One CommunityExperiential Social Change – One Community Weekly Progress Update #396
It’s time for experiential social change. Rather than tell people we need a sustainable planet, let’s provide an experience of living that is better than how most people are living right now because it is built on a foundation of sustainable principles. Let’s give people the experience of a better way of living, and open source and free-share the path to replicating it. One Community is doing this and we call it living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”
- 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 October 25th, 2020 edition (#396) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Experiential Social Change
One Community Progress Update #396
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is designing experiential social change 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:
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- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models on how they relate to experiential social change: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
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This week Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 29th week as a member of the team and finished the Best Small and Large-scale Community Glass Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial and submitted it for final review. This included finishing text editing, adding final web images, and backing up all the resources from this article. He also created a GoogleDoc with suggestions for how this article could be improved by doing additional research.
After finishing that, he decided to continue his research on how to do the web page creation process even faster. Using Visual Studio Replace Rules has its limits because they cannot handle complex variables, can’t do other types of processing where code would be needed, nor image transformation or SEO related tasks. With this in mind, Alvaro read some Google Doc scripts and added on documentation to check if they could provide a better way. Below are pictures of some of his work, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Community Glass Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial ” Click for Page
Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued updating the Net-Zero Bathroom Solid Works file to coincide with the AutoCAD document. He finished rearranging the plumbing due to the rearrangement of the bathroom fixtures.
He created and added doors to the structure and updated both the exterior and interior roof to be consistent with the materials chosen on the cost analysis spreadsheet. The roof material chosen on the materials list was corrugated steel, so Jose Luis also updated the renders of the roof panels to be a corrugated steel design instead of the flat panel design used prior to the update. Pictures are below for this work, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village ” Click for Page
Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 12th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Using a new updated drawing for the bed frame, she focused on replacing a lot of incorrect sizes and making sure it fits together. Trying to make everything as realistic as possible by showing the correct cut outs for outlets and electric. We’re getting closer to finishing the bed frame and starting the canopy. Stacey will be starting the back side of the wall next week. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Replacing Incorrect Sizes and Making Sure the Murhpy Bed Frame Fits Together ” Click for Page
Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 10th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by working on the excavation section. She rewrote DIY content and updated CAD drawings to reflect current designs. Hannah also worked on the general design of the footer and foundation, and began to work on the tools that will be used to insert and place nails between the earthbag layers, in lieu of barbed wire. You can see some screenshots of this work below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Rewrote DIY Content and Updated CAD Drawings to Reflect Current Designs – Click for Page
Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week, Jingwei focused on modifying the planting plan and SketchUp models. The main task is matching the model with the planting plan and refining them together to be more cohesive. She also completed further research on the site and related videos. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Focused on Modifying the Planting Plan and SketchUp Models – Click for Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is designing experiential social change 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:
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- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
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This week Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on changing the pipe sizes for the basement and first floor. It is important to note that these pipe size changes are temporary and as per Pipe Schedule Method in NFPA. The Pipe sizes are subject to change after running of hydraulic calculations. You can see some of this work below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Focused on Changing the Pipe Sizes for the Basement and First Floor – Click for Page
Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng continued development of the SketchUp model for the interior walkthrough, adding all the corrections in the master model and fixing the detail problems found in the video, like entrance door and second floor materials, then importing the updated model into Lumion for further modification and rendering. You can see some of this work below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Continued Development of the SketchUp Model for the Interior Walkthrough – Click for Page
Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 4rd week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy re-opened the Sustainable Flooring Document and research process. She made some edits and changes based on some suggestions from the core team. She also did some more proof-reading of the document, and researched and wrote a section for virgin hardwood flooring. Lindy also continued some (brief) research for the non-recyclables tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Re-opened the Sustainable Flooring Document and Research Process – Click for Page
Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) also completed another week helping with the sustainability benchmarking for Toilet, Urinal, and Hand Dryer manufacturers. This week’s focus was a couple more hours contributed to benchmarking the Hand Dryer companies. You can see some of this work below onhow they relate to experiential social change.
Continued Sustainability Benchmarking the Hand Dryer Companies – Click for Page
Enrique “Ricky” Sara Cueto (Civil Engineering Student) also completed his 2nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week Enrique completed the initial design for the stormwater drainage system. The initial pipe network and design velocity calculations were also completed. You can see some of this work below onhow they relate to experiential social change.
Completed the Initial Design for the Stormwater Drainage System – Click for Water Catchment Page
Maria Fernanda Urdaneta (Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed her first week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week was spent researching natural greywater processing. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Ground-based Components of City Center Water Catchment Design – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is designing experiential social change 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:
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- Learn about the structures onhow they relate to experiential social change: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
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This week the core team began work on the Transition Kitchen final updates and assembly instructions. This week we drew the foundation outlines, researched spacing for deck concrete blocks and determined we have to use pier posts for the foundation, pressure-treated 2″x6″ or 2″x8″ deck joists, and post sizes of 6″ by 8″ which we’ll create using two 4″x6″ rough-cut treated posts that are bolted together. Pictures of this work are below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Began Work on the Transition Kitchen Final Updates and Assembly Instructions – Click for Page
Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 4th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated all interior landscape design in all structures: Walipini #1, Walipini #2, Walipini #3, Large aquapini, Zen aquapini#1, Zen aquapini#2. She also finished all renderings in PhotoShop. She has begun working on the models in Rhino. Additionally, she has established the comprehensive outdoor landscape design around these structures. Jiayu researched many ideas for the outdoor recreational activity areas.
She has established a series of outdoor recreational programs in this project. For example, an open space for an outdoor sitting area with a coffee shop, outdoor learning spaces about the stormwater system for kids and other participants, forest-themed playground for kids, outdoor dining spaces for multi-function (etc: wedding event), little hillsides for the playground, sports area, and different kinds of gardens. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Helping with the Aquapini & Walipini Internal And External Landscaping Details – Click for Page
Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry focused on researching 3D modeling and simulation techniques and applying what he learned. He also researched and made recommendations for the structural integrity of the aquapini/walipini roof. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Focused on Researching 3D Modeling and Simulation Techniques – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page
Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana tested a new analytical solution that incorporated radiation and developed the MATLAB code. This method demonstrated potential to work for our system. Pictures below show the analytical solution has the same shape as that of the data collected by Scan Data.
After reading the article “Numerical Analysis for ground variation”, Diana understood that incorporation emissivity into the analytical solution would help decrease this difference in temperature. This led her to develop a new analytical solution that incorporated both solar radiation and emissivity. She developed the MATLAB code for this new solution and changed h, the heat convection coefficient, to be a function of velocity. Diana constructed a new analytical solution, to which she will find a new value for deltaR and compare this new analytical solution to the Scan data once more. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Incorporated Radiation and Developed the Matlab Code – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page
Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 2nd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily focused on conducting the literature review of length of tubes for the energy (heat) exchanger in the climate battery designs and other related parameters which could be useful in the final mathematical model. You can see pictures related to this research below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Literature Review of Length of Tubes for the Energy (Heat) Exchanger – Click for Page
Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 2nd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes found that the suggested distance between pipes is 9-12 inches, however, he is still trying to find if there is an optimal distance that reduces the amount of heat transferred to the pipes. He also worked to better understand the Matlab code and heat transfer. You can see below some pictures related to this work on how they relate to experiential social change.
Continued Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is designing experiential social change 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 on how they relate to experiential social change: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together to facilitate experiential social change: 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 18th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week she finished the final layout based on core team feedback and submitted it for final review. Pictures below show some of these final updated pages, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Finished Final Layout Based on Core Team Feedback and Submitted it for Final Review – Click for Page
Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 17th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei has finished rendering the entire walkthrough video, modified the diagrams in the final layout, and collected information for cost analysis. She then uploaded the final updated autoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion file, final walkthrough video and final layout for final review. See below for pictures on how they relate to experiential social change.
Finished Rendering the Entire Walkthrough Video – Click for the Ultimate Classroom
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is designing experiential social change 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:
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- Read the Highest Good society overview onhow they relate to experiential social change: 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
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This week the core team completed 29 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, and volunteer-work review and collaboration.
The core team also returned to working on the large-scale consensus content. We edited previous content for the Why and What sections and expanded the details of the content describing consensus for larger groups. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Returned to Working on the Large-scale Consensus Content – Click for Page
Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 36th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry merged the code from our team to his code and fixed all conflicts so we have a newest version working in the app. This included Jerry’s code that added 3-fields for tasks. He also fixed the problem with the resources, where there were some people who were not available in the database. Some related imagery for this work can be seen below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Fixed All Conflicts So We Have a Newest Version Working – Click for Highest Good Network
Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 27th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to US television stations. You can see below the list of the ones he contacted this week and a version of the press release he is sharing on how they relate to experiential social change.
Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Us Television Stations ” Click for Page
TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 20th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team has been working on the functional specification documentation and the azure migration troubleshooting. Both are in progress and expected to be completed in a couple of days. Also fixed a defect in the team assignment area. Pictures of this new functionality are below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Functional Specification Documentation and the Azure Migration Troubleshooting – Click for Page
Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 22nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week was basically a week of trial and error for Wen. The purpose was to test the badge images on small screens (browser on mobile phone and ipad as well). She did some research and figured out how to test UI on small screens, then ran the local server on her laptop, and tried to log in from her iPhone and iPad, both got “unexpected error”.
She could not log in even from another pc. She spent several hours debugging around the code base. As the login and auth related code were written by others, it was difficult for her to debug because she had to first read the code, understand what the code is doing, then find the place where something might be changed. Wen also tried a few solutions other developers posted online, but unfortunately none of them worked. Some pictures are below of this work, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jerry made it so task notifications are shown in the UI by users clicking on the notification icon. Task notification info differences are currently shown purely in JSON form, work will be done next on making it easier to read. Additionally, he suggested improvements such as moving bell notification icons to being beside tasks and improving color contrast will be done next week. Pictures are below showing some of this work, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Made It So Task Notifications Are Shown in the UI by Users Clicking – Click for Highest Good Network
Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun first added the new ‘Weekly Commitment’ feature as requested in the ‘Volunteering Tab’ under UserProfile component. He then reviewed a pull request from Nithesh for the Teams and Projects feature in the UserProfile component. He took where Nithesh left off and started to merge these two features into his new UserProfile design. He successfully added these two features in UserProfile and started to work on the unit-tests for the new UserProfile component. You can see some of this work below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on implementing the Leaderboard component progress bars for both the organization and individual team members as well as the green/red dot indicator for whether a volunteer has met their committed time expectations. An information modal for the leaderboard was also implemented as well as changes to the design to allow Mobile to look good on a single screen. Chris also reviewed a Pull Request dealing with the User Profile page. Pictures related to this work are below, see how they relate to experiential social change.
Worked on Implementing the Leaderboard Component Progress Bars – Click for Highest Good Network
Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 6th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #415, #416, #417, #418 and #419. You can see these newly created images below on how they relate to experiential social change.
Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #415, #416, #417, #418 and #419 – Click for Blog Page
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