One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure through open source blueprints, plans, and tutorials covering food, energy, and housing. We are also open sourcing sustainable and what we call “Highest Good” approaches to 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

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 December 12th, 2021 edition (#455) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding the Evolution of Sustainable Infrastructure
One Community Progress Update #455

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 the evolution of sustainable infrastructure 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 completed a detailed review and provided feedback on the upcoming Eco-community Electric Vehicle Integration tutorial. Pictures below show some of this.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #232 of Dean’s work and the focus was more lighting testing and adjustments and the focus was testing new cover strategies to make the bottle lights look real. The process is ongoing.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 73rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began creating a rain barrel priming section for the Net-Zero Bathroom instructions/tutorial. The purpose of priming the rain barrels is to ensure a watertight seal, optimal flow, and longevity of the system. He first began by researching the best practices used for creating rain collecting barrels. Materials and tools needed were listed and searched online, the results were added to the cost analysis spreadsheet. Then he began rendering the parts and their assembly on SolidWorks to provide a clearer description of the process. The remaining renderings will be completed and organized in descriptive step-by-step instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 56th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, she read through all of the comments made by the other team members within the drafted instructions PDF. Many of the comments pertain to increasing legibility by changing font sizes and typeface weights. There are many areas still to apply all of these recent changes. The instructions are evolving to be more suitable on a digital platform and the flow of information needs to be correct. The electrical section still needs a lot of work and maybe some supplemental links to videos using the QR codes. As Stacey updates a page, she is re-saving the PDF so that everyone can check the updates. After most of the issues are addressed, she will re-save a new PDF so that some of the pages that are out of order can be reassembled. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 24th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. Daniela began the week by reviewing new comments and reading through emails Jae and David had recently sent concerning the drainage plan of the Earthbag Village. Both David and Jae had left some suggestions on the design so she started implementing them on the CAD. As the drainage plan for the inner sector was undecided, Daniela decided to create two designs. She printed the current layout and hand drew two ways of formatting the drainage for the North and South areas of the atrium. She then incorporated one of the designs onto AutoCAD and sent the PDF to David and Jae. Later Daniela downloaded the newest CAD version of the Aquapinis and Walipinis and altered the text so that it would be easier to see in the screenshots/PDFs that were taken for the report. She then continued writing the paragraph concerning the plumbing section. Lastly, Daniela took images from a video Jae provided and she included them into the report for the Aquapinis and Walipinis. Pictures below are related to this work.

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 18th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week, the Compression Testing Team brainstormed with Dr. Bai and tested 3 different aircrete mixes. These included a standard, 20% more cement, and one with less water. For all 3 mixes, the team used 2 more ounces of drexel soap per 5 gallons of water, so 6 ounces instead of 4 ounces. The results were that the standard and 20% more cement mixes worked perfectly and were a success. The one with less water failed and shrunk. Using 2 ounces more soap created a better foam texture compared to the 4 ounce foam mixture. This soap mixture was high quality with a shaving cream consistency with a consistent density of 95 g/l.The Team also began working on recreating the aircrete testing slides that provide more detail on previous aircrete mixes. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 6th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week Becky wrapped up going over copying over all the texts and headings over. Then she checked and fixed all the anchor links that didn’t work, rechecked the formatting, and started building the captions and setting up the photos. Pictures below are related to this work.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) completed her 3rd week working on the open source Dome-Home Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance staging page. This week Karla did a couple more edits including making sure all links were accessible as well as backing up all the resources. She started a new page that will hold all tools, equipment and machines related to the complete construction of One Community. Karla was able to remove images from the dome-home to the tools grid and anchor them to then create a link from dome-home to the new tools page. See below for pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure 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 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 30th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, Luis focused on the wiring of the electronic components for the City Center Spa design. His goal is to have a centralized control panel that can adjust each of the components for optimized performance on any given day. The control panel will take inputs from the user and the environment to adjust the system to ideal needs. Luis plans to use software and electrical relays to create this modularity within the system. He is currently looking through the market for options that suit the needs of the team’s design. Simultaneously, he gathered wiring information from the manual of each component to understand what will fit the design requirements. Pictures below are related to this work.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping, now with content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on the tutorial for the SAM program. He explored different performance models that the program provides as well as the different financial models that can be used. The system design and the inverters variables and function were explained and summarized in the document. The pictures below relate to this.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus had a zoom meeting with her supervisor and changed the roof according to the new updates of the roof plan. She added the new roofs to the previous Revit file and then started changing the section B_B. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week the focus was working on making the columns consistent on each floor, and moving the elevator for enough clearance space next to the newly moved columns, expanding the south stair with movement of the elevator shaft, and adding the columns to support the storage room next to the north stair. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, after Xuanji fixed the alignment problem in the CAD drawings, Huiya started to work on modifying the columns, walls, and doors of the first-floor Living Dome according to the latest CAD drawings. While importing the second-floor cad drawings into the SU model, Huiya marked out walls that are not aligned on the second-floor CAD drawings and let Xuanji know. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team to discuss changes that occurred within CAD. She then continued to work on the SketchUp model, fixing extruding appliances due to shell curvature collision and shaping the interior wall to fit within the shell. Since columns and a few other items were readjusted in CAD last and this week, those were fixed accordingly in SketchUp too. Items such as ductwork for kitchen and columns could be colliding and required discussion. Railings on the second floor Dining Dome were also modeled for consistency with that of the first floor’s, along with custom length at corners and ends. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George refamiliarized himself with the hub connector work he is doing for the City Center dome. He looked into the enquiry about the bolts being too close in the bracket and the possibility of reducing the plate thickness. He redesigned the V bracket with a 0.2 inch steel sheet. He ran a static analysis of the bracket to identify any signs of failure. The maximum stress on the bracket exceeded the maximum material yield strength. He took a look into DIY options to bend such heavy gauge metals. The pictures below relate to this work.

Min Jung Koo (Industrial Designer) completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, Min Jung worked on the first and second floor dormers. The second floor dormer has the basic structures ready, but she still needs to maybe add some pieces to support the structure a little more. She also received the first floor structure file from Tatyana and worked on tracing the structure and importing it into the Rhino file. Then she started making the garble dormer for the first floor as well. The pictures below relate to all of this.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 5th week helping with web design.  This week Yuran added a few more revisions to the almost-finished “Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial” and the “Community Health Insurance” page. She also reviewed the Dome-Home Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance page and created the Solar Incentive Rates in West Coast States page. Then she started working on creating the page Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies page.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure 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 the comprehensive review and final edits and additions to our Sheep research. This week we wrote a much more detailed intro for the guardian animals section and addressed and resolved the remaining comments on the sheep doc. More time was spent on miscellaneous sections of the doc dealing with sentence structure and making sense of tidbits of info that was originally researched and placed on the doc but not in any order. That was concluded and all that remains now is a final read through and review of the entire doc, then it will be ready for publishing. See below for the pictures related to this work.   

The core team also continued with the rewrite of the walipini, aquapini, and zenapini design document. We reviewed comments and spreadsheets associated with this and started reconciling water needs per planted area of a greenhouse. We also responded to comments on the permaculture work, checked in regarding the review of work for the HVAC systems, and edited the aircrete slides and sent assignments to the Compression Team.

The core team additionally worked on updating the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We updated old images that still showed the old roof design. We also generated images and provided descriptions for items and steps for installation of upper wall studs on the east and west sides, installation of frames for electrical fans, and finished the section of instructions about placement of sidings with cut out openings for the electrical fans on the east and west walls. Pictures below are related to this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 62nd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on fixing the material conflicts, improving people movement effects, and adjusting planting materials in Lumion video rendering. She reedited people’s movement effects into moving slowly along a circle as suggested and updated the rendering video for next round comments. Also, she was able to address a few comments for the CAD plan. Pictures below are related to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 12th 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 new recipes for the transition kitchen. He also worked on developing ideas that would utilize products from the previous meal and day and began working closely with Anna Cheal, the new Culinary Nutritionist on developing new recipes and helping her understand the needs of the culinary project. Below are some images related to this.

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna finished the orientation/onboarding process and began creating a two-month menu. So far she has developed four recipes: Bok Choy Stir Fry, Sweet Potato Buddha Bowl, Salmon and Chickpea Salad, and Brown Rice Cakes. Two were reviewed and she incorporated feedback into her revisions. Anna met with Brain for a task clarification meeting, which helped her better understand the processes and needs of HG food. She then began thinking about breakfast specialty items and ways to incorporate leftovers. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure 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 the evolution of sustainable infrastructure 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 25 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 29th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Health Insurance research and page. This week the Health Insurance research page went live and Aidan continued working on updates and revisions to this content. He reviewed and made minor edits to the live page, continued to double-check, revise, and add links for the details for the health insurance plan that has been analyzed, and finalized compiling estimates for monthly premiums for the top 9 plans. He also worked on writing the concluding pieces of the narrative. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 17th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week she worked on corrections for several posters from the previous weeks. Alex also worked in Illustrator and Procreate on icon images, creating several versions for multiple icons. Some of her latest meme creations are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah continued to work on the streak badge bug. She will reach out to Chris this week to discuss logic. The logic is rather complex and it mainly seems to be an issue of when to award, increment, or replace and what the helper functions are actually doing to the database when called. Hannah will continue to work on cleaning up the badge details bugs and making final contributions during her final week next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya worked on this issue: New Max Personal Record Badge Needs to be Updated. She fixed and committed the code and raised the PR. Navya also looked into the Api issue by googling the challenges and tried to find the solution for the HGN development environment loading the timer so slowly. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kitan García (Software Engineer) completed his 3Rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. ​​Kitan spent the week trying to fix the same bug from last week, but was having a lot of trouble with the getTeammates() function. The behavior has not been making sense to him, though he understands the logic. Kitan’s having trouble with MongoDB and the schemas we currently have in place, and has reached out for help. Attached are pictures of his work and what has been giving him trouble. The main issue is being able to retrieve the correct team given the team id. Pictures below are related to this work.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us create and update our Adwords campaigns for promoting the Best Small and Large-scale Community Glass Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options page. See pics below related to this.

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

We are capable of ecologically addressing food. One Community is supporting this through open source “Highest Good food” components covering permaculture, soil amendment, food forests, biodiversity-supporting botanical garden creation, hoop houses, 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

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 December 5th, 2021 edition (#454) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecologically Addressing Food
One Community Progress Update #454

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 ecologically addressing food 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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing food 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 Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping, now with content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on getting more familiar with the different functions of the System Advisor Model 2020 by checking the different formats and functions of the program. He also worked on the tutorial for the SAM program to make it more visual and easy to follow for new users. The pictures below relate to this.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing food 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 the comprehensive review and final edits and additions to our Sheep research. This week we reviewed five different videos regarding calming sheep, slaughtering sheep, removal of their hides, internal organs, and intestines. Step-by-step time frames were provided for some while others may not require such. The calming videos are very interesting and the gentleman demonstrating does a very good job of talking his way through the calming and slaughtering process. Another small-farm family operation demonstrated the specifics of prepping for butchering. Using all this, we also wrote an intro for the Ethical Harvesting Section. See below for the pictures related to this work.   

The core team also restructured and rewrote the walipini, aquapini, and zenapini design document. The current text about water needs and descriptions of the inside of the greenhouses was completely redone. The document now flows better and is more informative to an unfamiliar eye. The sun study work was rewritten to be more informative as well.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 61st week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng updated the Lumion video rendering, including adjusting the path to avoid conflicts with the drainage and the central terrace to add NW, NE, SW, SE as shown on the CAD plan. She also split the video clips into two so people will not “fly” around when they extend the 99 seconds moving effect. Pictures below are related to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 11th 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 the menu design, which involved using leftovers for up to 5 days in different ways. Brian added a new category to the excel spreadsheet which includes kitchen work to ensure that the prep for each meal can be accomplished within the parameters of the project due to time and labor constraints. Below are some images related to this.

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the open source Permaculture Design staging page. This week Jennifer continued work on the Permaculture webpage. She edited links and added new images and text. She also checked on the content added last week to ensure that they were all properly formatted and included the correct requirements. Jennifer also helped edit content on another webpage and checked that it was formatted correctly, fixed some issues, and that it included all the necessary details. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing food 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 ecologically addressing food 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 30 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 28th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to focus his efforts on the Health Insurance research. He has been double-checking, revising, and adding links for the details of each health insurance plan that has been analyzed. In order to work towards determining the most cost-effective options, Aidan began getting quotes for monthly premium costs for the plans that have been selected to be frontrunners. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Navya worked on Issue: New Max Personal Record Badge Needs to be Updated. She focused on adjusting the sizing of the Badge Number by modifying CSS like position and font. Navya also adjusted the badge sizing in the user profile page where badges are displayed, replaced the Max Personal Record badge with a newly designed badge, and checked all the adjustments, sizing, and position. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 4th week helping with web design, this week focused mainly on the health insurance content on the staging web page. She continued creating the page content and checking the format of the page. Yuran also revised the existing problems in the page with the feedback, revised the table of content and other parts of the page, and added some pictures to the comparison section of the page. Pictures below are related to this work.

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Open source building sustainable eco-villages is a path to making comprehensive sustainability accessible for anyone that wants it. One Community is creating the free-shared and DIY-replicable components needed for this. They include 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

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 28th, 2021 edition (#453) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #453

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 building sustainable eco-villages 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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages 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 3D SketchUp for the City Center to provide detailed images with all dimensions and angles for the framing of the City Center dormer windows. This week we provided detailed images with all rotational angles in three different planes for the beam framing of the City Center dome structure so they can be used for the dormer designs. Detailed step-by-step instructions were provided for central, lower-right and upper-right beams. We also exported a 3D SketchUp model of the second floor beams as a TSL file.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 29th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the finalization of the jet assembly and fittings. In order to find the best match for the City Center Spa Design, he researched the different kinds of jet fittings that were available and what benefits they each offered. Hydrotherapy jets are very beneficial but require significant plumbing, therefore the team decided to stick with a lower number of jet outlets with stronger streams. The rotary fittings that were selected allow a blower to be incorporated into the system, and provide an adjustable nozzle to target an ideal spot for a user. This prioritizes the systems efficiency and the users experience to provide benefits for all. Next week, Luis will begin looking into control systems for the design and potentially develop code that will suit the functional needs of the system. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages 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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages 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 sustainable eco-villages 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 18 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 27th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan worked on the Health Insurance research. He continued to work on the conclusion of the narrative, which will outline the costs of health insurance, the importance of health insurance, medical emergency scenarios, and the cost savings analysis of opting for low-premium Bronze plans. Aidan has been double-checking and revising the details of the various plans that have been analyzed. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 16th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week focused on correcting 31 posters from week 15, using feedback and examples for corrections. She also started working on icons and looking for images for inspiration and layouts. Making different variations and eliminating the unsuccessful versions, working on colors, typography and layouts for those icons that were provided by email. Some of her latest meme creations are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah pushed her changes for form validation and switched her approach to debugging. After a couple weeks of trying to understand the fundamental logic of the streak badge and consulting someone with more experience, she still could not find a solution. So this week, Hannah began re-writing the code. It is currently functional outside of the context of the userHelper (written in an isolated failed with mock data to begin with) but is not fully integrated into the main codebase. She will integrate and test it in the main code base this weekend and next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya looked into updating the New Max Personal Record Badge. She checked all the code for image url, how it is displaying, checking the CSS and communicating with Jae to determine the correct functional requirements. Jae helped Navya to understand exactly what was needed and she finished the first round of solving the issue. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 3rd week helping with web design, this week focused mainly on the health insurance content on the staging web page. She revised the missing parts of the table of contents, finished the content and formatting of the page, added the reference section, and modified the tables and added them to the web page. Yuran also fixed some problems for the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kitan García (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. ​​This week, Kitan reviewed a PR from Navya and spent more time working on fixing the badges bug assigned to him. He was able to trace its source, but unable to actually fix the bug, due to some gaps in understanding with MongoDB and still needing to gain familiarity with schemas and how they fit into this project. Kitan also communicated on Slack for the best way to handle fixing the bug and found why it occurs. Pictures below are related to this work.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us create and update our Adwords campaigns for promoting the Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options and Most Sustainable Flooring Materials pages. See pics below related to this.

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Yuxi Lu to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yuxi is a graduate of the MARCH and M.S. CEE Construction Management program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With an interest in architecture-related disciplines, she also took a few urban planning classes and pursued a minor in landscape architecture. Her passion in architecture encouraged her to participate in student organizations to share and collaborate with others. The most recent event Yuxi was involved in was Illinois Solar Decathlon Build Competition that challenged students to build sustainable and innovative housing. During the process, she learned and developed more skills on Building Information Modeling, architectural documentation, and communication. As a member of the One Community team, Yuxi is helping the architecture team to update CAD architectural drawings, SketchUp model, and sections and elevations for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YUXI!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

One Community welcomes Huiya Yang to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Huiya graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a dual degree in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning. With one year of work experience and 8 years of academic experience, she is highly skilled in the preparation of detailed project designs, and the production of construction documents. Thinking of herself as an architect and urban planner, Huiya believes that she has an obligation to contribute her knowledge and passion to the sustainable development of society and the environment. As a member of the One Community team, Huiya is helping with design updates for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HUIYA!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

One Community welcomes Venus Abdollahi to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Venus is an architectural designer with several years of experience in different aspects of architecture including energy efficient-design, energy-conscious design, and BIM design. She enjoys remaining involved in all phases of the process in order to deliver a successful project that stays true to the original concept. Venus contributes both creative and technical deliverables to create architecturally transformative stories and experiences that are inclusive, impactful and compelling to align with the design intent. As a member of the One Community team, Venus is helping with the Duplicable City Center roof, dormer, and floor plan designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM VENUS!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Let’s create a new paradigm for sustainability that includes consideration of what is for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet. One Community is open sourcing everything needed to build teacher/demonstration hubs for this purpose.

• 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 21st, 2021 edition (#452) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A New Paradigm for Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #452

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 creating a new paradigm for 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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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 the core team worked with 3D SketchUp for the City Center to provide detailed images with all dimensions and angles for the framing of the City Center dormer windows. This included generating orthographic drawings for the second floor dormer section.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 27th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan worked on the Health Insurance research. He has been constructing the conclusion of the narrative, trying to determine and explain the most cost-effective health insurance strategy for One Community. As part of this endeavor, Aidan has been revamping the scoring system that ranks the best health insurance options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 59th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on developing the Aquapini and Walipin external and internal design plan in AutoCAD. She traced the color design plan for the interior of the structures, revised her planting plan based on the 3D rendering, updated the path system to leave space for drainage, and detailed the central terrace design. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank revised HVAC calculations for the Tropical Atrium, and the Walipini Aquapini designs. He solved an error in his equations. The data and tables, as well as the different graphs, were updated and a comparison graph was created to visualize the difference between the 3 methods: Online-tool-assisted, ASHRAE, and Standard ANSI EP406.4. The pictures below relate to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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 creating a new paradigm for 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 29 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.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week, Guy finished the badge for “New Personal Maximum Hours Logged in a Week”. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 15th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week Alex took a different approach to her poster creation. She is making her newer posters trying to keep the images without any changes by adding a mask over the image with text to make it more readable. Alex is using colors from the images for the masks. Some of here latest creations are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Hannah wrote logic for an error message to popup as a user types into their input boxes if they are ignoring a required field. However, she realized after completing this logic that a partially functional validation function already existed. Upon this realization, she deleted her code and altered the existing code to accomplish the goal of the PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 3rd week helping with web design, still focused on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Becky began with her second webpage. She has laid down all she could, including creating all the headers and uploading all the images as needed. Becky will need to wait for the webpage’s other updates in order to complete the webpage. She has also received the corrections for her first webpage and is working on changing the errors. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Navya worked on a Dashboard function to click the dot by a person’s name in the Leaderboard and have it show that person’s Dashboard. She did code debugging, checked where the issue was, and added some code so it was able to show the leaderboard by clicking the dot. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 2nd week helping with web design. This week Yuran checked and revised the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial page based on feedback. This included remaking the tables, checking the formats, images and links, adding links to the references, and uploading the resource files to Dropbox. She also started working on creating the health insurance page by adding the table of contents and the content of some paragraphs. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kitan García (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kitan spent a good portion of his time getting the project up and running and configuring his workflow. He needed to install a specific kind of npm version manager that was more difficult than he thought because of his system but was able to downgrade his npm version to be compatible with the project. Kitan also disabled his linter so that he could use ESLint as requested for this project. It took about 3 hours to get his environment completely set up, create an account, read documentation, and pick a bug to work on. He then spent about 7 hours looking through the code, figuring out how to get it to run correctly, and progressing through finding the bug. He faced some blocks, but was able to get some help from Hannah. Kitan’s now traced the bug to where he believes it is coming from and thinks/hopes he should be able to come up with a solution soon. Pictures below are related to this work.

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Building open source eco-villages is a doorway to a more sustainable world. One Community is open sourcing and free sharing everything needed to create replicable versions of them. This includes sustainable and DIY-replicable versions of 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

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 14th, 2021 edition (#451) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Open Source Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #451

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 building open source eco-villages 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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 28th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on his progress with the blower and jet fittings. He was able to do some calculations to get some estimates on the overall design, while also researching the various jet fittings that are available on the market. Both of these findings allowed him to update existing charts and modify the plumbing and instrumentation diagram for the system, next week Luis hopes to expand on the design selection by focusing on sone essential valves and a few other components. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 26th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued with his main focus on the the Health Insurance Research. He finished reading through and providing updates and comments to the research, then focused his attention on the final analysis. The goal is determining and demonstrating the most cost-effective health insurance plan for One Community. This plan will entail saving money by purchasing a low premium, high deductible plan for everyone. This saved money will then be available for health emergencies for members of the community. Communicating this with easy-to-understand spreadsheets and text is the final focus.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 58th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on fixing the issue with people’s movements in the video. She found out that the maximum time frame for the advanced moving tool in Lumion has a time limit of 99 seconds. This is the tool that controls all the movement, so it looks like the video has to be split into two and reconstructed. It is a work-in-progress this week. She also worked on revising the AutoCAD file to match the rendering views. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank searched for errors in his spreadsheet because of the extreme difference between the 2 different infiltration methods he used. He double checked units and formulas, as well as checked the individual cells. The numbers appear to be twice the other. He noticed drastic differences between the infiltration values due to air changes and condensation. Frank has not spotted the error yet. He also prepared the HVAC write up for Amin’s review. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 9th 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 focused on outlining and laying the framework for the updated menu plan. Brian worked on determining the timeframe for perishable produce in order to build a menu guide that can be built around a two-week produce drop time with limited refrigeration space. Based on the amount of turnaround from chickpeas, black beans, lentils, soybeans, and potatoes that can be utilized and repurposed multiple times in order to avoid flavor profile redundancy, larger batches of starches can be cooked once a week and labor time can be reduced. Below are some images related to this.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 open source eco-villages 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 20 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.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week, Guy began submitting proposals for updated versions of both the “New Personal Record” and “Most Hours in a Week” badges. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 14th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex continued working on posters and using images and quotes that are approved. For quotes without images, she created new images based on available images from other quotes. Alex has also been experimenting with mixing images and applying masks to them. Some of the approved images for this week are below. Some of our favorites are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah worked on debugging the badges. She also picked up a bug from the HGN Beta Test Bug document and is working on form validation there. She will continue working on this form validation before going back to badge testing next week. Currently, she just needs to confirm which fields are required, display a message on focus, and change the message to tooltip. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) additionally completed her 2nd week helping with web design, still focused on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Becky learned how to input images, which was quite a steep learning curve. She figured out how to optimize images, how to edit them to make them good for SEO, and how to resize them. Becky just has to look over the page, and then she can move on to the next webpage. Becky also has to update the SEO information of the previous images put into the page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Navya Worked on Issue 6.a: Profile Page Functionality → Add Profile Picture. She did code debugging, checked where the issue was, added a few lines of code, and then tested all the functionality (multiple times) by uploading large files, different formatted files, redirecting to another website, and resizing and then uploading again. In all the scenarios it worked, so Navya committed the code and raised the related PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with web design. This week Yuran was exposed to and learned about the process and weekly tasks related to web development, talked with her manager and started creating the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial page on the demo page. She also watched some online courses about HTML and studied the requirements for pages on the One Community web design details spreadsheet.

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

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.

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

Creating a Global Sustainability Movement
One Community Progress Update #450

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 creating a global sustainability 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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability 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 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.

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.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability 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 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.

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.

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.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability 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 creating a global sustainability 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Brian Storz to the Highest Good Food Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Brian is a One Community Mentor Team Member and Culinary Project Manager. He has over 14 years of professional experience in the culinary field including: kitchen management, molecular gastronomy, a culinary consultant, a business owner, and as a sushi chef. He grew up on a farm in Northern California and is passionate about sustainability, ethical business practices, and organic farming. The culinary arts and gastronomy have fascinated Brian for years, leading him to become a teacher in food preservation and a mentor to many talented young cooks and chefs. He has worked for over 5 years as a sous chef, also worked as a manager and chef in Japanese kitchens and sushi bars for 4 years, worked at the 3 Michelin Star level, and also run a culinary department in a casino as an executive sous chef with 50+ employees, three restaurants, and a catering operation, all while making the department profitable for the first time. After years of training and learning the industry inside and out, Brian has brought his 14+ years of experience to help finish the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. Click here for additional information on Brian’s full bio page.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BRIAN!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP