One Community welcomes Huiya Yang to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Huiya graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a dual degree in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning. With one year of work experience and 8 years of academic experience, she is highly skilled in the preparation of detailed project designs, and the production of construction documents. Thinking of herself as an architect and urban planner, Huiya believes that she has an obligation to contribute her knowledge and passion to the sustainable development of society and the environment. As a member of the One Community team, Huiya is helping with design updates for the Duplicable City Center.

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One Community welcomes Venus Abdollahi to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Venus is an architectural designer with several years of experience in different aspects of architecture including energy efficient-design, energy-conscious design, and BIM design. She enjoys remaining involved in all phases of the process in order to deliver a successful project that stays true to the original concept. Venus contributes both creative and technical deliverables to create architecturally transformative stories and experiences that are inclusive, impactful and compelling to align with the design intent. As a member of the One Community team, Venus is helping with the Duplicable City Center roof, dormer, and floor plan designs.

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Let’s create a new paradigm for sustainability that includes consideration of what is for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet. One Community is open sourcing everything needed to build teacher/demonstration hubs for this purpose, contributing to a new paradigm for sustainability.

• Here’s our project overview for a new paradigm for sustainability
• 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 November 21st, 2021 edition (#452) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A New Paradigm for Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #452

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A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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 the core team worked with 3D SketchUp for the City Center to provide detailed images with all dimensions and angles for the framing of the City Center dormer windows, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This included generating orthographic drawings for the second floor dormer section.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 27th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan worked on the Health Insurance research. He has been constructing the conclusion of the narrative, trying to determine and explain the most cost-effective health insurance strategy for One Community. As part of this endeavor, Aidan has been revamping the scoring system that ranks the best health insurance options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 59th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Qiuheng worked on developing the Aquapini and Walipin external and internal design plan in AutoCAD. She traced the color design plan for the interior of the structures, revised her planting plan based on the 3D rendering, updated the path system to leave space for drainage, and detailed the central terrace design. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Frank revised HVAC calculations for the Tropical Atrium, and the Walipini Aquapini designs. He solved an error in his equations. The data and tables, as well as the different graphs, were updated and a comparison graph was created to visualize the difference between the 3 methods: Online-tool-assisted, ASHRAE, and Standard ANSI EP406.4. The pictures below relate to this.

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click image for the open source hub

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new paradigm for 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 29 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week, Guy finished the badge for “New Personal Maximum Hours Logged in a Week”. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 15th week working on images for our open source social media strategy, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Alex took a different approach to her poster creation. She is making her newer posters trying to keep the images without any changes by adding a mask over the image with text to make it more readable. Alex is using colors from the images for the masks. Some of here latest creations are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Hannah wrote logic for an error message to popup as a user types into their input boxes if they are ignoring a required field. However, she realized after completing this logic that a partially functional validation function already existed. Upon this realization, she deleted her code and altered the existing code to accomplish the goal of the PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 3rd week helping with web design, still focused on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Becky began with her second webpage. She has laid down all she could, including creating all the headers and uploading all the images as needed. Becky will need to wait for the webpage’s other updates in order to complete the webpage. She has also received the corrections for her first webpage and is working on changing the errors. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week, Navya worked on a Dashboard function to click the dot by a person’s name in the Leaderboard and have it show that person’s Dashboard. She did code debugging, checked where the issue was, and added some code so it was able to show the leaderboard by clicking the dot. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 2nd week helping with web design, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Yuran checked and revised the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial page based on feedback. This included remaking the tables, checking the formats, images and links, adding links to the references, and uploading the resource files to Dropbox. She also started working on creating the health insurance page by adding the table of contents and the content of some paragraphs. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kitan García (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Kitan spent a good portion of his time getting the project up and running and configuring his workflow. He needed to install a specific kind of npm version manager that was more difficult than he thought because of his system but was able to downgrade his npm version to be compatible with the project. Kitan also disabled his linter so that he could use ESLint as requested for this project. It took about 3 hours to get his environment completely set up, create an account, read documentation, and pick a bug to work on. He then spent about 7 hours looking through the code, figuring out how to get it to run correctly, and progressing through finding the bug. He faced some blocks, but was able to get some help from Hannah. Kitan’s now traced the bug to where he believes it is coming from and thinks/hopes he should be able to come up with a solution soon. Pictures below are related to this work.

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Building open source eco-villages is a doorway to a more sustainable world. One Community is committed to building open source eco-villages and free sharing everything needed to create replicable versions of them. This includes sustainable and DIY-replicable versions of 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 for building open source eco-villages
• 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 the movement of building open source eco-villages as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 14th, 2021 edition (#451) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Open Source Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #451

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BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 28th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Luis focused on his progress with the blower and jet fittings. He was able to do some calculations to get some estimates on the overall design, while also researching the various jet fittings that are available on the market. Both of these findings allowed him to update existing charts and modify the plumbing and instrumentation diagram for the system, next week Luis hopes to expand on the design selection by focusing on sone essential valves and a few other components. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 26th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Aidan continued with his main focus on the the Health Insurance Research. He finished reading through and providing updates and comments to the research, then focused his attention on the final analysis. The goal is determining and demonstrating the most cost-effective health insurance plan for One Community. This plan will entail saving money by purchasing a low premium, high deductible plan for everyone. This saved money will then be available for health emergencies for members of the community. Communicating this with easy-to-understand spreadsheets and text is the final focus.

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 58th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Qiuheng worked on fixing the issue with people’s movements in the video. She found out that the maximum time frame for the advanced moving tool in Lumion has a time limit of 99 seconds. This is the tool that controls all the movement, so it looks like the video has to be split into two and reconstructed. It is a work-in-progress this week. She also worked on revising the AutoCAD file to match the rendering views. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Frank searched for errors in his spreadsheet because of the extreme difference between the 2 different infiltration methods he used. He double checked units and formulas, as well as checked the individual cells. The numbers appear to be twice the other. He noticed drastic differences between the infiltration values due to air changes and condensation. Frank has not spotted the error yet. He also prepared the HVAC write up for Amin’s review. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 9th 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 which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Brian focused on outlining and laying the framework for the updated menu plan.

Brian worked on determining the timeframe for perishable produce in order to build a menu guide that can be built around a two-week produce drop time with limited refrigeration space. Based on the amount of turnaround from chickpeas, black beans, lentils, soybeans, and potatoes that can be utilized and repurposed multiple times in order to avoid flavor profile redundancy, larger batches of starches can be cooked once a week and labor time can be reduced. Below are some images related to this.

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 20 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software, helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Guy began submitting proposals for updated versions of both the “New Personal Record” and “Most Hours in a Week” badges. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 14th week working on images for our open source social media strategy which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Alex continued working on posters and using images and quotes that are approved. For quotes without images, she created new images based on available images from other quotes. Alex has also been experimenting with mixing images and applying masks to them. Some of the approved images for this week are below. Some of our favorites are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Hannah worked on debugging the badges. She also picked up a bug from the HGN Beta Test Bug document and is working on form validation there. She will continue working on this form validation before going back to badge testing next week. Currently, she just needs to confirm which fields are required, display a message on focus, and change the message to tooltip. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) additionally completed her 2nd week helping with web design, still focused on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Becky learned how to input images, which was quite a steep learning curve. She figured out how to optimize images, how to edit them to make them good for SEO, and how to resize them. Becky just has to look over the page, and then she can move on to the next webpage. Becky also has to update the SEO information of the previous images put into the page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software helped in building open source eco-villages. This Week Navya Worked on Issue 6.a: Profile Page Functionality → Add Profile Picture. She did code debugging, checked where the issue was, added a few lines of code, and then tested all the functionality (multiple times) by uploading large files, different formatted files, redirecting to another website, and resizing and then uploading again. In all the scenarios it worked, so Navya committed the code and raised the related PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with web design. This week Yuran was exposed to and learned about the process and weekly tasks related to web development, talked with her manager and started creating the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial page on the demo page. She also watched some online courses about HTML and studied the requirements for pages on the One Community web design details spreadsheet.

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Successfully creating a global sustainability movement is about making it viral. This is possible if we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. One Community is doing this through open source and free-shared DIY-replicable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We’ll use these to forward a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs that will show people how much better life can be through a model like this.

• Here’s our project overview project overview focused on creating a global sustainability movement
• 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 creating a global sustainability movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 7th, 2021 edition (#450) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Global Sustainability Movement
One Community Progress Update #450

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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 27th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Luis continued his progress with the blower selection and also extended his research with jet fittings. The blower selection is nearly complete, but with Cade Hermeston now a part of the team, he will be helping out with the modeling of our system. Once this model is complete, the fluid dynamic calculations of the system can begin and all selected parts can be confirmed.

Luis also had a meeting this week to introduce Cade to the team and explain the details of the project along with the current progress and future tasks at hand. They had a great discussion on their passion for sustainability and look forward to working together. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 25th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan completed reviewing and commenting on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Battery Storage research. He also spent time providing feedback and suggestions to help guide the development of the Duplicable City Center Energy Modeling content. Additionally, Aidan continued to read through, revise, and update the Health Insurance Research.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 57th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the next round of adjusting the walkthrough video, modified the details based on last week’s comments and feedback, and started to fill the inside models of the structures in SketchUp, so they match the design plan. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank calculated the condensation infiltration energy losses for the 3 designs: Tropical Atrium, Walipini, and Aquapini. He worked on fixing the problems with the equation and the results. Frank also used another tool-assisted calculator online to compare against. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 8th 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 developing recipes that were Thai inspired. He developed a Seared Salmon entree, a coconut Thai soup, seared chicken stir fry and a roasted pumpkin red curry. Below are some images related to this.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement, not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 13th week working on images for our open source social media strategy, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, Alex continued working on new poster creation and writing new quotes, now focused mostly on using images from the One Community Global dropbox sources and matching quotes with images and their blog numbers with related slogans. Alex also started playing with color and saturation on images to create a more united look. She completed 43 approved images this week. Some of our favorites are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, Hannah looked into PRs and attempted to address the issues brought up in one. Currently, she does not know enough about jest nd axios in order to support Pranav’s review but she is learning more and will examine it in more depth next week if still unaddressed.

Additionally, she has continued to work through badge logic. Hannah believes she has identified the section of the streak badge that is still causing the bugs but is uncertain exactly what about it is stopping badges from dropping off. She will continue to look into this next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Pranav started with debugging failing tests for the PR, and with some reading and help, successfully solved the failing tests. Pranav then continued development of location-based timezone functionality, integrating an external API to achieve this. He also helped out the new recruit, Navya, to get set up and reviewed her PRs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with web design. This week Becky started on her first webpage, adding (behind the scenes) the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, getting more familiar with the basic functions like creating anchor links and justifying, etc. Pictures below are related to this work.

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

Brian is a One Community Mentor Team Member and Culinary Project Manager. He has over 14 years of professional experience in the culinary field including: kitchen management, molecular gastronomy, a culinary consultant, a business owner, and as a sushi chef. He grew up on a farm in Northern California and is passionate about sustainability, ethical business practices, and organic farming. The culinary arts and gastronomy have fascinated Brian for years, leading him to become a teacher in food preservation and a mentor to many talented young cooks and chefs. He has worked for over 5 years as a sous chef, also worked as a manager and chef in Japanese kitchens and sushi bars for 4 years, worked at the 3 Michelin Star level, and also run a culinary department in a casino as an executive sous chef with 50+ employees, three restaurants, and a catering operation, all while making the department profitable for the first time. After years of training and learning the industry inside and out, Brian has brought his 14+ years of experience to help finish the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. Click here for additional information on Brian’s full bio page.

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Let’s open source and free-shared everything needed for sustainable eco-community design. One Community is doing this so it includes DIY-replicable models for 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 31st, 2021 edition (#449) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Eco-community Design
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SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community design 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 worked on the different stabilized earth compositions to test for compressive strength. We had conversations with Marcus and Frank to keep their efforts moving along, reached out to get help with HVAC work and coordinated a review by Amin, and responded to and reviewed Daniela’s comments/edits on Walipini and Aquipini design criteria.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Stabilized earth compositions

The core team started to generate another 3D SketchUp model of Murphy bed using the latest assembly instruction document. We checked sections on lumber requirements, tools and hardware items. We then started assembling the Murphy bed wall framing using SketchUp.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – 3D SketchUp model of Murphy bed

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 67th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began analyzing and rendering the best possible location for the pump in the water storage system of the Net-Zero Bathroom.

The best possible location was in between the bottom center barrel and the junction distributing the rain water to the barrels surrounding the center. The pump dimensions were found on the company’s page and were used to create a replica of the motor to have an accurate model. Different distribution arrangements from the pump were analyzed to determine the most uniform one.

It was determined that the best possible distribution would be to have the pump connect to a midpoint junction between the outer set of barrels. The pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 53rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey completed the Murphy bed design PDF and submitted it for review by several other team members. We have gone through a couple drafts and almost all of the errors in wood piece sizes have been corrected.

There were also some changes made to the layouts of the lumber cutting pages with different icons for saw blades and cutting directions. There is still some discussion to be had regarding the overview and cover pages, as well as the cut piece listing pages. Some of the page numbers have been revised since the last draft but the instructions still complete with 120 pages.

Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Murphy bed instructions

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 24th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan completed his final review of the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial, the page with all the new content is now live! Aidan has also continued to provide comments, feedback, and guidance on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Battery Storage research.

Additionally, Aidan began reviewing and revising the Health Insurance content. Below are some images related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 18th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela first screen captured some missing BioVeda courses regarding sustainable living.

She then worked on updates for the Aquapini and Walipini report. She responded to comments and rewrote paragraphs in order to make them clearer. Some new images were incorporated into the narrative as well. Lastly, Daniela wrote paragraphs summarizing information from the notes she took on water harvesting for low-standard rural roads.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 15th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week, Shreyas continued to complete and conclude his work in the “EV Integration and 100% Off-grid Needs” report.

He researched and found information regarding the charging of the Teslas that have been selected to be a part of the community. He has added more information regarding the choice made towards the Tesla Model X, information regarding the case studies and journal papers that have been listed in the report as support documents, and added information in the conclusion area.

He also worked towards editing the sentences and addressing comments in the document. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Solar microgrid design specifics

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 14th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the Compression Testing Team organized all documents required for final testing. They put the stabilized earth spreadsheets together, wrote up the step-by-step procedures for the aircrete and the stabilized earth, and researched a document of previous compression tests on stabilized earth.

They also completed aircrete calculations based on a 90% foam to 10% cement mixture and researched a location to buy dirt for stabilized earth. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community design 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 added all the updated graphics, linked the updated spreadsheet, and proofread the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. The updated page is now live.

 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, Luis focused on the City Center Hot Tub Design’s blower component which will integrate air in the form of bubbles into the system.

The current design is to have a separate air supply line to the spa from the blower, and then use venturi jets to integrate the air comfortably into the flow. Luis was able to roughly calculate the anticipated pressure from the water that would be met at the venturi jet which determines the sizing requirement of the blower.

All that is left is determining the proper blower available on the market that is best suited for the system’s design. Moving forward, Luis will finalize the component selection and the electrical requirements to supply the energy team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 15th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the other half of section A_A called A”_A”. She edited section A”_A” according to the new cut line and new positions of the stairs. Venus also checked the floor heights and added furniture to the section. See pictures below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 14th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos finished the updated assembly animations for the Pallet Bed. These included generating several items to be included in the render.

A clock, glasses, books, pillow and bed sheets were added, all with proper physics behavior and animation as they dropped in. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Pallet furniture designs for Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she worked on the structure of the cupula and basement. The basement has been changed to a rectangular shape with new columns.

Xuanji also added the columns and grid for supporting the cupola and worked on the grid for the Living Dome and Social Dome. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center architectural review

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the application of the new moment frame columns system.

After the meeting, she helped develop new floor plans for the living dome using the moment frame column system discussed. She also finished another option of the 2nd-floor plan for the Living Dome which coordinates with the original column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center architectural review

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, Bryan redesigned the dormer to be less costly and increased the insulation. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi attempted a new grid for the columns in the Social Dome as the team wanted to see whether the new grid could spark new ideas.

She started with a 20 x 20 ft grid, and through the process of elimination adjusted the shifting of grids according to existing walls back and forth to ensure the ideal placement of columns. The goal is to make the least amount of impact possible while building remains structurally sound. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center architectural review

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community design 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 working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We reviewed text and images of the document from the beginning and corrected/updated text and images that were not clear or detailed enough.

We also discussed placement of the small studs on the second level on east and west wall framing. Pictures below are related to this work. 

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another team member reviewed the chicken document through page 68. Discussions included adding short studs to the east and west upper walls, various images and different perspectives of those images, securing the hardware cloth, and rephrasing existing text to accommodate changes to some of the images.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Chicken Coop document

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 56th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the next round of adjusting the walkthrough video path and visual fixes based on last week’s comments and feedback.

Then she started to fill the inside model of the structures in SketchUp, so they can match the design plan. Pictures below are related to this.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on energy calculations of the HVAC system and the comparison of the different approaches that one can take to get the values needed for infiltration.

The values calculated for the tool-assisted calculation were also compared in graphical form. The pictures below relate to this.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 7th 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, through experimenting in the kitchen, Brian developed a soup base for vegan and omnivores that is delicious.

It has an amazing nutritional value, is very cost effective to buy and to produce. Brian will keep working on recipes like this that can be the base of the menu and can optimize production and flavor for the kitchen. Below are some images related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community design 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 open source hub

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community design 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 32 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Managing One Community volunteer

The core team also added all the updated Economics and Stewardship badges to the Highest Good Network software. The image below shows some of these along with their descriptions.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Economics and Stewardship badges to Highest Good Network

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 12th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex focused on correcting mistakes from the previous week and adjusting her new work according to feedback. Now the text is shorter and bigger. She also watched videos about text highlighting and how to make illustrations out of photography.

In total, 51 images were approved this week.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Open source social media strategy

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah reviewed multiple times to eventually approve a PR. Additionally, she broke down logic in the streak badges, took notes on what she understood the goals of various code sections to be, and monitored how data changed as it moved through the code.

Hannah identified two issues in the logic and solved them but it has not yet addressed the bug in them not dropping off. She will continue to move through this badge logic and focus on the bug next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Highest Good Network software

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav took care of deployment issues requiring him to go beyond and debug an issue outside his expertise. He successfully solved it in a short amount of time and got the system back on track.

Later in the week, Pranav incorporated feedback on active PRs and implemented the suggested changes. He then picked up the implementation of the timezone component and integrated external API for helping to get the Timezone for a given location. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Xuanji Tang to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xuanji earned her Bachelor Degree of Architecture from a top-20 university in China and her Master Degree of Architecture from the University of Southern California. She received her certificate of LEED AP BD+C and is a passionate and qualified LEED resource also. Xuanji designed and was involved in vast project types and is especially interested in healthcare design. She has a passion for sustainable design and believes sustainable design will play a more important role in the future. As a member of the One Community team, Xuanji is helping develop the Duplicable City Center component.

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From our perspective, creating a new sustainability paradigm is possible if we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough to spread on its own.

One Community is making this new paradigm “easy enough and affordable enough” by developing open source and free-shared DIY-replicable sustainability components covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

We will demonstrate it as “attractive enough to spread on its own” by building One Community as the first example of the more enjoyable, healthier, and enriching lifestyle that is possible when you combine all of these components.

• 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 October 24th, 2021 edition (#448) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm
One Community Progress Update #448

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CREATING A NEW SUSTAINABILITY PARADIGM – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 expanded Frank’s HVAC document for the Tropical Atrium to include a more in depth explanation of heat transfer. We explored different results from the Soil-Cement spreadsheet to determine what compositions to test for the Stabilized Earth mixtures and emailed the Compression Testing Team their weekly assignments.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – HVAC document for the Tropical Atrium

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 66th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed researching and comparing water pumps for the Net-Zero Bathroom. He researched 10 different pumps with varying specifications and added them to the spreadsheet.

With the information in place, Jose Luis constructed graphs to compare them to the generated volumetric flow rate curve of the system. Based on the graphs he saw an incremental gain of flow rate when comparing more powerful motors. Though a weak motor would suffice initially, the pump would eventually begin to lose power with use and questionable reliability is also an issue.

Due to this, he chose the Speroni KPM50 as the motor to be used. The other benefit of this model is its compact design and ease of installation. Jose Luis began to analyze where the pump could be placed to optimize its effectiveness and ease of maintenance. The pictures below show some of this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 23rd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Aidan finished reviewing and revising all the content on the Most Sustainable Insulation Webpage.

He spent extra time updating the FAQ section, which included ranking the products based solely on each of the 5 different categories of scoring criteria (Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, DIYability, and Durability). Aidan also completed adding additional Resource links, and backed up the resources. Below are some images related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 17th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started her work by transferring information from her original excel sheet to the master excel sheet.

She then uploaded the updated PDFs and AutoCAD files to the dropbox folder. Throughout this week Daniela wrote new content and calculated new values for the water catchment system of the Earthbag Village. This included measuring surface areas where rainwater runoff would occur.

In addition, Daniela included a 2 foot rock swale into the stormwater management AutoCAD in order to account for excess runoff when the roadway is saturated. She then read through and collected integral information from an article regarding water harvesting opportunities for rural roads.

Lastly Daniela worked on recording videos for grey water harvesting that were not downloadable. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 14th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on the areas that required changing with respect to content, editing, and clarifications in the final report document.

He addressed most of the comments and started making the required changes. Shreyas researched case studies on Vehicle-to-Grid applications and added links to the same in the document, worked on gathering more information regarding the Tesla wall connector that will be used to charge the EVs, and also attempted to get more information regarding the commercials for the previously selected golf carts.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing

And Emmanuel Okwechime (Mechanical Engineer) started working on the plumbing drawing for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. There were slight issues with the dimensions for the plumbing renderings on autoCAD so he drew out a rough shape of the pipes and connecting junctions.

The drawings were done on a new version of the floor plan to avoid mistakes on the original. Pictures below show some of this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

CREATING A NEW SUSTAINABILITY PARADIGM – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 33rd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian finished the latest draft of the energy modeling narrative report for Duplicable City Center.

This report is necessary for LEED certification of the building. He completed the energy modeling guidelines following the ASHRAE 90.1 procedure and also attended to questions on the documents from the team. Please see below related screenshots of this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Energy analysis calculations

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized his selection of the spa pump for the City Center Spa design. After considering a multitude of variables and determining which ones offer the largest impact to our system, he was able to come to a decision on what worked best for the system.

The most important things to consider were energy efficiency, design compatibility, and performance. This combination had many solutions, and there could possibly be better, but after extensive research he found what he believes will be the best for our design.

Looking forward, selection of the blower and some final components is next, while also planning to begin the design of the controls system for all of the elements of our system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus worked on section A_A, editing it according to the new cut line and new positions of the stair. She checked the floor heights and added furniture to the section. Since the structure isn’t complete yet, Venus plans to come back to this section and add columns later. See pictures below.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Duplicable City Center designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 13th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos continued improving the Pallet Bed render by integrating Jae’s feedback. He generated a new segment using the transparency effect used in almost every Layer of the joint.

Now the render has one single visualization for the internal brackets and screw animations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Pallet furniture designs for Duplicable City Center

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she moved the North stair closer to the Dining Dome and confirmed that we used 3-run stairs for the exit staircase.

Xuanji had a meeting with the structural engineer and added columns to the current floor plans and started moving the walls if columns blocked them. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Duplicable City Center architectural review

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, George compiled all the details and results of the tests conducted. He created a report with a better explanation and understanding of the design process with assumptions, a problem statement, and concerns.

George reattempted larger displacement tests on the new bracket design. He also tested a new bracket design using a quarter inch steel plate. Simulations were run to analyze stress and displacement. The center hub was tested again with the new thicker bracket to understand displacement. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Duplicable City Center connectors

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya had a few meetings with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the right location of staircases in the Laundry based on the codes and structural requirements.

She also started to work on the 2nd-floor plan updates in order to coordinate with the existing column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Duplicable City Center architectural review

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, Bryan focused on researching possible updates to the roof, updating the previous SketchUp and AutoCAD files, watching a lot of Youtube tutorial videos on AutoCAD, and ideating in Rhino3D.

He then reanalyzed and recalculated the design and created the assembly instructions on Google Slides with a new layout. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to work on stair variations of 3-flight and 2-flight combinations. There was also a big discussion on needing more means of egress due to the large occupancy, especially for the Social and Dining Domes.

Issues with displacement of columns during CAD edits were also discussed. After verification, there were still a few structural and architectural/furniture conflicts, and a larger conflict with the Living Dome 2nd floor. Yuxi proposed several sketches and finalized a plan for the living space. The next step is to put the not-to-scale sketch into actual measurements.

Pictures of some of this work are below.

CREATING A NEW SUSTAINABILITY PARADIGM – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We continued adding detailed images and step-by-step instructions for installation of roof felt. We also put descriptions for installation of rake drip edges for east/west sides over the roof felt and the south-wall drip edge over the rake drip edge parts.

We then added detailed images with supporting text for metal panel installation. Pictures below are related to this work. 

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another team member worked on the sequential steps for chicken coop rafter placement, sequential installation steps for the drip edge, water and ice shield, and roofing. We reviewed 3 roofing videos related to this so we could design it appropriately.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Chicken Coop

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 55th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng optimized the SketchUp model as it is too big after combining the landscape, structures, and inside details. She adjusted the new solawrap texture so its texture can be seen in the video walkthrough.

The N,S,E,W letters are outlined with a different color brick. She also fixed the texture conflict in front of one of the structures. Pictures below are related to this.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank studied the condensation effects that air will have on the infiltration rate and thus losses of energy due to water condensing.

Frank researched ways to reduce the losses due to such a phenomenon. Moreover, an online calculator was used for standard home HVAC loads to have a rough, order of magnitude comparison with numbers calculated for our design. The pictures below relate to this.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Aquapini & Walipini & Tropical Atrium climate battery

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 6th 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. Brian started this week with a new intern from Escoffier Culinary School.

Working with this first intern has been a rewarding experience and he looks forward to having more interns to teach. He also re-worded the ad for the culinary program and worked on recipes this week that included Grilled Pineapple Ribs, Basque Chicken and Vegetable soup, and a vegan Borscht. Below are some images related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

CREATING A NEW SUSTAINABILITY PARADIGM – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm 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 open source hub

CREATING A NEW SUSTAINABILITY PARADIGM – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability paradigm through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 23 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Highest Good Network software

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week, Guy finished integrating feedback on previous badges and finished both the Stewardship category and the Economics category. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 11th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex corrected 12 posters from previous weeks using new images and slogans. 33 new posters were also created. Images for the new posters were taken from previous work done by Jaime and images found on Pixabay.

Alex also made a bunch more new slogans and submitted them for review. Some of our favorite approved posters are below.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Images for our open source social media strategy

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah began debugging the badge issues after spending a week or so understanding the logic of the code. She identified an issue in the logic of the minimum-hours badge that was also found in the x hours for x weeks streak badge.

It is likely that this bug is present in other badges that do not drop off as higher level badges are awarded and she will examine the logic of other badges to confirm and address this in the upcoming week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Highest Good Network software

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav worked on solving previous PR’s issues, he also successfully debugged and implemented fixes for cross browser compatibility. Pranav then worked on debugging build errors in CircleCI to figure out build deployment errors in previously merged PRs.

On the side, he is continuing implementing a timezone feature to detect location based timezone in the Create New User form. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Creating a New Sustainability Paradigm – Highest Good Network software

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One Community is forwarding a global eco-cooperative movement for “The Highest Good of All“. We are supporting this through open source and sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

We’re combining these to build teacher/demonstration hubs purposed to make replication easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate the lifestyle as attractive enough to spread on its own.

• 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 October 17th, 2021 edition (#447) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Eco-cooperative Movement
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GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a global eco-cooperative movement 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 connected Greg (a relative of the team) and George so the hub connector work can be reviewed by another mechanical engineer.

We prepared weekly assignments for the compression testing team, reviewed and provided feedback to Frank on the HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, and assigned tasks and reviewed and responded to comments from the Compression Team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – compression testing team management

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 65th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began researching proper pump selection analysis to ensure the correct pump is used to provide adequate pressure and ensure an economical and reliable choice.

He began by researching the relationship between inadequate pressure to frictional losses and operating pump pressures. Upon reading theoretical text for a knowledgeable analysis, he began calculating the frictional head losses of the system at various points and plotting the values with their respective flow rate.

With that in place, Jose Luis generated a trendline from the graph and used the function describing the average change of head loss with respect to flow rate and generated a graph using the function at various flow rates. The purpose was to compare the graph to decreasing head loss of the pump.

The intersection between the resistance curve and the pump curve is the flow rate the pump will operate at when in steady state. The next step will be comparing various pumps and seeing which one will provide the necessary flow rate without applying too much pressure to the system and not overworking the pump. The pictures below show some of this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 30th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused on the Earthbag Village aspects of this.

This week David received clarification from Jae on the remaining tasks needed for the roadways doc. He also met with Daniela to delegate these tasks and answered any questions that may have caused any confusion. David and Daniela are also working on making edits to the updated water catchment page due to the ring roadway width changes made for Earthbag Village.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Parking Lot & Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, & Landscaping

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 16th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started by uploading PDFs to the dropbox and attempted to share google sheets that contained tables with last week’s works.

Daniela then started measuring the roadways that connected the parking lot, City Center, Earthbag Village, and Aquapini/Walipini. With this information she recalculated the roadway costs. She then itemized a list of materials for the water catchment/drainage system of the Earthbag Village.

After that, Daniela worked on updating the water conservation webpage, which included creating a new CAD image of the Earthbag Village, rewriting some paragraphs explaining the decisions behind the design of the drainage system, and meeting with David and editing and revising her previous work based on that meeting.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

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 13th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the Compression Testing Team tested Drexel as an alternative to 7th Generation Dish Soap to determine if the team can more reliably make aircrete that resists collapsing. The team successfully made a 3 cylinder batch (approximately 4.5 gallons). After 2 hours the results showed no noticeable collapsing.

The team also looked for soil in the local classifieds and searched for clay to use for stabilized earth cylinders. The Team calculated needing about 0.7 cubic yards of soil. Supplies for cement were also restocked for current and future tests. They also continued organizing the documents in preparation for pre-testing.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

And Emmanuel Okwechime (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the plumbing aspects of the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Emmanuel did research on US plumbing codes and drainage codes for both residential and commercial applications.

He also researched codes for safety and grades of pipes which must be met for our system to work properly. Emmanuel then made some AutoCAD drawings to equip him with the necessary plumbing drafting skills. Pictures below show some of this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a global eco-cooperative movement 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 Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 32nd week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian continued the narrative report for the whole-building simulation of LEED.

He processed the interior and exterior lighting, receptacle and process loads and HVAC systems for Baseline whole building simulation. This guide is applicable to model the building based on LEED guidelines. This Baseline design is another energy model to compare the energy savings of the two design cases.

Please see below related screenshots of activity for reference.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Energy analysis calculations

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis made some modifications to the City Center Spa design schematic, incorporating a submersible pump. This pump allows for rapid draining without the permanent installation of a pump and plumbing.

This would make it significantly more convenient to drain the spa quickly for cleaning and any maintenance that might be necessary. Further research has also been completed with regards to the pump and the blower. Finding the perfect pump has taken some time, but after Luis’s collaboration with the team, a selection should be coming soon.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 14th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus started editing section A_A according to the new cut line and new positions of the stairs.

She created a presentation to get clarification on some questions she had and uploaded all the past Revit and AutoCAD files to the “Final Files – Dormer and Cupola and Living Dome Roofs” folder. See pictures below.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Duplicable City Center designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 12th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms.

Carlos’ focus this week was finishing the edits needed for delivering the longest render of all the furniture: The Pallet Bed. Given the time it takes to process longer renders, he increased the frame rate and assembly speed so it would look like the other renders when edited in a video edition software. Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Pallet furniture designs for Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Xuanji continued the floor plan updates. She shrank the boiler room and updated the stairs to make a fire approved enclosed staircase.

She also started the roof design along with the change of the two staircases. Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Duplicable City Center architectural review

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. The week George designed variations of the bracket to see the effects of stress. He found that the stress in the wide brackets are lower by 2*e^8, but still higher in yield stress.

He concluded that more design iterations are required and other factors need to be reassessed. He conducted FEA for different load conditions when the brackets are fully suspended. He interpreted the results to confirm the inferences and assumptions. He also completed assembly of the center hub, including the redesign of the LVL beams, brackets, and fasteners.

The pictures below relate to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Duplicable City Center connectors

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 34d week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya had a few meetings with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the best way to place the staircases on the north and south sides.

She also helped update the architectural plans and built a SketchUp model of the staircases to help check the details in the floor plans. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, he began with deeper research on how to build shed dormers and how to increase dormer’s insulation on a dome building like ours.

In addition, he also researched the standard hardwares needed, this included the costs, materials, and the 3D model. After understanding the problem and solution scope, he sketched and pitched a better frame construction and design and began to update the dormer 3D model in Rhino3D.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team involved in edits with the egress staircase and discussed changes based on feedback.

With several proposals of changes through sketches, she updated the sketches into CAD with proper measurements. Later, the team found that the previous stair design is causing problems for entry and storage spaces. Yuxi verified the code for egress stair requirements and updated the CAD file for further feedback.

Pictures of some of this work are below.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Duplicable City Center architectural review

GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a global eco-cooperative movement 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 working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document.

We set up a template format for images and text, added detailed measurements for fascia board cut outs, finished the section about sheeting of the roof with all necessary images and instructions, designed the drip edge SketchUp component, and started to generate images and provide instructions for drip edge installation starting with the eave drip edge on the north side of the roof.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another team member worked more on the chicken coop roofing system too. This week’s focus was adding photos that distinguish regular studs from king studs, step-by-step assemblage and text descriptions of exterior OSB, window, and upper and lower plate placements, and providing further descriptions of the rafter design.

This entailed describing the necessary cuts so the rafters, while at an angle, are seated firmly and squarely on the top plates while accommodating the roof pitch.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Chicken Coop roofing system

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 54th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng organized her recent work and uploaded the files so they are backed up to the cloud.

She also did another round of updates and revision of the landscape design as well as the video walkthrough, mainly updating the structure details and the terraces around them. Pictures below are related to this.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on a different approach for calculating infiltration energy losses.

The new approach is more exact and helps with predicting the real energy consumption of the Tropical Atrium and the Aquapini and Walipini designs. A comparison was made between both methods and graphs were adjusted to show the difference.  The pictures below relate to this.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery design

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 5th 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 preparing recipes that can be used for the transitional kitchen, specifically soup recipes.

He developed nutritious recipes that are exciting and interesting, including Sweet Potato with Miso, Coconut Milk Soup, a Thai and Chicken Soup, Base Soup Stock recipes, as well as some recipes interns/externs can use as examples for their projects. Below are some images related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a global eco-cooperative movement 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 open source hub

GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is supporting a global eco-cooperative movement 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 15 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members.

Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Managing One Community volunteer-work review

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) returned to the team to help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week Guy integrated feedback on the first round of badges for the Stewardship category and began design work on the Economics category. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Badge design for the Highest Good Network software

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked more on testing badge award functionality. He found more bugs and added them to the bugs report docs. The pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 10th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex improved her 12 posters from week 9 and then created around 60 new posters with quotes that were already approved. She also created an additional 30 slogans and found around 100 new images that seemed suitable.

What you see below is a sample of some of our  favorites.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Open source social media strategy

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah continued to work on badge testing, adding the new profile dot/isAcive dot features, and deepening her understanding of the badge logic. See pictures below that are related to this work. Pictures below are related to this work.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Highest Good Network software

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav completed resolving 2 low-priority issues in the Beta Test Bugs document. He mainly worked with the Admin functionality to Create New User and built features solving the issues on the existing form.

He modified the form to look cleaner and added validations on the form fields. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Global Eco-cooperative Movement – Highest Good Network software

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