Sustainable Civilization Engineering – One Community Weekly Progress Update #228

The technology and knowhow exist now for sustainable civilization engineering. We can create a completely sustainable world that meets the needs of all people if we want to. We can solve starvation, homelessness, lack of energy infrastructure, pollution, and more through sustainable food, energy, and housing. We can further address crime, poverty, social injustice and inequality, and war if we include sustainable and open source economic and education models. One Community is developing tools, tutorials, and open source resources for all these sustainable civilization foundations because we believe now is the time to create the sustainable planet we know is 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 August 6th, 2017 edition (#228) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization Engineering
One Community Progress Update #228

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

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:47

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @10:05

• Completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page (see below)
• Ashwin Patil finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Ramya Vudi researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:17

• Continued editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:47

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page, and started research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page (see below)
• Working with Sangam Stanczak we started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:45

• As part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, we updated several pages with current formatting and icons (see below)
• Continued researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from for the new graphic and video we’re creating (see below)
• Jin Hua working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database (see below)

SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION ENGINEERING SUMMARY: @14:00

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 HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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

The core team added mountains, clouds, and other graphic design elements to the Compressed Earth Block Village render from last week. We also created the modified header and social media versions and added them to the page.

Created a Modified New Final Render of the Compressed Earth Block Village and Added to the Page – Click to Visit

This last week the core team also continued working in Sketchup on the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). We updated and added walking paths for the whole village and more plants, benches, and landscaping for the art area.

Continued Working in Sketchup on the Recycled Materials Village – Click for Page

Dijimba “Joss” Ilunga (Electrical Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the electrical design details for the Vermiculture Bathrooms. This week’s focus was version 1.0 of the breaker panel and updating the master file to include section views.

Continued Working on Electrical Design Details for Vermiculture Bathrooms – Click to Visit

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was designing the connection specifics for last week’s plumbing designs so they connect properly with the shower and vermiculture structures.

Continued with Communal Eco-Shower and Vermiculture Bathroom Designs – Click for Shower Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) also joined the team and completed his 1st week with us by researching ideal bag thicknesses for the Earthbag Village. You can see some of this research and his initial report here.

Researched Ideal Bag Thicknesses for the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 80 of Dean’s work, testing a new lighting plugin and reflections on a glass table in the main room with several objects on it.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

And Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued helping with the Tree House Village (Pod 7) renders. This week he ran the initial test renders for all the perspectives we’ll be showing from within the village.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Renders – Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (3D Designer) also joined the team and completed her first week beginning work on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was modeling a custom bed design.

Began Work on Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 week, the core team completed another round of revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture page. These included adding the new header image and 4 quick-link images to jump straight to the 4 main sections on the page. The team also re-organized the sections and added more words to the Instructions & Diagrams sections.

Completed Another Round of Revisions for the DIY Pipe Furniture Page – Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) finished integrating the final edits to the Highest Good energy search engine. You can see some of this work here.

Finished Integrating Final Edits to the Highest Good Energy Search Engine – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 44th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was further developing the best of last week’s Social Dome lighting layout by adding more lights and additional room details.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) also researched videos to add additional clarity to the PV Solar micro-grid tutorial. We added her work to the webpage and also updated the header graphic, as shown here.

Researched Videos to Add Clarity to the PV Solar Micro-Grid Tutorial – Click for Solar Energy Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 editing the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan hub page and the Food Bars page, and calculated the storage space needed for root vegetables, as you see here.

Continued Editing the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Hub Page and Food Bars Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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 week, the core team continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans. This week we completed the Individuality Lesson Plan and the Consciousness Lesson Plan. This brings us to 42 of 52 finished, which is 80.7% completion.

Continued Process of Editing all 52 Lesson Plans – Click for Lesson Plans for Life Page

The core team also finished our behind-the-scenes research and summary of additional educational materials for the Montessori page. We also started the research for materials to be added to our Reggio Emelia web page.

Finished Research for Montessori Page and Started Working on Reggio Emelia Page – Click to Visit Our Montessori Page

Working with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), we also started developing the documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution component….

Started Developing the Documentation for the Evaluation and Evolution Component – Click for Page

…Sangam also created a flow chart for the evaluation process:

Created Flow Chart for the Evaluation Process – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable civilization engineering 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, as part of working on the Highest Good society search engine, updated all the pages shown here with current formatting and icons.

Updated Highest Good Society Pages with Current Formatting and Icons – Click for Page

The core team also invested several more hours researching and developing a spreadsheet showing where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. This information is needed for the new graphic and video we’re creating to highlight the global nature of our team.

Continued Researching and Developing the Spreadsheet Showing Where Our Team Members are From for a Future Video – Click for Team Page

Jin Hua (Web and Graphic Designer) working on the backend of our website also helped us recover all our social media likes that were lost from our upgrade to using the new sitewide SSL security certificate and protocols.

Helped Recover All Our Social Media Likes that Were Lost From Our Upgrade – Click for Homepage

And Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) working on the Highest Good Network software developed the program so that it is now successfully able to add and retrieve the user information from the backend database. You can see some of the behind the scenes work here.

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

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