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

Posted on November 7, 2021 by One Community Hs

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 7th, 2021 edition (#450) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Global Sustainability Movement
One Community Progress Update #450

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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One Community Welcomes Brian Storz to the Highest Good Food Team!

Posted on November 3, 2021 by One Community

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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM BRIAN!

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Sustainable Eco-community Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Posted on October 31, 2021 by One Community Hs

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Let’s open source and free-shared everything needed for sustainable eco-community design. One Community is doing this so it includes DIY-replicable models for 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 October 31st, 2021 edition (#449) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Eco-community Design
One Community Progress Update #449

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community 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 worked on the different stabilized earth compositions to test for compressive strength. We had conversations with Marcus and Frank to keep their efforts moving along, reached out to get help with HVAC work and coordinated a review by Amin, and responded to and reviewed Daniela’s comments/edits on Walipini and Aquipini design criteria.

stabilized earth compositions, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

The core team started to generate another 3D SketchUp model of Murphy bed using the latest assembly instruction document. We checked sections on lumber requirements, tools and hardware items. We then started assembling the Murphy bed wall framing using SketchUp.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 67th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began analyzing and rendering the best possible location for the pump in the water storage system of the Net-Zero Bathroom. The best possible location was in between the bottom center barrel and the junction distributing the rain water to the barrels surrounding the center. The pump dimensions were found on the company’s page and were used to create a replica of the motor to have an accurate model. Different distribution arrangements from the pump were analyzed to determine the most uniform one. It was determined that the best possible distribution would be to have the pump connect to a midpoint junction between the outer set of barrels. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 53rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey completed the Murphy bed design PDF and submitted it for review by several other team members. We have gone through a couple drafts and almost all of the errors in wood piece sizes have been corrected. There were also some changes made to the layouts of the lumber cutting pages with different icons for saw blades and cutting directions. There is still some discussion to be had regarding the overview and cover pages, as well as the cut piece listing pages. Some of the page numbers have been revised since the last draft but the instructions still complete with 120 pages. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 24th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan completed his final review of the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial, the page with all the new content is now live! Aidan has also continued to provide comments, feedback, and guidance on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Battery Storage research. Additionally, Aidan began reviewing and revising the Health Insurance content. Below are some images related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 18th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela first screen captured some missing BioVeda courses regarding sustainable living. She then worked on updates for the Aquapini and Walipini report. She responded to comments and rewrote paragraphs in order to make them clearer. Some new images were incorporated into the narrative as well. Lastly, Daniela wrote paragraphs summarizing information from the notes she took on water harvesting for low-standard rural roads. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 15th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week, Shreyas continued to complete and conclude his work in the “EV Integration and 100% Off-grid Needs” report. He researched and found information regarding the charging of the Teslas that have been selected to be a part of the community. He has added more information regarding the choice made towards the Tesla Model X, information regarding the case studies and journal papers that have been listed in the report as support documents, and added information in the conclusion area. He also worked towards editing the sentences and addressing comments in the document. 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 14th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team organized all documents required for final testing. They put the stabilized earth spreadsheets together, wrote up the step-by-step procedures for the aircrete and the stabilized earth, and researched a document of previous compression tests on stabilized earth. They also completed aircrete calculations based on a 90% foam to 10% cement mixture and researched a location to buy dirt for stabilized earth. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community 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 added all the updated graphics, linked the updated spreadsheet, and proofread the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. The updated page is now live.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, Luis focused on the City Center Hot Tub Design’s blower component which will integrate air in the form of bubbles into the system. The current design is to have a separate air supply line to the spa from the blower, and then use venturi jets to integrate the air comfortably into the flow. Luis was able to roughly calculate the anticipated pressure from the water that would be met at the venturi jet which determines the sizing requirement of the blower. All that is left is determining the proper blower available on the market that is best suited for the system’s design. Moving forward, Luis will finalize the component selection and the electrical requirements to supply the energy team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 15th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the other half of section A_A called A”_A”. She edited section A”_A” according to the new cut line and new positions of the stairs. Venus also checked the floor heights and added furniture to the section. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 14th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos finished the updated assembly animations for the Pallet Bed. These included generating several items to be included in the render. A clock, glasses, books, pillow and bed sheets were added, all with proper physics behavior and animation as they dropped in. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she worked on the structure of the cupula and basement. The basement has been changed to a rectangular shape with new columns. Xuanji also added the columns and grid for supporting the cupola and worked on the grid for the Living Dome and Social Dome. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the application of the new moment frame columns system. After the meeting, she helped develop new floor plans for the living dome using the moment frame column system discussed. She also finished another option of the 2nd-floor plan for the Living Dome which coordinates with the original column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, Bryan redesigned the dormer to be less costly and increased the insulation. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi attempted a new grid for the columns in the Social Dome as the team wanted to see whether the new grid could spark new ideas. She started with a 20 x 20 ft grid, and through the process of elimination adjusted the shifting of grids according to existing walls back and forth to ensure the ideal placement of columns. The goal is to make the least amount of impact possible while building remains structurally sound. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community 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 working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We reviewed text and images of the document from the beginning and corrected/updated text and images that were not clear or detailed enough. We also discussed placement of the small studs on the second level on east and west wall framing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Another team member reviewed the chicken document through page 68. Discussions included adding short studs to the east and west upper walls, various images and different perspectives of those images, securing the hardware cloth, and rephrasing existing text to accommodate changes to some of the images.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 56th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the next round of adjusting the walkthrough video path and visual fixes based on last week’s comments and feedback. Then she started to fill the inside model of the structures in SketchUp, so they can match the design plan. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on energy calculations of the HVAC system and the comparison of the different approaches that one can take to get the values needed for infiltration. The values calculated for the tool-assisted calculation were also compared in graphical form. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 7th 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, through experimenting in the kitchen, Brian developed a soup base for vegan and omnivores that is delicious. It has an amazing nutritional value, is very cost effective to buy and to produce. Brian will keep working on recipes like this that can be the base of the menu and can optimize production and flavor for the kitchen. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community 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 is developing sustainable eco-community 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 32 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also added all the updated Economics and Stewardship badges to the Highest Good Network software. The image below shows some of these along with their descriptions.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 12th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex focused on correcting mistakes from the previous week and adjusting her new work according to feedback. Now the text is shorter and bigger. She also watched videos about text highlighting and how to make illustrations out of photography. In total, 51 images were approved this week.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah reviewed multiple times to eventually approve a PR. Additionally, she broke down logic in the streak badges, took notes on what she understood the goals of various code sections to be, and monitored how data changed as it moved through the code. Hannah identified two issues in the logic and solved them but it has not yet addressed the bug in them not dropping off. She will continue to move through this badge logic and focus on the bug next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav took care of deployment issues requiring him to go beyond and debug an issue outside his expertise. He successfully solved it in a short amount of time and got the system back on track. Later in the week, Pranav incorporated feedback on active PRs and implemented the suggested changes. He then picked up the implementation of the timezone component and integrated external API for helping to get the Timezone for a given location. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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One Community Welcomes Xuanji Tang to the Architecture Team!

Posted on October 27, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Xuanji Tang to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xuanji earned her Bachelor Degree of Architecture from a top-20 university in China and her Master Degree of Architecture from the University of Southern California. She received her certificate of LEED AP BD+C and is a passionate and qualified LEED resource also. Xuanji designed and was involved in vast project types and is especially interested in healthcare design. She has a passion for sustainable design and believes sustainable design will play a more important role in the future. As a member of the One Community team, Xuanji is helping develop the Duplicable City Center component.

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Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – One Community Weekly Progress Update #448

Posted on October 24, 2021 by One Community Hs

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From our perspective, creating a new sustainability paradigm is possible if we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough to spread on its own. One Community is making this new paradigm “easy enough and affordable enough” by developing open source and free-shared DIY-replicable sustainability components covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We will demonstrate it as “attractive enough to spread on its own” by building One Community as the first example of the more enjoyable, healthier, and enriching lifestyle that is possible when you combine all of these components.

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 October 24th, 2021 edition (#448) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #448

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 expanded Frank’s HVAC document for the Tropical Atrium to include a more in depth explanation of heat transfer. We explored different results from the Soil-Cement spreadsheet to determine what compositions to test for the Stabilized Earth mixtures and emailed the Compression Testing Team their weekly assignments.

HVAC document for the Tropical Atrium, Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm, One Community Weekly Progress Update #448

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 66th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed researching and comparing water pumps for the Net-Zero Bathroom. He researched 10 different pumps with varying specifications and added them to the spreadsheet. With the information in place, Jose Luis constructed graphs to compare them to the generated volumetric flow rate curve of the system. Based on the graphs he saw an incremental gain of flow rate when comparing more powerful motors. Though a weak motor would suffice initially, the pump would eventually begin to lose power with use and questionable reliability is also an issue. Due to this, he chose the Speroni KPM50 as the motor to be used. The other benefit of this model is its compact design and ease of installation. Jose Luis began to analyze where the pump could be placed to optimize its effectiveness and ease of maintenance. The pictures below show some of this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 23rd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Aidan finished reviewing and revising all the content on the Most Sustainable Insulation Webpage. He spent extra time updating the FAQ section, which included ranking the products based solely on each of the 5 different categories of scoring criteria (Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, DIYability, and Durability). Aidan also completed adding additional Resource links, and backed up the resources. Below are some images related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 17th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started her work by transferring information from her original excel sheet to the master excel sheet. She then uploaded the updated PDFs and AutoCAD files to the dropbox folder. Throughout this week Daniela wrote new content and calculated new values for the water catchment system of the Earthbag Village. This included measuring surface areas where rainwater runoff would occur. In addition, Daniela included a 2 foot rock swale into the stormwater management AutoCAD in order to account for excess runoff when the roadway is saturated. She then read through and collected integral information from an article regarding water harvesting opportunities for rural roads. Lastly Daniela worked on recording videos for grey water harvesting that were not downloadable. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 14th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on the areas that required changing with respect to content, editing, and clarifications in the final report document. He addressed most of the comments and started making the required changes. Shreyas researched case studies on Vehicle-to-Grid applications and added links to the same in the document, worked on gathering more information regarding the Tesla wall connector that will be used to charge the EVs, and also attempted to get more information regarding the commercials for the previously selected golf carts. Pictures below are related to this work.

And Emmanuel Okwechime (Mechanical Engineer) started working on the plumbing drawing for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. There were slight issues with the dimensions for the plumbing renderings on autoCAD so he drew out a rough shape of the pipes and connecting junctions. The drawings were done on a new version of the floor plan to avoid mistakes on the original. Pictures below show some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 33rd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian finished the latest draft of the energy modeling narrative report for Duplicable City Center. This report is necessary for LEED certification of the building. He completed the energy modeling guidelines following the ASHRAE 90.1 procedure and also attended to questions on the documents from the team. Please see below related screenshots of this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized his selection of the spa pump for the City Center Spa design. After considering a multitude of variables and determining which ones offer the largest impact to our system, he was able to come to a decision on what worked best for the system. The most important things to consider were energy efficiency, design compatibility, and performance. This combination had many solutions, and there could possibly be better, but after extensive research he found what he believes will be the best for our design. Looking forward, selection of the blower and some final components is next, while also planning to begin the design of the controls system for all of the elements of our system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus worked on section A_A, editing it according to the new cut line and new positions of the stair. She checked the floor heights and added furniture to the section. Since the structure isn’t complete yet, Venus plans to come back to this section and add columns later. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 13th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos continued improving the Pallet Bed render by integrating Jae’s feedback. He generated a new segment using the transparency effect used in almost every Layer of the joint. Now the render has one single visualization for the internal brackets and screw animations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she moved the North stair closer to the Dining Dome and confirmed that we used 3-run stairs for the exit staircase. Xuanji had a meeting with the structural engineer and added columns to the current floor plans and started moving the walls if columns blocked them. Pictures below are related to this work.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, George compiled all the details and results of the tests conducted. He created a report with a better explanation and understanding of the design process with assumptions, a problem statement, and concerns. George reattempted larger displacement tests on the new bracket design. He also tested a new bracket design using a quarter inch steel plate. Simulations were run to analyze stress and displacement. The center hub was tested again with the new thicker bracket to understand displacement. The pictures below relate to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya had a few meetings with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the right location of staircases in the Laundry based on the codes and structural requirements. She also started to work on the 2nd-floor plan updates in order to coordinate with the existing column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, Bryan focused on researching possible updates to the roof, updating the previous SketchUp and AutoCAD files, watching a lot of Youtube tutorial videos on AutoCAD, and ideating in Rhino3D. He then reanalyzed and recalculated the design and created the assembly instructions on Google Slides with a new layout. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to work on stair variations of 3-flight and 2-flight combinations. There was also a big discussion on needing more means of egress due to the large occupancy, especially for the Social and Dining Domes. Issues with displacement of columns during CAD edits were also discussed. After verification, there were still a few structural and architectural/furniture conflicts, and a larger conflict with the Living Dome 2nd floor. Yuxi proposed several sketches and finalized a plan for the living space. The next step is to put the not-to-scale sketch into actual measurements. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We continued adding detailed images and step-by-step instructions for installation of roof felt. We also put descriptions for installation of rake drip edges for east/west sides over the roof felt and the south-wall drip edge over the rake drip edge parts. We then added detailed images with supporting text for metal panel installation. Pictures below are related to this work.

Another team member worked on the sequential steps for chicken coop rafter placement, sequential installation steps for the drip edge, water and ice shield, and roofing. We reviewed 3 roofing videos related to this so we could design it appropriately.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 55th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng optimized the SketchUp model as it is too big after combining the landscape, structures, and inside details. She adjusted the new solawrap texture so its texture can be seen in the video walkthrough. The N,S,E,W letters are outlined with a different color brick. She also fixed the texture conflict in front of one of the structures. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank studied the condensation effects that air will have on the infiltration rate and thus losses of energy due to water condensing. Frank researched ways to reduce the losses due to such a phenomenon. Moreover, an online calculator was used for standard home HVAC loads to have a rough, order of magnitude comparison with numbers calculated for our design. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 6th 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. Brian started this week with a new intern from Escoffier Culinary School. Working with this first intern has been a rewarding experience and he looks forward to having more interns to teach. He also re-worded the ad for the culinary program and worked on recipes this week that included Grilled Pineapple Ribs, Basque Chicken and Vegetable soup, and a vegan Borscht. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 23 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week, Guy finished integrating feedback on previous badges and finished both the Stewardship category and the Economics category. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 11th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex corrected 12 posters from previous weeks using new images and slogans. 33 new posters were also created. Images for the new posters were taken from previous work done by Jaime and images found on Pixabay. Alex also made a bunch more new slogans and submitted them for review. Some of our favorite approved posters are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah began debugging the badge issues after spending a week or so understanding the logic of the code. She identified an issue in the logic of the minimum-hours badge that was also found in the x hours for x weeks streak badge. It is likely that this bug is present in other badges that do not drop off as higher level badges are awarded and she will examine the logic of other badges to confirm and address this in the upcoming week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav worked on solving previous PR’s issues, he also successfully debugged and implemented fixes for cross browser compatibility. Pranav then worked on debugging build errors in CircleCI to figure out build deployment errors in previously merged PRs. On the side, he is continuing implementing a timezone feature to detect location based timezone in the Create New User form. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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Global Eco-cooperative Movement – One Community Weekly Progress Update #447

Posted on October 17, 2021 by One Community Hs

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One Community is forwarding a global eco-cooperative movement for “The Highest Good of All“. We are supporting this through open source and sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We’re combining these to build teacher/demonstration hubs purposed to make replication easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate the lifestyle as attractive enough to spread on its own.

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 October 17th, 2021 edition (#447) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Eco-cooperative Movement
One Community Progress Update #447

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team connected Greg (a relative of the team) and George so the hub connector work can be reviewed by another mechanical engineer. We prepared weekly assignments for the compression testing team, reviewed and provided feedback to Frank on the HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, and assigned tasks and reviewed and responded to comments from the Compression Team. Pictures below are related to this work.

compression testing team management, Global Eco-cooperative Movement, One Community Weekly Progress Update #447

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 65th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began researching proper pump selection analysis to ensure the correct pump is used to provide adequate pressure and ensure an economical and reliable choice. He began by researching the relationship between inadequate pressure to frictional losses and operating pump pressures. Upon reading theoretical text for a knowledgeable analysis, he began calculating the frictional head losses of the system at various points and plotting the values with their respective flow rate. With that in place, Jose Luis generated a trendline from the graph and used the function describing the average change of head loss with respect to flow rate and generated a graph using the function at various flow rates. The purpose was to compare the graph to decreasing head loss of the pump. The intersection between the resistance curve and the pump curve is the flow rate the pump will operate at when in steady state. The next step will be comparing various pumps and seeing which one will provide the necessary flow rate without applying too much pressure to the system and not overworking the pump. The pictures below show some of this work.

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 30th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused on the Earthbag Village aspects of this. This week David received clarification from Jae on the remaining tasks needed for the roadways doc. He also met with Daniela to delegate these tasks and answered any questions that may have caused any confusion. David and Daniela are also working on making edits to the updated water catchment page due to the ring roadway width changes made for Earthbag Village. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 16th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started by uploading PDFs to the dropbox and attempted to share google sheets that contained tables with last week’s works. Daniela then started measuring the roadways that connected the parking lot, City Center, Earthbag Village, and Aquapini/Walipini. With this information she recalculated the roadway costs. She then itemized a list of materials for the water catchment/drainage system of the Earthbag Village. After that, Daniela worked on updating the water conservation webpage, which included creating a new CAD image of the Earthbag Village, rewriting some paragraphs explaining the decisions behind the design of the drainage system, and meeting with David and editing and revising her previous work based on that meeting. 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 13th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team tested Drexel as an alternative to 7th Generation Dish Soap to determine if the team can more reliably make aircrete that resists collapsing. The team successfully made a 3 cylinder batch (approximately 4.5 gallons). After 2 hours the results showed no noticeable collapsing. The team also looked for soil in the local classifieds and searched for clay to use for stabilized earth cylinders. The Team calculated needing about 0.7 cubic yards of soil. Supplies for cement were also restocked for current and future tests. They also continued organizing the documents in preparation for pre-testing. Pictures below are related to this work.

And Emmanuel Okwechime (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the plumbing aspects of the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Emmanuel did research on US plumbing codes and drainage codes for both residential and commercial applications. He also researched codes for safety and grades of pipes which must be met for our system to work properly. Emmanuel then made some AutoCAD drawings to equip him with the necessary plumbing drafting skills. Pictures below show some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 32nd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian continued the narrative report for the whole-building simulation of LEED. He processed the interior and exterior lighting, receptacle and process loads and HVAC systems for Baseline whole building simulation. This guide is applicable to model the building based on LEED guidelines. This Baseline design is another energy model to compare the energy savings of the two design cases. Please see below related screenshots of activity for reference.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis made some modifications to the City Center Spa design schematic, incorporating a submersible pump. This pump allows for rapid draining without the permanent installation of a pump and plumbing. This would make it significantly more convenient to drain the spa quickly for cleaning and any maintenance that might be necessary. Further research has also been completed with regards to the pump and the blower. Finding the perfect pump has taken some time, but after Luis’s collaboration with the team, a selection should be coming soon. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus started editing section A_A according to the new cut line and new positions of the stairs. She created a presentation to get clarification on some questions she had and uploaded all the past Revit and AutoCAD files to the “Final Files – Dormer and Cupola and Living Dome Roofs” folder. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 12th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos’ focus this week was finishing the edits needed for delivering the longest render of all the furniture: The Pallet Bed. Given the time it takes to process longer renders, he increased the frame rate and assembly speed so it would look like the other renders when edited in a video edition software. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Xuanji continued the floor plan updates. She shrank the boiler room and updated the stairs to make a fire approved enclosed staircase. She also started the roof design along with the change of the two staircases. Pictures below are related to this work.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. The week George designed variations of the bracket to see the effects of stress. He found that the stress in the wide brackets are lower by 2*e^8, but still higher in yield stress. He concluded that more design iterations are required and other factors need to be reassessed. He conducted FEA for different load conditions when the brackets are fully suspended. He interpreted the results to confirm the inferences and assumptions. He also completed assembly of the center hub, including the redesign of the LVL beams, brackets, and fasteners. The pictures below relate to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 34d week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya had a few meetings with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the best way to place the staircases on the north and south sides. She also helped update the architectural plans and built a SketchUp model of the staircases to help check the details in the floor plans. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, he began with deeper research on how to build shed dormers and how to increase dormer’s insulation on a dome building like ours. In addition, he also researched the standard hardwares needed, this included the costs, materials, and the 3D model. After understanding the problem and solution scope, he sketched and pitched a better frame construction and design and began to update the dormer 3D model in Rhino3D. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team involved in edits with the egress staircase and discussed changes based on feedback. With several proposals of changes through sketches, she updated the sketches into CAD with proper measurements. Later, the team found that the previous stair design is causing problems for entry and storage spaces. Yuxi verified the code for egress stair requirements and updated the CAD file for further feedback. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We set up a template format for images and text, added detailed measurements for fascia board cut outs, finished the section about sheeting of the roof with all necessary images and instructions, designed the drip edge SketchUp component, and started to generate images and provide instructions for drip edge installation starting with the eave drip edge on the north side of the roof. Pictures below are related to this work.

Another team member worked more on the chicken coop roofing system too. This week’s focus was adding photos that distinguish regular studs from king studs, step-by-step assemblage and text descriptions of exterior OSB, window, and upper and lower plate placements, and providing further descriptions of the rafter design. This entailed describing the necessary cuts so the rafters, while at an angle, are seated firmly and squarely on the top plates while accommodating the roof pitch.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 54th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng organized her recent work and uploaded the files so they are backed up to the cloud. She also did another round of updates and revision of the landscape design as well as the video walkthrough, mainly updating the structure details and the terraces around them. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on a different approach for calculating infiltration energy losses. The new approach is more exact and helps with predicting the real energy consumption of the Tropical Atrium and the Aquapini and Walipini designs. A comparison was made between both methods and graphs were adjusted to show the difference. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 5th 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 preparing recipes that can be used for the transitional kitchen, specifically soup recipes. He developed nutritious recipes that are exciting and interesting, including Sweet Potato with Miso, Coconut Milk Soup, a Thai and Chicken Soup, Base Soup Stock recipes, as well as some recipes interns/externs can use as examples for their projects. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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 supporting a global eco-cooperative movement through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 15 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) returned to the team to help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week Guy integrated feedback on the first round of badges for the Stewardship category and began design work on the Economics category. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked more on testing badge award functionality. He found more bugs and added them to the bugs report docs. The pictures below are related to this work.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 10th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex improved her 12 posters from week 9 and then created around 60 new posters with quotes that were already approved. She also created an additional 30 slogans and found around 100 new images that seemed suitable. What you see below is a sample of some of our favorites.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah continued to work on badge testing, adding the new profile dot/isAcive dot features, and deepening her understanding of the badge logic. See pictures below that are related to this work. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav completed resolving 2 low-priority issues in the Beta Test Bugs document. He mainly worked with the Admin functionality to Create New User and built features solving the issues on the existing form. He modified the form to look cleaner and added validations on the form fields. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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One Community Welcomes Narek Tsaturyan to the Software Development Team!

Posted on October 13, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Narek Tsaturyan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Narek is a Software Engineer professional in Southern California specializing in full-stack web development. He’s a founder of “Code n’ Coffee”, a coding meetup group in Glendale, CA and has worked on many projects using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, and NodeJS. Narek has also built websites using server-less technology such as NextJS, Gatsby and graphQL APIs. As a member of One Community, Narek is contributing to the development of the Highest Good Network application.

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Making Sustainability Easier – One Community Weekly Progress Update #446

Posted on October 10, 2021 by One Community Hs

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One path to making sustainability easier is open source sustainability solutions. With this in mind, One Community is creating open source and DIY sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combining them, One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub designed to share, teach, and evolve each of these ares for “The Highest Good of All“. 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.

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 October 10th, 2021 edition (#446) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Sustainability Easier
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability easier 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 on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. This week’s focus was pushing to the webpage more changes made on the Google Doc, while also accepting suggestions and adding any still needing to be addressed to the top of the doc for easy access and future resolution. The same team member also made some corrections to the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship document. The pictures below share some of this work.

The core team also prepared weekly assignments for the compression testing team, had a separate conversation with Marcus about the previous week and upcoming tasks, and reviewed their work and made plans to move forward with Drexel. We re-reviewed Frank’s work on energy estimates for the HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, and had a call with him to discuss what infiltration energy means and to apply all of our suggested edits to Walipini and Aquapini HVAC estimates. We also spoke to George about his findings and his need for someone to look at his work and approach. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 64th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed and reviewed the calculations for the flow rate and pressure of the net-zero bathroom water storage system. He calculated the reduction in flow rate and pressure in the system. The flow rate and pressure values were graphed in respect to the locations of the pressure drops in the system. The graphs give an insight on what areas of the water storage system affect the flow rate and pressure. He determined a pump was necessary to provide adequate water pressure to the system. Jose Luis also began looking at the calculations needed to determine the pump power and where to position it in the system to optimize its effectiveness and select the correct pump. The pictures below show some of this work.

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 29th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused on the Earthbag Village aspects of this. This week David met with Daniela and Jae to go over the remaining action items for the Roadways doc. After meeting with Daniela, David and Daniela figured out why the quantities for the roadways were off. They also reviewed some of the tasks assigned from Jae. Due to a few questions that needed clarification, David met with Jae to understand what action items were left to be finished. Per Jae’s request, David also sketched rough outlines of the basement and garage door dimensions. Lastly, he prepared the remaining tasks for Daniela to complete over the next couple of weeks. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 22nd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Aidan finished creating a section for each of the 20 insulation products. Each section includes an introduction paragraph, pros, cons, key features, and links for additional resources. Aidan also reviewed and provided guidance on the current solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. Below are some images related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 15th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela worked on the expenses of the roadways along with the updates for the Rainwater Harvesting page. She started off the week by creating tabs for the Parking, Roadways, and Walkways costs. She continued working on these throughout the week and provided charts that indicate the expenses for the roadways and walkways of the site. In addition, Daniela met with David to further discuss action items and any questions that were brought up throughout our communication. Daniela then made changes to the AutoCAD for the drainage system design that David suggested during the meeting. Once completed she created various pdfs that provide various angle-illustrations of the drainage system plan. Daniela continued making alterations to this AutoCAD to ensure the designs were clearly legible to the viewer. Lastly she found the pipe lengths and input the values into a chart. Pictures below are related to this work.

And Tiffany Gao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 10th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer now focused on a solution to non recyclables. This week Tiffany examined the cost analysis and potential suppliers for a plasma gasification system, carbon injection system, and possibly a dry sorbent injection system. Varying suppliers and companies provided different methods of such systems (whether that’d be individual gasifier units or an entire facility) along with the additional needs or components of the system, so extensive notes were taken down exploring each elaborated solution. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 12th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team did new jar tests, this time adding clay. The Team also tested making foam with Drexel, which proved to make more consistent foam than 7th generation dish soap. They also spent time working on documents that needed addressing in order to gain approval, and prepared for pretesting the cylinders. Calculations and materials lists were made for preparations for the pretest. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability easier 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 23rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis modified the schematic layout of the system to make it more presentable for the website. There are still some loose ends with the pump selection that should be wrapped up in the next few weeks so we can have a complete energy budget for the system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 13th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus made some changes on the final report for the dormers and completed the dormer task. She also started a new task and changed “section A” according to the new updated file and matched the dome sections with the plans. This is still a work in progress. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 11th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. After many discarded thoughts and ideas, Carlos proposed a creative way to show the animations on the Bed Pallet using see-through parts. These were needed because most of the parts were difficult to see because they were happening mostly inside the pallets. He also finished the Wardrobe Pallet. What’s left on Carlos’ agenda is to model the Folding Door Hardware because it’s in the cost analysis but not included in the models. This animation is shown at the end of the render so, so it should take little to no time to accomplish. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. She continued the floor plan updates, created the plumbing fixture block and replaced the previous plumbing fixtures. Xuanji also changed the stairs to enclosed fire-rated staircases, and managed the other two architectural team members. Pictures below are related to this work.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George completed the static analysis to determine the stress, strain, and deflection of the system under a given load. The results were interpreted and a large displacement was noticed. The brackets were redesigned for 0.1875″ to see the effects of load on this bracket configuration and associated loads were recalculated. George also started the redesign of the brackets for the ease of inserting the bolt and to match specifications. The pictures below relate to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she helped change the furniture which included the faucets, toilets, urinals, showers, and hand dryers, beds, wardrobes, and table sets from AutoCAD Groups into AutoCAD Blocks. Huiya also helped Xuanji revise the floor plans, enclosed the staircases on the north and south sides of each floor, and updated the roof plan by using SketchUp to build an initial model. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, he attended orientation and finished all of the onboarding checklist and action list. He clicked, read, and understood all of the links given on the google docs. Additionally, he researched online to understand the problem scope. Due to some technical issues, Bryan converted all of the 3D files into SolidWorks files, which is the software he is familiar with. Afterwards, he analyzed the 3D model in AutoCAD and SolidWorks before defining any extra problem / insight / solutions needed. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she and Xuanji discussed the existing problem with the egress stairs. Together, they proposed several possibilities that will resolve the problem, and finalized a design that will impact existing structure and other components the least while also meeting safety requirements. Yuxi then updated and organized the master sketchup model from Nov 2020 by renaming tags and regrouping the various categories so the components within models are now sorted by discipline, making it more efficient for all teams to locate respective items. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We generated updated detailed images for the rafter end cut outs in sequential order and provided explanation text with necessary measurements for all parts. We also prepared the Aquapini Sketchup file for generating download links using FileDropper and split the Aquapini file into three smaller files that could be accepted by the FileDropper application.

Another team member worked more on the chicken coop roofing system too. This week’s focus was further solving the roof design text to match up with the various drawings for both the chicken coop window frames and assembly, as well as explanations of the rafter cuts for the birdsmouth ends, and the notches in two of the rafters to accommodate the outriggers that allow for extended eaves.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 53rd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng combined and added the internal structure model to her master working SketchUp file and then updated the Lumion model as well. She also updated the central compass graphic/design to include NE, SE, NW, SW points and letter indicators for N, S, E, and W. Last but not least, Qiuheng adjusted the Lumion video path to include the outside and inside of the structure. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on fixing the calculation mistakes that were found earlier in the week. These errors were due to a faulty conversion of temperatures from Farenheit to Celcius and they are now resolved. He also revised the chart graphs for an easier understanding of the energy consumption details. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 4th 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 entrees that encompass the spirit of the project. He also tested out a new recipe and developed a sauce for Vegetable Chow Mein. Brian additionally prepared for an interview with a potential culinary student who is interested in the 6 week intern program. Next week he is gearing up for soups that would be very cost effective for this project. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability easier 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 making sustainability easier 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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) returned to the team to help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week Guy spent time familiarizing himself with the task and creating and submitting for feedback the first round of badges for the Stewardship category. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below. You can see some of this work here.

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked on testing for badge award functionality. He set up a local environment and edited the Cronjob function to run every minute. He then changed hours within mock accounts to run tests and find bugs. Narek found multiple bugs and added them to the bugs report docs. The pictures below are related to this work.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 9th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex worked on improving efficiency creating slogans. She was able to create around 50 additional slogans and found 50 additional images for them. Later she will apply the slogans after approval and feedback. She also improved posters from week number 8 (around 20 posters), and created new posters for week number 9 with approved slogans (also around 20 posters). What you see below is a sample of some of our favorites.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Hannah merged PRs and had her own PRs merged. Additionally, she collaborated with team members to identify alternative solutions to bugs, see if others observed the same behavior she observed, and to find support in debugging code. In an attempt to prepare herself to help debug the badge bugs, she began going through the userHelper.js document to understand logic behind the badges. Hannah is half way through and will finish next week. Finally, when diving into an issue with deleting blue squares and saving profile edits, she found a discrepancy between two models and made an edit that solved it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav worked on solving the email summary issue, and also added a feature to add an ‘Orientation and Initial Setup’ project for all new users created by the Admin. He then started working on a validation issue present in the same form for creating a new user. Pranav found there were no frontend validations present, the form only checked for valid inputs upon submission. He reviewed the refactor code in the recent PR and attempted resolving the failing tests. And after his discussion with co-developers, Pranav decided to implement the modifications himself that will beautify the UI as well as solve the validation issue at the same time. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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Building a Better World for Us All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #445

Posted on October 3, 2021 by One Community Hs

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One Community is focused on building a better world for us all through open source and sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, these will provide the foundations for teacher/demonstration hubs designed to teach and evolve these models for “The Highest Good of All“.

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

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 October 3rd, 2021 edition (#445) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Better World for Us All
One Community Progress Update #445

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all 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 on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. This week we updated more images to make them more understandable, organized the remaining questions that need to be answered, answered and closed the comments we could, and made further integrations of suggestions and updates to the live page. The pictures below share some of this work.

The core team also prepared weekly assignments for the compression testing team and responded to communications throughout the week, reviewed the energy calculations for the HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, and continued to work on further understanding the solar energy sizing energy consumption estimates. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 63rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued developing the spreadsheet for the flow and pressure calculations of the Net-Zero Bathroom water storage system. The calculations are to predict what flow rates and pressures the system will have in order to install the correct pump for adequate pressure in the system. In order to gather enough constraints, he modeled a portion of the system as an electric circuit representing the flow rates as current and pressure losses as resistors. The values inputted into the resistors were based off the ratios of head losses calculated. By doing this Jose Luis was able to determine ratios between flow rates for the synthesis of constraints. Once the flow rates and pressures are calculated he will calculate the pump specifications needed. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 51st and 52nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. These past two weeks Stacey has been finishing up implementing the comments and directions from the murphy bed instructions PDF. She submitted a draft for review in August and there have been a diversity of suggestions that she has resolved. Specifically, we were able to translate all of the remaining names of the components into the selected languages. There was also a rework of the page numbering system to include dashed/hyphen page numbers instead of using letters, and a new saw blade cutting icon added to cutting pages. There could be more changes needed in that area of the instructions. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 21st week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week he wrote introductory paragraphs for the 20 insulation products he has researched and evaluated in the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet. Aiden has also been working on adding photos, key points, unique features, and additional resources for each of these products. Below are some images related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 14th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week she worked on the rescaling and calculations for the roadways of the site. Daniela used values obtained from David in order to start the adjustments to the excel expense sheet for the Unlimited Expense Plan. She rescaled the Roadways Minimized Expense Plan AutoCAD and measured the lengths of the roadways. From there she was able to calculate the square footage of the pathways along with the cubic yards and their overall costs. Some values for the linear footage seemed large to Daniela so she re-measured the pathways on the Unlimited Expense Plan AutoCAD. After that, she finalized scaling both AutoCAD files and created an expense plan for Earthbag Village, along with finding those measurements. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 13th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas re-ran the techno-economical analysis for three altered cases to understand the effect of commercials based on independent chargers rather than a combination of chargers. Shreyas concluded that for the given location and input parameters, the variation of cost for charging is independent of the time of charging. He also completed most parts of editing the final report of the EV integration report – pictures, editing, aligning, labeling. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all 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 continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation. This week, we added wind and seismic design criteria for the state of Utah and added the lateral resisting system for both horizontal directions. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the final components of filtration for the City Center Spa design. Finding the proper filter required a better understanding of the spa volume and how often it needs to be recirculated. The term for this is the “turnover rate”. According to industry standards, every 8 hours of spa usage, every gallon must be run through the filter. This allowed the proper sand filter to be selected for our design and a new defining parameter for the pump was discovered. Luis realized that the pump should operate at around 35 gallons per minute in order to meet the design requirements of the filter and heating unit. Next week he will be looking at variable speed pumps that can be used to reach this target flow rate. Understanding the pump will allow the blower to be selected simultaneously. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 12th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, now focused on the dormer window designs. This week, Venus made some changes to the final report for the dormers. She added new details, sections and more pictures. Venus graphically showed how the dormers meet the International Building Code for fire safety and set up a meeting with Xuanji who will be managing her helping match dome sections with the updated plans. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 10th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos continued this week by completing the Wardrobe Render video. He adjusted camera angles and changed colors of the screws so they would be more noticeable. He also uploaded a preview of the final render. Next week Carlos will finish the wardrobe after re-rendering a small segment (door screws animation) and will entirely focus on the Pallet Bed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. She updated the restroom in the Social Dome on the first floor, the bedrooms in the Living Dome on the first and second floor, and the restrooms on the third and fourth floors. Xuanji also added some dimensions in the DWG master file and submitted the complete floor plan for review. Pictures below are related to this work.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George redesigned the beams and brackets to eliminate GD&T errors due to computational roundoffs. He completed the assembly with all the fasteners, and researched the materials of bolts and nuts. He also researched the mechanical properties of LVL beams and added the material properties into SolidWorks. George additionally started the simulation process. The pictures below relate to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she focused on working on the Duplicable City Center architectural updates according to the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. Huiya redesigned the bathrooms and moved them to the entrance of each bedroom. She also helped Xuanji revise the plans with updates such as adding a door in the first-floor restroom storage room, deleting the door on the first-floor restroom, adding additional storage rooms on the third and fourth floor, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all 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

his week the core team continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We updated all images related to changes affected by corrections of placements of double plates on south side. We also discussed and made decision about two possible placements of OSB sheets on the roof and updated the text for images related to roof framing.

Another team member worked more on the chicken coop roofing system too. Updates this week included details concerning the rafter sizes, birdsmouth cuts, and including the outriggers for east and west walls with the rafters oriented in a north to south direction.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 52nd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng focused on revising SketchUp and updating the model in Lumion renderings. After changing the details based on previous comments, Qiuheng re-edited the rendered video. Now the fly over is clockwise without pushing in on specific areas and then pulling out. The video has been updated to a circular path with no changes in direction. Wall issues were fixed and the central area was updated to reflect an artistic compass design also. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on the summary for the energy consumption by correcting mistakes and adding more visuals for an easier understanding of the process needed for the calculation of such loads. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 3rd week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on developing recipes for the transactional kitchen. Some of the recipes included rice pilaf, black beans, salad dressings, and sauces. Brian started listing possible marinades for proteins to provide variety when eating different protein, vegetable and starch combinations. Brian also worked with Escoffier Culinary School to start the culinary student intern program with One Community Global. He is looking forward to working with some of the next generation of the culinary world. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all 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 a better world for us all 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 24 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also hours of additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 34th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris got the Beta environment working after a catastrophic crash. He then did troubleshooting to get the Dev environment working also. Pictures below are related to this work.

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Narek started work on testing the badges. He started with drafting and completing a written set of objectives to be performed for the badges. He then discussed best approach methods with Hannah and agreed to split testing each item. Narek continued with setting a testing library, but some challenges were met with running the models for each object. Next week he will continue to work on the badges and mark any issues and bugs met in the codebase. The pictures below are related to this work.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 8th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. She fixed posters from the previous week by changing the contrast for the images and text to make it more readable, repositioning the attribution, and updating images where requested. Alex also found new images and learned more about One Community’s mission and focus to create new image text. What you see below is a sample of the approved ones.

Cal Vert Wong (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Due to the complexity of the existing codebase, it took Cal more time to triage and locate the required code. Multiple code at different locations made it confusing and prone to creating more bugs hence he spent more time to track down which code is being called so that no new bugs are introduced when trying to resolve the current ones. Cal also reviewed a few PRs, commented on one of them to suggest a cleaner code, and made a PR himself to resolve a bug. Currently he is looking at the timer bug which can be quite challenging to be resolved. Pictures below are related to this work.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah gathered necessary information to manipulate the app cron jobs and begin testing. Once she was able to begin testing, she went through and tested large groups of badges. Hannah found that most badges within a category demonstrated the same behavior (successes and bugs). Additionally, she was able to address two bugs in the HGN Beta Test Bugs document. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. First he spent time setting up his local environment. During the setup, he faced issues and had to debug the issue and finally solved it by seeking help from the other development team members. He then started working on High Priority Bug from the Bug Tracking Document. Pranav replicated the issue using the Dev accounts and verified the functionality and reviewed previous PRs. He found the working issue with Hours Logging solved and that the email generating issue was not possible to replicate in the Dev server. Pranav also found the incorrect due dates causing issues in the dev server and started working on a solution. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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