Creating global cooperatives developing and evolving open source and free-shared sustainability plans for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc. is a path to a sustainable planet that will benefit humanity and all life. One Community calls this 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 February 20th, 2022 edition (#465) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Global Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #465

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 researched tools and materials items for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) domes, identifying proper photos without copyrights. We also wrote up an explanation for the WWF jig, a tarp cut to size to utilize as a pattern for creating, with bolt cutters, a circle from a square to fit the dome floors. The same team member also edited pages 63-90 of the chicken coop assembly doc, providing comments to existing SketchUp drawings and relocating all paragraphs within these pages to the tops of the photos instead of the bottoms.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 64th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on updating several of the lumber cutting pages. She is adding the measurements and making sure all the boards and cutting places are spaced evenly and uniform throughout. The colors are also being revised on the plywood to match the coding system. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 33rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela primarily focused on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report. She continued to read through the narrative currently posted on the website and was able to complete the reading by the end of the week. She wrote down comments on a separate document in order to ensure the changes suggested were necessary and did not interfere with one another. Daniela made sure that all links provided properly worked and made a small change to the roadways excel sheet. Additionally, Daniela reviewed all new comments posted for the documents she has been working on. Next week she plans to start off by commenting her notes/suggestions on to the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot Report. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 82nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the design of the rain barrel support structure for the Net-zero Bathroom. Based on availability, simplicity and longevity, unistrut channels were selected as the primary component to support the rain barrels. The unistruts were found in two types, one with slots on one face and the other with 9/16″ fastener holes on three sides. Jose Luis began comparing both types in terms of performance and cost by rendering them and running them through a static load simulation. Both unistruts displayed similar results in terms of strain and principal stresses, but the unistrut with fastener holes displayed more stress concentrations than the slotted unistrut. He then began researching different unistrut fittings to compare the effect they have on the performance and costs. The pictures below show some of this work.

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 22nd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week they worked on getting the instructions, materials, additional volunteer guidance, and work plan for the pre-run cylinders. The team had several meetings to discuss the overall objectives for the week, a meeting with their on-site supervisor to discuss the lab room access for the weekend and the amount of cylinders that will be stored in the lab room, and also a meeting with their One Community core team manager to discuss the plan for the pre-run cylinders. On Saturday the team picked up materials and made pre-run cylinders for concrete and light, standard, and heaviest aircrete. At the end of the pre-run cylinders, it was concluded that all the cylinders looked strong. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 20th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week he worked on the charging economics for electric vehicle installation. Shreyas has extensively researched and consolidated vital information on the different equipment required to set up charging stations, transformers, and the economics for the equipment. He has also continued to edit the document for picture alignment, clarity, and general proofreading. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 13th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page. This week Yuran added missing tools and updated the page with anchor links too. She also checked all the feedback and requested edits and the SEO at the bottom. Yuran then worked on updating the staging version of the Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal with the latest design content and feedback and added both pages to the webpage checking spreadsheet and checked all details there. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 started working with the Duplicable City Center 3D model to create the outer layer of the Living Dome with walls 12 3/8” thickness. The same team member also finished with the Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for the Sheep Barn according to the latest updates. She updated some labels and added the starting number of sheep and provided the maximum sheep capacity for the designed barn size. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 38th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on getting energy budget estimates for the City Center Spa design. The numbers were derived through the voltage and amperage requirements of each component in the system. Once these values were located, Luis was able to calculate the maximum wattage for the spa system. Through CAD simulations and heat transfer calculations, he will be able to update the energy usage of the spa for maximum and minimum daily requirements. This will all be completed simultaneously with the modification of the website documentation for the design justifications. Pictures below are related to this work.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 33rd week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on the energy demand for the City Center. He reviewed the energy input and checked for differences between the actual numbers and the ones presented in the energy balance spreadsheet. The City Center items are now double-checked, with the exception of the pump and spa. The pictures below relate to this.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 30th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the section G_G. She added walls, columns and furniture according to the newest floor and basement plans. See pictures below.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 25th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week was more like a trial for Carlos. He spent a good amount of time testing and exporting the furniture, all with no problem exporting only the wood objects. However, when it came to the screws and mending plates the program just crashed over and over. Carlos successfully exported the chair, with all its components. He plans to ask a friend for a tip when exporting complex meshes like screws. The most complex of them all is the bed and wardrobe so once he achieves this goal it will save a lot of time. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the dormer and walls in the AutoCAD file since the diameter of domes became larger. She also updated the wall and dome sections, looked through the window detail, and worked on the elevations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 20th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she focused on fixing the size of the entrance doors on the first floor according to the door and window schedule, modeling the windows on the fourth floor according to the old SketchUp model, and using Rhino to model the railings on the fourth floor to match the interior design plan and then import them back to SketchUp. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 18th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team to discuss the open roof area on the Living Dome. It occurred to the team that roofing depth is typically deeper and requires more room on the top floor. As a result, it was determined that the 3D model required an actual measurement and the information was still missing. Yuxi continued to research the roofing details to determine the actual roof thickness. Based on the master plan and research, a few sketches were developed and will serve as discussion material for next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on adding the 2-bracket layered assembly and the 3-bracket layered assembly. He also added the center ring to the angled beams and performed Finite Element Analysis on each of these models to check the maximum stresses on the V brackets. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 edited and consolidated the Aquapini & Walipini design document and website, reconciled comments and added new comments to continue improving the writeup, and updated the numbers for rainwater catchment, as well as external pond requirements. They also had their weekly meetings with the Compression Testing Team and the Center Hub Connector Team and reviewed and revised the Compression Testing Team’s experimental plan. The pictures below relate to this work.

And the core team worked on finishing our big Permaculture Design case study for our planned property. This week we added more planting plan details to the swales section, resized and replanned the tree planting plan around the City Center based on their actual average canopy size, and added other graphic details.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 72nd week volunteering, finishing her work with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng integrated final edit requests and exported all her files for integration into our website. Pictures below show the final files.

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 10th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 5 recipes: Beef Bolognese, Crispy Feta Tacos with Feta Slaw, Mongolian Beef and Broccoli, Butternut Squash Stew, and Southwest Sweet Potato Skillet. Anna continued creating her 2-week menu, assigned by Brian. So far she’s completed 3/4 of the menu, and is now filling in the gaps by developing new recipes. The pictures below relate to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 6th week helping with research and web design, now focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week, Maya continued proofreading the Open Source DIY Permaculture webpage. She added hyperlinks to a few sections where they were not added yet, made sure they had the necessary hover text and opened in the correct tab. Any outside sources, such as articles, were backed up to a dropbox folder in a PDF format. After proofreading most of the content on this webpage, she went back through to make sure that all of the media on the page was properly justified and had the right spacing. Any errors Maya found were fixed unless additional feedback was needed; in this case, she commented on the Permaculture Page Content Google Document and made changes based on the feedback. The pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 24 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. Pictures below show some of this.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) completed her 27th week, now working icon images for the Highest Good Network software. This week she focused on working on the last improvements/edits needed for the economics icons. Alex submitted the final version of icons number six and seven, and finalized and submitted for review icons number two, four, and five based on the feedback from the previous week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit worked on integrating suggestions from Jae into the visualizations component. He completed separating visualizations into pure components so that they are reusable across the application. This also made it possible to redraw the graphs without triggering a re-render. Rachit also made onClick functionality for visualizations work with the modal, and these are displaying extended information about the data point for right now. The pictures below relate to this work.

Irene Clare (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Irene downloaded the studio 3T IDE tool for MongoDB and completed the database setup. She also reviewed and approved a few PR’s and provided comments. Later Irene worked on the timer issue and debugged the functionality, reported her observations, and began working on structuring the reports page. The pictures below relate to this work.

Gary Almes (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and also completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Most of Gary’s time this week was spent getting up and running and getting familiar with the code. He created an account for himself on the Dev database using the app UI, but it gave him the role of Volunteer, and he didn’t realize that right away, so he wasn’t seeing all the Admin screens as he should. He also spent time watching Jerry’s (past software engineer) videos and is about halfway through them, and began making a Trello board to help him organize my thoughts on what needs to get done for the Management component. The pictures below relate to this work.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us test some new plugins to improve our web loading speeds. See pics below related to this.

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One Community welcomes Raj Patel to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Raj is a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. With the knowledge he gained from his degree, Raj seeks to help change the world by making it a better place for everyone to live. In his opinion, this is the best part of engineering and he joined the One Community team because our project resonates with his personal beliefs and desire for making a difference. Raj is working with One Community to solve the challenges of designing and using SolidWorks to test a DIY-replicable solution for connecting all the beams of the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RAJ!

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A working and DIY blueprint for an open source sustainable planet is a path to achieving one sooner. One Community is creating one to begin a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together to further develop, evolve, and diversify the blueprint and implementation process.

• 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

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 February 13th, 2022 edition (#464) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet
One Community Progress Update #464

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #240 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective.

Earthbag Village 4-Dome – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 63rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey worked on touching up the lumber cutting pages for the main wall pages. She is also going back and adding the lengths and cutting placements to all pages and also updating pages as needed to make all text larger, and increasing sizes of icons. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy Bed Instructions – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 32nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. Daniela started off the week by reading through new comments and feedback. Tugce suggested a change for the cost analysis excel sheet and provided an article to review. Daniela collected resources that would help Tugce visualize current projects and continued to read through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report, noting all needed edits. Lastly, Daniela reviewed and responded to more comments in the Aquapini and Walipini report, as well as editing the narrative and creating a new table. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Roadways – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 81st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began updating the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom to a more cost effective design.

He began by replacing the unistrut channel spring nuts with a standard washer and nut to reduce costs. The price of both the washers and nuts were searched online, being sure to put emphasis on them being hot dipped galvanized for increased durability in a humid environment. With that in place, he began analyzing the connections necessary to build the structure. He first tried common single 90 degree angle brackets, but found the lack of clearance for adjacent brackets to be installed.

To solve this problem, a wing shape fitting was used to support two adjacent unistrut channels simultaneously. After installing them with proper bolts, washers, and nuts, Jose Luis began designing a concept of the support base for the rain barrel. To confirm the reliability of the orientation, he will conduct a static analysis of the unistrut channel beams supporting the barrel. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom Component – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

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 20th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team had several meetings, received a new foam generator and, after doing a foam test between the new generator and the old generator, determined the newer generator results in a slight improvement for 7th Generation Soap foam.

The team decided that 7th Generation still did not perform as well as the Drexel foam and, moving forward, Drexel will be used to make the aircrete. They also tested finding the aircrete foam limit and determined that 85% foam is the highest foam limit that produces aircrete that keeps its integrity. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aircrete and Earthbag Testing – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 12th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page. This week Yuran checked all of the links from her supervisor that had equipment and/or tools to be added, then adding any that were missing to the Tools and Equipment page. She also fixed a broken table on that page and updated the Footer, Foundation and Flooring page with content from the Google Doc and anchor links from the Tools Page. Yuran checked the spreadsheet, images, and the format of the page too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Tools and Equipment – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit site

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 reviewed Raj’s writeup on the science behind a geodesic dome by providing feedback and editing the document, met with the Duplicable City Center Hub Connector team to discuss the center rod idea, and re-assigned Frank work on double checking the City Center energy estimates. The same team member had a weekly meeting with the Compression Testing Team and put together a new plan, and also continued to edit and merge the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini website and document. 

Duplicable City Center Hub – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 37th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued working on the documentation of the City Center Spa Area. He is working on converting existing documents into a presentable format for the website.

The primary focus for this week was incorporating another section for spa related items. The previous assumption was that the pool and spa would function on the same hardware, but with Luis’s research, it would be beneficial to have slightly different equipment that accomplishes the same task with a smaller volume target. Luis also met with Hyun-Young this week to further the heat transfer analysis simulations.

Lastly, he is working on developing the energy budget with the existing data and will look to transition to work more with the energy team in the near future. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Eco-Spa – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit site

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 32nd week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on checking the different equipment and items that are used in the energy balance sheet for the City Center. He read through equipment specifications and compared the energy needs to the information given in the excel sheet. Finally, he made changes to the energy balance. The pictures below relate to this.

Solar Micro grid Sizing – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 29th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus worked on section G_G. She added walls, columns and furniture according to the new plans. See pictures below.

Duplicable City Center – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the dormer in the AutoCAD file according to the diameter measured in the SketchUp model and detailed the wall section of the Dome and exported a SketchUp file with dome and ground floor only. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Lighting – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she focused on fixing the size of the entrance doors on the first floor, modifying the living dome shell according to the central walls, pushing the roof of the Living Dome to align with the height of the third floor, adding the floor slabs for the third and fourth floors, and modeling the rooms on third and fourth floors. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. George researched the design criteria for a geodesic dome. He collected materials on the analysis models and factors that go into design calculations and load calculations. He also discussed with team members how to calculate maximum loads and how to implement the center hub design with prestress using a metal tube at the center. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center Connectors – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to work on the Social Dome second floor updates. These included tapering the slab and openings, railings, furniture, and exterior walls.

The railing was found to have non-matching materials with the selected interior design. Furniture on the second floor needs to have further edits to improve the space layout too. Doors opening up to the atrium needed to be relocated inward to adjust for the concave clearance of the dome shape. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj fixed errors in his Solidworks assembly from last week by changing how the beams will be mated with each other. He also ran FEA to see whether the V bracket would still be effective if the beams were angled. He also experimented with different lengths of the bracket in the study. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik conducted research on the different loads acting on the hubs of the dome. He also calculated the loads that would act on each hub due to the self-weight and also calculated the wind load acting on the hub in the direction of the wind, while considering all the safety factors for a good hub design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Plane – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 finished updating the 3D SketchUp model of the Sheep barn. We updated all labels, added one big barn door, and redesigned the separation fence using cattle panels. We also updated the Cost Analysis Spreadsheet and provided DIY reference links for the feeder and lambing pens.

3D SketchUp Model – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

And the core team worked on researching swale plantings of trees, shrubs, grasses, forbs, pollinators, and bioaccumulators as it relates to whatever property we select and our current Permaculture Design tutorial. These will be further updated as we solidify our location and know for sure our climate, topography, hardiness zones, etc.

Permaculture Design – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit site

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 71st week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on finishing up the Aquapini and Walipini project. She edited the sun and shadow study videos to show the time of sunrise and sunset. She also organized all the files she has been working on and uploaded them to a shared folder for the other team members. Pictures below are related to this.

Aquapini & Walipini – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 9th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 2 recipes: Simple Chickpea Salad and Pumpkin Chili. Both of these recipes are ready to be reviewed. Anna then started the process of creating her own 2-week menu, as assigned by Brian. This is being completed on her excel sheet by arranging her recipes and coming up with new ones. The pictures below relate to this work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 5th week helping with research and web design, now focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week she backed up any additional external sources (that had not been backed up yet) to a Dropbox folder and checked that hyperlinks opened in the proper tab and had the appropriate hover text as she read through everything. She backtracked to a previously edited section (Sun Sector Example) to correct proper noun capitalization that had been missed.

Finally, Maya corrected simple spelling and grammar errors and commented on the Permaculture Page Content and Research Google document for clarifications and recommendations on content that needs additional editing and rephrasing. She also resolved comments as edits were made, and had Grammarly checking the page for errors she may have overlooked as an additional measure. The pictures below are related to this work.

DIY Permaculture Design – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit page

Adam Weiss (Chef) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam spent the week exploring files and work that has already been done and generally getting orientated.

Adam and Brian also had a Zoom meeting during the week to discuss tasks and priorities so Adam has a better idea of where to plug in and create value. The photos below relate to this work and show screenshots of web pages that have a recipe cost calculator and one that has a conversion component to it. These will be used to help build out the One Community culinary conversion calculator. The pictures below relate to this work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 Education – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for image

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 21 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. Pictures below show some of this.

One Community Volunteer-Work – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 26th week, now working icon images for the Highest Good Network software. This week she was working on the Economics icons based on feedback on the last 5 in this category. She made requested changes focused mostly on the icon with the apple in the middle, adding details, numbers, lines and other elements from the source to make it look more futuristic and spacious. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit worked on improvements that were suggested in the Google Doc for his reports function. The y-axis on the Infringements Visualization will not show decimal ticks now.

He also implemented two versions of displaying infringement descriptions in the graph pop ups.  He tried to implement the modal system on the clicking functionality but a lot of issues arose due the complexity in the PeopleReports.jsx component, he then decided to move the visualizations into their own components. This will make it easier for these visualizations to be used in other parts of the application and also reduce conflicts when Irene starts work on improving the UI. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network software – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

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One Community welcomes Anna Cheal to the Highest Good Food Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Anna is a Masters of Public Health Nutrition student with strong interests in food science, epidemiology, food policy, functional medicine, toxicology, and culinary arts. Some of her interests include increasing nutrition education in schools, creating greater transparency and sustainability in the food system, assessing national dietary recommendations, and advancing nutrition research. Anna has experience in health research, food service, community building, corporate wellness, public health policy, teaching, health coaching, and working in the non-profit sector. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist and aspiring nutritionist. As a member of the One Community team, Anna is applying her diverse knowledge and skills to help complete the Transition Kitchen recipes and menu plan.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANNA!

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One Community is creating better living through open source sustainability. We’re doing this by developing free-shared plans for all aspects of sustainable living: 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 February 6th, 2022 edition (#463) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #463

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating better living 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 continued their part of work on the Murphy bed assembly instructions. We had another Murphy Bed call with Stacey and went through comments with her and helped correct differences between new construction electrical boxes and remodel boxes. The same team member also collaborated on details for bringing chickens, rabbits, and sheep onto the property, and how many. Then he performed more edits on chicken coop doc, mainly regarding the wall assembly to be positioned on the floor, lifted into place, and then using concrete anchor bolts to stabilize the wall on the floor and nail it to the roof.

Murphy Bed Assembly – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

The core team also interpreted results from the compression testing team and updated the assignment file for directions on this week’s expectations. We communicated with the Hub connector team about summaries and the science behind geodesic domes and met with the Hub connector team and discussed issues with bracket overhang when beams come away at an angle from the hub. We watched a video on foam from Aircrete Harry and purchased his foam generator, made edits and addressed comments in the walipini, aquapini, zenapini document.

Compression Testing Team – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #239 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The pictures below show two new perspectives.

Earthbag Village 4-Dome – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 31st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela used Autodesk to show what needed to be added on the labeled piping system PDF for Earthbag Village.

She added the newest lengths and calculations to the cost analysis excel sheet for this drainage system and added it to the narrative too. Daniela then reviewed a revision Sangam had made, got in touch with Jae and provided which programs on her computer still had activated licenses, and had a meeting with him in order to review new tasks for the following weeks.

Daniela also met with Tugce to provide a rundown on the work she completed along with what items needed to be reviewed and started reading through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report, reviewing it and comparing it with the published version. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Roadways – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 80th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began researching unistrut channels for the use of the rain barrel support structure. After seeing a few examples on how unistrut channels were used, he compared prices of the parts needed to construct the structure.

With the best pricing of parts found, he began to render the support components in SolidWorks. The components were rendered by using the dimensions provided by the manufacturer to increase the accuracy of the renderings. The base, unistrut channel and the spring nut were assembled in SolidWorks to demonstrate the functionality of the unistrut channel. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom Component – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

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 20th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team spent another week organizing themselves for the semester to prepare for making the actual test cylinders for this project.

During this week, the team held several meetings with their fellow team members, their onsite supervisor, and with their managers to figure out the actions needed to move forward with a set plan and procedure for making the aircrete cylinders. The team made a video recording to demonstrate how foam was being produced from the Little Dragon Foam Generator for further inspection of the foam making process. A new foam generator was also purchased to test foam quality. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aircrete and Earthbag – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 20th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on the reading and understanding of the cost analysis for the EV v/s ICE automobiles. He added information to the document regarding conclusions, related sources, links, etc. Shreyas also contacted the Golf Cart vendors and obtained costs and addressed comments within the development document. Pictures below are related to this work.

Solar Micro-grid Design – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 11th week helping with web design, this week focused mainly on the Tools and Equipment page. This week Yuran continued working on checking all of the links and adding any that were missing to this page, all following the format that is already there. She also alphabetized the tool section, the equipment section, and the materials section and added anchors and missing descriptions for any that were missing them. Pictures below are related to this work.

Tools and Equipment – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating better living 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 36th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the detailing for the City Center Spa Design in preparation for publishing it to the website. The report is in its final stages of documentation, meaning that a majority of the contents are prepared, but the details need to be rewritten in a publishable format for the website. Luis worked on modifying portions of the website to accurately reflect the current design specifications. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Eco-Spa – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 31st week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank checked over the different energy values for the equipment selected for the City Center. He also read over fans and pipe selection for the emergency HVAC system. Lastly, Frank worked on making a preliminary selection of the pipe extension to calculate the energy use of fans and losses due to friction. The pictures below relate to this.

Solar Micro-grid Sizing – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 28th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the section F_F and G_G. She added walls, columns and furniture, and corrected some parts of the section according to the new floor plans. See pictures below.

Duplicable City Center – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 20th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the Dialux evo light analysis file following the DDC-lighting master file, measured and listed the diameter of the dormer for each floor in the SketchUp model, and drew a wall section for the domes. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 18th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya modeled the first-floor walls, adding the furniture on the first-floor central part, modeling the second-floor slab, modeling the columns, and fixing the doors in the central part. She also noticed that three entrance doors on the first floor all have different sizes, and will check on these with Xuanji next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. George completed a 3-plate “V” bracket design. The amount of stress in the bracket was observed to be much lesser when compared to a 2-plate bracket design. He also completed the assembly with the 3-bracket design. The stress pattern shows tearing at the bolts holes in the lower bracket. The stress distribution shows that the bracket holds under stress. The bolt patterns have to be looked into to understand the tearing at the bracket ends. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center Connectors – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 16th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with her team to discuss the guiding element that would determine the outline of exterior walls as the previous SketchUp model has some variation from the existing CAD drawing.

This week’s work consisted mostly of verifying first floor furniture items with interior design packages along with floor modeling. As the team updates the SketchUp model, it is essential to keep the old material, especially carpet details, on the newly drawn floor outlines. Also to make sure that the floor is in the exact enclosure within the shell to produce more accurate CAD drawings. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on modeling the angled beams to ensure the results obtained on the flat section will carry over. He also worked on brainstorming ideas about how to incorporate the full size ‘V’ connector for when the beams are angled. He then tried to incorporate the lengthwise hub connections to test if the structure would gain any additional strength. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Douglas Whittemore (MEP Designer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini HVAC and Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Doug finished reading and informing himself on all the details available on the Solar Energy Setup page. He started research on typical power draws for hotels and resorts. He then performed research on average annual electricity consumption for hotels and resorts that resemble the size of Earthbag Village. Additionally, Douglas reviewed the Energy Demand Earthbag, City Center and Demand Totals tabs on the Energy Balance spreadsheet. The pictures below relate to this work.

Aquapini & Walipini HVAC – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Hyun-Young Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the City Center Eco-spa SolidWorks modeling and testing. This week Hyun-Young Kim calculated the heat loss from the ground while taking into account different sizes. By making it a function of radius r for a hemisphere, he was able to plot out heat loss vs amount of ground.

He then fit it into functions that will converge as the radius approaches infinity to extract the approximate heat loss to expect. Combined with the heat loss as a linear function of temperature from previous tests, we should have a solid grasp on heat loss from the hot tub now. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

City Center Eco-spa SolidWorks – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik researched the weight of the internal support and equipment that would act on the hubs for better designing of the centerpiece of the hub. He also researched the best way to construct the hub that would make the building of the dome easy, also how each hub can strengthen the hub joint. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center Hub – 3D SketchUp Model – Click to visit site

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating better living 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 updating the 3D SketchUp model of the Sheep barn. We researched best options for DIY projects for a sheep feeder, lambing pens and mixing area. We then built a feeder according to the DIY plan and set up lambing and mixing pens in SketchUp using cattle panels. The same team member also generated an image fo the herbal garden by the City Center and created and collaborated on the list of plants, herbs, vegetables and berries bushes to be planted there.

3D SketchUp Model – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

And the core team completed another 10% of a total update to our property-wide Permaculture Design plan. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work and we’d say we are now about 90% done with these updates.

Permaculture Design Plan – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 70th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on adjusting the Lumion rendering video of the Aquapini and Walipini project. She fixed some floating plants and did a final check of the whole video before she rendered it and shared it with the team. Then she continued to work on labeling in the AutoCAD plan to match Daniela’s file. Pictures below are related to this.

Aquapini & Walipini – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 19th 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 worked on getting all the produce shopping lists for the transitional kitchen’s first two weeks menu. Brian then worked on adding some equipment to the build out budget and making a guide for designing new recipes so that they fall within the updated guideline. Below are some images related to this.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 4th week helping with research and web design, now focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. Starting at Step B of “Step 3 – Develop a Conceptual Design” she read through it, fixing any punctuation, spelling, or grammatical errors that she came across.

As she read through she double-checked hyperlinks to ensure they opened in the proper tabs and had the proper hover text, made comments on the Permaculture Page Content and Research Google Document on content that required clarifications or needed to be rephrased, and checked hyperlinks ensuring that none were missing, broken, or opening improperly. Maya also double-checked that outside sources were all backed up as PDFs in the Permaculture Website Resource Backup Dropbox folder. The pictures below are related to this work.

DIY Permaculture Design – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating better living 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. 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 Education – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit site

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is creating better living 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 19 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. Pictures below show some of this.

One Community Volunteer-Work – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 25th week, now working icon images for the Highest Good Network software. Alex spent this week fixing the economic icons, and all of them (except icon number 3) were added to the “Final” folder. She also made changes with all the details that were suggested, and downloaded stewardship icons number one, four, five, seven and six into the “Final” folder. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network Software – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit reviewed all the dependabot PRs, and opened a new PR#358 to merge these changes in one go. Once this PR is approved and merged, he will close the PRs created by dependabot so that it remains clean. He also worked on making the existing visualization more robust and changed the date filter so it doesn’t break the visualizations once it’s reset. Rachit then started work on visualizing user tasks in PeopleReport.jsx. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network software – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click to visit page

Aaron Chan (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aaron updated the popup text when a user deletes the badges from the select feature, improved the efficiency of assigning badges as an Admin so that it only requires to fill the first and last name before assigning badges then click to confirm. He also helped with PR review #354 and commented with a few required changes. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network Software – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us with resolving a flagged campaign from our Adwords campaigns and coming up with a solution to slow-loading pages. See pics below related to this.

Adwords Campaigns – Better Living Through Open Source Sustainability – Click for page

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One Community is demonstrating how to build a global collaborative through open source blueprints, tools, tutorials, resources, and DIY instructions for all aspects of sustainability. The cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We call this 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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 30th, 2022 edition (#462) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining how to build a global collaborative:

How to Build a Global Collaborative
One Community Progress Update #462

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – HOW TO BUILD A GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE

One Community is demonstrating how to build a global collaborative 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 their part of work on the Murphy bed assembly instructions. This week we generated rendered images using 3D SketchUp. We generated updated images for the Murphy bed pink electrical circuit and set up lightning. We also rendered the dome section-cut images with the bed down and the bed up with table and benches down from various angles. The same team member also updated some images for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document by adding marking lines and updating the measurement font size.

Murphy Bed Assembly – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #238 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows his most recent updated render, now with added plants and other elements.

Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Design – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 30th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela got in touch with Tugce, an experienced engineer that has joined the team. They set up a meeting and Daniela prepared information and files in order to explain her work so far, for both the drainage and roadway projects.

Daniela researched information focusing on the drain rock depth that was initially suggested for Earthbag Village but read through various websites/articles and was not able to find the exact information. Daniela also continued to respond to comments, make edits, and go through previous versions of a file in order to find and answer the questions asked. Lastly, she used Autodesk to measure the length of the pipes in the newest drainage design. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Roadways – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 79th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began redesigning the support structure for the rain barrels in the Net-Zero Bathroom. He first looked at the possibility of using steel sign posts as columns to the structure. The posts were perforated so he calculated the maximum load the post could support without failing due to buckling.

He combined the buckling equations with the stress concentration factor used for circular holes in the material. After determining the load they could support was much greater than the wooden columns, he began rendering possible structure designs. The first one involved using an all metal design with a metal plate as a base. The second involved using a combination of the steel posts and wooden beams. After running a cost analysis it was deemed that the wood and metal combination would provide the best performance for the initial cost. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom Component – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 62nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey was working on understanding the electrical section. Tatyana also provided new renders and now Stacey is swapping out the old images with new images so that the pages will be more clear and nicer looking. Additional effort is also being put into finalizing and cleaning up the plywood and lumber cutting pages. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy Bed Instructions – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

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 19th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team organized themselves for the semester by having meetings, making a calendar and a detailed schedule, and performing some preliminary testing on foam integrity.

They explored if the integrity of the foam is improved by using more Drexel and 7th generation dish soap. From a previous test, using 2 more ounces of Drexel resulted in a successful aircrete batch (i.e. aircrete didn’t collapse). They found that using more 7th Gen didn’t improve foam quality. All concentrations of Drexel maintained integrity for over 2 hours, but 7th Gen began shrinking after 40 minutes. The team will use this information to create the light and lightest aircrete this coming week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aircrete and Earthbag Compression Testing – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 19th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas continued to work on the EV Integration document. He addressed the pending comments/queries in the document and conducted the techno-economic analysis for EV charging.

He also started his research on the economics for gasoline v/s EV regarding the running costs and initial investments, etc. and researched the merits of Tesla cars over the others in the current market. Shreyas additionally added information regarding the results and conclusions from the charging analysis data. Pictures below are related to this work.

Solar microgrid design – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 11th week helping with web design, this week focused mainly on the Tools and Equipment page. This week Yuran checked all of the links from the Murphy Bed instructions and added any that were missing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Tools and Equipment – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also completed her 8th and final week, finishing proofreading and editing the latest version of the Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring webpage. This week, Jennifer completed her final week on the team by finishing editing the Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring webpage.

She edited the images that still had grammar and spacing errors as well as added additional SEO to all the images. Jennifer also linked the tools and material list to the open source construction webpage for easy access in learning more about the various items. See below for pictures related to this work.

Earthbag Construction Webpage – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – HOW TO BUILD A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE

One Community is demonstrating how to build a global collaborative 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 35th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis completed his electrical analysis of the City Center Spa design and began to focus on the documentation portions of the project. He also began looking back at earlier edits and comments on the document and resolving them or adding annotations wherever necessary. In the coming weeks, Luis will continue to work on the document content and formatting to make it easily transferable to the City Center Spa design website. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Eco-Spa – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 30th week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank checked the values of the energy calculation process using the first method of analysis for infiltration. He also checked on the values for the City Center in the energy balance sheet. He read over the methods and processes necessary to calculate and size the velocity, pressure, and fan size for the systems. The pictures below relate to this.

Solar Microgrid Sizing – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 23rd week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. After receiving feedback from the team, Carlos corrected the final render for the wardrobe pallet. He also reviewed the folding door hardware tutorial, according to the tutorial the spring part automatically clips itself inside the rail, so no need for a hammer or any other tools. Carlos finished this week’s hours by importing/exporting 3D models to AutoCAD so he could update the blueprints. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 19th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week, she started updating the light analysis for the bedrooms in the DIAlux evo file. Xuanji also updated the boundary of the dormer in the AutoCAD file following the sketchUp 3D model. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Lighting – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya worked on trimming the walls according to the shape of the dome, importing the updated CAD drawings, and modifying the walls and columns because of the changes in the CAD drawings.

Huiya ran into challenges when she tried to modify the floor size according to the updated CAD drawing, finding that the second floor and the third floor are not accurate, so she scheduled a meeting with Xuanji to clarify how to fix this. She also patched up the missing parts and window holes on the shell. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George redesigned the 2 plate V bracket due to tolerance errors in assembly. He completed the 2 bracket assembly and performed static analysis. The results show improvements over single bracket design – using two plates that slide over each other has lower strength than a single thick plate of equal thickness. The multi-plate design is more machinable but requires a thicker overall bracket. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center Connectors – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit site

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team and continued to discuss means of editing the shells of the domes and changes to the windows. Then the focus of the week was mainly on updating the Social Dome furniture based on the interior design plan and new CAD edits on items such as trimming sinks, changing faucets, correcting doors and their frames, and updating seating. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on revising the document about the science behind a geodesic dome. He added details about how our geodesic dome is non-traditional in that it focuses on having equal triangle heights. He also came up with a design to cap off struts lengthwise at the connection. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Douglas Whittemore (MEP Designer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini HVAC and Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Doug focused on the complete details of the Earthbag Village. He continued to educate himself through HG Energy on what microgrids are and why they are ideal. This information will be used for solar energy research, specifically the power draws for resorts as compared to the current energy need estimates for the Earthbag Village. The pictures below relate to this work.

Aquapini & Walipini HVAC – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit site

Hyun-Young Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the City Center Eco-spa SolidWorks modeling and testing. This week Hyun-Young still did not have access to his PC and programs, and therefore focused on performing hand calculations/analysis. First he took a look at the ground temperature problem, and attempted to find an analytical solution to see how much ground he should include.

He found the problem to be impractical, and decided to instead calculate at several sizes and extrapolate as a function of radius. Then Hyun-Young calculated radiation losses and gains from solar radiation. He found that radiative losses outweighed the gain, and that a low emissivity was preferable – although he would like to check the calculation again. In addition, he considered the idea of putting a greenhouse over the hot tub to keep the air at a reasonable temperature and reduce losses.

Even considering pure radiation, there are reasonable gains. Additional analysis can be done when he has access to the rest of the data. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

SolidWorks Modeling – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week, Prathik completed the assembly and performed an analysis of the new connector with epoxy as the bonding substances between the bean and the center cavity for better strength.

He also added a pipe in the middle to reduce the weight and to check for better stability. Adding the epoxy as the center support the displacement was reduced by 37%. Prathik also researched how different loads act on the hub center. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center Hub – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – HOW TO BUILD A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE

One Community is demonstrating how to build a global collaborative 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 reviewed the slides summarizing Aircrete testing findings and shared that with Hajjar for his input. We also continued to merge the Aquapini & Walipini website content and the design criteria document and coordinated and helped the energy team move forward. Mostly Aquapini & Walipini related pics are shown below.

Aircrete Testing Findings – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Another core team member completed additional edits on the Chicken coop details. We completed edits through page 60 of chicken coop assembly instructions. This work included wall framing and layout of framing members, addressing and adding comments, reviewing two wall framing videos, and researching code allowances for screws vs. nails according to IRC and IBC. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Chicken Coop – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

The core team also updated the complete swales section on the Soil Amendment page.

Soil Amendment page – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit page

And the core team completed about 80% of a total update to our property-wide Permaculture Design plan. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work.

Permaculture Design plan – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 69th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on adjusting the Lumion rendering video of the Aquapini and Walipini project. She fixed a material issue and adjusted the connection of 2 videos. Then Qiuheng did a sun analysis video for December and shared it with the team. Last but not least, she revised the label in the AutoCAD plan to match Daniela’s file. Pictures below are related to this.

Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 18th 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 worked on the excel spreadsheet for the menu build out. He also worked with Anna on some new recipes for the next two weeks.

Brian is considering that he needs to spend some time building the two-week recipe guide so we can focus more of our recipe development on recipes that will fit into the pieces of the puzzle that is the recipe development. Brian will reach out to Anna and set up a meeting this next week to square away the development of the recipes more efficiently. Below are some images related to this.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 8th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 8 recipes: Falafel-Spiced Tahini Wraps, Cashew Chicken Stir Fry with Coconut Rice, Cabbage Roll Soup, Korean Beef Bowl, Fall Harvest Salad, Salty Sweet Vegan Protein Bars, Broccoli Cheddar Quiche, and Creamy Avocado Smoothie. All of these recipes are ready to be reviewed. Anna is also in the early stages of creating a Pumpkin Chili recipe, which she plans to complete next week. The pictures below relate to this work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping with research and web design, now focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week, Maya began by proofreading from Step 1 and fixed any spelling and grammatical errors that she came across. When information within the content required clarifications or elaboration, she made comments on the “Permaculture Page Content and Research” google document to receive feedback. She then made the appropriate changes.

Next, she checked the list of anchor links at the beginning of the webpage because some were not linking to the proper sections, and broken links that were found were also fixed. Finally, using the Grammarly safari extension she proofread the page for any errors that were missed on the first round of editing. Maya left off her editing process just before Step B: Zones. The pictures below are related to this work.

DIY Permaculture Design – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – HOW TO BUILD A GLOBAL COLLABORATIVE

One Community is demonstrating how to build a global collaborative 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 Education – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – HOW TO BUILD A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE

One Community is demonstrating how to build a global collaborative 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 18 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. Pictures below show some of this.

Managing One Community volunteer-work – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click for page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 33rd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Health Insurance research and page. This week Aidan worked on making the finishing touches to the Health Insurance webpage on WordPress. This includes formatting, updating images, and labels, and writing a Summary section. He also followed up on previous guidance on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Research. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Health Insurance research – How to Build a Global Collaborative – Click to visit page

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 24th week, now working icon images for the Highest Good Network software. This week, she worked on the Stewardship and Economics icons based on previous suggestions. She finished the Stewardship icons and got approval for all of them. Alex also finalized her next (and possibly final) round of all of the Economics icons and is waiting for feedback. Pictures below are related to this work.

How to Build a Global Collaborative – Stewardship and Economics icons – Click for Page

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Navya worked on making the app so mandatory fields would be indicated and a popup would happen that says “Please complete all mandatory fields” if they aren’t. Currently they only do this if a person clicks in a field and doesn’t enter anything. They should show mandatory fields that aren’t completed when a person clicks “Create”.

Navya fixed this issue by changing the logic onfocus and implemented an onclick button event. She then tested her code by running different scenarios like firstname, email, last name, and phone number. Pictures below are related to this work.

How to Build a Global Collaborative – Highest Good Network software – Click for Page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit completed integrating the reducer into the PeopleReport component to get the necessary data, resolved bugs with previous visualization and started work on combining visualizations to achieve the targeted result. He also reviewed a potential security risk and identified the problem which was caused by inconsistent merging from dependabot and wrote some documentation to avoid this problem in the future. The pictures below relate to this work.

How to Build a Global Collaborative – Highest Good Network software – Click for Page

Aaron Chan (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aaron created a new feature where a volunteer will be able to view another person’s dashboard by clicking the dot by that person’s name. This feature also has a popup bar that makes it clear to the viewer that they are viewing another person’s dashboard, not their own. The pictures below relate to this work.

How to Build a Global Collaborative – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit page

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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 16th, 2022 edition (#460) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS

One Community is creating open source teacher/demonstration hubs 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 working on the Murphy bed doc and addressing Stacey’s comments, now by video conference as well as DropBox comments. The focus has been adding additional info and resolving as many comments as possible. This same team member also helped answer wildland fires questions relating to weather concerns and its effects on the land, helped with reviewing six pallet furniture videos, and initiated a final review of the Chicken Doc. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Murphy bed doc – Click for page

Another member of the core team generated rendered images for the Murphy bed Assembly document. She used #D SketchUp model to generate images for the Murphy bed in half-down position and rendered images for the electrical section of the document too. Those images were generated for different electrical circuits from different angles.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Murphy bed Assembly document – Click to visit site

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #236 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows his first internal test render.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster – Click to visit site

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 28th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started by reviewing comments from the cost analysis excel sheet for the roadways report/tutorial. Daniela added the CADs she was working on from last week onto the Dropbox and also worked on adding the dropbox link into the CAD’s.

Daniela had to watch some videos and search for various ways she could insert a hyperlink into the CAD because an error kept occurring. She also created PDF’s for the minimized and maximized roadways site plans, in order to provide a clear JPG resource for the excel sheet. Throughout the week Daniela addressed the comments on the roadways cost analysis excel sheet and made alterations to the charts in accordance with the new decisions. She researched the necessary depths for the walkways and bikeways using decomposed granite.

She incorporated these changes into the narrative and made corrections to small errors in the charts. Lastly, Daniela created PDF copies of all the AutoCAD files she had worked on during her time with One Community because her AutoCAD license expired this week. She alerted Jae of the issue and uploaded a few of the CADs and PDFs to various dropbox folders. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Sustainable Landscaping tutorial – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 77th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the rain barrel support structure section of the net-zero bathroom instructions/tutorial. His work focused on creating renderings on Solidworks to help the user visualize the steps correctly.

The diagrams made from the renderings were accompanied by instructions to explain the step-by-step process of building the support structure. The renderings were based off of the available material resources to produce visuals with precision and accuracy. The pictures below show some of this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Net-zero Bathroom component – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 60th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey updated cutting icons and how we show people the order of cuts to be made. She also made updates to the formatting of the parts page. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Murphy bed instructions – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with research and web design, currently focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week she started by researching sustainable materials, and edited prior research that had been done on her assigned topic. The focus of this research was light bulbs, finding the most sustainable bulb companies, bulb types, and best bulb products.

She recorded her findings on a google doc with all sources referenced and the most important findings listed below said source. Additionally, Maya read over the content on the lightbulb page and committed her time to elaborating on the “Types of bulbs” section. This section was a bit vague and needed more detail for certain statements made about each bulb type. Additionally, Maya proofread the rest of the lightbulb page and made the preexisting information more comprehensible for those visiting the website.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Sustainable Lightbulbs – Click to visit page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS

One Community is creating open source teacher/demonstration hubs 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 interviewed and on-boarded Prathik to help with the Duplicable City Center dome hub connector work. They worked to on-board a potential new volunteer, but received no responses. Additionally, they prepared for a call with the City Center Dome Hub Connector team, which has 2 new members (Raj and Prathik). Lastly, the core team added relevant docs to Doug’s One Community Collaboration Document and got him up to speed to help Frank with HVAC, solar sizing tutorial, and energy demand estimates.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center dome – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 33rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, Luis worked on the electrical control systems design and schematic for the City Center Spa. He worked on recreating the control panel design in order to map out the wiring of the system prior to installation. All of the components are connected to different pins or panels depending on their function.

Luis was able to find the teams selected components and produce a layout that will serve as the wiring instructions for our system. He also met with Hyun-Young Kim to discuss the more detailed FEA ANSYS heat transfer simulations and the outlook of the project. Moving forward, Luis will finalize the systems setup and then focus on the electrical budget based on the detailed heat loss findings. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – City Center Eco-spa designs – Click for page

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 26th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the section C_C and D-D and started F_F. She added columns, furniture, and made corrections according to the new floor plan and basement plan. See pictures below.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center designs – Click for page

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 21st week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week Carlos corrected the position of a peg for the accordion doors on the Pallet Wardrobe and began re-rendering the segment with the new and proper peg location. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 18th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she listed the LEED Platinum prerequisites and credit requirements and studied the quality view requirement. Xuanji then drew analysis diagrams for the quality view on the AutoCAD master file. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center review – Click for page

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 15th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she focused on adding the furniture to the restrooms on the second floor of Living Dome and applying the material to the bedrooms, restrooms, and exterior rooms’ walls for both the first floor and second floor. Huiya also trimmed the walls on the first floor to match the shape of the shell. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center review – Click for page

George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George completed the assembly of the new center hub with a 0.20″ center plate and “V” brackets. He re-ran the model after fixing some errors. The model failed due to a tolerance error and meshing issues, so the parts were edited and he re-ran the model and analyzed the results. Adding a center hub reduced the stress on the brackets by 58%. The pictures below relate to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center connectors – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi worked on completing vertical volumes of the northern atrium area, putting up doors and creating storage spaces. She then started on the Social Dome.

Structural columns were erected with correct alignments but the library area columns still need to be coated with form and texture to mimic nature. New walls were placed according to the updated design curvature and floors and furniture made previously were partially edited and regrouped. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center review – Click to visit page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week he added all the connectors to his assembly and ran studies with 100 mph of wind pressure and a 2500 lbf force on the beams to simulate how the connectors will behave in these scenarios. Raj published his findings in the google doc shared and has ideas to further improve the design. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher:demonstration Hubs – Duplicable City Center hub connectors – Click for page

Hyun-Young Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the City Center Eco-spa SolidWorks modeling and testing. This week Hyun-Young discussed the current progress of calculations with Luis. They determined that they need to think about surrounding temperature and its impacts on heat loss. Thus Hyun-Young performed calculations as a function of surrounding temperatures, which will allow us to estimate heat loss at each time of the year. He then reworked the calculations for when quarter blanket and half cover are open. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Open Source Teacher:demonstration Hubs – City Center Eco spa SolidWorks – Click for page

Douglas Whittemore (MEP Designer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini HVAC and Solar Microgrid sizing. This week, Doug took time to finish the onboarding process and familiarize himself with the culture of the project. He worked on his first assignment which consisted of reviewing the SAM solar sizing tutorial for typos and clarity. Doug also reviewed the HVAC tutorial that Frank is working on. Lastly, he met with Sangam to start discussing the solar sizing energy estimate. The pictures below relate to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Aquapini & Walipini HVAC – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS

One Community is creating open source teacher/demonstration hubs 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 completed a detailed review of the DIY Permaculture Design staging page, trained a new team member how the process was done, and then passed the feedback on to the original designer (Jennifer) to complete it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – DIY Permaculture Design – Click to visit site

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 67th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng made some small adjustments to the Lumion rendering video of the Aquapini and Walipini project. Then she exported a high-resolution combined walkthrough video for team review. Also, she downloaded the final AutoCAD file from Daniela to merge the labels and has been working on the final-final AutoCAD file. Pictures below are related to this.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping – Click for page

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th week helping, now with content related to the Aquapini & Walipini HVAC and Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank made recommended corrections to the documents related to the HVAC system designs for the Aquapini and Walipini and the Tropical Atrium. He also double checked the numbers in the spreadsheet used to estimate electrical energy demands. The pictures below relate to this.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Aquapini & Walipini HVAC – Click to visit page

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 16th 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 he focused on transcribing the first two weeks from 4 servings into 50 servings changing the flavors around to provide variety and keep the volunteer/guests engaged.

Brian is hoping to have a shopping list soon so that we can begin to cost out the amount each meal to see if this method will be sustainable. Brian has access to wholesale vendors which can make building the cost sheets effective. Below are some images related to this.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 6th week helping with web design, this week focused mainly on the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Sheep Stewardship staging page. This week Yuran completed the Raising Sheep page. She added pictures to the page, checked the format and uploaded the backup of the resources. She also integrated the feedback on another volunteer’s work on the Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance page and checked links to add any that were missing to the Tools and Equipment page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Conscientious Sheep Stewardship – Click for page

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the open source and DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week Jennifer focused on editing the page using the feedback/review given. She worked on fixing centering issues and implemented hard code when needed. Jennifer double checked links and added in mouse-over text in any areas that it was missing. In the next week she will finish up the handful of edits left and start her next assignment. See below for pictures related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – DIY Permaculture Design – Click for page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 6th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 6 recipes: Thai Peanut Pork Bowl, Classic Spaghetti and Meatballs, Hoisin Caramelized Salmon Bowl, Mexican Spiced Loaded Potatoes, Gluten Free Cornbread, and Fluffy Vegan Pancakes. All of these recipes are ready for review. Anna is also far along in creating her Sweet & Spicy Hot Chili Chicken Noodles recipe, and will complete it next week. The pictures below relate to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Menu and Meal Plans – Click to visit page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS

One Community is creating open source teacher/demonstration hubs 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

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Highest Good Education – Click image for the hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – OPEN SOURCE TEACHER/DEMONSTRATION HUBS

One Community is creating open source teacher/demonstration hubs 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 21 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. Pictures below show some of this.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Volunteer-work review – Click to visit page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 31st week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Health Insurance research and page. This week Aidan continued to review and revise the Health Insurance webpage’s content. This webpage is live, but a few sections remain in progress. He is working on addressing clarifying comments and filling in gaps in the narrative. Aiden is also finishing constructing the conclusions section to provide key takeaways and One Community’s plan. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Health Insurance research – Click for page

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 22nd week working on images for our open source social media strategy. She finished another round of editing the Stewardship icons based on feedback and started editing the economical icons. The main focus right now is paying attention to small details to make the icons more realistic. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Open Source Social Media Strategy – Click to visit site

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya focused on issues with the click thread of “Other Links → User Management → Create New User”. Mandatory fields should be indicated and a popup should happen that says “Please complete all mandatory fields” if they aren’t. Currently they only do this if a person clicks in a field and doesn’t enter anything.

They should show mandatory fields that aren’t completed when a person clicks “Create”. Navya worked on fixing the issue by removing the validation for onclick and updating to show an error message on the click button. Also, debugging the code to understand the logic, which is still in progress while she figures out the logic of handling the validation. Pictures below are related to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Highest Good Network software – Click for Page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Rachit added a d3 line graph with tooltip in PeopleReport.jsx to visualize the blue square report of an individual. He also fixed more bugs with the “Clear Filter’s” button, it now removes all the applied filters. He then discovered an additional bug where clearing filters will would result in some loss of data in the component. Rachit also integrated a new date filter in the component using the existing bootstrap date picker and integrated it into the line graph. It will be used to filter data in all the visualizations moving forward. The pictures below relate to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Highest Good Network software – Click for page

Aaron Chan (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aaron completed the onboarding process, set up his local environment, helped with reviewing PR #343 “Fixed Issue5 Name field not allowing spaces”, and began work on the component to improve loading efficiency of the Timelog on Dashboards page. The pictures below relate to this work.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us create and update our Adwords campaigns for promoting the Consensus and Groups of 200+ page. He also helped address an Adwords ad that got rejected. See pics below related to this.

Open Source Teacher/demonstration Hubs – Adwords campaigns – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Navya Madiraju to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Navya is a Software Engineer and React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer with over 5 years of software experience across multiple projects. She has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. As a member of the One Community team, Navya is helping with fixing bugs, analyzing the code, and improving and adding functionality to the Highest Good Network software.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP NAVYA!

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One Community welcomes Yuran Qin to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yuran received her Master’s degree of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from UMass Amherst. During her master’s degree, she worked as a research assistant on wearable medical devices to help people improve their quality of life. This gave her the idea to use what she learned to help people live better in other ways too. As a member of the One Community team, Yuran has created the web pages for Health Insurance, the Solar Incentive Rates in West Coast States: Research and Understanding, Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, and Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Sheep Stewardship.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YURAN!

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Making sustainability more appealing is important if we are to transition to a sustainable civilization. One way to accomplish this is by demonstrating eco-community living can provide a more holistic, healthy, happy, sustainable, and luxurious life experience. Foundations One Community is open sourcing as part of teacher/demonstration hubs sharing this are healthier food and environments and more time and more fun things to do with that time, all within walking distance and free.

• 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

Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.

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 9th, 2022 edition (#459) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Sustainability More Appealing
One Community Progress Update #459

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more appealing 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 Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #235 of Dean’s work and the focus was rebuilding the bottle lights now that were no longer focused on fixing the lighting from them. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 27th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued to make edits to the cost analysis Google spreadsheet. She made adjustments based on the decision to make all roads within the site consist of decomposed granite, then used AutoCAD to double check that the selected roadway lengths were accurate and commented for their review. Daniela also read through the case study section of the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot Report to ensure that all mentions of pavement types being used for the site were accurate. Some paragraphs/phrases were moved, added, and altered in order to improve the narrative. After Daniela’s suggestion for a different approach to the unlimited expense plan was approved, she then went back to edit both the spreadsheet and the AutoCAD, input new images into the report, and continued making edits to the narrative regarding the unlimited and minimized expense plan. She also started her research for the pump needed for the drainage plan of the Earthbag Village. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 59th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey made sure the comments from the shared document have all been reviewed and the instructions have been updated. Some style reviews are needed and all new renders are needed to proceed with a more final version. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) completed her 7th week helping with website design. This week Karla finished the tools and equipment page. Due to some technical difficulties with the last table, she had to delete and redo both the equipment and materials tables. She was able to redo all the equipment table and get through some of the materials table. All tables have been added with anchors and links. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. See below for pictures related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more appealing 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 Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 27th week helping, now with content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank familiarized himself with the new task of energy demand estimates that will ultimately be added to the solar sizing document. He updated information for the tutorial since the SAM program was updated in December. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. The pictures below relate to this.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 25th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the section C_C and started work on sections D-D and E_E. She added columns and furniture according to the new plans and basement plan and corrected areas as needed. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. See pictures below.

George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George created concept drawings for the new hub connector design to improve workability and strength. He modeled the center hub with a 0.20 inch plate. George also redrafted the center hub connector design to accommodate for the tolerances in the assembly of 0.20 inch “V” brackets. This assembly will be tested for displacement and stress. Additionally, he made drawings to understand the angle of the wedge for the LVL beam for wood inlays. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi rebuilt the northern staircase as the model built previously does not have adequate thickness. The stairs now have 6″ thickness with slabs included. After building up to the 4th floor and aligning steps, it was verified that the intermediate landing from first to second floor is off by four inches on CAD drawing and that will need to be updated. Furthermore, flights from 3rd to 4th floor can be reduced to even number 24 steps rather than 25 for ease of construction. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. This week Raj worked on a SolidWorks analysis by connecting 6 beams and running an analysis to see how the connectors would hold up in this scenario. He did a 2-beam analysis and plans to also run an analysis where all 6 structures can take load to see how the beams will react. Pictures below are related to this work.

Hyun-Young Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the City Center Eco-spa SolidWorks modeling and testing. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. This week Hyun-Young wrote down the assumptions made in the initial calculations. Then he double checked some of the material properties, fixed mistakes relating to it, and reran the calculations. He also increased the mesh sizes to find convergence. In addition, Hyun-Young performed calculations assuming the worst case scenario (i.e. outside of the hot tub is atmospheric temperature), with a surrounding ground also being heated, and with a larger surrounding ground as well. He also checked the losses purely from convection from atmospheric air. He found that with the surrounding ground, there’s ~500W of total loss. With the worst case scenario however, it goes up to ~4500W. With just convection, it’s fairly low at ~83W. Therefore we need to focus on improving loss through conduction. However, this is with treating the air gap as just a conductive material. Hyun-Young also began to learn Fluent in order to take into account natural convection and air flow. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more appealing 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 re-created and corrected the spreadsheet used for the Aquapini & Walipini designs. This included required water by greenhouses, rainwater harvesting potential, and pond sizing. We also researched how many gallons are needed to sustain the greenhouse plants, and calculated the required catchment area needed to meet greenhouse water needs. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. See below for the pictures related to this work.

The core team additionally worked on updating the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We finished updating the section for assembly of the manure collection trays and the section of assembly and installation of the roosting ladder. We then started to work on the section of the document related to the building of the nesting boxes on the south wall of the coop. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below are related to this work.

And the core team conducted research on the lack of wind and how it may affect our trees that we will grow in the walipinis and Tropical Atrium. We composed and added to both of these pages a paragraph on our options for addressing this with downsizing some of our trees, supporting the larger trees, and also increasing the replacement timing of the larger trees. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing.  See below for the pictures related to this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 66th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng updated the Aquapini and Walipini internal and external landscaping video rendering after making the revisions based on last week’s comments. The editing process is looking like it is complete, so she exported a higher resolution video for team review and feedback. She also rendered a separate fly-over video which can be added as a finisher. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below are related to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 15th 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. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. This week Brian worked on compiling all the recipes that would work together. To ensure each recipe uses the optimal amount of each remaining ingredient from the previous meal is taking quite a bit more time to work out than expected. Brian decided there are many variables that make this task challenging. It might just be better to defrost and cook the amount of animal proteins according to the amount of omnivores for each group while allowing enough vegan and vegetarian options for everyone to possibly enjoy. Instead of scaling the proteins on the recipe, maybe we should calculate how much protein is needed by each group and then the cooks only prepare slightly more than enough. Below are some images related to this.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 5th week helping with web design, this week focused mainly on the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Sheep Stewardship staging page. This week she worked on the content of the page, checked and fixed the Table of Contents and all the anchors, inserted the YouTube videos and added details for the videos. She also completed the resources section of the page. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the open source and DIY Permaculture Design staging page. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. This week she worked on the sections titled “Assess Site Through Observation and Research” to subsection “Stewardship”, which was the last of the document content. Jennifer also focused on making individual dropbox folders to link applicable images so that viewers could have an improved viewing experience. She additionally linked images to the proper powerpoints so that viewers could stay up to date with the most current version of the tables. Jennifer is submitting the webpage for a final review and will focus on fixing any errors in the next week. See below for pictures related to this work.

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 5th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 6 recipes: Black Forest Smoothie, Rice and Chickpea Stew, Japchae, Kale Pesto Pasta, Leftover Veggie Quinoa Breakfast Casserole, and Zesty Seasonal Fruit Salad. All of these recipes are still in the review process. Anna is in the early stages of creating her Thai Peanut Quinoa Bowl recipe. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more appealing 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 Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more appealing 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 19 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. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below show some of this.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 21st week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week she focused on updating the Highest Good Stewardship icons based on feedback. She updated icon numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and created a Final folder for the 1000 hours icon that was approved as finished. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit completed the initial setup and orientation and reviewed 3 of Navya’s open PRs which also helped him get acquainted with the system. He then moved on to action item 1 on his google doc. He made minor tweaks to the UI to improve readability and resolved a bug where clearing filters removed classification options and would only come back on page refresh. He also discovered an additional bug where clearing filters doesn’t remove all filters. Contributing to making sustainability more appealing. The pictures below relate to this work.

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