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One Community Welcomes George Koshy to the Engineering Team!

Posted on December 30, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes George Koshy to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

George is a highly analytical and skilled mechanical engineer with an interest in Aerospace engineering. He has a broad research history and meticulous attention to details, enjoying investigating, studying and understanding necessary data to optimize methodologies. He has experience with research in tribology and fluid flow for private institutes, product design, development, and testing for private institutions, and performing well in fast-paced work environments. He’s passionate about sustainability, the environment, and creating a better and brighter future. As a member of the One Community team, George is helping test and design the most safe, affordable, and practical DIY hub connector bracket for the Duplicable City Center .

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One Community Welcomes Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko to the Design Team!

Posted on December 27, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Alexsandra earned a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Art from the Academy of Art University and an MBA from SFSU. She has worked with professionals in a diversity of industries including tech, education, retail, sustainability, and the nonprofit sector and covering everything from UX design to branding/packaging to social media marketing campaigns. Alex is interested in working with sustainable companies and organizations who are serious about climate change and is planning to pursue her PhD in Business in order to explore the challenges that graphic designers face in the business environment. As a member of the One Community team, Alex is helping create sustainability-focused social media graphics and memes and icon creation for the Highest Good Network.

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Open Source Eco-village Construction – One Community Weekly Progress Update #457

Posted on December 26, 2021 by One Community Hs

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Let’s open source eco-village construction. One Community is supporting this with open source and free-shared eco-community components covering 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 December 26th, 2021 edition (#457) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Eco-village Construction
One Community Progress Update #457

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source eco-village construction plans 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 Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #233 of Dean’s work and the focus was 6 more hours or lighting testing and adjustments, re-rendering to check the results, then trying other strategies. The process is ongoing.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 75th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began creating a section in the Net-Zero Bathroom instructions/tutorial for the construction of the rain barrel support structure. He began by researching various ways of connecting wooden beams and analyzing the connection types in the rendering of the structure to determine the necessary supports. He then searched for the determined support brackets to hold the beams in place and added them to the material list. Jose Luis rendered the support brackets on Solidworks to illustrate the instructions the user must follow to build the structure. The instructions will include these illustrations along with step-by-step instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 58th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey updated more pages in the instructions related to aesthetics and the layout, confusing graphics and inconsistent icons and drawings. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 8th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Becky focused on revising the process of the photos on the current webpage she is working on. She has renamed, resized, and compressed the photos again. Becky is currently reentering them in the webpage, and is going to change the SEO in order to connect more long-string phrases. Pictures below are related to this work.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) completed her 5th week helping with website design. This week Karla worked on getting as many items on the Tools and Equipment tables as possible. She focused on correct table placement (tools, equipment or materials) as well as providing correct links. Karla also made sure to add them each to the correct dropbox folder. She was able to finish the google doc for tools and equipment and is now working on finishing items on the materials google doc. See below for pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source eco-village construction plans 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 completed the final review of the Grid-tie Remote Energy Infrastructure Setup and Construction How-to Tutorial within the WordPress web editor and added comments on the Google Document. This was to provide a technical review of the content and ensure sufficient and clear enough details were present for anyone to understand the processes outlined there. Pictures below are related to this.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 32nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis was able to select a modular control panel system for the City Center spa design. This system is suited to wire all of the previously selected components and is compatible with the built in software. The software will allow the user to program and control the system via wireless connection through smart devices or ethernet connection. The last thing Luis completed this week was organizing the file structure of the selected components. This included organizing the manuals and spec sheets into an easily accessible folder for convenient access. Pictures below are related to this work.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 25th week helping, now with content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on finishing up the tutorial for the SAM program. He worked on detailing the different steps on the installation and the different options for the models that the program works with. Moreover, he started reading on the installation of the HVAC systems and the planning to do so. The pictures below relate to this.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 23rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed section B-B and started to complete section C-C. She added columns and furniture according to the new main-floor plans and basement plan and corrected some parts. Venus also had a meeting about the roof with her supervisor for more options and to discuss what she needs to do next. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 16th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she was working on updating the tables in the “City Center Project Specification and Design Basis” doc, according to the new floor plan. Xuanji also did some research for the newly proposed roof plan with Venus. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya completed her 12th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural SketchUp model’s updates. She started to work on adding the furniture of the first-floor Living Dome according to the latest CAD drawing and original SU model. Huiya found that there is an extruded wall in Room 8 that looks strange, so she will discuss it with Xuanji to see if there is any other way to fix that. She also found that some furniture needs to be adjusted, such as removing a bedside table so that the closet door can be opened, or a long closet will block the entrance to the room a bit. Huiya will discuss these problem with Xuanji and Yuxi in next week’s meeting. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi went through last week’s modeling problem discussion with the team. She worked on resizing the Dining dome custom tables in SketchUp, making sure the resized furniture still followed the required width and length, as well as number of seats. The second floor wall of the Dining Dome was trimmed following the shell’s shape, and construction of the north staircase was initiated in the model up to the third floor. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. He completed and documented all the work along with results and inferences for review, and uploaded in the drive for peer review. George also looked into various ways to bend steel plates. The amount of force required to bend a quarter-inch steel plate depends on the length of the bent. Preliminary research shows that bending requires a hydraulic press but other options are being explored. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 7th week helping with web design. This week Yuran began creating the “Raising Sheep – Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Sheep Stewardship” page on the staging page behind the scenes. She added the titles to the Table of Contents and added the anchors for the titles. Yuran also added the YouTube videos to the page, adjusted the formats, and began adding the main content to the sections. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj completed his orientation and general onboarding and specific onboarding checklist. He also read the hub connector analysis report and the peng_Z_Sourish.pdf file to get updated with the work that has been done so far on the project and ran a simulation study on the V bracket file to see how it will react.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the comprehensive review and final edits and additions to our Sheep research. This week we completed the rough draft review and more research. We researched more on guardian animals, Centaurea maculosa, food amounts for sheep, and finalized intros for the vaccination section and non-religious stance of OC. All that remains are updated fencing plans, more research on why sheep and goats should be kept separate, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation review. See below for the pictures related to this work.

The core team additionally worked on updating the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We corrected images and text related to the adjusted height of the chicken coop entry door, finished updating the section for the sliding chicken door installation on the west side of the coop, and started to work on a section of the document related to the building of the shutters for the ventilation openings. Pictures below are related to this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 64th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng spent time fixing the people’s movement issue in the Lumion video rendering. She added movements to figures walking in place. The video clips were also adjusted to change how we fly into the structure and another version was tested to show the overall first view first, then show the close walkthrough. Pictures below are related to this.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 26th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started by downloading a new CAD version of the Aquapinis and Walipinis. Once downloaded, Daniela labeled each structure and avoided covering any values that showed which plant types were used. Daniela then included these in the report, but went back into CAD to correct minor details for the aesthetics. She reviewed all images within the Aquapini and Walipini report to make sure all were updated with the new graphics and responded to various comments in order to receive feedback. Daniela wrote a small narrative outlining the details of the plant types and internal environments for each structure. edited the paragraph she had previously written, addressed new comments from the Roadways report, and adjusted the calculations to show the correct road types. This ended up altering the cost analysis leading to a new unlimited cost of $8 million and a new minimized cost of $4 million. Pictures below are related to this work.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 14th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on the cost analysis and updating the equipment selection for the Transition Kitchen. In Brian’s expert opinion we needed to add an oven, freezer, and a refrigeration unit to the kitchen. He also worked on adding the addition equipment and utensils that would be required to make the kitchen and dining room completely ready to serve 50 people three times a day, and worked closely with Anna on developing her recipes. Below are some images related to this.

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the open source Permaculture Design staging page. This week Jennifer worked on adding the remaining images from the “Sun Sector Example” section and added new text and imagery from the “Step C: Components” sections. Jennifer optimized images, linked resources and fixed any existing formatting errors. She also sought out suitable replacements for any links that were broken or missing. See below for pictures related to this work.

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) completed her 3rd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna created seven new recipes: Spicy Sweet Potato Veggie Burrito, Tuscan White Bean Pasta, Pork Gumbo, Moroccan Sweet Potato Stew, Drunken Noodles, Coconut Curried Golden Lentils, and Golden Milk Smoothie. Many of these recipes are still in the review process. Anna is in the early stages of developing the Blueberry Peanut Butter Smoothie. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source eco-village construction plans 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.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source eco-village construction plans 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.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 19th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. Alex focused on making new icons using Illustrator and Procreate. She created 4 icons that were inspired by images from previous icons, concentrating on color contrast and composition. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya tested and finished fixing the badges-function bugs for deleting a badge from a person’s Profile, hitting “save” not closing the window, and inability to edit/choose featured badges. After Navya raised that PR, she also checked and approved PR #330 Bug fix so that the Firefox and Safari browsers would show the Team Member addition fields correctly, and then did a GitHub rebase and raised as new PR for #337 (Dev new max personal record badge). Pictures below are related to this work.

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

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Highest Good Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #456

Posted on December 19, 2021 by One Community Hs

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Highest Good design is about setting aside our differences to work towards positive transformation of all life on Earth. From our perspective, this should be seen as non-controversial, non-political, and simply being common sense. More specifically, when One Community uses the term ‘Highest Good of All’ we mean: non-dogmatic, good for people, good for personal and group economy, and good for the planet. We’re developing open source and free-shared resources that apply this 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 December 19th, 2021 edition (#456) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Highest Good Design
One Community Progress Update #456

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community forwarding highest good design 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 communicated with Dr. Bai and Rhonda from the University collaborating with us on the compression testing, and put together a next-steps experimental plan for the Compression Team. The same team member also responded to comments on the Walipini and Aquapini design work. Pictures below relate to this work.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 74th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed creating the rainwater barrel priming section of the Net-Zero Bathroom Instructions/Tutorials. The section provides clear instructions on how to prepare rainwater barrels before installing them into the rainwater storage system to reduce labor time and accurate dimensioning. The priming of the barrels involved installing a spigot, a tee, a threaded cap and other components that could be difficult to add once attached to the system. All components were rendered and installed in Solidworks to capture images of the processes. The images provide the user more details and facilitate the visualization of the process. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 57th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey updated many pages in the instructions. Some of the comments received from the team are aesthetic and deal with the layout. Other comments deal with confusing graphics and inconsistent icons and drawings. There are a few comments per page and it’s taking some time to resolve all of them but every week is progress. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 25th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela added to the cost analysis of the water catchment/drainage of Earthbag Village. She remeasured and confirmed the lengths of the pipes along with finding the amount of wye connections and junction boxes there were. Small alterations were made to the drainage plan during this time as well. Daniela then added the new information to the cost analysis excel sheet. This included researching and finding an accurate cost estimate for the materials. She then used CAD to draw a diagram of the section view for the Earthbag Village road. This CAD was made to show how some of the materials in the excel sheet were planning to be used. Previous calculations on the excel sheet were analyzed, but because some of the values were not explained properly, new calculations were included based on the design of the CAD image. Daniela also wrote a small narrative for the wye and junction boxes, in addition to a paragraph explaining the section view. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 7th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Becky worked on adding more photos to this 150-page webpage. She figured out a way to keep the best quality as well as a way to resize and optimize simultaneously. Next week she will progress even further. Additionally, Becky revised certain parts of her first webpage on solar panels. Pictures below are related to this work.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) completed her 4th week helping with website design. This week Karla focused on the formatting of the new Tools and Equipment page. This included figuring out the appropriate placements of tables and proper layout for sections on said page. Karla finished off the week by finalizing corrections on the Dome-Home Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance page and backing up all resources used into a separate folder. See below for pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding highest good design 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 completed the 2nd-to-last review of the Solar Incentive Rates and Net Metering Research page. We added and updated graphics, further improved formatting, SEO, and other details. The page is now live. Pictures below are related to this.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 31st week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on an older layout of the City Center Hot Tub design and compared it to the team’s current model. The purpose of this was to generate ideas for the lighting component of the system, while also validating the systems efficiency by comparing components. He discovered that the optimal power for the pump’s performance in the system was consistent with the old model, as well as the lighting component being one of the most efficient on the market. While Luis has not confirmed a lighting source for the design, it will be selected in the near future and implemented into a wiring schematic being developed through LTspice. Pictures below are related to this work.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 24th week helping, now with content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on the tutorial of the SAM program. He specifically worked the technical data inputs necessary for the program to simulate the situations for the example project. This information was analyzed and the concepts behind the data were explained. The pictures below relate to this.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 22nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the roof and sent the Revit file to her supervisor for more feedback. She worked on section B_B and changed the position columns and furniture and corrected various other parts of the section according to the latest plan updates. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 19th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week Carlos modelled the springs for the Folding Door Hardware, corrected cameras, and finally added the fading-in effect. So far, he has produced two segments for this final part of the render, which took about one day each. Carlos calculates that he should produce about two more next week and, depending on feedback, will then be wrapping this up. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 15th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week’s focus was working on updating the sub-area floor plan and total floor area detail drawing on the master AutoCAD file. She also updated the tables in the “City Center Project Specification and Design Basis” document according to the new floor plan. She will continue these tasks next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya continued to work on SketchUp model updates. She started to work on adding the walls and doors of the second-floor Living Dome according to the latest CAD drawing. Huiya also found that there is an extruded wall in Room 8 that looks strange, so she will discuss it with Xuanji to see if there is any other way to design it. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi went over items with the team to reverify before editing in CAD areas like the duct reroute and kitchen appliance offset from the wall. She re-centered and recalibrated floor slab angles of the Dining Dome overall because the dome orientation has shifted. Yuxi also made adjustments for the staircase opening and adjusted the furniture arrangements while checking for placement clearance for sitting and standing. The Dining Dome second floor door wall (window and door) were changed to match the drawing too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George completed the assembly for the center hub connectors. He fixed errors with meshing and ran stress and displacement tests. George then completed a static study to assess the amount of stress on the 0.2″ thick steel bracket. This bracket design had a higher amount of stress and the model failed under full load. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 6th week helping with web design. This week Yuran had a Zoom meeting with Jae to learn and practice how to SEO a web page. She also worked on creating the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies page. Yuran also made the table of contents on this page, completed the content of the article, and made spreadsheets for the page.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued the comprehensive review and final edits and additions to our Sheep research. This week we worked on more edits to the Sheep doc, researched “Water Rights” hoses, created introductions for 3 sections including vaccinations and sheering, and added new details after researching the necessary vaccination for the orf virus that encompasses the CDT vax for overeating and tetanus. This is the only universally required vaccination, but there are others. See below for the pictures related to this work.

The core team additionally worked on updating the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We updated sections for the entry door installation that included updated images and text for building the door, installation of the door stops, and attachment of door hinges, door handle and door latch. Pictures below are related to this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 63rd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the design plan of the Aquapini Walipini project in AutoCAD. She adjusted the text size and locations so people can read them better, added and fixed hatches for different plants, and did some color management to make the drawing more readable and beautiful. Pictures below are related to this.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student), as part of her 25th week helping, also added a paragraph on plumbing for the Aquapini & Walipini report and worked on labeling the plan views of the detailed Aquapini and Walipini layout. Lastly Daniela tried to make alterations to a 3D CAD in order to accurately show the swales, a process that is still a work-in-progress.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 13th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked with Anna on developing her recipes. Brian also had an interesting phone call with Chef June Pagan, who is willing to help out with recipe development and can provide advice but cannot commit 10 hours a week right now. Brian also worked on developing his own recipes and took pictures of Smoked Andouille Eggplant Ratatouille with Tomato Sauce. Below are some images related to this.

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the open source Permaculture Design staging page. This week Jennifer developed the sections “Research and Analyze Outside Influences” and “Sun Sector Example”, optimizing images, adding content and formatting. Jennifer focused on providing detailed alternative text when it came to page images and tracking down current content for any outdated links. See below for pictures related to this work.

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) completed her 2nd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna created eight new recipes: Kale and Butternut Brown Rice Pilaf, Summer Vegetable Pasta Salad, Nutty Sweet Potatoes, Cheesy Grits, Cashew Fig Chia Pudding, Strawberries & Cream Chia Pudding, Tropical Green Smoothie, and Beet, Apple, Carrot Smoothie. Several of these were created for the ‘speciality breakfast food’ and ‘beverages’ categories. Many of these recipes are still in the review process. Anna is also in the early stages of developing the Tuscan White Bean Pasta recipe. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community forwarding highest good design 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.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community forwarding highest good design 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 for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 30th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Health Insurance research and page. While the webpage is now live, there are still sections that he is completing/revising. In particular, he is focusing on developing the conclusion section. Aidan has been writing sections about premiums, deductibles, the trade-off between the cost of premiums and deductibles, medical emergencies, the importance of prevention, the importance of having an insurance plan, and cost savings by opting for a bronze plan. He has also been working on the spreadsheet demonstrating the level of cost savings by selecting a bronze plan. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 18th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. Alex created 7 icons and also an additional 3 versions of the icons. Images were changed in procreate and illustrator and simplicity and bright colors were the focus.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Navya started working on the Featured Badges bugs including the broken “Save Changes” button, this button not closing the window, and a problem where clicking the “x” to leave the window then gives a blank screen. Also a delete badge issue. Her focus was checking the code, logic implementation, api calls, etc. Navya mostly completed working on this but has one more issue and then full testing for any other dependencies or blockers. Pictures below are related to this work.

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One Community Welcomes Hannah Gardner Hattersley to the Software Development Team!

Posted on December 16, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Hannah Gardner Hattersley to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Hannah is a React.js developer with a background in education and the nonprofit sector and an experienced on-her-feet thinker who values data-informed decisions and thoughtful communication. She is excited rather than discouraged by bugs in code and enjoys finding an alternative creative solution. As a member of the One Community team, Hannah helped with debugging, testing badges, and reviewing code for the Highest Good Network.

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

Posted on December 12, 2021 by One Community Hs

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One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure through open source blueprints, plans, and tutorials covering food, energy, and housing. We are also open sourcing sustainable and what we call “Highest Good” approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 12th, 2021 edition (#455) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team completed a detailed review and provided feedback on the upcoming Eco-community Electric Vehicle Integration tutorial. Pictures below show some of this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 12th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on developing new recipes for the transition kitchen. He also worked on developing ideas that would utilize products from the previous meal and day and began working closely with Anna Cheal, the new Culinary Nutritionist on developing new recipes and helping her understand the needs of the culinary project. Below are some images related to this.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding the evolution of sustainable infrastructure through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ecologically Addressing Food – One Community Weekly Progress Update #454

Posted on December 5, 2021 by One Community Hs

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 5th, 2021 edition (#454) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ecologically Addressing Food
One Community Progress Update #454

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing food through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued working with the Murphy bed assembly instruction document. We added more comments related to the assembly of the Night Stands and provided corrected measurement numbers in the comments. We also worked with the SketchUp 3D model of the City Center to provide the beam framing of the City Center dome structure for the dormers on the first floor and exported the 3D SketchUp model to an TSL file.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #231 of Dean’s work and the focus was more lighting testing and adjustments. This last week Dean disassembled the wall and identified there was a hidden layer blocking his previous lighting attempts. With this problem removed, he returned to his previous process of fixing/testing the bottle lights to make them look realistic. The most recent of these tests is shown below.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 72nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began adding diagrams and renderings to the water pump installation section of the Net-Zero Bathroom instructions/tutorial along with details and calculations. The section was created to give detailed instructions, including the purpose of installation, of the pump fittings and accessories. Calculations were provided in the section to give the user an insight on the assumptions and analysis taken to select the correct pump. The provided graphs and descriptions also give the user design flexibility, allowing for scaling of the system and choosing the correct pump for their needs. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 23rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started by making new edits to the Earthbag Village Drainage Plan based on comments and suggestions that Jae had left on the pdf. She continued to make updates and made a new design for the drainage plan of the inner sector of Earthbag Village. After creating the design and implementing it into AutoCAD, she emailed David to see what his suggestions for the layout would be. Daniela left the right side of the drainage design clear so that David had room to illustrate a potential design. Afterwards, she printed new pdfs for other Earthbag Village piping/drainage plan. She then addressed comments on the Aquapini and Walipini report in addition to rereading the water calculations excel sheet and going through sites to find images that would help better the narrative. As some images were previously brought into question for their aesthetics, Daniela attempted to make alterations. These changes did not look appealing and due to new Aquapini and Walipini AutoCAD designs she decided not to finish changing the image. Lastly, with the new CADs, Daniela incorporated the updated designs to the report and started collecting information to construct a paragraph for the plumbing section of the report. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 5th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Becky continued with the Roadways, walkways, gutters, and parking lot report tutorial. She finished adding most of the content and is about ready to move on to processing and adding the images. Pictures below are related to this work.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) completed her 2nd week working on the open source Dome-Home Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance staging page. This week Karla finished applying final touches to the Dome-home site, which included fixing links to videos and review of paragraphs and references. Then she moved on to her next assigned task of the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling page. Karla added the requested section under Basic Equipment Selection Criteria, reviewed the paragraphs and formatting, and added corresponding images needed. She also applied and adjusted the resource section to the proper format and links. See below for pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 20th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus had a zoom meeting with her supervisor and they decided to make different options for the roof according to the new updates of the roof plan. She then added the new roofs to the previous Revit file. Venus is still working on the roof and will be able to change the main 3D model after approving the roof. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 18th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos was able to work this week on the Pallet Wardrobe. He finished 90% of the components of the Bifolding Door Hardware, given that the last one includes complex shapes he decided to focus on the animation, including camera angles, transition smoothness, objects opacity animation, etc. Carlos then produced a draft render. He noticed some missing objects but the location of many of them was correct, so now he needs to link the objects so they move following the doors, add color to them, and mirror said objects to the other side of the wardrobe. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 11th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on the menu design, which involved using leftovers for up to 5 days in different ways. Brian added a new category to the excel spreadsheet which includes kitchen work to ensure that the prep for each meal can be accomplished within the parameters of the project due to time and labor constraints. Below are some images related to this.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is ecologically addressing food through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 30 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

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

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

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

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Building Sustainable Eco-villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #453

Posted on November 28, 2021 by One Community Hs

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Open source building sustainable eco-villages is a path to making comprehensive sustainability accessible for anyone that wants it. One Community is creating the free-shared and DIY-replicable components needed for this. They include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 28th, 2021 edition (#453) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Eco-villages
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team followed up with DomeGaia regarding continued issues for collapsing aircrete. We started Frank on a new task, namely making the solar tutorial more user friendly, began conversations with experts to understand which stabilized earth mixes the Compression Team should test, and how to make sure appropriate clay is purchased. We also added an introduction to the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini design writeup, and created an outline.

aircrete, Building Sustainable Eco-villages, One Community Weekly Progress Update #453

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #230 of Dean’s work and the focus was more lighting testing and adjustments. This last week three hours were spent working on how to show the light coming trhough the different colors of the bottle wall.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 71st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis added a wooden platform made from a 2 by 8 to the net-zero bathroom pump rendering. The purpose of the platform was to elevate the pump and make the swapping of the pump easier by having the platform removable to leave a gap between the pump and the floor. After completing this task, he began rendering images of the pump installation process. The illustrations consisted of the step-by-step process and proper installation of accessories such as a digital pump control and a pressure gauge. These accessories will allow for monitoring and automatic control of the pump system. Next, the images will be added to the net-zero bathroom instructions/tutorial, along with descriptions and recommendations. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 22nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started off by reading through and going over all new comments left of the documents she had been working on, along with comments that were left on some DropBox files. Daniela incorporated new edits to the Earthbag Village Drainage Plan AutoCAD based on the comments Jae had mentioned and created new PDFs for the changes and wrote a small summary on the Earthbag Village pavement types for the Water Catchment Report. As more comments came in for the Drainage plan, Daniela continued to make changes to the CAD. Once completed, Daniela tried multiple ways to export new PDFs onto different sized paper that would provide the best formatting. In addition, Daniela responded to various comments on the Aquapini and Walipini report and wrote new material for two sections, one of which required some research to confirm that the correct information was being provided. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 18th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team made aircrete using recommended measurements provided by DomeGaia: 9.4 lbs cement, 0.7 gallons water, and foam to reach 4.5 gallons of overall aircrete. In addition to this mix, the team created another set of aircrete using extra cement. Both batches of aircrete did not hold up and shrinkage was again observed. Then the team worked on creating a document showcasing all of the compression tests done from June to the present day. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 4th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week Becky started developing the staging version. This tutorial has 150 pages and a lot of headings and a huge table of contents. She met with Jae, which helped as he went over more efficient ways of formatting than what was used before. Becky will continue to build this page into the coming weeks. Pictures below are related to this work.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the open source Dome-Home Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance staging page. This week Karla did on-boarding on Wednesday and previewed and reviewed the google docs for this page that was assigned to her. On Thursday she took the first steps to establishing the page by mimicking the layout that was requested. After properly placing the layout Karla began to add the desired functions, fonts and style. Friday was a continuation of applying all desired criteria to the page. See below for pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

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

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

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 19th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus made some changes to the roofs according to the latest update of the roof plans and her supervisor’s suggestions, had a zoom meeting with her supervisor about these roofs, and added the new roofs to the previous Revit file. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 13th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she worked on updating the layout of storage shelves in the basement, the furniture in the Social Dome first floor, and the fountain in the swimming pool. Xuanji also cleaned up the walls and columns to export the floor plan pdf for review by the Core Team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished the SketchUp Model for the first-floor living dome, which included building up the walls according to the latest CAD drawings and placing the new rescaled doors. However, after placing the second floor CAD drawings into the SU Model, Huiya found that many places on the first floor and the second floor did not match up. So she set up a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi, and they decided to modify the CAD drawings first, and then continue modeling after each floor was aligned correctly. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to work on the SketchUp model to correct door sizes and add specialized door modeling. She remodeled the kitchen serving bar table in the Dining Dome according to the updated CAD file, as well as other kitchen appliances. Later in the meeting with the rest of the team, Yuxi discovered a few issues with placement of columns and walls through 3D modeling, thus requiring updates to the CAD file to deliver a more accurate plan. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Min Jung Koo (Industrial Designer) completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week Min Jung began to build the basic beam structure in Rhino. It took some time due to the complex structure. She started on building the garble dormer on top of the beam structure on the CAD for the second floor. Min Jung continued with research on the most commonly used materials and structure of the garble dormer along with the windows. The pictures below relate to all of this.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began a comprehensive review and final edits on our Sheep research, consolidating some paragraphs for further clarity, addressing grammar and sentence structure issues, researching lamb and ewe costs, and discussion on overall approach to bringing everything together for web publication. Check out the pictures below related to this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 60th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng finished updating the Aquapini and Walipini Design in AutoCAD and adding the notes for each element. She labeled the plant names and created multiple tabs, including the one with notes, a clean design version, and planting design only for team use. After completing the CAD drawing, she uploaded everything and shared them with the team. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on the summary document related to the Aquapini and Walipini HVAC designs. The methods of infiltration that are used on the Tropical Atrium were used to determine the infiltration energy calculations of the Aquapini and Walipini designs. He was also introduced to the System Advisor Model Program to help with solar design. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 10th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on developing the transitional kitchen menu design layout to ensure that the waste was minimal and so that the kitchen crew could perform all the duties necessary to cook for the volunteers every day and every meal. Brian also interviewed and brought on a new volunteer. Below are some images related to this.

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the open source Permaculture Design staging page. This week Jennifer worked on populating the first pages of the Open Source Permaculture webpage. She worked on the table of contents, images, general body of text, fixed header formatting, and added anchor links to the new additions. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 18 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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One Community Welcomes Yuxi Lu to the Architecture Team!

Posted on November 28, 2021 by One Community

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

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

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