Whole-systems Approach for World Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #66

One Community is utilizing a whole-systems approach for world change by broadening sustainability beyond food, energy, and housing to include education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more:

• 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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Whole-systems Approach for World ChangeOne 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. Here is our weekly progress update (#66) covering our development and accomplishments for the week of May 26th, 2014:

Whole-Systems Approach for World Change
One Community Weekly Progress Update #66

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

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:49

• • • • • • • • • • Finished the English Subject molecule (see below)
                  • Researched and added another 20% of links from our Math page to the Khan Academy (60% complete)
                  • Behind the scenes we finished the Happiness themed lesson plan and began the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs”

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:58

• • • • • • • • • • Created the final 3-D renders of the complete aquapini and walipini footprint (see below)
                  • Added the 18-hoop house planting maps to the the large-scale gardening page
                  • Added the diversity details to the organic cucumber section of the large-scale gardening page (see below)
                  • Now 50% done with our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:26

• • • • • • • • • • Finished the earthbag home heating and cooling page
                  • Began outlining a strategy for crowdfunding the building and complete open source sharing of a 3-dome home cluster (see below)
                  • Outlined version 1.0 of our remote internet plan (see below)
                  • Finished our tank versus tankless water heater comparison research for the earthbag village communal showers (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:22

• • • • • • • • • • James Nance outlined all the heating zones (see below)
                  • Ben Pollock detailed kitchen canning and preserving and dishwashing sections and more equipment (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @6:38

• • • • • • • • • • Updated the details of our core value of Diversity page (see below)

ZERO-WASTE REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING SUMMARY: @7:15

• • • • • • • • • • How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 last week the core team finished the English Subject molecule! Here it is:

English Molecule – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team created the final 3-D renders of the complete aquapini and walipini footprint. Here is a series showing this in-ground growing and aquaponics concept that will include 6 different internal growing environments, recreational spaces, water collection off of all structures, a central water pond for storage, and a central amphitheater for hosting recreational and educational events:

Final 3-D Renders of the Complete Aquapini and Walipini Footprint – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the diversity details to the organic cucumber section of the large-scale gardening page that now offers 10 different varieties of cucumbers from around the world, 7 beautifully featured, and complete sourcing details for all of these and the other food plants already on this page:

Organic Cucumber Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 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 began outlining a strategy for crowdfunding the building and open source sharing of a 3-dome home cluster. We’ll be building it in West Virginia and the campaign will provide complete building plans, multimedia building instructions for all components, opportunities to join the team for hands-on learning, and more. All of which will be a stepping stone to the construction of the complete Earthbag Village. We will continue to share weekly update details on our progress as we detail the rest of our plan and complete all the necessary plans, videos, labor projections, materials lists, etc. etc.

3-Dome Home Cluster for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page

We also finished outlining version 1.0 of our remote internet plan. Here is a screenshot of this GoogleDoc:

Version 1.0 of Remote Internet Plan

And finished our tank versus tankless water heater comparison research for the earthbag village communal showers showing a heatpump with a simple solar collector as the best choice by far for heating water in off-grid situations like ours where energy costs can significantly raise the total water heating costs because they are directly tied to needing more energy infrastructure. Here is the cost to implement combined with cost to power chart that will soon be included on a complete page sharing all the specifics of our work and research into sustainable and ecological water heating for remote locations:

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 last week week James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) continued work on the heating plan for the Duplicable City Center – here are the results of our collaborative outline for all the separate controllable heating zones for floors 1 and 2. Each of the zones outlined will allow us separate heating control so we can maximize the efficiency of this building based on use and season.

Heating Zones – 1st Floor

Heating Zones – 2nd Floor

Ben Pollock (Full Service Restaurant and Kitchen Designer/Senior Project Manager with Webb Food Service Design) also made huge progress on the kitchen details including specifics for the canning and preserving and dishwashing sections plus all the food serving areas. He also confirmed the specific details for the sprayers, heat boosters, and dishwashers. Here is the updated layout:

Kitchen Specifics Added – Click to Visit Page

Here are the specifics of the equipment Ben chose:

Specifics for the Sprayers, Heat Boosters, and Dishwashers

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

We are creating sustainable and free-shared solutions including 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 last week the core team completely updated the details of our core value of Diversity page covering how diversity is foundational to our organization’s world-change goals and philosophy and how we use this value in our internal decision making process:

Diversity Page – Click to Visit Page

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