Thinking Beyond Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #222

Thinking beyond sustainability is needed if mainstream implementation is to happen. What this means is going beyond the common sustainability areas like food, energy, housing and also including sustainable and forward-thinking approaches to education, economic design, and social architecture. Putting these together and open sourcing and free-sharing them is One Community’s approach to creating a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration communities and hubs working together to live in and create even more of these hubs 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

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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 25th, 2017 edition (#222) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Thinking Beyond Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #222

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

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:03

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:41

• Continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued the work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Shubham Agrawal finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes  (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:40

• Explored Design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:06

• Continued the process of a final proofreading and editing of all 52 lesson plans (see below)
• Created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:55

• Sowmya Manohar added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software (see below)

THINKING BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @12:12

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 updated the Tropical Atrium open source hub with new sections describing all the main features.

Updated the Tropical Atrium Open Source Hub – Click to Visit

We also created 16 new Tropical Atrium breakout pages for sharing all the different open source components.

Created 16 New Tropical Atrium Breakout Pages – Click for Main Page

Additionally, we created this new Tropical Atrium header and Facebook image.

Created New Tropical Atrium Header and Facebook Image – Click for Page

And the core team continued building the Sketchup 3D version of the Net-zero bathroom for the Earthbag Village. This last week we added in the second level of barrels along with the curved wall and the platforms for support. We also created the opening in the wall and set up the entry door to have access to the water collection area.

Continued Building Sketchup 3D Version of Net-Zero Bathroom – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team created and added these new feature images to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) page. We’re seeking an interior designer to help us finish the missing images.

Created and Added New Feature Images to Tree House Village – Click to Visit Page

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also finished a 4th round of revisions for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) search engine, as shown here:

Finished 4th Round of Revisions for Earthbag Village Search Engines – Click to Visit Page

Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 19th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week’s focus was load calculations and related tutorial text and imagery.

Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower and Vermiculture Bathroom designs. This week’s focus was updates to the water storage layouts shown here.

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 74 of Dean’s work, this week’s focus was building table and chair details needed for the central dining and presentation space renders.

Continued Creating Cob Village Renders – Click for Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 46th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was building and adding pergolas to the layout, as shown here.

Continued Helping with Compressed Earth Block Village Design and Render Details – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 28th week of work, focusing on more development of Zone 8 and the pergolas needed for around the labyrinth, as shown here.

Continued Working on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 continued work on the DIY Pipe Furniture tutorial page. This week’s focus included creating and adding new imagery and text to the Pipe Table section and re-organizing the different furniture sections. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Work on DIY Pipe Furniture Tutorial Page – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) also continued the work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was more wind load calculations and roof design updates, some of which you can see here.

Continued Working on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) also finished his final round of content addition and edits for the wind power tutorials developing behind the scenes. You can see some pictures of this work here.

Continued Working on the Wind Power Tutorials Developing – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 last week the core team explored the design needs and cost for adding different floor types to the Transition Kitchen. Here’s an image created for this purpose.

Explored Design Needs and Cost for Adding Different Floor Types to Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond sustainability 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 Humility Lesson Plan and the Form Lesson Plan. This brings us to 30 of 52 finished, which is 57.7% completion.

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

We also created a new graphic combining and showing the diversity of projection options for the Ultimate Classroom projection-dome, as shown here.

Created New Graphic for the Ultimate Classroom Projection-Dome – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is  thinking beyond sustainability 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 Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) added authentication to all internal routes to eliminate bypass options for the developing Highest Good Network software. You can see some of the behind the scenes work on this here:

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

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