One Community welcomes Vicente Subiela to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vicente became an engineer in 1993 (University of Zaragoza, Spain), and then was researching CO2 balances and energy & economic balances in life cycle analysis within the R&D center CIRCE. He started as project manager in the Canary Islands Institute of Technology in 1997, where he was involved in off-grid autonomous-renewable-energy-driven desalination projects (electric and thermal processes) and other sustainability activities until 2014, when he retired after a larynx cancer. Four years later, he completed his PhD on technical & economic optimization of solar & wind powered reverse osmosis systems. He has more than 20 publications. Vicente has been active since 2014 by attending courses in photography, graphic design and coaching. He balances his activities with hiking, meditation, cooking, dancing, and family life (3 kids). He is also an active member in a gender equality men’s association, and hosts conferences to share his experience and life learning during and after his cancer. As a One Community volunteer, Vicente is leading the solar design and research team.

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One Community is building sustainable living models based on open source and free-shared DIY-replicable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Our goal is to demonstrate our complete model as a teacher/demonstration hub living option that is easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread and evolve globally on its own.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 21st, 2021 edition (#417) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Living Models
One Community Progress Update #417

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with the transformation of the tables into images for the new “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” page. We edited more images, placed the latest previously created images from the calculation tables on the site, researched some technical terminology and construction details to make it easier for future readers to understand, found some videos that explained these concepts, and made a few more corrections to the template tables from last week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Transforming the Tables Into Images for the Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations Page – Click to Visit

The core team also continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week we focused on Section 7 of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring doc: Horizontal Wing Insulation. This included Required Usage Parameters based on the AFI (Air Freezing Index), Finish Grade, Extension Length, Materials, and Shallow Foundation Consideration. Associated links were reviewed, additional research on portions of the section, edits completed, and a list of questions compiled for further elaboration of the chapters within the section for clarifications to novice builders. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Conducted Edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #216 of Dean’s work and the focus was creating and testing the guest room furniture textures. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on Creating and Testing the Guest Room Furniture Textures – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 34th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed updating the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions by adding user recommendations, adding renderings and video recommendations. He calculated and added the calculated estimate to the heating element section of the tutorial/instructions and briefly explained how the elements prevent pipes from freezing. Additional insulation costs were added to the cost analysis and the power consumed, along with running costs, of the heating elements were added to the power budget of the cost analysis. Jig saw blades were researched to determine an appropriate blade to cut through thin sheet metal with good maneuverability and durability. The selected blade was added to the materials/tools introduction of the tutorial/instructions. He began reviewing and updating the rainwater collection and use calculations to determine if the calculations are correct and whether the roof size is sufficient to self-sustain its water supply. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 32nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey finished the cutting pages and created a PDF with all the sections. Next step is to have this checked in 3D for accuracy. We’ve tried our best to do all math correctly but there may have been some unrealistic layout or maybe too many pieces are too close together. Checking in 3D will finalize it all. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Finished the Cutting Pages and Created a PDF With All the Sections – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 29th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She continued to discuss the content with other team members and edited the tutorial to reflect updated design changes. She did so by altering the size of the sheets for the horizontal wing insulation, researching alternative options for mineral wool adhesive tapes, researching non-toxic insulation options to fill gaps around the dome perimeter and updating the detailed description of how to place the insulative layers around the dome. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked on creating a section view of the basement floor grading plan. Additionally, he created a grading plan for the first floor, did cut area calculations on the basement floor, converted bullet points on “how to compile a pavement recommendation” into a paragraph format, and worked on creating blocks for erosion control on AutoCAD. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on Creating a Section View of the Basement Floor Grading Plan – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 10th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had a weekly meeting with David discussing the additional detail and calculation of the basement drainage plan and the ground floor drainage plan. He did some calculation of the elevation of the pump and the pipes’ transition and added some additional detail required by David to the basement drainage plan drawing. He also finished the ground floor drainage plan. See pictures below showing some of this work.

Continued Woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 9th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente researched different sources of data for the electricity demand in our location to have a reference of hourly demand. He also continued the support to Luis and Jason on their respective activities and reviewed the solar sizing tool (XLS file) to update the “readme” (First tab) so that the different tabs are easier to be understood and used. He then started to create preliminary graphical monthly energy balances to identify the gaps between energy production and demand and redid the simulations and tests with the SAM software. Pictures below are related to this work.

Researched Different Sources of Data for the Electricity Demand in Our Location – Click for Solar Energy Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 6th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan primarily worked on the Plastic Recycling content, by researching and writing about strategies for recycling, reusing, and repurposing plastic. So far, this research has included ways to reduce plastic consumption, options for reusable and sustainable alternatives, innovations of bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, and several creative DIY projects for repurposing plastic (such as planters and bird feeders). The pictures below relate to this work.

Researched and Wrote About Strategies for Recycling, Reusing, and Repurposing Plastic – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 3rd week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson researched on the solar hardwares from different companies on the market. He found that no company provides the pricing for their solar hardwares and he wrote emails to ask for a quote. In addition, he found a few companies which showed great credibility through their past work, and he attached their webpage link to the company names on the google sheet. Also, most companies do not show the specs for their hardware. He plans to email those companies for a quote and hardware specs. Furthermore, he found more solar technology on the market that shows great efficiency and lifetime. He also found the most recent cost estimation from an accredited research lab. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Researched the Solar Hardwares From Different Companies on the Market – Click for Solar Energy Setup Page

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 2nd week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana started and completed the first draft of the written section for the page. The necessary research was done to ensure the work matched the page. Pictures below show some of this new content.

Continued Researching New Additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation Tutorial – Click for Page

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed her first week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle watched videos on permaculture greywater treatment projects, took notes, and began researching state laws on greywater systems. The pictures below relate to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Research Natural Greywater Processing Pond Design – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 24th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng recreated the planting design spreadsheet in google slides. She also worked on modifying the walkthrough rendering based on the feedback from last week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Recreated the Planting Design Spreadsheet in Google Slides – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 24th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week, Ksenia answered questions from Evan’s review, made notes about what she’s done so far in this project, and wrote a letter to Christopher with additional questions she had. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 13th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian revised the cupola roof and cupola ceiling of Duplicable City Center for LEED Platinum Certification. The R-value is more efficient than ASHRAE Baseline. He checked the required inputs to facilitate the cooling and heating loads based on the available information developed by the team, and checked and updated the fenestration spreadsheet summary. Additionally, he assessed the LPD of the Building, requested additional inputs, and processed/revised the proper naming/tagging of materials in DesignBuilder for easy reference. He also changed the infiltration rate of each thermal zone as required by ASHRAE std, processed the lighting power density of each zone or spaces in the model, and updated the infiltration rate of the building. Please see below progress report for reference. The pictures below relate to this work.

Revised the Cupola Roof and Cupola Ceiling of Duplicable City Center for LEED Platinum Certification – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 6th 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. David began the week by holding a meeting with his team. He answered questions regarding the AutoCAD design and assigned more design action items to his team for the week. Because his team is preoccupied with design duties, David took on the technical writing and report responsibilities for his team this week. David has completed the review and changes for the pavement design tutorial and has reformatted it in a way to improve readability and comprehension for the general public. David is also in the process of completing an excel template for grading calculations. Lastly, he has made changes to the design for the City Center by changing the driveway into the basement into a stairway due to the sloping for the driveway making it way too long. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued with the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial Development – Click for Parking Lot Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week he identified and fixed a problem in the model (from the period values T= 822466.455) where some points in the model were faulty. Faulty beams were identified, the problems were resolved, and the period values returned to normal. Live load was added and activated in the model. Pictures below are related to this.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Designs Using SAP2000 – Click for Duplicable City Center

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha did the load calculation for LVL beams and new angle brackets. More simulations are needed and she will work on this and a longer bracket size in the coming week. Sunitha will also work on changing the bending angle and increasing the number of holes in the bracket. The pictures below relate to this work.

Worked on the Load Calculation for LVI Beams and New Angle Brackets – Click for Duplicable City Center

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis continued his work on the City Center eco hot tub design. This week he focused on solving the hot tubs heat transfer analysis. After completing his Energy 2D simulation of the hot tub, Luis had some guideline numbers to reference. He then moved on to studying the combined heat transfer caused by convection and evaporation. He was able to gather all of the variables necessary to calculate the surface temperature and heat flux of the system. These values will allow Luis to continue and find the evaporative heat loss, giving him the two most important values when looking at the energy transfer. Next week he’ll be wrapping up his analytical calculations of the hot tub when in use, and will begin analyzing the hot tub when covered and idle, along with the energy usage when starting up the system. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Working on the City Center Eco Hot Tub Design – Click for Natural Pool and Spa Page

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week Evan coordinated with Ian on the roof insulation for the second floor, prepared a preliminary equipment schedule, air device selection, and kitchen ventilation calculations. He also reviewed the kitchen appliance cut sheets. Some of them are gas supplied and will need to be replaced. Below are some images related to this work.

Continued Leading the Final Design Process for the City Center Open Source HVAC Designs – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. This week’s work was concentrated on designing deer protective fences that consist of double fences 4’ apart. We built an 8-foot tall pole/double-rope fence on the inside perimeter of the garden. Between the poles on the lower rope we hung wind activated homemade decorations. We also updated the right leaf garden bed to a 3D model and placed an extra bench with a storage compartment under the seat near the South entrance. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Herbal Garden Design for Behind the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 25th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu worked further on updating the models in Rhino and Lumion. Unfortunately though, the model has gotten too big to be further developed by Jiayu, so she spent the rest of her week organizing her files and work to pass along to a new designer. Pictures below relate to this final week of her work.

Continued Updating the Models in Rhino and Lumion – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on organizing, verifying, and summarizing the work and information collected by previous team members regarding the climate battery. He attempted to organize into a section regarding general information about climate batteries, most useful for someone looking to build their own and then presenting the specific work done on the One Community design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 34 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 14th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we edited the value of Community Contribution, both the website and mind map. The mind map is evolving to have a more organized appearance. The website text has improved flow, less passive voice, less long sentences, and added content. Formatting has also been updated, bullet-style changed, anchors moved to correct location, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.  

Edited the Value of Community Contribution on the Website and Mind Map – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 42nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen finished the CSS tuning for the badge counter. The filters for the badge list were also completed: text search on “name”, “description”, and “project”, dropdown menu on “category”, and sort (ascending or descending) by “ranking”. Pictures below are related to this work.

Finished the CSS Tuning for the Badge Counter – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 38th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were working on the changes in user profile, reviewing comments, and resolving pull request conflicts. We also changed the forgot email text in the rest api. A new message was also introduced in the user profile to indicate the successful save changes upon different actions inside the user profile. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on the Changes in User Profile, Reviewed Comments, and Resolved Pull Request Conflicts – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 30th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on incorporating a savings analysis of the plan chosen vs. a standard plan that would be used for an unhealthy American. She also worked on adding more details to the introductions in the spreadsheet. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on Incorporating a Savings Analysis of the Plan Chosen Vs. A Standard Plan – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 25th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris fixed errors having to do with the Organization Data and the Time Entry Form not being cleared when using the timer. Chris also worked on sending an email whenever a Time Entry was edited, but is still working on it. You can see some pictures related to this below.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 24th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week we created images for weekly progress updates #453, 454, 455, 456 and #457. You can see all these new images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #453, 454, 455, 456 and 457 – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy worked on 6 different Pull-Requests where he left some comments for some that were outdated, or included some conflict files. He also approved one PR where everything seems to work normally. There is a bug when users try to update classification for a task, but it does not fall under the PR branch. He also committed more code and updated more unit-tests for the UserProfile component. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on 6 Different Pull-requests – Click for Highest Good Network

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For those interested in building eco-permanence, One Community is creating an open source and free-shared template. It includes replicable and sustainable designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combining all of these will provide teacher/demonstration hubs to help more and more people implement and evolve these designs for even easier and more affordable implementation globally.

• 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 14th, 2021 edition (#416) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Eco-permanence
One Community Progress Update #416

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with the transformation of the tables into images for the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. We added most of them to the website and also did some research on how to improve this process by editing images in batches with the Gimp Open Source Editor. Then we started a new spreadsheet to contain all the different table templates options, so that future researchers can use them to create beautiful tables from the start. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Transforming the Tables Into Images for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

The core team also continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week we provided edits and comments for sections 6.3 Install Thermal Insulation, 6.6 Pour Concrete, Screed, and Set Control Joints, 6.7 Broom Finish, Cure, and Seal, and 6.8. Metal Sheet Flashing. We also reviewed discarded info for these sections to salvage appropriate and useful info for final narrative. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Conducted Edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 33rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions by adding user friendly formatting, additional diagrams, and additional steps to various sections. The formatting included a clear and concise introduction to sections followed by a picture of the end result along with a space for a future instructional video. The sections were updated by adding more labels to diagrams and breaking steps down into smaller substeps for more clarity. Steps were added to the roof access flash section that included connecting and securing the interior roof panels of the roof access. He also reformatted the section covering the final fastener installation of the interior roof. The format broke down the steps from being paragraphs long to a few sentences clarifying the process further. Once the final updates are complete, new sections to the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions can be integrated. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 31st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey started laying out the wood pieces for wood cutting sections of the instructions. As mentioned in notes, some of the pieces are longer than 96” and therefore longer than the 8 foot long boards they are cut from. We need to double check each of these pieces are correct. If they are, these pieces will need to be cut into 2 pieces and all assemblies need to be updated to match. Considering these larger pieces are used for bed panels and wall panels that might hold considerable weight, we want to plan as best we can for where the boards should be cut. Maybe a few extra inches give or take will make a difference as to constructing the now 2pc boards on to the frame and wall section without risking stress or breakage of boards. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Began Laying Out the Wood Pieces for Wood Cutting Sections of the Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 28th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She finished the final section of the document – Section 7 (Horizontal Wing Insulation) – for initial review, eliminated out-of-date content, and edited document drawings to reflect the current design. Hannah also added additional images to aid in the description of installing the vapor barrier and thermal insulation around the domes. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark focused on converting the hand-drawn grading plan design from David to AutoCAD. He had to additionally add general grading notes and begin calculating the cut area for the grading plan. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Focused on Converting the Hand-drawn Grading Plan Design to AutoCAD – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 9th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had a weekly meeting with David discussing the basement floor plan and the drainage plan. His work focused on drawing the top view of the basement drainage plan in AutoCad and calculating the different parts’ elevation of the drainage plan. The AutoCad Drawing also included the drainage plan legend and the construction notes. See pictures below.

Continued Woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 8th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente had multiple contacts with new members of the team to discuss technical and organizational matters, namely in the hot tub design and in the selection of PV panels. He tested a 2D modeling option to find out the energy demand from the tub and made suggestions to Luis to assume this task. He also helped Jeson to find information about PV prices in USA and discussed with Jae about the accuracy in the calculation of the total energy demand and how to face it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 5th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan wrapped up the Styrofoam Recycling webpage by finishing additional research, designing a graphic, and adding written content in order to provide information about measuring effectiveness of using DIY Polystyrene projects for insulation. He also completed creating tutorials and comparison tables for methods of Glass Recycling DIY Glass Kilns and Glass Crushers. Aidan also reviewed the current Murphy bed assembly instruction, where he provided suggestions to improve the readability and appearance. Lastly, Aidan began revising the current Plastic Recycling content.

Wrapped Up the Styrofoam Recycling Webpage and Reviewed the Current Murphy Bed Assembly Instruction – Click for Polystyrene Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 2nd week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson progressed on the research of solar hardware. He started by researching available types of solar panels, and listed their advantages and disadvantages. Considering this research would be used for future village design, he listed a few promising solar panel techs that are still under development or not fully matured also. These technologies are showing great potential, and needed to be considered for the future village design. In addition, he researched the available solar panels on the market for their specs including power, max voltage, max current, location, and warranty. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Researching the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also joined the team as a researcher and completed her 1st week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana started to research sustainable insulation options including Comfort Board, Kenafcrete, recycled Styrofoam, and Rockwool products. She completed the necessary research for each option to be integrated into the Insulation Comparison sheet. Pictures below show some of this new content.

Joined the Team and Began to Research Sustainable Insulation Options – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-permanence 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 modeling in SketchUp 3D the window framing for the shed dormer windows of the second floor of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome. This week we finished the initial design and framing and submitted it for review to the architect.

Finished the Initial Design and Framing for the Shed Dormer Windows and Submitted It for Review – Click for Duplicable City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 23rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng reorganized the planting design materials in google slides for future review and adjustments. She also exported-to-video the first draft of the outside walkthrough in the plant and herb garden and submitted it for review. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Reorganized the Planting Design Materials in Google Slides for Future Review and Adjustments – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 12th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian finalized/double checked the required material for Duplicable City Center. He also coordinated the Energy Modeling with the volunteer who joined to help finish the HVAC details. During their coordination meeting they agreed to revise the present HVAC details with the help of cooling and heating load calc from DesignBuilder Software. Ian provided suggestions for the material that will be useful to reduce the energy consumption of the building. This material / insulation can be installed to external walls, roofs, ceiling and floorings. He also updated the shading of the energy model and changed the material title for a better presentation and to distinguish the material more easily on the render. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer)  completed his 5th 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. David held a meeting on Monday to set action items for the week for his team. He assigned his preliminary drainage design sketches to Mark and Samson to design using AutoCAD software. Additionally, he has sketched up the roof drainage plan, ground floor drainage plan, and a section view. He is also currently working on an erosion control plan for the City Center project. Along with this, David made some changes and incorporated Aidan’s comments to make the pavement design tutorial literature and breakdown easier to understand for the public. Lastly, he is preparing an excel file for grading calculations so that Mark can utilize and incorporate it into the plans. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued with the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial Development – Click for Parking Lot Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha designed an angle bracket with 2x2x3 and 2x2x4 galvanized steel, which is readily available for $0.98 and provided the link for procurement details. The nice thing about this material is, if you are bending, the bending radius can be 2.5 times the material thickness. The analysis details were provided in the google doc. Comparing with previous analysis results, a 2x2x3 angle bracket is cost effective, efficient and can withstand more load with high yield strength when compared to 2x2x4 angle bracket. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Working on the City Center Connectors for Building the Domes – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis continued his work on the City Center eco hot tub design. He focused on simulating the heat transfer that occurs in the hot tub while in use. To start, some primary calculations were done using MATLAB to get an understanding of the problem, and all the knowns and unknowns. Through this code, he will be able to determine the overall heat flux throughout the system after a few modifications. Luis took another approach to the problem by modeling it in Energy2D, a heat transfer and fluid simulation software. Energy2D allows the heat transfer over time to be analyzed. Both simulations made great progress this week and he looks forward to presenting his findings in the coming weeks. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Continued Working on the City Center Eco Hot Tub Design – Click for Solar Microgrid Page

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his first week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. Evan calculated the space ventilation airflow per ASHRAE 62.1 2019. He re-evaluated the floor areas and found some of the room floor areas in the analysis were wrong and/or missing. The Kitchen Cooking area, Back-Of-House kitchen and Dining Hall 1 zones are separated as they all have different loads. He excluded Cooler & Freezer areas from the floor area and separated basement area from the boiler room. He also excluded Cooler & Freezer areas from the floor area. He added ventilation calculations for the Hallway 1 & 2. He corrected the library floor area and included the Cupola Room (assumed to be Health Club category) in the ventilation calculations as well. He provided restroom exhaust rate calculations. He referred to the zone occupancy table in the CAD file for the number of occupants. Evan also had two one-hour Zoom meetings with Jae to review the current HVAC design and plumbing system design and created a list of action items for upcoming volunteers Mohammad and Cindy. Evan also coordinated with Ian to review HVAC ventilation data for energy load calculations and reviewed and provided comments on the current plumbing drawings and HVAC system design outline narrative for all three domes. Below are some images related to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Leading the Final Design Process for the City Center HVAC Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-permanence 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 Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 24th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the animation for the outdoor landscape by integrating the detailed feedback from last week. She updated the roof structure and adjusted the material for the roof, made numerous updates to the landscaping, removed all palm trees, and fixed issues with animated people. You can see some of these changes below.

Updated the Animation for the Outdoor Landscape by Integrating the Detailed Feedback – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on organizing the information collected by himself and all previous team members into a cohesive document that will eventually be shared on the website. He also highlighted areas that will need to be rewritten for reading by a general audience. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Itztli De La Torre (Executive Chef) completed his 3rd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Itztli worked on finishing up an ingredient list for the second week of menu planning and worked on testing a couple of recipes. Pictures below show some of this research, organization, and menu testing process.

Finished an Ingredient List for the Second Week of Menu Planning and Tested Some Recipes – Click for Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building eco-permanence 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 emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 13th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we created the first drafts of 9 mind maps covering the values of Communication, Love and Compassion, Diversity, Honesty and Integrity, Freedom, Evolving Sustainability, True Community, Consensus, and Personal Growth. We used Google to create these images. These images were created to support the individual core value pages and have a graphic summary of the textual content on the website.

Created the First Drafts of 9 Mind Maps for Our Values Pages – Click for Our Pledge Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 41st week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen wrapped up more items left on the badge display. First, the badge report component (pop up when clicking the “Badge Report” button) was updated to show the real data, and a checkbox was added to the last column. Second, the front end counters for the total badges earned by the user and displays in the badge section on the dashboard (previously the number of badges earned was a static number). Now a user may earn a badge several times and their count will reflect this. Third, the badge section filters the timestamp of each badge earned and shows the newly earned badges separately. She is now working on the CSS of the badge counter to display the number in a small circle with each badge image. Pictures below are related to this work.

Wrapped Up More Items Left on the Badge Display – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 37th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team completed the remaining Rest API changes to clear the random password once used. Once they logged in using the temporary password it will redirect to the “change password” screen and the user can reset their password from there. Also made the changes in the user profile about save button and popup after save. Pictures below show this work.

Completed the Remaining Rest API Changes to Clear the Previous Random Password – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 29th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor researched how a dire medical emergency will be covered by the plan she had chosen for this organization. She researched the various costs associated with cardiovascular and created an example breakdown of what the costs would look with and without coverage. She analyzed how these types of costs can be prevented in the first place. She worked on explaining how to read the spreadsheet that ranked the insurance plans, and what it was trying to show. She also gave a breakdown about how diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer can be avoided in order to avoid having such high medical expenses. Pictures below show some of this work.

Researched How a Dire Medical Emergency Will Be Covered by the Plan She Chose – Click for Insurance Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 24th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week we created images for weekly progress updates #448, #449, # 450 and #451. You can see all these new images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #448, #449, # 450 and #451 – Click for Current Blog Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy worked on reviewing, testing one PR that covers both Back-End and Front-End of the creating badge feature. Vy also continues work on unit-test files that are related to the UserProfile component. Pictures below show some of this work.

Reviewed, Tested One PR That Covers Both Back-end and Front-end of the Creating Badge Feature – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru continued working on showing tasks on the project reporting page. She tried various ways to pull tasks data from the API but was not able to. After debugging, she noticed there is an error in the API itself. Currently she is blocked by this API bug for the project reporting page. She has requested access to the database to try to debug more for this issue later. Apart from that, she worked on showing tasks on the person reporting page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on Showing Tasks on the Project Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Vignesh Chandrasekharan (Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Vignesh worked on setting up the React HGN app and worked on WBS #: 4.3. He finished implementing the popup that displays instructions on how to work with a WBS. He also changed the classification input text field into a dropdown that contains the 8 choices given here. Vignesh also included edit buttons near the task numbers displayed in the projects tab so that it is easy for the user to edit tasks. Finally, he worked on fixing some eslint issues that originated from the react project setup process. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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How do we launch 1000 years of sustainability? One Community has spent the last ten years creating the roadmap for this. Simplified, it is to demonstrate a model of sustainable living that is easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. Teacher/demonstration hubs will help anyone interested in participating. Once it spreads sufficiently to cross the tipping point where we can say we have achieved year ONE as a truly sustainable civilization, we’ll have succeeded in launching the 1000 years.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 7th, 2021 edition (#415) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

1000 Years of Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #415

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team finished beautifying the Structural Engineering and Calculations tables for the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page.

Finished Beautifying the Structural Engineering and Calculations Tables – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also updated the complete open source library Work Breakdown Structure, marking complete the items that were done and crossing them off, adding a couple missing items, updating all the assigned tasks, double checking the sequence of numbers, and making sure that any Resources with general names like Civil Engineer or Video Editor were labeled as ‘No’ under Assigned. See pictures below.

Updated the Complete Open Source Library Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Page

And the core team conducted edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc sections 5.4, 5.5, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, and 6.7. This included the exterior waterproofing membrane, vertical interior insulation, vapor barrier installation, welded wire fabric placement, pouring and screeding of concrete, setting of control joints, and broom finish, cure and seal. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Conducted Edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #215 of Dean’s work and the focus was creating and testing the kitchen table texture, fixing broken dome textures, and importing SketchUp models into 3DS Max for texturing.

Continued Helping With The Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 32nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the rough draft of the Insulation and Heating Element sections of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. In the instructions he included the steps required to construct the necessary structures to help further insulate the rainwater storage room of the Net-Zero Bathroom. The steps were written out clearly and included details on the reasoning behind the process to help the user determine whether it is applicable to their environment. With the rendering he was able to determine the amount of aircrete needed to complete the second half of the structure connecting the roof to the top barrel and the aircrete insulating the ceiling. The additional section of heating elements was included to give the user preventative options in the case of freezing environments. It also elaborated how the elements were not necessary to every user, but needed to be gauged as necessary depending on the weather patterns in the location selected. The final touch ups to these sections will involve adding calculations and elaborating more if necessary. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Net-zero Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 30th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on the wall section and updating the details, working to finalize the pages by checking the layouts are consistent and adding the greyed-out pieces to the header as they were used. She also continued to work on the components pages. At this point the files are getting larger and some of the steps had to be separated into different files which won’t matter as to the continuity but it was an unexpected setback taking the time to work on files that were slowing down due to technology restrictions and rechecking little details this week. This brings us closer to completion in the instruction manual but there is still a bit more work to be done. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 27th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She completed Section 6 (Floor Construction) of the tutorial document by writing the remaining sections for installing the thermal insulation and vapor barrier, placing the welded wire fabric reinforcement in the slab, finishing the concrete floor slab, and applying metal sheet flashing around the interior perimeter of the dome. Hannah also researched sealant products for the foundation and floor insulation and revised previous sections to include the new information. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked on defining the regulations necessary for a road that is IFC compliant. He also worked on giving brief descriptions of different pavement options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on Defining the Regulations Necessary for a Road That Is IFC Compliant – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 8th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson wrote paragraphs about his suggestions for pavement, researched de-icing material, cost estimation of porous asphalt pavement, and permeable interlocking concrete pavers. He also wrote the final narrative for porous asphalt pavement including the benefit, cost, challenges, and solution. Additionally, Samson reviewed the comments from Aidan and added some details about the recycling of the materials. He also added some information about types of flexible and rigid pavement materials in the Pavement Types section. See pictures below.

Continued Woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 7th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente has completed a first version of the economic balance, with an example of the economic flows along one day, estimating an idea of the economic deficit. He also discussed with Jae the study of the energy demand for the hot tub and how to incorporate the new collaborators into it. He has added new data to the solar sizing tool, namely the hourly profile (1 – 8760) of thermal demand for the City Center (based on the environmental temperature given by the SAM software weather database) and following the methodology described in the description document. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 4th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan contributed further to the Glass Recycling content by researching and beginning to write tutorials for DIY glass kilns and glass crushers. He also revisited the Styrofoam Recycling webpage, where he added supplemental information about comparing the R-values of various insulation materials in order to assess the effectiveness of DIY insulation projects using surplus Polystyrene materials. Aidan continued to review and provide guidance and suggestions for other current research, including Pavement Engineering and the latest updates to the Health Insurance research too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Helping With 2nd-to-final Review, Feedback, and Content Editing – Click for Glass Recycling Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson completed the initial setup and orientation, and started the research on the best solar hardware. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Joined the Team and Began Researching the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis began his research for our Eco-spa Design and how to increase its power efficiency. He began by understanding all of the internal components that draw the most power: the pump and the heater. His next step was to understand where the heat was lost for most in-ground hot tubs. Luis discovered that heat is lost primarily to the atmosphere and evaporation along with heat transfer to the ground. His solution to this issue was to provide insulation from the ground through polyurethane or an expandable foam layer and sand beneath that. These would allow the heat loss effects to be decreased significantly and optimize the hot tub. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Joined the Team and Began Researching the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team continued modeling in SketchUp 3D the window framing for the shed dormer windows of the second floor of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome. We designed the dome frame section using 2×12 lumber and created the initial detailed framing shown below.

Continued Modeling the Window Framing for the Shed Dormer Windows in Sketchup 3D – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 23rd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week, Ksenia discussed with Christopher the most efficient way to collaborate on the remaining plumbing details. She made PDF files for Christopher for calculating and put the sinks in the boiler room and mechanical rooms. She also joined water fountains into the water pipes and sewer. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng concentrated on further development of the plant design with the herb garden. She also drew some diagrams to explain the overall design ideas. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Concentrated on Further Development of the Plant Design With the Herbal Garden – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 11th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian checked the overall details of the HVAC system. He tried to understand the installation, heating and cooling results and all the spreadsheet calculations and summary of the HVAC analysis developed by previous Engineers, combining this and their efforts for us to attain our goal of LEED Platinum certification of the building. Ian also created preliminary HVAC designs using the DesignBuilder software for the mini-splits air-conditioner. The pictures below relate to this work.

Checked the Overall Details of the HVAC System – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 9th and final week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. In Haozhen’s final week working on the project, he completed all the 3D drafting for the City Center rainwater catchment expected Zone D3. He then researched the materials that the zone D-3 can use for its downspout. Two of the materials were identified, polyester and TPE (Thermoplastic Elastomer). PVC laminate polyester duct hoses are flame-retardant and self-extinguishing and resist damage from moisture, oils, ozone, and UV rays. Thermoplastic rubber duct hoses have an external wear strip that protects the hose from abrasion when dragged, preventing premature wear-through. The wear strip is molecularly bonded to the hose wall and will not delaminate from the hose. These hoses resist chemicals, moisture, ozone, and UV rays and are 4″ in diameter too, which is the perfect size to connect it to the piping system underground. The team was thinking of using TPE as our final product of zone D-3 downspout because TPE is 10% cheaper than polyester while they both can do the job as downspout. Unfortunately though, this ducting hose is meant for transporting gases, fumes, dust, etc. To use this product (due to its flexible application) in replacement of a rainwater downspout is an interesting alternative, but we have never seen it in application before and therefore cannot say with full confidence that this would be okay. We’ll continue seeking another product.
Pictures of some of this work are below.

Completed His Final Week Helping With the City Center Water Catchment Designs – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer)  completed his 4th 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. David started the week by organizing and running a meeting with his team to set the pace and deadlines for specific action items. During the week, David worked with Mark to finish up the temporary parking lot tutorial for final submission. He also worked with Samson to prepare the roadway and parkway design tutorial for a review by Jae. Along with this, David prepared the civil site design plan and layout for the City Center project so that he can assign Mark and Samson CAD responsibilities for after next Monday’s meeting. Pictures below are related to this work.

Helped with the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial Development – Click for Parking Lot Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week the earthquake records required to determine the earthquake load were downloaded from PEER. The California earthquake (Kern country-1952 / Mw = 7.36) was chosen among many earthquakes and its intensity acceleration-velocity and time file was downloaded. This one was selected because it was the largest and most severe earthquake in California. The earthquake file was edited in the SAP2000 program and drawn in the Time History area. Pictures below are related to this.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Designs Using Sap2000 – Click for Page

Christopher Kinney (Environmental/Civil Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Christopher collaborated with Ksenia about current progress and what needs to be done. He reviewed the latest plumbing plan details and also investigated gray water Systems Plumbing Codes and water fixture flow rates. He compared currently-used water fixture values in the design against those published in the latest international Plumbing Codes and verified its accuracy. The Utah building codes department notified that there is no enforcement against not having coverage over plumbing pipe in over a food storage area. However, this may still be enforced by health inspectors or the agricultural department. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha designed an initial City Center Hub component testing both stainless steel AISI Type 316L and Aluminum 2024-T3 and checked deflection and stress under different loads. As far as loading factor is concerned Aluminum was determined to be a good design. It is  readily available and you can also make them by bending. If you are bending, the bending radius can be 2.5 times the material thickness, and there are multiple ways to bend the metal. This coming week Sunitha will work on designing, testing and comparing other designs. The pictures below relate to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the City Center Connectors for Building the Domes – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 23rd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the new structures for the models both in Rhino and Lumion. She has updated the new material of sola wrap for the roofs. She also added new railings and handicap access for the central pond and made a new animation for the outdoor landscape design.

Updated the New Structures for the Models Both in Rhino and Lumion – Click for Aquapini & Walipini

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. It was decided this week that the only way to validate our aquapini/walipini models will be to build the first one and test it. We expect the climate battery system to work perfectly regardless of the Matlab code and based on the assumption that it has worked great for many other people and has allowed a Nebraska farmer to grow citrus with a very small energy bill. When this system is finished and installed, data will be taken to validate its effectiveness and consider its cost effectiveness and whether to install it in the remaining greenhouses. Henry then worked on Walipini research to see how much that could make a difference given data that is already out there. He did not find any conclusive evidence that could be used to update his Matlab model. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Mayur met with the team members this week and discussed the future plans based on the calculations completed for the climate battery. He looked into the walipini structures, totally passive greenhouses, and rocket mass heaters and researched how all of it would affect and help in a more energy efficient and sustainable design of the greenhouses. Mayur continued his work to look for heaters and fans for the greenhouse based on the calculations. He found the different available options for the heaters and compared their performances in order to identify the best solution for the greenhouse. He will continue learning about all the different types of heaters and fans, and decide how to select the appropriate equipment for the greenhouse. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 34 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 12th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we created 3 mind maps covering the values of Highest Good of All Stewardship, Community Contribution, and Fulfilled Living.

Created 3 Mind Maps for Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Our Pledge Page

And the core team gave detailed feedback on the final drafts of the One Community’s insurance options research and spent time improving the aesthetics of the tables that will be featured on the webpage. Below are some images related to this work.

Improved the Aesthetics of the Tables for Health Insurance Research – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 40th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week of Wen’s work, merge conflicts were solved and new pull requests created for back-end and front-end repositories. The function to delete badges was completed. She also spent quite a lot of time working on the mongoose $pull on the backend (nested data type of badges), and UI fixes on the frontend (Modal and Alert in reactstrap don’t work nicely together). The implementation of alert messages (used in create badge, assign badge, and delete badge) was improved and code cleaned up too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Solved Merge Conflicts and Created New Pull Requests for Back-end and Front-end Repositories – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 36th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were working on the changes in the forget password flow. A new column for reset password has been introduced in user profile and the same will be getting updated with random password on forgot password option. This will allow the user to login with the password they received in email as well as their original password. Once logged in using the random password they have to reset their password and the random password will expire (this is yet to complete). Pictures below show this work.

Worked on the Changes in the Forget Password Flow – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 24th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris completed his work on making the Summary Bar responsive as well as building out the backend for the Bug Report form on the Summary Bar. Chris also built out the backend for the Leaderboard to get the information on the entire organization for the summary values not just the leaderboard based on the teams that a person is a part of. You can see some pictures related to this below.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 23rd week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week we created images for weekly progress updates #445, #446, and #447. He also started creating JPG versions of the images for video intro for future use on inspirational quotes. So far he has been able to create around 20 of those JPG images. You can see all these new images below.

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #445, #446, and #447 – Click for Most Recent Blog Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy continued work on reviewing, testing multiple Pull-Requests for both Back-End and Front-End branches. Vy also updates the HGN Functional Specification Documentation with a screenshot of a few unit-testing files. He also worked on multiple unit-test files under the UserProfile component such as UserProfile.jsx, UserProfileEdit.jsx, and more. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Work on Reviewing, Testing Multiple Pull-requests for Back-end and Front-end Branches – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on updating the “custom range” section in the dropdown. When the user clicks the “custom range”, they will be able to select a random start and end time. She also worked on showing all the tasks that belong to a specific project and all the project members. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Updating the “Custom Range” Section in the Dropdown – Click for Highest Good Network

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Let’s talk about the steps for building a sustainable future. Step 1: Design a replicable way of living that is sustainable. Step 2: Demonstrate it as better and more affordable than how most people are living now. Step 3: Open source and free-share everything so it can be replicated and also adapted and improved upon to provide a solution as diverse as humanity. Step 4: Repeat until we reach the necessary tipping point where we can say we’ve truly achieved global sustainability. This is what One Community is doing.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 28th, 2021 edition (#414) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Sustainable Future
One Community Progress Update #414

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 the editing and creation process of the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. This week we focused on improving aesthetics of tables, transforming them into the correct size photos and placing them in the WordPress site, improving formatting of the “Earthbag Village Loft Design Calculations” spreadsheet to make it easier for others to use, and also editing and adding some pictures to clarify technical terminology and make it more understandable for non experts.

Continued Editing the Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations Page – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 31st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the Net-Zero Bathroom cost analysis to include aircrete and the tools necessary to make it. The aircrete was added due to it being chosen as the material of choice to seal the rainwater storage room. To add the solution to the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions he began drafting an insulation section. He added all the possible types of insulation that could be used in the structure to either keep it cool or to keep it warm. The strengths and weaknesses of the listed insulation types were included. The fabrication and uses of aircrete were researched in order to gain a better understanding of the material and its fabrication process. After becoming more familiarized with aircrete, Jose Luis added an insulation application section. The section gave a general overview of how the insulation types listed would be used and positioned for max effectiveness. He then began adding an insulation installation section where he will include PVC pipe insulation, insulating the rainwater storage room with an aircrete mold and insulating the ceiling with an aircrete layer. The pictures below show some of this work.

Updated the Net-zero Bathroom Cost Analysis to Include Aircrete and the Necessary Tools – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 29th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she created a semi-final PDF of all current pages. There are currently 107 pages so far and we have to account for additional wall lumber cutting pages which are not done yet. In a digital format the number of pages does not matter very much, but the components section shows only 1 item per page and this is where we could reformat to reduce the amount of pages. All sections have been looked over this week except for the wall section. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Created a Semi-final PDF of All Current Pages – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 26th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She completed Section 5 (Foundation Construction) of the tutorial document by writing the remaining sections for installing the waterproofing membrane and vertical interior insulation around the foundation, as well as backfilling the foundation area. Hannah also began writing the tutorial for Section 6 (Floor Construction) by writing the introduction, information about leveling the floor, and how to lay the gravel base. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark’s focus was centered around restructuring his water catchment tutorial, researching alternatives to asphalt, and exploring water catchment options for the road and walkways. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 7th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson worked on research about “Porous Asphalt” and “Decomposed Granite”. He also worked on the discussion of different types of pavements, including the characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. See pictures below.

Worked on Research About Porous Asphalt and Decomposed Granite – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 6th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente updated the solar sizing tool incorporating previous detailed analysis on the energy demand (Pareto Charts) for the City Center and the Earthbag Village in order to review and update the data, mainly times of use of each power need and the associated power required. This will allow a better connection between the demand and generation. Energy needs have been divided into different types for a better understanding of the demand. Vicente also extended the description document explaining the energy and economic balances, an ongoing development process. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also returned to helping with 3D render work, completing his 1st week as a volunteer now helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders. This week he added and received feedback on initial people and tree additions to the first of his latest renders to work on.

Returned by Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Renders – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 used the the architect’s AutoCAD plans to begin modeling in SketchUp 3D the window framing for the dormer windows of the second floor of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome according to the latest AutoCAD drawings. This is a challenging task because of the angle of the dome walls and non-traditional framing structure.

Began Modeling the Window Framing for the Dormer Windows in SketchUp 3D – Click for Duplicable City Center

And Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 22nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia began working with Christopher, collaborating on a solution for the piping above the food storage, seeking the best solution via the codes, and answering other design questions from Christopher. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Quiheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week, based on the feedback from last week, Qiuheng adjusted the pond area and moved the pond to the west side of the planting design area. She also added the herb garden model to the planting design model. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 10th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian integrated a new high-performance wall with a higher R-value for us to minimize the penetration of extreme weather conditions from outside, resulting in lower energy consumption from the HVAC system and overall energy savings. Ian revised the R-value, C-Factor, F-factor of walls, floors and slab in Energy Modeling Software. He also checked the ASHRAE Baseline requirement if the parameters meet the standard. The pictures below relate to this work.

Continued Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations  – Click for Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 8th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week Haozhen designed the 3×4 to 2×3 Gutter Downspout Connector. The purpose of it is to connect the downspout and gutter correctly. Haozhen also designed the sharp edge downspout elbow to connect the sharp turn between zone CR-4 and CP-8. He finished the detail of the gutter and downspout connection implementation for all zones except for Zone D-3 because the downspout design is in progress for that one. After finishing the design of Zone D-3’s downspout, the whole City Center 3D design will be wrapped up by a week from now. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Designed the 3×4 to 2×3 Gutter Downspout Connector – Click for City Center Water Catchment Designs

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer)  completed his 3rd 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 looked into different temporary parking lot alternatives, specifically Grasscrete, Turfblock, and Grasspave2. “Turf” pavement was recommended from Trish, another engineer who believed it could be a potential possibility for the project. These pavements typically utilize concrete or recycled materials to form a grid that sits directly under the turf. It is a unique alternative to the common gravel lot and is environmentally friendly as well as aesthetically pleasing. They are also very easy to install and can be DIY, although a contractor’s help is recommended. Some downsides to these options include increased costs, maintenance (because of weeds), may not be ADA compliant, and that it has a lifespan that greatly exceeds the needs for a temporary parking lot. David has also began mark ups for the ground design for the City Center project. This was done so that once the temporary parking lot tutorial is finished, Mark or Samson can help with the AutoCAD design by implementing the changes David has made. David has also prepared what action items he would like to see finished from Mark and Samson for his next zoom meeting with his team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Looked Into Different Temporary Parking Lot Alternatives – Click for Parking Lot Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week, due to an AutoCAD version incompatibility, the snow load could not be determined exactly, but the system that can calculate the snow load was created and all parameters were determined. Picture below are related to this.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Beam and Column Designs Using SAP2000 – Click for Duplicable City Center

Christopher Kinney (Environmental/Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Christopher started by jumping into all the aspects of the Duplicate City Center design which also included review of the relevant plumbing code publications, review of Ksenia’s work up-to-date, design status, water heating system alternatives and talking with the local building code department for questions about plumbing design (more specifically if there exists any local provisions that govern the exposure of plumbing over a storage area). Pictures below show some of this work.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lauren Siegel (Impact Analyst) joined the team too, completing her 1st week taking over research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors page. This week Lauren read the document of previous research to get her mind wrapped around the progress and work that had already been done. She clicked on all the links to see where the research came from to see where the research stood right now. Lauren sees a strong start but needs some new research in the coming week of companies that aren’t primarily sky lights. Pictures below are related to this review.

Joined the Team and Took Over Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Page – Click for Windows and Doors Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We made changes to the Keyhole garden bed for the Herbal Garden, adding a composting center area surrounded by wire mesh for each round bed.

Made Changes to the Keyhole Garden Bed for the Herbal Garden – Click for Duplicable City Center

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu added more plants to Walipini 1 and Walipini 2. She also worked on last week’s requested edits to these structures.

Added More Plants to Walipini 1 and Walipini 2 and Worked on Requested Edits – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry and Mayur worked on the heat transfer effectiveness of the climate battery code. Henry also ran 3D simulations with the climate battery system that showed the system worked well in the summer but not very well in the winter, this matched with the results Mayur and Henry got with matlab code. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on the Heat Transfer Effectiveness of the Climate Battery Code – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week, Mayur continued working on the heat transfer calculations and worked on validating them. He found a spreadsheet calculator for climate battery design and tried validating the duct and fan size calculations. It can also be used to help validate the heat loss calculations done by Henry. There are some changes that need to be done and he’ll keep working on it with Henry. Mayur found a case study of a climate battery where they installed sensors and checked the performance of the system. The case study shows that the system is not able to maintain the inside temperature to the desired value on its own, but it was a case study with a completely above-ground structure. It showed that external heaters would be required to support the system. He checked for the available options for fans and heaters which can be used in the system. There are a variety of options and he is working on finding the appropriate components based on our system. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Continued Working on the Heat Transfer Calculations and Worked on Validating Them – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Itztli De La Torre (Executive Chef) completed his 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Itztli began to work through the amazing recipes that another vegan based chef had already amassed for the organization. Then he implemented them into the next weekly meal plan. Chef Itz is looking towards the future in planning the rest of the menu with details like before and organizing the week for best results. In this process he will (after finishing the basis of ingredients) begin to itemize the list so that there’s an active inventory sheet. Pictures below show some of the content he reviewed and integrated.

Implemented Prior Recipes Into the Next Weekly Meal Plan – Click for Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 31 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 11th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we continued reviewing the Community Contribution page. We also made mind maps for each value: Love/Compassion, Honesty/Integrity, Sustainability, Diversity, Communication, Open Source, Consensus, Community, Freedom, Contribution, Personal Growth, Fulfilled Living, and Highest Good of All. We consolidated how each value feeds into the others, how each is unique/the essences of each, as well as how the infrastructure supports each value and began transcribing handwritten notes using Google.

Continued Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Community Contribution Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 39th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the validation and error handling for the new badge data. Success or fail alert was added and she tried uploading some badges to test. It was tested with invalid url links as well. Everything worked as it should and that brought the function to upload new badges to fully complete! The submit button is disabled when badge name, url, or description are missing. Category, project, and ranking are optional fields. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on the Validation and Error Handling for the New Badge Data – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 35th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team implemented the Pause and Resume option inside the user profile so that Administrators can pause or resume a user from the profile page of a user. The functionality is similar to the one in the User Management page, upon clicking Pause a popup shall be displayed to ask the resume date, clicking “Pause the user” after selecting a date will pause the user until that date and automatically resume on the selected date. He also made some style/alignment improvements to the buttons on the user profile page. Pictures below show this work.

Implemented the Pause and Resume Option Inside the User Profile – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 28th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor updated the narrative of what health insurance plan is the final choice. She updated the ranking of the health insurance point system. Following that, Noor created two projected costs spreadsheets. One spreadsheet organized the costs based on the final plan of choosing, and the second plan organized the costs across all plans. She also ranked these plans in the spreadsheet. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 23rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on making the Summary Bar Responsive as well as the Bug Report form for the Summary Bar. Chris also looked into how to make the Leaderboard receive the data for the entire organization to be displayed on the first row even for non-Admin. You can see some pictures related to this below.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 22nd week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. He created intro images for youtube and the blog for weekly progress updates #440, #441, #442, #443 and #444. You can see all these new images below.

Continued Creating Images for the One Community Updates Blogs – Click for Most Recent Blog Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 12th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he completed the Highest Good Education Badges! You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Completed the Highest Good Education Badges for the Highest Good Network – Click for HGN Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy worked on reviewing, testing multiple Pull-Requests from both Back-End and Front-End. Vy found a bug where that prevented the user from deleting the task, and he worked with the pull-request author to fix this. Vy also pushes multiple commits up to Github to update unit-test coverage for multiple components TimelogNavbar (97%), Dashboard (100%). Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on Reviewing, Testing Multiple Pull-requests – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on showing all the data on the project and team reporting page. On the team page, team Name, ID, Active Status, Modified Date time, Created Date time are all showing now. On the project page, Project Name, Project ID, Active Status are also all showing now. She also added the task section and spent time on exploring how to get all the tasks data through API. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Showing All the Data on the Project and Team Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 3rd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan completed his review of the One Community’s current Health Insurance Research, where made several suggestions for clarifying and supplemental information. He also finished editing the Styrofoam Recycling Webpage, where he fixed various formatting issues and improved the text’s readability. To ensure that the webpage’s research was sufficiently comprehensive, he conducted research and incorporated his findings on topics such as the difference between Styrofoam and Polystyrene, and the impacts of Polystyrene on both human health and the environment. Lastly, Aidan began working on incomplete Glass Recycling Research, by collecting, reviewing, and summarizing useful resources on DIY glass recycling methods, such as how to build glass kilns and glass crushers. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Helping With 2nd-to-final Review, Feedback, and Content Editing – Click for Insurance Page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) finished the “custom sidebar” plugin research and created a new analytics dashboard to see 2-year trends of all relevant metrics. He also shot video explanations and then completed additional analytics analysis and created another dashboard to troubleshoot and get more insights between Jun-Aug 2020. The analytics research is all to help us understand a significant drop in traffic metrics that we experienced during this time. Pictures below are related to this work.

Finished the “Custom Sidebar” Plugin Research and Created a New Analytics Dashboard – Click for Home Page

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How do we go about building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism? One Community thinks we can best achieve this by demonstrating a more enriching and luxurious life that is also good for the planet and other people. Based on sustainable infrastructure that is healthier and lowers living expenses, and cooperative living that provides more free time and things to do with that free time, we can build a better life for ourselves while helping everyone else too.

• 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 February 21st, 2021 edition (#413) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism
One Community Progress Update #413

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 the editing and creation process of the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. This week we modified the tables for aesthetics and easier understanding. We also corrected some aspects of the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship” tutorial too.

Made Edits to Rabbit Stewardship Page and Earth-dome Loft Structural Engineering Page – Click for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #214 of Dean’s work and the focus was creating and testing the table and beanbag textures.

Created and Tested the Table and Beanbag Textures of the 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 30th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued developing a solution to seal the hole on the roof of the Net-Zero Bathroom. The seal was to keep the rain storage room insulated by sealing off the water collection hole in the roof while not disrupting the inflow of rainwater. Last week’s design had the right idea in packaging, but the material used was not durable and would lead to installation difficulties. He collaborated with his supervisor and determined that an aircrete mold would be optimal. The first idea was to make two identical aircrete molds that would sit on top of the top center water barrel and connect to the roof hole, the rainwater would be able to flow into the barrel. By making two molds, one half could be removed and leave access to the debris filter on top of the barrel. The two molds were to be held in place with wing screw and a wing nut fastened through eye screws attached to the molds. Measurements and calculations were done to determine the maximum height of the mold due the constraints from the interior roof frame. The max height was determined to be 10.76 inches, well short of the 15.5 inches needed. The final adjustment was to make the two molds only 7.3 inches tall the same as the distance from the interior roof frame to the barrel. And on top of that first mold would be another complete mold being bound to the roof frame by aircrete. The half mold was calculated to be less than 15 pounds, light enough for a person to lift it without being injured. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Developing a Solution to Seal the Hole on the Roof of the Net-zero Bathroom – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 28th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week was focused on rebuilding the components pages and reworking the groups with new feedback for labelling used pieces in grey patterned lines after use. We also received updated renders for the electrical work and tried to use those instead of the older renders. There is still some overlap between the electrical instructions and the wall section where outlet installation and placement is called out in both groups. The additional electrical outlets that are not installed into the Murphy bed, but into the structure’s walls and loft space, which has led to some confusion. The Murphy bed is so integrated into the structure of the dome that it is hard to know how to keep these instructions limited to the bed without explaining some portion of the loft space, walls and doorway. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark mainly focused on completing the temporary parking lot tutorial, so it could be reviewed and added to the website. A first draft was finished and he also began work on the water catchment tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Focused on Completing the Temporary Parking Lot Tutorial – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 6th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson finished the research of both “Rigid Pavement Design” and “Flexible Pavement Design” and began research about Turf Block, Porous Asphalt, and Decomposed Granite Paving. He added links to articles about these three materials to the Google Doc and began writing the introduction and the construction detail about porous asphalt. See pictures below.

Finished the Research of Both “Rigid Pavement Design” and “Flexible Pavement Design” – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 5th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente checked the energy needs distribution for the cases of 20-50 and 50-100 people for an initial perspective on the thermal weight on the total demand / installed power, concluding that, according to the current estimation, heating demands more than 75% of energy (case of 20-50 p). He has improved the SAM simulations to a first view of the energy & economic balance and started a text describing the topic to achieve the net zero balance along the year. He has incorporated new relevant consulting links (a list of incentives applicable to the location). He also updated the tasks for the collaboration team, for faster incorporation into the ongoing work. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 2nd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan finished reviewing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials webpage. He added titles to links, ensured that links functioned properly, added useful anchor links, defined technical terminology, located and added relevant resources, and conducted research to provide additional contextual information and content to fill in gaps. Aidan then reviewed the current Health Insurance content, where he provided useful comments and suggestions to guide the development of the research and analysis. Finally, Aidan began editing the Styrofoam Recycling Webpage, by correcting typos, fixing missing and broken links, and rephrasing for the sake of clarity and ease of reading. Pictures below show some of the work on these three components.

Finished Reviewing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Webpage – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 finalized One Community’s plan for wind energy on the Wind Microgrid page. You can see the new content below.

Finalized One Community’s Plan for Wind Energy on the Wind Microgrid Page – Click to Visit

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on trying to find codes for water and sewer pipes in food storage rooms. It doesn’t look like this is allowed, so she’s exploring more and trying to come up with alternatives. Pictures below are related to this work.

Focused on Finding Codes for Water and Sewer Pipes in Food Storage Rooms – Click for Duplicable City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week, Qiuheng focused on redoing the structure model in Lumion as well as updating the new planting design. She changed the greenhouse into a simpler and smaller version. In addition, she modified the path system in the landscape to meet the doors of the domes. Qiuheng also began preparing the first draft of the outside walkthrough video. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Focused on Redoing the Structure Model in Lumion and Updating the New Planting Design – Click for Duplicable City Center

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 7th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week, Haozhen did the research on the usability of the roof hangers in the absence of the fascia board. He then designed and drafted the “Roof Hanger” from scratch via AutoCAD 3D. He made sure that the scaling and detail are correct and the final result matches the size of the gutter and functions correctly. Haozhen also worked with David on the subject of designing an optimum downspout for the zone D-3. David’s first proposal was using the Rainbird, polyethylene tube. However, by our research, polypropylene is susceptible to quick degradation by sunlight while polyester innately resists deterioration. Polypropylene is useful for applications that require high heat, chemical, or electrical stresses, but polyester is more suitable for outdoor uses and environmental exposure. Haozhen also designed the Downspout elbow connection with model detail, worked on designing the connection between gutter and the downspout using AutoCAD 3D, and worked on fixing the downspout and gutter connection detail. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Did the Research on the Usability of the Roof Hangers in the Absence of the Fascia Board – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer)  completed his 2nd 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 worked with Mark to complete the temporary parking lot tutorial for a final review. In the tutorial David and Mark go into detail to discuss everything from the necessary permits needed to be obtained to the different types of temporary parking lot design options. They conclude the tutorial with a comparative analysis for each design option and explain why One Community Global believes that TrueGrid’s paver design was best suited for the project. David has also worked with Andrew to brainstorm possible solutions for the City Center’s Sunrise patio drainage problem. After looking into the CAD design and the 3D renderings for the building, David has proposed installing area drains on the sunrise patio that would collect and discharge the flow onto the second floor which would then be collected and discharged to ground level via downspout. However, this solution is not the best solution because it brings the water into the building and would therefore lead to potential leak problems, noise pollution, and other types of inconveniences. With this in mind, David and Andrew are both working on researching an alternative solution which will utilize a flexible drainage pipe with a sock or pipe guard to protect against UV damage. Lastly, David worked on setting up the introductory sections for the sustainable roadways, walkways, and landscaping. Pictures below are related to this work. 

Worked With Mark to Complete the Temporary Parking Lot Tutorial for a Final Review – Click for Parking Lot Construction Guide

Long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) also continued with his 2nd week modeling the specifics for how the Duplicable City Center dormer windows will be attached to the domes. This is a challenging task because of the angle of the dome walls and non-traditional framing structure. Bahy’s focus this week was scaling last week’s designs to fit the specific measurements of the dome, as shown below.

Continued Modeling the Specifics for the Duplicable City Center Dormer Windows – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We placed a gabion fence around the garden and trees, designed curved stone benches around the trees, strategically placed two storage benches next to the entry to the garden, and a spool table and seats in the center of the garden. You can see all of these new developments in the pictures below.

Continued Working on the Herbal Garden Design for Behind the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

The original core team researcher did a round of review of the Rabbit Stewardship content developing on the website, adding edits for about ⅔’s of the doc, covering the reasons for raising rabbits, rabbit raising details, rabbit shelter needs, rabbit fencing needs, suggested vegetables and fruits for a rabbit diet, rabbit water needs, etc..

Reviewed the Rabbit Stewardship Content Developing on the Website – Click for Rabbit Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 21st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the new animations for Walipini 1 and Walipini 2 with additional plant, people, and structure details. Pictures below show some of her changes.

Updated the New Animations for Walipini 1 and Walipini 2 – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. He determined the remaining variables of the heat transfer equations and checked the results. The results seem promising and he moved forward with checking the performance of the system for the different types of soils. The system looks most promising with sandy clay as the soil in the climate battery. Mayur then checked how the burial depth affects the system performance, as the burial depth increased the system got more efficient. But he needs to check how feasible it is to increase the burial depth. For now, the burial depth is kept at 13 feet (3.9624 meters) and he’ll research more about how much it can be varied and what would be a practical value. Mayur then started looking for the materials which can be used for the climate battery and their costs. He will continue working on that as he moves forward. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Determined the Remaining Variables of the Heat Transfer Equations and Checked the Results – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Itztli De La Torre (Executive Chef) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week he spent a good amount of time trying to wrap his head around the program and what’s going to be possible logistically while also meeting the nutritional goals. Itztli spent time looking for recipe ideas that he thinks will most easily adapt all of the requirements while being varied and mindful of waste. He also began a week’s worth of recipes on a new tab that is just for him to get my ideas down and more organized. Pictures below show some of this initial work.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 28 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 10th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished up editing the Fulfilled Living content. Specifically, we shortened paragraphs and sentences, and transformed passive voice, as well as proofread the final product before submitting for final review and then publishing the changes. We also strengthened the body of the text, by adding additional text and expanding on the material that was already in place, updating the text that was linked to other pages and adding two new graphics. We then began reviewing the Community Contribution page.

Finished Up Editing the Fulfilled Living Content – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 38th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued working on the function to upload a badge, which is now almost complete. Final steps, which she started on, are to create success/fail messages and add validation and error handling. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Function to Upload a Badge – Click for Highest Good Network

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 47th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added a new column to the imported Work Breakdown Structure and checked and clarified the specifics of the import process. Pictures related to this work are below.

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

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 34th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team continued working on the changes as per the functional spec review in the user profile area. An end date was introduced in the API and front end which will now get updated on resetting a user (not paused) and the same will get displayed inside the user profile and the user management table. Pictures below show this work.

Continued Working on the Changes as Per the Functional Spec Review in the User Profile Area – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 27th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on editing and reviewing her research, adding requested sections based on team feedback. She recounted the numbers for each plan as well as finished incorporating any additional information that was required. Then Noor began working on the projected costs portion of the project. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 22nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris added the ability for an Admin to view the dashboard as different users allowing the functionality to be passed down to the leaderboard timelog, badges, summary bar and task list. Chris also reviewed a couple of Pull Requests that were in waiting. You can see some pictures related to this below.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 21th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. He created intro images for youtube and the blog for weekly progress updates #435, #436, #437, #438 and #439. You can see all these new images below.

Created Intro Images for Youtube and the Blog for Weekly Progress Updates #435 – #439 – Click for Blog Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 11th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. His focus this week was continued work on the Highest Good Education Badges. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Education Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy continued work on reviewing, fixing, and updating multiple unit-testing files such as TimelogNavbar.test.js, TimeEntryForm.test.js, and also working on SummaryBar.test.js. Vy also researched to find a way to work around a few bugs that happen when developers try to change values in multiple fields. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Work on Reviewing, Fixing, and Updating Multiple Unit-testing Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru made adjustments to the option table UI so the table is in the center of the page and the names are left aligned. Yueru also added the time frame dropdown button and the options of past week, past two weeks, past month, past 5 months, past year and custom range. Then she added the blue square description to the person reporting page and added the team to the state which will hold all the team information like isActive, modifiedDatetime, id, teamName and createdDatetime. There are still some issues though with sending all this data to the state. Pictures below are related to this work.

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

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It seems it is time (past time!) for sustainable civilization creation. An open source and replicable DIY tool set is being created to achieve this. It includes the tutorials and resources necessary to build and maintain sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. One Community calls combining all these into teacher/demonstration hubs as living and creating for “The Highest Good of All“.

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

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 February 14th, 2021 edition (#412) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Civilization Creation
One Community Progress Update #412

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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 review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. This week we researched and revised the positioning of the sheet metal covering of the rockwool insulation in the aircrete domes so there was additional overlap with each 8”x12” for securement with the tapcon screws. Pictures below show some of this work.

Researched and Revised the Positioning of the Sheet Metal Covering of the Rockwool Insulation in the Aircrete Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also started the editing and creation process of the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. This week we created the indexes, the anchor links, and formatted the text. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Began Editing and Creating the “Earth-dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ Page – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #213 of Dean’s work and the focus was modeling the cushions under the South window and around the East sitting area.

Modeled the Cushions Under the South Window and Around the East Sitting Area – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 30th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued on developing plans and ideas for the prevention of frozen pipes and structure insulation. He began by brainstorming and researching materials and devices that could be used to seal off the hole in the roof from the water storage room. His first idea involved constructing a plunger-like seal made of durable and flexible elastomeric insulation that could be lifted by a screw and installed on the roof grate. The problem with the device was that it would have restricted rain flow into the water barrels and possibly causing secondary failures on the roof. He then began working on a device that would still allow rain water flow, but eliminate convection cooling from the exposed hole. After doing more research Jose began rendering the device on Solid Works. He decided to attach a take off collar on the ceiling aligning concentric with the hole and having another one attached to the barrel inlet over its filter. To ensure a proper seal a circular strip of elastomeric insulation was used to help seal the collar on the sloped ceiling. The collars outlet on the ceiling was wrapped with a layer of insulation and secured with a hose clamp. The insulation only scaled a bit more than half the distance between the barrel and the hole. From there another piece of insulation was wrapped around the collar attached to the barrel and the hanging insulation. The insulation was secured with a hose clamp to the ceiling insulation duct. The hose clamp is used for a secure fit and an easy removal with a cordless drill to allow easy access to the barrel filter. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Developing Plans and Ideas for the Prevention of Frozen Pipes and Structure Insulation – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 27th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey finished up the Benches & Table group and submitted the PDF for review. She incorporated many of the past comments as she finished this. Stacey also focused on recounting the screws and hardware numbers to double check for use on the procurement list that still needs to be finished. The last bits of the wall section that need to be finished are the wood cutting layouts. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Finished Up the Benches & Table Group and Submitted the PDF for Review – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 25th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She continued research on the interior trimming product, updated previous drawings in the FFF document to reflect updated changes, and completed the first three sections (5.1, 5.2 and 5.3) in the Foundation Construction section of the FFF document. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week mark worked on converting his research on irrigation, water catchment, and temporary parking into a tutorial. This was done in order to make it easier so a non industry consumer would be able to follow steps into creating the necessary sustainable and eco friendly home amenities. The temporary parking lot tutorial should be finished within the next week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on Converting Research on Irrigation, Water Catchment, and Temporary Parking Into a Tutorial – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 5th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson finished the chapter “General Aspect of Pavement Engineering.” He also finished simplifying the chapters, “General Aspects of Pavement Engineering” and “Pavement Engineering Consideration” and submitted them for initial review. He additionally started to review the new chapter “Rigid Pavement Design,” finished the outline of this chapter and finished the explanation for different types of Rigid Pavement by showing the usage, advantage, and disadvantage of them. He introduced engineering properties and performance factors with the pictures of the table too. He also introduced different types of concrete, including PCC, RSC, and RCC. See pictures below.

Continued Woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 4th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente reviewed and improved the solar sizing spreadsheet tool, namely the calculation of inter row spacing to avoid self-shading for flat and sloping ground. This was needed to better estimate the total space requirements. Additionally, specific cells have been colored for a better understanding and use of the tool, and new links were added for additional support / consultation, as well as other software and rates information. He also explored improvement for water heating and reviewed the pictures about the location of facilities. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Sai Kaushik Duvvuru (Masters in Electrical Engineering) completed his 2nd week helping with the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Sai worked on calculating energy demands for the City Center, researching optimal solar panel placements, checking the values for the outcomes, and doing general research for solar panel distribution on empty land. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Calculating Energy Demands for the City Center – Click for Solar Energy Microgrid Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed his first week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week he completed the On-boarding Checklists, and then dove into developing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials web page on WordPress by editing content, fixing formatting issues, and correcting hyperlinks. Pictures below show some of this work.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With 2nd-to-final Review, Feedback, and Content Editing – Click for Flooring Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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 finalized the specifics of which walls will be insulated and how for the Duplicable City Center. We then created a graphic showing these details and added it to the City Center HVAC page.

Finalized the Specifics of Which Walls Will Be Insulated and How – Click for Duplicable City Center

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 20th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she reviewed the Uponor radiant floor designs, continued research for hydraulic calculations, finalized the boiler for radiant floor, and worked on trying to find what code requires for placing water and sanitation lines above food storage. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Qiuheng continued working on the planting design concept and details. She focused on developing the ground texture including understory plants, ground layer plans, and paving materials, getting ready for the walkthrough video. Below are some images showing her work.

Continued Working on the Planting Design Concept and Details – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 10th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the insulation / energy efficiency related material into designbuilder as per design requirement and recommendation. He updated the details of the following into the DesignBuilder: Roof R-value, Ceiling insulation, Roof solar absorptance, Ceiling layer by layer details, & Roof layer by layer details. Ian checked all the material that is required to be updated based on the proposed building process. He changed the material of the dormer sill because DesignBuilder automatically set the material for it. Ian also changed the floor slab of the second floor (exposed) same with the 2nd floor slab inside the dome. Pictures below are related to this work.

Processed the Insulation/Energy Efficiency Related Material Into Designbuilder – Click for Heating/Cooling Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 6th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week Haozhen fixed the problem “Gutter Conflicts with the Pivot Door” by using the Gutter Hangers to avoid the conflicts created by the original design. During Haozhen’s AutoCAD work, he found and fixed the bug that caused the conversion from SAP2000 to AutoCAD drawing that some of the 3D models of the drawing are missing. Haozhen fixed that by recreating the 3D models which are missing. Haozhen also starts working on the downspout CAD drawing implementation. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Fixed the Problem “Gutter Conflicts with the Pivot Door” – Click for City Center Water Catchment Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st 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 completed orientation and set up and scheduled meetings with his team to get acquainted with them and their projects.

Joined the Team, Completed Orientation, and Scheduled Meetings With His Team to Get Acquainted – Click for Parking Lot Page

Long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) also continued modeling the specifics for how the Duplicable City Center dormer windows will be attached to the domes. This week’s focus was on the front view shown below.

Continued Modeling the Specifics for the Duplicable City Center Dormer Windows – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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 Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We designed additional garden beds for the Herbal Garden. We also updated all 2D beds to 3D beds, added textures to the garden beds, and generated render images. The pictures below are related to this work.

Designed Additional Garden Beds for the Herbal Garden – Click for Duplicable City Center

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 20th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu addressed all the feedback for the Walipini 1, Walipini 2, and Aquapini 1, plus outdoor space. Pictures below show some of her changes.

Addressed All the Feedback for the Walipini 1, Walipini 2, and Aquapini 1, Plus Outdoor Space – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.  This week Henry met with Mayur and discussed the code and decided we can get all the information we need from a less comprehensive model than we were working on before; paving the way for faster results. Pictures below show some of the research and code related to this.

Continue the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Mayur worked on determining the heat transfer in the climate battery, how the excess energy is being stored underground during summer and later utilized in winter. He considered the underground temperature at 13 feet to be constant at 6°C / 43 °F and considered the temperatures for our location. Based on this, he calculated the performance of the system and found out the output temperatures of the system. The burial depth code seems to be not giving proper results and it can be determined with the same code used for heat transfer calculations as well. So he will try to use that moving forward and the same code can also be used to determine the component dimensions for the system. Mayur met his teammate and discussed the performance of the system. He will continue working on determining how the energy is stored and utilized later and how it improves the performance of the system. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Worked on Determining the Heat Transfer in the Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini:walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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

his week the core team completed 25 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 9th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we took a deep dive into the Fulfilled Living content. We began the process of reducing passive voice and also making sentences shorter and easier to read. The section has been edited substantially with the goal of the significance of this value called out more clearly. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Fulfilled Living Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 37th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on several fixes and updates to clearing name fields after submit, handling requests with only first name or last name, fixing an unhandled rejection error 404 bug, and handling requests that input name after assigning badges. She also updated the text of the alerts based on feedback. The assign function was wrapped up, and PR was updated too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 33rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were working on the code review comments and the suggestions in the user profile area. They also identified the root cause of the ‘email not sending’ bug. The status of the user and “paused-until date” if the user is currently in an inactive state will also now be displayed in the user profile. Pictures below show this work.

Worked On the Code Review Comments and the Suggestions in the User Profile Area – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 26th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on editing the rest of the work. She expanded on the different types of group plans. Noor also added content to the different individual insurance plans. Following that, she elaborated on how she compared the different insurance plans between companies. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 21st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris tested the email sending and found a limit of 16 emails that GMail was throttling us at, in order to get around the limit he implemented a timeout that allowed one infringement email to be sent every half second until finished. The tests to Chris’s email showed this allowed 63 infringement emails to be sent without any problems. He also updated the users on the development database to be listed as 0 weekly committed hours to prevent any further emails being sent to old test accounts, while updating the master branch of Azure to stop emails sending until we enable them to be. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 20th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Jaime finished the leader of the team badges. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Finished the Leader of the Team Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 10th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert began creating the Highest Good Education Badges. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Began Creating the Highest Good Education Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy worked on reviewing multiple different Pull Requests. Some of them took a decent amount of time since he found some bugs in the Assign Badge front-end branch, and it happened due to an outdated version of the backend. He also fixed/updated the unit-test for Timelog.jsx component to bring the cover from 76.92% to 83.08%. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on Reviewing Multiple Different Pull Requests – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer completed her 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru completed the initial person reporting page. When the user clicks the person’s name in the table listing everyone, the detailed person reporting page will show. Currently, data includes the person’s name, weekly committed hours, total committed hours, start date, blue square counts, and blue square dates. Pictures below are related to this work.

Completed the Initial Person Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

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Sustainably addressing population growth is necessary if we are to support our growing cultures. One Community is designing open source teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate what is possible and evolve the necessary plans for global implementation and adaptation. These sustainable communities and villages will demonstrate that we can live better and more luxuriant lives in a way that will support our growing population for the foreseeable future.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 7th, 2021 edition (#411) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. We reviewed work on sections 3, 4, & 5 of the FFF doc relating to footer construction and centerpoint re-establishment and compass installation. Section 5 was combined with 3 and three chapters were added to section 4. We then followed up with a phone call resulting in a mutual review of updating the first 48 pages of the FFF and removing outdated information. Also a discussion determined utilization of sheet metal attachment to the concrete floor with tapcon screws to cover the perimeter floor insulation. A new drawing will be drawn and reviewed to determine its feasibility and cost effectiveness. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Tutorials – Click for Page

The core team also generated final renders for the lofts for the Earthbag Village domes. The new images we produced show structural details, hardware placements and loft parts placement.

Generated Final Renders for the Lofts for the Earthbag Village Domes – Click for Page

And the core team completed a detailed review of the flashing installation tutorial for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

Completed a Detailed Review of the Flashing Installation Tutorial – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 29th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began working on the cost analysis for the pipe insulation and freeze prevention. He began using the material list containing the pipe lengths, elbows, and tees to calculate the quantity of polyethylene foam insulation needed. Additional research and analysis had to be done to prevent the pipes from freezing due to the water catchment roof’s design. The water storage room is susceptible because of the orifice in the roof allowing air to flow through the room and accelerate the possibility of frozen pipes due to convection cooling. A few measures were considered to prevent this from happening. One of the prevention measures was to line the spigots with fiberglass wrap along with the insulation foam. The extra insulation being necessary because of the use of copper in that area. Insulating the barrels was considered, but it was found to be costly. Another preventative was to wrap the barrels more susceptible to cooling with a heat cable and cover the cable with foil tape to evenly distribute the heat. Jose simulated the center barrels to have the heat cable wrapped around them because of the opening on top of the top center barrel that allows rainwater to flow in. The pictures below show some of this work.

Began Working on the Cost Analysis for the Pipe Insulation and Freeze Prevention – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 26th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey mostly finished the benches & table group. There were some boards to lay out and some hardware to add to the directions. She hopes to finish the group this coming week and submit a PDF for review. Stacey is also going to try to implement a used-board effect with this group, to show which boards are used vs. not. She is thinking to use a gray color or maybe a pattern of lines. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 24th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial and revising the loft design process. She edited the first four completed sections of the FFF doc to remove all obsolete information, began work on the foundation by researching the use of rebar to join the layers, and continued the development of interior trimming in the dome. Hannah also added image narrative and an executive introduction to the loft design process. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark mainly focused on research concerning drainage design, storm drain design, roadway design, water catchment options, and irrigation options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 4th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson finished explanation of the new section, “Materials”, “Maintainability and Constructibility”, and “Pavement Life-Cycle”. And he started a new chapter, “General Aspects of Pavement Engineering”, and provided an introduction for the new chapter. Also, Samson finished explanation of the section “Pavement Structure Layers”, “Types of pavement projects” and introduced the section “Roles, Resources, and Proprietary Items”. See pictures below.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 3rd week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. The focus for Vicente this last week has been upgrading the solar design spreadsheet by including a basic energy & economic balance based on the annual average day, identifying preliminary relevant outcomes (economic balance requires deeper research to know the current reality on rates, credits, incentives, etc.). He also added more useful links and a section for the calculation of the inter row spacing (“Outcomes” tab), which is a key value to estimate the required ground area for the PV field. Vicente wrote a first list of points / steps needed related to the legal and economic aspects which will function as a preliminary guide for this part of the project. New exploration on SAM software was also made to see the annual profiles generation & demand (internal SAM values). Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Sai Kaushik Duvvuru (Masters in Electrical Engineering) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week’s focus was on calculating the energy demands for the Earthbag Village, conducting research for Net metering tariffs and the ways they are calculated for the proposed site, checking the Basic Energy calculations, and doing research on the number of appliances needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 23rd week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela integrated requested edits to her lightbulb tutorial. Specifically, she ranked the lightbulb products and added pictures to them. Then, in her Google Spreadsheet, Angela ranked the products that weren’t featured and gave rationale as to why. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Ranked the Lightbulb Products and Added Pictures to Them – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Qiuheng focused on setting up key frames and components of the planting design. She divided the planting design into three themes, including four seasons front entrance, cherry blossom alley on the North and South, and warm winter (autumn) on the East. She also synced the model in Lumion for rendering. Below are some images showing her work.

Focused on Setting Up Key Frames and Components of the Planting Design – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 13th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy worked on the category of non-recyclable paper products. Originally, the category was limited to waxed paper and cardboard. However, she found that this category could be opened up to paper products that aren’t recyclable and aren’t compostable. This entailed doing some additional research on disposal of these difficult to discard paper products and finishing up the section. She also worked on the universal waste section, doing research and edits on that, as well. The pictures below relate to this work.

Worked on the Category of Non-recyclable Paper Products – Click for Page

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 9th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian transferred all the construction material data from the previous energy model (OpenStudio) to DesignBuilder Software. He was able to almost complete the preliminary construction material data as shown on the figure below. The set-up of material will continue up until the final stage of the design and construction of the building. Pictures below are related to this work.

Transferred All the Construction Material Data From the OpenStudio to DesignBuilder Software – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 5th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week Haozhen finished all his gutter design and continued his Downspout, Fascia and Soffit design. Most of the Fascia and Soffit are drawn, except for the one that conflicts with the “Pivot door”. The problem is yet to be solved. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Finished All His Gutter Design and Continued Downspout, Fascia and Soffit Design – Click for Page

Long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) also began modeling the specifics for how the Duplicable City Center dormer windows will be attached to the domes. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Began Modeling the Specifics for the Duplicable City Center Dormer Windows – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We designed five different garden beds, added more walking paths and realigned existing beds. The pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Herbal Garden Design for Behind the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

The core team also finished the first live draft of the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship content. We researched and edited new photos, edited all the hyperlinks, fixed the indexes and anchors, backed up references as pdfs, shared source files of the editable images, updated the summary, and compared it with the website checklist. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Finished the First Live Draft of the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship Content – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 19th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the new renderings for the Walipini 1 and Walipin 2 based on feedback and made a new animation for the Walipini 1 and Walipini 2. Pictures below show some of her changes.

Updated the New Renderings for the Walipini 1 and Walipin 2 – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.  This week Henry met with Mayur and discussed troubleshooting the matlab code, specifically working on the semi-infinite solid heat transfer section. Together they made good progress with this section by using a new source with relevant equations. They are also investigated transfer functions and positive feedback loops because they think that’s what is causing problems in the main greenhouse code. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Met With Mayur and Discussed Troubleshooting the Matlab Code – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 7th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md completed the initial wiring cost analysis of Walipini 1 and the large aquapini based on the design measurements (height, width, depth). A spreadsheet was created so costs can easily be recalculated if the unit cost of the components change. Md estimated that Walipinis 1,2,3 and Zenapinis 1, and 2 wiring costs will be the same based on the design analysis. The large-scale production aquapini has a slightly different cost. Areas identified as needing more cost analysis research include: Permit License Cost, Installation Cost, Labor Cost, Inspection Cost, Maintenance Cost, and other Miscellaneous Costs. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Completed the Initial Wiring Cost Analysis of Walipini 1 and the Large Aquapini – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Mayur continued to work on finding the optimum burial depth for the climate battery. He researched about transient heat transfer functions and about heat transfer in semi infinite solids with a single pipe, he calculated the heat transfer in such a system and calculated the output temperature of the pipe. This would help in calculating the system size and component dimensions. He also continued researching about the different thermal properties for the different types of soils as the last results did not seem to provide an adequate answer. Multiple references specify different values for the thermal properties (absorptivity and thermal diffusivity) of soils. Mayur calculated the thermal properties based on most of the observations and tried finding the optimum burial depth. The results still seem to be a little off for now and he will continue his work based on these results. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Continued to Work on Finding the Optimum Burial Depth for the Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 34 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team also completed our 8th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished reviewing the values of Sustainability and Honesty and Integrity. We updated formatting and made language consistent with the other One Community values pages. We made edits to make the overall readability smoother, by shortening sentences and adding language for a deeper understanding. Additionally we reviewed all resources listed within the resources sections, and finalized the additional FAQs for the value of Consensus Self-governance.

Continued Working on Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Evolving Sustainability Page

Additionally the core team finished a detailed review of the Highest Good Network software documentation of Work Breakdown Structure items 4.1, 4.2, and 4.4. We marked complete the items and functionality that are done and added notes for any aspects of these components that are still needed.

Finished a Detailed Review of the Highest Good Network Software Documentation of Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 36th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen got the bug (TypeError: toAdd.add is not a function) fixed. She added text to display the number of badges selected, and created functions to clear the data of selected badges when needed. Wen added some styling to the contents of the badge assignment tab. Lastly, she worked on name validation and error handling so that the user would get messages about how the request goes and the reason for failure.

Got the Bug (TypeError: toAdd.add is not a function) Fixed – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were mainly working on the documentation section as well as some code corrections and fixes. The pull request has been raised and merged to the development branch, and  the forgot password bug was fixed. Pictures below show this work.

Worked on the Documentation Section and Some Code Corrections – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 25th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on adding intro paragraphs to several different sections. She went into detail on the differences between group and individual insurance options. Noor also went into more detail on the specifics of the individual insurance options (such as who they serve, and the benefits/challenges associated with it). Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on Adding Intro Paragraphs to Several Different Sections – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 20th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on giving the timers a notification and communicating with each other to only have one timer going at a time. It’s a work-in-progress that needs more work to be fully functional. Chris also worked to set it up so that the timer would come back in a paused state in the case of a power outage/accidental browser closing. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 19th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he made corrections on the X hours in a week badge group and started the leader of the team badges. He also organized and uploaded master files for 4 different groups of badges. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Made Corrections on the X Hours in a Week Badge Group and Started the Leader of the Team Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 9th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert completed all of the Highest Good Society Badges! You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Completed All of the Highest Good Society Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Vy’s main goal this week was working on fixing/updating unit-testing files so that the yarn test command works again without running into the “JavaScript out of memory” error. He discussed it with Chris, and read a few articles about unit-testing in React to be able to find out the problem. Vy reviewed one pull request and approved it. He also was able to make the yarn test command work again and created a PR for it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Fixing/updating Unit-testing Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer completed her 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru finished the filter function in the reporting page. When users select “Active”, “InAcitve”, “All”, the table will show the available options in real time. Users then click the option name to view the detailed report. She also spent time on trying and testing all the APIs available to get all the data needed in the detailed reporting page and researched some React graph packages that will be used later. Pictures below are related to this work.

Finished the Filter Function in the Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

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Imagine what we can accomplish by building open source sustainable cities. We can create cities that are healthier, more fun to live in, more productive, durable, affordable and safer. One Community is creating the open source plans to establish DIY versions of these that will function as the teacher/demonstration hubs needed for global implementation and expansion.

• 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 January 31st, 2021 edition (#410) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. We researched galvanized flashing thicknesses to determine availability and feasible for covering the interior perimeter foundation insulation in the aircrete/earthbag domes. We also reviewed and researched new work in sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 regarding slope drainage and how it relates to soil types. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also finished building the Loft frame for Earthbag Village  domes according to the latest updated AutoCAD. Updates were related to the spacing between two middle joists, and changes to the overhead storage-entrance opening.

Finished Building the Loft Frame for Domes According to the Latest Updated AutoCAD – Click for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #212 of Dean’s work and the focus was modeling the ceiling-mounted TV in the up position and adding the imagery to it.

Modeled the Ceiling-mounted TV in the Up Position and Added the Imagery to It – Click for Earthbag Village

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan to coincide with the roof access updates in the Solid Works rendering. The updates included step-by-step diagrams of the roof saddle rafts construction. The rafts are cut at compound angles, but by breaking it down the process was simplified. The OBD sheathing was updated to include dimensions on where the flat head screws were to be installed. The roof saddle flash had to be updated as well to take into account the peak that is formed from the contact of the two pieces of OBD sheathing touching. The original flash that was over the peak had to be cut into two separate pieces with one of the cuts being angled to take into account the ending slope. More dimensions were added to the remaining diagrams to have more descriptive illustrations. With the completed updates, he then added more diagrams to the roof access flash installation section of the tutorial. He included descriptive instructions under the majority of the diagrams and completed the draft of the section. The pictures below show some of this work.

Finished Updating the AutoCAD Roof Plan to Coincide With the Roof Access Updates in the Solid Works Rendering – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 25th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on working on updating the components page. There are screws and nails and other parts that were not included in the assembly for the installation of some of the components. Some parts might come with their own screws and some we might need to add specialty lengths to the list just for those items. Realizing there are a lot more pieces than had been laid out before in the draft, Stacey is revisiting the links and getting new images to remake the page – making sure to list out the pages where the items are being used and also adding descriptions where needed. Pictures below are related to this latest progress.

Worked on Updating the Components Page of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 23rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by revising the loft design process and continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She revised the loft design process to include more narrative and imagery. She also continued to analyze different options for interior floor trimming, finished the initial draft of Section 4 (Footer Construction) in the FFF doc, and eliminated Section 5 (Compass Installation) of the FFF doc to combine its information with relevant info in Section 3 (Centerpoint Re-Establishment) of the document. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Revised the Loft Design Process and Continued Work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark finished the table to the temporary parking lot and made his recommendation. He also made corrections to his original parking lot design. In addition to this he did research on drainage design, walkway design, and roadway design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 3rd week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson edited the section from the last two weeks with a better format and strikethroughs for the unnecessary details. He finished the explanation of new sections: “ Soil Characteristics”, “Climate”, and “Existing Pavement Type and Condition”. He also introduced the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS), California R-value, engineering alternatives for expansive soils, the map of California pavement climate regions, and the consideration for reviewing existing pavement type and condition. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 2nd week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente worked on the creation of a spreadsheet to assess the energy balance and solar system size. Preliminary calculations have been made with the support of the online software PVgis and complementary calculations by SAM (downloadable energy simulation software developed by NREL). Other support software was identified and the action plan has been updated including a section for the legal and economic aspects. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team worked with Uponor to identify the best locations for the City Center HVAC radiant floor.

Worked With Uponor to Identify the Best Locations for the City Center HVAC Radiant Floor

The core team also made planting updates for the area around the City Center.

Made Planting Updates for the Area Around the City Center – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 22nd week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela implemented requested edits from last week to her lightbulb tutorial and added pictures to the product descriptions. She created a written list of the best lightbulbs and added in an explanation of her ranking. Then, she continued to work on the non-recyclables tutorial, adding in images and video links. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Lightbulb and the Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Lightbulb Page

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. She spent this week researching hydraulic calculations and plumbing design details for the 3rd floor bathrooms. Pictures below show some of this work.

Researched Hydraulic Calculations and Plumbing Design Details for the 3rd Floor Bathrooms – Click for City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Based on feedback, Qiuheng revised the planting plan and planting list and continued to work on the 3D model. She added in all the canopy layers, as shown below. Below are some images showing her work.

Revised the Planting Plan and Planting List and Continued to Work on the 3D Model – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 12th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy finished some edits for e-waste and construction waste, and researched adding a universal waste category, which would combine two of the current categories and add some more specificity. We now know we’d like to have a better and more concise category for goods containing common but hazardous materials. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Edits for E-waste and Construction Waste, and Researched Adding a Universal Waste Category – Click for Page

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 8th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian revised the construction appearance of the entrance and revised the dormer windows to the latest design and updated the material data of it for energy modeling. Ian also arranged all the site data of the windows and doors considering the quality and the affordability of it without compromising the total energy savings of the building. Progress photos are below.

Continued Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations to Help Us Achieve LEED Platinum Status for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 4th week as a member of the team and now focusing on the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week’s focus was the gutter and downspout design. Haozhen Worked on researching our state drainage code and precipitation and then selected proper downspout to attach with the 6″ K-style gutter. He then created a 3D detailed part in DWG format. The fascia and soffit design was also created in a 3D DWG file format. Unrelated to this, he also helped with some research on the thermal diffusivity and absorptivity for different soil properties. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Worked on the Gutter and Downspout Design for the City Center Water Catchment – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week the team updated images with correct sheeting size for the East and West walls. We also finished generating images for the South wall assembly including images for the upper portion of the wall with the two windows. We created images for the double plates placement step too.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions

The core team also started editing the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship content. We moved all the text from the development Google Doc to our wordpress page, created the index, formatted a good part of the anchors and headers, and also added rabbit images to one of the tables and exported it in the right format. While doing this we also made some small tweaks to the automation tool we are developing for this same editing process.

Started Editing the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship Content – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 18th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu figured out how to put the Revit’s model into Rhino, made needed minor updates to the new structures in Rhino, and updated the model in Lumion. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini:Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.  This week Henry continued work on the matlab program. He troubleshooted by breaking the program down into small sections and testing each section. He has reached out to his teammate Mayur and will be meeting next week to go over the code and the specific problem. Henry’s hopeful that the matlab program will be finished soon and looks forward to that day. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini Structures – Click for Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 6th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md made a rough sketch to analyze the exact location of the components in order to do the electrical wiring. For 100 amp breaker panel service, a 2-gauge non-metallic sheathed electrical cable is recommended. The cable must contain one or two hot wires depending on needs, one neutral wire, and one ground wire. Each wire should be 2-gauge in size. Underground Feeder (UF) is also recommended. It is a type of nonmetallic cable designed for wet locations and direct burial in the ground and commonly used for supplying outdoor fixtures. Total electrical cost for Individual Walipini had also researched. Considering placement of equipment’s total wiring cost is $589.28 (wiring length: 254’ and wiring cost per ft=$2.32), Breaker cost $50 (Size: 100 Amp, can hold 20 circuits. 20 full size breakers only) and the central bulb cost $8.00 (60watt, Brightness: 800 Lumens, Energy used: 8-Watt) for individual Walipini. Other costs might be taken into consideration: labor cost, permit license cost inspection cost, miscellaneous cost etc. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Worked on the Aquapini:Walipini Electrical Layout – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he researched about the different soils that can be used in the climate battery and is working on determining their thermal properties (‘a’ – absorptivity, ‘a0’ – thermal diffusivity, ‘e’ – emissivity, ‘k’ – thermal conductivity) in order to find the most efficient soil. Mayur figured out all the properties but one (e) and is working on determining the last one. These properties will help determine the optimum burial depth for the climate battery. He worked on the matlab code for the burial depth while keeping the emissivity constant for now. The graphs for the temperature of the soils throughout the day are pretty much similar. Mayur will check the results again after figuring out the emissivity of the soils. He will continue this and see how the different thermal properties are affecting the burial depth. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Researched About the Different Soils That Can Be Used in Climate Battery and Is Working on Determining Their Thermal Properties – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 23 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team also completed our nonprofit tax filing process.

Completed Our Nonprofit Tax Filing Process – Click for Page

And a detailed review and initial formatting of the One Community’s insurance options research.

Did a Detailed Review and Initial Formatting of the Health Insurance Options Research – Click for Page

The core team additionally completed our 7th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we began reviewing the values of Community and Sustainability. The introduction to the Sustainability page was re-written and anchor and other formatting was fixed. WE also wrote an additional FAQ for the value of Consensus explaining how traditional and consensus voting are different. In preparation for adequately reviewing and improving the value of Community, one of our team members also re-read and typed up notes from Scott Peck’s book “The Different Drum” to include within the Community content. Pictures below show some of this work.

Began Reviewing the Values of Community and Sustainability – Click for True Community Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 35th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the auto suggestion for the names when assigning badges. This function was completed so that we can see a dropdown list including all the names of “ACTIVE” users when filling in name forms. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Auto Suggestion for the Names When Assigning Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team completed the default password change and the option for the administrator to reset the password of a user inside the user profile. Upon clicking the Update Password button a popup shall open up which asks for a new password and confirms it, clicking “Reset Password” will update the password of that particular user. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 24th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor formatted some of the notes on her research by adding definitions to the key terms of what is most important to understanding the goals of this research project. She also began adding to a FAQ section. Furthermore, she made edits to her previous work by elaborating on how to become a self-insured employer as well as gave an overview of the process used in choosing plans as well as the selection criteria. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on getting the emails successfully sent for Weekly Summaries and infringements. Chris helped fill in new member Vy Dao on what was completed as far as Unit Testing for the different components and his process for doing Pull Requests. Chris also took a look at having Admins be able to click the red/green button on the leaderboard and see a different users dashboard, something that may require a couple of weeks to implement across all of the dashboard components. Then he fixed a color issue for the top of the dashboard. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Continued Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 18th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he finished the X-hours-in-a-week badge group. He also organized the x-hours streak master files. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Finished the X-hours-in-a-week Badge Group and Organized the X-hours Streak Master Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 8th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert finished the five badges for the Highest Good Society. Badges 100, 200, 400 600 and 10,000. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Finished the Five Badges for the Highest Good Society – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy spent a lot of time reading all of the documentation from the on-boarding orientation. After that he reviewed all of the different unit-testing files that we already have on our Github repo. He also discusses with Chris about how to work on Unit-testings and PRs reviews. He did review of 2 Pull Requests this week, making some changes to a few files for one of the Pull Requests. After the newest merge he found, for some reason, the yarn test coverage was not working anymore. He believed this happens because some of the unit-testing files are too old and caused a JavaScript out of memory error. He then investigated all of the old unit-testing files, especially under the UserManagement folder such as: NewUserPopup.test.js and USerProfileModal.test.js. Pictures below are related to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software.This week Yueru began development of the initial reporting filter page by completing project, person, and team tables. Each project, person and team table can render the options dynamically in real time. All three categories have 3 filter options available: active, inactive, and all. For projects, users have more filter options like data priority level etc. Showing all the options in table layout makes it easier for people to view all the options compared with the dropdown list used in the Ember/current app version. Pictures below are related to this work.

Joined the Highest Good Network Team and Began Development of the Initial Reporting Filter Page – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Robert Pioch to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Robert is Graphic Designer who brings four years of experience in both digital and print design to the One Community Team. With a keen eye for detail, he leads complex projects, from conception to completion, while ensuring both brand integrity and service excellence. Robert is an avid board gamer and enjoys designing board games in his free time. Focused on mindfulness practice and sustainability, he is thrilled to be a part of the team! As a member of One Community, Robert is helping to design the volunteer badge reward system for the Highest Good Network, and after that will help with layout design for the permaculture open source hub.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ROBERT!

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