One Community is sustainable paradigm building through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living for The Highest Good of All:
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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:
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
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:29
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:01
SUSTAINABLE PARADIGM BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:44
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One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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 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:
One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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:
This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic alliums section with 34 total alliums and 8 featured:
We also added the diversity details to the lettuce sections 18 lettuces and specific details for the 9 that you can see featured here:
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:
One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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:
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
Here are pictures of the site up-close:
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:
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.
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:
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.
One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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:
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:
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 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 in CAD
And completed about 50% of the West elevations CAD drawings you can see here:
One Community is sustainable paradigm building 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:
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:
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