One Community welcomes Radhieka Nagpal to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Radhieka has over a year of experience working in tech consulting for one of the Big 4 firms and has received several awards during her tenure. While professionally rewarding, her passion for sustainability and its potential to have a positive impact on the environment, economy and human lives led her to exploring career opportunities as a climate change consultant. Radhieka wishes to utilize and promote the existence of sustainable alternatives to help reduce the global carbon footprint, especially by large scale industries. In the future, she wishes to be in a position to advise governments and organizations on the best sustainable practices. As a member of the One Community team, Radhieka is following her passion and desire to help reduce the global carbon footprint by helping develop the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. tutorial, a tutorial with in-depth research on dramatically reducing our carbon footprint.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RADHIEKA!

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Global regeneration has never been needed more. One Community is creating open source plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and teach people how to accomplish it. These plans include 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. When combined, they will demonstrate an example of what we call living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 3rd, 2020 edition (#371) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Regeneration
One Community Progress Update #371

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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 Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 25th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was fixing a glitch where a person vanished and another suddenly appeared, adding more trees, shrubs, and other greenery throughout the village, removing a TV so we can show one room without it, and adding and removing various objects on the shelves within the domes. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 22nd week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi cleaned up the 4 material processing tutorials formatting and made sure the references were all listed in order. He also conducted further research to determine the best practices for One Community’s plan to tackle recycling of each of these materials. Lastly, Oluyomi completed a table comparing roadway material options for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page.

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed her 1st week as a member of the team. This week Angela began researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. First, she researched brands that use recycled textiles and/or incorporated sustainable practices. Then she began exploring options for individual consumers. These included donating to thrift stores and various options offered by large municipalities that recycle clothing.

Began Researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we focused on elements within the Social Dome. This included updating the floor design by adding the N-E-S-W, designed the four-panel glass door, updated the dome opening for the four-panels door, updated the railing to a bamboo texture, updated pool border to match the stone planters, designed the wall bench between the two doors, designed the entry door dirt catchment track, and created and placed four sofas and 5 sets of 2 chairs and tables. Pictures of all of this are below.

Continued Updating the City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 6th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro continued with development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. He revised the page layout, proposed improvements to the collaboration process, and continued updating the content and logging the related time measurements. Related to this, Alvaro also got his Highest Good Network software local development environment running. This is the time and materials tracking software we’re developing and he suggested minor changes to the setup guide and began dashboard unit tests. You can see a combination of these two areas of work below.

Continued With Development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 8th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started benchmarking the types of flooring to better assign ranks to them. She researched the manufacturing process and installation processes to evaluate the carbon footprint for each and also added important updates to the descriptions. She did this for Cork, Linoleum, Bamboo, Tile, Concrete, and Carpet. She slightly updated the introduction as well. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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 researching if we need to be concerned about CO₂ levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures. What we found was some truly fascinating research about how excessive CO2 affects nutritional value of plants, which has been known and suspected within the plant research community for sometime. A more detailed summary can now be found in the FAQ sections of the Aquapini and Walipini page and the Highest Good food page.

Finished Researching Possible Concern About Co2 Levels in the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week the Phased Rollout Table was completed. Text was also completed for the Stewardship Infrastructure within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 23rd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he finished the small structure’s roof and exterior shell structural members by choosing 10X49 Wide Flange main beams, 10X49 Wide Flange columns, 5X3X3/16 Hollow Structural Section wall and roof supports, and 6X25 Wide Flange secondary beams. He also chose loam as the berm soil behind the structures based on angle of repose of 40ᵒ, finished the topo around the small structures in the south, continued modeling the large structures roof and exterior shell, and continued editing the topo behind the back and side walls. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 88% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 75th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on the yellow room by adding the final objects to the shelving. This room is represents the subject of Math and various empowering character traits and the final render can now be found on the website.

Finished Render Work on the Yellow Room of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao checked the critical state building code, 2019 California Building Code for minimum plumbing number and occupancy load. Based on the new requirement and function, she updated the floor plan. The new floor plan kept the furniture layout, maintained adequate storage spaces, utilized natural roof ventilation, skylights, and built operable partitions between classrooms. Interior corners in the classrooms were updated to perpendicular or larger than 90 degrees, which allows for a more flexible furniture layout for different owners. It is also optional to adjust the outline of the floor plan closer to a circular shape. For the use of community recreation or other events, a potential kitchen was also designed for consideration as part of the floor plan. Zebao additionally analyzed the heating and cooling ventilation within the building on building sections. According to the products research, the operable partitions can use tracks in the ceiling, avoiding tracks on the floor, which would be easier for maintenance. To operate the roof skylight, the product with solar power and remote control is also built with the rain sensor to close automatically in bad weather. She also updated the structure form to match the new building form. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 3% complete.

Continued Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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 Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 2nd week helping promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and just offered to help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in it. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 14th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry focused on how to reorder tasks. He changed the move up and down function for reordering the tasks to much more user friendly drag and drop option. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Work on Highest Good Network Software Focusing on How to Reorder Tasks – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen designed and improved the Dashboard layout. For the backend, two more fields were added to the badge collection and a boolean type for “featured” was used to avoid duplicate data. For the frontend, time was mostly spent on the Reactstrap library (Card, Layout, etc) and CSS work, plus some component restructuring and reassigning. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below.

Designed and Improved the Dashboard Layout on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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Creating a sustainable world is possible if enough people want it. One Community sees the path to accomplishing this as making sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. We’re designing and will build the first DIY-replicable teacher/demonstration hub to start the process.

• 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 April 26th, 2020 edition (#370) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #370

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable world 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 modeled a ceiling-mounted TV option for the Earthbag Village domes. This exact setup is already in use by one of our members and will save space for residents interested in a TV up to 65″. The ceiling mounted TV is lowered by remote and has an adjustable angle for optimized viewing from the bed, as shown below. Cost of the hardware is less than $70.

Modeled a Ceiling-mounted TV Option for the Earthbag Village Domes – Click to Visit

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 24 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding in the TV the core team modeled, creating a new dome view showing use of the fold-down table and benches, adding more objects to the bedrooms, removing the ladder in the student’s/visitor dome option, and updating the walkthrough to focus on additional requested views. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 21st week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi worked on the glass, plastic and paper waste processing sections. A major discovery during his work is the possibility to transform waste plastic into Fuel through a process known as Pyrolysis. The following additional details were added to the tutorials:

• Glass: Shredding glass to add to cement for construction
• Plastic: Shredding to use for construction and other applications
• Paper: Shredding to make papercrete and insulation
• Styrofoam: Melting to form compacted blocks to sell

Our research continued and you can see some of the related work-in-progress in the picture below.

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we remodeled the door and began work on the furniture and polished concreted floor art in the Social Dome. You can see some of these updates below.

Continued Updating City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 5th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro continued with development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Alvaro also finished the reviewing and refining process needed before publishing. This process included the optimization of images for the web pages, reviewing all the content created by the researcher, formatting updates to match existing web tutorials, initial publishing for feedback, and recording the time it took for each micro task to create data to see where time could be saved during the implementation of the various improvements. You can see some of this work below.

Continued With Development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began researching if we need to be concerned about CO₂ levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures. The questions we’re trying to answer are whether or not we have a CO₂ deficiency in these closed-loop structures and/or if CO₂ supplementation would be a good idea. You can see some of the results of this behind-the-scenes research below.

Began Researching Co2 Levels in the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 22nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he went through several redesigns and remodeling of the structure roof and exterior shell, changed columns and wall height, designed and modeled new roof supports and beams, designed and modeled new wall supports, modified the topo based on the new designs, performed a sun study for the new design, and calculated the angle of repose for the property soil type to berm behind structures’ back walls. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 84% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 20th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the Preliminary climate battery design and the general layout of the pipe layers. He also worked on the thermal properties of SolaWrap to replace a double layer SolaWrap in the previous simulations. He additionally continued to work on 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah using SolaWrap as the ceiling material for the greenhouse. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable world 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 74th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room that covers the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 9th round of additions to this room and the continued focus was adding learning books, tools, toys, and now “math objects” to the shelving on the left and right. With his latest additions, we’d say this room is now 99% complete.

Continued Work on the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room; Adding Books, Tools, Toys, and “Math Objects” to the Shelving – Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week she reviewed the building code of Utah state, checked the minimum design requirements, and reduced the restrooms to 3 toilets. This will reduce construction material, energy consumption, and the budget. She also started to design the roof structure, provided 3 options and developed one of them. The updated design uses more repeated dimensions and elements to simplify the construction. Zebao then started to build the analysis model in 3D software to decide the critical elements for future design. We’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 1% complete.

Joined the Team and Began Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a sustainable world 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 wrote the content for the Phased Rollout sections of the Permaculture Design Case Study section covering Society and Stewardship. This content will be used to complete these sections on the Phased Rollout Table. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Wrote the Content for the Phased Rollout Section Covering Society and Stewardship – Click for Permaculture Page

The core team also finished comprehensive updates to all three of our pages for funders. This included the Building a Better World page, Location Essentials page, and the Funding Options pages. Updates included simplification, reviewing and editing the information to match the latest Business Plan details, adding links to our Business Plan, and creating new social media images for all three pages. You can see some of these details below.

Finished Comprehensive Updates to All Three of Our Pages for Funders – Click for Funding Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) also joined the team to help promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders.

Joined the Team to Help Promote Our Project – Click for Our Helping Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao worked on the “Notes” field of the TimeEntryForm. The placeholder and error message was modified and he successfully integrated the TinyMCEEditor as the rich text editor, so users will be able to apply a diversity of formats to the notes. This was able to be done using the same rich text editor as used in the (current) Ember app by integrating it locally without the API-key and access to TinyCloud.

Worked on the “Notes” Field of the TimeEntryForm – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) additionally completed his 13th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry changed the workflow and interface of WBS to be more user-friendly. He added tag colors to group tasks starting with the same WBS’s ID, drop downs to have a dynamic view of tasks, auto generated WBS’s ID to avoid mistakes, the estimated hours to now be calculated by the times we input in the other fields, and the toolbar will keep track of the task a person is working on. You can see some of this work below.

Changed the Workflow and Interface of WBS to Be More User-friendly – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 12th week as a member of the volunteer team working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Blue Square Functionality on the mobile app. Now the user will see stars in blue color and the number of infringements will determine the number of stars with 5 being the highest. Siddharth also created an Admin section which would be visible only for an Admin and will let the Admin access all projects and all users. Siddharth also fixed a bug on the Modal which sometimes prevented the user confirmation appearing for tasks like Delete Project and Remove Project Member. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Blue Square Functionality on the Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen added the badge model in the database. Problems with the database left from last week were successfully solved this week. Wen did some research on CronJob, which will be used to check the criteria and assign badges. The Blue Square (vs Badges & Blue Badges) name issue took some time to figure out – digging into Sentry’s log and Shubhra’s legacy code on deleting the Blue Square. Now Wen moves on to improving the UI of the badge section and dashboard layout. Some screenshots of her work-in-progress are below.

Added the Badge Model in the Database – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

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

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Conscious and conscientious global caretaking is possible. This planet is the only one we have to live on, it is our one shared home. One Community is helping to make it a sustainable planet and home through open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• 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 April 19th, 2020 edition (#369) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Caretaking
One Community Progress Update #369

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is global caretaking 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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #186 of Dean’s work and the focus was trying to create a circular stairway to the rooftop patio that used minimal resources, had sufficient head clearance, and could be DIY-replicated. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Continued Working on Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 20th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week, Oluyomi completed the first drafts of the glass, paper and plastic waste processing tutorials. After analyzing the cost, labor and feasibility of the different methodologies for the materials, the following plans are in the lead for recycling those materials:

• Glass: Shredding then mixing with construction materials
• Paper: Making papercrete and forming shredded paper compost
• Plastic: Shredding then selling to plastic manufacturers or forming new products that are useful to our communities using an extrusion machine

Our research continued and you can see some of the related work-in-progress in the picture below.

Completed the First Drafts of the Glass, Paper and Plastic Waste Processing Tutorials – Click for Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 23 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding a look into the loft storage during the walkthrough, changing out some of the people, adding more objects to the various views, and updating the side tables in the Couple’s Domes to be the ones we’ll actually build. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans. This week we updated the first floor Living Dome’s bathroom walls, door openings, and toilets. We also updated the Living Dome room example to add a sofa, updated closet, and floor, and rebuilt the second floor bathrooms walls to match first floor. You can see some of these updates below.

Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center 3D File to Match the Updated Floor Plans – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 4th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro switched his focus to working on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. As his work on this will be a process that will be repeated several times in the future, he is taking the time to measure the time it takes of every task during the process. The goal is to create a formatting guide for the researchers, look for ways to improve the web page creation process, and define a checklist to use to improve and streamline the complete creation and review process. You can see some of this work below.

Began Working on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is global caretaking 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 Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 21st week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he continued working on the steel structure. This included: searching the proper roof and cladding support system, selecting the structural system for the gardens in addition to the roof and cladding supporting system, designing two structural models to compare cost and efficiency, continued designing of the steel beams, steel columns, steel connections, and rafters, and replacing the conventional roof and cladding system with SolaWrap. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing about 80% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 19th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the thermal properties of SolaWrap to replace the previous heat calculation with Solexx. Now we’re moving forward with a double layered SolaWrap in the ceilings as well as the walls. He also worked on the 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis considering SolaWrap as the material in the ceiling. And he worked on the preliminary climate battery design and the general layout of the pipe layers. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is global caretaking 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 73rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room, a room about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 8th round of additions to this room. The continued focus and final needed additions are adding learning books, tools, toys, and aids to the shelving on the left and right. With the latest additions, we’d say this room is now 95% complete.

Continued Work on the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room; Adding Books, Tools, Toys, and Aids to the Shelving – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is global caretaking 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 finished the Phased Rollout Table sections covering Economics and started it for Society too. Text was completed for Economics and started for Society within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study section after reviewing all material available on our website on the topics related to this. You can see some of this work below.

Finished the Phased Rollout Table Sections Covering Economics and Began Society – Click for Permaculture Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao modified the form validation for the TimeEntryForm component. The submit button is no longer disabled. Instead, errors are displayed for empty fields. He also refactored the code to make it more concise. The indigo, violet and purple color codes for the progress bar were also updated.

Modified the Form Validation for the Timeentryform Component – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) additionally completed his 12th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated new functions to add tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in the database. The profile picture will show up on the resources as a dropdown to show all members in the project for the user to select from. A calendar interface will be used to select the start and due date functions. All information about a task can be stored in our mongoDB. Henry also realized last week’s method is not a good way to add WBS IDs because the dropdown will show a very long list when the WBS has many tasks. The new idea is to directly select a task on the task list, then add child tasks to it. You can see some of this work below.

Updated New Functions to Add Tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in the Database – Click for HGN Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 11th week as a member of the volunteer team working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth fixed the bugs that occurred due to refactoring. Now the user can edit their first name, last name, email, phone number and job role. He also completed more refactoring to make the code cleaner. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed the Bugs That Occurred Due to Refactoring – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. Wen’s focus this week was working on the badge section. She created a mongoose collection for the badges and a skeleton of the React component. Code was added to both the frontend and backend. She had some difficulty with the database and will continue resolving the problem next week. Some screenshots of her work-in-progress are below.

Created a Mongoose Collection for the Badges and a Skeleton of the React Component – Click for Highest Good Network

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

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One Community is building an open source sustainability collaborative for The Highest Good of All. Step one is finishing the open source designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Step two is to confirm everything we’ve designed is correct as we use them to build the initial teacher/demonstration community. Step three is hosting visitors and supporting global replication as we continue to build and open source our 6 additional village models. This is the April 12th, 2020 edition (#368) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

• 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 April 12th, 2020 edition (#368) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative
One Community Progress Update #368

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the Phased Rollout Table sections covering Housing and Education. We also roughly outlined the section for Economics. Rough notes for the text to be included within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study covering the topics of Education and Economics were also created. You can see some of this work below.

Finished the Phased Rollout Table Sections Covering Housing and Education – Click for Housing Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #185 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adding and adjusting the internal and external lighting sources. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Continued Working on Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 19th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week Oluyomi started the plastic waste processing section. His research showed that there are multiple ways of using plastic bottles sustainably after original use. These include: water bottle sprinkler, watering can, water filter, and others. Alternate options include bird feeder, trash can, and bottle garden. See below for some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress.

Continued Research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorial – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 22 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding objects and updating the three internal dome views shown here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created and updated all the floor plan images on the Duplicable City Center main page and the plans download page. We also created a new DropBox structure for sharing huge click-to-enlarge files like these that will allow for easier download, comments on them, and faster website speeds.

Created and Updated All the Floor Plan Images on the Duplicable City Center Main Page – Click to Visit

The core team also began updating the Duplicable City Center 3D file to match the updated floor plans. This week we updated the bathroom details. You can see some of these updates below and we’d say this brings the complete update to about 10%.

Began Updating the Duplicable City Center 3D File to Match the Updated Floor Plans – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building an open source sustainability collaborative 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 researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit raising articles. You can see some of our new content below.

Continued Researching Rabbits and Compiling Our Findings on the Doc – Click for Rabbits Page

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 20th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he completed editing the Revit model to match the SketchUp model. The revit model now includes Floor Drains, a Drainage Network, Ventilation Pipes, a Water Supply Network, and Bell Siphons. Mohammad also completed the architecture and plumbing construction drawings (except for roofs), researched roof systems and Solexx roofing system, the property soil type for footing design, and started designing the structural system that includes isolated footings, steel columns, steel beams, and framing. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing about 75% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 18th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued developing a simple-to-use thermal model to predict the temperature fluctuations of the walipini and aquapinis in different weather conditions and using different greenhouse materials. He also worked on reviewing material for roof and walls of the greenhouse including Solexx vs Polycarbonate and SolaWrap. The 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah were started using Solexx as the ceiling material for the greenhouse. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building an open source sustainability collaborative 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 72nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 7th round of additions and they focused on finding and adding more learning aids and books to the shelving. This brings this room to about 93% complete.

Continued Work on the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room, Adding More Learning Aids and Books to the Shelving – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building an open source sustainability collaborative 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 Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped fix a problem created by the latest WordPress update where large images were automatically compressed when adding them to the media browser. This meant we could no longer have click-to-enlarge images that would be really large and clear. Jin helped fix this problem and also created the alternative DropBox hosted solution discussed above in the City Center section above.

Helped Fix a Problem Created by the Latest WordPress Update – Click for Home Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented the form validation for the TimeEntryForm so the submit button is disabled until all the fields are filled (this will force everyone to fill in all the fields including the notes). It also checks whether the values are valid and display error messages. The date picker itself does a validation, so any invalid date is viewed as an empty field, disabling the submit button. You can see some screenshots of this functionality below.

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

Henry Ng (React Developer) completed his 11th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry made an interface for admins to add tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure. He tried many ways to make an interface that was easy to use and avoid mistakes such as adding the wrong WBS ID, adding wrong members to the WBS, etc. Now the WBS ID is automatically created to avoid typing mistakes and searches for members before adding them to the data for making sure we select the right one. Another challenge was to arrange the data in a small area because we don’t want to make it too long like the Excel file. You can see some of this work below.

Made an Interface for Admins to Add Tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Highest Good Network

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 10th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Edit Profile Functionality for the mobile app. For that he wrote actions and reducers to handle logic and backend calls for the User Profile Data. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Edit Profile Functionality for the Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen revised and finalized the documents according to the suggestions by other team members, and continued addressing questions and comments. Now the “badge” tasks begin! Wen spent the rest of the week thinking about the technical solutions based on all the requirements and trying to design the new database collections (tables and fields related to the badges), and researching and learning how to do mockups using Sketch.

Revised and Finalized the Documents According to the Suggestions by Other Team Members – Click for Highest Good Network

And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 3rd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro continued working on the One Community Software Documentation Design Guide and Template so the documents related to HGN have more constancy and aesthetic appeal. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the One Community Software Documentation Design Guide and Template – Click for Highest Good Network

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Siddharth Gore to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Siddharth completed his Masters from San Jose State University in Software Engineering. He has more than 5 years of work experience including companies like Nexient, N3N, Food Corporation Of India, and Accenture. In his free time, Siddharth enjoys playing Fifa, Call of Duty, chess, table tennis, and hiking. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network software team, Siddharth is helping revamp our Highest Good Network Web Portal and creating the iOS and Android versions of the software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SIDDHARTH!

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One Community welcomes Henry Nguyen to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Having earned his BS in Computer Sciences and minored in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington, Henry is both a software developer and an artist. He also loves to work with communities, connecting and bringing people together. Born in Vietnam, Henry came to the US in 2013 and helped build a Vietnamese community in Seattle that grew to one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US. As a community builder he has also been a video maker, administrator, and a web developer. Henry feels software programming is the art of connecting people, so he has a passion for making software that can help people connect to each other. Henry joined the Highest Good Network team to be a part of a project that supports and connects people globally.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM HENRY!

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OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS     ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

Let’s talk about eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics. In this week’s video we discuss how we expect people living in environments like One Community would be happier, healthier, and safer than most of the rest of the world right now. The discussion includes what pandemic preparation, mitigation, containment, and recovery would look like in a “Highest Good of All” living environment like One Community.

• 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 April 5th, 2020 edition (#367) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics
One Community Progress Update #367

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content with a focus on completing the Energy, Housing, and Education Infrastructure details of the Phased Rollout Table shown below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Housing Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #184 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was texturing another dome, texturing the door for the main entry, and the door access to the hot tub area. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Continued Working on Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 21 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was closing all the village doors, changing the video timing, adding more interior details to the Tropical Atrium, and adding textures, people, and other details to the furnished interior views of the living structures. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team finished adding all the best water-saving faucet accessories we could find to the Most Sustainable Faucets and Faucet Accessories page. We also added Amazon links for all the products they sell, allowing easy access for reading reviews and purchasing. This completes this tutorial.

Finished Adding the Best Water-saving Faucet Accessories to the Most Sustainable Faucets Page – Click to Visit

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 7th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started benchmarking the types of flooring to better assign ranks to them. She researched into the manufacturing process and installation process to evaluate the carbon footprint for each and also added important updates to the descriptions as well. She did this for Cork, Linoleum, Bamboo, Tiles, Concrete, and Carpet, and slightly updated the introduction as well. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Most Sustainable Building Materials Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team began researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit food options, hutches and runs. We will construct our own hutches and runs. Most runs available for purchase are not very sturdy. We will build to the quality of our other fencing with regards to the rabbit exercise area.

Began Researching Rabbits and Compiling Our Findings on the Behind-the-scenes Research Google Doc – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was more work on the door assembly instructions. Specifically, finishing pages 50-55: “Step 13. Installing a Door Handle and Door Latch” and finishing fixing the hinge problem we identified last week and included in 42 though 49 of the instructions. We’d say we’re now about 91% done with these plans.

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

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 19th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details and now working on the structural engineering details. This week he finished editing the architectural model, finished editing the site plan to align with the modified architectural drawings, edited the plumping model to match the modified architectural model, added access to the structures, added steel columns and isolated footing to the structures, researched roof structural systems, and steel columns prices. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing completion of the civil engineering details and we’d say we’re now about 65% complete with the structural details also.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 17th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued the transient 2D simulations of the aquapinis and walipinis in Utah considering the effect of climate batteries based on the previously evaluated transient boundary conditions for more months of the year. He also worked on developing a simple-to-use thermal model to capture the temperature variations of the inside air under different weather conditions and different used materials. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 71st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 6th round additions focused on finding and adding more learning aids and books to the shelving, plus the plant on the right. This brings this room to about 90% complete.

Continued Work on the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room, Adding Learning Aids and Books to the Shelving – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models with a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Henry Ng (React Developer) completed his 9th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry returned to building the API for adding tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure by using the WBS ID. This is so the tasks will load to the interface and be sorted by IDs. The data is displayed as icons, and buttons are used to send quick information to the users. New mouseover text shows what each button represents also. You can see some of this work below.

Returned to Building the API for Adding Tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure by Using the WBS ID – Click for Highest Good Network

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 9th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Modal component of react native mobile app. Now one Modal can be reused across the app changing message texts and button values for tasks which require user confirmation. He also looked into Google Sheets API for using data (alerts) that can be read from a spreadsheet and displayed on the website and time tracking tool portal and mobile application. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Modal Component of React Native Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen helped finalize the HGN Functionality Documentation. She also completed the 2nd-to-final drafts of the HGN React Design Doc, Workflow and Github Doc, and Codebase Rules & Conventions Doc.

Helped Finalize the HGN Functionality Documentation – Click for Highest Good Network

And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 2nd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro made his first pull request to fix a small error, started to work on a unit test for the leaderboard, started a new doc to document code and command formatting, and another one to explore a style template for documentation. He also helped with feedback on all the other Documentation docs. You can see some of this work below.

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

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One Community is creating an open source blueprint for global cooperatives. This includes the tools, tutorials, data, and costs needed for global replication. These sustainable and self-sufficient eco-communities will function as teacher/demonstration hubs to help others replicate them even easier.

• 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 March 29th, 2020 edition (#366) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Blueprint for Global Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #366

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished the review by completing the rest of cut sheets plan. Parts added to the plan this week included the rest needed for the Benches & Table, Nightstands, and Storage. You can see pictures of the finished cut sheets below and we’re now onto final integration of all the needed edits to the actual assembly instructions.

Finished the Murphy Bed Review by Completing the Rest of Cut Sheets Plan – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #183 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was continuing to texture the domes, texturing the main stairway entry, and testing out different stairway options for access to the rooftop patio. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Continued Working on Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

And Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 2o as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding furniture to the top of the Tropical Atrium, furniture to the living structures, and fixing broken or incomplete building elements. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.

Added Furniture to the Top of the Tropical Atrium and Living Structures – Click for Tropical Atrium

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 6th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week, Radhieka researched further into other types of sustainable flooring and integrated what she found to benchmarked them based on Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. She considered the full lifecycle of these products to have a well-rounded perspective on each flooring type. This was done for bamboo, linoleum, tiles, concrete and carpet. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Most Sustainable Building Materials Page

Isha Chadalavada (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 1st week developing the content for the Food Waste Recycling section of the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page. This week she completed the open source section, overview of food waste section, and preliminary research of various types of small-scale recycling options like worm composting, hot composting, and in-vessel composting. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress below.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching the best breeds for meat rabbits.

Began Researching the Best Breeds for Meat Rabbits – Click for Rabbits Page

The core team also returned to working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was working on the door assembly instructions and fixing a hinge problem we identified and fixed across pages 42 though 49 of the instructions. We’d say we’re now about 90% done with these.

Returned to Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

And the core team began transferring our research on chickens from the Google Doc the open source webpage. This week we created the “Why Chickens” section, added all the related resources to the Resources section, and backed them all up to our DropBox archive. You can see some of this work here.

Began Transferring Our Research on Chickens From the Google Doc the Open Source Webpage – Click for Page

In addition to this, the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was solidifying the Food Infrastructure rollout details using the new Phased Rollout Table and aligning it with our text in the Permaculture Design Case Study section. We also worked on doing this for the Energy Infrastructure section. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 18th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he modified the water supply main pipe to be below the frost line at a minimum of 32” underground, modified the architectural model to match the SketchUp model instead of the 2D plans provided, finished the water supply network for all the structures and fixed interference with the drainage network, created annotated plumbing 2D construction drawings for all structures, and added bell siphon to the water beds. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 95% complete.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 70th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 5th round additions focused on finding and adding toys and books to the shelving and floor. This brings this room to about 85% complete.

Continued Work on the Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented a new version of the progress bar on the Time Log page. Now the color changes to match the Leaderboard and the length is determined by the absolute value instead of percentage. Stripes are added to the bar when a volunteer hasn’t completed his or her weekly committed hours.

Implemented a New Version of the Progress Bar on the Time Log Page – Click for Highest Good Network Page

Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 8th and final week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he worked on finishing as much as he could of the HGN Unit Test and HGN Documentation with the other members of the team. This included clarifying concepts on documents, making and integrating suggestions for improvement, and outlining the remaining tasks for completion. Screenshots of some of this work are below.

Completed Final Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 8th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry used the backend to work with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). He created a function to add the WBS to a project. He also created a new interface for the WBS based on the WBS converted to excel files. This was a challenge in UX Design (User Experience) because he had to design something new but based on the current interface with the Excel files. To accomplish this he did research on WBS design using MS Project Software. You can see some of this work below.

Used the Backend to Work With the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) – Click for Highest Good Network

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 8th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Add Project Member and Remove Project Member functionality for the mobile app. He also refactored some code to make it better. You can see some of the results of this work below.

Worked on the Add Project Member and Remove Project Member Functionality for the Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued adding content to the Unit Testing Doc, and followed up with comments & suggestions. Wen answered questions raised by other team members, helped with the error messages, finalized the Unit Testing Doc, and created an improved strategy to address vulnerabilities of the Github repo by adding protection rules for the master branch and development branch. In addition to this, Wen continued working on the draft of HGN App Design Doc and Workflow & Github Doc, based on the outlines she completed last week.

Continued Adding Content to the Unit Testing Doc, and Followed Up With Comments & Suggestions – Click for Highest Good Network

And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) joined the Highest Good Network software team and completed his first week as a volunteer. This week his main tasks were helping with the new documentation guidelines we are creating. He gave reviewed, tested, and gave feedback to Unit Testing documentation, HGN Documentation, and Instructions for Running the HGN React App Locally by providing clarifying links and a newcomer perspective. He also set up his local development environment for further Unit Testing development. You can see some of this work below.

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

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Why open source eco-villages? Well, for starters, because we could create a sustainable world through a global cooperative of villages and communities working together as teacher/demonstration hubs. Creating sustainability think tanks collaborating for the Highest Good of all people and life on this planet. Never has this been needed more and One Community is doing our part by developing the open source and free-shared resources and tutorials for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship components necessary to launch these.

• 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 March 22nd, 2020 edition (#365) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Why Open Source Eco-Villages
One Community Progress Update #365

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished the review of the bench and table assembly and started work on the final cut sheets plan where we finished the wall-parts section. You can see some of this work in progress below.

Continued Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 19 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding plants and trees to the Tropical Atrium walkthrough. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.

Added Plants and Trees to the Tropical Atrium Walkthrough – Click for Tropical Atrium

And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #182 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was continuing to test textures and fix errors found during this process. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Continuing to Test Textures and Fix Errors in the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) finished her research for all the City Center lighting. What you see below are all the bulbs researched with links and updated quantities. With this, we’d say we are now about 95% complete with the lighting selection details.

Finished Research for All the City Center Lighting – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also helped this week with the City Center. This week he created the AutoCAD occupancy zonal layout shown below.

Created the AutoCAD Occupancy Zonal Layout for the City Center – Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 5th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka worked on integrating core team feedback and editing the introduction of the companies to provide a better explanation for their ranking, research into the nitty-gritties of each company to find out about their sustainable impact throughout their whole life-cycle, not just products, and beginning the deep-dive into the life cycle of specific products based on Health & safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Most Sustainable Building Materials Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was creating tables that summarize how each infrastructure component addresses each permaculture ethics and principles and each component’s phase of implementation. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 17th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he modified the architectural layout to match the Sketchup model. This included the aquaponics layout, piping, and wall heights shown below. He also added the gravity-fed pipe to supply the North-side aquaponics, balancing pipes to maintain water levels in all containers and to connect all water containers to the interior pond, and an interior recycling pump to cycle the water from the water containers back to the interior pond.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click to Visit

He also updated the AutoCAD so the water supply network branches include two supply valves on each wall in addition to one supply valve for the interior pond, added a backup water pump to the water supply network, and added an overflow pipe connected to the stormwater drainage network. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 94% complete.

Updated the AutoCAD – Click for the Aquapini/Walipini Page

In addition to this, he completed several versions of updating the property model terrain topo. The final version has lines at 5’ increments. He then used this to reproduce the sun study and export to .dwg format.

Completed Several Versions of Updating the Property Model Terrain Topo – Click for the Aquapini/Walipini Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 16th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah. After evaluation of the boundary conditions and considering the effects of underground insulations, extended soil geometry, wind and outside temperature variations, and daily solar irradiations, the effect of implementing a climate battery was investigated as it pulls the air inside the greenhouse to flow through the pipes placed in the deep soil. July, which is the warmest month in Utah, was considered and the results were compared with the case where no climate battery is used. You can see some of this work below.

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 69th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room, a room focused on the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 4th round of object and people additions. This week he added toys and books to the shelving and floor and made more adjustments to the wall posters. This brings this room to about 80% complete.

Continued Work on the Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon continued writing the Final Draft for HGN Unit Test Best Practice. Based on feedback from teammates some changes will have to be made before a final submission. At the same time, a living document approach is being used for the updates and changes that are common in software development. In addition to this, the Final Draft for HGN Documentation Best Practice was also started. There were errors with getting our app configured properly to work with this React Style Guide and it will further be investigated and fixed for week 8. Screenshots of some of this work are below.

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

Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 8th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he worked on the back-end for the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) import. He did a research to learn how to work with NodeJS and ExpressJS to build a database and successfully created 4 APIs to get WBSs, create a WBS, delete a WBS, and add Tasks to WBS. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Back-end for the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Import – Click for Highest Good Network

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 8th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the styling of screens in the Mobile App with feedback received from the core team. You can see some of this work here.

Worked on the Styling of Screens in the Mobile App after Receiving Feedback – Click for Highest Good Network

And last but not least, Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen successfully set up the app to run locally, began reviewing and helping with the Unit Testing tutorial and the Guide for React Components Documentation, and led the creation of 1) Design Doc, 2) Codebase Rules & Conventions, and 3) Workflow and Github, to better support collaboration of the team, and to help new team members ramp up quickly.

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

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

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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