Restoring Sustainable Balance – One Community Weekly Progress Update #171

Restoring sustainable balance and regenerating our planet is possible if enough people participate. Increasing participation can be attained by making sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on it’s own. This is what One Community is doing:

• 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 July 3rd, 2016 edition (#171) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Restoring Sustainable Balance
One Community Progress Update #171

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

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE INTRO: @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59

• Transferred final 25% of written content for Humility Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: Wrote final 25% of the written part of Information Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed second 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:50

• Behind the scenes: Compiled all the sweet potato recipes which will later be added to our updated recipe strategy page. This work is done as part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:25

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:21

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:30

• Clarified colors and designs for the new 7 sustainable villages icons and created first color template for all the webpages, informational materials, assembly instructions, interior design, and more (see below)

RESTORING SUSTAINABLE BALANCE SUMMARY: @7:49

• • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Humility Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Humility” is now 100% completed on our website.

Humility Lesson Plan Now Complete – Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Information Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Humility Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Humility Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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

As part of the development of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan, which features contributions from Naturopathic Doctor Matt Marturano (creator of the COHERENT model for comprehensive digestive health), this week the core team compiled the sweet potato recipes, as you can see here. We will add them to the updated recipe strategy page.

Compiled All of the Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes – Click to Visit the Main Food Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 last week the core team put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was on the continued intensive read and dissecting of Section 10 Construction of Stem Wall and Dome. We cross referenced facts and confirmed the accuracy of content, grammar, sentence structure, continuity, and overall presentation. We’d say we are now 88% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Continued Behind-the-Scenes Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info – Click to Visit Page

Completed this Final CAD Drawing of the Slider to Place and Stabilize Finishing Nails – Click to Visit the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Page

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) also continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 7 of this process and Sal’s 3rd version of exploring instructions for cutting the proper pieces, plus our notes for what will be version 4 of these instructions.

Continued Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Ganyang Du (Construction Project Manager) also continued working on the Materials Schedules layouts for the Earthbag Village Materials page. You can see week 3 of this work here making the pricing sheet for Wood Doors & Framing, Electrical, and Cast-in-place Concrete.

Continued Working on Materials Schedules Layouts for Earthbag Village Materials Page – Click to Visit

Began Moving the Earthbag Village Communal Vermiculture Eco-Toilet Design Details to their Own Page – Click to Visit Page

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also continued evolving the renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). What you see here is the first render for the central 2nd floor patio area looking down.

Continued Evolving the Renders for the Straw Bale Village – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz, Architectural Designer, further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 25 of his work that continued with exploration of a new and more accurate roof design as seen here.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued with his 3rd week of photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). Here you see final versions of a rental room looking in:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of a Rental Room Looking In – Click to Visit Page

….the open area behind the dining hall looking Northwest:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of the Open Area Behind the dining Hall Looking Northwest – Click to Visit Page

….and one of the circulation areas:

Shipping Container Village Final Render of One of the Circulation Areas – Click to Visit Page

Bupesh Seethala (Interior Designer) also transformed the initial render into an updated render for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Art room.

Updated Recycled Materials Village Art Room Render – Click to Visit Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued updating the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book created by last year’s intern Team. What you see here are updated information and storyboard pages covering the tourism and event hosting with storyboard artwork compliments of Ana Carolina Salomao Faria (Industrial Design and Service Design Student).

Continued Updating the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit Tree House Village Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 Working on the Duplicable City Center Renders – Click to Visit Page

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Renders – Click to Visit Page

Began Brainstorming the Design and Dimensions for the Root Cellar – Click to Visit City Center

Continued Working on Renders of Natural Pool and Spa Area – Click to Visit Page

Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also took the team’s feedback from last week and started creating this more detailed spreadsheet for the lighting zones, lumens, and number of lamps needed. 

Started Creating More Detailed Spreadsheet for City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit City Center

Finished First 50% of the City Center 1st Floor Subframe Loading Calculations – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is restoring sustainable balance 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 clarified colors and designs for the new 7 sustainable villages icons and then created our first color template that will be used for all the webpages, informational materials, assembly instructions, interior design, and more.

Clarified Colors and Designs for New 7 Sustainable Villages Icons and Created First Color Template – Click to Visit the Highest Good Housing Page

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