Abundance Through Open Source Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #472

Let’s create abundance through open source sustainability. Not just for us, but for everyone. One Community is creating the plans to do this through self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs built with open source and free-shared and “Highest Good” 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

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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 April 10th, 2022 edition (#472) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Abundance Through Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #472

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating abundance through open source sustainability 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 looked for and found another free photo editor program online and continued making the table to use in the final reporting of the aircrete compression testing findings to date. We also prepared an outline for the compression testing team to follow for writing up results and findings, as well as met with Dr. Bai and Rhonda to discuss future teams of students to continue the aircrete and stabilized earth efforts and prepped mini-experiments for future groups of students for Dr. Bai to review and consider.

We also connected Frank (a previous volunteer) and Dave, a new volunteer, and coordinated a transfer of knowledge between Frank and Dave, so Dave could continue where Frank left off with the Solar Sizing and HVAC work, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 89th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued the development and analysis of the Net-Zero Bathroom rain barrel support structure. He determined the 2 unistrut support structure would warp after performing a buckling FEA. To compensate a third unistrut was added to redistribute the load.

After conducting an additional FEA analysis it was found that the 3 unistrut base was sufficient. He completed it by adding a third unisturt to each base of the entire structure. Jose Luis will add it to the main rendering to see if the barrel plumbing needs to be reoriented, due to the dimensional changes of the structure, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 69th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to make graphic updates to the wood cutting pages and the page layouts. These updates are a continuation of the comments received to make the overall look more accurate for screw sizes and scale of the various wood pieces. The new renders and images are also being added and when we are finished with this version, we can make sure the renders are all necessary and consistently displayed graphically, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 28th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team finished compression testing the concrete and aircrete cylinders that cured for 4 weeks. On the day of compression testing, the team weighted all the cylinders, took pictures, and recorded all the data for the final test cylinders for this phase of the project.

Compared to the first compression testing day, the concrete cylinder was able to reach 4000 psi by four weeks of curing and the aircrete cylinders had an increase of compressive strength over time, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 3rd 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 collected detailed information about the Cogent HelioStorm Ionic Gastrifier and Frontline Waste System (GEN-H, GEN-E). The purpose is to compare their suitability based on cost-effectiveness, size, mobility, amount of power generated, and economic externalities for small community non-recyclable waste processing.

Though Ming tried to call a representative to gather more information and no one answered, information was still collected from their official websites and news reports. Ming also started to summarize all information for the final tutorial, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating abundance through open source sustainability 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 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 45th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued his updates of the City Center Spa Design Website documentation updates. This included the updating and creation of calculators in Google Sheets to show the total head loss experienced by different plumbing systems for both air and water. This calculation has allowed the team to understand the energy losses due to friction and could provide insight for future optimization.

Luis has also started working with Diwei, the team’s newest member, to verify design layouts and verify calculations for the system, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 31st week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week Carlos did final cleanup and exported all the AutoCAD files for final feedback, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below show the exports.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 31st week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week venus completed section G_G and started section H_H. She added new furniture, new walls and new columns and changed the position of some columns and walls to match the updated floor plans, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 28th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. She updated the section of the north vehicle entrance to the basement space and the floor plan of this area on the landscape drawings. Xuanji also continued making the roof model, including some development in the SketchUp model, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 26th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya continued to work on the window and door updates. She finished modifying the Window 6 detail drawing in CAD, and fixing the window sizes and types on the CAD floor plans. Huiya also finished updating all the windows in the living dome in the SketchUp model, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 23rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi finalized door selection through feedback and additional research. Through discussion and design consideration, doors were further selected based on aesthetic needs (especially reception vs general use), visual choices indicating importance and safety measures, thermal performance, and weather conditions. After selection, a series of folders containing door elevation, sections, sustainability information, hardware consideration, and ADA were created, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on fine tuning the thickness of the brackets to get more accurate results and fixed some simulation errors from the previous week. He also made changes to the system using feedback from these results. Raj found that the system is now not failing under the loading conditions, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. This week Diwei finished the modeling of the hot tub. He designed the waterfall frame at the corner between the hot tub and the mechanical room. Illustrations with and without labels showing the design of the hot tub and the waterfall were created. Additionally, the flow rate and head of the plumbing system were determined. Then, based on that information, the sizes of the pumps and the motor were calculated. Diwei also began checking the previous calculations, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week of work on the Duplicable City Center and other area’s energy needs analysis. This week, Dave was welcomed and introduced to the system by Jae and Sangam. He had a meeting with Frank and Sangam on zoom and was brought up to speed on the existing work of the projects. Dave looked for reliable sources for power draws of resorts, but didn’t find any.

He reviewed the Solar Sizing spreadsheet carefully and relevant documents in order to validate data. He also thoroughly reviewed the HVAC systems for the Tropical Atrium and Walipini/Aquapinis and added notes on data needed for updating, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating abundance through open source sustainability 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 review for grammar, punctuation, and other edits for all instructions on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document up through page 142. The T&G door was also decided to be replaced with a plywood door and will no longer require the biscuit joiner, gluing and clamping. This will save significant labor and construction of the door. Pictures of some of this work are below.  Helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability.

A different core team member also continued working on updates for Chicken Coop Assembly Instructions. They updated images and instructions related to the new design of the entry door. The same team member also worked with the Transition Kitchen SketchUp model to model the new layout design for the kitchen using the appliances spreadsheet and applying proper dimensions for all items, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability.

Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 22nd week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian interviewed and hired Chef Saba. Chef Marilyn contributed some ideas for the inventory and build of the transitional kitchen that Brian reviewed and he also tested out a bone broth recipe and wrote a new recipe.

After analyzing the three-day plan, Brian thinks we can only design the menu prep plan for the kitchen based on the conversions in the prep. The ordering sheet can also provide prep for the week and determine batch sizes for grains, legumes and root vegetables, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Below are some images related to this.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 20th week helping with web design. This week Yuran continued updating and adding content to the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Hub staging page. She checked the contents between the page and the Google Doc, added links to the content, checked formatting, and added images, videos and linked tables to the page, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 13th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and content creation for the Permaculture Design case study section. This week, Maya continued integrating information from the Final Design Exercise document onto the Permaculture Page Content document. This consisted of reading, editing, and formatting information from sections on the FDE that had some duplicate information. She made sure that only additional details that had not been added yet were transferred to the Permaculture document.

She also began writing content for a new section of the case study, the “Permaculture Implementation Process” section. Maya added links to corresponding content that she will transfer to the live page when she begins transferring the drafted format onto the webpage, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. The pictures below are related to this work.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 8th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on a Master Food List in a spreadsheet format. He attached a comment for Jae and Brian to check out later, and hopefully Brian can add on prices. This list is from the previous list of acceptable or approved food items.

Adam also reviewed already made lumber lists and tried to figure out how other sheets were connected to the lumber pricing list so we can apply it to recipes and the master food list, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started with reviewing and suggesting a list of kitchen equipment for the kitchen equipment plan. She then continued recipe development and menu planning by researching a few recipes that would work with the selected food ingredients for our 2 month meal plan, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating abundance through open source sustainability 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, Adolph Karubanga (PMP® and Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. In line with the project implementation proposal and the task objectives, Adolph started the week by thoroughly reviewing additional documents shared with him. He then completed a detailed structural analysis and verification of the roof structure. The parameters focused-on included; wind, snow and earthquake load. However, while correlating the detailed data for design, he encountered an issue on roofing material and thus sought clarification.

From the detail section of the previous drawings, the following were highlighted as roofing materials, (for Top cord): (1) Polystyrene, (2) Sheathing, (3) Waterproofing membrane, (4) Foamed-in-place lightweight cement insulation, and (5) Gypsum boards. There seemed to be a duplication of material purpose (insulation), for all the above and Polystyrene deviates from the design intent – so he was directed to our sustainable insulation research to update the insulation plan.

Also, in consideration of Fire safety, Adolph realized that the side door was shielded by the adjacent wall. Adolph suggested modifying the drawing by removing the wall adjacent to the side door in order to increase the safety factor, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating abundance through open source sustainability 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 17 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel finished refactoring the TeamMemberTasks component and pushed the code to the repository, opening a PR on the frontend (#383) and another on the backend (#132). During this week he also had several calls with other developers, helping them find the best solution for their problems. Miguel also refactored the logout button, making it a better experience for the user, with a modal instead of an alert (PR #384). Helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Inside of Dashboard (functional parent component), a function toggle() changes popup from true to false and vice versa. The child component (WeeklySummary) has handleSave() which takes the Click event and should toggle the popup off. Elyse added onHandleSave={toggle} but it’s not working so she’ll come back to it later. Elyse also went on the remove the “Search for Time Zone” feature in the Basic Information section and raised the pull request (#385). Helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

 

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun set up her HGN app locally and tested it to work well. She then reviewed Miguel’s two PRs, running and manually testing them. She approved the one without further issues and commented on the other one and then marked it as “needs more work”.

Yiyun also picked a bug – “replace the window.confirm() with Modal”. To fix this, she read related tutorial articles and videos, then made a bunch of changes to the code that didn’t work, so she’s still working on this, helped in taking steps towards creating abundance through open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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