New Aquapini Drawings, Open Source Blog and Updates, SEGO Center City Hub Update, and More
Here’s our sustainable living communities open source project-launch blueprinting update for the week of 3/11 including updated aquaponics/aquapini drawings, the newest SEGO Center City Hub export, open source Education for Life updates, and more. Also our weekly blog update (first three minutes) and a 17 minute discussion about what is open source project-launch blueprinting, what do we hope to accomplish with it, and why are we doing it.
WHY OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE LIVING COMMUNITIES: VIDEO BLOG 3
OPEN SOURCE PRODUCTION UPDATES FOR THE WEEK OF 3/11
This last week’s team accomplishments were primarily in Sustainable Infrastructure, the Education for Life Program, and significan website infrastructure updates.
Sustainable Living Communities Open Source Food Production
Thanks to the consulting of Avery Ellis (Aquaponics Specialist and owner/operator of Integrated Aquaponics) and the amazing architecture skills of Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist), we’re happy to say that the commercial food production aquapini layout and general structure designs are done! This piece of our open source project-launch blueprinting of sustainable living communities is an aquapini purposed for maximum food volume production. In support of our open source goals, this aquapini will demonstrate and share a model of affordable large-scale quality food production utilizing very little water and with built in temperature control for more extreme climates.
COMMERCIAL FOOD PRODUCTION AQUAPINI FLOOR PLAN AND LONGITUDINAL VIEWS
Large-scale Aquaponics/Walipini (Aquapini) Floor Plan and Longitudinal View – Click for Details Page with Enlargeable Images
COMMERCIAL FOOD PRODUCTION CROSS SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS
Large-scale Aquaponics/Walipini (Aquapini) Cross Sections & Elevations – Click to Visit Details Page with Enlargeable Images
Sustainable Living Communities Open Source SEGO Center City Hub
The One Community SEGO Center City Hub is a foundational component of the One Community duplicable teacher/demonstration community, village, and city model purposed to provide open source project-launch blueprinting necessary for a duplicable city center that will:
- ADA Compliant
- Designed to California code for maximum duplicability
- Be LEED Platinum certified and demonstrate cutting-edge sustainability, be
- Save resources by functioning as a community, village, or city recreation center
- Save resources by functioning as a community, village, or city recreation center dining hall
- Save resources by functioning as a community, village, or city laundry facility
- Offer a green-luxury option to donors, major eco-investors, VIPs, or anyone else that might not feel like they are initially ready to stay in one of our earthbag or straw bale hand-constructed homes.
Thanks to the hard work of Karl Harris (Architect Drafter, Designer, and founder of KH Designs), we’ve got this updated CAD export showing the new library and Conference Dome bathroom location, moving the bathrooms of the Living Dome to a central location for increased resource efficiency and demonstration of collaborative living, a new 3rd floor sunrise patio space for congregating, and an open floor plan for the 4th floor.
3-17-2013 SEGO CITY HUB CAD EXPORT
Click image to visit the SEGO Center Details Page with a version that can be enlarged
Sustainable Living Communities Open Source Education Program
We’ve added a ton of new content to the Education for Life Program with the most significant contributions being:
- The Honesty and Integrity Curriculum Component Page
- The teaching strategies Waldorf Method Overview Page
For updates as they happen, and a bunch of new images and quotes we also made, visit/join our:
TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION FACEBOOK PAGE
Website Updates this Week
We’ve also spent about 20 hours this past week building out the open source infrastructure details and making significant updates to some of the key pages. Here are a couple of the most significant ones:
