One Community welcomes Ian Oliver Malinay to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ian earned his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University of the Philippines and currently holds a License as Mechanical Engineer after passing the PRC National Board Examination. He is passionate about Sustainable Building Design & Assessment, especially Building Energy Modeling using DesignBuilder / Energyplus software which is developed by the U.S. Department of Energy and is one of the most widely accepted modeling software. Ian is knowledgeable with 3-D Modeling, Visualization, Simulation, Daylighting, HVAC Design, LEED E.A. Minimum Energy Performance, E.A. Credit Optimize Energy Performance and ASHRAE 90.1 calculations, Optimization, and Computational Fluid Dynamics calculations. He is also a Facade Thermal Simulator using Therm, Windows, and Optics softwares and qualified to assist in the LEED certification process internationally as a LEED Accredited Professional. In addition to this, Ian is a Licensed Master Plumber in the Philippines (PRC National Board Examination) and qualified also to assist in the TRUE Zero Waste certification process internationally as a certified TRUE Advisor. As a member of the One Community team, Ian is applying his diverse experience to help complete the Duplicable City Center energy modeling and HVAC design so it can achieve LEED Platinum certification.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM IAN!

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Earth-care cooperatives can demonstrate regenerative living that will help people, communities, and our planet. One Community is creating the open source plans needed to launch these. They include DIY and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
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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 January 17th, 2021 edition (#408) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth-care Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #408

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care cooperatives through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials staging page. This week we finished and integrated the social media infographic, restored and backed up missing resource links, and began editing the next article: Best Small and Large-scale Community Polystyrene & Styrofoam Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Staging Page – Click for Main Flooring Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #210 of Dean’s work and the focus was designing the custom shelving and seating along the South wall. See pictures below.

Focused on Designing the Custom Shelving and Seating Along the South Wall – Click for Earthbag Village

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 26th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began updating the SolidWorks rendering of the Net-Zero Bathroom to illustrate the use of a roof saddle and roof flash in tandem for water sealing the roof access. The updated renderings include the roof saddle assembled in layers instead of one solid piece to show more detail on the installation process. The first layer of the roof saddle has wooden rafts cut from 2 by 4 at multiple angles to compensate for the roof inclination. The second layer was the OSB sheathing shaped into a triangle to fit over the rafts and was secured in place with screws. The third layer involved installing roof flash around the roof access piece by piece to accurately illustrate the order of the flash. The order of the flash is important because the flash should be overlapping each layer starting from the roof saddle down to minimize water collection around the roof access. The fourth layer had sheet metal cut into two triangular pieces to cover the frame followed by a strip of the sheet metal to cover the gap in between the frame. The final layer will cover the sides of the frame to prevent any water from seeping through the wood and the interior roof. The pictures below show some of this work.

Began Updating the Solidworks Rendering of the Net-zero Bathroom – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 23rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy finished updating the clothing and storage, nightstands and electrical sections, submitting her final questions about brackets and hardware numbers and locations. She was able to reduce the nightstands pages down by 1 page by combining steps onto a page that had free space. Cutting pages are nearly complete too. Pictures below are related to this latest progress.

Finished Updating the Clothing and Storage, Nightstands and Electrical Sections – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 21st 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 made a new section for the tutorial write-up of the horizontal wing insulation around the dome, researched options for interior trimming to protect the insulation around the edges of the floor envelope, and she re-designed the wall envelope above the graded backfill and below the first earthbag layer to include a vapor barrier to prevent moisture damage. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

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

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) also completed his 2nd week as a member of the team. This week’s focus was finishing his setup process by setting up Civil 3D software as well as getting familiar with connecting Sketchup and AutoCAD. Haozhen met with Mark and Samson for the Earthbag village work splitting, and Haozhen reviewed the Sustainable Parking Lot Construction Guide and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guide. To better understand how to manipulate the piping network, Haozhen also participated in a Civil 3D webinar lectured by Bentley software engineers. Pictures below are related to this work.

Set Up Civil 3D Software and Got Familiar With Connecting SketchUp and AutoCAD – Click for Parking Lot Construction Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked to figure out a viable temporary parking lot option while also researching codes and regulations for the permanent parking lot. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Joined the Team and Worked on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Guide

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson finished the onboarding process, reviewed the parking lot, roadway, and walkway webpage, had a meeting with Andrew and Mark, and then began working on the pavement design tutorial by following the Caltrans Highway Design Manual. This week he listed out the project specific conditions for the evaluation (pavement design life, traffic considerations, soils characteristics, etc.) and wrote a detailed explanation of pavement design life, traffic considerations, and calculation of equivalent single axle load (ESALs), Lane distribution factor and Traffic Index (TI). The pictures below show some of this work.

Joined the Team and Worked on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Guide

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care cooperatives 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 created a new graphic showing the locations of all the main plumbing fixtures. We integrated this into the Duplicable City Center Plumbing page and also wrote the What and Why sections there. Pictures below show some of this work.

Created a New Graphic Showing the Locations of All the Main Plumbing Fixtures – Click for Duplicable City Center Plumbing

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 20th 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 revised the company information, the summary, and made an overall edit of the entire tutorial. For her non-recyclables tutorial, Angela narrowed down the best methods and is refining their descriptions. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Revised the Company Information, the Summary, and Made an Overall Edit of the Entire Tutorial – Click for Most Sustainable Lightbulbs Page

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenai checked and updated the hot water calculations based on the latest floor plan clarifications from the core team. Pictures below show some of this work.

Checked and Updated the Hot Water Calculations Based on the Latest Floor Plan Clarifications – Click for Duplicable City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng updated the road system and the planting plan and put together an initial planting list. The planting plan was also imported to SketchUp for future modeling and perspective renderings. Below are some images showing her work.

Updated the Road System and the Planting Plan and Put Together an Initial Planting List – Click for Duplicable City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 6th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian was able to transfer the site data of the project into DesignBuilder. He then focused on filling in the construction assembly of materials and checking if the information corresponds to ASHRAE 90.1 standard. Progress photos are below.

Continued Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations to Help Us Achieve LEED Platinum Status – Click for DCC Heating and Cooling Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care cooperatives 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. The focus this week was edits and revisions relating to rafter and roofing installation while reviewing articles and videos related to such. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Focused on Edits and Revisions Relating to Chicken Coop Rafter and Roofing Installation – Click for Chickens Page

Here are some of the new graphics created too. These images are all related to updating parts dimensions for the east wall assembly pages that have the chicken door and two venting openings.

Created New Chicken Coop Graphics Related to the Updated Parts Dimensions for the East Wall – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 16th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the outdoor landscape renders by adding more detail. She also continued adding to the animation for Walipini 1.

Added More Detail to the Outdoor Landscape Renders and Continued Adding to the Animation for Walipini 1 – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry met with members of the team and discussed the complicated heat transfer equations involved in modeling the climate battery. It was decided that incorporating the thermal lag in the soil will be too difficult and an estimate will be sufficient. Henry then worked on incorporating all the new information into a new matlab script. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Discussed the Complicated Heat Transfer Equations Involved in Modeling the Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 4th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md began creating the electrical plan and conducting related research. Initial placement of components (Mechanical, MEP, etc) was sketched out, a central location for the individual walipini panel was suggested, and locations for the thermometer, heater, backup heater, humidity sensor, etc. were considered. There are picture below related to this work-in-progress.

Began Creating the Electrical Plan and Conducting Related Research – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care cooperatives 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 designing earth-care cooperatives through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community 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 5th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we completed work on the Communication page. We improved readability from ‘needs improvement’ to ‘OK’ by converting passive voice to active voice, and re-wrote some content for added clarity. We also reviewed the resources section and removed links that were bogged down with advertisements. Picture below show this work and some additional work we did adding our recycling rollout details to our complete phased-in rollout plan.

Improved Readability on Communication Page From ‘Needs Improvement’ to ‘Ok’ – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 45th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry completed the popup editor with the backup function. He also moved the popup management to under the “other links” dropdown. He changed the number of times for backing up to 2 (vs 7) and displayed a confirmation to make sure the user knows what they are about to do. Current popups which can be modified are: Delete Project, Delete WBS, Delete Task in WBS, and Import Task in WBS. Pictures related to this work are below.

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 33rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the “assign badges”, coding and debugging. The categories of badges have been updated in the badge model and a third layer of authorization check was included. The “badge management” link is only available to Admin roles now and the non-Admin roles have no access to the badge data, for the table containing all the badge editing info, and can’t submit the “assign badge” request. The second and third authorization checks are in place in case someone bypasses the UI and tries to access these components of the app. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the “Assign Badges”, Coding and Debugging – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were focusing on the documentation and completing the suggestion and wrapping the create new user profile functionality. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team migrated the REST API to azure and the dev site is now working in azure with both react and REST API. The pictures below relate to this work.

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

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 22nd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor finished ranking the insurance plans by their coverage type and associated cost. Depending on the cost associated with the coverage, she gave the cell a specific color. Darker colors were associated with better benefits and lighter colors were considered to be not good costs for the associated coverage. You the development so far of the spreadsheet ranking everything below.

Finished Ranking the Insurance Plans by Their Coverage Type and Associated Cost – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on the Summary Bar component, putting it on the timelog page and removing the summary bar from the timelog component. He also double checked the related functionality and went through and fixed several warnings in the console and lots of compile/style warnings in multiple files and pushed the changes. 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 16th 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 Minimum Hours” badges and started the “No Blue Squares” badges. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Finished the “X Minimum Hours” Badges and Started the “No Blue Squares” Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 6th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert completed award badges for Highest Good Energy. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Completed Award Badges for Highest Good Energy for the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for HGN

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One Community supports addressing climate change with radical self-sufficiency. We think we can turn this into a world-changing viral movement by demonstrating such sufficiency as a path to a more fulfilling and luxuriant life. We’re developing everything necessary to launch teacher/demonstration hubs that will make living this way accessible globally for anyone wanting it.

• Here’s our project overview
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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 10th, 2021 edition (#407) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change
With Radical Self-sufficiency
One Community Progress Update #407

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with radical self-sufficiency through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials staging page. This week we finished the initial draft, published it, and submitted it to the final review team. Some of the things finished this week were writing the summary section, backing up all the key reference links, using the website edition checklist to verify it followed onecommunity conventions, and fixing more formatting issues. Pictures below show some of the newly published page.

Finished the Initial Draft of Flooring Page, Published It, and Submitted It to the Final Review Team – Click to Visit

The core team also continued working on the Earthbag Village loft framing by reviewing Hannah’s designs and generating a list of questions/suggestions for improvement. Images below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Loft Framing – Click to Visit Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #209 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing appropriately sized bean bag furniture, end tables, proper placement of lamps, and starting to work on the seat cushions. See pictures below.

Worked on Sizing Bean Bag Furniture, End Tables, and Lamp Placement – Click for Earthbag Village

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 25th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued creating diagrams on AutoCAD for the Roof Access Sealing section of the Net-Zero Bathroom instructional draft. He updated the illustrations to include fasteners and their positions for the rafts used to form the frame of the roof saddle. The update included two additional diagonal cuts of the pair of rafts attached to the main central raft. The challenge of the pair of rafts was to have them sit flush along the inclined roof, along with their respective fasteners properly installed. The finished frame was then covered by two pieces of oriented strand board on the illustrations both triangular shaped to match the two cross sections of the frame. The frame was then covered with roof paper to act as a secondary barrier in the case of a premature leak. The frame was then layered with two pieces of galvalume sheet metal cut into the shape of the cross sections with one of the pieces being cut to have a 2” overhang. The overhang was bent inwards to overlap the other piece to create a tighter seal. The panels were secured along their seams and on the bent overhang with fasteners. With the Illustrations complete he began updating the SolidWorks rendering to include these updates and added the illustrations to the Roof Access Sealing section where he began drafting the coinciding instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Creating Diagrams on AutocCAD for the Roof Access Sealing Section of the Net-zero Bathroom Instructional Draft – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 22nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued working on laying out the wood pieces for cutting and figuring out the best way to position the wood needed for each project and each piece of lumber with minimal waste. The most complicated part of the instructions has been the use of different hardware, springs and brackets. Because these items rely on open market goods and sometimes varying sizes and components, it has been hard to calculate where exactly to attach them and how. Since these steps are being added in the last steps of the assembly, care is being taken to be as precise as possible. Stacey is also updating the component and procurement lists to be more inclusive of all parts used. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued Creating Diagrams on AutoCAD for the Roof Access Sealing Section of the Net-zero Bathroom Instructional Draft – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 20th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by creating a step-by-step process guide for the structural design of the dome loft and by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring documentation. She picked up on the floor design of the dome by updating the floor envelope in the relevant CAD, and began researching the necessity of horizontal wing insulation around the exterior of the dome. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Created a Step-by-step Process Guide for the Structural Design of the Dome Loft – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with radical self-sufficiency 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 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng selected plants for the planting design based on three layers, ground layer, understory layer, and canopy layer. She also continued to digitalize the planting plan design. In addition, she found some inspirational pictures about the greenhouse. Below are some images showing her work.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center, Now Focused on the Landscaping Design – Click for Duplicable City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 5th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the construction data of the model and defined the composition of the materials. He first processed the proposed building model of the project and confirmed all the data are more efficient than the ASHRAE baseline model. Progress photos below show some of this work.

Processed the Construction Data of the Model and Defined the Composition of the Materials – Click for DCC Heating and Cooling Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with radical self-sufficiency 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. The focus this week was construction and raising of walls. More amendments were made to drawings so they correlate with the written edits. We also did research exploring rigid rock wool insulation replacing EPS insulation and those changes were included in the latest drawing too. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Focused on Chicken Coop Construction and Raising of Walls – Click for Page

Here are some of the new graphics created too. These images are all related to the updates to the build of the west wall which has the two venting openings and entry door.

Created New Chicken Coop Graphics Related to the Updates to the Build of the West Wall – Click for Chickens Page

The core team also conversed with Paul Betty (an end user of Fastdeck 2.0) about the flooring option under consideration for the transition kitchen. Paul confirmed this flooring has the durability we seek and emphasized the need to lay out the flooring on a relatively smooth-graded surface that does not exceed 1” height variations. He also mentioned if you are moving heavy objects onto the surface do so with pneumatic-wheeled carts, no forklifts. With his confirmation, we then integrated the floor info to the Transition Kitchen page, rebuilt it so that the Hexayurt designs are now in an “alternative design” section at the bottom, and set it up so it’s ready to add the new designs and images that will integrate this new flooring.

Integrated the Floor Info to the Transition Kitchen Page after Discussion With Paul Betty – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 15th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu completed the first version of Walipini 1 and Walipini 3 and submitted the animation for feedback. She then started working on the renderings of Zenipini 1 and Zenipini 2 in Lumion. The following images show some of this latest development.

Completed the First Version of Walipini 1 and Walipini 3 and Submitted the Animation for Feedback – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. In this final week of the year Henry worked on Matlab code to work out the thermal storage capability of the climate battery and therefore the effectiveness of the system in the winter months. This is critical information in order to properly size the heating system and climate battery itself. It’s still a work-in-progress, the next step will be to combine this work and the work to find the inside air temperature for a more comprehensive model of the greenhouse. 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 3rd week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week’s focus was the feasibility analysis. Pictures below show some of Md’s notes related to this.

Focused on the Aquapini/walipini Electrical Layout – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week helping with the climate battery research for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week’s focus was finishing his orientation and setup. This included reviewing all documentation, getting SketchUp, SolidWorks, Matlab and a Matlab Github page set up, two orientation calls with team members, and beginning research on both climate batteries and greywater processing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Climate Battery Research for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with radical self-sufficiency 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 addressing climate change with radical self-sufficiency 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 4th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we completed work on the Consensus core value page and submitted it to the final review team. Consensus FAQs were improved in terms of readability. Additional information gathered from the resources section was integrated into the body. We then began reviewing the core value of Communication and Transparency page. Anchors have been updated, bullets have been formatted and the resources in the Resource section have been reviewed. Pictures below show some of these behind-the-scenes updates.

Finished Improving Content on Consensus Page and Began Communication and Transparency Page – Click for Consensus Page

And the core team improved the readability and added more content to our 10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions. This is one of the most trafficked pages of our site and the new content added specifics about the global approaches of our project for each of the 10 community areas. Pictures below show some of this work.

Improved the Readability and Added More Content to Our 10 Community Problems and 10 Solutions – Click for Page

The core team additionally set up our www.anchor.fm/one-community account and created a tutorial so we can start publishing these weekly progress updates and bring someone on to help us publish the audio from all our past updates as podcasts to Spotify, Google Podcasts, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, and Breaker. Pictures below are related to these new developments.

Set Up Our Anchor Account and Created a Tutorial – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 44th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry set the popup editor for Admin only. He also created a feature called ‘backup’ that will save the popup content to a special place in the database where it can be restored from if a person accidentally breaks something important. To back up the data, you have to press the backup button 7 times. The purpose of this is to let the user know that what they are about to do is important, and changing the backup data should only be done if the user knows that they are saving the data to the backup memory, and this is not for testing. Pictures related to this work are below.

Set the Popup Editor for Admin Only and Created a Feature Called ‘Backup’ – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 32nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen did code review for PR #111 and PR #112. She created a table of all the badge data for editing or deleting them. She also created a form for creating a new badge. The front end workflow and layout is pretty much done for Badge management. In the coming weeks Wen will work on the React data flow and the backend to handle the requests of assign/edit/delete/create. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software; Doing Code Review for PR #111 and PR #112 – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 21st week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued to organize the different plans and coverages into a ranking system. She ranked each plan by its coverage and associated costs. Coverages at lowest costs were given a higher rank while coverages at highest costs were given a lower rank. A “middle” rank was also used. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued to Organize the Different Plans and Coverages Into a Ranking System – Click for Health Insurance Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 15th 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 worked on the 70 hours streak, 80 hours streak and the 90 hours streak badges. He also started creating the badges for the X-minimum hour group for which he created the 2x and the 3x badges. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Created a 70, 80, and 90 hours streak badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 5th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert created a fun birthday badge! He also got started with the Highest Good Energy Badges. You can see pictures of the new designs developing below.

Created a Fun Birthday Badge for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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

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

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

We are stewards of our own future. We have a choice whether we want to recognize this and help or not. One Community is dedicated to helping and we’re doing it through open source sustainability solutions covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 3rd, 2021 edition (#406) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Stewards of Our Own Future
One Community Progress Update #406

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is functioning as stewards of our own 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 working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials staging page. We finished integrating the tables and the infogram image we’ve been working on, migrated the remaining Google Doc research into the webpage editor, and started the final website addition checklist. Pictures below show some of what the new page looks like as it develops behind-the-scenes.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Staging Page – Click for Main Flooring Page

The core team also began working on the Earthbag Village loft framing in SketchUp according to the latest loft design changes. This week we created all the necessary components for the loft. These included the joists, spacers, joist anchor pieces, loft entrance framing and loft floor sheeting. Through this process we identified some discrepancies in the measurements that we’ve passed along to Hannah to be fixed. Images below show some of this work.

Began Working on the Earthbag Village Loft Framing in SketchUp – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #208 of Dean’s work and the focus was beginning work on the internal furniture and lighting. He created new lights and the initial beanbags shown in the pictures below.

Created New Lights and the Initial Beanbags for the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 24th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week he began adding details regarding water sealing to the interior roof installation section of the Net-Zero Bathroom instructional draft. The details involved adding a diagram illustrating where caulk could be added to prevent leaking. Jose Luis began working on an additional section explaining how to seal the roof access with metal flash. While analyzing the model he determined that the prior sections involving the installation and construction of the interior roof had to be modified to accommodate the roof flash. To understand and possibly uncover further details required the research and drafting of roof flash installation on the roof access, he began creating a section involving the installation of the roof flash. Jose Luis used traditional methods found online using step flash and a roof saddle to divert water around the roof access. The roof access is especially important in colder climates where freezing is common in the winters. 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 21st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued her focus on the cutting pages and the brackets and latches for securing the bed. Pictures below show some of this work-in-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 19th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by creating a step-by-step process guide for the structural design of the dome loft and by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring documentation. She picked up on the floor design of the dome by updating the floor envelope in the relevant CAD, and began researching the necessity of horizontal wing insulation around the exterior of the dome. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

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

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 6th and final week working on the Communal Eco-shower structure. This week Alvin further developed the section views shown below and made the initial plumbing plans, showing the clean water and black water pipes for the shower. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Completed Final Week Working on the Communal Eco-shower Structure – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is functioning as stewards of our own 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksendia created the isometric schematics of the sanitation system. Pictures below show some of this work.

Created the Isometric Schematics of the Sanitation System – Click for Duplicable City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng continued to modify the planting design and did some research on the greenhouse that will be needed as part of the natural greywater processing system. She also looked through other team members’ work and updated the plan design based on that. Below are her updated drawings.

Continued to Modify the Planting Design and Researched Greenhouse for the Natural Greywater Processing System – Click for Duplicable City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 4th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian was able to finish the geometry modeling of interior and exterior along with the corresponding different types of windows and doors. He also arranged the thermal zoning of spaces with regards to ASHRAE 90.1-2010 standard. Progress photos are below.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is functioning as stewards of our own 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 rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we continued the updates to the step-by-step phase of the wall construction and sheathing process. The walls will be constructed on the floor framing, sheathed, and raised. To attain a level surface due to the disparity of the height of the hardware cloth on one half of the floor and the plywood on the other half, we are compensating the unevenness with temporary loosely-laid 1/2″ plywood. All standing walls will be altered to correlate with the construction process as necessary. Simultaneously the text and drawings will corroborate the physical alterations of the drawings. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued the Updates to the Step-by-step Phase of the Wall Construction and Sheathing Process – Click for Chicken Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 14th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu separated the 6 parts of structures into 6 different Rhino files. This procedure took a lot of time. Although the files have been separated, the structural files are still way too large. She also worked on a diversity of renderings, a process that is ongoing. The following images show some of this latest development.

Separated the 6 Parts of Structures Into 6 Different Rhino Files – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry continued working on his Matlab code for finding the inlet air temperature of the greenhouse. He also worked on finding the most efficient temperature that the greenhouse should be designed around and researched into supplemental heating for winter climate battery systems. 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

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 12th and final week helping with the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana worked on the SimScale flow simulations and created guides for all the work she has produced up to this point. She was able to get the SimScale flow simulations to work but needed to read on the SimScale post-processing to analyze results. Understanding that this is Diana’s last week, she focused the majority of her time on creating guides of her work so that future team members can use these tools. The “Guide for the Climate Battery Spreadsheets” describes how to use the spreadsheets to calculate the total friction loss of the system. The “Guide for the Matlab code – Burial Depth” demonstrates how to adapt the code to find the temper at different depths for different types of soil. This will be used to conduct the cost analysis of different soils types and determine which soil should be used to cover the climate battery. The “Guide for Flow/Heat Simulations” states the boundary conditions that should be used when conducting a flow/heat simulation as well as the issues that may be encountered. The pictures below show some of this work.

Completed Her Final Week Helping With the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is functioning as stewards of our own 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 functioning as stewards of our own 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 19 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 finished review and final edits to both the large-scale consensus and Love and Compassion content, updated them on the live pages of our site, and shared them. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Finished Review and Final Edits to the Large-scale Consensus and Love and Compassion Content – Click for Love Page

The core team also completed our 3rd week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we continued work on the Consensus core value page. Readability has improved from ‘needs improvement’ to ‘OK.’  Subheading distribution improved, as well as improvements around passive voice, consecutive sentences, and sentence length. We also reviewed all the resources listed in the Consensus Resources Section. Pictures below show some of these behind-the-scenes updates.

Continued Working on Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click to Visit Consensus Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 31st week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the badge table for assigning badges. The badge management component was connected with the backend and database. Additional role authorization was also added so only “Administrators” have access to all the badge data and the assign/edit functionalities. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Worked on the Badge Table for Assigning Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) completed with her 22nd and final week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi finalized colors for her navigation bar component, wrote the proper documentation, and created a pull request for her final updates. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

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

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 20th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on organizing the different plans and coverages into a ranking system. She ranked each coverage by its cost with certain benefits. For example, plans with the highest deductible would have a higher ranking than plans with a lower deductible. However, plans that had higher copays for certain coverages had lower rankings. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Worked on Organizing the Different Plans and Coverages Into a Ranking System – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on having the weekly summary popup be shorter and added a scrollbar. He also worked on some pull requests and added some code to clean up the pull request code from Yiqi. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Worked on Having the Weekly Summary Popup Be Shorter and Added a Scrollbar – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 15th 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 kept working on the new designs for the badges to use in the badge section on the dashboard of the HGN. This week he made new corrections on the 40 hour streak and the 50 hour streak. He also finished the 60 hour streak badges and created a new image for the 90 hour badge. Pictures of the updated and new badges are below.

Continued Working on the New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 4th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert completed the first round of Highest Good Food badges and submitted them for final review and feedback. You can see pictures of the new designs developing below.

Completed First Round of Highest Good Food Badges and Submitted Them for Final Review – Click for Highest Good Network

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Creating a cooperative society is easier when everyone’s basic needs are met. It is more likely for people to help others when they aren’t struggling to survive. One Community is open source sharing all the tools, tutorials, and resources necessary to build and maintain teacher/demonstration hubs that will meet the basic needs of all residents while further evolving the instructions and resources needed to build even easier and better hubs.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 27th, 2020 edition (#405) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Cooperative Society
One Community Progress Update #405

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials page. This week we completed another draft of the sustainable floors ranking infogram, finished looking for and editing the images for each flooring types, and completed more editing based on the “website edition checklist”. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Page – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #207 of Dean’s work and the focus was these two final external-view renders showing the patio looking East and the top-down view looking Northeast.

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

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis measured the clearance between the bottom tier rain barrels and the base the top tier rain barrels rest on. Sufficient clearance is important to simplify the process of removing and replacing a barrel. The clearance was measured to be roughly 3” which was determined to be sufficient. The review was conducted because the rain barrel support structure was modified for packaging reasons. The modifications involved shortening the columns to lower the structure. The structure was re-analyzed to calculate the maximum buckling load the columns could withstand. The base the barrels rest on was not changed, leaving the stresses to be constant in the base. The load was calculated using Euler’s Column Formula which calculated a maximum load of 18,000 pounds per column when structural wood was used. The weight of a pair of full barrels is 1012 pounds, much less than the 18,000 pounds the columns can withstand. He continued creating diagrams on AutoCAD to illustrate more details on the interior roof panel installation along with the positions of the roof fasteners. These illustrations were added to the “Roof Panel Installation” section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial draft. A section was started explaining how to construct the roof frame. Adding this section will clarify and expand instructions explaining the construction of the Net-Zero Bathroom roof. 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 20th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey started to lay out the cutting pages and the wood placement for all the groups. She’s just doing a rough layout now to make everything as consistent as possible. Most of the wood in the key was already sized proportionally, so it is not too difficult to estimate the layout on a 4×8’ board. This process will add more pages to the layout but in some groups it won’t be as extensive as once thought. She thinks by next week she will be able to submit another pdf for comments with most of the cutting pages and including electric pages. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Began Laying Out the Cutting Pages and the Wood Placement for All the Groups – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 18th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the updated dome loft design. She updated all relevant CAD and construction drawings to be used for Sketchup modeling, and edited the spreadsheet to reflect the design changes to strengthen the capacity of the loft. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

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

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 5th week working on the Communal Eco-shower structure. This week Alvin completed the initial foundation plan and began work on the report explaining the designs. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Completed the Initial Foundation Plan and Began Work on the Report Explaining the Designs – Click for Communal Eco-shower

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a cooperative society 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia updated the hot water calculations and created the plan for the engineering room in the basement. Pictures below show some of this work.

Updated the Hot Water Calculations and Created the Plan for the Engineering Room – Click for City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Qiuheng continued to research water management and planting design. She researched possible plants. She also sketched some drafts for planting design based on three layers: ground layer, understory layer, and canopy layer. The planting design will conform to the form of the structures and utilize the stones on site. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Continued to Research Water Management and Planting Design – Click for Duplicable City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 3rd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian concentrated on the geometry, fenestration and openings of the building. He carefully modeled the building in the EnergyPlus/DesignBuilder to achieve accurate results. Ian almost completed the outer geometry and is currently in the process of completing the inner geometry with corresponding thermal blocks and thermal zones. Pictures below show some of this modeling work.

Concentrated on the Geometry, Fenestration and Openings of the Building – Click for City Center Heating and Cooling

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a cooperative society 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 we viewed 2 wall layout videos and extracted the key points on the coop Google Doc, adding one into the wall layout narrative. We then integrated what we learned as edits and revisions. Pictures below show some of this.

Viewed 2 Wall Layout Videos and Extracted the Key Points on the Coop Google Doc – Click for Chickens Page

The core team also created a diversity of new chicken coop imagery corrected with updated dimensions for framing of the section above the nesting boxes on the South wall. You can see these below.

Created a Diversity of New Chicken Coop Imagery – Click for Page

The core team additionally continued work on the Herbal Garden design and gardens that will be behind the Duplicable City Center kitchen. We set up the garden with three entry gates and a perimeter path, added dimensions for the garden area, designed the key-bed sections, and started working on a leaf-shaped garden section. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Work on the Herbal Garden Design and Gardens That Will Be Behind the Duplicable City Center Kitchen – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 13th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu added the ADA ramps, stairs with handicap railings, and made the structure’s glazing support components in Rhino. She also adjusted the people in Lumion and added more vegetation. The model is becoming too large to work with in either Rhino or Lumion, so we’re seeking solutions to that. The following images show some of this latest development.

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

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 13th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week, Jingwei finished the planting list, AutoCAD and SketchUp models. Pictures below show the final versions of these.

Finished the Planting List, Autocad and Sketchup Models – Click for Earthbag Village

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry attempted to find a solution to the inlet air condition matlab code he has been working on. Unfortunately, he has yet to find an answer to that problem. He also worked on another approach involving average temperature to find a value that would best reflect common operating conditions. 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

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 11th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana worked on the SimScale flow and heat transfer simulations. The program requires a fluid volume extraction in order to conduct a flow/heat transfer simulation. Diana read through tutorials to learn how to do this. When creating a fluid volume extraction, an error occurred because there was a space between two manifold tubes. She fixed the design by increasing the diameter from 14.5in to 18in. Diana was then able to create a fluid volume extraction and attempted to run a simulation but it failed. After many attempts of changing the simulation set up and the reading through forums she came to realize there may be an issue with mesh. In the mesh there are indents that may be causing the simulation to fail. Diana decided to change the design so the tubes and manifolds are flushed, thus removing this indent in the mesh. She will conduct simulations on this new design. The pictures below show some of this work.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a cooperative society 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 17 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 continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished adding all the imagery and finalizing about 50% of the content and formatting. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Working on the Large-scale Consensus Content – Click for Page

The core team also completed our 2nd week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished edits to the value of Love and Compassion, improving readability from ‘needs improvements’ to ‘good’. As part of this, we decided that ‘Love and Compassion’ was a better title than ‘Love and Connection’, because Connection falls under the value of Community. We also fixed anchors that were placed incorrectly and began reviewing the next value: “Consensus”, to improve readability (currently at ‘needs improvement’). Pictures below show some of these updates.

Continued Working on Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages, Finishing the Love & Compassion Page – Click to Visit

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 43rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry worked on both the front-end and back-end for the new feature “popup editor.” Users can edit the popup then save it to the database. He integrated TinyMCE into the editor so users can change the text format or break the line easier. He also started thinking about how to add a reminder for each popup so the user can restore it. Also the ability to have a link that takes the user to the page where the popup is. Pictures related to this work are below.

Worked on the Front-end and Back-end for the New Feature “Popup Editor” – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 30th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued debugging, and worked with Chris on reviewing new PRs. The development branch runs ok now on both their local machines, but crashes after it’s deployed. Wen also began working on the badge assignment. She designed the workflow of the badge management and created the skeleton of badge assignment functionality. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Debugging, and Worked With Chris on Reviewing New PRs – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 19th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began research on the Medical Provider Network. She researched the steps that should be taken to establish an efficient network. She then began connecting it to the plans chosen by showing which plans provide the most freedom in a network and what each type of plan typically entails in a network. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Began Research on the Medical Provider Network – Click for Insurance Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry changed the color and fill-up rate for progress bars based on last week’s feedback and implemented showing different notifications depending on user role. Pictures are below show some of this work.

Changed the Color and Fill-up Rate for Progress Bars Based on Last Week’s Feedback – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Chris worked on having the weekly summary popup into the dashboard above the timelog rather than popup as a modal. He also made it so that the page jumps to the weekly summary on a mobile device as you toggle it. Chris also went over a few pull requests. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Worked on Having the Weekly Summary Popup Into the Dashboard Above the Timelog – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 14th 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 corrected all the 40 hour streak files and the 50 hours streak ones. He finished the badges for the 50 hours streak and started the badges for the 60 hours streak. Pictures of the updated and new badges are below.

Continued Working on the New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 3rd week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert finished the Highest Good Housing badges and moved on to creating the Highest Good Food Badges. You can see pictures of these new designs developing below.

Finished the Highest Good Housing Badges and Moved on to Creating the Food Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

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Open source collaboratives can transform our world through DIY-replicable sustainability solutions. One Community is creating the open source tools and tutorials to construct and coordinate a global cooperative of these as eco-villages.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 20th, 2020 edition (#404) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #404

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source collaboratives 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 generated more images for the Murphy bed construction steps with bed/benches/table in different positions (up and down).

Generated More Images for the Murphy Bed Construction Steps – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #206 of Dean’s work and the focus was final corrections needed to run these final renders of the rooftop patio and a top-down view showing the hot tub.

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

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began updating the SolidWorks model of the Net-Zero Bathroom by modifying the rain barrel support structure. The support structure had too much clearance between each tier of barrels and the floor. The benefits of the update were extra ceiling clearance, a total of 7”, for filter maintenance and a reduction of wood for the construction of it. A filter was added to the top barrel of the Net-Zero Bathroom and was found to be simpler in terms of installation and maintenance. The advantages of the two layer filter were ease of maintenance by having one layer removable for cleaning, and the elimination of outdoor exposure by having the filter located inside the rain barrel storage room. Jose Luis then began creating more diagrams for the interior roof installation section on AutoCAD. The diagrams included the position of the panels on the interior substrate, the position of the metal trim used to join the panels, and the position of the roof fasteners with dimensions. More details regarding the position of the roof fasteners are to be created. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Began Updating the SolidWorks Model of the Net-zero Bathroom – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 19th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey was able to relink all the assets for the electrical pages so they look pretty close to the original. She made updates to include the 3 outlet casings and added an additional page to incorporate a sketch of the bed frame to tie it together. For now Stacey has the electrical starting when the back of the wall is still fully exposed and then the electrical will lead directly into the clothing and storage (which is applied directly over the back wall to close up the electric). Then the instructions will go back to the wall page. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Relinked All the Assets for the Electrical Pages So They Look Close to the Original – Click for Furniture Page

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 4th week working on the Communal Eco-shower structure. This week he completed the floor plan which was lacking the doors. He also completed the section view of the communal eco-shower, from starting the design at the beginning of the week and gradually adding the interior walls, the faucet, the sink, the windows and other components until the section view is complete. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Continued Working on the Communal Eco-shower Structure – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source collaboratives 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 updated the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling (HVAC) open source hub with new graphics defining the HVAC spaces and the type of heating and cooling that will be applied in each. Picture below show these new additions.

Updated the Duplicable City Center Heating and Cooling (HVAC) Hub With New Graphics – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 14th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia studied all the material available on the radiant floor and boilers to recommend that the radiant floor needs its own boiler. She also changed the calculations for the selection of hot water boiler on the actual data sheet. Pictures below show some of this work.

Studied All the Material Available on the Radiant Floor and Boilers – Click for City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 11th 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 was able to have an in-depth conversation with the co-founder (Doug Russell) of Cogent Energy about the applicability of their product. She spent the rest of her time writing and making edits to the content in the sustainable processing of non-recyclables tutorial development doc. Pictures below are related to this work.

Focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng read and watched all the materials provided on greywater management and planting design and outlined her design process plan and timeline. The pictures below show this work.

Began Focusing on the Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 2nd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian focused on the outside geometry of the City Center. Ian was able to finish it and is now focusing on interior design/interior geometry, defining construction materials and zoning of the design. Ian is taking extra care to make sure that the energy model construction is accurately based as much as possible on the final design. The following are the progress photos of this latest energy modeling work.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source collaboratives 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 we updated images for all four wall frames with corrected studs spacing.

Updated Images for All Four Wall Frames of the Chicken Coop With Corrected Studs Spacing – Click for Chickens Page

The core team then used these new images and new text to eliminate the vast majority of red comments on the chicken coop doc by updating the accompanying narratives to coincide with the updated coop drawings.

Updated the Accompanying Narratives to Coincide With the Updated Coop Drawings – Click for Chickens Page

The core team additionally started work on the Herbal Garden design and gardens that will be behind the Duplicable City Center. We did research on different layouts and herbs selection for the garden.

Started Work on the Herbal Garden Design – Click for Duplicable City Center

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 12th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu finished the first round of renderings in Lumion and made the first animation for the whole design. The following images show the developing process and renderings.

Finished the First Round of Renderings in Lumion and the First Animation for the Whole Design – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 12th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei made progress on the final planting pallet. The SketchUp model was also completed. Some smaller features such as local stone and stone structures were added to the model, so the stones in dry swales can keep soil stable and control erosion problems. She also started to plan the Lumion walkthroughs. Pictures below show the most recent designs.

Completed Sketchup Model and Made Progress on Final Planting Pallet – Click for Earthbag Village

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry focused on matlab coding and troubleshooting. Henry continued to read material surrounding heat transfer equations and troubleshooted with Diana. Henry will continue to work on Matlab until he finds a solution. 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

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 10th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana helped Henry with his code that solves for the Temperature inside the climate battery. She provided Henry with guidance on the derivation of the equation that represents the Walipini system. Diana also worked on creating a new Solidworks design. She was having issues running a flow simulation on Simscale with Henry’s design because the program did not recognize the pipes as 1 body. She created parts for each manifold and tubing which she then used to create an assembly. Diana also changed the way the pipes are joined to more accurately represent how the design will be installed in the future. Instead of a merged slant the pipes are now merged through a hole. The material of the pipes are PE High Density in order to provide an accurate heat transfer simulation of ADS pipes. Diana will be moving forward with the flow and heat transfer simulations. The pictures below show some of this work.

Helped Henry With His Code That Solves for the Temperature Inside the Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community 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 continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we created all the imagery and related SEO details and started adding it to the staging page. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Created All the Imagery and Related SEO Details and Started Adding to the Staging Page – Click for Consensus Page

The core team also completed our first week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week’s focus was the Love and Compassion page where we improved the readability, made sentences shorter, used less passive voice, and used much easier to understand wording. Analyzing the page with a readability too, the readability is now “Good.” Pictures below show some of these updates and the readability score.

Began Working on Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Love and Compassion Page

Sangam Stanczak (Environmental Engineer – Ph.D., P.E.) and Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed their probationary periods and were invited to join the core team. They both began working on their complete bio pages as part of this. You can see pictures of their work-in-progress below.

Sangam and Alvaro Completed Their Probationary Periods and Were Invited to Join the Core Team – Click for Team Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 42nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed the bug from last week so you can now edit the resource from the copied task without any error. He also created a page called “/admin”, this page will be used to figure any display/popup on the website. The first configuration he added to the page is to change the popup text. When he is done with this feature, an Admin will be able to update this page to change all the popup text in the app. The pictures below show some of this new work.

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 29th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued looking into the error messages and doing debugging using the React Developer Tools and Redux DevTools. She fixed a PR and she checked the deployment for the preview site and reset the Heroku connection. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Continued Looking Into the Error Messages and Doing Debugging – Click for Highest Good Network Software

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team migrated the REST API to Azure and the dev site is now working in Azure with both react and REST API. The pictures below relate to this work. 

Migrated the REST API to Azure – Click for Highest Good Network Software

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 21st week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi lightened the red border and darkened the writing and “!”. She also added completed and uncompleted status on “HOURS” and “SUMMARY” and created a pull request for these updates. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Lightened the Red Border and Darkened the Writing and “!” – Click for Highest Good Network Software

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 18th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor completed her analysis of her chosen plans. She ranked each plan by their benefits and associated costs. Most plans chosen offer the ability to create one’s own medical provider network, but they have differing costs depending on whether it was in-network or out-of-network. This week Noor analyzed that by determining the costs for each benefit and whether it was out of network or in network. She analyzed which plans provided coverage for services such as preventative checkups and eyeglass wear/exams etc. and their associated costs. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Completed Analysis of Chosen Health Insurance Plans – Click for Our Insurance Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry got appropriate display values depending on time spent (since progress displayed will be non-linear) and fixed the table layout so that tasks and their progress bars are now aligned properly. Progress bars also now show total time taken on a task and the task’s estimated length. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 13th 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 corrected all the 30 hours streak files, some of the 40 hours streak and started the 50 hours streak ones. Pictures of the updated and new badges are below.

Continued Working on the New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 2nd week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert continued development of the Highest Good Housing badges, focusing on the higher level badges and showing the higher level villages within those. You can see pictures of these new designs developing below.

Continued Development of the Highest Good Housing Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped work on improving our Google Ad Grant and evaluating the impact of an upcoming WordPress update on our website.

Helped Work on Improving Our Google Ad Grant -Click for Home Page

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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We can achieve better living through regenerative communities. We can build more affordable, longer-lasting homes that don’t contain toxic materials. We can grow food that is more nutritious and safer because it is fresher and not sprayed with poisons. We can provide ourselves with sustainable energy sources that are more dependable and reduce our cost of living. We can experience more recreation and relaxation options, all free and within walking distance. We can create education programs that leverage a child’s strengths so they are both more fun and more effective. One Community is developing the open source plans for regenerative-community teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate, share, and evolve all of these areas and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 13th, 2020 edition (#403) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Regenerative Communities
One Community Progress Update #403

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team updated the Most Sustainable Toilets open source hub. This reflect the newly completed sustainability benchmarking of the main toilet providers, the and updates this research caused to a couple of the individual toilet rankings. Pictures below show some of this new content.

Updated the Most Sustainable Toilets Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also generated more images for the Murphy bed showing details for placement of the latches, brackets, and hooks that secure the table and benches in the up position.

Generated More Images for the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #205 of Dean’s work and the focus was final corrections needed to run the final renders of the Southeast and Southwest views shown below.

Worked on Final Corrections Needed to Run the Final Renders of the Southeast and Southwest Views – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 35th and final week as a member of the volunteer team as he now moves on to become a member of the core team. Alvaro continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options, researching PET reusability as a food container and adding more content to the doc. He then moved on to a higher priority task, editing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials, and finished research on the most sustainable flooring. For this article he updated the table’s aesthetics, and started looking for images to create an infographic summarizing the article in one picture. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on Plastic Reuse and Sustainable Flooring Research – Click for Flooring Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched products and materials used to prevent water in pipes from freezing. The options found were traditional pipe insulation, barrel insulation, and heating tape. The traditional pipe fitting was the cheapest preventative, but was determined to not be sufficient for frigid environments. The second option was completely insulating the 55 gallon barrels in an insulated bag designed for them, these could be strategically used on barrels with the most exposure. The last option was heating tape which is wrapped around the pipes to regulate their temperature. The drawback of the heating tape was the cost, but it may be feasible to utilize if placed on inlet and outlet pipes or other strategic places. He also measured and recorded the ceiling and top barrel clearance in the Solid model. He began updating the Solid model to increase the clearance. The clearance is necessary to have the barrel filter accessible for cleaning and inspections. Diagrams of the fastener positions and separation distances were created on AutoCad. The diagrams were inserted into the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” as visual aids for the fastener installation. Lastly Jose Luis updated the roof flash used on the roof access in the Solid model. The update was to improve accuracy of the flash installation. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Researched Products and Materials Used to Prevent Water in Pipes From Freezing – Click for Net-Zero Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 18th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey focused on finishing the electrical details, adding latches and springs, working on the components page, and cutting pages. She added a page turn icon that will lead a person to the next page but we discussed it and decided it is redundant and would require more ink if someone prints the instructions. She also continued updating text placement and spacing that needed to be updated after reviewing the full layout. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

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

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 17th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the structural design of the loft. She redesigned the loft to account for a higher load capacity by re-spacing the beams, altering the size of the nails for end connection-to-wall embedment, redesigning the capacity of the beam-to-plate connections, verifying the strength / deflection adequacy of the OSB loft deck, and determining the nail sizes and spacing for the OSB loft floor and gypsum board ceiling. The loft is now redesigned to carry 40psf of live load – for reference 30psf load may be exceeded if a whirlpool bathtub, waterbed, etc. was placed; a 40psf capacity would typically be adequate to cover these loads. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Worked on the Structural Design of the Loft – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 3rd week working on the Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering. This week Alvin completed the cost analysis section by double checking the links on the spreadsheet, replacing the items that are out of stock and finding other alternatives, and updating the researched hardware (faucets, hand dryers, shower heads, etc.) to match the #1 choices on the website. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Continued Working on the Communal Eco-shower Footer, Foundation and Flooring Engineering – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she created the isometric layout for the cold and hot water supply of the 101 floor plan.
Pictures below show some of this work.

Created the Isometric Layout for the Cold and Hot Water Supply of the 101 Floor Plan – Click for City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 10th 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 began a more in-depth look at some of the WTE (Waste to Energy) methods and other small-to-medium scale solutions. She replied to correspondences from people she contacted last week, contacted a new company, and began some writing on the tutorial itself. Pictures below are related to this work.

Worked on Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng finished the City Center walkthrough making modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file. She also started to read natural greywater processing details/research and getting familiar with this as her next area of focus. You can see the latest updated areas below.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center rainwater harvesting component. This week Md continued research on the water catchment system, focusing on resources for the most efficient piping system. Pictures below show some notes related to this and a call Md had with the climate battery team.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Rainwater Harvesting Component – Click for City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) joined the team and completed his first week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week he focused on modeling the geometry of the Social, Dining, and Living Domes, attached walkways, some internal walls, and the elevator and stairway areas. Some related progress photos are below.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations to Help Us Achieve LEED Platinum Status for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 finished the layout for the new Transition Kitchen. We rearranged the kitchen tables to provide enough room for a second serving line, and placed directional arrows on the floor tiles.

Finished the Layout for the New Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we created a new comment section, where needed, for addressing construction issues where we lack sufficient experience. The purpose of this is to emphasize to the reader that these documents continue to be a work-in-progress. We then corrected measurements for studs and joist placements, added missing structural parts, and generated updated images. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

The core team additionally reviewed the Aquapini & Walipini structural engineering report and completed the outline of everything that is needed from Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) to complete it. You can see some pictures below for this.

Reviewed the Aquapini & Walipini Structural Engineering Report – Click to Visit Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 11th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week she finished all the materials in the rhino, and she also added the landscape furniture and plants’ material. The rest of plants will be added in Lumion. Picture below show the latest updated models.

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

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week, Jingwei continued to modify the Photoshop plan and SketchUp model, adding more plants and details. The SketchUp model has gotten too big to be modified, so she only did half of it. The other half though would be exactly the same. Pictures below show the most recent designs.

Continued to Modify the Photoshop Plan and SketchUp Model – Click for Earthbag Village

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week consisted of working to create a thermal model of Walipini #3 in Matlab. This model will determine the proper inlet air temperature for the 3D climate battery model and the requirements for any external heating system. The Matlab model is still developing and he hopes to have it finished by mid next week. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Worked to Create a Thermal Model of Walipini #3 in Matlab – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 9th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana analyzed the change in total friction loss in the Walipini design by increasing the diameter of the manifold and the tubes. She chose the cfm at the temperatures of 90F and 10F because these are the potential extreme temperatures the greenhouse may experience. The blue cells indicate the total friction loss of the current design for a manifold diameter = 8in and tube diameter = 4in. The friction loss is as follows: Subsystem 1 (SS1) @90F = 22.72 in wg and SS1@10F = 30.08 in wg. The yellow cells are the optimal total friction loss where the manifold diameter = 12in and tube diameter = 6 in. The friction loss is as follows: SS1 @90F = 3.28 in wg and SS1@10F = 4.32 in wg. A fan will produce 2 in wg static pressure meaning the design is very close to being balanced. Henry and Diana created new designs with the following dimensions: manifold diameter = 12 in, tube diameter = 6 in and manifold diameter = 12 in, tube diameter = 7 in. These need to be analyzed through the Solidworks flow simulation to verify that the heat transfer has not diminished with diameter size. There is an error in the Solidworks design that Diana could not find the source of the problem and will be meeting with Henry to fix it. Diana also researched fans in series and in parallel and found that by placing fans in series you theoretically double the static pressure provided into the system. This could be a solution to balance the static pressure in the subsystems, and thus providing optimal flow. The pictures below show some of this work.

Analyzed the Change in Total Friction Loss in the Walipini Design – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes worked more on the Solidworks model trying to figure out the flow simulation and understand the HVAC system. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued on the Solidworks Model to Figure Out the Flow Simulation and Understand the HVAC System – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily worked on contacting ADS pipe local providers for price inquiries and is still waiting for the responses. In addition, Lily kept working on cost analysis with known information so far and more research for the other missing cost approximations. You can see some pictures below related to this work.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished the draft content for Consensus with Large Groups. We added anchors and links, and made sure formatting was consistent with other content already on the One Community’s website. We also improved the readability score by making sentences shorter, adding headings so content within a single heading was not too long, rewrote sentences to be in active rather than passive voice, and rewrote the beginning of many sentences to add variety. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below and all that remains now is to add the graphics and make replace the live-page content with all this new content.

Finished the Draft Content for Consensus With Large Groups – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 41st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated all permissions for all the pages of the projects/WBS-import component: Projects, Members, WBS, and Tasks. He added a new feature for an Admin to copy a task, which will really save time whenever new tasks needing to be created are similar to existing tasks. He identified new bugs and made a plan to add a page like “Edit” for the popups, so an administrator can go to that page to modify all the text and labels on the website. The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality.

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 28th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen began debugging for the new pushes of our MVP. She also did a code review for a pull request of the timer feature. She fixed a loading issue, as she found the deployed site kept sending unwanted web requests and never stopped. After that was fixed, she found an error of missing source on the deployed dev site – all the badge images were blank, although they were added to the database and everything looked fine both on her and Chris’ local when Chris did the code review and test run before merging. There were several other errors on the deployed dev site too. Wen checked the Sentry log, and the Heroku logs as well after getting permission to access the Heroku account. She was quite surprised it was not auto deployed on Heroku. The last deployment was in September. So she manually built and deployed the backend on Heroku hgn-rest-dev. After the successful build and deployment, the badges showed up on the dev site. The 404 error on the wbs api that we had before was gone too, but a 400 error on the timer api and another 404 error were still there. She thought this was the end of the story but she was in the process of testing the new badge images and when she added the 5th, the whole app crashed suddenly, out of nowhere, even though she didn’t change any of the code. All she was doing was adding images to the database. And then she checked the deployed dev site, and it was down too!! She ended her week there with a plan to fix these newly found errors starting the next week. Pictures of some of 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 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team completed the additional requirements for the userprofile and completed the PR review of remaining comments. Now the admin can add collaboration preference and a Google Doc while creating a user. Upon opening a user profile the collaboration preference will be displayed and can be edited. You can see pictures below for some of this work. 

Completed Additional Requirements for Userprofile and Completed the PR Review of Remaining Comments – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 20th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the background color of different parts in the bar. She added number notifications to the first three badges and an exclamation to the bug report badge. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

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

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry changed the text editors for Add/Edit Task modals to use TinyMCE for the task info fields. He then created the backend route for querying time entries by specific user plus task. He also pulled in time entries for each user’s tasks in the frontend. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

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

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 17th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued to compare the different plans by looking at what they cover and the associated costs. She compared the benefits with their associated costs and is working on narrowing down which plan provides the best benefits at an efficient cost that also aligns with the objectives of the original task. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Continued to Compare the Different Plans by Looking at What They Cover and Associated Costs – Click for Insurance Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 13th 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 kept working on creating new designs for the badges for the badge section on the Dashboard of the HGN. This week he completed the 40 hours streak badges and also kept working on finding ways to make the thumbnails better defined. Pictures of the updated badges are below.

Worked on the New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for HGN Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) joined the team and completed his first week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert became acquainted with the team and laid out the Highest Good Bench Mark Badges, completing much of the Highest Good Housing Badges. You can see pictures of these new designs and badges below.

Joined the Team and Helped With the New Badges for the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped analyze a site performance drop that happened in July, doing several hours of research and then shooting 25 minutes of video to explain it all to us so we can implement some changes and see if we can fix this. The biggest change we’re implementing is restoring our social media share buttons to the website. Below you can see some of the data he analyzed for us.

Helped Analyze a Site Performance Drop, Doing Several Hours of Research – Click for Home Page

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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 December 6th, 2020 edition (#402) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team updated the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page, added all the recycling icons to the Highest Good of All page, and also to each of the different recycling pages.

Updated the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Page – Click to Visit

The core team also generated the “Night stands” and “table/benches – down position” renders below for the Murphy bed assembly instructions and reflecting the latest updates.

Generated the Murphy Bed “Night Stands” and “Table/benches – Down Position” Renders – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #204 of Dean’s work and the focus was more plant corrections, lighting and quality corrections, and completing the two side views here that are final renders. The top-down render still needs some plant corrections.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 34th week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week Alvaro worked on the “REUSING PLASTIC” section of the plastics article. He found conflicting information related to the refilling of plastic bottles during his research and will dig deeper into this to get better information sources and identify which one is correct. He also studied One Community’s phased rollout to identify when and how plastic waste management should be implemented. Pictures below show some of this work.

Worked on the “Reusing Plastic” Section of the Plastics Article – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the support material used in the Net-Zero Bathroom to list nails instead of rebar. He updated the spreadsheet used to calculate the number of earthbags needed to construct the structure. The updated calculations were used to calculate the number of nails needed to mesh and secure the earthbags vertically. The calculations only took into account stacked earthbags that were contacting each other. The quantity of nails was then added to the cost analysis spreadsheet, along with a vendor and price. He continued adding more details and diagrams to the “Roof Panel Installation” section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial draft. The additions included roof paper installation instructions to simplify installation, reduce waste, and maximize sealing for both the exterior and interior roof. A diagram illustrating where to apply butyl tape was added and various images were included to simplify the instructions. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

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

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 16th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the structural design of the loft. She finalized the updated design, edited the relevant spreadsheets to be user friendly by identifying inputs, and creating drawings to be used for SketchUp replication. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

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

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 2nd week working on the Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering. This week Alvin continued on the communal eco-shower designs. He added the shower heads and sinks to the design and also labeled the parts of the communal eco-shower. Alvin also started to look into the cost analysis for the communal eco-shower. The pictures below show examples of some of this work.

Continued Working on the Communal Eco-shower Footer, Foundation and Flooring Engineering – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself 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 19th 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 wrote about the effects of certain lightbulbs on the nervous system and added more information about each brand. She additionally worked on her non-recyclables tutorial, having found 7 different solutions and compiling research on each of those. She also began to compare their cost, labor, and feasibility. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Wrote About Effects of Certain Lightbulbs on the Nervous System and Worked on Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Lightbulbs Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia worked on creating pipe lines for cold hot and hot circulation water supply systems for the main floor Social and Living Dome bathrooms. Pictures below show some of this work.

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

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 9th 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 continued to read what the other researches had done, organize this information and began making her own edits. She also began more in-depth research on the wast-to-energy (WTE) methods, and reached out to some of the previously researched WTE companies. This week, she was still doing a lot of reading and digesting of information. Pictures below are related to this work.

Continued Working on the Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 9th week helping with the Duplicable City Center updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng finished all but two corrections for the City Center walkthrough, making modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file. You can see the latest updated areas below.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) completed her 4th week helping with the sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies. This week she finished the write ups for Benchmarking and ranking all the Toilet, Urinal, Shower Head and Hand Dryer manufacturers and submitted them for review. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Finished the Write Ups for Benchmarking and Ranking Toilet, Urinal, Shower Head and Hand Dryer Manufacturers – Click for Hand Dryer Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week working on the Duplicable City Center rainwater harvesting component. This week Md focused on gathering information about the ground gutter system. In our footprint roof slopes are in all directions. Because of that, a ground gutter system is required to protect the foundation of the structure, prevent erosion, protect landscaping, and prevent basement flooding. Material selection of the piping for this is one of the most important factors. Md researched the different types of materials that are available: Seamless Aluminum, Copper, Steel, Vinyl, Polypropylene, Zinc, etc.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Rainwater Harvesting Component – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen. We rearranged placement of the tables to create efficient traffic flow patterns around tables positioned more along the centerline of the building. You can see the arrows on the floor tiles that show the first traffic movement layout and then an updated one on the right that will allow for two lines of people to serve themselves at once and then people with their food to access the seating without crossing the line of people waiting to serve themselves.

Continued With Our New Plan for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we continued our review through page 15 of the chicken coop doc and engaged in discussions and collectively finalizing a solution for addressing the sequential construction features in the coop doc due to our lack of the necessary experience and team resources to make this less-important component of the project as good as it can be. We resolved this issue by noting the areas in question and reserving those corrections for when we are on site and will be able to build the structure with more people and more experienced people to work out the remaining improvements together as we construct the first coop. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions – Click for Page

The core team created a bunch of updated measurement imagery too.

Created a Bunch of Updated Measurement Imagery – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 10th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu finished all the models, and began doing the renderings in lumion. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Finished All the Models, and Began Doing Renderings in Lumion – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week, Jingwei Jiang developed more in the center. The layers added include fruit trees, shrubs, and edge plants. The trees will be ornamental and produce some food. Initial selections from SketchUp 3D models match with the planting list. The plants though in the SketchUp model are not the exact plants in the planting list. The shrubs can be selected in the shrub category, while edge plants can be selected from the edge plants category. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry took on calculating an accurate measure for the air inside the greenhouse given no heating. This calculation will be useful in determining the effectiveness of the climate battery and determining what kind of external heater will be needed for backup. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Began Calculating an Accurate Measure for the Air Inside the Greenhouse Given No Heating – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself 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 how to help humanity help itself 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 19 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 continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished transferring the written content to the webeditor development page for the huge Consensus with Large Groups update we’ve been working on. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Finished Transferring the Written Content to the Webeditor Development Page – Click for Consensus Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 27th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen fixed a bug she found when trying to optimize the implementation of the badge controller – combining with the user profile to save some data. But when she populated the badge model from the user profile, she got an empty object on Postman – no data returned. She thought it was something related to nested paths, so she read the original mongoose doc to see a few examples showing nested paths. No, actually that was not the problem, the issue was all about the badge model reference. She also created 2 Pull Requests for our December 1st MVP, one for the front end repo and another one for the back end repo. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Fixed a Bug She Found When Trying to Optimize the Implementation of the Badge Controller – Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team focused on working on the code review comments and Azure migration troubleshooting. The issue on login was resolved and we’re now able to login to the dev portal which is hosted in Azure.

Focused on Working on the Code Review Comments and Azure Migration Troubleshooting – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 19th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi updated the username and four badge patterns. She added a “Current week” bar to show working hour status. She also implemented the functionality needed so that clicking the first three badges will take users to the related sections. Finally, she CSS coded the check and “!” details, rather than having them as images. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

Updated the Username and Four Badge Patterns – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry looked through the time entry component and decided we will incorporate TinyMCE and react-html-parser into our task notification component and the add/edit task modal. Small PR for task notifications now expire automatically after 1 month. He then started on task progress functionality of his team-member-tasks component. Beginning with backend model + routes. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

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

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris got intangible time to be logged as required when entering a manual time log entry and when using the timer functionality from a mobile phone. He also changed the timelog component filter to allow for filtering multiple entries. Chris also reviewed several pull requests. Pictures related to this work are below.

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

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 16th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked more on the comparison of the different plans chosen. She compared the plans based off which ones had the ability to create a MPN and whether they were company/private or individual/family. She also began to breakdown the different coverages and what each plan provided for the associated benefit. She arranged them in a way with the plans with highest costs at the top and plans with the lowest costs at the bottom. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

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

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 13th and final week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was finished his part of working on the user profile component. He cleaned up the code by removing unnecessary code blocks and simplifying code logics in many subcomponents. He also finished most parts of the unit tests of the component. He wrapped up the code and pushed it to the development branch. You can see some of this work below.

Finished His Part of Working on the User Profile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 12th 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 kept working on improving existing badges. This week he finished all the 30 hours streak badges and started the 40 hours streak ones. Pictures of the updated badges are below.

Worked on New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Diana Gomez to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Diana is a mechanical engineer who graduated from UC Berkeley. Her interests lie in autonomous systems. As an undergraduate she participated in the Berkeley Autonomous Race Car Project where she co-produced two PID controllers that implement traction and cruise control on a 1/10 scale vehicle. Diana enjoys the complexity and challenges that come with introducing safety to autonomous systems. She also enjoys teaching and has been a STEM instructor/tutor for 7 years. She is involved in programs aimed at equipping underrepresented minorities with the proper tools to pursue STEM fields, and strives to establish her own program in the future. As a member of the One Community team, Diana is helping develop the general configuration of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.

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One Community welcomes Henry Vennard to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Henry is a mechanical engineering graduate from University of Colorado, Boulder who believes sustainability is critical to tackle today’s global challenges. He has demonstrated his problem solving, research, and project management skills through his work as a research assistant. As a member of the One Community team, Henry is contributing to the design of the climate battery component of the Aquapini/Walipini structures.

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