Better Living through Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #179

We have the ability to create better living through sustainability. If we open source and free-share a replicable model for this, we can spread the idea and sustainable lifestyle globally. The ultimate goal of doing this would be to create a fully sustainable planet capable of meeting the needs of everyone living here. This is the purpose of the all-volunteer One Community nonprofit organization.

• 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 August 28th, 2016 edition (#179) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living through Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #179

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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @1:03

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:56

• Transferred second 25% of the written content for the Beliefs Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the final 25% of the written part of the Beliefs Lesson Plan (see below)
• Completed second 25% of mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:51

• Behind the scenes: updated descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:16

• Updated all the images on Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers (see below)
• Began serious formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book (see below)
• Updated the Earthbag Village page with all new icons and created several new pages that will host all the open source details for electrical, plumbing, window and door framing, and other details (see below)
• Put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
• Sal Rubio continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions (see below)
• Brianna Johnson updated the colors and created these two new overview renders for the Straw Bale Village (see below)
• Dean Scholz further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Guy Grossfeld completed his photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:53

• Continued work on the interior design of the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
• Iris Hsu continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for Duplicable City Center library (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 13th week of work on the lighting zones (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued work on the structural details for the City Center (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:27

• Jennifer Zhou completed her 7th week of work developing the new website structure (see below)

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @8:45

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better living through 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 last week the core team transferred the second 25% of the written content for the Beliefs 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 “Beliefs” is now 50% completed on our website.

Better Living through Sustainability – Beliefs Lesson Plan – 50% Complete – Click to Visit Page

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

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Honesty and Integrity Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Honesty and Integrity Mindmap – 50% Complete – Click to Visit

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better living through 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, behind the scenes, the core team updated the descriptions for the Transition Kitchen equipment to a staging page on the website, as you can see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Updated Descriptions for the Transition Kitchen Equipment

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better living through 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 all the images on the Highest Good Housing page and all the individual village headers. What you see here is the updated Highest Good Housing page with the new images. The updated individual village pages have similar new header images and identical social media images.

Updated all the Images on Highest Good Housing Page and the Individual Village Headers

The core team also began serious formatting of the upcoming 7 villages online book pages 1-22. This work included laying high-resolution covers, and new intro pages, updating the City Center layouts, making inset images and resizing text, and setting up new page numbers, style sheets, and aligning the elements on these pages to a set grid.

Better Living through Sustainability – Began Serious Formatting of Upcoming 7 Villages Online Book

We also updated the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) page with all new icons as seen here. As part of this, we additionally created several new pages that will host all the open source details for electrical, plumbing, window and door framing, and other details.

Better Living through Sustainability – Updated the Earthbag Village Page and Created Several New ones

The core team also put another 10 hours into the behind-the-scenes revision for the Footers, Foundations and Flooring page for the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week we completed a comprehensive review of the FFF doc. on pages 58-87, where we made corrections related to measurements and proofreading grammar and sentence structure. We also added new materials to the FFF materials list which included 3/4″ & 1/2″ plywood photos with description of usage along with separate narratives on pages 107 & 108. Additionally, we added 2″ finish nails, which are replacing 3 1/2″ finish nails for the slider. We’d say we are now 96% complete with this total update and rewrite behind the scenes.

Better Living through Sustainability – BTS Revision of the Footers, Foundations and Flooring Info

Sal Rubio (Industrial Designer) continued working on creating professional do-it-yourself Earthbag Village Murphy Bed furniture assembly instructions. What you see here is week 13 of this process that focused on updating the main layouts, intro page for each section, and the symbols page to match the appearance and layout we decided on last week.

Better Living through Sustainability – Working on Creating DIY Furniture Assembly Instructions

Brianna Johnson (Interior Designer), also updated the colors and created these two new overview renders for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2).

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Evolving Straw Bale Village Renders

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), further developed what’s necessary for us to create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 33 of his work that focused on adding foliage around the windows of the central dining and recreation structure and running test renders testing the background tree images.

Further Developed What’s Necessary to Create Quality Cob Village Renders – Click to Visit Page

And, Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD Draftsperson and Designer), continued evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). You can see his 5th week of work here showing a redesigned central roadway, added ADA units, a redesigned main public restroom area, and test locations for pillars.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village

Guy Grossfeld, (Graphic Designer) also completed his photoshop work on the renders for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5)! This final work included minor updates to the 3rd Floor circulation image you see here:

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Northside Circulation Space – Click to Visit

….finishing this 2nd floor front area looking out:

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 2 Unit Type 2 Front Area Looking Out

….this finalized version of the stairway up to floor 3:

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 2 Stairs Up to Floor 3 – Click to Visit

…and final edits and additions to this front perspective of the stairs up to floor 2:

Better Living through Sustainability – Final Version of Floor 1 Stairs Up to Floor 2 – Click to Visit

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better living through 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 working on the Duplicable City Center 3D renders. What you see here is the continued work on the interior design of the first floor of the Social Dome, where we added new trees to the area next to the pool and placed additional lights above the pool. A couple of different views were chosen for future rendering.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on the Interior Design of Social Dome

And Iris Hsu, (Industrial Designer), continued exploring recycled pipe shelving and overhead lighting options for the Duplicable City Center library. What you see here is round #16 of this work showing beginning integration of our final pipe design for the lighting with the pipe furniture, books on the shelves, and texture tests for the walls and floor.

Better Living through Sustainability – Exploring Recycled Pipe Shelving and Overhead Lighting Options

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) also continued with her 13th week of work on the lighting zones. This week’s progress continued adding additional zones to differentiate areas within the kitchen, social dome, and outdoor zones, and updating the spreadsheet with the new calculations this required.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on City Center Lighting Zones – Click to Visit

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued work on the structural details for the City Center. This week’s focus was continued evolution of the structural column and beam placements.

Better Living through Sustainability – Continued Work on Structural Details for City Center

BETTER LIVING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a better living through 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 Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) completed her 7th week of work developing the new website structure, continuing to focus on making the structure responsive to screen-size changes, upgrading formatting, and working on how to integrate our logo into this format.

Continued Developing the New Website Structure – Click for Our Homepage

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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.