Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #198

Open source and free-shared designs are one approach for jump starting global eco-communities. Designs like this can cover all aspects of eco-community establishment and maintenance while also providing templates for stand-alone implementation by individuals too. Comprehensively providing models like this has the potential to influence and stimulate the entire sustainability industry, moving us closer to global sustainability and Highest Good living models for all.

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• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
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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 January 8th, 2017 edition (#198) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Jump Starting Global Eco-Communities
One Community Progress Update #198

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

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred all the written content for the Cosmos Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:57

• Finished updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:38

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7 (see below)
• Created 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book (see below)
• Created and added to the book and website two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village Dance Studio and Music Room (see below)
• Continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette continued working on standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao continued working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders Â (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued helping with Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued working on Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld created the new and final main Shipping Container Village render (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:06

• Continued render and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
• Created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld began working on adding food and people to render of City Center root cellar (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:35

• Dakota Kaiser began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component (see below)
• Jennifer Zhou continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for Highest Good housing village #3-7 (see below)

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @9:10

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JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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 all of the written content for the Cosmos 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 “Cosmos” is now 100% completely written on our website.

Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Play Lesson Plan.

We also completed the final 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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 updating the anchor links on all of the new food pages; Vegan Rice Recipes & Omnivore Rice Recipes, Vegan Potato Recipes & Omnivore Potato Recipes, Vegan Sweet Potato Recipes & Omnivore Sweet Potato Recipes, and the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing all of the pages to ~60% completion:

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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 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 behind-the-scenes writing and editing of the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning and Preparation GoogleDoc that also contains the Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance details. You can see some of this work here:

The core team also created 20 new pages of the web infrastructure for sustainable villages #’s 3-7. You can see a collage of this work here and access them all through the site map.

And we created these 5 new layout outlines for the 7 villages online book:

The core team also created, and added to the book and website these two final renders of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) Dance Studio and Music Room.

In addition to this, the core team continued working on the renders for the Communal Eco-shower Structures that are part of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1). This week we updated the texture of the walls, adjusted the lighting, and added internal details.

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 3rd week with the team, helping work on the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. This week’s focus was adding a line weight index and updating and testing the tutorial by beginning to apply it to the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5), as shown here.

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom modeling. This week’s focus was continued modeling of the structure and internal details for the shower structure and Net-zero bathrooms in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 25th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was window and front entryway design and updates, as shown here.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also created this new and final main Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) render, fixing several alignment issues and external elements.

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 19 of this work that produced new versions of pages 54 and 55, as shown here!

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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 and book layout creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included adding people to this render of the outside portion of the natural pool and this new layout for the page of the book that will feature the pool and the library.

The core team also created a new render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome. We removed a few plants to open up the area and added additional lighting and other aesthetic details.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) began working on adding food and people to this render of the City Center root cellar.

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 initial section drawings for the braces, as show here.

Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the electrical and Control and Automation systems designs for the City Center with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant). Here are pictures of this week’s collaborative call and the results of last week’s work calculating the updated battery and solar panel array sizing.

JUMP STARTING GLOBAL ECO-COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is jump starting global eco-communities 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, working with Dakota Kaiser (Ambassador of The Tribe of Awakening Sovereignty), began developing a new open source and replicable annual social media strategy.

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed the search engine functionality for the Highest Good education component. You can see a collage of this new functionality here.

And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) continued working on setting up the search engine icons and code for all the open source components of Highest Good housing village numbers three through seven.

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One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. 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.