Building Global Sustainability Hubs – One Community Weekly Progress Update #195

One Community is an all-volunteer nonprofit creating plans for building global sustainability hubs to teach all aspects of community and sustainable living. These plans include open source and free-shared tools, tutorials and resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see this as a path to a truly sustainable planet.

• 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 December 18th, 2016 edition (#195) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Global Sustainability Hubs
One Community Progress Update #195

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

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS INTRO: @1:03

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:04

• Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan
• Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Updated the icons on the Core Curriculum page (see below)
• Added a new resource section to all the education pages, with an example from our Ultimate Classroom page (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:19

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes pages (see below)
• Created the new Recipes Shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:56

• Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (see below)
• Created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6 and updated the color of the Highest Good food icons (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy created 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began 3D creation of Aparna’s work of the Compressed Earth Block Village using 3DSMax (see below)
• Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:00

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created final render of thenatural pool area central view looking northwest (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Neha Verma researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued working on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis (see below)
• Ramya Vudi, Shubham Agrawal , and Mike Hogan continued working on the Control and Automation systems electrical design (see below)
• Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished first update of Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes (see below)
• Renan Dantas continued creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @10:16

• Created new icons and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page (see below)
• Yuri Witte continued helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning (see below)

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS SUMMARY: @10:52

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BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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 transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 50% completed on our website.

Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% section of the written part of the Cognition Lesson Plan.

We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 25% complete, which you see here:

And we finished updating the icons across another 40% of the Education pages, bringing us to 80% complete there. What you see here is the Core Curriculum page, one of the most dramatically different looking pages after this update.

We also added a new resource section to all the education pages. Here’s an example of what this looks like from our Ultimate Classroom page.

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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 finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan rice recipe page.

The core team also created the new recipes shortcode which can be seen at the bottom of every recipes page. You can see a picture of those icons here:

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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

The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation and creating the first 50% of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page you see here.

The core team also reorganized all the images for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into their respective floors and added detailed descriptions for each one. You can see some of this work here:

We also created 30 housing icons each for Villages 3 thru 6, with the new icons from the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) shown here:

…and we updated the color of the Highest Good food icons, which you can see here.

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) created these 3 renders of the Tropical Atrium with people in them. These now go to the core team for final review and edits.

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 22nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on kitchen visualizations as shown here:

Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began 3D creation of the same area of the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) using 3DSMax. This is so he can help with development of what this area will look like:

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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 render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included working on the natural pool area, where we placed sitting rocks around the walkway, added water lilies to the pond, and upgraded the compass for the circular walkway with a new stone/brick texture design.

Also in the natural pool area, we added people and other aesthetic finishing touches to create this final render of the central view looking northwest.

Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), also continued her work on the recycled pipe shelving for the Duplicable City Center library. This week’s focus was further development of the instructions by adding more renders, details for the tee joints, and details for the coupling fittings that will house the light socket.

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s work was additional calculations for the beams in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor…

….and column loads for the entire structure:

Neha Verma (Construction Project Manager and Bachelor’s of Architecture) researched the most sustainable options for the exterior of the City Center so we can start developing a water proofing page for this structure.

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 22nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was finalizing the final four bulbs for inside and around the structure.

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 15th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was further clarification of what a “household is” and calculating residential and commercial washer efficiency and comparing the two using laundry projections for 1, 5, 50, 100, and 500 households, as shown here.

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer), Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer), and Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) continued working on the electrical design for the Control and Automation systems. This week’s focus was research and selection of the conduit and discussions about panel design. What you see here are notes and photos from the weekly collaborative call.

Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished this first update of the Control and Automation systems layout to reflect the most recent design changes for the building. You can see this work here:

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 4th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center section drawings. This week’s focus was reorganizing the complete Master File and further updates to layer organization, colors, and details for all the sections shown here.

BUILDING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY HUBS HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating plans for building global sustainability hubs 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 created the new icons you see here and updated them on the Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents and Using them to Support Open Source and Free-sharing page and the 3 pages associated with this page.

Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 7th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. What you hear in the background are versions 7.7 a, b, and c testing different instrument groups for the intro. You can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear all previous versions.

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