Posted on June 8, 2015 by One Community
Engineering our own green future is possible and beneficial for all people and life on our planet. For the first time in the history of humanity, open source sustainability components can be developed and globally shared and produced. Putting these open source ideas together as a self-replicating and self-sustainable teacher/demonstration model can further this idea and goal even more by inspiring and educating people with a complete living model. We see this as 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:
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 24th, 2015 edition (#116) of our weekly progress update detailing the previous week’s development and accomplishments:
Here is the bullet-point list of last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – INTRO @1:00
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION @2:00
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:28
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @4:37
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:16
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:21
and more…
ENGINEERING OUR OWN GREEN FUTURE SUMMARY: @9:21
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One Community is engineering our own green future through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and is more fun for both the teachers and the students:
This last week the core team transferred the first 25% of the content for the Communication lesson plan to the website, including all of the icons and some of the written content. This lesson plan teaches all subjects, to all learning levels, using the central theme of Communication.
Behind the scenes, we wrote the final 25% of our lesson plan with the central theme of “Communication” – which now brings that to 100% 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 “Outer Space” lesson plan mind map, which you can see here:
Paige also helped us create this new image for the “Movement and Development” lesson plan, which we featured this week across our social media channels:
One Community is engineering our own green future 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:
This last week the core team finished the final social media imagery and featured our open source radishes hub:
And we did this for our open source tomatoes hub:
We also researched and added two additional recipes to the open source potatoes hub, which you can see here. More recipes from our Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan that feature potatoes will be added here in the future.
Last but not least, we added three new recipes from Sandra Sellani (Vegan Chef and author of What’s Your BQ?) to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan – These recipes are: Oat flour Pancakes with Mango Puree, Pesto Pasta Salad with Arugula, and a Creamy Fennel Coconut Soup:
One Community is engineering our own green future 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:
This last week the core team updated over 20 pages of the custom furniture for the final instruction set for the Earthbag Village and the upcoming crowdfunding campaign. This is the final image review and update series and this series of updates brings us to 30% complete:
We also added 50% of our research to the waterproofing strategy page for the earth dome structures. This brings the page to about 40% complete:
And we moved another 25% 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 60% complete on the site:
Sheng Xu (Mechanical Design Engineer) also finished his final round of SolidWorks design specifics for the 3-dome cluster of the upcoming crowdfunding campaign that prepared these domes for structural calculations and 3-D printing:
Jorge Antonio Ricardo (Mechanical Engineering Student) then began work on dividing this structure into pieces that can be 3-D printed to show its modular components. These pieces include a roof option:
3-Dome Structures Divided into Pieces that can be 3-D Printed – Click to Visit Earthbag Village Portal
Song Dong (M.S. in Mechanical Engineering) also finished the first round of elevation and cross section modeling of these 3-dome structures in AutoCAD:
Sayonara Batista de Oliveira (4th-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student) also completed a week of researching the benefits and challenges of cob construction. You can see the details of Sayonara’s work here, added by the Core Team to the new Cob Village (Pod 3) page:
Sayonara also created these design ideas for the new Cob Village (Pod 3):
Nelli Levental (Graphic Designer and College Professor) additionally completed her second round of Cob Village (Pod 3) sketches. What you see here are 4 distinct aesthetics purposed to create an artist’s village. Each structure represents a different artistic discipline. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:
The Architecture and Planning Team from Team Brazil also created their second series of designs of the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5). The primary focus of these changes was moving the entire 2nd and 3rd floor forward and reorganizing it to maximize passive solar:
One Community is engineering our own green future 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:
This last week Mayke Balbino (Architecture and Urban Design Student) completed revision 4 of the Duplicable City Center designs in AutoCAD. This included new bathroom designs that eliminated the need for an entry door, new locations for water fountains, new second floor table layouts in the dining dome, some slope additions to the 3rd floor, and more cupola edits to the 4th floor.
Behind-the-scenes, Lucas Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) completed extensive research into different Control Systems sensors and controllers. You can see this work here:
Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) also helped organize the necessary Control Systems design criteria. We’d say we’re done with about the first 20% of the research and organization process. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
One Community is engineering our own green future 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:
This week Vassili Biserov (Writer, Poet and Translator) finished translating our Highest Good of All webpage into Russian! This is our first page to be translated into this language. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people:
Behind the scenes, Binru Chen (Accountant Specializing in Audit and Financial Reporting) has helped us create open source for-profit and not-for-profit income statements that will soon be part of 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 40% complete behind the scenes and 20% complete on the site.
We also finalized and added the Community Member 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 agreements with their incoming members. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
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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 of what is possible. This work helps One Community’s mission of engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
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.
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 engineering our own green future and reinforces our commitment to better living quality for all people.
Posted on June 8, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Fernando Bitencourt to the Structural Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
4th-year Civil Engineering/Construction Engineering Management Student: Fernando speaks four languages, including Portuguese (native), English (fluent), Spanish (basic) and French (basic) and has good skills in leadership, communication and teamwork. He also has knowledge and experience with calculation softwares like Ftool and AutoCAD. Fernando grew up doing volunteer work in his hometown, first representing his high school and then being part of Interact Club, where he developed his above listed skills. Fernando wishes to gain experience in his field and also in volunteer work, and that’s why he sees One Community as a unique chance to apply those desires. As a member of the One Community Intern Team, Fernando applies his knowledge of Structural Engineering, the most interesting Civil Engineering area in his opinion, and he brings his desire to build a sustainable world.
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Posted on June 5, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Adolpho Maia to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
5th-year Mechanical Engineering Student: Adolpho is in a Brazilian exchange program called Science Without Borders, where he came to the USA to learn new technologies, gain experience, become fluent speaking English, and explore and learn about a different culture. He is currently living in California and studying mechanical engineering at California State University Long Beach. He has one year of experience working in a school furniture factory as a mechanical engineering intern, a production inspector, and as a machine programmer. Adolpho has finished an entrepreneurship course and is also a member of Theta Chi Fraternity where he learned how to work as a group and how group dynamics work when there are a lot of people working on the same thing. Adolpho is currently fluent in English, has listening and comprehension skills in Spanish, and is a beginner in Italian. He believes that sustainability and wanting to change the world is something that starts within ourselves; first of all with the desire to do something, and then putting time and effort into it – and what could possibly be better than using what our planet gives to us, without destroying it. Adolpho’s focus as a member of the One Community team is on design and structural analysis for the vermiculture toilet designs.
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Posted on June 4, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Joao Bernardes to the Hydraulics Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
4th-year Civil Engineering Student: Joao is a Civil Engineering student at Universidade Federal de Uberlandia (UFU), which is a renowned and accredited Brazilian university. He is currently studying at California State University, Long Beach as part of an exchange program called Science Without Borders on behalf of CAPES and the Brazilian Government. Back in Brazil, Joao worked with management and monitoring of civil engineering works and hydraulic projects at the university. He has knowledge and experience with softwares such as Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Civil 3D. In addition, Joao participated in Civil Engineering’s Academic Board as Treasurer, where he gained experience with cash management and strengthened his sense of teamwork, as well as planning and organization skills. Joao speaks three languages (Portuguese, English and Spanish) and considers himself to be communicative with a great sense of leadership and teamwork. Ever since he was a child, Joao has had a great desire to make a difference in people’s lives. Now he sees that he can do this by applying his knowledge in sustainable projects that will help people and contribute to world change. With One Community, Joao joins the Hydraulics Team designing for the 7 Sustainable Village Models.
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Posted on June 4, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Renata Maehara to the Design Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
4th-year Civil Engineering Student and Lead Drafter: Renata currently studies at California State University, Long Beach as an exchange student. She speaks three languages; Portuguese (native), English (advanced) and French (intermediate). During her high school she did a Technical Civil Construction course with habilitation on Management, Architectural Projecting and Rationalization of the construction. This course introduced Renata to the construction area and had her working as an intern draftsman in an architecture office for one year before entering college. This experience improved Renata’s skills in teamwork, planning, organization and AutoCAD, Revit, and 3D Max softwares. It also gave her the opportunity to interact with professionals in the construction field and it amplified her interest and knowledge in this area. This influenced Renata to make Civil Construction Sustainability her priority of studies from the beginning of college. As a volunteer member of the One Community Intern Team, Renata sees the opportunity to learn and gain more professional and personal experience while applying her knowledge helping with the design and development of the Duplicable City Center and the Cob Village.
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Posted on June 2, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Roberto Santos to the Hydraulics Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
Roberto is a 3rd-year Civil Engineering Brazilian Exchange Student currently at California State University, Long Beach. His native language is Portuguese, and he also speaks English (advanced) and French (basic). Roberto is very skilled with the software AutoCAD and Revit. Since his childhood he liked to create and develop new things, and this is why he has chosen to be an engineer and take the opportunity to come to study in the US. This experience gave him the chance to be in contact with a new culture and gain a new perspective of the world. Back at his University in Brazil (Federal University of Uberlandia), he was a co-founder of the Civil Engineering Junior Enterprise of his university and also the director of quality. In this position he was responsible for the organization and continuous development of the Junior Enterprise. Being part of this company taught him teamwork skills and to be determined. He also worked with the project and design of the water distribution system of a small city. Now, as a volunteer of One Community, he brings his skills and experience for further development as a member of the Hydraulics Team designing for the 7 Sustainable Village Models.
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Posted on May 22, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Victor Oliveira to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Victor is an undergraduate student from Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Brazil, and he always designs with a focus on functionality, aesthetics, and sustainability. Since he was a child, Victor always had an interest in building things and changing spaces. When his older brother was admitted to a course of Architecture and showed Victor the world of architecture, he decided to study Architecture and Urban Planning, too. In college, Victor discovered his passion for 3D modeling and technical drawings. He recognized that making people understand and visualize the project idea is as important as designing it and developed a wide variety of software knowledge including Revit, AutoCAD, 3DsMax, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Victor also enjoys working groups, and in Viçosa he once lived with three other architecture students, which contributed to his development and experience through collaborative exchange and suggestions on the projects everyone was working on. Coming from a big city in Brazil, Victor became interested in sustainability when he saw people wasting natural resources and clearing forests. Victor believes that in order to improve the quality of life man needs nature and must take care of it. He brings this belief and his passion for design and visualization to the design team working on the 7 Sustainable Village Models.
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Posted on May 22, 2015 by One Community
One Community welcomes Raquel Alves to the Architecture Team as our newest member of Team Brazil!
3rd-year Architecture and Urban Planning Student: Raquel is a Brazilian student who has 3 years experience studying Architecture and Urban Planning. She has worked with architects in her city doing freelance work and projects that have intensely developed her skills with 3D modeling softwares like Sketchup, Revit, 3DS Max and AutoCAD. Raquel’s passion is visual representations of projects, seeing this is as important as the concept and the creation part of the project. Working in groups is another skill that Raquel excels at, with almost all of her projects in Brazil being made with a team. She likes to share ideas and learn with others. Studying Urban Design in 2014 at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) has added to her passion for design and she won 2nd Place in a competition, “Urban Cities Competition,” transforming abandoned grain silos into usable, energy efficient, and versatile living spaces. Focusing on sustainability and recycling to create and develop ideas, Raquel is helping develop and create beautiful visualizations of village models 4-7.
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Posted on May 22, 2015 by One Community
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.
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Posted on May 19, 2015 by One Community
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.
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