Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Imagine what we can accomplish by building open source sustainable cities. We can create cities that are healthier, more fun to live in, more productive, durable, affordable and safer. One Community is creating the open source plans to establish DIY versions of these that will function as the teacher/demonstration hubs needed for global implementation and expansion.

• 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why building open source sustainable cities is important. 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. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of why building open source sustainable cities is important and showcase what is possible.

Throughout our design process 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 that answers why building open source sustainable cities is important. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. 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.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that explains why building open source sustainable cities is important. 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 this 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 this 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 this will contribute to the question of why building open source sustainable cities is important, positively affecting 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 this.

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 January 31st, 2021 edition (#410) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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 continued review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. We researched galvanized flashing thicknesses to determine availability and feasible for covering the interior perimeter foundation insulation in the aircrete/earthbag domes. We also reviewed and researched new work in sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 regarding slope drainage and how it relates to soil types. Pictures below show some of this work.

The core team also finished building the Loft frame for Earthbag Village  domes according to the latest updated AutoCAD. Updates were related to the spacing between two middle joists, and changes to the overhead storage-entrance opening.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #212 of Dean’s work and the focus was modeling the ceiling-mounted TV in the up position and adding the imagery to it.

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan to coincide with the roof access updates in the Solid Works rendering. The updates included step-by-step diagrams of the roof saddle rafts construction. The rafts are cut at compound angles, but by breaking it down the process was simplified. The OBD sheathing was updated to include dimensions on where the flat head screws were to be installed.

The roof saddle flash had to be updated as well to take into account the peak that is formed from the contact of the two pieces of OBD sheathing touching. The original flash that was over the peak had to be cut into two separate pieces with one of the cuts being angled to take into account the ending slope. More dimensions were added to the remaining diagrams to have more descriptive illustrations. With the completed updates, he then added more diagrams to the roof access flash installation section of the tutorial. He included descriptive instructions under the majority of the diagrams and completed the draft of the section. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 25th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on working on updating the components page. There are screws and nails and other parts that were not included in the assembly for the installation of some of the components. Some parts might come with their own screws and some we might need to add specialty lengths to the list just for those items.

Realizing there are a lot more pieces than had been laid out before in the draft, Stacey is revisiting the links and getting new images to remake the page – making sure to list out the pages where the items are being used and also adding descriptions where needed. Pictures below are related to this latest progress.

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 23rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by revising the loft design process and continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She revised the loft design process to include more narrative and imagery.

She also continued to analyze different options for interior floor trimming, finished the initial draft of Section 4 (Footer Construction) in the FFF doc, and eliminated Section 5 (Compass Installation) of the FFF doc to combine its information with relevant info in Section 3 (Centerpoint Re-Establishment) of the document. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark finished the table to the temporary parking lot and made his recommendation. He also made corrections to his original parking lot design. In addition to this he did research on drainage design, walkway design, and roadway design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 3rd week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson edited the section from the last two weeks with a better format and strikethroughs for the unnecessary details. He finished the explanation of new sections: ” Soil Characteristics”, “Climate”, and “Existing Pavement Type and Condition”.

He also introduced the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS), California R-value, engineering alternatives for expansive soils, the map of California pavement climate regions, and the consideration for reviewing existing pavement type and condition. The pictures below show some of this work.

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 2nd week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente worked on the creation of a spreadsheet to assess the energy balance and solar system size. Preliminary calculations have been made with the support of the online software PVgis and complementary calculations by SAM (downloadable energy simulation software developed by NREL). Other support software was identified and the action plan has been updated including a section for the legal and economic aspects. Pictures below show some of this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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 worked with Uponor to identify the best locations for the City Center HVAC radiant floor.

The core team also made planting updates for the area around the City Center.

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 22nd week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela implemented requested edits from last week to her lightbulb tutorial and added pictures to the product descriptions. She created a written list of the best lightbulbs and added in an explanation of her ranking. Then, she continued to work on the non-recyclables tutorial, adding in images and video links. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. She spent this week researching hydraulic calculations and plumbing design details for the 3rd floor bathrooms. Pictures below show some of this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Based on feedback, Qiuheng revised the planting plan and planting list and continued to work on the 3D model. She added in all the canopy layers, as shown below. Below are some images showing her work.

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 12th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy finished some edits for e-waste and construction waste, and researched adding a universal waste category, which would combine two of the current categories and add some more specificity. We now know we’d like to have a better and more concise category for goods containing common but hazardous materials. Pictures below are related to this work.

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 8th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian revised the construction appearance of the entrance and revised the dormer windows to the latest design and updated the material data of it for energy modeling. Ian also arranged all the site data of the windows and doors considering the quality and the affordability of it without compromising the total energy savings of the building. Progress photos are below.

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 4th week as a member of the team and now focusing on the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week’s focus was the gutter and downspout design. Haozhen Worked on researching our state drainage code and precipitation and then selected proper downspout to attach with the 6″ K-style gutter. He then created a 3D detailed part in DWG format. The fascia and soffit design was also created in a 3D DWG file format. Unrelated to this, he also helped with some research on the thermal diffusivity and absorptivity for different soil properties. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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 SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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 23 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 completed our nonprofit tax filing process.

And a detailed review and initial formatting of the One Community’s insurance options research.

The core team additionally completed our 7th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we began reviewing the values of Community and Sustainability. The introduction to the Sustainability page was re-written and anchor and other formatting was fixed. WE also wrote an additional FAQ for the value of Consensus explaining how traditional and consensus voting are different. In preparation for adequately reviewing and improving the value of Community, one of our team members also re-read and typed up notes from Scott Peck’s book “The Different Drum” to include within the Community content. Pictures below show some of this work.

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 35th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the auto suggestion for the names when assigning badges. This function was completed so that we can see a dropdown list including all the names of “ACTIVE” users when filling in name forms. Pictures of some of this work are below.

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team completed the default password change and the option for the administrator to reset the password of a user inside the user profile. Upon clicking the Update Password button a popup shall open up which asks for a new password and confirms it, clicking “Reset Password” will update the password of that particular user. Pictures below are related to this work.

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 24th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor formatted some of the notes on her research by adding definitions to the key terms of what is most important to understanding the goals of this research project. She also began adding to a FAQ section. Furthermore, she made edits to her previous work by elaborating on how to become a self-insured employer as well as gave an overview of the process used in choosing plans as well as the selection criteria. Pictures below show some of this work.

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on getting the emails successfully sent for Weekly Summaries and infringements. Chris helped fill in new member Vy Dao on what was completed as far as Unit Testing for the different components and his process for doing Pull Requests. Chris also took a look at having Admins be able to click the red/green button on the leaderboard and see a different users dashboard, something that may require a couple of weeks to implement across all of the dashboard components. Then he fixed a color issue for the top of the dashboard. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 18th 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 he finished the X-hours-in-a-week badge group. He also organized the x-hours streak master files. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 8th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert finished the five badges for the Highest Good Society. Badges 100, 200, 400 600 and 10,000. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Vy Dao (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy spent a lot of time reading all of the documentation from the on-boarding orientation. After that he reviewed all of the different unit-testing files that we already have on our Github repo. He also discusses with Chris about how to work on Unit-testings and PRs reviews. He did review of 2 Pull Requests this week, making some changes to a few files for one of the Pull Requests. After the newest merge he found, for some reason, the yarn test coverage was not working anymore.

He believed this happens because some of the unit-testing files are too old and caused a JavaScript out of memory error. He then investigated all of the old unit-testing files, especially under the UserManagement folder such as: NewUserPopup.test.js and USerProfileModal.test.js. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software.This week Yueru began development of the initial reporting filter page by completing project, person, and team tables. Each project, person and team table can render the options dynamically in real time. All three categories have 3 filter options available: active, inactive, and all. For projects, users have more filter options like data priority level etc. Showing all the options in table layout makes it easier for people to view all the options compared with the dropdown list used in the Ember/current app version. Pictures below are related to this work.

SUMMARY – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

 

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