Permaculture World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #313

A permaculture world is a sustainable world. One Community is helping create this by using permaculture principles as a foundation for open source and sustainable tools, tutorials, and resources covering DIY food, energy, and 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

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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 March 24th, 2019 edition (#313) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Permaculture World
One Community Progress Update #313

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

PERMACULTURE WORLD INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:21

• Finished developing the Most Sustainable Urinals page by adding the final two urinals we researched and would recommend (see below)
• Continued developing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers page (see below)
• Dan Alleck continued working on the Earthbag Village Master Render (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 43rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village, testing various external textures (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn performed the initial round of water saving faucet aerator research for the most sustainable faucet options page (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:10

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:41

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)
• Continued research and 3D design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his 12th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:49

• 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: @12:52

• Emilio Nájera continued with his 24th week as part of the marketing team, refactoring the Aquapini/Walipini and Tropical Atrium pages (see below)

PERMACULTURE WORLD SUMMARY: @13:36

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish a permaculture 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 finished developing the Most Sustainable Urinals page by adding the final two urinals we researched and would recommend. You can see these new additions here.

Finished Developing the Most Sustainable Urinals Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued developing the best, safest, and most sustainable paints, primers, stains, and sealers page. This week we added details for natural wood stains and a DIY casein-based primer, both of which you can see here.

Continued Developing the Best, Safest, and Most Sustainable Paints, Primers, Stains, and Sealers Page – Click to Visit

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 40th week helping with Earthbag Village render additions. This week he continued work on the Earthbag Village Master Render shown here. The focus this week was replacing open doors with closed ones. Only a few remain to finish this render.

Replaced Open Doors with Closed Ones on Earthbag Village Master Render – Click to Visit

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 43rd week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was finishing the final diagrams for installation of lighting from the attic area cut away sections and updates to the installation details for the wiring. You can see some of this work-in-progress here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). Here is weekly update #154 from Dean. This week’s focus, as shown in these images, was mostly testing various external textures.

Continued Work on Earthbag Village, Mostly Testing Various External Textures – Click to Visit

And Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) completed her 10th week as a researcher with our team. This week she performed the initial round of water saving faucet aerator research for the most sustainable faucet options page. You can see some of this work here.

Began Water Saving Faucet Aerator Research for Most Sustainable Faucet Options Page – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish a permaculture 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

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

The core team also continued with week 8 of our research into lake and water retention landscape creation as an alternative source of water for the Duplicable City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Designs, agriculture, greywater processing, and more. This week’s focus was testing placement of initial dam designs on the actual property imports from GoogleEarth, some of which you can see here.

Continued Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation as an Alternative Source of Water – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center

The core team also continued adding content to the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we started the “Maximizing LEED Points In The City Center Point-by-point” section by creating all the jump-to links and initial section formatting and layout shown here.

Finished “Maximizing LEED Points in the City Center Point-by-Point” Section – Click for Page

Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued updating the Duplicable City Center Costs by doing a final review of the City Center HVAC Design costs and updating the City Center lighting costs with all the finalized details from the lighting spreadsheet. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center Costs – Click to Visit

Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Designs) completed their 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was door selection, more detailed painting plans, and creating the 3rd-generation storyboards for the Social Dome. You can see some of this work here.

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

James Herrigel (Student Researcher) also completed his 15th week researching sustainable materials. This week’s focus was continued research for the Most Sustainable Adhesives page by researching and writing explanations of the most important chemicals present in traditional adhesives and starting research into the most sustainable adhesive brands.

Continued Research on Sustainable Adhesives, Types of Adhesives, and Their Potentially Harmful Effects – Click to Visit

Sneha Dongre (Structural Engineer) also continued with her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center structural details. This week’s focus was more layer updates and aligning and replacing the old domes with the new domes and fixing conflicts resulting from this process. You can see some of this work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish a permaculture 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

This week the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan. This week we continued researching and revising our goat care and fencing details and started designing the indoor goat pens under covered storage. The pictures included here are from one of the best goat pen websites we’ve found and are using for ideas on stronger and configurable goat pens.

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

And the core team continued research and 3D design of the chicken coops needed for 100 chicks. This week we removed windows, placed shutters, designed a removable floor under the roosters, and placed some of the walls. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

Continued Research and 3d Design of the Chicken Coops Needed for 100 Chicks – Click for Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also completed his 12th week working on creating an open source icon and symbol set for our permaculture designs. What you see here are the icons created so far.

Continued Creating an Open Source Icon and Symbol Set for Our Permaculture Designs – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish a permaculture 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 Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 24th week as part of the marketing team. This week’s focus was refactoring the Aquapini/Walipini and Tropical Atrium pages, starting research on the Most Sustainable Urinals keywords, and fixing errors in our existing campaigns. You can see some of this work here.

Refactored Aquapini/Walipini and Tropical Atrium Pages and Started Research on Urinals Keywords – Click for our Site Map

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