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One Community Welcomes Lin Xu to the Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Lin Xu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Mechanical Engineer: Lin Xu received his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California. Being a good auto engineer is his lifelong goal. To realize his ambition, he has been training himself from various aspects including AutoCAD, 3D modelling with Solidworks, FEA with Abacus and dynamic simulation with Matlab. He is also a member of USC Racing Formula SAE team which designs, constructs, tests, and races high performance race cars. He believes his education background has provided him a solid platform for future engineering practice. Knowing the importance of sustainability and desiring to make a contribution to clean energy and sustainable community, Lin has joined the One Community team working on the Vermiculture Eco-bathroom Designs.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM LIN!
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One Community Welcomes Renan Dantas to the Design Team
One Community welcomes Renan Dantas to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Mechanical Engineer and Process Piping Drafting Student: Renan has his Bachelor’s of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Brazil and is currently pursuing a Process Piping Drafting certificate at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Renan won a scholarship from the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) to participate in a 4-month exchange program at York University in Toronto, Canada, which motivated him to move to Canada looking for new challenges and personal and professional growth. Renan has over 3 years experience working as Project Engineer/Field Engineer in Brazil and over seven years using AutoCAD software for academic and professional purposes. He is a big fan of outdoor activities, including hiking, biking and surfing, all of which contribute to his interest in the environment and conservation issues. As a Christian, he believes that we must bear fruit and make a positive difference in the world every day and Renan has spent his whole life volunteering for different causes ranging from sorting food donations, to a peer tutoring program designed to assist low-income students, and now as an AutoCAD Designer and Drafter helping One Community with the Duplicable City Center.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM RENAN!
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Building Sustainable Cities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #206
Building sustainable cities is finally becoming both practical and affordable with the resources and backing of governmental organizations. What is needed now is a way for average people, NGOs, and nonprofits to build them too. Open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and maintenance can make this easy enough, affordable enough, and provide sufficient diversity and benefit for it to spread and be directed by the private sector. One Community sees this as a Highest Good of All approach to global transformation, individual and small-group freedom and empowerment.
- 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 the movement of building sustainable cities as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 5th, 2017 edition (#206) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Building Sustainable Cities
One Community Progress Update #206
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES INTRO: @1:03
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:02
- Transferred all of the written content for the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
- Behind the scenes: Completed 100% of the written part of the Contribution Lesson Plan
- Completed final 75% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
- Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:05
- Created and added food and recipe images and links to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
- Ashwin Patil continued with his 20th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47
- Ashwini Ramesh and the core team put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing (see below)
- Alena Thompson completed her 4th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
- Christian Ojeda completed his 5th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
- Jennifer Zhou helped create version 1.0 of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial webpage (see below)
- The core team completed conversion of the Straw Bale Village to the new and simplified color and layer format (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
- Hamilton Mateca finished his 33rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design and render details (see below)
- Guy Grossfeld created a final render of Cob Village West living space loft area and 2nd generation Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render (see below)
- Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
- Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:57
- Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 29th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
- Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
- Renan Dantas continued with his 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
- Jin Yu completed her 6th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:01
- Finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)
- Hannah Gibbs completed her 6th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES SUMMARY: @9:54
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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is building sustainable cities 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 all of the written content for the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Consensus”.
Transferred 100% of Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page
Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Contribution Lesson Plan.
We also completed the final 75% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, as you can see here:
Play Mindmap Complete ” Click to Visit Page
In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. We added items and updated the windows and textures for the yellow and green rooms.
Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom ” Click to Visit Page
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is building sustainable cities through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week, the core team created and added food and recipe images and links to the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 92% completion, which you can see here:
Created and Added Food and Recipe Images and Links to Food Page – Click to Visit
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 20th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was integration of the 2nd major round of revisions and edits to the Highest Good Food search engine.
Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign we are Developing – Click for Page
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is building sustainable cities 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
The core team working with Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) put another combined total of 10 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was editing the Excavation and Construction of an Earthbag Dome GoogleDoc, focusing on floor construction (Section 11). We also completed the subterranean exterior ground finish of polyethylene water barrier and EPS insulation (Section 13), the French Drain Gutter (Section 14) and the final backfill. You can see some of this work here.
Continued Working on the Crowdfunding Campaign we are Developing – Click for Page
Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she further developed the water storage, piping, and use details and ran initial catchment calculations.
Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was adding more details to shower structures and starting to model the septic piping and placement for the showers and Vermiculture Bathrooms.
Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page
And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create version 1.0 of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial webpage. You can see screenshots of this work here:
Helped Create Version 1.0 of the Standardized AutoCAD Template Webpage – Click to Visit
Using this tutorial, the core team also completed conversion of the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2) to the new and simplified color and layer format.
Completed Conversion of Straw Bale Village to New & Simplified Color & Layer Format – Click to Visit
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 58 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 37 images for the room furniture and lighting for the Eastside living spaces. The final 7 images shown here are new from this week:
Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces ” Click to Visit Page
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 33rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design and render details. This week’s focus was producing this final Kitchen Render Looking Northwest.
Compressed Earth Block Village Final Render – Kitchen Render Looking Northwest – Click for Page
Adding details to both Dean and Hamilton’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) created this Final Cob Village West living space loft area:
Cob Village Final Render – West Living Space Loft Area – Click for Page
….and this 2nd generation Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast render:
Compressed Earth Block Village Front Area Looking Southeast 2nd Gen Render – Click for Page
Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 18th week of work, focusing on integrating into the front of the West side similar layout and landscaping details as used in the front of the East side.
Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page
Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 14th week of this work focusing on 3rd-generation renderings of each of the different tree house structures shown here…. also this 4th-generation render of half the complete village.
Building Sustainable Cities – Helping Develop the Tree House Village – Click for Page
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is building sustainable cities through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week  Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 29th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the process of learning how to use the Dialux software, modeling the City Center Social Dome bathrooms, and continuing lighting testing with different floor and wall colors.
Building Sustainable Cities – Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click to Visit Page
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the roof designs, updates to the dome geometry, and continuing to work out the details for the different column-section length and weight specifics.
Building Sustainable Cities – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click to Visit Page
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s research into hot water heaters and power supplies.
Building Sustainable Cities – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center ” Click for Page
Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was continuing to integrate the new dome geometry into the Master File and 3D modeling the domes to help the structural team with their decision making process for design updates.
Building Sustainable Cities – Working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click for Page
And Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was this behind-the-scenes tutorial explaining the wall strip footing design and 2 new MathCAD tutorials explaining the different calculations necessary for proper foundation design.
Building Sustainable Cities – Working on Concrete Foundation Design & Tutorial
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is building sustainable cities through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week the core team finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video. What you see in the background here is the most recently developed and tested video and graphics.
Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 6th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was creating version 1 of these chart graphics.
Building Sustainable Cities – Developing the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building Page
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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY
One Community is building sustainable cities through solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:
Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.
Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.
Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.
Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world. Thereby building sustainable cities all over the world.
Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.
One Community Welcomes Shubham Agrawal to the Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Shubham Agrawal to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
B.E. Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Systems Graduate Student: Shubham has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from India and is pursuing his Masters in Power and Energy Systems from Virginia Tech. His interest in power and energy systems comes from the “excruciating dearth of electricity” that he faced as a child in his home state of Uttar Pradesh. Motivated by this, Shubham has gained a variety of experience by working on different projects, studying interdisciplinary courses, and interning in different companies both in India and the USA. Shubham has a knack for sustainability and he practices what he preaches. He follows the 3Rs for sustainability: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. His hobbies include: gardening, cooking, reading, playing cricket, and watching cartoons of the 90s era. As a One Community Volunteer Engineer, his time is dedicated to renewable energy infrastructure calculations and design and the automation of the One Community Duplicable City Center.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM SHUBHAM!
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Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #205
Creating a global sustainability collaborative makes sense if our intent is a truly sustainable planet for all people everywhere. Open source and free-shared sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices can stimulate global collaboration and innovation and forward this goal and all these areas 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.
One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of creating a global sustainability collaborative as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 26th, 2017 edition (#205) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative
One Community Progress Update #205
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE INTRO: @1:03
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00
- Transferred all of written content for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
- Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan
- Completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan (see below)
- Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
- Created the initial layout for The Ultimate Classroom component of the developing Highest Good education introductory video (see below)
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:16
- Completed edits and additional content needed to bring the Transition Kitchen page to 90% complete (see below)
- Ashwin Patil continued with his 19th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:54
- Created new needed for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
- Alena Thompson completed her 3rd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
- Christian Ojeda completed his 4th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
- Jennifer Zhou helped create the formatting and initial presentation of the Communal Eco-shower heat exchanger engineering details (see below)
- Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 10th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
- Fernando Remolina continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 9th week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
- Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new final views of the Cob Village (see below)
- Hamilton Mateca finished his 32nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
- Aparna Tandon additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:53
- Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 28th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
- Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center with Mike Hogan (see below)
- Renan Dantas continued with his 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:33
- Finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)
- Hannah Gibbs completed her 5th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE SUMMARY: @9:27
- How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help
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CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative 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 all of the written content for the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Fulfilled Living”.
Transferred 100% of Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page
Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Consensus and Decision Making Lesson Plan.
We also completed the first 25% of the mindmap for the Play Lesson Plan and added the theme images to the play lesson plan page.
Play Mindmap 25% Complete ” Click to Visit Page
In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. We updated the windows, tables and chairs for the blue, indigo and red room, added items to the orange room, and rendered the entry doorway area.
Continued Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom ” Click to Visit Page
We also created the initial layout for The Ultimate Classroom component of the developing Highest Good education introductory video.
Created Initial Layout for The Ultimate Classroom Component of the Highest Good Education Introductory Video
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week, the core team completed edits and additional content needed to bring the Transition Kitchen page to 90% complete.
Edited and Added Content to Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 19th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was finishing adding the final links to the Highest Good Food search engine.
Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site ” Click for Highest Good Food
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative 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 week the core team created easier to read and website optimized versions of all the images needed for the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial.
Created Images for Standardized AutoCAD Layers & Line-Weights Template & Tutorial – Click to Visit
Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched filtration options and worked out the details necessary to design the barrel collection, storage, and filtration system shown here.
Continued Working on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs ” Click to Visit Page
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was researching a new design for the heat exchanger and updating the sink designs with a new location for the point-of-use electric water heater.
Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page
And Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) helped create the formatting and initial presentation of the Communal Eco-shower heat exchanger engineering details shown here:
Worked on Formatting & Initial Presentation of Communal Eco-shower Heat Exchanger – Click to Visit
Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 10th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was more integration of feedback and writing all the content you see here for the Tips and Tricks section of the tutorial.
Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page
Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 9th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on more updates and design explorations for the removable compost receptacle attachments.
Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 57 of Dean’s work developing this progression of 30 images for the room lighting for the Eastside living spaces:
Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces ” Click to Visit Page
Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new final views of the Cob Village Roof View Looking Southwest:
Cob Village Final Render of Roof View Looking Southwest – Click to Visit Page
…. and this Cob Village ” Inside South Wing Looking North view.
Cob Village Final Render of Inside South Wing Looking North View – Click to Visit Page
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 32nd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was more render tests and texture updates for the kitchen, main entry, and living spaces:
Continued Helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page
….and creation of this final render of the main entryway looking Southeast.
Compressed Earth Block Village Final Render of Main Entryway Looking Southeast – Click for Page
Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 17th week of work, focusing on continuing the development of the layout and landscaping details in front of the structure.
Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click for Page
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week  Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 28th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the process of learning how to use the Dialux software, modeling the City Center Social Dome bathrooms, and continuing lighting testing with different floor and wall colors.
Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative – Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continuing the roof designs and working out more details for the column flange and weight specifics, as shown here.
Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. What you see here are a couple photos from the weekly collaborative calls with Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant and this week’s research into what is needed to connect to and sell solar power back to the grid.
Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center
And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was continuing to integrate the new dome geometry into the Master File and simplification and standardization of the Faster File layers.
Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative – Working on the Duplicable City Center Updates
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is creating a global sustainability collaborative 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 finished another several rounds of developing the new Highest Good education video. What you see in the background here is the most recently developed and tested video and graphics.
Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 5th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was creating and updating the site with more new graphics and formatting updates so everything looks good on phones too.
Creating a Global Sustainability Collaborative – Developing the Taxes & Sustainable Community Page
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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
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 for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow. This would lead the way for creating a global sustainability collaborative.
CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one. This would lead the way for creating a global sustainability collaborative.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
One Community Welcomes Adrienne Gould-Choquette to the Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Adrienne Gould-Choquette to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Mechanical Engineer: Adrienne has a B.S. & M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island, and has completed graduate coursework at Harvard University in Sustainability studies. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and LEED Green Associate. Her career path has taken her on an amazing journey which includes Ultra High Purity Engineer for Lucent Technologies, Multilevel Interconnect Development Engineer for Bell Labs, Professor and Program Director for Emerging Technologies at the State College of Florida, and presently, Principal Engineer for Adicot, Inc., a consulting engineering firm. Adrienne was awarded two patents for her innovative contributions to the Tungsten CVD process for low-temperature manufacturing applications; and was named Florida’s 2012 Post-Secondary Educator of the Year in part because of her role as founding director of her college’s Alternative Energy program. Her biggest joy and proudest accomplishment is her role as mom to her two sons, Riley and Miles. In their spare time, Adrienne and her husband restore homes to their former glory. Their most recent project was a complete restoration of a 1950s mid-century modern; preserving the architectural integrity of the original design while transforming the home into to a modern, highly energy efficient structure. Adrienne has been been a vegetarian for over 25 years, an avid yogi, and, through her research, an avid proponent of a sustainability in all aspects of life. When looking for a way to give back, she found that her skills and passions were directly inline with One Community’s vision and mission. As a One Community Volunteer, Adrienne is currently helping create CAD standards and contribute to the HVAC design for the Duplicable City Center.
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One Community Welcomes Ramya Vudi to the Engineering Team
One Community welcomes Ramya Vudi to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Bachelor’s Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Certified Engineer in Training: Ramya received her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the renowned engineering school, Vellore Institute of Technology, India. Now she is a Master of Science Student in Electric Power at University of Southern California, Los Angeles and a Certified Engineer In Training by the state of California. Coming from a family of power engineers, Ramya grew up understanding the power industry and its challenges. As an undergrad, she developed a passion for power systems; learning all she could about power system technology. This led to work experience with natural gas and coal power plant networks, conducting various case studies on these networks, and realizing that these sources of power are definitely economical and efficient but not reliable as they are exhaustible. Working towards producing “greener electricity” became an obvious next step and Ramya moved to one of the hubs of renewable energy, California. Now she brings awareness about the value of sustainable living as the President of the Energy Club at USC, organizing guest lectures, field trips, workshops, etc. As a member of the One Community team, Ramya brings her knowledge and passion for innovative solutions to the challenges of renewable energy as she is helping with research and design of the overall energy infrastructure and Duplicable City Center electrical and control and automation tie-in specifics.
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Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #204
An open source and free-shared whole-systems approach to community living could change the way people look at both sustainability and community living. One Community is designing this to include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of whole-systems approach to community living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 19th, 2017 edition (#204) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living
One Community Progress Update #204
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING INTRO: @1:03
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:
- Transferred all of written content for the Reality Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
- Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan
- Completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan (see below)
- Continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom (see below)
- Sangam Stanczak joined the team and completed several weeks of cost analysis and hours of additional research for the Learning Tools and Toys component (see below)
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:
- Ashwin Patil continued with his 18th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:
- Updated several pages in the 7 villages online book and began reviewing where we left off with the DIY Murphy Bed construction instructions (see below)
- Completed final edits to this Tropical Atrium render and added it to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium pages (see below)
- Created final render of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village and final render of the Communal Eco-shower Structure section view (see below)
- Alena Thompson completed her 2nd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
- Christian Ojeda completed his 3rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
- Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 9th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
- Fernando Remolina continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 8th week of help from Lin Xu (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders (see below)
- Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new views of the Cob Village Roof View (see below)
- Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
- Hamilton Mateca finished his 31st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
- Aparna Tandon continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements (see below)
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @6:
- Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 27th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Guy Grossfeld helped us create the updated and final render of one of the City Center rental rooms (see below)
- Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
- Ramya Vudi working with the guidance of Mike Hogan worked on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
- Jin Yu completed her 5th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:
- Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video (see below)
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING SUMMARY: @8:
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WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living 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 all of the written content for the Reality Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Reality”.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Transferred 100% of Reality Lesson Plan to Site
Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Fulfilled Living Lesson Plan.
We also completed the second 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan, bringing it to 100% complete, which you see here:
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Sharing Mindmap Complete ” Click to Visit Page
In addition, the core team continued creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom. We finished rendering updates for the indigo room:
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom
…..and started adding missing items and updating textures for the red room:
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom
Last but not least, Sangam Stanczak (Ph.D. and P.E.) joined the team and completed several weeks of cost analysis (top pic) and hours of additional research for the Learning Tools and Toys component. You can see screenshots of all this behind-the-scenes work here:
Completed Several Weeks of Tool and Toy Cost Analysis – Click for Page
Completed Hours of Research for the Learning Tools and Toys Component – Click for Page
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living 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
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 18th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work was on the Highest Good Food search engine to integrate more edits to the names, add in the Open Source Botanical Gardens page and related pages, and begin working on the Walipini and Aquapini sections.
Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site ” Click for Highest Good Food
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living 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 week the core team updated several pages in the 7 villages online book. We also began reviewing where we left off with the DIY Murphy Bed construction instructions.
Updated Pages in the 7 Villages Online Book and Continued Murphy Bed Construction instructions
Then we completed final edits to this Tropical Atrium render (now with people doing yoga) and added it to the Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium pages:
Tropical Atrium New Final Render Now with People Doing Yoga – Click for Page
Final Render of the Communal Eco-shower Structure – Click for Page
Final Render of the Communal Eco-Shower Structure Section View – Click for Page
Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched barrel options and eliminated this option based on space needs, came up with multiple reservoir alternatives, confirmed metal sheeting will work for the roof, and began researching water purification alternatives.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Worked on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the heat-recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. This week’s focus was the designs shown here for the central sink piping.
Continued Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs ” Click to Visit Page
Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 9th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was adding pictures and additional edits to create 2.0 of the AutoCAD layers and line-weights tutorial, as shown here.
Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page
Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 13th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 8th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the removable compost receptacle attachments and new approaches to emptying and cleaning.
Continued Working on the Vermiculture Bathroom Development ” Click to Visit Page
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 56 of Dean’s work focusing this week on the Eastside living spaces:
Continued Working on Renders for Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces ” Click to Visit Page
…this final render of the Westside Living Space Upstairs View:
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Westside Living Space Upstairs View – Final Render
… and this final render of the Section View of the Westside Living Spaces Looking North:
Cob Village Section View of the Westside Living Spaces Looking North – Click for Page
Adding details to Dean’s previous work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new views of the Cob Village Roof View Looking Southeast:
Cob Village Concept Render ” Roof View Looking Southeast – Click for Page
…. and this Roof View Looking North.
Cob Village Concept Render ” Roof View Looking North – Click for Page
Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 13th week of this work focusing on applying last week’s color choices and test rendering each of the different tree house structures shown here:
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Continued Developing the Tree House Village
….also this next-generation render of the complete village.
Cob Village Next-Generation Render of the Complete Village – Click for Page
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 31st week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was more updates to the kitchen textures and design testing more lighting strategies for the living spaces.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village
Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 16th week of work, focusing on updating layers to match the new template and continued development of the details in front of the East wing and inside the left wing, as shown here.
Continued Working on the Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements – Click for Page
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 27th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the process of learning how to use the Dialux software to model the City Center Living Dome bathrooms and begin lighting testing.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center
In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped us create this updated and final render of one of the City Center rental rooms.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Created Final Render of the City center Rental Rooms
And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 22nd week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was more content creation and updating the graphics and numbers for water savings. The core team also continued editing and formatting last week’s content on the eco-laundry page on the site. A collage of all of this is shown here.
Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continued more roof design updates and working on the flange specifics and best lengths for the main column sections to be able to be constructed without heavy machinery.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Working on the City Center Structural Engineering
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) working with the guidance of Mike Hogan (Automation Systems Developer and Business Systems Consultant) worked on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on the initial wiring layouts shown here.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center
Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was this behind-the-scenes tutorial explaining the engineering of column spread footings with an example that includes all the calculations of footings that are used, as shown here.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Working on the Concrete Foundation Design
WHOLE-SYSTEMS APPROACH TO COMMUNITY LIVING HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is facilitating a whole-systems approach to community living through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week the core team finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video. What you see here are a couple different proposed layouts for the lesson plans graphic.
Whole-Systems Approach to Community Living – Developing New Highest Good Education Video
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ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY
One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process of whole-systems approach to community living globally:
Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way
We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.
Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting
Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.
Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate
Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options, thereby helping the world by transitioning to the whole-systems approach to community living.
Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion
As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.
Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.
WHY OPEN SOURCE
We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning to the whole-systems approach to community living.
Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.
The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:
- We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
- It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
- Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
- Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
- The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it
OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS
One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible and inch them towards whole-systems approach to community living. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:
- Video tutorials
- Audio tutorials
- Live streaming video
- Direct/live interaction
- Written content and downloadable PDFs
Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:
- Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
- Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
- Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
- Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
- Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
- Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks
SUMMARY
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
Helping People Create a Better World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #203
Helping people create a better world can be accomplished through open source and free-shared approaches to sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Open sourcing all these as a complete model and new way of living has the potential to provide a better way of life for everyone built on a sustainable foundation. One Community calls this living and creating for The Highest Good of All because it benefits all people and life on our 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 the movement of helping people create a better world as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 12th, 2017 edition (#203) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Helping People Create a Better World
One Community Progress Update #203
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD INTRO: @1:03
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:00
- Transferred all of the written content for the Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
- Behind the scenes: completed 100% of the written part of the Reality Lesson Plan
- Completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan (see below)
- Began creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom indigo room and the blue room (see below)
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:07
- Edited and added information to the “Why” section of the Food Bars page (see below)
- Jennifer Zhou completed phase I of the edits and reorganization of the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes (see below)
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:46
- Added people to the replacement Tropical Atrium images, added callouts, and revised the Tropical Atrium page (see below)
- Alena Thompson joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
- Christian Ojeda completed his 2nd week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
- Adrienne Gould-Choquette also finished her 8th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
- Jiming Chen continued helping develop the Tree House Village (see below)
- Hamilton Mateca finished his 30th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village design details (see below)
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:59
- Replaced all the people and updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen final render (see below)
- Guy Grossfeld helped us create this updated final render of a person sitting by the window in one of the City Center rental rooms (see below)
- Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
- Started editing and formatting last week’s content for the eco-laundry page on the site (see below)
- Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
- Jin Yu completed her 4th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
- Renan Dantas continued with his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
- Lucas Tsutsui da Silva finished integrating another round of sensor and automation component updates for the Control and Automation systems layout (see below)
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:05
- Finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video intro a new overview intro (see below)
- Ashwin Patil continued with his 17th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD SUMMARY: @8:49
- How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help
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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is helping people create a better world 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 all of the written content for the Form and Our Outer World Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Form and Our Outer World”.
Helping People Create a Better World – Transferred 100% of form & Our outer world lesson Plan to Site
Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the Reality Lesson Plan.
We also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Sharing Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here.
Helping People Create a Better World – Sharing Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit
In addition, the core team began creation of renders for The Ultimate Classroom indigo room that has a focus of global and historical perspectives and celebrating diversity… and the blue room that has a focus of communication, empathy, feelings, and the ability to express oneself, as shown here.
Helping People Create a Better World – Began Creation of Renders for the Ultimate Classroom
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is helping people create a better world through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week, the core team edited and added information to the “Why” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~20% completion.
Helping People Create a Better World – Edited & Added Info to the “Why” Section of the food bars Page
Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer) also completed phase I of the edits and reorganization of the Transition Kitchen page behind the scenes, bringing that page to 40% completion. You can see screenshots of this work in progress here:
Completed Phase I of Edits and Reorganization of the Transition Kitchen Page – Click to Visit Page
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is helping people create a better world 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 week the core team added people to the replacement Tropical Atrium images, added callouts, and revised the Tropical Atrium page shown here:
Helping People Create a Better World – Updated the Tropical Atrium Images and Updated the Page
Alena Thompson (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week she researched the reservoir design, evaluated structural feasibility and suggested changes, started SolidWorks updates to the existing structure, and building the user interface for adapting structures to different size needs, as shown here.
Helping People Create a Better World – Worked on Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. What you see here are minor modifications to the structure and version 2.0 of 3D modeling the pipes, point-of-use heater, thermostatic mixing valve, and heat exchanger.
Helping People Create a Better World – Working on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs
Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 8th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template and tutorial. This week’s focus was beginning an AutoCAD blocks template and writing draft 1 of the AutoCAD layers and line-weights tutorial.
Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 55 of Dean’s work focusing this week on the Eastside living spaces:
Worked on Renders for the Cob Village Eastside Living Spaces – Click to Visit Page
…and this final render of the Westside looking North.
Created Final Render of the Westside Looking North – Click for Cob Village
Jiming Chen (Designer with his Master’s in Architecture and BA in Engineering) also continued helping develop the Tree House Village (Pod 7). What you see here is his 12th week of this work focusing on applying our chosen color palette to the outside of the village to provide these color options.
Continued Developing the Tree House Village – Click for Page
Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 30th week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was updates to the kitchen and front entryway textures and furniture and lighting within the living spaces.
Continued Helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click to Visit Page
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is helping people create a better world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week the core team replaced all the people and updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen final render, which you can see here:
Replaced all People and Updated the Duplicable City Center Kitchen Final Render – Click for Page
In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped us create this updated and final render of a person sitting by the window in one of the City Center rental rooms:
Living Dome Rental Room Final Render – Click for Duplicable City Center
…..and this first-generation updated view of the rest of the room.
Updated View of Living Dome Rental Room – Click to Visit Duplicable City Center
And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 21st week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was updating the graphics you see here and writing the project-specific content for the tutorial.
Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit
The core team also started editing and formatting last week’s content for the eco-laundry page on the site, as you can see here.
Began Editing and Formatting Last Week’s Content for the Eco-Laundry Page – Click to Visit
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on finishing the research and selecting the multi-conductors and conduit types. Here are pictures of this work and from our weekly collaborative call.
Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center ” Click for Page
Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was continuing the foundation design detail tutorial with a focus on the overview details and footing design specifics, as shown here.
Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details ” Click for Duplicable City
And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was 3D updates and design details to match the mezzanine level to the new geometry of the dome, as shown here.
Continued Creating Our Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click to Visit Page
Lucas Tsutsui da Silva (4th-year Computer Engineering Student) also finished integrating another round of sensor and automation component updates for the Control and Automation systems layout, as shown here.
Duplicable City Center Control Systems, Lighting, and Electrical Map – Click to Enlarge
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is helping people create a better world through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week the core team finished another round of developing the new Highest Good education video intro you see here:
…and also the this new overview intro:
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 17th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included integration of the first round of edits to the Highest Good Food search engine and final revisions to the Highest Good education search engine that is now 100% complete and live on the Highest Good education main page.
Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site ” Click for Highest Good Education
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)
INVESTOR PAGES
GET INVOLVED
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
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 which will be helping people create a better world. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A BETTER WORLD BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one. Thereby helping people create a better world.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #202
The time has come for game-changing solutions for the world. This means whole-systems approaches covering all aspects of sustainable and ecologically intelligent approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. One Community is working to design, open source and free-share, and build these solutions.
- 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 February 5th, 2017 edition (#2o2) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Game-Changing Solutions for the World
One Community Progress Update #202
Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD INTRO: @1:03
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @1:59
- Transferred all of the written content for the Diversity Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
- Behind the scenes: completed 100% of written part of the “Form & Our Outer World” Lesson Plan
- Completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan (see below)
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @2:48
- Added anchor links and created / added a new image to the “What Is” section of the Food Bars page (see below)
- Working with Jennifer Zhou, completed edits and reorganization of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page (see below)
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:31
- Built the initial test heat exchanger for the Communal Eco-shower Structure (see below)
- Merged two renders to create the final section view of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village (see below)
- Guy Grossfeld added people and nature elements to create two new Final renders of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium (see below)
- Christian Ojeda joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs (see below)
- Adrienne Gould-Choquette finished her 7th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template (see below)
- Fernando Remolina continued with his 12th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
- Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @5:39
- Made final edits to render for natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome (see below)
- Continued working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola (see below)
- Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 26th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
- Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis (see below)
- Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
- Ramya Vudi and Shubham Agrawal continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center (see below)
- Jin Yu completed her 3rd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center (see below)
- Renan Dantas continued with his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates (see below)
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @8:15
- Finished a complete rewrite and update of the Highest Good Network software page and launched a new campaign to help build the team (see below)
- Hannah Gibbs completed her 4th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page (see below)
- Ashwin Patil continued with his 16th week developing the new Search Engines for our site (see below)
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD SUMMARY: @8:55
- How you can most help us right now and how anyone can help
CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE
YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 all of the written content for the Diversity Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan is purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Diversity”.
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Transferred 100% of Diversity Lesson Plan to Site
Behind the scenes, we completed 100% of the written part of the “Form & Our Outer World” Lesson Plan.
We also completed the first 50% of the mindmap for the Cosmos Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Cosmos Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week, the core team added anchor links and created / added a new image to the “What Is” section of the Food Bars page, as you see here, bringing the page to ~20% completion.
Added Anchor Links & Created New Image for the “What Is” Section of the Food Bars Page
Working with Jennifer Zhou (Web Designer), we also completed edits and reorganization of the Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan page, bringing that page to 90% completion, which you can see here.
Completed Edits and Reorganization of the Food Self-Sufficiency Transition Plan Page – Click to Visit
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world 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 built the initial test heat exchanger for the Communal Eco-shower Structure:
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Heat Exchanger Test Parts Before Assembly – Click for Page
… assembled and sealed it:
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Assembled and Sealed Heat Exchanger – Click for Page
… and produced this final construction ready for testing:
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Heat Exchanger Final Construction – Click for Page
We also merged two renders to create this final section view of the Communal Eco-shower Structure for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1):
Merged Two Renders to Create this Final Section View of Communal Eco-Shower Structure
In addition to this, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) added people and nature elements to create these two new Final renders of the Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium, then we added them to the site.
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Worked on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs
Created New Final Render of Earthbag Village Tropical Atrium – View Looking South – Click for Page
Christian Ojeda (Mechatronic Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the heat recycling Communal Eco-shower designs. What you see here is version 1.0 of 3D modeling the pipes, point-of-use heater, thermostatic mixing valve, and heat exchanger.
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Worked on Heat Recycling Communal Eco-Shower Designs
Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) also finished her 7th week helping create the standardized AutoCAD layers and line-weights template. This week’s focus was another round of integrating feedback and further simplifying the template to produce what you see here.
Continued Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template ” Click for Page
Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 12th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 7th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was on the toilet connections to the main unit and drainage details.
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Managing the Vermiculture Bathroom Development
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer), continued helping us create quality Cob Village (Pod 3) renders. Here is update 54 of Dean’s work developing renders for the living spaces. This week’s focus was a new perspective and section including the 2nd-floor sleeping areas of the Southwest wing.
Game-Changing Solutions For The World – Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week the core team made final edits to this render for the natural pool area inside the Duplicable City Center Social Dome:
Made Final Edits to Render for Natural Pool Indoor Render – Click for Page
The core team also continued working on 3D-visualizing the structural support updates for the Cupola that tops the Duplicable City Center. We added structural metal beam support for the South and North columns of the central area, and continued working on the structural support columns around the staircase area of the Dining Dome. You can see this work in both of these areas here:
Continued Working on 3D-Visualizing the Structural Support Updates for the Cupola
Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 26th week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was creation of a simplified zone drawing and beginning initial light placement.
Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click to Visit Page
And Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) continued her research helping us create an in-depth washing machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 20th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was finalizing writing the content and creating the graphics for the first half of the Research and Application section of the tutorial.
Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit
Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) and Shuna Ni (Masters of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering PhD) also continued their work on the City Center structural engineering. This week’s focus was continued roof engineering calculations and finishing the process of updating the structural calculations based on commonly available steel members.
Continued Working on City Center Structural Engineering ” Click for Page
Ramya Vudi (Electrical Engineer) and Shubham Agrawal (Electrical Engineer) continued their work on the energy infrastructure for the City Center. This week’s work focused on researching multiconductors, conduit types, and saltwater batteries and doing a comparative analysis for saltwater versus lead acid batteries.
Continued Working on Energy Infrastructure for the City Center – Click for Page
Jin Yu (Structural Engineering Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the concrete foundation design and tutorial details for the Duplicable City Center. This week’s focus was on writing the beginning of the foundation design detail tutorial, as seen here.
Continued Working on the Concrete Foundation Design and Tutorial Details ” Click for Duplicable City
And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD updates. This week’s focus was adjusting the windows and doors to fit the new dome geometry and identifying possible problem areas.
Continued Creating Our Duplicable City Center AutoCAD Updates ” Click to Visit Page
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is helping create game-changing solutions for the world through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week the core team finished a complete rewrite and update of the Highest Good Network software page and launched a new campaign to help build the team necessary to complete this software.
Finished a Complete Rewrite and Update of the Highest Good Network Software Page – Click to Visit
Hannah Gibbs (Web Developer) also completed her 4th week of helping develop the Taxes and Sustainable Community Building page. This week’s focus was final edits to the state images and adding these images to the site along with their links to their states’ tax pages.
Continued Developing Taxes & Sustainable Community Building Page – Click to Visit
Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) continued with his 16th week developing the new Search Engines for our site. This week’s work included integration of the first round of edits to the Straw Bale Village search engine and creation and testing of version 1.0 of the Highest Good Food search engine.
Continued Developing the New Search Engine for Our Site – Click for Straw Bale Village
AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE
FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)
INVESTOR PAGES
GET INVOLVED
CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
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 for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
GAME-CHANGING SOLUTIONS FOR THE WORLD BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
