Global Conservation Model – One Community Weekly Progress Update #392

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

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

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

Global Conservation Model
One Community Progress Update #392

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function and how they relates to our global conservation model: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 17th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week, Angela researched more specific lightbulb products again to make sure that they were the best ones from the company identified as the best.

Additionally, she began implementing edits and writing a new section about the affects of different types of lighting on the nervous system. She also began helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial by researching what is recyclable and what is non-recyclable and looked into various processes that are better than landfills or traditional incineration. You can see some of this work in the pictures below and on how this relates to our global conservation model.

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

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

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week he started research on possible ground drainage systems for the ground component. He assumed the pond would need to be large enough to accumulate 93,712 gallons of water yearly. Dividing this by 7.481 we get approximately 12,525.67 cubic ft of water. He assumed the drainage pipe leading to the pond to be 4” PVC based on the previous calculations from other members. The pipe would extend about 60ft northeast to the potential pond in zone 3.

He also hand sketched one possible option for a drainage system. This would be three underground drainage pipes leading from the ground gutters to one main pipe that would be connected to the reservoir pond. Pictures of AutoCAD sketch and hand sketches are shown below, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the badge view. The size and the arrangement of the badges were adjusted and a scroll bar was added to the section of “Badges Earned Before Last Week”. It’s only visible when scrolling on that section. A button for the expand-window option was also added.

The pop-up full view of the badge history is now a work-in-process. Wen would like to do a modal pop-up, but got a “click child component to render parent component” error. In order to make it work, she re-organized all the badges-related React components. Wen still needs to do more research though to solve this. Some pictures of this work are below, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create four Highest Good Network icons and the icon for One Community’s insurance page and the earthdome loft construction tutorial. See below for pictures on how they relate to our global conservation model

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

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