Posted on December 30, 2012 by One Community
Due to feedback that people thought One Community was not open to international participation in the Pioneer Program, we just finished this page for clarification: http://www.onecommunityglobal.org/international-one-community-pioneer-applicants/
Posted on December 30, 2012 by One Community
One Community is happy to announce that addition of Aravind Batra, James Del Monaco, and P2S Engineering to the One Community Consulting Team working on the SEGO Center City Hub. More specifically we are happy to have them taking the lead in helping us design this central building of One Community to receive the ultimate in eco-architecture acknowledgment: LEED Platinum certification.
Andrew and Jae met with Aravind and James the week before last to discuss the details of the SEGO Center and get a tour of the P2S offices and they truly walk their talk. Their offices received LEED Gold Certification after a huge remodel featuring the best in insulation, high-energy efficiency appliances, recycled materials, eco friendly paint, and more. On top of that, they are now 4 years in a row having been voted top 100 places to work in Los Angeles!
Bottom line, they are our kind of people and it is an absolute pleasure to be joining forces with them to create world change. Here’s a bit more about Aravind, James and P2S.
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Aravind Batra – Electrical Engineer and LEED AP: Aravind is the Principal, Senior Electrical Engineer, and serves as Educational Group Manager at P2S Engineering where he leads a team specializing in the design and implementation of sustainable infrastructure. Aravind brings in-depth knowledge from his 20 years of experience with electrical systems requirements to numerous needs assessments, upgrades, renewable energy systems, renovations and new building projects for various educational and municipal institutions. His professional activities include past Treasurer for the Los Angeles Chapter of AEE and recently as a founding member and Membership Chair of United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Long Beach Branch. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA). Applying this diversity and depth of experience with One Community, Aravind is helping us with our goals of building the SEGO Center to demonstrate maximum sustainability, duplicability, and achieve LEED Platinum certification.
James Del Monaco – Mechanical Engineer and LEED AP: James is Sustainability Director and Senior Mechanical Engineer at P2S Engineering with experience in many Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) projects. His LEED duties have included the design of airside and hydronic systems, documentation of LEED points, advanced energy modeling, ventilation and occupant comfort calculations, and the design of control systems for Measurement & Verification. As a LEED Project Administrator, he has provided guidance to the entire project team from kick-off through occupancy. As a member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), James has served on the ASHRAE High Performance Buildings Conference Steering Committee as well as the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Long Beach Branch Steering Committee. Applying this diversity and depth of experience with One Community, James is helping us with our goals of building the SEGO Center to demonstrate maximum sustainability, duplicability, and achieve LEED Platinum certification.
P2S Engineering (Aravind and James) www.p2sinc.com
P2S Engineering is a full-service mechanical, electrical, plumbing, energy, commissioning and technology engineering firm. Excelling in sustainable building models P2S has demonstrated excellence in designing a number of green buildings that employ efficient systems, renewable power sources, minimize natural resources and offer reduced operation and maintenance costs. With 50% of their technical staff as Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professionals, P2S maintains a firm-wide passion to provide sustainable solutions and expertise in high-performance green building projects. P2S is helping One Community by applying their extensive sustainable experience to create a sustainable design for the proposed SEGO Center.
Posted on December 29, 2012 by One Community
Energy efficiency and sustainability go hand in hand and we have spent extensive time exploring the various energy options available with the following criteria in mind:
1. Sustainability (effective, durable, ethical)
2. Duplicability (can be shipped globally, affordable)
3. Sufficient to provide the foundation we need to explore a diversity of other options for expansion and in support of our open source goals
After months of research, we are happy to announce that we have completed the details of our initial energy infrastructure plans that will supply the SEGO Center City Hub, Pod 1, and our aquaponics sustainable food infrastructure.
Item | Description | Qty. | Unit Price | Ext. Amount |
PV-based power system designed to deliver approximately 283 kWh/day under average December sun conditions at the One Community property | ||||
110-0053 | Suniva, 250W PV Module, TE F-M0 PV Wire, 46mm Clear Frame, 60 Cell Mono, 15A Fuse, 223.2W PTC, OPT250-60-4-100 *** Wire PV array as 32 series strings of 12 modules each. 2 strings per SB6000US inverter. *** ProSolar ground racking for 96 columns of 4 modules each detailed below. 1.5” steel pipe to be supplied locally. |
384 | 266.00 | 102,144.00 |
210-0600 | ProSolar, Support Rail, 3” Extra Deep support rail, 164”, Qty. 1, R-164XD |
192 | 35.03 | 6,725.76 |
240-0178 | ProSolar, U-Bolt Assembly, Clear, Qty. 1, A-UAS-1S |
384 | 6.22 | 2,388.48 |
211-0200 | ProSolar, End Cap, 3”, Clear Anodized, XDeep Channel, Qty. 1, A-EZECAPXD-1 |
384 | 1.62 | 622.08 |
260-0029 | ProSolar, End Clamp 1.810” (45.9mm-46.4mm), Clear, Qty. 1, C1810EC-1 |
390 | 2.01 | 783.90 |
260-0046 | ProSolar, Mid Clamp 2.50” (42mm-48mm), Clear, Qty. 1, C250IMC-1 |
580 | 2.01 | 1,165.80 |
590-0011 | Wiley Electronics, WEEB Grounding Lug with 1/4” mounting hardware, WEEB-LUG-6.7 |
195 | 4.34 | 846.30 |
590-0012 | Wiley Electronics, WEEB Grounding clip for ProSolar, WEEB-PMC |
490 | 0.80 | 392.00 |
550-0009 | Die Co, Cable Clips, Galvanized, Qty. 100, DCS-897-M565 Clip | 12 | 26.07 | 312.84 |
550-0036 | USE-2 Cable, 10AWG, 7-strand 600VDC, black, 3000’ spool, 10-7-3000-sgl |
1 | 875.64 | 875.64 |
550-0126 | TE Connectivity, SolarLok Plug with Machined Pin, 4.5-6mm OD,10AWG, USE-2, Female Negative (Blue), 6-1394462-4 |
50 | 2.04 | 102.00 |
550-0127 | TE Connectivity, SolarLok Plug with Machined Pin, 4.5-6mm OD,10AWG, USE-2, Male Neutral, 7-1394461-5 |
50 | 2.04 | 102.00 |
550-0363 | Rennsteig, Crimping Pliers, TE (TE Solarlok), with Dies & Locator, Solar AWG 14/12/10, R624 817 3 1 |
1 | 323.90 | 323.90 |
310-0393 | SMA, Sunny Boy 6000TLUS 1-Ph Grid Tied Inverter, 6000W, 208/240VAC, 60Hz, DC Discon, 6 Dual Fused Input Combiner, 1 MPPT, 10 Yr Warr, Ungrounded, Arc-Fault Protection, SB6000TLUS-12 |
16 | 2,796.07 | 44,737.12 |
570-0028 | SMA, Communication Card, RS-485 Module, SB RS 485-N | 16 | 104.50 | 1,672.00 |
500-0114 | SMA, Multicluster Box, 3-Ph for 12 x 120V, 60 Hz, SI5048U, add MC-PB, UL listed off-grid only, MCB-12U |
1 | 14,294.09 | 14,294.09 |
500-0116 | SMA, Multicluster Communications (Piggy-Back) Card, One for each SI Cluster Master, MC-PB |
4 | 230.20 | 920.80 |
311-0040 | SMA, Sunny Island 6048 battery inverter, 5750W, 120VAC, 60Hz, 56A Transfer, 48VDC, Sinewave, 100A Charger, 5 Yr Warranty, with BTS, SI6048-US-10 |
12 | 4,101.54 | 49,218.48 |
500-0020 | Outback, FlexWare 500 DC Enclosure with Ground & Pos Bus, 500A DC Shunt, FW-BBUS, for 1 to 2 Inverters, FW500-DC |
4 | 223.62 | 894.48 |
530-0026 | Midnite Solar, Circuit Breaker, Panel Mount, 175A, 125VDC, 1-Pole, 1.5” Wide, 3/8” Studs, MNEDC175 |
12 | 77.12 | 925.44 |
430-0023 | Cobra, Battery Cable, 2/0 AWG, Black, 600V, THW, by the foot, Code Approved, 2/0-X-FLEX-B |
100 | 5.21 | 521.00 |
440-0025 | Quick Cable, Magna Lug, 2/0 Straight Lug, 3/8”, Qty. 1, 6420-F |
24 | 2.93 | 70.32 |
440-0066 | Power Panel Component, Quick Cable Heat Shrink, 4-2/0AWG, Red, Qty. 1, UL Listed, 5614-001R |
12 | 1.00 | 12.00 |
440-0067 | Power Panel Component, Quick Cable Heat Shrink, 4-2/0AWG, Black, Qty. 1, UL Listed, 5613-051B |
12 | 1.00 | 12.00 |
430-0025 | Cobra, Battery Cable, 4/0 AWG, Black, 600V, THW, by the foot, Code Approved, 4/0-X-FLEX-B |
160 | 8.00 | 1,280.00 |
440-0026 | Quick Cable, Magna Lug, 4/0 Straight Lug, 3/8”, Qty, 1, 6440-F |
32 | 4.47 | 143.04 |
440-0083 | Quick Cable, Heat Shrink, 1/0-250MCM, Black, Qty. 1, UL Listed, 5615-051B |
16 | 1.19 | 19.04 |
440-0084 | Quick Cable, Heat Shrink, 1/0-250MCM, Red, Qty. 1, UL Listed, 5616-051R |
16 | 1.19 | 19.04 |
440-0178 | MK Battery, Unigy II, 4V, 2 Cell Module, 2424Ah @ 24hr, Interlock, 2AVR125-33 IL *** Sealed battery pack above to be configured w/ two 48v strings per cluster (there’s 4 clusters). Will deliver approx. 2.5 days of power use. Life expectancy is 15-20 years. |
96 | 2,166.31 | 207,965.76 |
Subtotal | 439,439.31 |
Estimated Shipping Cost | 10,987.23 |
Tax Total | 37,357.62 |
Total | 487,833.16 |
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Our next step will be establishing the necessary relationships to make ordering and building a system like this (as part of our self-sufficient and self-propagating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities strategy) as easy as possible including:
For complete details on our energy infrastructure and open source sustainability plans including additional research and cost analysis visit our Energy Infrastructure Page.
Posted on December 26, 2012 by One Community
As we’ve announced here before our sustainability non profit organization is A) intent upon leading a global sustainability collaborative and B) the grateful recipient of a $10,000 a month internet marketing grant. After over 6 months of preparation and research we launched this aspect of our marketing campaign three weeks ago. What we didn’t expect was the international response to this campaign as we are now getting over 9,000 new international visitors a month to our SustainabilityNonProfit.org overview site!
This is an extremely exciting occurrence for us as it is a HUGE leap forward in exposing and engaging a global audience to help promote and develop even faster our four-phase global change strategy. With this new exposure we are hoping to bring on several international consultant to help with continued development and engineering of our 7 Sustainable Village Models.
To more specifically engage this audience we created the following page to better and more efficiently provide the details of what it is that we are open source and free-sharing designs for:
http://www.sustainabilitynonprofit.org/global-free-sharing-and-open-source-collaboration/
Posted on December 24, 2012 by One Community
One Community is happy to announce the feature of Wikipedia as our newest ethosolution idea.
The free information service Wikipedia offers is arguably the most incredible information access and sharing service the world has ever seen, all for free online, and provided for selfless and helpful reasons without advertising, open source so anyone can contribute, and so that with a computer has access. As one of the leaders for ideas like this, Wikipedia has already created huge positive changes in our world in its contribution to the amount, organization and ease of access, and collaborative interaction with the information we as a species have access to. On top of that, Wikipedia is a true demonstration of what happens when people work together for the good of the whole, creating an on-going, ever evolving and free online source to access all the information any of us could ever need.
Posted on December 24, 2012 by One Community
We’ve been busy with infrastructure design details! Here are the initial layouts and aquaponics and walipini combination designs called aquapinis. The three walipini food production systems we will demonstrate as Phase I of the One Community self-sustainable food production plan are:
For more information and details on our open source food systems integrating aquapini, aquaponics and walipini designs (including links to our complete design notes, food production details, etc.) visit:
Avery Ellis: Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics
The drawings below are now in the hands of one of our architect consultants:
Douglas Simms Stenhouse: Architect and Water Color Artist (see: transparentwatercolor.com)
This is the layout integrating initial layout drawings with Avery’s sketchup designs. Doug will now be looking at this with an architects eye to improve aesthetics, water catchment and flow, air flow and venting, heat retention and utilization, accessibility, space conservation, etc.
For more information and details on our open source food systems integrating aquapini, aquaponics and walipini designs (including links to our complete design notes, food production details, etc.) visit:
Posted on December 23, 2012 by One Community
Along with all the infrastructure details that are moving forward (more updates coming here this week), One Community has been in the process of updating our sustainability non-profit site to create an overview site because this site is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate as we produce more and more open source content. Looking into the future we see this overview site as being our primary site that we refer people to that will help people understand what One Community is before they dig deeper into the much more comprehensive open source blueprint site (this one).
There are two reasons for creating and updating sustainabilitynonprofit.org. The first is that feedback we receive is consistently a combination of appreciation for the level of detail we present and overwhelm due to this same level of detail. Because of this we are adding the image below to the foundational pages of this website to help people who like less information while maintaining all the work we have invested for those who like more information.
On the overview site we are adding a similar image and link to more quickly connect people seeking more information to the expanded pages of this site.
The other reason for the new site updates is the application of hundreds of hours of SEO research that we have done for a $10,000 per month internet marketing grant (click here for details on our marketing engine) that we are benefitting from. Applying what has amounted to researching almost 500,000 keywords associated with sustainability, we have created massive adwords campaigns and also optimized the new site with the most relevant of these words. All current and future marketing efforts now point to this site so people can more easily understand One Community before diving into this site that will eventually grow to be 1,000’s of pages.
Sustainabilitynonprofit.org is also much more specifically communicating our message of global change and how we are working to usher in a new golden age of innovation, cooperation, collaboration, and global conscious focus on creating and living for The Highest Good of All.
If you’d like to compare a few of the pages, here are the ones we have completed thus far:
SustainabilityNonProfit.org | …….. | OneCommunityRanch.org |
About One Community | About One Community | |
Physical Sustainability | Physical Sustainability | |
Emotional Sustainability | Emotional Sustainability |
Posted on December 20, 2012 by One Community
The SEGO Center City Hub will arguably be One Community’s most important buildings and is purposed to demonstrate cutting-edge sustainability, to function as the community recreation center, dining hall, and laundry facility, and to offer a green-luxury option to donors, major eco-investors, VIPs, or anyone else that might not feel like they are initially ready to stay in one of our earthbag or straw bale hand-constructed homes. It will also replace individual kitchens, laundry rooms, and living rooms for One Community residents.
A key aspect of the SEGO Center that we are excited to develop and open source free-share are our designs for an eco hot tub and natural swimming pool. To make this possible we are working with Jennifer Engelmeier (Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com), Meg West (Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Meg West Design), and LEED AP Team Aravind Batra (Electrical Engineer, LEED AP, Principal of P2S Engineering) and James Del Monaco (Mechanical Engineer, LEED AP, Sustainability director of P2S Engineering).
With a desire for maximum diversity, duplicability, and open source content creation, we are working together to design the eco hot tub to commercial code and standards, and the natural swimming pool to residential code and standards. This will allow us to explore, demonstrate, and open source free-share the process for both an eco-pool and eco hot tub design, and both residential and commercial codes (designing to California Code standards for maximum duplicability), all assisting us in providing what we believe will evolve into the most comprehensive and detailed open source and free-shared plans available for both.
Here are a few initial concept pictures:
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The eco hot tub will occupy the central area of the SEGO Center and the natural swimming pool is being designed to function as an indoor and outdoor pool with an indoor waterfall and the ability to swim under the wall to transition from outside to inside. The picture below demonstrates this but we are now in the process of updating the designs such that the pool is also centrally located and close to the hot tub.
For regular updates, follow us on our facebook updates page.
The Center of Peace Details Page
Jennifer Engelmeier: Eco-pool and Spa Specialist and founder of www.LoveYourPool.com
Meg West: Landscape Architect, Permaculturalist, and founder of Meg West Design
Andrew Sadera: Architect Drafter and Designer
Douglas Simms Stenhouse: Architect and Water Color Artist (see: transparentwatercolor.com)
Karl Harris: Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of Harris Design & Technology Services
Posted on December 20, 2012 by One Community
One Community is happy to welcome Jennifer Engelmeier, Eco-pool and Spa Specialist, to the One Community Consultant Team. Jennifer has 15 years of experience working with DEL Ozone, specializing in reducing chemicals by utilizing ozone technology and other natural water purifiers and clarifiers. In 2011 Jennifer started her own business to help people searching for better, healthier water and now operates LoveYourHotTub.com and LoveYourPool.com. Through her years of working in the industry, Jen combines a wealth of experience with an extensive community of pool, spa, and sanitation experts helping us design the Center of Peace natural pool, jacuzzi, and laundry facility to minimize environmental impact while maximizing water quality, health, and safety.
For more information on the Pool and Spa Designs Jennifer is helping us with, visit our Center of Peace Details Page.
Posted on December 17, 2012 by One Community
One Community is partnered with Hestia Home Biogas to help forward home biogas plant design and promote the advantages of biogas over fossil fuels. For those who don’t already know, biogas is virtually identical to fossil natural gas, only instead of taking 65 million years to make, it can be made every day in our own backyard using a simple biodigester that requires no moving parts, special equipment, or chemicals. As amazing as this natural energy source is, it has been greatly under-utilized in the United States with less than 100 homes benefiting from it here. Meanwhile, in China over 50 million households are presently using biogas and towns in countries like Sweden operate complete bus fleets on biogas.
CLICK HERE FOR HESTIA HOME BIOGAS’ CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN
Warren Weismann operates Hestia Home Biogas (located in Eugene, Oregon) and is one of only a handful of biogas and anaerobic digestion experts in the United States. He has over 20 years experience as a builder, heavy equipment mechanic, and power plant operator and, together with his business partner David Rasmussen, is on a mission to popularize biogas technology by offering simple, low-cost home biogas plant design classes and plans for biodigesters that are easy to build and operate to produce home cooking fuel, fuel electric generators, pumps, and water heaters. One Community has partnered with Warren and Hestia Home Biogas to demonstrate bio digester technology as part of Pod 1, open source share our building process, and to work with Warren and Hestia Home Biogas to play as large a role as possible in promoting small-scale domestic biogas as one path to energy independence.
Warren and Hestia Home Biogas are doing everything they can to support making biogas plant designs and the advantages of biogas accessible and usable to as many people in America as possible. They teach classes, offer biogas supplies and learning kits, and now they are also operating a crowd funding campaign to develop a biogas stovetop that is UL approved for indoor domestic use in North America.
Contributions to this campaign will help pay for the cost of development, materials, and prototyping for a double burner biogas stovetop that is presently being engineered by Oregon State University’s engineering department. This UL approved stovetop is the final barrier to really allow widespread US implementation because it will allow biogas to comply with US building, safety, and fire codes.
Any proceeds over and above the target amount will go towards an aggressive marketing campaign to make more homeowners aware of biogas as a 100% natural clean burning option for home cooking and electric energy. Please help us make biogas a part of America’s energy future and be sure to share this link!
As One Community builds our own home biogas plant we will be posting videos and links to our open source information here so please contribute now to Warren’s crowd funding campaign and bookmark this page for future reference.
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model.
You create a new model and make the old one obsolete. That, in essence, is the higher service to which we are all being called."
~ Buckminster Fuller ~
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