Better Living Through Regenerative Communities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #403

We can achieve better living through regenerative communities. We can build more affordable, longer-lasting homes that don’t contain toxic materials. We can grow food that is more nutritious and safer because it is fresher and not sprayed with poisons. We can provide ourselves with sustainable energy sources that are more dependable and reduce our cost of living. We can experience more recreation and relaxation options, all free and within walking distance. We can create education programs that leverage a child’s strengths so they are both more fun and more effective.

One Community is developing the open source plans for regenerative-community teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate, share, and evolve all of these areas and more including better living through regenerative communities.

• 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 December 13th, 2020 edition (#403) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards better living through regenerative communities:

Better Living Through Regenerative Communities
One Community Progress Update #403

 

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 updated the Most Sustainable Toilets open source hub. This reflect the newly completed sustainability benchmarking of the main toilet providers, the and updates this research caused to a couple of the individual toilet rankings. Pictures below show some of this new content towards better living through regenerative communities.

The core team also generated more images for the Murphy bed showing details for placement of the latches, brackets, and hooks that secure the table and benches in the up position.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #205 of Dean’s work and the focus was final corrections needed to run the final renders of the Southeast and Southwest views shown below.

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 35th and final week as a member of the volunteer team as he now moves on to become a member of the core team. Alvaro continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options, researching PET reusability as a food container and adding more content to the doc.

He then moved on to a higher priority task, editing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials, and finished research on the most sustainable flooring. For this article he updated the table’s aesthetics, and started looking for images to create an infographic summarizing the article in one picture. Pictures below show some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched products and materials used to prevent water in pipes from freezing. The options found were traditional pipe insulation, barrel insulation, and heating tape. The traditional pipe fitting was the cheapest preventative, but was determined to not be sufficient for frigid environments.

The second option was completely insulating the 55 gallon barrels in an insulated bag designed for them, these could be strategically used on barrels with the most exposure. The last option was heating tape which is wrapped around the pipes to regulate their temperature. The drawback of the heating tape was the cost, but it may be feasible to utilize if placed on inlet and outlet pipes or other strategic places.

He also measured and recorded the ceiling and top barrel clearance in the Solid model. He began updating the Solid model to increase the clearance. The clearance is necessary to have the barrel filter accessible for cleaning and inspections. Diagrams of the fastener positions and separation distances were created on AutoCad. The diagrams were inserted into the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” as visual aids for the fastener installation.

Lastly Jose Luis updated the roof flash used on the roof access in the Solid model. The update was to improve accuracy of the flash installation. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 18th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey focused on finishing the electrical details, adding latches and springs, working on the components page, and cutting pages. She added a page turn icon that will lead a person to the next page but we discussed it and decided it is redundant and would require more ink if someone prints the instructions. She also continued updating text placement and spacing that needed to be updated after reviewing the full layout. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 such as the mission of better living through regenerative communities:

• 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 SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 24 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished the draft content for Consensus with Large Groups. We added anchors and links, and made sure formatting was consistent with other content already on the One Community’s website. We also improved the readability score by making sentences shorter, adding headings so content within a single heading was not too long, rewrote sentences to be in active rather than passive voice, and rewrote the beginning of many sentences to add variety.

You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities and all that remains now is to add the graphics and make replace the live-page content with all this new content.

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 41st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated all permissions for all the pages of the projects/WBS-import component: Projects, Members, WBS, and Tasks. He added a new feature for an Admin to copy a task, which will really save time whenever new tasks needing to be created are similar to existing tasks. He identified new bugs and made a plan to add a page like “Edit” for the popups, so an administrator can go to that page to modify all the text and labels on the website.

The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 28th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen began debugging for the new pushes of our MVP. She also did a code review for a pull request of the timer feature. She fixed a loading issue, as she found the deployed site kept sending unwanted web requests and never stopped.

After that was fixed, she found an error of missing source on the deployed dev site – all the badge images were blank, although they were added to the database and everything looked fine both on her and Chris’ local when Chris did the code review and test run before merging. There were several other errors on the deployed dev site too.

Wen checked the Sentry log, and the Heroku logs as well after getting permission to access the Heroku account. She was quite surprised it was not auto deployed on Heroku. The last deployment was in September. So she manually built and deployed the backend on Heroku hgn-rest-dev.

After the successful build and deployment, the badges showed up on the dev site. The 404 error on the wbs api that we had before was gone too, but a 400 error on the timer api and another 404 error were still there. She thought this was the end of the story but she was in the process of testing the new badge images and when she added the 5th, the whole app crashed suddenly, out of nowhere, even though she didn’t change any of the code.

All she was doing was adding images to the database. And then she checked the deployed dev site, and it was down too!! She ended her week there with a plan to fix these newly found errors starting the next week. Pictures of some of this work are below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team completed the additional requirements for the userprofile and completed the PR review of remaining comments. Now the admin can add collaboration preference and a Google Doc while creating a user.

Upon opening a user profile the collaboration preference will be displayed and can be edited. You can see pictures below for some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities. 

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 20th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the background color of different parts in the bar. She added number notifications to the first three badges and an exclamation to the bug report badge. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry changed the text editors for Add/Edit Task modals to use TinyMCE for the task info fields. He then created the backend route for querying time entries by specific user plus task. He also pulled in time entries for each user’s tasks in the frontend.

Pictures are below showing some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 17th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued to compare the different plans by looking at what they cover and the associated costs. She compared the benefits with their associated costs and is working on narrowing down which plan provides the best benefits at an efficient cost that also aligns with the objectives of the original task.

You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 13th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Jaime kept working on creating new designs for the badges for the badge section on the Dashboard of the HGN.

This week he completed the 40 hours streak badges and also kept working on finding ways to make the thumbnails better defined. Pictures of the updated badges are below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) joined the team and completed his first week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert became acquainted with the team and laid out the Highest Good Bench Mark Badges, completing much of the Highest Good Housing Badges. You can see pictures of these new designs and badges below reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped analyze a site performance drop that happened in July, doing several hours of research and then shooting 25 minutes of video to explain it all to us so we can implement some changes and see if we can fix this. The biggest change we’re implementing is restoring our social media share buttons to the website.

Below you can see some of the data he analyzed for us showcasing efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH REGENERATIVE COMMUNITIES – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by promoting better living through regenerative communities. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create by better living through regenerative communities. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible such as better living through regenerative communities.

Throughout our design process of better living through regenerative communities model we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more.

We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH REGENERATIVE COMMUNITIES – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for better living through regenerative communities. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living such as better living through regenerative communities.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH REGENERATIVE COMMUNITIES – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model of better living through regenerative communities is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies.

These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing better living through regenerative communities can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like better living through regenerative communities can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like better living through regenerative communities will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.

For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating better living through regenerative communities.