Architects of Sustainability’s Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #363

We are the architects of sustainability’s future. Whether we are active or passive in the process, we are still creating it – together. One Community chooses to be active in the process and we’re creating open source and free-shared plans, tools, and tutorials for others who want to be active too. These resources cover sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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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 March 8th, 2020 edition (#363) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Architects of Sustainability’s Future
One Community Progress Update #363

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future 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 with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we created the SketchUp parts for storage, built the side shelving, built the back step shelving, built the loft steps shelving, built the shelf drawers, and made suggestions about corrections to the drawer misalignments. You can see some of this work in progress below.

Continued Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter), also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 17 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Earthbag Village walkthrough by removing elements requested through feedback and adding in plants. You can see some of the initial screenshots of this work here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 79th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he focused on suggested updates to the parts lists and drawing the related pictures. We’d say these assembly instructions are now about 94% complete.

Focused on Updates to the Murphy Bed Parts Lists and Drawing the Related Pictures – Click for Page

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #180 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the sectional door entry from the spa area, fixing window details for the bedroom domes, and starting to add the ground that will surround the structure. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future 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 worked with the updated topo maps and shadow studies to identify the best location for our 500,000 square foot solar farm. The top-left image below shows 20,000 sq. ft squares of solar panels and the shadows at both 8:30 AM and 5 PM on 12-21. No shadows are on the solar farm placement area at these times, which is the morning and evening on the shortest day of the year.

Worked With the Updated Topo Maps and Shadow Studies to Identify the Best Location for Our Solar Farm – Click for City Center

And Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research for all the City Center lighting. What you see below is all the bulbs researched and some added to the new format. With this, we’d say we are now about 89% complete with the lighting selection details.

Continued Research for All the City Center Lighting – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future 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 developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was completing the Food Infrastructure component within Step 2 (Assess Site through observation and research) of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 15th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he obtained water rights maps, info, and reports for our property, identified water flow to the ponds based on the topography, remodeled property topo to include existing structures and water rights, updated existing pond locations, and relocated the aquapini and walipini structures based on these new details and sun studies for the property. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 92% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 14th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the remaining months’ 2D transient simulations for evaluation of the boundary conditions in aquapinis and walipinis in West Jordan Utah. Results for June, August, September, November, and December were obtained using the underground insulation and the extended soil geometry. Results are put side-by-side for better comparison.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future 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. 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

This week the core team finished updating the Ultimate Classroom open source hub. We created imagery and added links to the open source files, added outlines of the videos we’ll be adding later, did a final editing review, and added a new FAQ section. This page is now 100% complete.

Finished Updating the Ultimate Classroom Open Source Hub – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 67th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room focuses on the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 2nd round of object and people additions and we’d say the room is about 30% complete.

Continued Work on the Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team finished a final review and editing update of all the existing business plan pages. You can see some of this work here and the business plan is now complete other than updates to the financial details.

Finished a Final Review and Editing Update of All the Existing Business Plan Pages – Click to Visit

This week the core team working with Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also chose and tested the color schemes for the mobile version of the Highest Good Network software.

Chose and Tested the Color Schemes for the Mobile Version of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) reviewed all our ad campaign data and found a couple that hadn’t been launched yet, launched those, ran reports showing a 20% increase in our monthly page views, and completed more keyword research that he used to add to the donation campaign related to the new donations campaign page.

Reviewed All Our Ad Campaign Data – Click for Donations Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented different edit/delete/add permission settings for administrators/volunteers on same-day/other-day tangible/intangible entries. He also implemented edit and delete entry functions, during which he created Redux actions for them and refactored the code. All the Redux actions for time entries are finished. He also fixed the issues with Header name display and Timelog page update. You can see some of this work below.

Implemented Different Edit/delete/add Permission Settings for Administrators/volunteers – Click for Highest Good Network Page

And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon was able to set up a unit test for the Login component. The primary challenge was determining how to disconnect the component from the Redux store. As mentioned in last week’s summary, our testing will be focused on the individual component and not how it is connected to the app. Screenshots of notes related to all of this are below.

Set Up a Unit Test for the Login Component – Click for Highest Good Network Page

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