Sustainable Progress Management – One Community Weekly Progress Update #530

At One Community, we are proud to be demonstrating sustainable progress management through our holistic approach to community building. Our all-volunteer team is dedicated to creating a model that becomes self-replicating and will be used to create a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. We are doing this for “The Highest Good of All” by creating sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our goal is to create everything so it is open source and free-shared, open sourcing and free sharing the complete process of evolving sustainability and regenerating our planet.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 21st, 2023 edition (#530) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Progress Management
One Community Progress Update #530

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 31st week with the team. Julia worked on the “Door and Window Research” Google Doc, resolving comments where feedback had been integrated and adding comments for finalizing the content. She also made format edits to the “Best Doors” section to prepare it for the site. Next, Julia finished finalizing the format of the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” webpage. She fixed broken links and added Title text to linked sources. She also made final edits to the tables of content and spacing throughout the page. Finally, Julia continued to work on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design Edited Content for Web” Google Doc. She resolved comments where her feedback had been addressed while integrating responses to her own questions and concerns about the content. She then continued to make her way through the Doc, working to edit the content for grammar and spelling as well as formatting it for the site. She also edited the corresponding Google Spreadsheet and made sure to update screenshots and links on the Doc accordingly. Furthermore, Julia formatted and backed up various sources from the “Resources” sections on the Doc to her Dropbox folder. See images below that show some of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 8th week helping, now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal made corrective actions on the sustainability benchmarking spreadsheet and responded to related questions. She also conducted research on sustainability reports to improve the City Center section and looked for better options. She continued developing narratives on sustainability benchmarking, including descriptions, key features, pros, and cons. Amal also started the most important energy-saving practices section. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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 reviewing and fixing the latest Duplicable City Center SketchUp file. This week the focus was on the Social Dome, more specifically the core team completed patch work on the Social Dome wall to accommodate an updated location of the door, and redesigned the 18″ deep sitting area around a column close to the pool, as well as a sitting circle connected to the pool. We also designed a curved bench that is connected to the column, with a sitting area around it situated between two Social Dome doors. To complement these updates, the core team designed bench cushions for the wall bench and around the column sitting bench, as well as a curved bench back support. We also reshaped the floor around the inside pool, and removed one of the pool waterfall features next to the right door. See images below for examples of this work in progress.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 31st week helping with web design, now focused on the Duplicable City Center Engineering tutorial. He focused on improving the visual layout of the tutorial by removing all padding indentation and aligning all content to the left. Additionally, he revised the headings to ensure proper structure, such that sections with the format X and X.X are designated as h2, X.X.X as h3, and X.X.X.X as h6. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 22nd week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week Ranran focused on the second half of the video project. She devoted her efforts to the outdoor portion of the building, selecting angles that captured the wading pool with fish and showcased the area’s appearance. She also augmented it with the addition of trees and other plants to heighten the area’s realism. Ranran worked collaboratively with the team, ensuring that her contributions aligned with the project’s overall goals and objectives. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Julio focused on re-designing the initial concept for the hub connector. Taking advantage of the dome’s symmetry, he devised a single design that could be applied to all nodes, with each design replicated five times throughout the geodesic dome. This approach significantly reduces the time required to populate the entire dome with hub connectors compared to the previous design. Additionally, Julio conducted FEA simulations and identified stress concentrations primarily occurring at the curvature of the brackets. As a result, he concluded that increasing the thickness of this specific section could potentially prevent bracket failure during simulations. The thickness was increased by using a one-inch filet on both sides. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week Yiwei successfully used SketchUp software and calculated the outside and inside surface areas of three dome structures, determining their overall weights. In addition to these tasks, Yiwei simulated the new dome structure using a new connector design. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week, now focused on the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Zhide finished reviewing the Net-zero Bathroom designs and contents and finalized the formats of the report, and added all the missing introductions to headings. In addition, Zhide began working on the Duplicable City Dormer Window Designs. Zhide confirmed that the designs meet the International Building Code and all units are in US units. Zhide then started rewriting the entire report. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the Master Recipes and 3-Day Manu Blocks Doc verifying recipes that will then be imported to the Master Recipe Template and Shopping List. The same team member verified recipes up to page 307 with Dinner SSWJ2. Pictures below are related to this work.

The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. We focused on reviewing and editing the Chicken Doc, specifically pages 178-188. The work centered on the topic of chicken nesting boxes and perches. During the review process, we identified measurement inaccuracies in the nesting box roof measurements and provided additional comments for further discussion. Additionally, we questioned the purpose of another photo that appeared unnecessary. The pictures below give some examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating sustainable progress management 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

Bada Kim (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bada explored and addressed a series of technical issues, with a focus on improving the development process and resolving bugs. An undocumented error pertaining to node-sass was discovered early in the week, which was subsequently communicated to the team via the Slack platform to aid in future troubleshooting. Additionally, a comment was made on the setup documentation, indicating an ambiguity concerning the non-usage of ESLint for the front-end repository. Bada also delved into a bug reported by a colleague that was causing sporadic page crashes when a task item was clicked. It was confirmed that the crash was due to certain task items lacking the “num” property. An enhancement was proposed for the local setup documentation, inspired by the earlier node-sass error. In tandem with these investigations, approval was granted to PR #809 after successful video confirmations. Bada also initiated PR #817, which was opened to address the node-sass error that non-intel Mac machines were experiencing during the local setup. This issue was scrutinized further to determine why the initial quick fix was unsuccessful. Further investigation into the task item bug resulted in the opening of PR #819, which proposed the addition of the “num” property to task items that were missing it. See the images below for this work.

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