One CommunityRegenerative Human Progress – One Community Weekly Progress Update #80
One Community is purposed to forward regenerative human progress through open source models covering every aspect of sustainable 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
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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 September 12th, 2014 edition (#80) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Regenerative Human Progress
One Community Weekly Progress Update #80
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS INTRO @1:00
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:37
- Finished the first 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap (see below)
- Finished the final 60% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage (see below)
- Behind the scenes (BTS) we also finished 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation”
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57
- Featured 6 new Asparagus on the large-scale gardening page (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:52
- Finished the final 30% of the earthbag footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page (see below)
- BTS finished another 70% of the electrical details page for the crowdfunding campaign– 80% done
- Updated our main crowdfunding campaign page with an outline of all the pages to come (see below)
- Switched the laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome to 200 sq. ft. and created two designs (see below)
- Philip Gill helped us finish the redesign of the bed portion of the Murphy Bed custom furniture design (see below)
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:50
- Updated the complete Duplicable City Center 3-D Sketchup file to match the CAD floor plan (see below)
- Finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details (see below)
- Assessed long-term energy storage options (see below)
- James Nance finished 50% of the laundry heat recovery research (see below)
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:52
- Updated and simplified One Community’s Policies and Procedures (see below)
REGENERATIVE HUMAN PROGRESS SUMMARY: @8:56
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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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:
- Learn about the components: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
This last week the core team finished the first 25% of the Signs Lesson Plan mindmap which you can see here. The lesson plan for this is complete behind the scenes and will teach all subjects to all learning levels in the context of “signs and symbolism.”
Signs and Symbols Mindmap – 25% Complete
We also finished the final 60% of the Harmony Lesson Plan webpage. You can see the new additions here and click the image for the complete page:
Harmony Lesson Plan Webpage – Click to Visit Complete Page
Behind the scenes we also finished 30% of the lesson plan design with the central theme of “Recreation.”
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 last week the core team completed adding the 6 featured Asparagus you see here to the large-scale gardening page. Visit the complete page for purchasing details, cultural considerations, and planting guidelines for these and over 400 other food plants.
Asparagus Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page
HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 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 last week the core team finished the final 30% of the earthbag construction footers, foundation, and flooring tutorial page you see below. This is all part of preparation for our upcoming crowdfunding campaign and the first fully outlined and completed example with video placeholders showing the comprehensiveness and detail we are committed to providing with our open source creative process.
Earthbag Construction Tutorial Page – Click to Visit Complete Page
Related to this and behind the scenes, we’ve also finished another 70% of the electrical details page that will eventually look just like the page above. We are now 80% done there.
And we updated our main crowdfunding campaign page with an outline of all the other pages to come:
New Outline for Crowdfunding Campaign Page – Click to Visit
We also switched the crowdfunding campaign laundry, bathroom, and kitchen dome from the 150 square foot dome to one of the 200 square foot domes and created the two layouts you see developing here:
Crowdfunding Campaign Dome Layouts – Click to Learn More About the Campaign
Lastly, Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) finished a redesign of the bed portion of the Murphy bed dome-home furniture design. We mis-reported last week that we were done with all of the Murphy Bed measurements and parts and we still had this one that needed to be redone due to an error we discovered. After Philip fixed the error, we then redid all the measurements and individual parts pictures. Here is a collage of some of these:
Murphy Bed Dome-Home Furniture Design – Click to Visit Furniture Details Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 last week the core team updated the complete Duplicable City Center 3-D Sketchup file to match the CAD floor plan that was recently updated compliments of Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services). This meant adding the boiler room and updating all four floors surrounding the elevator that needed to be expanded.
Duplicable City Center 3-D in Sketchup – Click to Visit Open Source Hub
We also finished the first 20% of the property-wide hydronic setup details and did another complete overhaul on the energy plan phase-in process starting with 20 and working to 400+ people. Here is a picture of our hydronic setup googledoc in progress:
Hydronic Setup Google Doc – Click for Duplicable City Center Page
Evolving the energy details behind the scenes included an assessment of energy storage options showing the relationship of time needing to store energy (on the left) to kWh needing to be stored to make different options viable. For our first 400 people, it appears batteries remain our best bet since we will not need to store sufficient energy to make one of the less conventional energy storage methods more affordable or sustainable than batteries:
Assessment of Energy Storage Options – Click to Visit the Energy Open Source Hub
Behind the scenes, James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) finished about 50% of the work and research needed to see if integrating a heat recovery unit into the One Community eco-laundry dryer exhaust will make sense. This is a picture of one of one of the fan components we’re evaluating as part of that possible system.
Eco-Laundry Heat Recovery Research – Click to Visit the Open Source Laundry Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding regenerative human progress 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 last week the core team completely updated and simplified our Policies and Procedures in relation to accountability. This is after two weeks of team discussion and adaptation reflecting on over a year and a half of experience with the current system. The update included increasing the minimum weekly tangible contribution for Pioneers from 4 hours to 5 and streamlining and simplifying our accountability and consequences process for not contributing the minimum time and/or missing mandatory weekly team calls. Here is a screenshot of the updated page:
Policies and Procedures Page – Click to Visit
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