Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #63

One Community is here to create sustainable and free-shared solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are here to open source and free-shared all the blueprints, tools, tutorials, and DIY approaches 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

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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. Here is our weekly progress update (#63) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 5th, 2014:

Sustainable and Free-shared Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #63

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

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:43

• Finished the first 15% of the English Subject Molecule you can see expanding here in the background (see below)
• Behind the scenes we also finished draft one of the Spring-themed lesson plan for Arts and Trades, English, and Health

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:38

• Adding the Walipini terraces, doors, and other details to the insides of the complete 3-D footprint (see below)
• Finished version 2.0 of the professional template for the 18-hoop house planting plan (see below)
• Finished the rest of the diversity details to the heirloom beets section of the  large-scale gardening page
• Finished another 25% of our soil amendment strategy details for land preparation in areas with poor soil

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:06

• Submitted an application to Google to use GoogleGlass for an Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster tutorial (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:10

• Created the open source eco-laundry page (see below)
• James Nance identified boilers and continued exploring radiant floor heating (see below)
• Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design chose and sourced our walk-in cooler and freezer details (see below)
• And Karl Harris began the north elevations in CAD, placing the windows and doors of the first level (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:41

• Updated our Purpose, Values, Mission page with all new icons and other imagery (see below)
• Rewrote our Honesty and Integrity page (see below)

SUSTAINABLE AND FREE-SHARED SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @7:21

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 outermost ring of the English Subject Molecule. Here it is:

English Molecule – Outermost Ring Complete

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team continued work on the complete indoor growing food infrastructure footprint in 3D. We added the Walipini terraces, doors, and other details to the insides of the structures you can see here and are now moving on to the external features like stairways and berms:

Walipini Terraces, Doors, and Other Details Added to the Insides of the Structures – Click to Visit Related Page

We also finished version 2.0 of the professional template for the 18-hoop house planting plan. Here are some pictures of us working on developing this:

Finished Version 2.0 of the Professional Template for the 18-Hoop House Planting Plan – Click to Visit Hoop House Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 Submitted an application to Google to use GoogleGlass to create open source tutorials of an Earthbag Village 3-dome cluster as part of our sustainable promotion of Innovation and Technology strategy.  This application and another application we’re submitting have the secondary goal of partnering with Google for remote teacher/demonstration hub telecommunications infrastructure design and development that could completely eliminate the need for telephones and telephone wires. Here’s an excerpt from our application:

Application to Google Submitted – Click to Visit Innovation and Technology Page

DUPLICABLE CITY HUB PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, can provide laundry for over 300 people, beautiful, spacious, saves resources, saves money, and saves space:

• Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This last week the core team created the open source eco-laundry page for the Duplicable City Center laundry facility that will service 300 people:

Open Source Eco-Laundry Page Complete – Click to Visit Page

James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) identified the boilers we think we’ll be using and continued exploring radiant floor heating with our team. We are planning on two boilers right now, one propane and one electric, so we can phase in 100% electric over time.

Boilers Identified – One Propane and One Electric

For the flooring, there are two primary options for how to design it for maximum heat efficiency:

Two Options for Radiant Heat and Flooring to Create Maximum Heat Efficiency

Here’s an example of some of the new radiant heating insulation options that have become available. This one has an R-value of 11 with the 3.3″ thickness option:

New Radiant Heating Insulation Option

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) chose and sourced our walk-in cooler and freezer details:

Walk-in Cooler & Freezer Details – Click to Visit Page

Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) began the north elevations in CAD, placing the windows and doors of the first level:

Windows and Doors Placed in CAD – Click to Visit Page

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 updated our Purpose, Values, Mission page with all new icons and other imagery:

Purpose, Values, Mission Page Updated – Click to Visit Page

We also completely rewrote our Honesty and Integrity page, adding in specifics about what this core value means to us and how we use it in our decision making and ongoing development process:

Honesty and Integrity Page Rewrote – Click to Visit Page

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