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One Community Welcomes Samantha Freitas to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Samantha Freitas to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
3rd-year Architecture and Interior Design Student: Samantha enrolled in a five-year architecture and urban planning program, and is currently participating in a one-year exchange program at Savannah College of Art and Design. Samantha has worked as a volunteer since high school and also has a degree in Linguistics. She is looking to improve her skills not only in architecture but also in interior design because she thinks architecture should be thorough and designed harmoniously with interior design thinking. Samantha advocates that design be accessible to all, creating a more beautiful, healthy, and sustainable world. As a member of the One Community design team working on the 7 Sustainable Village Models, Samantha is excited to put into practice everything she believes about accessible design while learning with designers and collaborators from many areas.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAMANTHA!
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One Community Welcomes Flávia Bozeda to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Flávia Galimberte Bozeda to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
5th-year Architecture and Interior Design Student: Flávia believes that architecture is not just to create functional and aesthetically attractive spaces and buildings, but also to give users positive sensations and feelings, which create memories. With a background working with interior design for two years, she discovered her passion for colors, materials and furniture. For Flávia, interior design is an important link for architecture and the user, making architecture more human. Although she has a high knowledge with softwares like AutoCAD, Revit, 3DsMax, SketchUp and Rhino, Flávia prefers to be surrounded by markers, pens and colored pencils. From a big metropolis in Brazil, her interest in sustainable design emerged by noticing how people waste material and she wishes to recreate the relationship between man and the environment. As a member of the One Community design team, Flávia is working on the interior design and layout specifics of village models 2-7.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM FLÁVIA!
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One Community Welcomes Song Dong to the Design Team
One Community welcomes Song Dong to the Design Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering: Song earned his M.S. degree from UCLA and B.S. degree in Marine Engineering from Tianjin University, China. Song is interested in damage and failure of materials in mechanical design, finite element analysis of structure, CAD modeling, as well as mechanism kinematics. He is passionate about making smart and eco-designed products to help people gain a smarter and healthier lifestyle. As a One Community partner, Song Dong helped with elevation drawings of the Earthbag Village clusters and SolidWorks structural calculations.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM SONG!
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One Community Welcomes Pedro Borba to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Pedro Borba to the Architecture Team as our newest addition to Team Brazil!
4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Because Pedro was born and raised in São Paulo, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and in his words, “an urban laboratory needing changes,” he developed a passion for urban issues and designing for people. At the University of São Paulo (USP), a public university in Brazil, Pedro had the opportunity to integrate team projects with social and sustainable awareness, which raised his passion and belief in the potentiality of design for improving people’s lives. The experience of four years as an undergraduate student, an internship, and the current exchange to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) has been allowing him to develop his creativity, hand-craft and digital skills (which include proficiency in many softwares, such as Autocad, Revit, 3DS Max, Sketchup, Archicad, ArcGIS and the Adobe Creative Suite). As a member of the One Community team, Pedro is contributing to the 7 Sustainable Village Models as projects he sees as beneficial, useful, and presenting the perspective of designers who intend to change many minds.
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Building an Eco-bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – One Community Weekly Progress Update #115
Building an eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism is possible through open source sustainability components. The path to accomplishing this is to inspire people with a working model. This model should be designed for widespread appeal by being affordable, applicable across a diversity of cultures, easily accessible, created so that people with average knowledge and little or no experience can duplicate it, and with a marketing engine capable of exposing enough people to build the necessary momentum for it to continue on its own. We see this as for The Highest Good of All and having the ability to create a New Golden Age of cooperation, collaboration, innovation, creativity, sustainable living, and increased happiness for everyone and everything on this 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
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
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 May 17th, 2015 edition (#115) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Building an Eco-bridge Between
Idealism and Pragmatism
One Community Weekly Progress Update #115
Here is the bullet-point list of last week’s design and progress of Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism discussed in detail in the video above:
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – INTRO @1:00
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00
- Transferred final 25% of the written section and images for the “Nature“ lesson plan to the website (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Wrote the next 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” (see below)
- Paige Allison Donatelli finished the first 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map (see below)
- Featured new “Highest Good” lesson plan image across social media that Paige helped us create (see below)
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:28
- Finished final social media imagery and featured open source lettuce hub and open source peas hub (see below)
- Researched and added two additional recipes to the open source tomatoes hub (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Benjamin Sessions is creating a month long buying list for the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan
- Added three tasty recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:46
- Created two new layouts for the shower dome that will be part of the upcoming dome-home crowdfunding campaign (see below)
- Behind the scenes: finished writing the final waterproofing strategy for the shower dome (see below)
- Moved the net-zero-water-use bathroom layouts and specifics to the website. This is the excellent work of Beatriz Rocha (see below)
- Sheng Xu finished his 8th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
- Sayonara Batista completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of earthblock construction. Details of Sayonara’s work are on the new Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) page (see below)
- Moved another 15% of work done by Antonio Zambianco to the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations page (see below)
- Nelli Levental completed an initial Cob Village (Pod 3) sketch (see below)
- The Design Team members from Team Brazil created 3-D concept renders of the Earthship Village (Pod 6) and initial designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) (see below)
- Mike Hogan began working on the details of the Control Systems design that will eventually service all 7 sustainable village models (see below)
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:25
- Updated and edited the Duplicable City Center water catchment and storage designs created by Mateus Moura Barretto (see below)
- Mayke Balbino completed revision 3 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD (see below)
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:31
- Began adding images and additional formatting of the work of Binru Chen on the tax considerations and strategy page (see below)
- Created a state-by-state resource for the US Departments of Taxation listing all state government tax pages (see below)
- Finalized and added the Community Member home and home shares ownership agreement to the One Community legal page. This is the work of Yusuf Sulayman (see below)
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – SUMMARY: @9:21
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BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM- HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is building an eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 of eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism: Education open source hub
- Learn how the components of eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
This last week the core team transferred the final 25% of the written content for the Nature lesson plan that teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Nature. The page is for use in any learning environment and this brings it to 90% complete. The final pictures for the page are coming next.
Nature Lesson Plan ” 90% Complete ” Click to Visit Page
Behind the scenes, we wrote the next 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” – which now brings that to 75% complete.
Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished the first 25% of the image creation for the “Communication” lesson plan mind map, which you can see here:
Mindmap for “Communication” Lesson Plan ” 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page
Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Highest Good” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:
“Highest Good” Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is building an eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source lettuce hub:
Featured Lettuce Hub with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit
And we did this for our and open source peas hub:
Featured Pea Hub with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit
We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source tomatoes hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature tomatoes will be added here in the future.
Added 2 Tomato Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Tomato Hub
Behind the scenes, Benjamin Sessions is continuing the creation of our 6-month long buying list for recipes for the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan. This week he focused on order forms.
We also added three additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan. These recipes are: (vegan) ‘Egg‘ Muffin Sandwiches… Summer Squash Noodles… and Roasted Eggplant Tomato Soup:
3 New Vegan Recipes Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is building an eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 created two new layouts for the shower dome that will be part of the upcoming dome-home crowdfunding campaign. These new designs make the plumbing more accessible and meet residential code. The one on the left is what we will be building:
Shower Dome Layouts for Upcoming Dome-Home Crowdfunding Campaign – Click to Visit Page
Behind the scenes we finished writing the final waterproofing strategy for these structures. Next we’ll be moving those details to the website.
Speaking of moving things to the website, this week the core team moved the net-zero-water-use bathroom layouts and specifics to the website. This is the excellent work of Beatriz Rocha (Mechanical Engineering Student):
Net-Zero-Water-Use Bathroom Layouts and Specifics Added to Website – Click to Visit Page
Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his 8th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work included finalizing the stairs, retaining walls, and placing the 3 domes together:
3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (8th Round) ” Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page
Sayonara Batista (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of earthblock construction. You can see the details of Sayonara’s work on the new Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) page began by the core team:
Sayonara Researched the Benefits and Challenges of Earthblock Construction – Click to Visit Page
The core team also moved another 15% of the earth dome loft structural engineering calculations to the website. This open source work was completed by Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) and is now 35% complete on the site:
Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes ” 35% Complete
Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) completed and initial Cob Village (Pod 3) sketch. Here’s a picture of some cob homes from around the world too:
Initial Cob Village (Pod 3) Sketch and Cob Home Images from Around the World – Click to Visit Page
The Design Team members from Team Brazil also created these 3-D concept renders of the Earthship Village (Pod 6):
Earthship Village 3-D Concept Renders – Click to Visit Page
…and initial designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). What you see here are the 3-D renders, Elevations, initial 3-level concept layout, initial single and couples units, and a lateral facing unit:
Initial Designs of Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) – Click to Visit Page
Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) began working on the details of the Control Systems design that will eventually service all 7 sustainable village models. These images are snapshots of what is being discussed and developed behind the scenes:
Control Systems Design Details – Click to Visit Page
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is building an eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 updated and edited the Duplicable City Center water catchment and storage designs created by Mateus Moura Barretto (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics). These designs will capture over 99,000 gallons of rainwater each year with an average rainfall of only 10 inches per year:
Duplicable City Center Water Catchment and Storage Designs Updated and Edited – Click to Visit Page
Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed revision 3 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD. This included straightening walls in the Social Dome, a new stair design in the Dining dome, updated railings and utility closet designs for the 3rd floor, and elimination of dead space with a new cupola design for the 4th floor; all changes that will further improve materials efficiency and make this structure easier to build.
Revision 3 Duplicable City Center in AutoCAD – Click to Enlarge
BUILDING AN ECO-BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is building an eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 began adding images and additional formatting of the work of Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) on the tax considerations and strategy page. This work is part of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. We’d say this work is now about 20% complete.
Beginning of Formatting on the Tax Considerations and Strategy Page – Click to Visit
We also finalized and added the Community Member home and home shares ownership agreement to the One Community legal page. This is the work of Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association), added as an open source template for others wishing to form similar home ownership agreements with their members.
Home and Home shares Ownership Agreement Added to Legal Page – Click to Visit
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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism. 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, building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of what is possible.
Throughout our design process of building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism, 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 to build an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism. 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 building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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, and resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle into a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing the Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 in our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism, 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.
INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE
One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone. This way we can build the Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism.
Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own, thereby building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism.
It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity, building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating. Thereby accelerating the building of an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism.
GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL
The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world, and building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most.
To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement in the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, build an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components.
This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources to achieve an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism, but we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations.
As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Building an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism needs more people’s participation. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution.
Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies.
We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for the distribution of monies to help others establish an Eco-bridge between idealism and pragmatism.
One Community Welcomes Mike Hogan to the Design Team
One Community welcomes Mike Hogan to the Design Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!
Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant: Mike has over 35 years of professional experience in the field of automation systems. During his career Mike has provided technical consulting and support for business systems including office automation, manufacturing control systems, data center environmental management systems, back-end servers, networking designs and business processes. In 2012 Mike retired from his 20 year ownership of a medium size consulting company and created his new company Futurehouse Automation Corporation with the focus on sustainable living automation control systems development. Mike developed his first automation system in 1975 consisting of relays and clock motors. As technology advanced Mike has constantly updated his skills and methods used in his automation designs. Over the past 30 years Mike has designed and built 5 generations of automated house systems and hundreds of custom interface circuit boards. His experience with hardware is backed up by extensive knowledge in driver writing, logic programming, user interfaces, multi-tier transactional data services and web service development. As a One Community partner and consultant, Mike is offering his experience with automation systems to assist with the development of One Community’s Control Systems evaluation and design initiatives.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM MIKE!
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Making Sustainability Mainstream – One Community Weekly Progress Update #114
Making sustainability mainstream is a process of making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as having enough value for sustainability ideas to spread on their own. This can be accomplished through an open source approach that combines physical sustainability (food, energy, housing) with emotional sustainability (education, recreation, business creation, and Earth stewardship) to generate a better quality of living that will benefit us all. One Community calls this living and creating 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
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
Making Sustainability Mainstream 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 May 10th, 2015 edition (#114) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
One Community Weekly Progress Update #114
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM INTRO @1:03
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @1:57
- Transferred final 25% of web design specifics for the Open Source lesson plan (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Wrote the next 25% of lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Worked on a comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model for students and their teachers (see below)
- Paige Allison Donatelli finished final 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson plan mind map (see below)
- Featured new “Opposites” lesson plan image across social media that Paige helped us create (see below)
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:29
- Finished final social media imagery and featured our open source eggplants hub (see below)
- Researched and added the recipes to the open source radishes hub (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Benjamin Sessions is creating a month long buying list for the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)
- Added two additional recipes from Sandra Sellani to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan (see below)
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:49
- Continued progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture (85% complete – see below)
- Began creating the 3-D specifics for teaching the foundation details for the Earthbag Village structures (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Wrote the final waterproofing strategy for the Earthbag Village structures
- Beatriz Rocha finished Revit drafts of the net-zero-water-use bathroom layouts (see below)
- Sheng Xu finished his 7th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign (see below)
- Sayonara Batista de Oliveira completed renders and design layouts of the initial Cob Village (Pod 3) designs (see below)
- Antonio Zambianco finished the loft calculations for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign domes (see below)
- Nelli Levental created updated floor layouts for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) (see below)
- The Design Team members from Team Brazil created the second round of design layouts for the Earthship Village (Pod 6) (see below)
- Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team continued their work putting the complete Earthbag Village into AutoCAD (see below)
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:55
- Mayke Balbino completed a redesign of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome and stairwell and elevator area along with a broad diversity of other AutoCAD updates (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Mateus Barretto finished the rest of the calculations and design details for the Duplicable City Center water catchment and storage (see below)
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:46
- Began transferring and formatting the work of Binru Chen to the website. This work is open source sharing the tax considerations and strategy of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs (see below)
- Yusuf Sulayman helped us create the first formal draft of our Community Member home and home shares ownership agreement (see below)
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM SUMMARY: @9:43
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MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability mainstream 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 final 25% of the web design specifics for the Open Source lesson plan. That brings this webpage to 100% complete:
Open Source Lesson Plan ” 100% Complete ” Click to Visit Page
Behind the scenes, we wrote the next 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” which brings that to 50% complete.
Here you can also see the behind-the-scenes work we did on the comprehensive evaluation/assessment and mutual feedback model we are developing for students and their teachers. This week’s focus was on emotional intelligence:
Comprehensive Evaluation/Assessment & Mutual Feedback Model ” Click to Visit Page
Paige Allison Donatelli (Graphic Designer and Owner Operator of Namaste Living in a Material World) finished the final 25% of the image creation for the Open Source lesson plan mind map, which you can see here. This brought the mindmap to 100% complete:
Mindmap for “Open Source” Lesson Plan ” 100% Complete ” Click to Visit Page
Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Opposites” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:
“Opposites” Lesson Plan Featured ” Click to Visit Page
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability mainstream 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 the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source eggplants hub:
Featured our Eggplants Page with New Social Media Imagery ” Click to Visit
We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source radishes hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature radishes will be added here in the future:
Added 2 Radish Recipes ” Click to Visit the Open Source Radish Hub
Behind the scenes, Benjamin Sessions is continuing the creation of our 6-month long buying list for recipes for the omnivore section of our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan. This week he focused on compiling a list of sources for purchasing bulk foods.
We also added two additional recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are the Vegetable Stir Fry, and the Rainbow Swiss Chard Soup with Leeks and Corn. Both contain the weekly staple item of brown rice.
Rainbow Swiss Chard Soup Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit
Asian Stir Fry Added to Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan Page ” Click to Visit
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability mainstream 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 progress on the assembly specifics for the Open Source Murphy bed furniture. This week we added additional pictures and clarifying steps to #6.8, cutting lumber and labeling pieces for the bed box. We also corrected some more measurements, and began work on the assembly steps for the bed box. This brings us to an estimated 85% complete with this work that is part of both the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign.
Open Source Murphy Bed Furniture Assembly Details Developing Behind-the-scenes ” Click to Visit
We also began creating the 3-D specifics for teaching the foundation details for the Earthbag Village structures:
Earthbag Preliminary Foundation Details – Click to Visit Page
Also behind the scenes we wrote the final waterproofing strategy for these structures. We’re 75% complete with what is needed for the site.
Beatriz Rocha (Mechanical Engineering Student) finished Revit drafts of the net-zero-water-use bathroom layouts. You can see these details here:
Revit Drafts of the Net-Zero-Water-Use Bathroom Layouts – Click to Visit Page
Revit Drafts of the Net-Zero-Water-Use Bathroom Layouts – Click to Visit Page
Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his 7th round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This work included finalizing the roof design and developing the roof drainage system:
3-Dome Cluster into Solidworks (7th Round) ” Click for Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Page
Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed renders and design layouts of the initial Cob Village (Pod 3) designs.
What you see here is the overview layout:
Cob Village Overview Layout – Click to Visit Page
Here are the individual structures featuring 2 floors and 6 living units:
Cob Village Individual Structures – Click to Visit Page
Here is what the insides of these units would look like:
Cob Village Inside of Units – Click to Visit Page
and here are our initial ideas for integrating an outdoor group gathering space:
Cob Village Outdoor Group Gathering Area – Click to Visit Page
Antonio Zambianco (Civil Engineering Student) also finished the loft calculations for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign domes. Here is the first 20% of this information as the core team is adding it to the site:
Loft Calculations for Earthbag Village and Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign Domes – Click to Visit
Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) created updated floor layouts for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4). The image also includes a side view and a color render Nelli then made.
Floor Layouts Updated for Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page
The Design Team members from Team Brazil also created this second round of design layouts for the Earthship Village (Pod 6). These included updated Elevations… Sections… Floor Plan Overviews…. common space layouts… new double unit layouts… and updated ADA and single unit layouts too:
Second Round of Design Layouts for Earthship Village – Click to Visit Page
Scott Thomas and his Shadow Ridge Signature Architecture Program team continued their work putting the complete Earthbag Village into AutoCAD by adding in the first round of elevation details you see here:
Earthbag Village 1st Round of Elevation Details in AutoCAD – Click to Visit Page
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability mainstream 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 Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed a redesign of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome and stairwell and elevator area along with a broad diversity of other AutoCAD updates that will improve materials efficiency and make it easier to build. You can see these changes here:
Redesign of Duplicable City Center in Auto Cad – Click to Visit Page
Behind the scenes, Mateus Barretto (Civil Engineering Student specializing in Hydraulics) also finished the rest of the calculations and design details you see here for the Duplicable City Center water catchment and storage. We’ll now begin editing and open sourcing these specifics on the website.
Behind the Scenes Calcs & Design Details for City Center Water Catchment and Storage – Click to Visit
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MAINSTREAM HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability mainstream 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 for mission of making sustainability mainstream.: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing for mission of making sustainability mainstream.: 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 for mission of making sustainability mainstream.: The Highest Good Network
This last week the core team began transferring and formatting the work of Binru Chen (Accountant) to the website. This work is open source sharing the tax considerations and strategy of the Highest Good Economics component of building teacher/demonstration hubs. This work helps One Community’s mission of making sustainability mainstream. We’d say this developing work is now about 10% complete:
Transferring and Formatting Work to the Tax Page – Click to Visit
Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association) also helped us create this first formal draft of our Community Member home and home shares ownership agreement. Once finalized, this document will be added to the One Community legal page as on open source template for others wishing to form similar home ownership agreements with their members. This work helps One Community’s mission of making sustainability mainstream.
First Formal Draft of Community Member Home and Home Shares Ownership Agreement
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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and making sustainability mainstream. 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 of 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. This work helps One Community’s mission of making sustainability mainstream.
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. This work helps One Community’s mission of making sustainability mainstream.
One Community Welcomes Diana Vieira to the Design Team
One Community welcomes Diana Vieira to the Design Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!
4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Diana is a Brazilian student on her last year of graduation. She is interested in green architecture, sustainability, landscape architecture and planning. Diana spent her childhood on a farm which made her a nature lover. Her passion for bio-architecture came when she participated in a permaculture and bio construction workshop, and when she visited a couple eco-villages in Brazil. Her background includes one year as an intern with a construction company and also another year as an academic trainee in a research group of urban morphology, which allowed her to co-work, improve her abilities on AutoCAD and Revit, and her communication, analyzing, and research skills. Diana really believes the practice of goodness, the sharing of positive values, and a harmonious connection with nature is the best way to achieve healthly living. She loves traveling and its infinite possibilities to get inspired through discovering new places and cultures. As a member of the One Community team, Diana’s focus is on the design and development of the seven village models.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM DIANA!
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One Community Welcomes Jorge Ricardo Jr to the Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Jorge Ricardo Jr to the Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
5th-year Mechanical Engineering Student and Mechanical Engineering Team Lead: Jorge is a Mechanical Engineering Student at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He graduated as a Communication and Design Technician in high school at the Institute of Technology ORT (Organization, Reconstruction and Work). During College, Jorge took part in three years as Aerodynamics, Construction and SolidWorks Master chief in the Minerva Aerodesign project where he calculated all the requirements to build a DRONE that carries the biggest payload possible. He is fluent in three languages (native Portuguese, fluent English and fluent Spanish) and has good skills in leadership, teamwork and project management. Jorge is always searching for new projects that can add to his professional career, and it was this mindset that lead him to build his own 3D Printer at home. He has knowledge of essential modeling and calculation software like SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Matlab and Mathematica and has also worked with computer languages such as Python and Pascal. As an engineer, Jorge believes that plans and projects must be created with consideration for future generations. He also feels strongly that a sustainable mindset is the key to the continuous use of our environment. As a member of the One Community Intern Team, Jorge is working on modeling, structural calculations and mechanical design details for the Earthbag Village structures.
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One Community Welcomes Sayonara Oliveira to the Architecture Team
One Community welcomes Sayonara Oliveira to the Architecture Team as our newest Partner/Consultant!
4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Sayonara is an undergraduate student enrolled in the Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program at Portland State University. In Brazil, she studies at Federal University of Campina Grande. Before starting college, Sayonara took classes to learn how to use AutoCAD, which gave to her a great amount of knowledge about the software. One year later, she had the opportunity to be a teaching assistant at her university where she offered support to other students that were gaining experience with AutoCAD. Always desiring to help, Sayonara participated as a volunteer in the organization of several events in her college. In addition, she was part of a scientific research group about the free spaces of her city, called “Free spaces in Campina Grande: a vista of the landscaping in the city.” Her passion for the environment related to architecture and urbanism became stronger during this research. Sayonara realized that the cities and buildings could act like great agents to modify the spaces and incorporate sustainability in the plans. Living and studying for almost 1 year in Portland, Oregon (one of the most sustainable cities in America) she took many classes related to environmental issues, and saw how great the benefits are for people when the spaces incorporate green infrastructure, and are planned with concern for nature. Sayonara desires to use her architecture and urban planning skills to build better spaces that improve quality of life while preserving the environment for future generations. As a member of the One Community team, Sayonara is helping with sustainable construction method research, design, drafting, and rendering for all seven of the sustainable village models.
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