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One Community Welcomes Miguel Fernandes to the Software Development Team!

Posted on April 28, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Miguel Fernandes to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Miguel is a Portuguese web developer based in New York state. He came to the United States in 2019 to go to college and play tennis. He graduated in December of 2021 with a degree in Computer Science. Miguel is passionate about contributing with his knowledge and learning from/with others. As a member of the One Community team, Miguel is helping develop the Highest Good Network software, mostly with code refactoring, fixing bugs, and creating new features, both on the frontend and on the backend.

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Advancing Open Source Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #474

Posted on April 24, 2022 by One Community Hs

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One Community is advancing open source sustainability with open source tutorials covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are doing this to establish a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to create even more open source plans and options.

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 April 24th, 2022 edition (#474) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Advancing Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #474

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing open source sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team held weekly meetings with the Compression Testing Team working on aircrete, City Center Hub Connector team, the volunteer working on double checking energy estimates for the solar designs, and a new volunteer. We also created a tutorial for inserting photos in the compression testing table of results and reviewed and commented on Yuran’s work to get the Walipini, Aquapini and Zenapini content finished on the website.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #245 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders. The picture below shows lighting updates in the two top images that will be merged to create a final. Also a final image as the bottom one.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 91st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the cost analysis spreadsheet of the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom to include the correct material, the amount needed and the weight based on the rendering. He then began constructing a spreadsheet for the maximum dimensions of the structure in the event the user wants to add more barrels for additional rain water storage. Jose Luis first began constructing a free body diagram with dimensions to facilitate the type of analysis needed for the structure. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 71st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued her updates focused on screw sizes and numbers. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

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 30th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team continued their work on the final report for the compression testing project. The team reviewed the comments that were given to them and discussed ways to improve the report. They added details of their specific experience and results from their time on the project. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 28th week, now focused mostly on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela responded to various comments on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking lot report. For several of them, Daniela had to double check online or complete some research to ensure that the information was correct. She then added in the charts from the Google Sheet onto the report and wrote a narrative for each table to ensure the reader understood what the information regarded. Daniela also added to a part of the narrative regarding the parking lot because she believed the information she had previously written did not explain enough of what the design entailed. Lastly, she researched the costs per square foot for the parking lot materials table and included a quote for One Community’s parking lot design. As the information she gathered changed other variables, Daniela adjusted the table accordingly. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 22nd week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on making changes to the table formats, changed and added more information on the conclusions and in the charging power required equation. He has also worked on formulating tables to calculate power requirements to charge EVs and the distance available based on user input data, added information regarding the integration of solar panels for EV charging, and followed up with Tesla regarding the costs for solar panel integration. He also addressed comments and provided the necessary information within the document. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 15th and final week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and editing of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Maya continued her task of proofreading and editing the webpage. She made small corrections directly on the webpage, and for more complex edits she made comments on the respective google document to receive feedback from others working on the webpage content. When she received feedback, the necessary corrections were made on the live page and the comments were resolved. The pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 5th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Ming mainly did two things. 1. Ming focused on seeking prospective engineering companies providing waste-to-energy systems. Gasifiers are still the primary focus since it has minimized by-product generation from complete waste treatments. Pyrolysis systems have been the secondary target though it takes more time to find one for small-scale applications. 2. Ming did further communication with manufacturers for cost inquiry. An email template was generated to ensure appropriate articulation, meanwhile his communication skill has been improved. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of work. This week Dave finished carefully double checking data on the energy demand of the Earthbag Village, and completed a report about comparing and validating data using online sources. With the guidance of Sangam and Jae, he also got a chance to start getting used to the design of the natural pool and spa for the City Center. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week, Yushi completed more research to identify the most sustainable light bulb companies and products, organized data, ranked the companies based on their sustainability goals, initiatives, partners, rewards, and their sustainability reports, and then ranked bulbs by their efficiency. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is advancing open source sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 45th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. Luis focused on validating his previous findings for his heat transfer and head loss calculations for the City Center Spa design. This has been conducted through peer review where Diwei and Luis each cross examined their findings to ensure the accuracy of their results. This provides more strength to the designs credibility as the design approaches its completion. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 33rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus started section H”_H”. She added new furniture, new walls and new columns, and changed the position of some columns and walls to match the most current floor plan. Venus then uploaded the section PDFs to dropbox to get feedback from her supervisor. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 30h week working on Duplicable City Center updates. This week she reviewed the section drawings Venus created and built the roof model in the sketchUp. This included the structure. The top chord is 2″ x 6″ and the bottom chord is 2″ x 4″ with 3.5/12 pitch. For the roof of stairs, we use 2″ x 4″ for both chords with 2/12 pitch. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she fixed the location of Window 4 on the first floor in the SketchUp model and finished double checking all the rest of the windows on all the other floors. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 25th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team to go over the SketchUp overview and update the action items, including columns clashing with walls and coordination with Huiya on the pantry special corner door/window and problems with circulation that need us to shift some shelves around. She also started the door schedule and elevation updates in CAD, mainly to doors D1 and D2. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik worked on the construction of the dome in STAAD Pro for analysis of the distribution of the self-weight and the wind load. He designed a dome with a rectangular frame instead of a triangle, he was aiming to find out the point on the dome where the load would be maximum in both the lateral and longitudinal direction of the dome. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. This week Diwei updated the cost analysis of the hot tub and waterfall, uploaded all the reference PDF files about the cost and official manuals of the components applied in the construction of the hot tub and waterfall, and discussed the design of the 3-opening option hot tub blanket which needs to be made with the aluminum tubes and conventional hot tub blanket. He also read through the official website page about the net-zero Bathroom design, eco shower design, and the net-zero design and assembly instructions. Diwei then checked all the 3D modeling of the net-zero bathroom and created a list of questions for his supervisor. Pictures below show some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing open source sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

- - Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We reviewed multiple standing seam videos and realized the quality doesn’t exist for us to write up a step-by-step start to finish standing seam roof installation tutorial. Once we are on the property we will have an experienced roofer working with us and can then properly document the process. We then continued to go through the Chick Coop doc making additions to the chicken coop door assembly process with the framing and sheathing assembly. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member also continued working on updates for Chicken Coop Assembly Instruction images. She updated all images throughout the document with the new roofing design and updated the entry door. We also updated the section for assembling the nesting boxes on the south wall. See pictures below.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 22nd week helping with web design. This week Yuran worked on adding content to the live page for the Climate Battery with content from the design Google Doc. She created the table of contents and the headings, added anchors to them, and linked them to the table of contents. Yuran also added the content from the Design Elements/Considerations section to the page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 10th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Adam commented on all of Marilyn’s outstanding recipes that needed comments. He also worked more from Anna Cheal’s recipes and the one-week menu outline. Adam made recipe cards of those recipes from the menu outline so we can create a one-week shopping list. He was able to add 5 more recipe cards into the re-size conversion calculator. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 3rd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn developed recipes by researching food to fit the kitchen plan according to the approved ingredients list, dietary requirements and kitchen equipment for the 2-month menu plan. She also scaled her recipes and menu around using up vegetables that are perishable in the kitchen. In addition, she spent the end of the week adjusting recipes that were reviewed and required corrections, substituting ingredients, adding links to recipe pages, adding protein to some recipes, etc. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing open source sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph continued refining the truss structure. In consideration of the design requirements, he modified the truss structure and increased the attic space. Adolph went further and came across a book containing important design principles. He also researched and obtained tekla structures software and used it in the preparation of 3D structural drawings. Adolph realized that tekla was more customized to modeling the behavior of timber since it contained reference standards and material properties. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing open source sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel started helping other Devs with their own bugs, having a couple of meetings in the beginning of the week. He then started working on something new, implementing a new and better way of giving each user permissions and creating a new function with the goal of giving permissions or not to a user based on his or her role and on whether that role can perform a certain action. Miguel also worked closely with Nicky to communicate problems both on the dashboard and on the user profile pages. Miguel ended this week, testing and approving the PRs #393 and #394. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Elyse worked on a feature in the UserProfileAdd component. When the admin creates a new user, the required inputs should be in red and once the user types in values, it turns black. She will also remove the messages underneath saying “X is required” to remove the clutter. The Toast alerts will still be there. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu continued working on Task 4.4.1.4. He imported tasks data from WBS and successfully rendered them out to the Task Contributed Table. Phu communicated with Jae about the Resource reference and used the employee name and pictures to create the visualization for these human Resources references. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun focused on solving the bug “replace window.confirm() simple popup with reactstrap Modal which works the same functionally”. She spent a couple hours getting the background knowledge (like React Hooks, reactstrap Modal, etc) and understanding the leaderboard part of the code, then she tried to rewrite the window.confirm() part. After multiple attempts, Yuyun finally got the piece of code working and created the PR. She then started working on the other bug “create a functionality to allow the current user see other’s time zone difference”. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky helped Miguel with his PR on changing user stories, helping him plan out how to design his components and functions, as well as helped him with a bug that was found where clicking on user profiles from a non-admin account resulted in an error. He also worked on the bug where location wasn’t being saved and related problems that result from the Get Time Zone function not working. The pictures below relate to this work.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron continued on his learning track to understand the basics of Redux in React. Support was provided in managing and reviewing pull requests and testing to determine if the changes made were functional. Towards the end of the week, he also reported a bug that is currently affecting all users. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jipeng completed all the items on the onboarding checklist, finished setting up his frontend and backend, and investigated several bugs on the beta bug lists and picked one to contribute to for the following weeks. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, David completed his orientation and set up his local environment, which included setting the front end React app and the back end server. He also attempted to start the progress bar task of the management dashboard. David ran into problems though because the app kept breaking from what appears to be a bug in the backend. He then reached out to the other members of the software team to solve this. See pictures below for some of this work.

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Thinking Beyond Climate Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #473

Posted on April 17, 2022 by One Community Hs

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Thinking beyond climate change, how can we create solution-models that address this existential threat and create a more enjoyable and abundant life for those who participate? One Community’s answer is evolving sustainability beyond just food, energy, and housing. We can create a lifestyle most would consider luxurious and immensely fulling by including fulfilled living models, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, global stewardship practices, and other key elements that address the six foundational human needs.

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 April 17th, 2022 edition (#473) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Thinking Beyond Climate Change
One Community Progress Update #473

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond climate change 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 reviewed the report that the first group of students wrote on all the work they did around compression testing and efforts towards solving the aircrete collapsing issue. We provided significant comments to improve the content. We also had meetings with the Compression Testing team and the City Center Center Hub team. Pictures below are related to this.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #244 of Dean’s work and he is finishing up the actual renders. The picture below shows a series of lighting updates leading the the almost-final render at the bottom.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 90th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the design of the rain barrel support structure of the net-zero bathroom. He added additional support columns composed of 3 sided unistruts to the other end of the outer part of the structure. The additional supports were necessary as the earthbags were not capable of supporting the weight of a filled rain barrel. To assure the orientation of the columns were sufficient he conducted a static and buckling FEA. The von mises stresses were well below the yield strength of the structure and the maximum deflection was estimated to be 0.8mm, much lower than the 3mm maximum beam deflection allowed. The buckling factor was found to be 41 indicating that buckling is not predicted to occur. The next steps will involve the design flexibility of the structure, which would allow the user to know the limitations of structure modifications. The designs and analysis will be the main focus and the rendering can now be passed to an additional team member, allocating time to the external water catchment and storage details. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 70th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to make updates mostly focused on screw sizes and numbers. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 27th week, now focused mostly on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela worked on reviewing and responding to comments and double checking information and doing additional research as needed. She also made a list of action items that needed to be completed based on what she had been working on the previous weeks, completed writing the answers to the FAQs, made final edits to the cover sheet of the Roadways and Parking lot excel sheet, and began inputting images of various cost analysis roadways excel sheets into the report and started writing the narrative that explains the new images. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 21st week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on new tables and added more content by creating a case study regarding the EV v/s Gasoline costs. He found reliable sources for all the parameters in the cost analysis for the fuel v/s battery comparison. Shreyas also converted all the tables in the document to standard and more visually appealing formats, researched Tesla solar panels and the type of charging infrastructure that is required to charge EVs using solar panels, and made a case study for solar panel sizing for EV charging for a 500 kWh configuration. He additionally added more information to the conclusions paragraph and addressed comments in the document. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 21st week helping with web design. This week Yuran continued updating and adding content to the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. She fixed the problems in the feedback notes of the page and revised the lists, tables and images in the page. Yuran also fixed the code of the page according to the code of Jae’s backup edition. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 14th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and editing of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Maya began a new task which entails proofreading and editing the Roadways, Walkways, and Parking Lot webpage. She began from the beginning of the webpage and changed any minor grammar and punctuation issues. For more complex issues she made comments on the respective google document for additional clarification and feedback from others working on the webpage. Finally, Maya checked the hyperlinks and hover text of the webpage site map to make sure they were consistent and opened in the correct tabs. The pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 4th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming tried to resolve three things. First, additional information from Cogent Energy System was requested. However, details regarding HelioStorm Gasifier (primarily costs) are commercial and confidential, so he tried several ways of getting in touch with a representative. Their email address has been acquired (not on their website), so the next step is to clarify the purpose to continue the communication. Second, Ming read Jae’s comments on Week 2 and 3, and reviewed the existing non-recyclables document for applicable materials. Ming worked on organizing all these materials, addressing the feedback, and adding additional sources to connect information. Third, Ming is looking for alternative gasifier systems provided by other companies, focusing on solutions for small communities. Multiple sources show gasification as a better system for small-scale waste-to-energy plan, though their costs of operation and maintenance are considerable. Some companies did not mention whether they are suitable for small scales, and some did not mention their daily capacity. Therefore, more consultations have to be made before making comparisons. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi completed her orientation and initial setup. She also started her research on the most sustainable light bulbs. She searched many kinds of LED lighting bulbs and compared the energy efficiency, lifetime, application, pollution, and customer reviews. Yushi also searched for several lighting bulb companies to compare and evaluate their commitment to sustainability. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond climate change 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 Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 32nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed section H’_H’ and started section H”_H”. She added new furniture, new walls and columns, and changed the position of some columns and walls to match the new floor plans. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 29th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. She updated the section of the North vehicle entrance to the basement space and the floor plan of this area on the landscape drawings. Xuanji also continued making the roof model, including some structure in the sketchUp model, and reviewed the section drawings Venus created. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished modeling the new SketchUp model for Window 5 and Window 6. She also accomplished the work of finishing updating all the windows on the first floor in the SketchUp model. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 24th 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 her progress for the past 2 weeks. Doors other than D11 and D15 have been finalized after discussion and approval. D15 door selection is reconsidered due to wanting color coordination with exterior walls of the central atrium area. Options for D11 were explored further due to its need for high thermal performance. Options were presented for review. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj simulated the difference in stresses if we filled epoxy in the hubs, it did show lower stresses as seen in the pictures, but it would also add 6 lbs of weight to every hub, which isn’t ideal. After consulting with the team we came to a conclusion that the shape of the dome will distribute most of the loads in the front of the beams instead of the sides. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik tried different design methods to create the complete model of the dome in SolidWorks with all the center hubs to perform the stress analysis and check the stability of the dome. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week of work on the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. Diwei checked the calculation of the hot tub design including the heat convective evaporation, the water head loss of the plumbing, the water mass diffusion, and the covered and uncovered hot tub heat losses. He created an excel sheet for the calculation of the waterfall. Diwei also created bills of materials to analyze the cost of the hot tub and the waterfall. Pictures below show some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond climate change 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 worked on revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. After reviewing the section on standing seam roofing, then reviewing multiple standing seam videos, we were unable to find a proper instructive video that thoroughly explains the initial application of the first panel. If we don’t have a better option by the time we build this, we will hire a qualified standing seam roofer and document the step-by-step approach by video, and then create text that is very detailed to assure our viewers that the proper installation steps can be successfully carried out. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member also continued working on updates for Chicken Coop Assembly Instruction images. After discussion with another team member options for the edge of the roofing we decided to have bending edges on the east and west ends of the coop. Changes were also made to the diagonal bracing of the entry door. All images related to changes were updated.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 9th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on putting together more recipe cards. These are taken from Anna’s recipes and week-long menu sheet. A test week is needed. These will be used in conjunction with the master items list to make a cost out for the week as well as a shopping list. These recipe cards will be scalable. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 2nd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued recipe development and menu plans and researched recipes that would work with food ingredients for the two month meal plan, adding into consideration the perishable by substituting vegetables from the original recipe with vegetables that are available in the kitchen. She also developed recipes without too many dietary restrictions that will also serve vegetarians. The pictures below relate to this work.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week of work, this week focused on the Climate Battery designs. He studied and reviewed all the provided sources and our extensive research on the subject to have a better understanding of the project. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond climate change 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, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. Adolph executed the following tasks: He collected technical data on ROCKWOOL Comfortbatt® insulation material and used it to estimate additional structural loads, replacing polystyrene insulation material. This was preceded by computation of top and bottom cord loads on the roof structure respectively. A FINK_type truss structure was selected and AutoCAD drawings prepared. He idealized the plan and identified the most critical truss (the one with the longest span) for detailed analysis. Adolph came up with an FEM model of the truss system, applied ABAQUS® software and modeled the structural response of the roof under varying prescribed loading scenarios. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is thinking beyond climate change 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 28 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel worked on solving errors on the build of PR #384, the added logout modal. After that, Miguel started to refactor other components. Miguel refactored the Timelog component, and pushed the code to GitHub, raising the PR #387, making that component loading much faster on the dashboard. He also started refactoring the Login component (and the Form component). Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Elyse worked on a bug related to creating a new user. It should be indicated ahead of time what fields are required. We’d like to make those fields outlined in red and then have them turn black once they are filled. Then we wouldn’t need to clutter the area up with additional words, and we’d still have the (already working) popups we have that tell people what to do if they left a field blank, which they’d only do once and then they’d have learned what the red outlines mean. Elyse thinks there is a built-in solution with Reactstrap that can display the red border around those missing fields. Currently the UserProfileAdd component is displaying the error message with formErrors. She will continue trying. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu contacted Chris to get help fixing bugs in the Report’s Component. Chris suggested adding optional chaining (“?.”) for undefined or null objects and told Phu to check his Dev version versus other developers. Phu also fixed Rachit’s bug in the Report Component by researching jest and d3, and continued working on 4.4.1.4, planning to get it done in a few more days. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time researching previous work done on the Management Dashboard Component. She went through all the code changes, images, videos and weekly reports from Jerry, understanding the logic and priority of implementing this component. She then documented all her learning and understanding to make all the information more understandable and ready for another team member to lead development with her on it. Yuyun also spent a bit of time helping the team review a PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky started with onboarding and reading through all the Google Doc action items. He also picked up a bug to start on, with adding Location to the basic information portion of the profile page. He additionally helped out various team members with code review, solving build issues and familiarizing himself and them with the repos more. The pictures below relate to this work.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ron worked on supporting the team by reviewing pull requests. Changes that were made to the front end had resulted in some errors and they had been looked at. More instructions were also added to the React Local App setup document to clarify how to access API endpoints for the HGN application. In addition, the duplicate user bug required further review of Redux so time was spent conducting research on Redux and how it affects the front end application. See pictures below for some of this work.

Highest Good Network software, Thinking Beyond Climate Change, One Community Weekly Progress Update #473

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Zero-waste Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #471

Posted on April 3, 2022 by One Community Hs

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Zero-waste living models are good for people and the planet. They save resources, money, and eliminate waste buildup. One Community is developing models like this for the complete living experience. They include open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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 April 3rd, 2022 edition (#471) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Zero-waste Living Models
One Community Progress Update #471

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing zero-waste living models 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 corresponded with Aircrete Harry multiple times and became clear on what to test next in an effort to make aircrete more reliably. We also decided to hold off on testing cylinders with stucco and instead to focus on writing up the results and lessons learned to date. Then we began resizing the compression testing photos and inserted them into a table that will be a part of the webpage related to aircrete. We also had our regular weekly meetings with the Compression Testing Team and the Center Hub Team. Pictures below are related to this.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 88th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued designing the rain barrel support structure for the Net-Zero Bathroom. He completed the rendering of the outer part of the structure and ran an FEA to determine the stresses and deflection of the support beams. The support beams were modeled to be supported by the wall made of earthbags and the unistrut support columns. The beams are to support 500lbs of weight and were tested with 750lbs of applied load to them. The maximum deflection was estimated at about 0.55mm more than 6 times smaller than the maximum allowable deflection of 3.6mm. There were some stress concentrations around the connection between the supporting beams and the main beam connecting the support columns. The stresses were well below the yield strength so the possibility of failure is highly unlikely. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 68th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to work on the revisions to the lumber pages and also revising the screw images to the different sizes. Some of the pages needed to be rearranged because the lumber pieces did not fit on 1 piece of plywood and after adding the measurements to each piece the layout had to be revised. The small graphic details that needed to be updated are almost complete. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 19th week helping with web design. This week Yuran checked the latest round of comments and needed corrections for the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” page. This was mainly checking the images and rotating and cropping them to the proper size. She also made the images in the Landscape section the same height and added a 3px space between them. Then Yuran focused on updating this Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Hub staging page with updated content from the Google Doc. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 2nd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming researched common non-recyclable waste and the importance of classifying and separately collecting individual types of waste for waste treatment procedures. A waste transfer station was researched and the cost for garbage transport was considered. Non-recyclable waste is looking like it can best be processed with the Ionic Gasification System developed by Cogent Energy System. This technology seems to be the optimal alternative to incineration since it avoids by-product generation. Especially if environmental engineers working on the problem can develop strategies to minimize toxin production, like dioxin, from incineration in a cost-effective way. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing zero-waste living models 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 44th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized the head loss calculations. The head loss of the piping system was awaiting the modeling finalization in order to determine the estimated number of elbow fittings and valves. A more accurate number has been reached for the head loss of the system and progress will continue forward with the documentation of the updated system model and finalized heat loss simulations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 30th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos continued updating the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD files and finished them all this week. The CAD now contains all the items that appeared in the render videos, making it a lot more complete and informative regarding the previous versions. He also added dimensions for several items such as the gap between pieces and color. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 27th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week Xuanji updated the roads close to the North vehicle entrance of the building in the landscape floor plan drawing again. She also updated the north vehicle entrance to the basement and drew a section view for it. Then she started the roof model in SketchUp Pictures below are related to this work.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on developing a piece that will bolt on to the LVL beam and the V brackets which will reduce the overall stress taken by the V brackets and act as extra reinforcement. He did the FEA analysis of this piece and got the results the team was hoping for! Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 12th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and content creation for the Permaculture Design case study section. This week, Maya continued her task of integrating information from the Final Design Exercise document into the Permaculture Page Content google document. This consisted of proofreading and reformatting the content before transferring it onto the permaculture document so that the structure and wording of each section flowed well. She also continued her work on the Solar Farm Battery Analysis page and backed up all of the external sources from the page in a dropbox folder. Maya then added some more details on that page while organizing outside resources with regards to each section. The pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik continued to learn the Staad Pro software. He modeled the complete dome with the dimension as per the design and started the dome design with the actual structural factors like entrance, windows, and other structural additions. He also went through different open sources to learn how to perform structural load analysis of the dome in Staad pro to understand the load distribution on the dome which would be used in studying the stability of the center hub. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. Diwei finished the modeling of the hot tub with SolidWorks. The model includes the plumbing of the inlet and drainage pipes. The skimmer, pump, filter, heater, and blower models are added to the plumbing system. The base station in the mech room for supporting facilities has been modeled. The mechanical room, wall, and ground are now modeled to show the layout. Work on the design of a waterfall is assigned, and verifying of calculation is required to start. Pictures below show some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing zero-waste living models 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 addressing comments on Chicken Coop Assembly Doc, updating text, and graphics. We created a sketch for the final structural design of the door, determined sizes and screws for the hinges, latch, handle, and those necessary for securing the door frame to the vertical tongue and groove 1x’s that make up the door. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member continued updating images, text and replying to comments on the same Chicken Coop Building Instruction document by generating needed graphics. She updated the 3D SketchUp model for th entry door that will be assembled using an outside siding panel and 2×3 lumber for the frame, also the ledge and brace boards. Other updates were made related to images for the roof felt placement to show plastic cap nailing placement with dimensions for inside nailing and perimeter nailing, and redesigned roofing panels for standing seam roofing. Additionally, she generated an Aquapini render of the section view of the outside terraces with marked dimensions.

Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 21st 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 interviewed Marilyn Nzegwu and decided to hire her. Brian spent the rest of his volunteer hours researching the book called “A Year in an Off-grid Kitchen” (click for Amazon affiliate link) by Kate Downham. Some examples from this book are shown below. There were some interesting techniques in the book, and a lot of the recipes have all the basics, so he thinks we could give them a little extra seasoning and work on the execution for large group preparations. Below are some images related to this.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 7th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on mostly converting recipes into the format that can be used with the rate increase/conversion calculator. He also did some critical thinking around kitchen layout. Adam drew up a revised edition and sent that via email. Then he researched other solutions for making recipe ‘cards’. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing zero-waste living models 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, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager and Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph Karubanga, PMP and Civil/Structural Engineer, completed his 3rd week helping to finalize Ultimate DIY Classroom Structural Engineering. In line with the project implementation proposal and the task objectives, Adolph started detailed structural analysis of the roof structure assisted by reference design standards. He specifically looked at snow and wind loads and the results were presented in the shared google doc. Using ASCE 7, Adolph computed the Main Wind Force Resisting System, MWFRS of the roof structure. Results indicated that considering the wind velocity of 100-mph obtained from the wind hazard map, the structure must be designed to resist a wind pressure of 9.0 psf. Further, Adolph sought structural clarification via the location coordinates, ground reference elevation of California above sea level and different engineering standards and codes of practice. Responses were swiftly provided and additional document links added to Adolph’s Google Doc that were very helpful in the confirmation of a number of parameters including wind directionality factor, ground elevation factor and velocity pressure. Adolph planned to have a thorough review and understanding of the shared docs in the week-5 and accordingly refine his calculations. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing zero-waste living models 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

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel started by solving a problem he was having connecting with MongoDB Atlas. After that, he talked with other team members in order to fully understand how to refactor both the calls to the API and to MongoDB on the dashboard. Miguel refactored 2 endpoints reducing the calls to the API from more than 200 to around 80. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu contacted Irene to clear the confusion on Task Table Detail. In particular, Irene only added sample task detail. He would need to get tasks information from the database (wbs) and add it to the table. Phu was able to call the tasks in detail, but he had problems with rendering to the table. Phu also encountered a problem on Reports.jsx even though he has not changed anything on that file. He will continue working on this. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And, Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse requested to refactor the front end code to hide the WeeklySummary component after the user has pressed the Save button. This can help prevent users from submitting twice for a week. She confirmed that WeeklySummaryModal actually is not being used for this functionality. Instead, the timelog component is checking for “isOwner” and it might not be checking for a successful Save operation at all. Elyse also started working on printing a value from Timelog via ‘props’ down to WeeklySummary by a ComponentDidMount function. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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One Community Welcomes Prathik Jain to the Engineering Team!

Posted on April 1, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Prathik Jain to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Prathik holds a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He is highly analytical and has a keen interest in fluid dynamics. Pratik has developed good skills in 3D modeling (Solidworks, Creo and AutoCAD) and performing CFD analysis in Python. In his free time, he is passionate about the outdoors and enjoys activities like walking, running, and hiking. As a member of One Community team, Prathik is helping to design and analyze the safest and best hub connector for the Duplicable City Center.

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Radical Sustainability Made Easy – One Community Weekly Progress Update #470

Posted on March 27, 2022 by One Community Hs

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Radical sustainability made easy can provide a lifestyle most people would consider luxurious by today’s standards. More free time, more things to do with that time, better food, artistic housing, economic freedom and a life of growth and enrichment are possible. One Community is supporting this by open sourcing everything needed to make it DIY replicable and free-sharing it as an adaptable foundation for global sustainability.

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 March 27th, 2022 edition (#470) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Radical Sustainability Made Easy
One Community Progress Update #470

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 87th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the outer section of the rain barrel support structure for the net-zero bathroom. After researching brackets and accessories for unistrut channels, he decided on a design that would simplify assembly by using a combination of slotted and circular hole unistruts. The design was based on the wooden version, but uses two support columns for each 2 barrels. The two individual columns were necessary due to the machinery and skill needed to work metal when compared to woodwork. This was possible because one wooden column had the cross section of 3.5″ by 3.5″ while one unistrut had a cross section of 1.525″ by 1.525″. An FEA will be conducted to determine the number of beams needed to support each barrel in order to reduce costs while maintaining safety. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 38th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela started the week by reviewing all new comments across the diversity of Google Docs she’s been working on. She then skimmed through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot document to ensure that new edits were addressed and that the website corresponded with those changes and separated the Parking Lot Cost Analysis table into two, so that the reader could see the initial and final design costs. There were some differences in the cost analysis that had previously been done for the parking lot, so Daniela read through the website in order to figure out where the discrepancy was. She compared the differences and determined which values were not matching up. Daniela then adjusted the initial parking lot cost analysis using a parking lot that fit 150 spaces for the calculations. This included calculating the overall square footage and illustrating it. She left comments based on her new findings, created a tab for “How to Calculate Your Own Property Access Costs” that acts as an intro to the roadways excel sheet, and went through each item on David’s Action Item list to double check what was done and cross off all that had been completed. Comments were left based on what still needed work. Lastly, Daniela started making adjustments to the Parking Lot Materials Options tab and started researching the price per square foot for materials that were provided in the table. 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 26th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing team compression tested the 2-weeks-curing cylinders. The team took pictures of each cylinder and recorded the weight and compressive strength that each cylinder had. Compared to shorter curing times, the 2-week-cured cylinders had slight increased strength. The team still found some moisture within the cylinders after two weeks of curing. Additionally, the team had a meeting to prepare for the following week’s compression testing of 3-week-cured cylinders and calculate the fabric needed for stuccoing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 18th week helping with web design. This week Yuran checked that all the content had been added, the page was formatted correctly, and added the missing images needed to finish the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. She also created all the remaining images needed to finish the Community Health Insurance page and linked them to the spreadsheet. Yuran then started working on creating the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Hub page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering)) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. Ming spent the majority of his time on resource research. He inquired about a solid waste management course offered at JHU (instructors, textbooks, course materials) and, after the instructor’s approval, gained access to part of the course materials. Due to copyright issues, the original handouts could not be uploaded to the dropbox, but relevant information about incineration models was summarized with citation of the online sources. The sorted handouts will become Ming’s and One Community’s property (a goal for next week). Most of Ming’s time was devoted to reading over these handouts, retrieving relevant information, and citing sources. Existing One Community Google Doc research was also reviewed so Ming could get familiar with the essence of the research completed so far. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 43rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized the head loss calculations for the City Center Spa Design. Given the current knowledge of the system, the head loss of the piping has been accounted for. Other variables that contribute to the head loss of the system are the number of fittings included such as elbow fittings and three-way valves. Luis will complete this with the addition of the head loss value per item given by its material. With the finalization of the spa model this value can be updated and finalized, but the hardest math is complete. Luis will now continue working with the new members of the team to complete the remaining documentation. Pictures below are related to this work.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 29th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos continued updating the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD files and finished them all this week. The CAD now contains all the items that appeared in the render videos, making it a lot more complete and informative than the previous versions. He also added dimensions for these and several items. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 26th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week Xuanji updated the roads, revised the bridge across the outdoor portion of the indoor/outdoor natural swimming pool, added missing double fences, revised the vehicle entrance to the basement on the north side, and updated the vehicle driveway and walkways in the rest of the landscape floor plan. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 25th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya did research on Window 6, and chose 4 different types of durable glass, and after she compared these 4 types, she recommended using laminated glass. She also accomplished the work of updating the confirmed windows and doors’ size in the Window and door schedule in CAD and fixing all the window designations on the floor plans. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj designed 2 brackets that may be good alternatives to the current design. He also created the angled beam assemblies with each of these new brackets and ran studies on both the new designs which showed promising results. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 11th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and edits to Shreyas’ solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and the Permaculture Design case study content. This week, Maya continued her work on the Solar Farm Battery Analysis report by replying to comments, following up on others, and backing up links with product information into a new Dropbox folder. She also began integrating details and information from the updated permaculture design into the Final Detailed Design section of the Permaculture google document. The goal of this task is to transfer findings from the FDE to the permaculture page and organize and format the information so that it can be added to the live permaculture webpage. The pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik familiarized himself with a new software – Staad Pro connect. In this software, he modeled the complete dome with the dimension as per the design. He also went through different sources to learn how to perform structural load analysis of the dome in Staad pro to understand the load distribution on the dome, which can be used in studying the stability of the center hub. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. This week Diwei finished reading the entire City Center hot tub design report. He modeled the tub frame and added cinder block insulation plan modeling based on the dimensions and comments in the report. Diwei realized that the 3-way valve and pump located outside the mechanical room may not be an optimal design and decided to move them into the mechanical room. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 completed additional edits on the Chicken Coop Assembly Doc through page 136, addressing comments, re-writing the original text to coincide with the comments and corrections and checking font sizes and accuracy of statements. We also began considering the use of a solar door for the coop based on one of our team’s successful one-year-in-use-and-still-active solar chicken door. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member continued updating images, text and replying to comments on the same Chicken Coop Building Instruction document.

The core team also updated the Aquapini SketchUp model and generated images with updated dimensions for the three Aquapini ponds, added overflow pipes for the ponds, and created a waterflow image. We also designed the outside terraces.

And the core team finished preparing the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini content for the web editor and made a list of what still needed to be done, as well as inserted new images and read through the entire document. We also met with the compression testing team to discuss stuccoing details and this week’s plan, then followed up on missing weekly summaries, reported hours, and images.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 6th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on tweaking some of the formulas in the Recipe Conversion and Re-sizing Calculator, made a separate workbook to start housing all the recipes, and started to test putting recipes into a new format. Now the recipes are entered into the calculator and they can be easily scaled up, and directions are still provided for cooking. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager and Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering. This week, Adolph compiled and profiled data on the following materials: straw bales, timber species, type of cement, earthen plaster, waterproofing membrane, polystyrene roofing material, gypsum and details on foundations. Adolph referenced a book titled “Practical Straw Bale Building” by Murray Hollis and determined the commonly used dimensions for Straw bale construction technology. Regarding timber species, he referred to the technical specifications and identified a species that is most available and can easily be obtained. He then commenced with detailed structural analysis involving structural idealization and will present the results of analysis next week. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 16 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 35th formal contribution to the Highest Good Network software. In addition to ongoing support for the team answering questions and helping with various emergency bugs, Chris fixed a PDFing problem we’ve had for months. He did this by figuring out that volunteers were copying in some styled text with different unsupported fonts into their summaries and that errored the process out and made it so that the process worked on the Dev environment and local development environments, but not on the Main/live environment. So he added some code to remove any styles on text and this fixed this bug that had baffled every other developer that had tried to fix it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kevin did research on node-cache, a caching module used on HGNRest, per the suggestion of Gary. After learning about it, he looked into how it’s implemented on HGNRest and found the issue with the badge error. The error is caused by node-cache only updating its data every 10 minutes. This causes the badge system to re-assign previously deleted badges. This caching issue is also causing problems all around the app. Anytime the front end changes data in the database, the change isn’t reflected in HGNRest until it updates. He’s still looking into the issue for possible solutions. Kevin also helped Elyse work on her bug with the Time Entry Form by suggesting a simple fix that causes the form to only render when a user tries to submit their time. The end result is the form logging the date when the time is submitted as opposed to the date that the page was most recently loaded / reloaded. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel attended several calls with Kevin to try and figure out what can be refactored in the Dashboard page. He started by converting the TeamMemberTasks component to a functional component. Later in the week he talked about creating a new API endpoint with the other team members and he started creating the new route and figuring out the logic. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu helped debug Rachit’s code, reviewed Irene’s work, and started working on his action list. First, he checked out Rachit’s branch, and Rachit mentioned that d3 should be downgraded to 6.7.0 instead of 7.0.0, however, while using d3 v7.3.0, the HGN test app worked. Therefore, Phu was not sure if d3 was a problem. However, when he ran the npm test, Jest did not parse the ES module in node_modules. Phu researched a few changes and tried Rachit’s suggestion, but it still had the same problem. Second, he reviewed Irene’s work. Irene finished rendering the people’s report page and included Rachit’s version on Infringement visualization. Phu decided to work on task 4.4 1.4 because Irene mostly finished this part’s front end. He then used a dev account to add a task/team for his account to test. Phu recognized that the Team Member Tasks component might have the same functionality as 4.4 1.4 and plans to continue work on this next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse added useEffect() to check when the TimeEntryForm started rendering and confirmed that it renders right when the page was loaded. She made sure it’s rendering when the Stop button is clicked by wrapping it a condition in TimeEntryForm.jsx and confirmed that the fix works by leaving her local environment logged in before midnight and starting the timer after midnight. Elyse then cleaned up the code and removed unnecessary console.log statements and created pull request #377. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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A Blueprint for Holistic Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #469

Posted on March 20, 2022 by One Community Hs

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One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living that is better than how most people are living now. It includes open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. This is the March 20th, 2022 edition (#469) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

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 March 20th, 2022 edition (#469) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for Holistic Living
One Community Progress Update #469

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living 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 wrote an email to Aircrete Harry to see if he had any feedback regarding shrinkage of light and standard aircrete mixes and stuccoing details. We then digested Aircrete Harry’s response and summarized our thinking based on his input. We continued to make and populate a more presentable table with aircrete compression testing results and had meetings with the Compression Testing Team and the Center Hub Team. Pictures below are related to this.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #243 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective with updated sky dome and finalized door details.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 67th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued resizing of information to be larger and more clear and adding lumber sizes and cut dimensions to the closet sections. She also started adding the different screw lengths and replacing old icons. As pages are completed, they are replaced and re-saved to the shared document. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 86th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began working on the design of the outer rain barrel support structure. He began by first analyzing the first wooden concept initially thought of for dimensional and orientational purposes. The challenge is to design a structure that optimizes the use of space, while being cost effective, durable, and easy to install. To optimize the space each outer column was rotated 30 degrees in respect to each adjacent column, until forming a complete circle, omitting one to leave room for access. To connect them together, he looked into using 30 degree unistrut fittings. After rendering the two unistruts connected with brackets, he found the design to be complex in terms of installation when using 3 sided hole punched unistruts, as the tolerances had to be high. Slotted unistruts were looked into, but were found to not be flexible for the design, since the slots are located on one side only. Jose Luis then rendered the columns connected with unistrut beams running radially outwards and having crosslinked unistrut beams to serve as the base of the rain barrels. The lack of symmetry between the cross linked unistruts would not provide even distribution of loads based on the renderings. He will next begin to continue researching other unistrut accessories or modifying existing ones to weigh out the possible options to effectively accomplish the task. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 37th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela worked on the cost analysis excel sheet for the roadways. She double checked revisions that were made last week and made sure that the calculations were accurate and properly formatted. She then finished the cost analysis table for the parking lot and added the formatting that explains the chart. Daniela added to the narrative for the minimized and unlimited expense plan based on the changes made to the cost analysis of the parking lot and then used AutoDesk to ensure that the AutoCAD files in the Dropbox for the parking lot were the most updated ones. Afterwards, she used AutoDesk to measure the length of the original parking lot design and deleted the length from the tables in the excel sheet that originally incorporated the parking lot. Daniela read through and addressed comments making sure that all suggestions she made on the Roadways, Walkways, Parking Lot and Gutters Report were addressed and portrayed on the website. Lastly, she used Jae’s suggestion to measure the percentage runoff for the domes in Earthbag Village. 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 25th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the team did compression testing on the cylinders that had cured for 1 week. The team tested a total of 30 cylinders, 5 for each mix. The team also finished recording which aircrete cylinders collapsed from the light and standard batches. All compressive strength data collected to date have been recorded in the data sheet. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 17th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. This week Yuran checked all content was correctly added and the page was formatted correctly. She crossed off content as she did this and commented on each of those sections. She also addressed all comments made for web designers and checked the quality of all images and for missing images. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living 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 42nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on his development and verification of the head loss calculations for the City Center Spa design. These calculations are essential to the performance analysis of the pumps and blowers. Luis is currently cross examining his findings to ensure they are an accurate estimate of the reduction in performance. He is also focusing on the development of the heat transfer simulations and deriving an analysis for the findings to be included in the website too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 28th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos added dimensions for all the furniture, correcting unnecessary lines in the views, and creating blocks for the mending plates, screws, nails. He also merged, created and assigned new layers for several items. Because of the existence of many unnecessary lines (especially on the Pallet Bed), more deleting, correcting and selecting lines, along with assigning them to the layers is still needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 25th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the roads, added the bridge to the herb garden from south side and east side, revised the floor hatch of the West entrance space, added the fence for the animal area, and updated the vehicle driveway in the landscape floor plan. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 24th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya continued work on the Duplicable City Center Window Schedule updates. She did research on Window 5 and Window 6, and selected types of R-5 windows. Huiya also accomplished the work of modeling the SketchUp model for Window 5 and Window 6 and finishing the CAD details for Window 5 and Window 6. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 22nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi discussed feedback with the team related to changes to door selections from last week. The D2 exterior corridor entry required more durability and a weather-proof option. In finding a product, Anderson Window and Door Company could provide the aesthetic feature that goes with general interior design, while being capable of providing energy savings and waterproofing. Due to consideration of appearance coordination, other doors like D7 and D13 were updated too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj changed the multi-layered bracket back to a single thick bracket to see if adding the center gap has now reduced the stress on the brackets. He ran multiple simulations to get the least stress possible on the hub connector. Raj also worked on the geodesic dome paper to add content per the feedback received from Sangam. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 10th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and edits to Shreyas’ solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles. This week, Maya continued her work editing the Solar Farm Battery Analysis Final Report. This included re-formatting some of the figures and content so that any text referencing a figure or graph was placed above its figure, this makes the page more consistent and easier to follow for the reader. Maya also added more information on the Ford F-150 Lightning, its new charging station, and sources for additional information on the Tesla Wall Connector. She finished the first full proofread through the analysis and fixed any small errors along the way while commenting on content that requires additional feedback before it is edited. The pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living 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 completed additional edits on the Chicken Coop Assembly Doc through page 126. This included edits to the doc, mathematical recalculations and confirmations, requests for drawing alterations and other related changes. Though this process is occasionally semi-excruciating and painstakingly slow for the editor, in the end the corrections will save time and labor in the field by avoiding reconstruction. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member was the editor mentioned above who worked on creating and updating images and text, and replying to the comments on the same Chicken Coop Building instruction document.

The core team also updated the Aquapini SketchUp model and generated images with dimensions for the Aquapini ponds, comparing the heights for all ponds, all inside structural dimensions, a water flow image, and an image with dimensions for the internal terraces.

Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 21st 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 redesigned the layout of the kitchen to encompass one shelter for the kitchen and one for the dining room. Brian also added some equipment to the costing sheet. Then Brian redid the action items for the interns. Brian also worked on recipe testing this week, including Chow mein. Below are some images related to this.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 5th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on the recipe converter calculator. It is pretty close to working and will be almost ready to present for approval and others to help clean it up. He also continued to help with the layout of the dining area and setting up stations to help diners and decrease the amount of back and forth to the kitchen. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living 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

Adolph Karubanga (Civil Engineer and PMP) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering. This week, Adolph reviewed the drawings, preliminary data for calculations, and made reference to technical specifications and codes of practice. This included basis of design, use and occupancy structural classification, and exposure conditions (fire*, wind, snow, earthquake loads). This data was very important in the preceding stages of the analysis, design, and detailing of structural elements. Adolph found out that the preliminary data was in line with the specifications and therefore was to be used in the preparation of detailed design calculations during his 3rd week. Adolph will also obtain data on the materials that were not captured in the preliminary data, i.e. straw bale, timber species, type of cement, earthen plaster, waterproofing membrane, polystyrene roofing material, gypsum and details on foundations. Adolph also researched and obtained a timber construction reference manual and 3 other reference materials for straw bale construction.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living 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

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also completed his 37th week helping, now focused on the Most Sustainable Urinals, Hand Dryers, and Shower Heads pages. This week Aidan focused on the Hand Dryer page. He continued to work on incorporating content from a spreadsheet, doing minor formatting, and proofreading and editing the content of each page. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin dug into the issue with last week’s badge fix not functioning as expected on the Dev site. Initially, it seemed like the fix wasn’t working, but upon further inspection, the user’s profile on the live backend is taking over 5 minutes to update the user’s info (despite the database being instantly up to date). This is causing any badge assignments done within that timeframe to add not only the desired badge(s), but all of the badges that were previously deleted. He’s enlisted the help of more senior engineers in hopes of finding a solution, but so far is still in the troubleshooting phase. Kevin also helped HGN’s new engineer, Elyse, get comfortable with React and helped familiarize her with the app. In addition, he worked with her on troubleshooting her bug that deals with a user’s time being logged for the previous date. Although they haven’t yet found a solution, they were able to replicate the bug and isolate the issue. They are poised to resolve the bug next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel finished reformatting the frontend using Prettier and ESLint. He solved some other conflicts and raise PR #374. After that, Miguel spent time analyzing the Dashboard and TeamMemberTasks component to try to figure out what can be refactored in order to make the loading time smaller. During that time he figured out the Dashboard is making 200+ calls to the API, and tracked down what API calls need to be refactored. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu had his interview and completed the onboarding process. He then set up his local React environment, read the Volunteer Documentation lists, and got familiar with the HGN system. Phu contacted Irene and Rachit to understand the tasks and reviewed Rachit’s pull request, Rachit was waiting for Chris’s reply to fix his code though. After that, Phu continued reviewing other pull requests. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) joined the team too and also completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse set up and got familiar with the front end codebase, looked for specific React components associated with the Time Logging bug, and found the timezone was hard coded as “America/Los Angeles”. in the TimeEntryForm. She tested various changes in “dateOfWork: moment().tz()” by passing in properties of userProfile.timeZone and also tested leaving the app open overnight and starting the timer the next day. She confirmed the issue probably has to do with the time the user logs in as well. Then Elyse worked on the selectedBadge bug and looked for potential errors in the way badgeCollection includes existing badges being selected again [4]. This screenshot shows different array sizes and she will look into debugging this with Chrome dev tools the following week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us identify solutions and an approach for dealing with a PHP update that is coming and may break our website. See pics below related to this.

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Building DIY Sustainable Cities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #468

Posted on March 13, 2022 by One Community Hs

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Open-source building DIY sustainable cities is a way to empower people and communities. Giving people the knowledge and blueprints to build their own homes, grow their own food, and live sustainable lives that are better than the way they live now is both possible and needed. One Community is creating designs for this that cover 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 March 13th, 2022 edition (#468) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building DIY Sustainable Cities
One Community Progress Update #468

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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 updated the floor plan details on the site for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) from 72 living units to 78. We also updated our related residency and rental-revenue details. Pictures below are related to this.

The core team also added to the Compression Testing Team’s data collection sheet so the necessary details are recorded for each test. We had multiple conversations with this team, including Dr. Bai and reached out to Hajjar again (with Gabriel CCed) for questions about the stucco and fabric they use. We also started creating a nicer table to summarize findings from the compression testing with embedded pictures using beautiful table templates, discussed results from last week with Marcus, and edited the spreadsheet for the 1-wk cure-time compression testing planned for Sunday. We additionally emailed the compression testing team with the plan for the week and had a meeting with the Hub connector team to discuss issues they are having with SolidWorks. Pictures below are related to this.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #242 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective with a work-in-progress attempt at adding a sky dome and updates to the door details.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 66th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on replacing many of the rendered images in the instructions. The electrical pages were all updated with new 3D renders and details. The graphic elements were replaced with newer ones. The title pages from each group are getting new graphics and she is continuing to update cutting lumber pages with measurements and more details. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 85th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued the development of the rain barrel support structure used in the Net-Zero Bathroom. He began by expanding the base of the structure to facilitate the orientation of the barrels. A static FEA was conducted on the expanded base at an overall force of 750lbs, 150% of the rain barrel weight, applied to the slotted unistrut beams. The maximum von Mises stresses were found to be 30% of the yield strength and the maximum beam deflection was found to be 16.9% of the maximum allowable beam deflection. He then rendered the base of the top barrel and performed a static FEA. The analysis included an additional 750lbs applied on the additional base. The maximum von Mises stresses were found to be 44% of the yield strength and the maximum beam deflection was found to be 50% of the maximum allowable beam deflection. A buckling FEA was conducted and measured a buckling factor of safety of 67.92. Based on the results there should be no failures due to yielding and buckling. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 36th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela started by editing and adding to the narrative of the water catchment off the dome homes. New calculations were introduced in this section, and she recalculated the overall water catchment for the complete Earthbag Village based on the new values. She reviewed the edits and computed the volume for water catchment storage over the span of a year. The values calculated appeared to be too large so Daniela went over the calculations, attempting to make adjustments where needed. She plans to continue to work on this section since she now has the feedback she needs to continue. For the Roadways, Walkways, Parking Lot and Gutters Report, Daniela created a cost analysis chart for the parking lot with the updated materials, using Autodesk to obtain measurements and researching the costs of the new materials. Lastly, Daniela reviewed comments and read through an article Tugce suggested for the roadways cost analysis. 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 24th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team completed compression testing on the 48-hours-cured cylinders. The team worked with Sangam to review and confirm all the necessary data needed for recording. On the day of testing, the team labeled each cylinder, weighed the cylinders, and did compression testing. The team found that the lightest and standard aircrete mixes were too soft for the compression testing apparatus to record failure accurately, but the 3 heavy mixes were successful. The Team reviewed the work plan for Sunday to compression test the 1-week-cured cylinders. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 16th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page and Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal. This week Yuran properly linked tools, equipment and materials on the Footer/Foundation page. She also fixed all the resource names for the ones backed up in the Roadways and Walkways shared folder and uploaded the missing resources. Then she finished checking and updating all the content and formatting on the Water Conservation page. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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 on the Duplicable City Center 3D SketchUp model of the planned dormer windows for the 1st and 2nd floors. We used SketchUp to create an accurate framing file. You can see this below.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 41st week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the development of the City Center Spa design with regards to the plumbing. He focused on the head loss calculation and ensuring the numbers were correct. This included doing the calculations by hand, through Google Spreadsheets, and MATLAB to verify the results. His analysis is nearly complete and will be ready for future adjustments to the finalized piping length. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 24th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the landscape plans by adding a tree legend, fire truck hammerhead turnarounds and other road details, and the natural greywater processing pond. She also revised the hallway on the second floor of the Social Dome to have more seats. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 23rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya continued working on updating the window schedule. She found the Window type used for W2, W3, and W5 on the Milgard® website and accomplished the work of fixing the wrong size and material of Window 2, Window 3, and Window 5 in the window details section and on the floor plans. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to select doors and focused on specialty door selection. Freezer or cooler doors and possible modular cooling walls can be more cost efficient than custom made choices. Custom pool doors and parts, including recycled stainless steel and plexiglass, were chosen based on resistance to corrosion and appearance. Steel doors which can be broken down to varying types such as temperature rise doors, egress characteristic doors, and flush doors were suggested for installation at varying locations throughout the building. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on increasing the gap between the beam and the center ring to check if it would reduce the stress on the brackets. This reduced the stress drastically which helps the team move forward with this design. He also looked at reducing singularities in the part to mitigate stresses. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and edits to Shreyas’ solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles. This week, she made comments on the google document when content had errors or seemed unclear. Once Maya received feedback from others editing the document, she made the appropriate changes and resolved the comments. The page had some formatting inconsistencies such as figures being difficult to find and usage of bold. Maya also made sure figures and images were below the content where they are referenced, and rid the page of bold text replacing it with uppercase headers. Finally, she began writing a section regarding updated information on the Ford F-150 Lightning. The pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik came across a new software – Tekla Structural Designer, which is used to design and perform analysis of a structure to understand its strength and the stability. He watched a few videos related to how to design a dome and perform structural analysis with the given load factors. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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 completed additional edits on the Chicken Coop Assembly Doc pages 117-121. These were regarding the enclosure under the roof sides and the barn door fabrication. As part of this, we found a good video to use as a guide for construction of the chick coop door. The video is meant for construction of a tabletop but it will suffice for our coop door.

A different core team also continued updating the images and text on the Chicken Coop Building instruction document based on the above suggestions and feedback.

Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 20th 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 came back from maternity leave and spent most of his time getting up to date with what happened for the last three weeks, and working on Anna’s menu plan. Many recipes need to be moved around in the menu plan and some of the recipes need to be modified to accommodate a large-scale kitchen operation like ours, versus a home cooking plan. Below are some images related to this.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 4th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Adam first worked on the recipe conversion calculator. He added in simple equations to convert US measurements to imperial and vice versa. He also started to learn how to create drop down menus in google sheets so he could make the calculator more streamlined and easier to use. Adam also reviewed Brian’s drawing of the kitchen layout. This made him think not only of worker use, but diner use, and led to an idea for a beverage station and also a bussing station. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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 DIY sustainable cities 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, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also updated all the badges in theHighest Good Network software with all of Alex’s work from the past several weeks. Pictures below are related to this.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also completed his 36th week helping, now focused on both the Most Sustainable Urinals page, in addition to finishing the Health Insurance research and page. This week Aidan completed the final minor revisions to the Community Health Insurance Webpage. He then returned to working on the Urinal, Hand Dryers, and Shower Head pages. Aidan worked on incorporating content from a spreadsheet, doing minor formatting, and proofreading and editing the content of each page. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav finished developing the code for a component that will allow us to input any city in the world for a volunteer and it will tell us their timezone. This is needed to help with coordinating calls and meetings with people around the world. Now we can easily add a person’s timezone to their profile when we set them up as a new team member. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Irene Clare (Full Stack Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Irene has continued to work on the people reports page. She pulled the recent changes for the people report page made by Rachit and worked on designing the report page with the user details and task details related to the user’s project. Irene also worked on the task table design and functionality. The pictures below relate to this work.

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin found 4 bugs and fixed 3. The first fix regarded the functionality of deleting and assigning badges, in addition to finding and fixing a bug he found while working on this issue. Deleted badges are no longer added when a user tries to add a badge after deleting one or more. Badges selected and not added are no longer assigned if a user tries to assign another badge. Kevin also fixed a bug in which a new user’s weekly committed hours wouldn’t be saved and the default of 10 hours would be used in its place. Creating a new user now functions as expected. Additionally, Kevin fixed the documentation for running the app locally, and the read.me file for HGNApp that previously referenced using Yarn as a package manager. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Miguel started the week setting up the app locally. At first he studied the codebase and had a meeting with teammates to try and understand the workflow. During the week he worked on formatting and testing files on the frontend using Prettier and ESLint (total of 276 files). Miguel pushed those changes into a new branch (miguel-codeformatting). He also tested and approved PR #367. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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One Community Welcomes Maya Callahan to the Research and Web Design Team!

Posted on March 11, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Maya Callahan to the Research and Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Maya is completing her final year at Arizona State University and will graduate with a B.S. in Biology and Society and a Studio Art minor. Maya found a passion for sustainability and the environment while progressing through her college career. By changing the focus of her major from neurobiology, physiology, and behavior to biology and society, she was able to learn about bioethics, history and philosophy of science, and science communication, all of which have been applicable to her work with One Community. After completing multiple papers regarding the previously mentioned topics and an undergraduate research project, Maya also acquired excellent writing and research skills that she is now putting to use. As a One Community volunteer, she is assisting in research for finding the most sustainable materials, as well as editing and proofreading web pages that are incomplete and/or under construction. More specifically for the Open Source Permaculture Design webpage, Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, and the EV Integration Solar Farm Battery Analysis page.

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