One Community welcomes Lindy Rzonca to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Lindy is passionate about our planet and the people on it. As a graduate from UC Berkeley with a B.S in Society & Environment, this passion has propelled her through her educational and professional life. She is currently working on developing sustainable living solutions as a Sustainability Analyst at LIM Living. And as a member of the One Community team, Lindy is helping to educate people globally by conducting research and writing tutorials covering sustainable flooring, sustainable non-recyclable waste processing, and more.

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One Community welcomes Jingwei Jiang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jingwei is from Chengdu, China. She achieved her Bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture (BLA) from University of Washington on June 10, 2018. Soon after graduation Jingwei completed internships in China and received an offer from the Architecture School of University of Virginia. In 2020, she finished her education and graduated with her Master degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) and Urban Design Certificate (UDC). As a member of the One Community team, Jingwei is helping create the complete landscaping plan for the Earthbag Village.

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One Community welcomes Qiuheng Xu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Qiuheng graduated from the University of Virginia Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program. During the past few years, she has participated in several different types and phases of projects through both school and intern experiences. Through these, Qiuheng was able to get hands on with residential projects, civil engineering, urban planning, and habitat design. She also has some web design experience. Qiuheng believes landscape should be part of daily life because what we are building are living environments. As a member of the One Community team, Qiuheng is helping with both internal and external Duplicable City Center visualization walkthrough and landscaping design.

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One Community welcomes Jiayu Liang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jiayu has over 8 years of design-professional training across multi-scale and various design types. She earned her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism from the University of Southern California, with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Art Design. Last summer she went to Tbilisi, Georgia, and was responsible for an entrance and parking-lot grading design in the Veli project. Jiayu is self-motivated, strong-minded, and a goal-oriented challenger. She believes that landscape design not only creates beautiful environments balancing people and wild-life habitats, but also digs the deepest cultural roots. As a member of the One Community team, Jiayu is helping with the Aquapini/Walipini greenhouse structures interior and exterior landscape design and visualizations.

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Want to see what a path to a sustainable civilization looks like? Check out One Community’s open source plans for achieving it through a global cooperative of self-replicating eco-communities and teacher/demonstration hubs.

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 November 22nd, 2020 edition (#400) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Path to a Sustainable Civilization
One Community Progress Update #400

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” section of the Net-Zero Bathrooms. He added detailed steps, diagrams, measurements, and organized the material list for the “Roof Panel Construction” section. Detailed steps were added to the “Roof Panel Installation” section too. The SolidWorks model was also updated to include the drip edge roof flash on the edges of the exterior roof panels. The addition of metal flashing around the roof access was added as well. The images from these updates will be used in the section as a visual reference. Pictures are below for this work.

Updated the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” Section – Click for Net-Zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 16th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Stacey is excited to almost be done with the now 26-page wall section. She reworked all groups by making sure all the fonts are the same. Stacey also verified all the call outs and zoomed images are colored in the same way across all groups, and have clear pages marked now from the wall section into the 3 other groups. She also figured out many of the old renders and updated with the correct wall image in all places. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 14th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the tools required to place nails and cement between each layer, and working on the structural design of the lofts. For the three tools, she finalized the initial designs of each and prepared the associated master AutoCAD. Hannah also continued the loft design by selecting the joist size and spacing, the bridge size and locations, determining the bridge hanger manufacturer / product, and beginning to work on the bearing calculations for the end supports. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia created the plan for the hot and cold water pipelines in the kitchen and main bathroom areas. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 7th week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy finished the Sustainable flooring research and Google Doc. She finished the section on Vinyl flooring, and she proofread the entire document and made some changes to reflect the new changes. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued to Confirm and Expand the Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 continued with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen. We started working on a new SketchUp design for 30’x50’ Transition Kitchen structure we agreed on as best from last week. We also created three possible layout templates for kitchen/eating/serving areas. Then we did research on different floor covering for the Transitional Kitchen portable building. Lastly, we created a list of problems that we found during the detailing process with the old Hexayurt design for the Transition Kitchen structure. Here they are and pictures of the other work follow them:

• Challenge to place appliances in Hexagon shaped building.
• Insulation boards are not strong enough to handle multiple assemble/disassemble activities.
• Insulation boards as roof are not strong enough to handle snow loads.
• Leakage and structural problems with the insulation boards because suggested tape doesn’t hold up for more than 2 weeks of sun damage, it gets crusty and peels off. Alternative attachment options would all break down the insulation boards too much or over very short periods of time in inclement weather conditions.
• Insulation board is not sustainable. We could overlook this if it would last being used like this (which we initially thought it would) but it won’t.
• Rising lumber prices and adding in the cost for a solid floor made this structure almost 3x as much as it was originally projected to cost.

Continued With New Plan for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we reviewed chicken coop drawings and related videos suggesting a more standardized approach to wall layout design for improved efficiency, clarity, and ease of interpretation for the novice builder. We also explored different hinge locations for the nesting boxes, and further revised the initial pages of the coop assembly based on all of the above. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes was able to get access to SolidWorks and is learning how to use flow simulation to apply it to our current design. He also worked on adding conversions into his Matlab code to make it easier to use regardless of the units being used. He also spend significant time trying to get the software working properly on his Mac, which requires a special Windows environment to run SolidWorks. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 8th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu focused on making the 6 greenhouse models and the model of outdoor landscapes in the Rhino. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Continued With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the landscaping specifics for the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei focused on finishing the CAD plan according to previous developed SketchUp models. The final planting list was further developed too. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on the climate battery simulations and optimization. He worked with his team to improve the SolidWorks simulations related to the pressure in the pipes. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Worked on the Climate Battery Simulations and Optimization – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana continued her research on friction loss of the system and calculations of the static pressure of the system. She learned to use a Friction Loss chart that will provide the friction loss of the system given two of the following parameters: velocity, duct diameter, or cfm. According to the chart, our system is recommended to have a duct diameter of 10-12 inches because any lower and the friction loss per 100ft is very high. Using an equation that closely describes this chart, Diana calculated the friction loss per 100ft on the “Air Flow Rate.xslx” and varied the size of the manifold to be 8-12 inches and the velocity from 1000 – 1500 fpm. It was found that 10-inch diameter with a 1100 fpm initial velocity to be 0.54 in wg (inches of water gauge) per 100 feet (this is a reasonable amount of friction). Then using these parameters the friction loss per 100 ft was calculated for the 4-inch pipes branching off of the main pipes. The small pipe diameter was varied from 3-5 inches but 4 in will be kept because its friction loss is only ~0.05 in wg per 100 ft. Diana met with Henry to discuss the high friction loss and the following steps will be taken to resolve the issue: decrease the number of pipes, decrease the length of the manifold, and increase the diameter of the manifold from 8in to 10 inches. Diana also researched how to account for pressure when calculating the friction loss because the charts available are accurate for standard conditions and not high elevations. She tabulated the 6000 ft elevation correction factors on the “Air Flow Rate.xslx” under the tab cfm – elevation correction. This tab takes in the total volume of a building and desired ACH and then calculates the corrected CFM at a 6000 ft elevation for temperatures between -20 F to 100 F. Then it takes in a diameter for the main manifold and the pipes to calculate the total friction loss per 100 ft. For a specific temperature the total friction loss is calculated. It was found the friction loss is extremely high and a fan cannot create enough static pressure to balance it. By increasing the manifold diameter to 10 in the static friction decreased by half but this value is still too high. Reducing the number of pipes will be the next step. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 4th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Daniela focused on further recipes and researching suitable video instructions for previously chosen dishes. She also double checked that the image she’s supplied so far are not copyright protected. You can see some of this work below.

Focused on Further Recipes and Researching Suitable Video Instructions for Previously Chosen Dishes – Click for Food Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 completed 22 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we refined and edited the large-scale consensus governance content in preparation for putting the content into the web editor. We added links, formatted the write-up (bullets and justified text), made the content more consistent, and re-read the content. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes below.

Refined and Edited the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 39th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added the folder icon for the expanded tasks. The folder icon was used instead of an arrow or other icon because we think it makes the most sense communicating that the parent tasks (folders) are the sum of all children tasks. Henry also worked on the remove function. Removing a task will affect other tasks, so he worked on debugging this so the other tasks renumber and move up correctly to fill in the newly empty line. He still needs to update the task ID and hours calculation though, which is on his action list for next week. The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality.

Added the Folder Icon for the Expanded Tasks – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team continued working on creating the user profile by adding the option to assign a team and project while creating a user. An administrator can now click on add a new team / project button and search and find the team/project to assign the user. Pictures below show some of this new functionality.

Added the Option to Assign a Team and Project While Creating a User – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 17th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi established the frame of DashboardNotificationBar. She divided it into four parts. The first part is mainly username, the second part is about work hours, the third one is about summary, and the last one is Badges. She finished text inside these parts and added icons (exclamation, check), which are similar to the patterns in the picture below. Also, she adjusted the size and percentage of these parts in the bar, but they still need further modification. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Established the Frame of DashboardNotificationBar – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry implemented the requested changes from a number of weeks ago. Color contrast is improved for the table. The text differences for the notifications are now human readable. Next, Jerry will work on having task info updates be condensed if a field is updated multiple times. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Implemented the Requested Changes From a Number of Weeks Ago – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 13th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began the comparative analysis portion of this project. She went through each of the plans from each company that she thought were relevant to the goals of this organization and chose the ones that were most applicable. She created a final spreadsheet of the few plans that she would like to research and compare further. She also reformatted many of the plans, so that they all followed one set of criteria. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Began the Comparative Analysis Portion of Health Insurance Research – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on the timelog component adding it to the dashboard. Chris also edited the formatting for the timelog and timer components to be displayed in mobile views with scrollbars. Pictures related to this work are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 10th week helping with various graphic design work for the project. This week Jaime started creating new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he re-created 8 badges for the 30-week streak accomplishment. You can see these newly created images below.

Started Creating New Badges for the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Ksenia Akimov to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ksenia is a Mechanical Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing complex plumbing, water supply and drainage systems for commercial, residential and military projects. She has expertise in internal and external portable, firefighting, water recycling supply systems and sanitary, industrial, storm drainage solutions. She also has experience with multi-family residential, large scale retail, manufacturing and education projects. As a member of the One Community team, Ksenia is helping with the complete plumbing designs for the Duplicable City Center.

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We’re building a model for addressing social inequality with open source sustainability. We’re doing this through open source plans and resources that cover everything from food and housing to education and economics. Together, these open source communities will provide a better way of living than most people are living right now. People with shared values and desires will be able to come together and replicate what we’re doing more affordably than current living models, providing a path to social equality and financial freedom for anyone willing to collaboratively work towards it. 

• 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 November 15th, 2020 edition (#399) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Social Inequality
With Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #399

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability 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 continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week we finalized details regarding EPS replacement with Comfortboard and Perminator. Pictures below show some of this work.

Finalized Details Regarding EPS Replacement With Comfortboard and Perminator – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 32nd week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week’s focus was writing a draft of a section called “What is Plastic Elimination, Substitution, Conservation & Promotion” and continuing the research on the subject looking for the best recycled plastic-use cases. He also made some corrections to the hydropower article. Below are pictures of some of this work.

Continued Working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished fixing minor constraint errors on the Solidworks rendering and added some detail to the AutoCAD roof plan of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He began brainstorming and drafting additions to the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/final report. Two sections were drafted covering the materials and the roof panel construction for both exterior and interior levels of the Net-Zero Bathroom roof. New tools and material were added to the Earthbag Village Spreadsheet, CFC Material and CAF Tools and Equipment documents all being sourced from sections drafted. A third section is being drafted involving the installation of the exterior and interior level roof panels.  Pictures are below for this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 15th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey worked on the electrical placement within the wall, it was a little bit difficult understanding how the outlets get installed into the 2 sides of the wall beside the bed frame. She’ll revise and check measurements again after completion to assure everything is correct. She also worked in the section where the benches and table will be constructed but she thinks there will also be a break in the wall section instructions to add more electrical instructions. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 13th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by finalizing the updated design for the floor envelope. She also edited the centerpoint re-establishment section of the tutorial document, and began to update the footer section. Hannah also worked on the initial draft of the design and drawings for the three nail placement tools. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued the Development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia focused on the boiler calculations necessary to compute the capacity of the boiler. Boiler BW*010-60C appears to work for our needs and she drew the water supply risers and made an axonometric view of the storm drain system. Pictures below show some of this work.

Focused on the Boiler Calculations Necessary to Compute the Capacity of the Boiler – Click for City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng focused on further modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file, checking off final requested changes as she went. You can see some of the updated areas below.

Focused on Further Modifications in Both the SketchUp File and Lumion File – Click for City Center

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability 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 changed our focus for the Transition Kitchen to identify a better alternative to the hexayurt. We did research of portable structure alternatives including 13 different temporary structures. This research covered animal shelters, sheds, garages, disaster relief tents, military tents, medical emergency tents, dome shelters and quonset huts. Pictures of this research are below. 

Researched Portable Structure Alternatives Including 13 Different Temporary Structures – Click for Transition Kitchen

The core team also began rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step descriptions. This week we worked on generating new detailed images and completed editing the assembly doc through page 12. Pictures of this work are below.

Began Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Descriptions – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 7th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the outdoor landscape layout, and she also updated the new plant version for the large production aquapini. She also began making models in Rhino, and almost completed walipini # 1, walipini #2, and aquapini #1. One big correction coming to the 3D modeling you see here is that the terraces should be on the South/bottom wall. They are the perfect height to not cast shadows in the winter. So the 3D models will be flipped this coming week so the tall side of the structure is in the North/back. They are designed like this so light can pass over the terraces and hit everything growing there, then we will grow trees along the back wall. Jiayu made this mistake because the high side is in the front on the website, but we changed that to make the buildings more cost and energy efficient since all that height wasn’t needed once we covered the whole structure with transparent SolaWrap and eliminated the skylights. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on redesigning and parametrizing the Solidworks model for optimization. He also worked on determining assumptions, possible inaccuracies and ways to improve the fluid flow simulation of the climate battery. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued the Development of Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana met with Henry to discuss future steps with the current Climate Battery design. They decided to simplify the design by reducing the set of pipes in a layer from 2 to 1 for the flow simulation. She also found a video that demonstrates how to analyze the condensation rate in the Solidworks flow simulations. The temperature decreases as the condensation rate increases so Henry can analyze the rate as he makes changes to the configuration. The team also met as whole and discussed how to expand on their current research and how it could possibly be used to help Henry as he works on the Solidworks file. Diana developed code to calculate the heat transfer from the pipe to the soil but realized that a constant temperature was chosen to model the temperature inside the tube which is inaccurate. The temperature is dependent on velocity and, in order to simulate this on Matlab, she would have to derive an equation for temperature as a function of velocity and space. The most efficient way to analyze the heat transfer would be through Solidworks. Diana also recalculated the CFM of the system using ACH 5-8 and included the CFM per subsystem. A deeper explanation was then added to the Climate battery doc under Diana’s Research on Fan Selection. She also learned to read/use characteristic equations for fan selection. She researched how static pressure affects the system and how the fans balance static pressure for proper airflow. She will be working with Henry to recalculate to static pressure of the system for the fan selection. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below.

Met With Henry to Discuss Future Steps With the Current Climate Battery Design – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily kept working on research of ADS pipes, created a table of pipe materials and dimensions, and established a relationship with a local representative for price inquiries. In addition, Lily started working on cost analysis and ADS pipe and will keep working on it next week. You can see pictures related to this research below.

Continued the Development of Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 3rd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week she continued into week 5 of the rotating staple scheme, adding video recipes on previous weeks as well. The salad bar has now been laid out in two different configurations, one for the first week after grocery day, and one for the second. Dressing and creams have been introduced, with recipes.

Continued Into Week 5 of the Rotating Staple Scheme for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability 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 completed 19 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, and volunteer-work review and collaboration.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished re-evaluating the 12 Focus Group categories. We made a summary table covering all of them, received and integrated feedback, and then translated the information in the table to paragraph form. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished Re-evaluating the 12 Focus Group Categories – Click for Consensus Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 38th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Henry fixed a popup problem we were having and fixed all the display issues to produce a friendly mobile view. The adding functionality was completed, the format for WHY and others was designed, and he also added the WBS name on the top of the Tasks list. Some related imagery for this work can be seen below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on creating a new user profile. They integrated the user profile changes and started to create the new user profile. An Administrator can now click on the “create new user” profile button from the user management page and a popup will open. After entering the basic details, clicking on create will create a new user with those details and then navigate to the user profile edit page so that the detailed profile of that user, team and projects assignment can be done. Pictures below show some of this.

Worked on Creating a New User Profile – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 25th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen made some adjustments to the badge popup based on feedback. She changed all the popups to style #2 which was created last week, and centered everything in the popup window. Wen also started to create the badge report component, which will show up when clicking the “Badge Report” button. It’s a basic layout for now. Features like selecting their favorite badges to show on their profile, selecting badges to download as a PDF report, etc. are not included yet. She also reviewed two pull requests. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Made Some Adjustments to the Badge Popup Based on Feedback – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 16th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi implemented popup notification under the button “Add Time Entry Form” with required formatting and finished debugging this part. She also pushed this new feature from the “feature/Timer” branch to the “development” branch. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 12th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor concluded her research on the different health insurance plans that are relevant to One Community. She sifted through several different insurance plans that belonged to several different companies and compiled them into one last sheet that included relevant plans. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Concluded Research on the Different Health Insurance Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was still working on improving the User Profile component. He refactored the whole component and changed it to a single-page component, which means users no longer have to be redirected to a new page for editing. He also added some minor features such as mouse-over descriptions. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on Improving the User Profile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris pushed up his changes for the Leaderboard after finishing some unit testing. He also reviewed the changes pushed up by Yiqi and corrected some errors. Pictures related to this work are below.

Finished Some Unit Testing and Pushed Up Changes for the Leaderboard – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 9th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #430, #431, #432, #433 and #434. You can see these newly created images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #430, #431, #432, #433 and #434 – Click for Updates Blog

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One Community sees itself as a long-term sustainable-change engine that, once started, will continue to grow, improve, and replicate on its own. To make this possible, we’re open sourcing everything necessary to build the prototype and invite people to participate and see for themselves that a better life is possible through cooperative and sustainable living.

• 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 November 8th, 2020 edition (#398) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Long-term Sustainable-change Engine
One Community Progress Update #398

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine 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 continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week we reviewed and verified measurements to the excavation drawing updates and completed edits through page 46 of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc. We also reviewed the earthbag dome insulation updates regarding replacement of EPS with Rockwool. Pictures below show some of this work.

Reviewed and Verified Measurements to the Excavation Drawing Updates and Continued with Edits – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 31st week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week’s focus was mainly researching on the internet, especially precious plastic, and organization doing and amazing job openly sharing on YouTube and on their website. We added a section draft about “compostable vs bioplastics vs biodegradable plastics” and started working on additional details covering “when to use plastic” and “when to avoid plastic”. Below are pictures of some of this work.

Continued Working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began new updates to the Net-zero Bathroom AutoCAD and Solidworks files. He began by experimenting on AutoCAD with a six panel and eight panel design for the interior part of the roof. The eight panel design was the most cost effective using only four sheets of metal instead of six, but had added complexity and reduced longevity due to metal trim running oblique to the flow. The six panel design required six sheets of metal, but had reduced complexity and had the metal trim run along the rainwater flow. With the AutoCAd roof plan updated, he began the update of the Solidworks rendering. The AutoCAD roof plan was referenced to accurately update the Solidworks rendering. Pictures are below for this work.

Began New Updates to the Net-zero Bathroom AutoCAD and Solidworks Files – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 14th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey was working on the back side of the wall frame and electrical installation, updating placements of the outlet and light switches. She also went back into the benches & table and the closet & storage groups because they had incorrect images of the wall section in the places they had been used in those instructions. Also, the places in the wall section where you would need to jump in between the different assembly groups is important because you can’t do just one section completely without having to stop to do another or do multiple assemblies at the same time, but this can easily be rearranged in the final files and adjusted as needed. Pictures below show some of this extensive work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 12th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by adding details and drawings for the alternative dome design option, which is geared towards domes built in colder climates. She also researched more sustainable options for rigid insulation under the dome’s floor slab and redesigned the floor envelope to include a vapor barrier. Hannah also continued the development of the nail-cement trough system by drawing the details for the second tool. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Continued the Development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei focused on modifying the sketchUp plans and delivering the planting pallet. The local environment requires deciduous trees and drought tolerant plants, so Jingwei changed them into oaks and chestnut trees. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Focused on Modifying the SketchUp Plans and Delivering the Planting Pallet – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksensia tried to calculate the consumption of hot water. She searched for methods on the Internet and found a project to replace boilers and counted according to the method indicated there. According to the enlarged indicators, the BW*1-060C boiler is enough to supply the building. But this is not accurate, we need to clarify some contributing elements. Pictures below show some of this research.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng completed all the updates requested in the initial list and submitted them for review. You can see some of the updated areas below.

Completed the Updates Requested in the Initial List and Submitted Them for Review – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 6th week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy was finally able to add the information about material sourcing and manufacturing and added the updates to the scorecard and flooring tutorial. Then she noticed some gaps in the scoring/ranking, as vinyl flooring was not mentioned, so she began research on Vinyl, ranked it and wrote her rough draft on the flooring tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Helping Confirm and Expand the Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) completed her 3rd week helping with the sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies. Keerthi completed the benchmarking Ranking for complete list of companies and individual sections for Toilet, Urinal, Shower Head and Hand Dryer manufacturers. The first draft was completed and submitted for review. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Continued Helping With the Sustainability Benchmarking of Various Hardware Companies – Click for Hand Dryer Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine 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 began work on the Transition Kitchen final updates and assembly instructions. This week we finished placement of the plywood sheets on the kitchen floor and began work on the Transition Kitchen wall framing using 2×4 lumber. Outside walls were sheeted with Rigid Foam Insulation Boards. We also began installation of the 4×4 posts and ridge and central beams for roof support. Pictures of this work are below.

Began Work on the Transition Kitchen Final Updates and Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also began rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step descriptions and edits through page 8 and suggested changes to the flooring and header construction. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Began Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Descriptions and Edits – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week she focused on developing the third and fourth week menu outlines and clearing some points as suggested by the core team. She’s now focusing on recipes for which we can find a video in plain english, with little distractions, so while the progress is slower, it saves much work in the following phases. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Focused on Developing the Third and Fourth Week Menu Outlines – Click for Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he worked on confirming the heat loss calculations done previously. Henry found a different result likely due to consideration of the SolaWrap material. He also worked on Solidworks simulations and collaborated with Diana to confirm that the current configuration is inefficient because of the varied flow rate between pipes. He then started on a redesign. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 6th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the large production aquapini and outdoor landscape designs. She also wrote the initial detailed design report and began the next important process: 3D model in Rhino and Lumion. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Updated the Large Production Aquapini and Outdoor Landscape Designs – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana worked with Henry on the Solidworks flow simulations. In her research she found a video of Solidworks flow and heat transfer simulation that closely resembled the Climate battery design. This was very helpful in providing direction on how to conduct the simulation. She also found a video that explained the goals related to the flow rate of the system. Diana documented her analytical solution onto the Climate Battery Details doc where she explained the equation and how it may be used. Diana researched the different types of pipe materials that have been used in working Climate Batteries and found that the ADS pipe is favored for Geothermal Systems. Diana also researched the diameter of the tubing and found that a 4” diameter is standard across all current and functioning climate batteries. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below.

Worked With Henry on the Solidworks Flow Simulations – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 4th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily focused on market research and price analysis of shell and tube heat exchangers. She contacted several local and international suppliers for product pricing ranges and product features. A table was created with the criteria listed. You can see pictures related to this research below.

Focused on Market Research and Price Analysis of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 4th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes finalized research for the distance between the tubes. He also created a MatLab code that allows the user to find the heat transfer rate per unit length. You can see below some pictures related to this work.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global eco-collaborative movement 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine 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 completed 24 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, and volunteer-work review and collaboration.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we made significant updates to the large-scale consensus governance content, re-evaluated the 12 Focus Group categories, and added a bunch of new questions to FAQs. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Made Significant Updates to the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 37th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Henry fixed some layout bugs and started thinking for the mobile UI for it. He applied the new structure and algorithm for the adding task, so the task will be added immediately when you click ‘save’ now. The import format for new fields will be designed next week with the goal to finish up everything related to this task by the end of the month. Some related imagery for this work can be seen below.

Fixed Some Layout Bugs and Started Thinking for the Mobile Ui for It – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 29th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was creating spreadsheets organizing the contact information for all the US television stations and newspapers Ross contacted over the past 24 weeks. You can see below a picture of some of this.

Created Spreadsheets Organizing Contact Information for All the US Television Stations and Newspapers Contacted – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on completing the documentation and the reset password option in the login page (forgot password). There is now a forgot password button and upon clicking it, it will navigate to the password reset page and there a user can enter their email, first name and last name. Upon clicking submit, an email with a new password will be sent to the user and redirect to the login page.

Worked on Completing the Documentation and the Reset Password Option in the Login Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 24th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen was working on the size of the badges and the popup box for the badge. The preview image of the badges was set to 50px, and the enlarged one was set at 200px. The description box she created before was implemented with React overlay, but those had coverage issues she could not fix to any extent that she could be satisfied with. It was just not the optimal user experience, so she switched to Reactstrap popover. Instead of static mockups, Wen worked on two branches (2 versions in different code) so that she could better demonstrate the dynamics. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Size of the Badges and the Popup Box for the Badge – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 15th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi reviewed her code for the timer component and submitted for review her updates to the Timelog, Timer and TimeEntryForm. She also solved all conflicts between the Timer branch and development branch. Yiqi added userProfile into the elements of TimeEntryForm to count totalCommittedHours and reviewed code for the next component she’ll be working on. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 12th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor researched the different healthcare plans for Kaiser Permanente that were most relevant to the vision of One Community. She analyzed the summary of benefits and coverages offered by each plan and extracted the information that provided the most insight and comparison to the other plans. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Researched Different Healthcare Plans for Kaiser Permanente Most Relevant to the Vision of One Community – Click for Insurance Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was mainly working on adding features that were requested by the core team in comments last week. Jun resolved most of the requests, then he started to work on refactoring the whole UserProfile component for less code redundancy and easier future maintenance. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on Adding Features That Were Requested by the Core Team in Comments Last Week – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris finalized the colors for the Leaderboard progress bar and changed it to allow the leaderboard to be scrollable in a mobile device with a floating header that centers on the user logged in. Chris also updated the unit testing for the Leader Board. Pictures related to this work are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software Team – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 8th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #425, #426, #427, #428 and #429. You can see these newly created images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #425, #426, #427, #428 and #429 – Click for Updates Blog

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One Community welcomes Jaime Arango to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

With a strong conceptual ability to create original layouts and recreate existing designs, Jaime has a comprehensive background with over 15 year experience in CAD design, color themes, and trend concepts in the fashion industry, plus 2 years working as a successful freelance graphic designer. He is a versatile, highly motivated, creative problem solver with the ability to work independently or in a team environment. Jaime’s best asset is his ability to create with what’s available and is currently focused on making a positive impact on planet Earth. As a volunteer for One Community, Jaime is using his graphic design skills as a Social Media Image Creator.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JAIME!

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CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

One Community sees a global eco-collaborative movement as the pathway to a sustainable world that will benefit all people and life on this planet. We are supporting this with the open source and free-shared plans necessary to build a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs to help others build even more teacher demonstration hubs so everyone interested in joining the movement will have a way to do so.

• 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 November 1st, 2020 edition (#397) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Eco-collaborative Movement
One Community Progress Update #397

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global eco-collaborative movement 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 continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week we further edited the Footer Foundation and Flooring doc sections covering Center Point Establishment and Excavation, and they are now complete through page 38. The French drain surface gutter was eliminated and the amount of work space on the exterior of the domes was also reduced. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Review and Development of Our Behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village Construction Tutorials – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #202 of Dean’s work and the focus was fixing and removing trees that, now that we have a sky integrated, show boxes around them. You can see some screenshots of this process below.

Focused on Fixing and Removing Trees in 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 30th week as a member of the team and began working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. He started the week by addressing comments related to web editions for previous pages he’s created, updated the Website/Web Page Reviewing Checklist with them, and then started working on the plastic recycling article. He began doing normal review, advanced a little bit, but then realized he was intrigued about the actual content, so he decided to read it through and improve the article. This time he went through the majority of the content and links commenting where there could be room for improvement. In the following weeks he is planing to continue plastic research and implement these improvements. Below are pictures of some of his work.

Began Working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched alternative materials for the Net-Zero Bathroom’s roof. He found 4 options which included a non-toxic wood sealant for a wooden roof, galvanized steel, galvalume, and aluminum sheeting. Wood was omitted due to issues with sustainability and flammability. Galvanized steel was cost effective and durable, but had a tendency to leach zinc. It was a close race between galvalume and aluminum, but galvalume came out on top by costing 50% less with greater durability and having similar anti corrosive properties. After researching and finding vendors that supply galvalume sheeting he updated the cost analysis and material list to include galvalume in the roofing material section. With galvalume selected he began updating the AutoCAD roof plan to coincide with the material list. Trim molding, butyl tape, and fasteners are options for attaching and sealing the sheets. Pictures are below for this work.

Researched Alternative Materials for the Net-zero Bathroom’s Roof – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 13th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she began working on the back side and interior construction of the main wall. The spacing and placement of electrical outlets has led to many questions because those additional changes were made after the first instruction documents were made and laid out. Now we are going through and making sure that all the outlets are in the correct place and visuals are added to represent those placements and measurements. We think that the wall section is almost complete and we will be able to incorporate the electrical work to the instructions soon. Pictures below show this extensive work-in-progress.

Began Working on the Back Side and Interior Construction of the Main Wall – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 11th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by making edits and working on the centerpoint establishment and excavation sections. She redesigned two potential options for the dome: one without a buttress, for domes in colder climates and the other with an above-grade buttress, for domes in warmer climates. Hannah also continued the development of the tools required to place nails within a concrete trough, to replace the use of barbed wire. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Made Edits to the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei completed the SketchUp model. Next step is to settle the planting pallet and modify the Auto CAD plan. Next week, Jingwei will focus on planting pallets. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Completed the SketchUp Model for Earthbag Village Landscaping – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global eco-collaborative movement 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia placed the boilers in the AutoCAD drawings, researched the details of using water supply risers for the building, and worked on learning and applying new skills in Google Spreadsheets. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 5th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng continued working on the City Center walkthrough making modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file. Corrections included fixing a texture issue in the entry scene, the doorway to the Dining Dome, a spacing issue between the Dining Dome floor and ceiling, adding a ceiling to the entryway to the Social Dome, and correcting textures in the Social Dome. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the City Center Walkthrough Modifying SketchUp and Lumion File – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 5th week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week Lindy finished working on the suggestions made by the core team, with the exception of finding out what companies source and manufacture materials in the US. She is still waiting on responses from them before finalizing their score. Lindy did a little bit more research on the non-recyclables tutorial too, but most of the week was spent addressing questions and adding the finishing touches and corrections to the sustainable flooring tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Helping Confirm and Expand the Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

Maria Fernanda Urdaneta (Civil Engineer) completed her 2nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week Maria helped check and complete the initial rainwater catchment piping design. You can see some of this work below.

Helped Check and Complete the Initial Rainwater Catchment Piping Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global eco-collaborative movement 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 began work on the Transition Kitchen final updates and assembly instructions. This week we finished placement of all foundation concrete posts (corner, roof support, inside and outside perimeter posts). We also researched joist spacing placement (24” OC) and designed them in the SketchUp model. We updated the foundation for entry/exit sides too, then we began work on flooring options using OSB /plywood and 2”x6” boards. Pictures of this work are below.

Began Work on the Transition Kitchen Final Updates and Assembly Instructions – Click for Transition Kitchen

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) also joined the team joined the team and completed her first week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week she added the first two weeks of recipes to the outline, using a new daily rotation scheme of rotating through the four staples. For each meal, the two variants (Omnivore and Vegan) have been described. There isn’t an explicit “Omnivore recipe day” or Vegan one, as all recipes have been chosen to be easily prepared in both ways. The daily rotation of staples also means two consecutive meals are, for example, potato based. To keep the meals diverse and interesting, they are split over two days, i.e. first a dinner, second a lunch, so there is a night and a breakfast in the middle. In this way, a person will have almost forgotten their first potato meal when they see the second. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 5th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the new version for the large production aquapini in photoshop. She balanced the production and sitting areas for participants. She also searched for some precedents for outdoor landscape design to come up with some new ideas and thoughts and finished the final rendering for outdoor landscape design in photoshop. Jiayu will begin the new journey in the next few weeks for making models, then she will establish the Lumion version. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Updated the New Version for the Large Production Aquapini in Photoshop – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 4th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana solved for a new temperature for deltaR to test a possible solution. However, the roots to the polynomial were all imaginary, and real roots are needed for this case. Diana continued to adjust the code for the analytical solution and decided to change Ti which is the temperature of the soil as you go deeper into the earth. She found that the data analytical solution would match the data when the Ti was equal to the max temperature at that depth, which is incorrect. Then, she plotted Temperature vs depth to check if the temperature reaches Ti as x reaches infinity but it reached a value greater than Ti. Diana was able to find the source of the problem and fixed her analytical solution. The analytical solution now accurately determines the temperature of a soil at different depths provided we have air temperature, wind velocity, and soil properties.Lastly, Diana analyzed the system on a berm and provided instructions on how to find the depth with the incline. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below.

Solved for a New Temperature for DeltaR to Test a Possible Solution – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 3rd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily kept working on researching the recommended length of tubes but finds out there is not an optimal value. It depends on other parameters to test out based on the analytical simulation for the most efficient value. Lily shifted her focus on the second factor which is the cost of tube through market research to test out the relationship between the cost of tube and the length of tube. You can see pictures related to this research below.

Continue the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 3rd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes focused on trying to create an analytical understanding on what distances would work best for the piping. So far he found out how to find the heat transfer rate between the pipes using distance between pipes, diameter of pipes, thermal conductivity of soil, and surface temperature of pipes. You can see below some pictures related to this work.

Focused on Trying to Create an Analytical Understanding on What Distances Would Work Best for the Piping – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global eco-collaborative movement 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. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding a global eco-collaborative movement 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 completed 26 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, and volunteer-work review and collaboration.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we completed the first draft of the Large-Scale Consensus content. This process included 1) translating a master summary table that details the structure of the large-scale consensus to paragraph form; 2) Updating the large-scale consensus mindmap to reflect the master summary table; 3) Updating the calculator to incorporate final criteria for group sizes and number of groups; 4) Adding a section that explains the transition points using the calculator to determine the number of groups based on the population size; 5) Adding text to explain the pathway of an idea from generation to implementation. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Completed the First Draft of the Large-scale Consensus Content – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 28th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was completing the process of promoting our project and the One Community helping page to all the US television stations. You can see below the list of the final ones he contacted this week and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Finished Promoting Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Us Television Stations – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 21st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the Azure migration, the issue with the login is still there even trying with the API hosted in Heroku. Below are the screenshots of the environment and the CI/CD pipeline and the problem solving process continues.

Continued Working on the Azure Migration – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 23rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen got some demonstrable progress. She solved a few merge conflicts and merged the updates from Github. The badge components also got mounted to the most updated Dashboard page. Screenshots of mobile view were created at 100px, 120px, and 150px. Wen used the Chrome dev tool to emulate an iPhone and iPad view and Wen created a modal popup, so when a user clicks the “Full View” button, they will see on whatever platform they are using a full list of the badges earned. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Made Progress Solving Merge Conflicts and Merged the Updates From Github – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 11th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on the specifics for UnitedHealthcare. She researched each plan’s benefits and associated costs and deduced them to 7 plans worth looking more into. You can see some of this work below.

Researched UnitedHealthcare to Continue with One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was working on the unit tests of the new user profile page component. Because of the refactor and redesign of the whole component, unit tests need to be implemented again. Jun also fixed some bugs he noticed while he was doing unit tests and began adding more features to the user profile component as per core team feedback. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Unit Tests of the New User Profile Page Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 7th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #420, #421, #422, #423 and #424. You can see these newly created images below.

Created Images For Weekly Progress Updates #420, #421, #422, #423 And #424 – Click for Updates Blog

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped fix a PHP update issue and further understand and improve our latest traffic metrics, some of which you can see below.

Helped Fix a PHP Update Issue and Improved our Latest Traffic Metrics – Click for Home Page

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