Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – One Community Weekly Progress Update #236

Eco-community support for Earth’s biosphere is one path to creating global sustainability. In support of this goal, One Community is creating open source and sustainable plans for all aspects of eco-community creation. These plans include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global 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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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 October 1, 2017 edition (#236) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere
One Community Progress Update #236

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

ECO-COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR EARTH’S BIOSPHERE INTRO: @0:34

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @6:34

• Continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Updated the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub with the new floor plans (see below)
• Sangam Stanczak and the core team updated the Communal Eco-shower page (see below)
• Hemanth Kotaru completed his 9th week doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village (see below)
• Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan completed his 3rd working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca created the final render of the Compressed Earth Block Village Massage and Treatment Room Looking North (see below)
• Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
• Samantha Robinson completed her 9th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (see below)

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:02

• Falgun Patel completed his 5th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page (see below)
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 52nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Vamsi Pulugurtha continued work on basement heat transfer comparisons for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub (see below)
• Oruba Rabie officially took over working on the City Center structural engineering details (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:36

• Continued researching and organizing recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:07

• Finished rebuilding the education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal to reflect and be able to access the content created over the last few months in collaboration with Sangam Stanczak (see below)

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @11:42

• Continued developing the animation for our video that will feature where all our collaborators and volunteers are from (see below)
• Finished working on the new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation (see below)
• Ashwin Patil continued with creation of the the Highest Good society search engine version 3.0 (see below)
• Sowmya Manohar returned to helping work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)
• Priti Kothari completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software (see below)

ECO-COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR EARTH’S BIOSPHERE SUMMARY: @13:28

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 HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 continued Sketchup design for the open source outdoor areas of the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6). This week we finished designing the outside dining area. We also updated the color of the building and worked on the landscaping.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Outdoor Areas of Recycled Materials Village ” Click to Visit

The core team additionally updated the Compressed Earth Block Village open source hub with the new floor plans shown here. These include corrected patios for all three floors of the North residences.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit

The core team also, with the help of Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.), updated the Communal Eco-shower page with new biocompatible soap details, location and floor plan images, and copper-corrosion research results.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Communal Eco-Shower Page – Click to Visit

Hemanth Kotaru (Structural Engineering Masters Student) completed his 9th week with us doing research and running calculations for the Earthbag Village. This week’s focus, as shown here, was on researching the effectiveness of nails as an anti-sheer option between earthbags.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Research, Running Calculations ” Click for Page

Jagannathan Shankar Mahadevan (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd working on the Straw Bale Village cost analysis. What you see here are cost estimates for about half of the different areas included in this village.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Straw Bale Village Cost Analysis ” Click to Visit

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 57th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details. This week’s focus was this final render of the Massage and Treatment Room Looking North.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Earth Block Village Massage Room – Click for Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 35th week of work, focusing on the final presentation shown here and live on the site for the zone 11, the North Playground and Exercise Space.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page

Samantha Robinson (Graphic Designer) completed her 9th week working on the interior design for the living structure of the Tree House Village (Pod 7). This week’s focus, as shown here, was testing initial texturing for the upstairs shelving and more stair and furniture design details.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Tree House Village Interior Design ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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

Falgun Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week continuing to review, run calculations, and update the specifics of the remote-energy setup plan so we can update the Highest Good energy page. This week’s focus, as shown here, was 2nd-generation energy-needs calculations for the initial landing party, sizing the generators, and updating the landing-party-rollout text details.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Specifics of Remote-Energy Setup ” Click for Page

Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 52nd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was adding and testing multiple lighting options for the Dining Dome column, wall, overhang, and table lights.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click for Page

Vamsi Pulugurtha (Mechanical Engineer) also continued work on basement heat transfer comparisons for the City Center Heating and Cooling open source hub. What you see here are Vamsi’s 4th-generation details and conclusions comparing how heat transfers from the basement and boiler room to the outside when built in-ground versus above ground.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Heat Transfer Comparisons ” Click for Page

Oruba Rabie (Ph.D, PE, and Civil Engineer) also officially took over working on the City Center structural engineering details. What you see here are some screenshots of her process looking for and correcting errors in the existing model.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – City Center Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 continued researching and organizing recently found resources for our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan and Sustainable Food Nutrition Calculations page, as you see here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Found Resources for Our Food Pages – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 week, the core team finished rebuilding the education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal to reflect and be able to access the content created over the last few months in collaboration with Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.). You can see some of the new sections here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Education Evaluation and Evolution open source portal 

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is launching eco-community support for earth’s biosphere 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 continued developing the animation for our video that will feature where all our collaborators and volunteers are from. The focus was adding the final image movements to bring us to 100% complete.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Graphic – Collaborators and Volunteers ” Click for Team

In addition to this we finished working on the new and standalone state-by-state resource page for the US Departments of Taxation, creating a header image, performing final edits, and completing the SEO information and sharing it. You can see this page here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – State-by-State Resource Page ” Click to Visit

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with creation of the the Highest Good society search engine version 3.0, integrating another round of suggested edits and missing pages. You can see some of this work-in-progress here and we’d say this search engine is now 90% complete.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Highest Good Society Search Engine – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer) returned to helping work on the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was continuing her work on the functions for retrieving account information for specific people based on individual IDs and populating the “Profile Page” for the specific person with their respective values.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Highest Good Network Software – Click to Visit

In addition to this, Priti Kothari (Information Technology Enthusiast) also completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week’s focus was experimenting with creating the database model design suitable for the application, some of which you can see here.

Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere – Highest Good Network Software ” Click to Visit

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together thereby Creating a Better World and creating Eco-Community Support for Earth’s Biosphere.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.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability and Creating a Better World . We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.