Systems for Eco-Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #238

One Community is creating systems for eco-change that combine sustainable and open source and free-shared approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this living and creating 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. This is the October 15, 2017 edition (#238) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Systems for Eco-Change
One Community Progress Update #238

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

SYSTEMS FOR ECO-CHANGE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @5:43

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Continued working on the complete Tree House Village render (see below)
• Continued working on the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Sangam Stanczak continued researching the filtration options for the Communal Eco-shower greywater (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 11th week doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan completed his 5th week working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 59th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
• Dan Alleck completed his 2nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions (see below)
• Samantha Robinson completed her 11th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @8:46

• Falgun Patel completed his 7th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 54th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha finished his work on the basement details for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)
• Oruba Rabie and Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued working on the City Center structural engineering details (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:16

• Continued researching and organizing, and made a chart and images of recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @10:50

• Continued building the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:18

• Added new non-profit tax requirement specifics to the open source Non-profit Portal (see below)
• Oz Czerski helped us write a new tutorial for changing your official information in relation to Trademarks (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar and Priti Kothari continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software (see below)

SYSTEMS FOR ECO-CHANGE SUMMARY: @12:26

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 last week the core team continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week’s focus was continued research and design updates to include outdoor games made with recycled items like marked stones, cans, bottles, and recycled-tire mulch.

Systems for Eco-Change – Open Source Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village – Click to Visit

The core team also continued working on the complete Tree House Village (Pod 7) render. This week’s focus was creating 3 options for the webpage header, and the final render of the complete village, all of which you can see here:

Systems for Eco-Change – Tree House Village Header Renders, Final Village Render – Click for Page

And, the core team continued working on the Murphy bed instructions. Here you see the printed assembly instructions with design questions and notes.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Working on Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) continued researching the filtration options for the Communal Eco-shower greywater. This week’s focus was finalizing the design outline, which you can see here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Filtration Options for Communal Eco-Shower Greywater – Click for Page

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 11th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus was editing and adding more details to these drawing and doing research on rubble foundations.

Systems for Eco-Change – Research and Running Calculations for Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis. What you see here is the developing writeup summary discussing the details, sustainability savings, and final estimate. We’d say we’re now about 90% complete with the full cost analysis for this village.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Working on the Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 85 of Dean’s work, continuing to test and develop the textures and lighting from the skylights and windows for the central dining and presentation hall.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Helping us Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 59th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was these two final renders of the 2nd-Floor Event and Meeting Space looking SW and this one of the East-wing classroom spaces that are also purposed for and usable for yoga, tai chi, or other health and wellness classes.

Systems for Eco-Change – 2nd Floor Event and Meeting Space Looking Southwest – Click to Visit

Systems for Eco-Change – New Classroom Looking West – Click for Compressed Earth Block Village

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 2nd week working on the Compressed Earth Block Village render additions. This week he finished adding people and additional aesthetics to the two kitchen renders you see here and live on the site. 

Systems for Eco-Change – Kitchen Render Looking West with People – Click for Page

Systems for Eco-Change – New Kitchen Render Looking North with People – Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 11th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was creating top parts for the blinds downstairs and upstairs, recoloring the tree shelf, lamp, drawer, and doorknob details, and sculpting and painting the twin bed parts.

Systems for Eco-Change – Tree House Village Interior Design for the Living Structure – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. This week’s focus, as shown here, was the calculations and narrative for the 20-50 and 50-100 waves of volunteers.

Systems for Eco-Change – Reviewed the Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup Plan – Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 54th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the lighting options for the Dining Dome kitchen, which you can see here in this collage that we’ve also added to the website.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued work – Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also finished his work on the basement details for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are some examples of Vamsi’s final work editing, updating graphics so they have matching scales, and presenting his final recommendation for insulating the City Center basement.

Systems for Eco-Change – Basement Details for City Center Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) and Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued working on the City Center structural engineering details. What you see here are some screenshots of their process continuing to find and correct errors and discrepancies between the AutoCAD and SAP2000 models.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Work – City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 researching and organizing, and made this chart and these images of the recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Researched, Organized, Made Chart & Images – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 building the education Assessment Format open source page and tutorial. This week we added details to the Helpful Evaluation Tips and Tools section, as shown here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Education Assessment Format Open Source Tutorial – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating systems for Eco-Change 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 added new non-profit tax requirement specifics to the open source Non-profit Portal, you can see some of this work here.

Systems for Eco-Change – Non-Profit Tax Requirement Specifics to Non-Profit Portal – Click for Page

Oz Czerski (Lawyer Specializing in Trademark and Copyright Law) also helped us write a new tutorial for changing your official information in relation to Trademarks. You can see this new content in the FAQ section of the Trademarks page.

Systems for Eco-Change – Changing Official Information in Relation to Trademarks – Click to Visit

Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) and Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also continued their work developing the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was fixing issues with connecting to the database, which you can see here, and completing tutorials on Node and Express js.

Systems for Eco-Change – Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World and achieving a Systems for Eco-Change We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability and Creating a Better World . We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.