Solutioneering Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #196

The time has come for solutioneering communities to rise to the task of creating a global cooperative capable of creating a sustainable world for all. Open source and free-shared tools, tutorials anstructural engineering detailed resources for food, energy, housing, education, Highest Good economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more are already under development to support such a cooperative. Through this open source foundation, we hope to shift global thinking and living to models of cooperation instead of competition and, for the first time in human history, a sustainable world for The Highest Good of all life.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 25th, 2016 edition (#196) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Solutioneering Communities
One Community Progress Update #196

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

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES INTRO: @1:03

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @2:01

• Transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website (see below)
• Behind the scenes: wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan
• Completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan (see below)
• Finished updating the icons across all the Lesson Plan pages  (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @3:08

• Finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages (see below)
• Created another update for the appearance of the Highest Good food icons and updated them on all pages (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @3:47

• Put another combined total of 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing along with Ashwini Ramesh (see below)
• Continued developing the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page (see below)
• Reorganized all images for the Recycled Materials Village into their respective floors and added initial descriptions for each one (see below)
• Completed final edits to Tropical Atrium renders and added them to Earthbag Village page along with the versions without people to Tropical Atrium (see below)
• Incorporated the new Tropical Atrium into the 7 villages online book along with updates to the front spread and final render of the Game Room for the Recycled Materials Village (see below)
• Created new earthbag village water saving net-zero communal toilet page featuring the designs of Samuel Soroaster (see below)
• Adrienne Gould-Choquette joined the team and took over creation of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating (see below)
• Fernando Remolina continued with his 10th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 5th week of help from Lin Xu and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (see below)
• Lianyi Zhao joined the team and began his 1st week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued helping us create quality Cob Village renders (see below)
• Hamilton Mateca finished his 23rd 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)
• Guy Grossfeld helped with some additional 3DSMax visualization testing of another of the zones for the Compressed Earth Block Village (see below)
• Zachary Melin continued developing the Tree House Village book (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @7:34

• Continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center which included more work on the natural pool area
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei and Shuna Ni continued their work on the City Center structural engineering
• Dipti Dhondarkar continued with her 23rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center
• Jinxi Feng continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis
• Renan Dantas continued with his 5th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @9:29

• Yuri Witte completed his 8th week of helping create the music that will accompany our new overview video (see below)
• Ashwin Patil completed more development of the new search engine (see below)

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES SUMMARY: @10:02

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SOLUTIONERRING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This last week the core team transferred the third 25% of the written content for the Cognition Lesson Plan to the website, as you see here. This lesson plan purposed to teach all subjects, to all learning levels, in any learning environment, using the central theme of “Cognition” is now 75% completed on our website.

Transferred Third 25% of Cognition Lesson Plan to Site ” Click to Visit Page

Behind the scenes, we wrote the first 25% section of the written part of the Cosmos Lesson Plan.

We also completed the second 25% of the mindmap for the Consciousness Lesson Plan, bringing it to 50% complete, which you see here:

Solutioneering Communities – Consciousness Mindmap ” 50% Complete ” Click to Visit Page

And we finished updating the icons across all the Lesson Plan pages, here’s an example and we are now 90% done with the total icon update for the Highest Good Education component.

Solutioneering Communities – Updated the Icons Across All the Lesson Plan Pages – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 finished reformatting and adding sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes & Omnivore Pasta Recipes pages, bringing both of the pages to 60% completion. You can see a sample of that work here, on the vegan pasta recipe page:

Solutioneering Communities – Reformatted and Added Sections to the Vegan Pasta Recipes Page

We also did another update for the appearance of the Highest Good food icons and then updated them on all pages of the website, here’s a picture of the new icons:

Updated Appearance of the Food Icons and Updated on all the Pages – Click to Visit the Page

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 20 hours into the crowdfunding campaign we are developing. This week’s focus was more AutoCAD image creation….

Worked on AutoCAD Image Creation for Crowdfunding Campaign – Click for Page

….and developing the second half of the Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting page:

Developing the 2nd Half of Earthbag Municipal/County Involvement and Permitting Page

The core team also reorganized all the images for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) into their respective floors and added initial descriptions for each one. You can see a sample of that work here:

Reorganized all Images for the Recycled Materials Village into their Respective Floors – Click for Page

We also added these three new renders of the living spaces:

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Kitchen Dining Area – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Large Bedroom – Click to Visit Page

Recycled Materials Village Final Render of Bedroom Perspective – Click to Visit Page

Then we completed final edits to the three Tropical Atrium renders shown here and added them to the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) page…

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking Northeast

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking South

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking West

along with the versions without people to the Tropical Atrium page….

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” Plan View – Click for Page

Tropical Atrium Final Render ” Before and After Planting Plan – Click for Page

Solutioneering Communities – Tropical Atrium Final Render ” View Looking Southwest – Click for Page

….and incorporated them into the 7 villages online book along with updates to the front spread:

Incorporated Tropical Atrium Images into 7 Villages Online Book – Click To Visit Page

….and final render of the Game Room for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) :

Solutioneering Communities – Recycled Materials Village Game Room Final Render – Click for Page

In addition to this, we created this new earthbag village water saving net-zero communal toilet page featuring the designs of Samuel Soroaster, Permaculturalist, Sustainable Builder, PhD, and founder of Green New World.

Created New Earthbag Village Water Saving Net-zero Communal Toilet Page – Click to Visit

Adrienne Gould-Choquette (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and finished her first week by taking over creation of the standardized AutoCAD layers and line weights template we are creating. You can see some of how this is developing with these images of the work-in-progress here.

Took Over Creation of Standardized AutoCAD Layers and Line Weights Template – Click for Page

Fernando Remolina (Industrial Engineer specializing in Project Management) continued with his 10th week of managing the Vermiculture Bathroom development with the 5th week of help from Lin Xu (Mechanical Engineering Student) and Jianyu “Lucas” Liang (Mechanical Engineer). This week’s focus, as shown here, was drain design and exploring different ways to connect the main unit to the toilets above.

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Work on the Vermiculture Bathroom – Click for Page

Lianyi Zhao (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and began his 1st week of working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs. This week he began remodeling the designs to better match the AutoCAD drawing and adding SolidWorks model details for the surrounding area in the Earthbag Village (Pod 1).

Began Working on the Net-zero Communal Bathroom Designs – Click to Visit Page

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Creating Quality Cob Village Renders ” Click to Visit Page

Hamilton Mateca (AutoCAD and Revit Drafter and Designer) also finished his 23rd week helping with the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4) design details. This week’s focus was on developing the front and back perspectives, internal views of the hallways and some of the rooms, roof textures, and other details shown here.

Continued Evolving the Compressed Earth Block Village ” Click to Visit Page

Aparna Tandon (Architect) additionally continued her work on the Compressed Earth Block Village external elements. What you see here is her 13th week of work, focusing on exploring new elements for meditation labyrinth and surrounding areas, adding amphitheater seating, a walking path, and other planting-plan details, as shown here.

Continued Work on Compressed Earth Block Village External Elements ” Click to Visit Page

Working off of Aparna’s work, Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) helped with some additional 3DSMax visualization testing of another of the zones for the Compressed Earth Block Village (Pod 4), as shown here.

Helped with DSMax Visualization Testing for the Compressed Earth Block Village – Click for Page

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also continued developing the Tree House Village (Pod 7) book. What you see here is week 18 of this work that continued with another update to page 51 and newly update pages 52 and 53.

Solutioneering Communities – Continued Developing the Tree House Village Book – Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 continued render creation for the Duplicable City Center. This included more work on the natural pool area where added pond water and bottom-of-the-pond textures, water plants and lilies, and bike racks and bikes…

Continued Working on the Natural Pool Area Renders ” Click for Page

…plus updating this dining dome render with the new internal color scheme.

Updated Dining Dome Render with New Internal Color Scheme – Click for Duplicable 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 work was continued calculations for the braces and columns and merging and updating all the AutoCAD files to confirm consistency.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering ” Click to Visit Page

And Dipti Dhondarkar, (Electrical Engineer) continued with her 23rd week of work on the lighting specifics for the City Center. This week’s focus was beginning the calculations for how many bulbs will be needed in each zone (now that we’ve chosen them) and beginning to update the spreadsheet, as shown here.

Continued Working on the Lighting Specifics for the City Center ” Click to Visit Page

Jinxi Feng (Environmental Consultant) also continued her research helping us create an in-depth laundry and dryer machine sustainability analysis. What you see here is her 16th week of behind-the-scenes work on this area of the project. This week’s focus was beginning creation of an open source tool to compare water and energy savings with different washers and dryers. You can see screenshots of this amazing tool here:

Continued Research for in-Depth Laundry and Dryer Machine Sustainability Analysis ” Click to Visit

And Renan Dantas (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 5th week working on creating our next generation of Duplicable City Center sections, layout organization, layer updates, and color updates. You can see the most recent colors, formatting, and updates here.

Continued Creating our Next Generation of Duplicable City Center Section Drawings ” Click to Visit

SOLUTIONEERING COMMUNITIES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is solutioneering communities 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 Yuri Witte (Music Composer and Sound Designer)” completed his 8th week of helping create the music that will accompany the new overview video we are planning. This week’s focus was writing a new audio for the background of these blogs. You can hear this here and you can visit Yuri’s SoundCloud to hear his other work with us.

Continued Creating Music that Will Accompany the New Overview Video ” Click for Yuri’s Soundcloud

Ashwin Patil (Web Developer) also completed more development of the new search engine beginning to integrate a decision to create multiple smaller engines and successfully testing 3 huge demo engines on one page.

Continued Working on the New Search Engine – Click to Visit Home Page

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