Sustainable Happiness – One Community Weekly Progress Update #325

We did research on the 6 foundations of human fulfillment and used what we learned to create the best model we could for sustainable happiness. We’re open sourcing all the components so they can be replicated and improved upon. We’re designing this to build the first (One Community) as a teacher/demonstration hub 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

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 June 16th, 2019 edition (#325) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Happiness
One Community Progress Update #325

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

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS INTRO: @0:29

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @8:00

• Rebuilt the whole Murphy bed changing area again in 3D and made a list of corrections, piece changes, numbering changes, and other instruction updates that were needed (see below)
• Brianna Olsen continued researching the most sustainable insulation options; focused on digging deeper into the unique characteristics of each insulation product, ranking them from best to worst, and eliminating toxic choices (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued working on the Earthbag Village; continued designing the South wall (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy continued developing the Murphy bed instructions; beginning final revisions and updates for the Bed Frame section (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:15

• Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh continued helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details by updating some of the Social Dome loft furniture and finalizing the mezzanine, sunrise patio, and central pool-area furniture (see below)
• Yuqiao Zhang continued helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files (see below)
• Ron Huang continued working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial; researched the pool evaporation rate and calculated the thermobridges for our original wall design using THERM (see below)
• Elizabeth Kahn continued researching the most sustainable faucet options by researching the sustainability goals, reports, initiatives, and affiliations and benchmarking the sustainability of all the major faucet-providing companies (see below)
• Zeyu Zhu continued increasing the capacity and finalizing the rainwater catchment designs for the City Center; created the initial zonal graphic for rain collection, calculate the areas for each zone, and created the the 2nd-generation 2D design for the water collection system (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @11:16

• Continued our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial; began building the webpage by creating the initial page graphics, social media imagery, and formatting (see below)
• Began organizing and writing the final content for the Goats page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @12:20

• 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: @13:06

• Core team working with Brian Gilb fleshed out details for the Consensus and Groups of 200+ governance structure of One Community (see below)
• Brian took above information and several hours of related discussions and created the first draft shown here of the Highest Good Network Software Charter (see below)
• Jin Hua created new custom Adwords Campaign management reports and two tutorials for using them (see below)
• Emilio Nájera continued as part of the marketing team by verifying our Google Ads and Google Analytics updates, using Data Studio to start generating reports, starting research for a new Donations campaign, and creating the new One Community Branding report (see below)

SUSTAINABLE HAPPINESS SUMMARY: @14:29

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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 rebuilt the whole Murphy bed changing area again in 3D and made a list of corrections, piece changes, numbering changes, and other instruction updates that were needed. You can see some of this work here.

Rebuilt the Whole Murphy Bed Changing Area Again in 3D – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Brianna Olsen (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 2nd week researching the most sustainable insulation options. This week she focused on digging deeper into the unique characteristics of each insulation product, ranking them from best to worst, and eliminating toxic choices. She also did more research into R-values to understand exactly what it is and why it may not be the best way to define an insulation’s efficiency.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Insulation Options – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) finished week #162 working on the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week he continued designing the South wall.

Continued Designing the South Wall – Click for Earthbag Village

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 55th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was beginning final revisions and updates for the Bed Frame section shown here.

Began Final Revisions and Updates for Murphy Bed Frame Section – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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 Tanya Griffin, Aubryanne Boyle, and Allie Marsh (Interior Designers from Lotus Design Pros) completed their 25th week helping with the Duplicable City Center interior design details. This week’s focus was updating some of the Social Dome loft furniture and finalizing the mezzanine, sunrise patio, and central pool-area furniture.

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

Yuqiao Zhang (Architectural Designer/Drafter) completed his 4th week helping finalize the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp files. This week’s focus was researching proper window and sliding door products, updating the AutoCAD detailed drawings, remodeling the pool transition door in AutoCAD and Sketchup, and updating the furniture details in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Finalizing the City Center AutoCAD and SketchUp Files – Click for Page

Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 6th week working on the Energy Modeling for our LEED Platinum certification and City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week he researched the pool evaporation rate and calculated the thermobridges for our original wall design using THERM.

Researched Pool Evaporation Rate and Calculated Thermobridges for Our Original Wall Design Using THERM – Click for Page

Elizabeth Kahn (Environmental Consultant) also completed her 17th week as a researcher. This week she continued researching the most sustainable faucet options by researching the sustainability goals, reports, initiatives, and affiliations and benchmarking the sustainability of all the major faucet-providing companies. You can see her work here.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Faucet Options and Added to Spreadsheet – Click for Page

And Zeyu Zhu (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week increasing the capacity and finalizing the rainwater catchment designs for the City Center. This week he created the initial zonal graphic for rain collection, calculated the areas for each zone, and created the 2nd-generation 2D design for the water collection system.

Continued Finalizing the Rainwater Catchment Designs for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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 with week 13 of our development of the open source lake and water-retention landscape design tutorial.  This week we began building the webpage by creating the initial page graphics, social media imagery, and formatting shown here.

Continued Our Research Into Lake and Water Retention Landscape Creation – Click for Dam Design Page

The core team also began organizing and writing the final content for the Goats page. What you see here is the editing and content organization happening on the behind-the-scenes Google Doc.

Began Organizing and Writing the Final Content for the Goats Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting sustainable happiness 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 supporting sustainable happiness 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 working with Brian Gilb (Project Management Professional – PMP) fleshed out details for the Consensus and Groups of 200+ governance structure of One Community. We created the graphics shown here to explain how the consensus process will work with groups of 1700+ people.

Fleshed Out Details for Consensus and Groups of 200+ Governance Structure of One Community – Click for Consensus Page

Then Brian took this information and several hours of related discussions and created the first draft shown here of the Highest Good Network Software Charter. This charter outlines how the software will help manage the consensus process, the social architecture, materials and labor tracking, educational tracking and evolution, and more.

Created the First Draft of the Highest Good Network Software Charter – Click for Highest Good Network

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) created new custom Adwords Campaign management reports and two tutorials for using them.

Created New Custom Adwords Campaign Management Reports and Two Tutorials for Using Them – Click for Site Map

And Emilio Nájera (Digital Marketer) continued with his 33rd week as part of the marketing team by verifying our Google Ads and Google Analytics updates, using Data Studio to start generating reports, starting research for a new Donations campaign, and creating the new One Community Branding report. You can see some of this work here.

Continued with Marketing Team by Verifying Our Google Ads and Google Analytics Updates – Click for Site Map

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