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Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Posted on October 18, 2020 by One Community Hs

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Let’s talk about eco-renovating our collaborative models. Right now it seems most of society is founded more on competition than collaboration. What if we changed that focus to be cooperative instead, and built it on a foundation of logical sustainability for the benefit of all people and life on the planet? One Community is open sourcing and free sharing the necessary plans to do exactly this, and we’re designing it to be self-replicating.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 18th, 2020 edition (#395) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models
One Community Progress Update #395

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week’s focus was editing footer, foundation, and flooring details covering Center Point Establishment for the central patio and 3 & 6-dome earthbag clusters on pages 11-22 of our FFF Google Doc. Some pictures of this work-in-progress can be seen below.

Earthbag Village construction tutorials, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Edited Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Details on the Earthbag Village Construction Tutorials – Click for Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #201 of Dean’s work and the focus was color-correction and testing for the patio and domes. You can see some screenshots of this process below.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Focused on Color-correction and Testing for the Patio and Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 28th week as a member of the team and now working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Glass Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week’s focus was editing text, preparing the images for web publication, transforming the tables into images, and creating the index with the anchor links. Below are pictures of some of his work.

Community Glass Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Began Working on Best Small and Large-scale Community Glass Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th 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 coincide with the AutoCAD plan. The first part of the update was to rearrange the bathroom fixtures so that they would be in the same positions. These changes were necessary to meet the local and ADA regulations. After rearranging the fixtures, the plumbing had to be updated. The update of the plumbing involved adding and repositioning connections for synchronization. Pictures are below for this work.

Net zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

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

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey spent some time working on the shelves/closet that is on the front of the bed frame. Thinking about how these pieces need to be cut and placed together is important because we want to pre-cut the holes, not wait until assembled to cut holes. Some of the existing instructions and visuals need to be updated for size and wood shape. Stacey’s work so far has already reduced the instructions by 4 pages. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Eco renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Worked on the Shelves/closet on the Front of the Murhpy Bed Frame – Click for Earthbag Village

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 9th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by finishing edits on the centerpoint establishment sections of the 3-Dome and 6-Dome Clusters and beginning to revise the excavation sections. She redrew CAD drawings to reflect current designs and worked on instructions for excavation of the entire site, utilities, stem wall and adjacent work areas. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

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

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei focused on creating the Auto AD planting plan and further selection of planting species, combining and refining the planting lists. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish worked on resizing pipe sizes for the basement floor sprinkler system using pipe schedule method which is defined in NFPA. He also explicitly defined the relationship between lux and lumens, and described how these technical terminologies should be considered in the design of emergency and exit lighting spacing to height ratio for different types of emergency and exit lights was also clearly defined. You can see some of the results of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Worked on Resizing Pipe Sizes for the Basement Floor Sprinkler System – Click for City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she continued creating the vent system connected to the sewer system in AutoCAD. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Continued Creating the Vent System Connected to the Sewer System in AutoCAD – Click for City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng continued working on the Lumion model. She finished another round of modification and rendered the results. She then exported the adjusted video for review. In terms of the entrance part, Qiuheng also added some outdoor furniture and plants. You can see some of this work below.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Continued Working on the Lumion Model of the Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 3rd week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy finished the first draft of the Sustainable Flooring tutorial and flooring ranking and submitted it for review. She color-coded and finished the ranking chart, finished writing her entries on Pioneer Millworks and Teragren, and determined another company called “Capri Collections” was not dedicated enough for us to consider them sustainable. Lindy also began doing research on the most sustainable option for non-recyclables tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Most Sustainable Building Materials, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Finished First Draft of the Sustainable Flooring Tutorial and Flooring Ranking – Click for Most Sustainable Building Materials Page

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) completed her 2nd week helping with the sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies. This week Keerthi primarily worked on market research and data collection for Urinals and Hand Dryers. Furthermore, data to benchmark these companies are also in progress. As a part of market research, this week Keerthi researched papers and guides published for relevant subjects. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

market research and data collection for Urinals and Hand Dryers, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Primarily Worked on Market Research and Data Collection for Urinals and Hand Dryers – Click for Urinals Page

Enrique “Ricky” Sara Cueto (Civil Engineering Student) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. His focus for this first week was completing the general on-boarding checklist and getting more familiar with the project. In addition, he started the pond design calculations and researched ways to make the system as efficient as possible. Some pictures related to this work are below.

City Center Water Catchment Design, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Joined the Team and Completed Began Working on the Ground-based Components of the City Center Water Catchment Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the open source chicken coop materials list, you can see it below.

Chicken coop material list, Eco renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Finished the Open Source Chicken Coop Materials List – Click for Chickens Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) also completed his 4th and final week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an finished his work with us by addressing the notes left by the core team to help make his menu outline clearer to pass along to the next person who will work with this.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Completed Final Week Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu continued development of the internal landscaping plan in Walipini #1 & Walipini #2 & Walipini #3-Large. Jiayu added the different kinds of sitting areas in these different interior spaces. She also made the new design drawings in Rhino, then she adjusted the line weight in Illustrator. Finally, she made the rendering outlines in PhotoShop. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Continued Development of the Internal Landscaping Plan in Walipini #1 & Walipini #2 & Walipini #3-large – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on researching the appropriate flow rate for a climate battery and various 1D thermal models in Matlab. He also met the two new members of the team, Reyes and Lily, and worked with them to re-assign action items. He also progressed on the 3D thermal model in Solidworks. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Worked on Researching the Appropriate Flow Rate for a Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana developed the MATLAB to calculate the temperature of the soil at different depths. According to the MATLAB code, there was a 10 degree temperature different from what was calculated at z = -40in and what was recorded in the SCAN data. There was a miscalculation on the handwritten portion and ignoring the radiation of the system had a much larger influence than first expected. Diana developed a new analytical solution that utilized the erfc function. Radiation will be added to this and it should nicely convert to MATLAB code using the erfc function. She also researched the different types of soils in our area to obtain the proper soil properties for the new analytical solution.

Developed the Matlab to Calculate the Temperature of the Soil at Different Depths – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) joined the team and completed her first week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily read through all the Google Docs including Climate Battery Details, Design Overviews, and watched videos on Aquapini and Walipini design. You can see a pictures related to this research below.

Joined the Team and Began Continuing the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also joined the team and completed his first week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes read the documentation provided for the climate battery, began looing at the matlab code and researching the distance needed between the pipes. You can see below some pictures related to this work.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Continue the Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our collaborative models through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 17th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week she modified the final layout based on core team feedback. Pictures below show some of these updated pages and there are 4 of them still in the process.

The Ultimate Classroom, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Modified the Final Layout of the Ultimate Classroom Playground Based on Core Team Feedback – Click for Page

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 16th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. Shuwei’s focus for the entire week was rendering the complete internal and external video walkthrough. You can see some screenshots of this rendering progress below.

Focused on Rendering the Complete Internal and External Video Walkthrough – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 3 updating of all pages connected to our Member Invitation pages. We continued with our detailed review of these pages and our business plan and finished the rest of the review process, which you can see in the pictures below.

Member Invitation pages, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Continued With Detailed Review of the Pages Connected to Our Member Invitation Pages – Click for Invitation Page

And Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 35th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry improved the front-end successfully. The WBS starts faster now and the toggle open-close for each task works well. There are some side effects after he changed the algorithm that cause some bugs in the resources’s links so the moving tasks and task’s index need to be fixed. Some related imagery for this work can be seen below.

Highest Good Network software, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Improved the Front-end Successfully – Click for the Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 26th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to US television stations. You can see below the list of the ones he contacted this week and a version of the press release he is sharing.

promoting our project, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Us Television Stations – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 19th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the functionality for deletion of team and project assignments from the userprofile. Through this admins can un-assign a project / team from a user profile. Once Jun has done the refactoring of the user profile, this can be merged with his work. Azure portal troubleshooting is still in progress too. Pictures of this new functionality are below.

Completed the Functionality for Deletion of Team and Project Assignments From the Userprofile – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 21st week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen has been working on the badge images, specifically the Dropbox URL issue. First she tried importing all the URLs into the Compass MongoBD, but that didn’t work. After that, she tried applying the DropBox links the core team created directly in the React component, but that didn’t work either. Wen found that Dropbox has recently changed the way the files are shared, and they no longer support web hosting images the same way as before, so the URLs needed to be manipulated. The conclusion is that we need all the links created by the owner of the image file, and we then revise the URsL from there. This worked and some pictures are below of the results.

Worked on the Badge Images, Specifically the Dropbox URL Issue – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jerry completed TaskNotificiation documents that are now created automatically when a task’s info has been edited. A separate TaskNotification document is created and assigned to each user assigned to the task. Jerry has not yet set up Time-To-Live (TTL) for the task notifications yet to auto-delete, but will be working on that in the next week or so. The frontend is also now able to pull all notifications for each team member. Currently it just displays a bell icon and is not interactive. Having the bell icon open up a notification dialog on click will be the primary task for next week. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Completed TaskNotificiation Documents That Are Now Created Automatically When a Task’s Info Has Been Edited – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 10th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked through the specific healthcare plans for Anthem Healthcare. She analyzed the documents that detailed and compared different plans with each other and chose the plans that she thought were best fit for the objectives of our project. She also contacted Humana Healthcare to receive more information about their healthcare plans and will follow up with them to get more information. You can see some of this work below.

One Community's insurance options, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Worked Through the Specific Healthcare Plans for Anthem Healthcare – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris started work on the Leaderboard component by implementing an Organization total line, manual refresh button and linking the progress bar to an individual’s timelog. Chris also added hover text to the different components on the leaderboard. Pictures related to this work are below.

Started Work on the Leaderboard Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 5th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #410, #411, #412, #413 and # 414. You can see these newly created images below.

YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs, Eco-renovating Our Collaborative Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #395

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for the Update Blogs – Click for Blog Page

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One Community Welcomes Chris Weilacker to the Software Team!

Posted on October 17, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Chris Weilacker to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Chris is a Software Engineer with a heavy interest in developing a sustainable future, and experienced developing End to End Applications in the MERN Stack and Python. He has taken the intense Hack Reactor Software Engineering Bootcamp and is on the cusp of graduating from Cal State Monterey Bay with a degree in Computer Science. Having lived in Beijing, China (one of the most polluted cities) for 6 years opened his eyes to the problems that Global Warming and heavy pollution can present to the world and one’s health. As a member of the One Community team, Chris Weilacker is helping develop the Highest Good Network, working on the Leaderboard component as well as being in charge of Unit Testing of the previously developed code base, and a reviewer of Pull Requests.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM CHRIS!

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INVESTOR PAGES

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Conscientious Community Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Posted on October 11, 2020 by One Community Hs

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

Conscientious community creation is one possible foundation for global regeneration. One Community is supporting this through open source plans for a self-replicating prototype. It includes open source, sustainable, and DIY-replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 11th, 2020 edition (#394) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conscientious Community Creation
One Community Progress Update #394

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting conscientious community creation through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This last week Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #200 of Dean’s work and the focus was finally successfully adding the background sky to the model, a process that has included weeks of trouble shooting and now requires color corrections for most of the objects. Pictures showing some of the results and ongoing color-correction process are below.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Successfully Added the Background Sky to the Model – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 27th week as a member of the team and finishing work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week’s focus was embedding the videos and other final details, editing some tables after the team reviewed them for grammatical errors, and trouble shooting WordPress issues while embedding videos. Pictures below show some of his work.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenanc. Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Working on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis added more illustrations portraying the cutting of the corrugated roof panels along with their installation and assembly process. He included the location of the roof fasteners in the diagrams, while also keeping track of the quantity which was added to the cost analysis and material list. A few of the assembled roof panels were cut in the illustrations in order to accommodate the roof access. A second layer, also known as the roof panel seals, was used in the plans to provide adequate sealing for the interior roof. This decision was made due to the geometry of the roof and the manner the panels were overlapping. The diagrams also depict how to install the top layer roof panels for a secure fit. The finished roof was then created using the assembled interior and exterior roofs, which included a top, bottom, and elevation view of the assembly. Pictures are below for this work.

Earthbag Village, Conscientious Community Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

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

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was still working on getting the information correct for all measurements and board placement. The previous drawings are now incorrect because almost all measurements have changed since the first sketches were done, so keeping the consistency is important. Depicting the correct amount of pieces on the drawing and all correct components was her complete focus for this week’s wall section development, confirming everything with a member of the core team to clear up questions. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Working on Getting the Information Correct for All Measurements and Board Placement – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 8th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by revising the safety and center point establishment sections for the 3-Dome and 6-Dome Cluster. She updated CAD drawings to reflect current geometry, wrote DIY detailed descriptions, and began to research the necessary drainage system for the footer. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

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

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei Jiang finished the initial planting list and vegetation choices. The initial Welcome Garden designs and the Eco-garden designs were also finished. The fruit/ food garden is still developing. Next week, she’ll continue the development of planting pallets and planting plan, settle species choices for shrubs, edge plants, root plants and vines. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village, Conscientious Community Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Finished the Initial Planting List and Vegetation Choices for Earthbag Village Landscaping – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on creating the vent sewer system isometric diagram. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Focused on Creating the Vent Sewer System Isometric Diagram – Click for Duplicable City Center

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week Mario mainly read and did research on drain water pipe sizing and PVC. He looked at the codes to estimate a better pipe width for the pond. In order to transfer the collected rainwater to the designated pond, a pipe wide enough to hold the water must be selected. He chose to increase the pipe width to 10” based on the total amount of water we will be transporting. Pictures of some of this research are below.

City Center Water Catchment Design, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Read and Did Research on Drain Water Pipe Sizing and PVC – Click for City Center Water Catchment Design

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week she continued working on the correction checklist and reading materials. You can see this list and some of the corrected areas below.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Working on the Correction Checklist and Reading Materials – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 2nd week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy began writing new entries on the sustainable flooring document for the new flooring companies that she added in the ranking last week. For this, she did some additional research and contacted companies (sustainableflooring.com and Capri Collections). Additionally, she updated the material entries for the sustainable flooring document to reflect the new rankings. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Most Sustainable Building Materials, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Began Writing New Entries on the Sustainable Flooring Document for the New Flooring Companies – Click for Page

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) also joined the team and completed her first week helping with the sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies. This week Keerthi started the market research on sustainability benchmarking standards, certification etc. and collected data of various companies for products and companies on our Toilets and Urinals research pages. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Joined the Team and Completed Her First Week Helping with the Sustainability Benchmarking of Various Hardware Companies – Click for Toilets Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the open source chicken coop materials list by disassembling the complete chicken coop and laying it out to create the cut sheets shown below.

Chicken coop materials list, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Disassembled the Complete Chicken Coop and Laid It Out to Create the Cut Sheets – Click for Chickens Page

The core team began the final review and editing of the open source chicken coop materials list. This week’s focus was the equipment list and editing the first few pages of the instructions, some of which you can see below.

Chicken Coop edits, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Began the Final Review and Editing of the Open Source Chicken Coop Materials List – Click for Chickens Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) also completed his 3rd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an created a couple recipes and the first round of feedback integration for the complete menu outline for 1 cycle of alternating vegan and omnivore meals based off of core food items of pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams. You can see some of this work below.

Recipes, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week she focused on the large aquapini and zenpini structures. At first, she was thinking about how to create the new sitting areas and balance the existing production system. We’ve decided to eliminate the aquaponics from the center of this structure and just keeping the pond and water components along the North wall. Therefore, Jiayu adjusted the aquaponics area to include sitting areas. She also created a new sitting area in the zenpini. Using curved lines and creating new creative pavements with new sitting benches together is very significant in the zenpini. She did drawings in rhino and AutoCAD, redrawing the base map for both the aquapini and zenpini. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below.

Aquapini & Walipini landscaping, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

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

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on building a 3D model of Walipini #3 in SolidWorks based on drawings provided in the climate battery details document. He also started work on a flow simulation in SolidWorks to determine the effectiveness of the Walipini #3 current design. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Worked on Building a 3D Model of Walipini #3 in Solidworks – Click for Aquapini and Walipini Hub

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed her first week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana focused on finding a way to calculate the burial depth that satisfies these two conditions: difference in (t_surface-t_underground) >10 F & t_underground = constant through the year. Her first instinct was to extrapolate the data and as she did so she realized it would not be as accurate as using a model and solving the heat equation. She was able to find a book from a professor from Oregon State that solves the heat equation and provides an example of a situation similar to ours. Below are her calculations using the data in the table located in her research. Now that she has verified that the models works for our system, she can write a script to find the temperature at different depths throughout the year.

Aquapini:Walipini structures, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Joined the Team and Began to Continue Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini & Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting conscientious community creation through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 16th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week she helped with final edits to the Lumion model and completed the intial layout of the final presentation for this project. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

The Ultimate Classroom, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 15th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. Shuwei modified the Lumion model and tested out the connection part between the internal and external clips and then started to render the final walkthrough video.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with week 2 updating of all pages connected to our Member Invitation pages. We continued with our detailed review of these pages and our business plan and finished about 90% of the review process, which you can see in the pictures below.

Member Invitation pages, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Review and Updating of All Pages Connected to Our Member Invitation Pages – Click to Visit

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 25th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers, and Ross finished contacting every major one in the US. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

promoting our project, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Finished Contacting Every Major Newspaper in the US to Promote Our Project – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the team and project assignment in the user profile. The administrator can now choose a Team and Project assignment for that user and save. The user will then be assigned to that project or team. Pictures of this new functionality are below.

Highest Good Network software, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Completed the Team and Project Assignment in the User Profile – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 20th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen has been trying using the Dropbox to store the badge images. She researched this and tried a few different approaches. The Dropbox links won’t work (yet). If we decide to use Dropbox for image storage, each public image address has to be manually copied and the url link will be added to our own database. If we can get this to work, the url link won’t consume much of our data quota, which is great! Some pictures are below of this work-in-progress.

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

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 14th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi removed extra empty line under “Viewing time entries logged…” and centered the icon button on the popup. She also finished the icon popup in the Timelog Page by adding bullet point formatting.

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

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris was able to complete Project Membership tests and worked on Project WBS/WBS task tests. He also did some code review on a pull request by Jun Hao. Pictures related to this work are below.

Completed Project Membership Tests and Worked on Project WBS/WBS Task Tests – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jerry completed the necessary backend routes for TaskNotifications. The API is now capable of creating new notifications, querying all unread notifications for a particular user, and marking a specific notification as being read. He also started looking into having notifications be scheduled for deletion automatically a certain time period after being read. Next step will be having notifications be created automatically upon task info update. Following that, hew will work on a frontend component to display notifications. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Completed the Necessary Backend Routes for Tasknotifications – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 9th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on the specifics for Humana Healthcare. She also added two more plans for BlueCrossBlueShield that were worth considering. She sifted through the documents to find plans that were comparable to the plans of Molina and BlueCross and offered the same benefits. You can see some of this work below.

Insurance options, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Worked on the Specifics for Humana Healthcare – Click for Our Health Insurance Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun first solved some issues that were addressed in the comment of his pull request last week. For solving the problems and for easier code maintenance in the future, Jun refactored part of the code of the UserProfile component. Jun then finished the feature for viewing total volunteering hours of a certain user in the UserProfile. You can see some of this work below.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 4th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week Jaime continued creating images for the intro for upcoming youtube videos and blog. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #406, #407, #408 and #409. You can see these newly created images below.

helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs, Conscientious Community Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #394

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

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One Community Welcomes Hannah Copeman to the Engineering Team!

Posted on October 6, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Hannah Copeman to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Hannah earned her Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering, emphasizing on Structural Engineering, both from the University of Toronto. She has experience working as a structural engineer and a restoration engineer for architecture and engineering firms in New York City, as well as in Long Island, New York. Her interest in working in the built environment stems from her desire to positively contribute to society by designing tangible structures that are beneficial on a local and global scale. With a persistent passion in sustainable infrastructure, Hannah has also obtained certification as a LEED Green Associate and is continuing her path in triple bottom line focused design by working with One Community. She is contributing to One Community’s vision by helping develop the structure of the Earth Dome, finish the Earthbag engineering, loft Engineering, and complete walk-through tutorials for foundations and exterior / interior finishing of the Earthbag Village domes.

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Widespread and Lasting Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Posted on October 4, 2020 by One Community Hs

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What does a blueprint for widespread and lasting sustainability look like? One Community’s vision is a global collaborative of self-replicating eco-communities working together for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet. We’re creating the necessary open source plans to launch this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 4th, 2020 edition (#393) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Widespread and Lasting Sustainability
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 26th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week Alvaro almost finished working on this article by changing and reviewing anchor links, editing some tables to make them clearer and more appealing, including the shared spreadsheet with the table data and calculator formulas, and preparing them as images to be inserted. You can see some images related to this work below.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched the installation process of corrugated steel roofs. He applied the information to illustrate the assembly and construction process of the Net-Zero Bathroom roof plan. He made detailed diagrams in AutoCAD illustrating how the panels will be cut and installed. The diagrams for the cutting of the panels also showed how to use the leftover panels to cut out other panels in order to minimize material usage. He made diagrams for the exterior roof and interior roof installation, illustrating where the panels overlap and the separation distance of the fasteners. Double sided butyl tape on the edge of the overlapping areas was shown in the diagrams, their purpose is sealing. The cut roof panels were fastened to their respective roof frames in the illustrations too. Pictures are below for this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Researched the Installation Process of Corrugated Steel Roofs – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was getting about ½ way through the Wall section group. The sketch of the wall is now consistent and the wood piece layout is updated and all pieces to scale. Stacey adjusted the key layout so that all pieces in first header are used in pages 3-12. There are some areas that again may require a screw longer than 3” but overall only a few questions remain on the first part of the wall and frame design. This brings us to the point we can start doing a preliminary sheet layout between the groups, which is needed because there are many points in the wall design that there could be more information on the components and electrical which will be done simultaneously in some areas. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

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

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 7th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthdome and Aircrete loft designs by testing out various design options to be able to maximize overhead space in the loft, while ensuring a versatile column-free dome interior. She began detailed analyses of the different options and started to update the AutoCAD drawings to reflect updated dimensions. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued the Development of the Earthdome and Aircrete Loft Designs – Click for Earthbag Village

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei went through the whole planting list and SketchUp library and developed a planting concept adjacent to the building footprint. Plant selection was based on their light conditions, drainage requirements, soil requirements, and drought tolerant conditions. Landscape design adjacent to the building clusters was created with the intent to embrace the building forms and transform to follow the building footprints. In other words, the landscapes and buildings can share the same pattern and be cohesive in this pattern. With this in mind, Jingwei came up with the circular form of landscape around building clusters shown below. These patterns seem duplicatable, but they all have different choices of plants according to previous zoning of the gardens. The radius of circles used include 15-ft, 25-ft and 35-ft. They extend from the center of circular buildings all the way to the edge of the paved areas. Ideally, the outer band will be planted with plants that can define edge condition; the middle band should be deciduous trees and fruit trees; and the inner band should be plants like cactus to avoid safety issues. Nitrogen fixers need to be specified in the list, because they are the pioneer of woodland communities. All plants should be native plants in this condition, because the site is located in a national park area and invasive species are not first choices.

landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 18th 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, focused on by finding the best sustainable methods to get rid of waste. She found that composting, advanced thermal treatment, and mechanical heat treatment were among some of the most sustainable methods and did thorough research into those processes. Additionally, she refined her list of lightbulb products and thinks she has one more round of review before handing it over for final feedback. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Focused on by Finding the Best Sustainable Methods to Get Rid of Waste – Click to Visit Lightbulb Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 12th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on preparing title blocks and setting up layout formats for the emergency and exit drawings for the basement, first and second floors. You can see some of the results of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability. One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on creating the sewer system underground layout and learning the related codes. Pictures of some of this are below.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Focused on Creating the Sewer System Underground Layout and Learning the Related Codes – Click for City Center

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 3nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week he mainly focused on calculating various sizes of our pond at a constant depth to meet the volume requirements. He calculated the size of the pond based on a constant depth of 11ft. From his research an average pond has a depth between 8-12 ft so he decided on 11ft. If we were to go with a circular pond with a depth of 11 ft., the radius of the pond would have to be 22 ft. If a rectangular shaped pond were to be considered, at a depth of 11 ft he would choose a width of 45 ft and length of about 45 ft. From his research the average person uses about 85 gallons of water a day. By multiplying that by the maximum number of people the City Center can hold, we get the total greywater usage of 3409.09 cubic ft. He then added that to the total rainwater to get the total volume needed for the pond. Pictures from the related spreadsheets are below.

City Center Water Catchment Design, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Worked on the Ground-based Components of the City Center Water Catchment Design – Click for Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he completely reorganized all the information from previous research and his own research on this subject. Next he further explored the different types of non-recyclables and methods of dealing with them. All of his information from this week is a draft of sorts which he will continue to refine (sources, grammar, specifics, etc.) next week. Pictures related to this work are below.

Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability. One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Helping With Research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week she mainly focused on getting onboard and familiar with the Duplicable City Center project and making corrections to the walk through based on the suggestions list. You can see this list and some of the corrected areas below.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Joined the Team and Began City Center Landscaping Design and Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy checked previous research done on the flooring tutorial, modified the flooring types rankings and the flooring companies ranking. Additionally, she found three new companies to add to the flooring rankings, and did respective research on them/added them to the flooring ranking. Lindy also corrected some grammar/typos and began typing up the sections for the three new companies (which should be completed next week). Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Most Sustainable Building Materials, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Joined the Team and Began Confirming and Expanding Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. We then started working on the materials list.

Chicken Coop, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Finished the Open Source Chicken Coop Building Instructions and Started Working on the Materials List – Click for Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) also completed his 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an finished the first draft of a complete menu outline for 1 cycle of alternating vegan and omnivore meals based off of core food items of pasta, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and yams. You can see this first draft below.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu reviewed and studied all materials/information/research resources/details about Aquapini and Walipini project thus far. Then, she used the sketch method to further outline and understand the project and created her initial proposal and clarifying question sets for both the internal and external landscape parts of the project. You can see some pictures of this initial work below.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Joined the Team and Began Helping With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and began helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on getting up to speed by reading information about the aquapini and walipini designs, existing climate batteries, thermal lag and One Community in general. He also researched how to validate previous thermal models of the walipini and how to construct a new one. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini and Walipini structures, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Joined the Team and Began Continuing Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating widespread and lasting sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 15th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week she modified the Lumion model and added the move effect into the model, adjusting all the people to move properly and then adjusting them again based on feedback. Pictures below show some of the scenes.

Ultimate Classroom, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 14th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. Shuwei also modified the Lumion model and added the move effect into the model, adjusting all the people to move properly and then adjusting them again based on feedback. Pictures below show some of her scenes.

Modified the Lumion Model and Added the Move Effect Into the Model – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began the review and updating of all pages connected to our Member Invitation pages. We completed a detailed review and updating of about 1/3 of those pages, some of which you can see below.

review and updating of all pages connected to our Member Invitation pages, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Began the Review and Updating of All Pages Connected to Our Member Invitation Pages – Click to Visit

And Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 34th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he improved the importing-data successfully, the import function is fast and accurate now. It works well with a large number of rows and needs around 5 seconds to calculate, create the tasks’ relationships, and save them in the database. He then started working with the display function to make it display the data faster. Some related imagery can be seen below.

Highest Good Network software, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Improved the Importing-data Successfully – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 24th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

promoting our project, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team were working on the Azure migration work around and identifying the gap in user profile functionality. The edit option in team PR was raised and is waiting for approval and merging. Team and Project assignment inside the user profile were also worked on. This will allow the administrator to add a new team and project assignment to a user from their Profile Page. Also the list of existing team and projects of that user will be displayed there. Upon clicking “Add Team / Project”, a new popup shall display and the admin can search for a team or project and then assign that to a user. The task was completed this week up to the popup and saving and assigning is now in progress.

Focused on Azure Migration Work Around and Identifying the Gap in User Profile Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 19th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen’s work was composed of two parts: 1. making some changes to the badge display based on feedback – mainly added scrolling functions, and 2. researching on the storage of images. We have 3 options regarding where we store all the images. None of the options would involve storing images in the database. Dropbox would take the pressure off our server but we’re not sure about speed and reliability. The same is true if we use our website as a host. The 3rd option would be to keep them on Azur, which is straightforward because we use Azur for production, but this may increase the bill from Azur. Some pictures of this work are below.

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

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 13th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi formatted the text in the “i” popup so it includes proper formatting with bullets in the text. She added an “i” icon under the “Add Time Entry” button and implemented the mouseover functionality for both icons. She also added and tested a 10-hour alert functionality for the timer. You can see some of this work below.

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

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jerry discovered the source of a bug with one of the API routes. Additionally, the design for how to implement individual notifications on change of why, intent, and endstate infos was decided on. Work for this feature has started on the backend first. By next week, Jerry hopes to have all of the TaskNotification routes working. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Discovered the Source of a Bug With One of the API Routes – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 8th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on refining the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health insurance plans by only keeping plans that were relevant for the goals of this project and deleting the rest. She then looked for a more thorough summary of the benefits and coverage and organized the costs that way. She organized it in a way that would make it easy to compare the Molina Healthcare plans as well as allowing for a more streamlined and standardized way to compare them. You can see some of this work below.

Researching insurance options, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

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

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun started to work on the design and the look of the UserProfile component. He changed the previous single column design to double column for better layout on mobile devices. He also changed the UserProfile Edit page into the same style with UserProfile for better consistency. The form validation functionality was also added to the UserProfileEdit component. You can see some of this work below.

Began Working on the Design and the Look of the UserProfile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 3rd week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #399, #402, #403, #404 and #405. You can see these newly created images below.

graphics for these update blogs, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped update our SSL successfully on www.onecommunityranch.org, installed Cloudflare on onecommunityglobal.org, and performed several rounds of functionality auditing & testing. You can see pictures of some of this work and process below.

functionality auditing & testing, Widespread and Lasting Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #393

Helped Update Our SSL Successfully on www.onecommunityranch.org – Click for Page

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One Community Welcomes Noor Qureshi to the Research Team!

Posted on October 3, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Noor Qureshi to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Noor Qureshi is currently an undergrad at Cornell University studying Biological sciences with a minor in business on a pre-med track. As a member of the One Community team, Noor is a researcher helping research and compare the best health insurance options. She believes in understanding the roots of health insurance in order to provide an efficient and sustainable insurance plan. Her research will help provide the best solution for One Community and other medium-sized organizations seeking collaborative health insurance implementation for uninsured groups of people and families willing to cooperatively work together and/or pool their resources and buying power to save money.

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One Community Welcomes Jerry Zhang to the Software Team!

Posted on October 3, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jerry Zhang to the Software Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jerry earned a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and later a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Windsor. He is passionate about creating software that does good in the world and hopes to one day create his own software startup. Secondary interests include microeconomics, finance, recurve archery, and video games. As a member of the One Community team, Jerry is helping develop the Management Dashboard functionality of One Community’s open source Highest Good Network software.

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Global Conservation Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Posted on September 27, 2020 by One Community Hs

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One Community has spent the last 10 years creating an open source global conservation model. It covers all aspects of a sustainable civilization for the 21st century. Sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are all integrated and designed for DIY viral replication.

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 September 27th, 2020 edition (#392) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Conservation Model
One Community Progress Update #392

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials, continuing working on tools and equipment selection, pictures, and descriptions. This content will be for a page of the website that will be referenced by all construction pages, so we can just put linked lists on the pages for the construction of various components, rather than pictures and descriptions on each of those pages.

tools, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Continued Working on Tools and Equipment Selection, Pictures, and Descriptions – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 25th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week’s focus was changing the format of certain parts of the text, editing some tables to make them clearer and more appealing, and preparing the images with SEO metadata. You can see some images related to this work below.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial, Global Conservation Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis added joinery diagrams to the Net-Zero Bathroom roof plan on AutoCAD. The diagrams displayed how the wooden beams would interconnect to form the inner roof frame and the roof access. He labeled the beams in order to clarify the orientation of the diagrams. He created a view of the inner roof frame being attached to a support underneath it. He also created a top and bottom view of the inner roof frame and funnel connected. The views show how the corrugated steel panels and the inner roof frame will attach. Pictures are below for this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Added Joinery Diagrams to the Net-zero Bathroom Roof Plan on AutoCAD – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was getting some answers on the number of floor bolts and the number of vertical beams used to create the bed frame. Since there were so many different views, the drawing was not staying consistent too, so she started moving wood prep steps to the beginning of the instructions to show that the pieces that need to be drilled and marked should be prepped before the pieces are used. She also labeled the pieces of wood in the complex instructions and will note when a step is being applied to A-front or B-back side of the frame. Further labeling may be needed for R-right or L-left side since pieces are often assembled laying down and then flipped over when they are attached to the wall. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions-Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

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

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials by finishing the rough outlines of the steps required in earthbag dome construction, based on the Bioveda courses and videos. She also began to work on the updated loft design for the domes in the 3-dome cluster. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

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

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei created the initial landscape plan analysis, vegetation analysis, and began deciding on the best areas for plantings according to the current design layout and plan. You can see some pictures of this initial work below.

Earthbag Village, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model 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 17th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week, Angela researched more specific lightbulb products again to make sure that they were the best ones from the company identified as the best. Additionally, she began implementing edits and writing a new section about the affects of different types of lighting on the nervous system. She also began helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial by researching what is recyclable and what is non-recyclable and looked into various processes that are better than landfills or traditional incineration. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Continued Researching Specific Lightbulb Products – Click to Visit Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 11th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish continued working on updating the drawings related to sprinkler systems. Layer formatting, external references to architectural drawings and properties of text related to fire protection systems properties were adjusted. Also, location for exit lights were identified for the third and fourth floors. You can see some of the results of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Continued Working on Updating the Drawings Related to Sprinkler Systems – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on learning the details of the project kitchen, external systems, and water diagrams. Also learning the related codes. Pictures of some of this are below.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

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

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week he started research on possible ground drainage systems for the ground component. He assumed the pond would need to be large enough to accumulate 93,712 gallons of water yearly. Dividing this by 7.481 we get approximately 12,525.67 cubic ft of water. He assumed the drainage pipe leading to the pond to be 4’’ PVC based on the previous calculations from other members. The pipe would extend about 60ft northeast to the potential pond in zone 3. He also hand sketched one possible option for a drainage system. This would be three underground drainage pipes leading from the ground gutters to one main pipe that would be connected to the reservoir pond. Pictures of AutoCAD sketch and hand sketches are shown below.

City Center Water Catchment Design, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Started Research on Possible Ground Drainage Systems for the Ground Component – Click for Water Catchment Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he began a list of small-scale solutions to non-recycling methods and related useful videos. The challenge is that most methods require extremely large-scale equipment, good if the communities we build grow to larger populations, but not appropriate for the initial community stages. Sorting at an individual level, then addressing sorted waste based on type seems the best approach so far and will greatly simplify the recycling process. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Began a List of Small-scale Solutions to Non-recycling Methods and Related Useful Videos – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we added missing images with parts dimensions and detailed descriptions for images throughout pages 114-131. You can see some of this work below.

Chicken Coop, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Continued Working on the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an started development of the complete weekly food menu overview by compiling 4.5 weeks of menu items. These included full vegan and omnivore versions of brown rice and russet potato recipes and half a week of omnivore pasta-focused recipes. He also researched 5 vegan options for both daily sauce & snack choices. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 14th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the third draft of all of the external playground details and began a new render of the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 7 hours into the render process and still with 160 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is only 2.5 minutes. The list on the left are the requested changes from the core team that were integrated into this latest render.

the Ultimate Classroom, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Finished Third Draft of the External Playground Details and Began New Render of the Walkthrough in Lumion

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 13th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei modified the SketchUp and Lumion model based on the suggestions of the core team shown at the bottom of the picture below. She then started to re-render the walkthrough video. As you can see, it is 8 hours into the process with 32 hours to go.

Modified the SketchUp and Lumion Model Based on the Core Team Suggestions – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 33rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he found a potential problem when the number of tasks in the excel files is large, requiring a rebuild of the way the database functions to address the large number of tasks for the Work Breakdown Structures we’ll be importing. This causes the calculation and relationship of tasks to break after we input the files. Henry began this rebuilding process and estimates 1-2 more weeks to complete it. Some related imagery can be seen below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Conservation Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 23nd week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

helping promote One Community, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the badge view. The size and the arrangement of the badges were adjusted and a scroll bar was added to the section of “Badges Earned Before Last Week”. It’s only visible when scrolling on that section. A button for the expand-window option was also added. The pop-up full view of the badge history is now a work-in-process. Wen would like to do a modal pop-up, but got a “click child component to render parent component” error. In order to make it work, she re-organized all the badges-related React components. Wen still needs to do more research though to solve this. Some pictures of this work are below.

Worked on the Badge View – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 12th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi updated edit-time reminders and implemented a “Clear” button near the timer. When people start the timer by mistake, they can now click this “Clear” button to reset the timer. She also updated the edit-time reminders and completed the initial “i” icon functionality for people to click to get more information. Yiqi additionally fixed a bug where a timer at “00:00” having “stop” clicked results in a time entry form popup. You can see some of this work below.

Updated Edit-time Reminders and Implemented a “Clear” Button Near the Timer – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry added necessary fields to the Task model to support showing Why, Intent, and Endstate info. The frontend was also appropriately changed to support displaying and editing Why, Intent, and Endstate info. Tasks in each user’s task list now link to their appropriate WBS details page. Jerry also researched possible ways to implement individual notifications on change of Why, Intent, and Endstate info. Pictures are below showing some of this work.

Added Necessary Fields to the Task Model to Support Showing Why, Intent, and Endstate Info – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) also completed her 7th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on the benefits and costs of the BCBS HMO plans. She went through the website to figure out what each type of plan offered and their associated costs based on what she could find on the website. You can see some of this work below.

One Community's insurance options, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Worked on the Benefits and Costs of the BCBS HMO Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris completed a good portion of the Project Membership tests. He also spent some time fixing a bug due to a conflict with a new installed package that was causing several of his previous Login/Logout tests to fail, requiring looking through a large amount of previous code and commits. Chris also commented out several components that are no longer in use in the project as they have been replaced to see the changes on code coverage. You can see some screenshots of the behind-the-scenes code below.

Completed a Good Portion of the Project Membership Tests – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun started to work on the unit-testing on the UserProfile component. He finished 3 subcomponents, including the BlueSquares, UserLinks, and UserProfileEdit. He then started to develop the UserProfile component. Jun spent some time reading the code that this component already has, and then finished the functionality for administrators to add or remove teams from certain user’s profiles. You can see some of this work below.

Started to Work on the Unit-testing on the UserProfile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 2nd week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #397 #398 #400 and #401. You can see these images below.

YouTube and social media graphics for weekly update blogs, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create four Highest Good Network icons and the icon for One Community’s insurance page and the earthdome loft construction tutorial.

Created Icons, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Created Icons for Highest Good Network and Other Pages – Click for Highest Good Network

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped analyze and fix a web traffic dropping problem. He completed a traffic performance analysis, identified our traffic seems to have gone back to normal on its own, researched intermittent “Error establishing a database connection” on wordpress, and implemented troubleshooting & testing of cloudflare on our old site www.onecommunityranch.org. You can see pictures of some of this work and process below.

helped analyze and fix a web traffic dropping problem, Global Conservation Model, One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

Helped Analyze and Fix a Web Traffic Dropping Problem – Click for One Community Ranch Site

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One Community Welcomes Stacey Maillet to the Design Team!

Posted on September 24, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Stacey Maillet to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Stacey is a creative graphic design artist with over 15 years experience in technical product design. She has the ability to see complex problems clearly and communicate ideas using images and graphic language. Stacey holds a degree in fashion design and is a certified color specialist. As a member of the One Community team, Stacey is helping develop the Earthbag Village dome-home DIY Murphy bed assembly/constructions using Adobe InDesign.

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