layouts and selections for the laundry room, which you can see here and now on the website too.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

The core team also continued updating the Pallet Furniture open source hub by creating and adding new 3D Bed, Chair, and Table graphics as well as new AutoCAD graphics for the Table and Chairs. You can see these here and we’d say this page update is now 90% complete.

Continued Updating the Pallet Furniture Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) rejoined the team and created this initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center. This standard focuses on features across the seven concepts that comprehensively address not only the design and operations of buildings, but also how they impact and influence human behaviors related to health and well-being.

Created initial outline for applying the WELL Building Standard™ (WELL) to the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) also completed his 23rd week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems open source hub. This week he further revised Zone B with a new “L shape” in AutoCAD and put just under 40 hours into updated calculations for Zones F, H, G, K, and N. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development. This week we completed the edits to the chicken, goat and rabbit section of the Food Rollout Google doc. We also began edits to the Food Forest page. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Food Page

In addition, the core team continued working on the Apiary hive setup instructions. This week we researched and added details covering local city codes and where to buy your bees and get your gear. We also started updating the spreadsheet with the Apiary items list. You can see some of this work here on the behind-the-scenes Google development doc.

Continued Working on the Apiary Hive Setup Instructions – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building the foundations for how humanity creates a sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is open source sustainable world building 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 our welcome pages and on-boarding templates for new volunteers so that they reflect that we’re now testing inputting them so they can use the new time tracking software. You can see some of these updates here.

Updated all Our Welcome Pages and On-Boarding Templates for New Volunteers – Click for Helping Page

This week the core team working with Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) continued collaboration on our new online marketing strategy and our related grant. This week’s focus was bringing on a new person to help with keyword research and continued keyword strategy development and fine tuning of our Conscious Music Project promotion, some of which you can see here.

Continued Keyword Strategy Development and Fine Tuning of our Conscious Music Project Promotion – Click for Music Page

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager) created the initial setup for moving our application to React, a more commonly used application. As part of this, we connected the app to the api, created the Login Page, ForgotPassword, ForcePassword, Update password, and UserManagement setup. We also added auto-deleting of blue squares older than 1 year and weekly scheduled auto-assigning of blue squares if time commitment was not met.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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