Improving Life on Our Planet – One Community Weekly Progress Update #358

One Community is open sourcing and free sharing everything necessary for improving life on our planet through sustainable living. We are covering food, energy, housing, education, RBE, for-profit, and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, we call the lifestyle these will provide living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”

• 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 February 2nd, 2020 edition (#358) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Improving Life on Our Planet
One Community Progress Update #358

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet 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’s focus was a detailed review and identifying errors and suggesting fixes for the base and wall components. You can see some of this work in progress below.

Continued Reviewing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

The core team also finished the open source “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” section on the Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance page. You can see the final content here.

Finished the Open Source “Wind Energy Infrastructure Cost Analysis” Section – Click for Wind Energy Setup and Maintenance Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) also completed his 15th week with the team. This week he investigated whether a trompe and ram pump could work together as one system. The research indicated it wouldn’t be worth it due to low efficiency and lots of water being wasted by the ram pump. Other sections of the project that were completed this week were sorting the references in numerical order, ram pump uses, pros vs cons of a ram pump, and the FAQs and summary of the entire project. You can see some of this work here and we’d say this brings the trompe and ram pump research to about 99% complete, all that remains is answering a few questions generated during the core team’s review and then we’ll have what we need to add it all to the online open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial.

Continued With the Trompe and Ram Pump Implementation Research – Click for Hydro Energy Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) also continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #178 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the rest of the work lowering the window for the seating area, a process that required trying a couple different approaches to be successful.

Focused on Finishing the Rest of the Work Lowering the Window for the Seating Area – Click for Earthbag Village

And Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 78th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he focused on creating a document and file organization and naming structure for the creation and addition of all high-quality renders we’ll need to finish the instructions. We’d say this brings these assembly instructions to about 94% complete.

Continued Developing the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet 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 Ron Huang (Mechanical Engineer) continued with his 38th week developing and refining the Energy Modeling tutorial needed to achieve our LEED Platinum certification. This week Ron worked on balancing the heating and cooling loads to meet additional occupancy for the proposed model. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we’re now about 93% complete with the City Center energy analysis component.

Continued Developing and Refining the Energy Modeling Tutorial Needed to Achieve Our LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

Gevork Asatryan (Electrical MEP Engineer) also completed his second week helping with the Basis of Design (BOD) we’ll be using to create the final Duplicable City Center electrical designs. This week Gevork completed the initial draft of this. To develop it further, we’ll need to finish the HVAC and plumbing designs.

Continued Helping With the Basis of Design (BOD) We’ll Be Using to Create the Final Duplicable City Center Electrical Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet 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 working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. We summarized and organized the Shelter and Which Chickens section and reviewed and rejected Leghorn chickens as a breed. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Working on Our Behind-the-scenes Chicken Google Doc – Click for Chickens Page

And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was further development of Step 2 of the Permaculture Case Study section, “Assess Site Through Observation And Research.” This week’s focus was further developing the food and energy sections, adding water details, and adding in a chart for evaluating how we are applying the ethics and principles of permaculture to each component. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) also continued with his 11th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he researched water pumps, worked out the initial water supply network and connected the supply/backup pond to the central pond with a 4” PVC pipe, added steps to the seating area around the central pond, calculated the needed gallons of water based on the suggested consumption per day, and completed the initial pond storage capacity calculations. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 86% complete.

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

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 9th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on a 2D transient simulation of the aquapinis and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations. The variations of the boundary conditions have been obtained. An initial steady state simulation was then performed to set as an initial condition and obtain faster and more accurate results. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet 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 Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued with week 12 as a member of the team. This week Ziqian continued development of the Ultimate Classroom by revising the walkthrough video with added objects in the classrooms, changes to some of the people, and replacing some of the external objects and adding some new ones. You can see some of this work here.

Continued Development of the Ultimate Classroom by Revising the Walkthrough Video – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is improving life on our planet 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 Deema Ali (Graphic/Video Designer) completed her 1oth week as a member of the team. This week she further developed the overview video for the One Community Homepage. This week’s focus was adjusting the multi-image composite sequences and layout scenes based on core team feedback. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here and we’d say we are now about 94% complete with this video.

Further Developed the Overview Video for the One Community Homepage – Click for Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao Tengxiao rewrote the UpdatePassword and ForcePasswordUpdate components to fix bugs and make them work with Redux. He also decided the implementation solution of the Timer component and finished the initial design for this basic timer component (still cannot log time).

Rewrote the Updatepassword and Forcepasswordupdate Components to Fix Bugs and Make Them Work With Redux – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 4th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs which prevented administrators to add a new project into the database in HGNRest (Restfull API). He also developed the function to add a new project, and add rules which are not empty and must be unique. The recently added project now appears immediately after the user clicks the “+” button, so the user doesn’t need to refresh the page to see it. He also modified the Model component to display “Message” and “Confirm Popup” for other developers to use. You can see screenshots related to this work below.

Fixed Bugs Which Prevented Administrators to Add a New Project Into the Database in HGNRest (Restfull API) – Click for Highest Good Network Page

And last but not least, Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 3rd week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on WBS 1.4.1 to 1.4.10. Now a volunteer can see his/her complete user profile and edit fields like first name, last name, phone number, job title, etc. A user can also add personal links and change his profile picture. Siddharth also worked on setting up the react native project for iOS and android. You can see some of this work here.

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

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