Rebuilding Our World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #388

Rebuilding our world as a sustainable one is possible if enough people want it. One way to achieve this is to demonstrate a self-replicating sustainability model that provides a way of living that is better than the way most people are living now. One Community’s designs for such a way of life are an evolution of sustainability that combines sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing with sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

• 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 August 30th, 2020 edition (#388) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Rebuilding Our World
One Community Progress Update #388

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was research and additions to the narrative, tools, and equipment details. You can see some of the added and edited content below.

Focused on Research and Additions to the Narrative, Tools, and Equipment Details – Click for Site Preparation Page

The core team also continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed a diversity of comments and questions with Stacey and researched resources for securing the bed and settled on and designed the Hook Eye Latch and L-brackets shown below.

Continued With the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click to Visit Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #197 of Dean’s work and he fixed the problem from the last couple weeks with all the trees rendering with boxes around them. He also added furniture to the patio and more plants to the front area by the main window.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click to Visit

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 21st week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial. This week he finished the editing of the images and tables of the article, and started to edit the images on his next article about hydropower. Image-addition tasked included finding the same image as the researchers at the best possible quality, resizing it to the standardized size of 640px width, renaming them to onecommunity image name conventions, adding the 2px black borders, adding caption text where needed, adding SEO alternative text, transform the tables to images and make them click-to-open the spreadsheet. Here are some related images of this work.

Continued Developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 14th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week she continued developing the Master Tools and Master Materials lists and updating the Master Spreadsheet to match. This last week’s main focus was copying images in Google in such a way that they will stay where she places them. She also tried to establish a standard code for those materials and tools. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Developing the Master Tools and Master Materials Lists and Updating the Master Spreadsheet – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis formatted the layers of the AutoCAD floor plan to standard specifications. He added framing details for the doors and windows and completed the section views and an elevation view with the updated rearrangement of the bathroom fixtures to meet both ADA and public bathroom regulations. Pictures are below for this work.

Formatted the Layers of the AutoCAD Floor Plan to Standard Specifications – Click for Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy completed updating the Clothing&Storage assembly group. This assembly was complicated and required us to simplify many of the instructions. Many of the measurements needed to be rechecked and some of the screw lengths needed to be adjusted. The headers of each page and the key was kept consistent with the previous 2 projects. All page numbers were adjusted so that there is no more duplication between page numbers and wood piece labeling. Consistency throughout the instructions was addressed and changed as needed. There is still some improvement needed across all groups for components and page layouts. Next she will update the wall section group which includes the bed construction. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Completed Updating the Clothing&storage Assembly Group – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 13th week as a member of the team. This week Angela worked on editing her content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial, fixing grammar, doing more research, and finishing compiling her list of products so they are now ready for final formatting. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Continued Editing Content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 12th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to make additions and edits to the window and door specifics and formatting. He finalized most of the formatting, added to the resources section, started listing spec sheets, and began working on sections for understanding the different types and efficiency differences of the various kinds of windows and doors.You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Making Additions and Edits to the Window and Door Specifics and Formatting – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused further on the design of exit lighting. The basic exit sign formatting, lighting requirements and spacing distance between the exit signs was identified. Location of exit signs in the basement floor level were also identified. You can see some of the results of this research below.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for the roosting ladder and started working on the steps to build the nesting boxes. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished Instructions for the Roosting Ladder and Started Working on the Steps to Build the Nesting Boxes – Click for Chicken Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 32nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad worked on the design criteria report, completing a climate battery integration check, and climate battery modeling. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with these structural details.

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

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 10th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Jessica and Aly created the meals and recipes for Butternut Squash Chili, Lentil & Potato Dahl, Vegan Cornbread, and Rice Noodle Ramen, all for the vegan recipe pages. Pictures of this work are below.

Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu imported her model into Lumion and began updating the materials in Lumion to prepare it for rendering. You can see some of this work below.

Imported the Model Into Lumion and Began Updating the Materials to Prepare for Rendering – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei also started to put the SketchUp model into Lumion and worked on preparing it for the walkthrough. You can see below some screenshots related to this work.

Started to Put the SketchUp Model Into Lumion and Worked on Preparing It for the Walkthrough – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ content to better explain the specifics of how the process will work to be efficient and inclusive of all people with groups so large. This week we further developed the mind maps to make them clearer and easier to understand and created and refined an excel sheet to show different transition points as the community grows and the self-governance structure shifts to accommodate that growth. We also began reviewing the content developed for glass and polystyrene recycling. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Further Developed the Mind Maps to Make Them Clearer and Easier to Understand – Click for Consensus Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 30th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he completed the “moving tasks” feature and functionality. This was a big challenge because changing the list of tasks could make an error in the structure of the WBS. Now, when we move a task to a new position, the WBS will re-calculate the position of all the tasks including the task’s subtasks. Pictures below show some of this new functionality.

Completed the “Moving Tasks” Feature and Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 19th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to newspaper and TV outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the Helping Page to Newspaper and TV Outlets and Philanthropists – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Andon started off this week by reviewing other member’s video and screenshot overview of last week’s work. He then provided some feedback on Slack to those members that he felt had some issues or needed further clarification. A big chunk of his time this week was also dedicated on helping out with a full review and merge of pull requests #71-73 from the “HighestGoodNetworkApp/unit-testing” branch (Unit testing Login, Logout, Dashboard and ForcePasswordUpdate tests) working closely with Chris Weilacker. He then spent some time updating the documentation for WBS 1.6 in the “HGN Functional Specifications Documentation”. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

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

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the team functionality. They completed the functionality to update the status, delete a team, and listing the users of a team. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Team Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam completed a mock data unit test for the user profile, checking that the components are stored and fetched properly. At the end of the week, Adam collaborated with team members over best methods of approach for Unit Testing in React, and laid out a development plan for the rest of the unit tests. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

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

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 8th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added a “cancel” button to the time entry form and invalidated the edit button when it’s not the same day or has been edited 5 times. As a result, people can’t edit their time entry form after their 5th time edit. She changed the original algorithm for counting the time edits too. Now, Only editing the TIME should cause them to get a warning. Editing their description should not give a warning or count as editing their time. You can see some of this work below.

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

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry spent this week considering the groundwork needed for WBS 2.1. Consideration was given for the database models that will be changed as well as those that will need to be added. Additional routes will need to be added to the REST API in order to query these database changes. Ideally, database and API design can be completed next week so that tangible work can begin. Pictures of some of this are below.

Worked on Considering the Groundwork Needed for WBS 2.1. – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued her research finding different plans that each insurance company offered. She also did more research on the information needed by each company to get a quote. For each company she has looked for a general summary of their benefits and coverage and the costs provided with each different type of plan. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Researching Different Plans That Each Insurance Company Offered – Click for Health Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris completed and cleaned up the Login and Dashboard Test files utilizing Screen and wairFor whenever possible. Chris also completed the ForceUpdatePassword tests and got them passing. You can see some of the code for this work below.

Completed and Cleaned Up the Login and Dashboard Test Files Utilizing Screen and WairFor – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun finished the unit tests for the Timelog component. Specifically, Jun finished all 27 test cases for the Timelog component, where 16 of 27 were finished this week, and 11 of 27 were completed in the first week. Jun then started to build the unit test for the UpdatePassword component. Jun refactored the previous tests (which were implemented in enzyme and were completely failing) with react-testing-library and fixed most of the test cases. You can see some of this work below.

Finished the Unit Tests for the Timelog Component – Click for Highest Good Network

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