World Game-Changing Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #69

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions through a comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable, proactive, and regenerative living 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 June 27th, 2014 edition (#69) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:

World Game-Changing Solutions
One Community Weekly Progress Update #69

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

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS INTRO @1:00

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:43

• • • Began working on the Happiness Lesson plan (see below)
    • Finished adding the rest of the Khan Academy open source education links to our Math subject page
    • Finished adding all icons and 30% of the subject specifics to the subject of Science page (see below)
    • Behind the scenes we finished the last details of the lesson plan with the core theme of “Signs” and began the lesson plan with the core them of “Opposites”

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:04

• • • Added the diversity details of the Peas to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
    • Added the diversity details of the Tomatoes to the large-scale gardening page (see below)
    • We also finished the rest of our large-scale soil amendment strategy webpage

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:12

• • • Began the detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs lists for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
    • Researched temporary shelter structures we’ll be needing for the crowdfunding campaign (see below)
    • Hajjar Gibran created the outline for complete DIY aircrete home construction (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:28

• • • Completed a utility analysis to evaluate the needed flow rates for our hot water needs (see below)
    • Began extensive research into Magnesium Oxide board as a possible sustainable plywood alternative
    • Began discussing elevator details (see below)
    • Joel Newman began outlining the lighting plan for this structure (see below)
    • P2S Engineering helped coordinate draft 3 of our floor heating plan (see below)
    • Ben Pollock finished about 70% of the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @7:28

• • • Rewrite and redesign of our core values page for Personal Growth (see below)

WORLD GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS SUMMARY: @7:46

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

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 last week the core team began working on the Happiness Lesson plan mindmap for teaching all subjects to all ages in the context of the central theme of happiness:

Happiness Lesson Plan Mindmap in Progress – Click to Visit Page

We also finished adding the rest of the icon images and about 30% of the subject specifics that correlate with those icons for the subject of Science page:

Subject of Science Page in Progress – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 | Tropical Atrium

This last week the core team finished adding the diversity details to the organic Peas sections with 10 peas and the 9 featured that you see featured here. If you visit the large-scale gardening page you will also see we’ve added complete purchasing details, planting guidelines, cultural considerations, and more:

Organic Peas Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

We also added the specifics for 25 Tomatoes, including the 10 that you can see featured here:

Organic Tomatoes Diversity Details – Click to Visit Page

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 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 confirming the specifics of the detailed equipment and tools inventory and needs lists you see here for the 3-dome cluster crowdfunding campaign we are creating:

Detailed Equipment and Tools Inventory in Progress – Click for Complete Page

We also researched the temporary shelter structures we’ll be needing:

Temporary Shelter Structure Research

Related to this, we also announced our partnership with Hajjar Gibran (Designer, Builder, and Author) who is helping us add a do-it-yourself aircrete dome to the 3-dome cluster campaign so we can include and compare aircrete dome-home permitted blueprints, materials lists, tools lists like you saw before, DIY building instructions, video tutorials, and more to go along with the earthbag home plans. Here is the building list for what we’ll be completing and open source sharing with Hajjar’s help:

Aircrete Building List for 3-Dome Cluster Campaign

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 last week the core team put together a utility analysis to evaluate the needed flow rates for our hot water needs:

Heat Pump Utility Chart – Click to Visit Page

We also had multiple conversations with KONE elevators, listed by Newsweek as the 12th greenest company in the world, and producers of the EcoSpace elevator you see here:

KONE Ecospace Elevator

Joel Newman (Architectural Visualization Designer www.FigmentCreation.com) began outlining the lighting plan for the Duplicable City Center with an extensive amount of detail that we will be turning into an open source webpage. Here is a small preview of this work:

Preview of Lighting Plan

Also, Devin of Uponor, through coordination with James Nance (Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager with P2S Engineering) completed the next draft of our radiant floor heating plan, adding in equipment specifics and the schedule you see here:

Radiant Floor Heating Plan Draft

Last, but definitely not least, Ben Pollock with Webb Food Service Design finished about 70% of the large-scale kitchen equipment specifics you can see here:

Kitchen Equipment Specifics in Progress

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating world game-changing solutions 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 last week the core team working completed a rewrite and redesign of our core values page discussing creating a culture of personal growth as a foundation of global transformation, what the core value of growth means to us, and how we use this value in our decision making process. Here’s a screenshot of this work:

Personal Growth Page – Click to Visit

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