Designing a More Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #424

Humanity is capable of designing a more sustainable world. One Community is supporting this through open source, modular, sustainable 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 May 9th, 2021 edition (#424) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Designing a More Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #424

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing a more sustainable world 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

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing a more sustainable world 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 31st week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng did a final render of the outside walk through. She exported a HD version and archived all the files, including video, SketchUp model, and Lumion rendering file. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 29th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia deleted hot water pipe lines on the plans, placed hot water boilers by the consumer locations, added some floor traps, added sinks in the mechanical rooms, and added a vent pipe line for the kitchen. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 19th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian made the tabulation/summary of ideal process loads on the spreadsheet. The process loads must be identical to the proposed building.

The process loads must also be greater than 25% of baseline building energy cost (ASHRAE 90.1). Ian additionally revised (again) the ideal operation schedule of the building. We can use the same schedules of operation to compare the baseline and proposed building (except for energy efficiency features). Below are some images related to this work.

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David started the week holding a meeting with his team to receive an update on his team’s progress.

He had taken two weeks off to prepare for his PE exam. Once David received an update, he reviewed his team’s work and assigned action items for the week. David also went over drainage design with Daniela for the Earthbag Village, and researched and worked on preparing the drainage design tutorial following San Diego’s Drainage Design Manual guidelines. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on comparing various angle bracket options with different loads and varying numbers of holes. She also worked on comparison/analysis of DIY alternatives and material procurement options and the final conclusion.

Sunitha completed most parts of the documentation and is waiting for the next round of review. The pictures below relate to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis was finishing up the final touches on his report for the City Center Natural Pool and Spa web page heat transfer details.

This consisted of making adjustments to the formatting, finalizing calculations, and getting the teams approval. Luis will continue his work by selecting parts for the hot tub center and begin helping the solar design team with their budgeting and research. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 6th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. During this week, Daniela had a meeting with David for updates of the past three weeks. She also designed the basement grading plans of the one of the Duplicable City Center domes.

This includes the 40 foot ramp and an offset of 4 feet. Daniela also gathered information and researched the roadways and pathways for both the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village. Decomposed granite, porous asphalt and Portland Cement Concrete were chosen as the most viable materials for the project sites.

In addition, Daniela and David met to discuss a drainage design run through of the Duplicable City Center basement. It was then decided that the grading design would need to be altered due to the shape of the basement. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week he continued work on the hot tub frame and cover design.

He modeled the frame, cover and drainage systems and possible ideas for the cover design. Rushabh also completed the full assembly of the parts, and also started thinking about the modifications for his model to incorporate the piping, drainage and other hardware. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol worked on editing formatting and adding details into previous sections after they were reviewed by 4 other members of the team.

These included Rubberized Hot Mixed Asphalt Gap Graded, Asphalt Road Advantages, and Roller Compacted Concrete. She also did research and started writing the “Easement Access to Property”, “Alternatives to Salt for Roadway”, and “General Bikeway Criteria (Design Considerations)” sections.

In addition, Carol researched roadway costs and started creating Google sheets for the initial costs and annual maintenance costs. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing a more sustainable world 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

No work was completed on the Highest Good food component this week.

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing a more sustainable world 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

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing a more sustainable world 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.

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on adding the filter buttons on the project reporting page. She added the users, classification, priority, status, active, and assignment dropdown buttons where the options are dynamic based on all the tasks for the project.

Yueru also added a collapse button on the Resources column, so the users don’t have to scroll unless they use the button to expand all the resources there. Next week, she will add the edit button and make the filters button work in the project reporting page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 14th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. The badges he is creating are for the 7 primary components of our project. This week Robert’s focus was on finishing the badge shown below that represents 1000 hours contributed to the core component of “Stewardship”.

Mike Suarez (Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Mike started adding unit tests around the reducers area where he increased the test coverage from 42.63% to 73.67%. He made his first pull request and approved 3 pull requests.

One of the pull requests had several test fixes, although we still have failing tests. The overall numbers went from 62 failures to 17 and the passing tests went from 396 to 531. Next week Mike will focus on fixing as many of those 17 broken tests as possible. The overall coverage increased from 42.69% to 49.17%. The pictures below are related to this work.

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