Abundance Through Community Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #496

By forwarding abundance through community living models, we can decrease the amount of time invested in tasks we don’t enjoy and increase our time doing things we love. One Community is adding to this the ability to create positive global change and we’re developing open source and free-shared community teacher/demonstration hubs to lead the way.

• 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 (abundance through community living models) as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 25th, 2022 edition (#496) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Abundance Through Community Living Models
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding abundance through community living models through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about forwarding abundance through community living models: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village abundance through community living 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 creating the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. We added the last content and data for the Aircrete Article Resources, list of DIY videos, Summary and Frequently Asked Questions. This is also useful in forwarding abundance through community living models. Images below show some of this work.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 44th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued editing what she had previously bolded in her work last week. She made sure to rephrase sentences that were not clear enough in order to make the narrative easier to comprehend abundance through community living models.

This also meant altering other portions of the paragraph that were not bolded so that the new phrases sounded cohesive, and referring to previous resources to make these clarifications. As she noticed there were less bolded items towards the end of the section, she reread the subsections and added some comments where she believed necessary in forwarding abundance through community living models. Daniela was able to complete all general phrases she had noted needed changing, but left some of the comments that would need further work/research. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 27th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ‹â€¹This week Diwei Zhang wrote a chapter on septic tank design for the website page. The septic tank design includes six sections: wastewater flow, septic tank minimum effective capacity, British standard calculation for septic tank, types of septic tank materials, selection of septic tank, and location of the septic tank. Forwarding abundance through community living models is achievable by implementing designs. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 23rd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming focused on learning current technologies and trying to answer some basic questions about how much is needed to operate the machinery efficiently, what it can process, and how sustainable it is.

The current incinerator he’s been researching has a minimum design capacity of 200 tons / day (220 tpa). The seller claims it can process a wide variety of waste under high temperatures, first over 550C, then over 950C. This is way lower than temp for plasma gasification, thus, forwarding abundance through community living models. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 3rd week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. Such processes play a leading role in forwarding abundance through community living models. This week Mercy worked on writing the “Possibilities for creating businesses” section.

She provided recommendations in terms of technology, economic viability, and government incentives based on the DOE report. She also completed the comparison chart and ranked all the WTE options according to the criteria of high efficiency, sustainability, viability, and low tech barriers. She addressed feedback comments from Julia and rewrote some sections as well. See below for some pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about building abundance through community living models and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team worked on content for the Solar Microgrid webpage to promote abundance through community living models . This week we continued cleaning up the solar sizing spreadsheet by correcting the average daily electricity consumption, selecting proper comparisons, and removing irrelevant information. We discussed solar sizing with another engineer to understand units used in energy demand work and added details to the write up for the Solar Energy Infrastructure Setup and Maintenance Page. We also began prepping the new aircrete compression testing team’s One Community Volunteer Google Doc. This is important in forwarding abundance through community living models. See the pictures below.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 60th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis concluded the chemical automation research and submitted it for review. This included a summary of all the essential components needed in forwarding abundance through community living models; to verify the hot tub’s regulatory metrics with respect to chemicals. The chemicals cover total alkalinity, pH, total hardness and sanitation. The details about the chemicals used for making these adjustments have been included along with the detectors that can read these values; hence, forwarding abundance through community living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 49th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya kept working on updating the herb garden model as an abundance through community living models. She extended the roads around the old herb garden to match the current CAD drawing and replaced the fencing around the herb garden. Huiya also modified one leaf planter and the surrounding related little gardens. This also encourages abundance through community living modelsPictures of some of this work are below.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 48th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, to abundance through community living models. This week, Venus worked on the plans and section C_C. She completed sections c-c according to her supervisor’s feedback and updated the windows, server counters and columns, and added new lines to the plans according to the new updated plan. See pictures below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 44th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi discussed the landscape design from CAD to SketchUp. Previous landscape SketchUp models will need to go through a refining process to better fit the updated site details.

Tasks were divided and she worked on a water feature that connects the greywater processing to the greenhouse that keeps it from freezing. For a cascading effect, retaining walls were pulled up at varying elevations to create small waterfalls that provide pleasant visual and sound aesthetics. Forwarding abundance through community living models is worth achieving using the strategies outlined. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 14th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela started running the final renders for the bathroom as a way of forwarding abundance through community living models. She completed one and started a second one. She is done with the cost and drawings for the bed, but still needs to add it into the presentation. Gabriela also updated the cost analysis table with the items that changed in the bathroom. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 13th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica picked a new room to work on, Room number 3 themed “Sunrise Dream” and with a color palette of baby blue, pink, white, light gray, and lilac. She did research on ideas and references. Two options of layouts were developed to better understand the space and she started the 3D model. Thus, forwarding abundance through community living models. See below for some pictures of this work.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 4th week working on completing the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage. This week, Charles continued working on PDF comments. First he updated the alt tags for the images by adding keywords, then he moved text in the captions that was longer than a single line to the paragraph preceding the image. Next, he resolved the comment that captions should be moved back into the WordPress widget area except without the <center> tags.

It turns out that the tags were not needed and the captions were centered automatically. Charles resized Figures 1 & 2 to 320 px wide and put them side by side rather than one above the other. He reworded some headings and created anchor links to them. Charles also updated all the anchor links to be more descriptive. Reviewing the feedbacks and updating links is a way of forwarding abundance through community living models. See below for some pictures of this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the  abundance through community living models 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 detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week we continued addressing recipes with heavy sodium content, general sentence structure, and capitalizing Tbsp. We also reviewed the list of cooked staple foods that included recipes for dried beans, baked beans, brown rice, toasted walnuts, tomato paste, marinara sauce, stewed tomatoes, canned tomatoes, tomato puree, lentils, pumpkin pie spice, pasta, seasoning salt, roasted red peppers, chicken stock, vegetable stock, beef stock, hummus, and coconut milk. The food transitions encourages abundance through community living models Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also started creating the 3D SketchUp model for the animals and greywater processing area behind the Duplicable City Center. We set up the chicken coop, sheep barn, rabbitry and big greenhouse in the fenced area with two drive through 12′ gates, improve  abundance through community living models. See the picture below.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 22nd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to add already sourced and created recipes to the Second Week E and Second Week F menu blocks, factoring in the Vegan vs. Omnivore protein formats and making sure both omnivore and vegan proteins are easily swapped within meals. She saved protein recipes that cannot be used in one block and is working on putting them into other menu blocks. Promoting balance feeding habits promotes abundance through community living models. The pictures below relate to this work.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Personal Assistant to Jae) completed her 3rd week. This week, Julia added the vegan protein substitute ingredients with “(V&O)” to the “MasterRecipe” spreadsheet and updated the formatting accordingly as well as updating the formatting and links in the “MasterRecipeToDuplicate” sheet to match. In the “Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc” document, Julia went through recipe blocks FWA — SWD, adding the necessary V&O marker to these ingredients. She also began the review and management of the development of the research and content on the “Addressing Non-recyclables” document, to enhance abundance through community living models. Below are some images related to this work.

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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding abundance through community living models through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 of forwarding abundance through community living models. 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 of abundance through community living models 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

FOWARDING ABUNDANCE THROUGH  COMMUNITY LIVING MODELS

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also completed a significant block of work on new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software.

And the core team completed several more rounds of reviewing and giving feedback on the new overview videos Arthur is developing (see below).

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time working on Jason’s final PR, understanding it and resolving the merge conflicts. She also did some normal management work, fixing a small bug and a couple PR reviews. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera finished the pie charts on the people report page. She programmed a random color generator to create colors to display a large number of tasks on the tasks pie chart. She also tested the code and raised a PR. After that, Vera returned to the redesign of the project report page. She has completed a redesign of the filters in the task table and created a sub component to show instead of empty tables and lists. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan pushed three PRs and reviewed one this week. The first PR was for deactivating the User function (PR #187). The second PR (#514) was to improve the “set final day” button on the frontend. In the past, due to different timezone issues, sometimes it could not set a final day as tomorrow, but now it is available. As part of this PR, she also created a notification banner on the right corner to notify the user when a final day was set.

The third PR (#506) was to change the definition of the final day. In the past, it was the day the person finished, but now that is considered their final day of working. As for the review PR, she left some comments for Kaung. After the PR change, she will review it again, and if there aren’t any problems, she will approve it. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 8th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur worked on fixing all the unapproved videos by replying to requested changes. These included changes to: Global Strategy, Highest Good Housing, Duplicable City Center, and the What Is It video. The Duplicable City Center video was approved by Jae and is moving to final approval by the Management Team. Arthur also started working on the Highest Good Food and Highest Good Society videos. See pictures below for some of this developing work.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaung mainly worked on reviewing Yan’s PR for the deactivation function. He then rebased his team member tasks and time component to work on some fixes. There are 3 additional requests he’s addressing and the last request is takIng longer because he has to figure out how the sorting of users works within the team member tasks section. See pictures below for some of this work.

Hani Khellafi (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Hani continued learning about the technologies used in the HGN app by taking tutorials and reading their documentation online. The technologies in question are Circle CI (a continuous integration tool), and Jest, the testing tool used in the HGN app. During this second week, Hani also worked on fixing different code bugs and merge conflicts. He worked on fixing merge conflict in ek-task-edit-suggest (pr#497) and merge conflicts between the development branch and the main branch (pr#192). In addition, Hani reviewed the Implement time log-buttons PR #510 and Task auto refresh PR #513. Pictures below relate to this work.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce finished the orientation and completed all items on the on-boarding checklist. He reviewed 3 pull requests, read documentation related to the React design doc and began following the functional design doc, and tried to read its source code. He will continue to read the source code on React as well as the backend. Pictures below relate to this work.

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