Sustainable Paradigm Building – One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

One Community is sustainable paradigm building through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living for The Highest Good of All:

Sustainable Paradigm Building, One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

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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 June 20th, 2014 edition (#68) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s developments and accomplishments:

Sustainable Paradigm Building
One Community Weekly Progress Update #68

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

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:39

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:59

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:04

  • Visited the upcoming crowdfunding site for the 3-dome cluster (see below)
  • Researched all existing on-line free-shared plans (see below)
  • Completed our open source water heating and cooling webpage (see below)
  • Added thermal loss specifics & global ground temp. avs to the dome heating & cooling page (see below)
  • Philip Gill completed the dome-home furniture plan action list for crowdfunding campaign (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:29

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01

  • Redesigned and rewrote our Freedom values page (see below)
  • Removed Flash from all our key videos so that countries and people with older computers will be able to view them

SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:44

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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This last week the core team finished the addition of a Technology and Innovation lesson plan section for each of our three finished lesson plan mindmaps, here’s an example of what the completed Time Page now looks like and we’ve got the same level of detail for both a Matter and Materials lesson plan and a Relative and Dimensional Space lesson plan:

Time Lesson Plan Page, One Community

Updated Time Lesson Plan Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic alliums section with 34 total alliums and 8 featured:

Alliums, One Community

Organic Alliums Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the diversity details to the lettuce sections 18 lettuces and specific details for the 9 that you can see featured here:

Lettuce, One Community

Lettuce Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also finished another 15% of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage, adding all of the planting specifics and bringing us to 90% completion of this open source guide for soil reparation in areas needing it:

Soil Amendment Page in progress, One Community

New Soil Amendment Page Additions – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This last week the core team visited the site and took these pictures of where we will be building the 3-dome cluster as part of our crowdfunding campaign to open source share complete home plans, furniture plans, building tutorials, and more for earthbag construction. Here are pictures of the site from a distance:

3-dome cluster build site, One Community

3-Dome Cluster Build Site

Here are pictures of the site up-close:

3-dome cluster build site close up view, One Community

3-Dome Cluster Build Site Close-up View

We also completed research of all existing on-line free-shared plans showing there is definitely a need for what we will be adding to the industry and global open source archive. What’s available is extremely limited. Here is a sample of all we could find:

Other on line free-shared plans

Research of Existing On-line Free-shared Plans

Our open source water heating and cooling webpage is now complete. We share why we’ll be going with a combination of a solar-run heat pump and a solar collector.

Water Heating and cooling page, One Community

Completed Water Heating and Cooling Webpage – Click to Visit

And, thanks to public feedback, we added thermal loss specifics and global ground temperature averages to the dome-home heating and cooling page. Here are the thermal loss specifics:

Earthdome Heating and Cooling Equations

Earthdome Heating and Cooling Equations – Click to Visit the Complete Page

Philip Gill (Interior and Furniture Designer and Owner of Philip Gill Design) continues to develop the 2nd furniture layout for the Earthbag Village homes. This last week he added textures and started detailing the specific furniture pieces.

dome-home furniture plan action list, One Community

Dome-home Furniture Plan Action List – Click to Enlarge

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This last week the core team added Da Ku‘s (Mechanical Engineer) completed natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point videos, materials list, thermal calculations and downloadable CAD file to the open source natural pool page:

natural pool indoor/outdoor transition point details, One Community

Newly Added Natural Pool Indoor/Outdoor Transition Point Details – Click for Complete Page

Jennifer Engelmeier of www.LoveYourNaturalPool.com, working in conjunction with our partner Rick Ruggles of Hayward Pool Products and Rob Gjerde of Sorico Design and Consulting helped us to update all our hardware links on the website and continued evolving the master materials list you see here:

Pool Hardware Spreadsheet, One Community

Pool Hardware Links Updated

Also, Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services) redesigned our resident bathroom in the Kitchen dome to be ADA compliant:

Duplicable City Center bathroom redesign, One Community

Duplicable City Center Bathroom Redesign in CAD

And completed about 50% of the West elevations CAD drawings you can see here:

West elevations CAD, One Community

West Elevations Evolving in CAD – Click for Complete Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This last week the core team completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing Freedom and what it means to the environment we are creating along with how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s what this looks like:

Freedom page, One Community

Freedom Page Rewritten – Click to Visit

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