Creating a Global Sustainability Movement – One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Successfully creating a global sustainability movement is about making it viral. This is possible if we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. One Community is doing this through open source and free-shared DIY-replicable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We’ll use these to forward a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs that will show people how much better life can be through a model like this.

Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

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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 7th, 2021 edition (#450) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week the core team responded to comments and added text to clarify information in the Walipini and Aquipini design document, made a new tab for the Compression Testing Team that boiled down the aircrete recipes to test different foam content, and began reviewing the book “Earthbag Building – The Tools, Tricks and Techniques” to better choose different stabilized earth mixes for the compression testing. Pictures below are related to all of this.

Managing Compression Testing Team, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

The core team also continued working on checking the Murphy bed assembly instructions document. This is the 8th time we’ve constructed the entire Murpy bed in SketchUp 3D. This week we built the wall framing, bed framing, swivels installation, legs to support the bed, benches and table with hardware, and side shelf units. We also identified and fixed problems with dimensions of some of the lumber pieces.

Murphy bed assembly instructions, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Another core team member reviewed and made suggestions to the Murphy bed assembly instructions. The subject matter included the tools used, distinguishing between the sizes and type of lumber and plywood, hardware sizes and lengths of nails and screws, procurement lists, pre-made components, and wall sections through page 31. See pictures below for examples of some of the suggestions made.

Murphy bed assembly instructions, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 68th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued to render and analyze the optimal pump position for the water storage system of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He first positioned and rendered the pump under the bottom center barrel. Along with the connection running from the barrel to the pump. He then added a three way exit or a cross to the outlet of the pump. This was deemed to add more costs and make the construction more complex. He then rendered a connection from the outlet of the pump to the midpoint of the connections between the outer barrels. This simplified the assembly and also reduced costs while still evenly distributing the flow. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week David reviewed Daniela’s work regarding rural road design. He also added his own input that he believes would be helpful to know regarding rural roads. David also commented on some questions Jae had for Daniela and left a few comments for Daniela with what he thinks would improve the section. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 19th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela continued working on the narrative related to the Water Harvesting of Low Standard Rural Roads notes she had previously taken. She wrote paragraphs concerning information that would be helpful when designing the rural roadways for the site, input images from the text to ensure that the reader understood the text better and were able to clearly see the visuals, and spent time editing the text and adjusting the paragraphs to make sure the narrative flowed well. Daniela also recorded more videos from the BioVeda Course that were unable to be downloaded. She additionally responded to some comments on the Aquapini and Walipini report concerning new edits. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 16th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week, Shreyas worked on writing the overall conclusion for the techno-economical analysis results. He has also provided more information regarding why the document is important and what the document is trying to explain, researching the downsides of certain battery manufacturing processes, and which chemistry of batteries would be ideal for the energy storage application. Pictures below are related to this work.

solar microgrid design specifics, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 15th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made a batch of aircrete to see how far they could push the foam content before the mixture collapsed. They looked for potential soil suppliers and organized those findings by unit price and delivery price. The Team stayed organized using the assignments document. They had several meetings to keep everyone on track. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aircrete and earthbag compression testing, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 27th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued his progress with the blower selection and also extended his research with jet fittings. The blower selection is nearly complete, but with Cade Hermeston now a part of the team, he will be helping out with the modeling of our system. Once this model is complete, the fluid dynamic calculations of the system can begin and all selected parts can be confirmed. Luis also had a meeting this week to introduce Cade to the team and explain the details of the project along with the current progress and future tasks at hand. They had a great discussion on their passion for sustainability and look forward to working together. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Eco-spa designs, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 25th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan completed reviewing and commenting on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Battery Storage research. He also spent time providing feedback and suggestions to help guide the development of the Duplicable City Center Energy Modeling content. Additionally, Aidan continued to read through, revise, and update the Health Insurance Research.

Duplicable City Center Energy Modeling, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 16th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus worked more on section A_A. She added two windows and furniture, edited mistakes based on feedback, and is now waiting on updated column details. See pictures below.

Duplicable City Center designs, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 15th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos finished adding the final details for the Pallet Bed. After showing the draft render with the proper animations, he produced the final videos with the usual engine. What’s next is to join said segments with the ones generated weeks ago in a professional video editing software. He also did research on the folding door hardware, so now he needs to model the product he found on Amazon and add it in the final segment of the Pallet Wardrobe. Pictures below are related to this work.

pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Xuanji was working on the structure of the cupola, Social Dome and Living Dome. The challenge was to make the columns in the Living Dome align with columns supporting the Cupola. To achieve this, Xuanji moved some furniture and interior walls in the bedroom. She also provided feedback to each of the members of her team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center architectural review, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the application of the new moment frame columns system. After the meeting, she helped develop new floor plans for the living dome using the moment frame columns system. Also, Huiya finished another option of the 2nd-floor plan for the Living Dome which coordinates with the original column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center architectural review, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, George reviewed work from previous weeks. He incorporated the insights provided to date and took a look into the moment area under full load. He redesigned the bracket for full width of the beam to balance the moments and rearranged the bolt patterns. George performed simulations using the wide bracket, and noted that the displacement was less as compared to previous designs and the stress with the brackets at maximum displacement was within acceptable limits. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center connectors, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi received feedback on preliminary structural edits creating new column grids. After understanding which columns are better not to be moved due to their impact on the structure and aesthetics, she revised her proposals so they would better merge and fit into the architectural plan and walls. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center architectural review, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 57th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the next round of adjusting the walkthrough video, modified the details based on last week’s comments and feedback, and started to fill the inside models of the structures in SketchUp, so they match the design plan. Pictures below are related to this.

Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank calculated the condensation infiltration energy losses for the 3 designs: Tropical Atrium, Walipini, and Aquapini. He worked on fixing the problems with the equation and the results. Frank also used another tool-assisted calculator online to compare against. The pictures below relate to this.

Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 8th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on developing recipes that were Thai inspired. He developed a Seared Salmon entree, a coconut Thai soup, seared chicken stir fry and a roasted pumpkin red curry. Below are some images related to this.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week the core team completed 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 13th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex continued working on new poster creation and writing new quotes, now focused mostly on using images from the One Community Global dropbox sources and matching quotes with images and their blog numbers with related slogans. Alex also started playing with color and saturation on images to create a more united look. She completed 43 approved images this week. Some of our favorites are below.

images for our open source social media strategy, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah looked into PRs and attempted to address the issues brought up in one. Currently, she does not know enough about jest nd axios in order to support Pranav’s review but she is learning more and will examine it in more depth next week if still unaddressed. Additionally, she has continued to work through badge logic. Hannah believes she has identified the section of the streak badge that is still causing the bugs but is uncertain exactly what about it is stopping badges from dropping off. She will continue to look into this next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav started with debugging failing tests for the PR, and with some reading and help, successfully solved the failing tests. Pranav then continued development of location-based timezone functionality, integrating an external API to achieve this. He also helped out the new recruit, Navya, to get set up and reviewed her PRs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with web design. This week Becky started on her first webpage, adding (behind the scenes) the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, getting more familiar with the basic functions like creating anchor links and justifying, etc. Pictures below are related to this work.

web design, Creating a Global Sustainability Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

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