One Community is dedicated to forwarding positive change through sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, economics, social architecture, and more. As an all-volunteer organization, we are proud to introduce a self-replicating model for forming a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs. Together, we are evolving sustainability, regenerating our planet, and striving to create a world that works for everyone.

• 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 July 9th 2023 edition (#537) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding Positive Change
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FORWARDING POSITIVE CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding positive change through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • 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

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed another week of assisting with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal finished gathering data on the three metrics for each company and completed building the table as well.

She updated the ranking based on the information collected and made changes to the order of the narratives and sustainability benchmarking, forwarding positive change in the way we evaluate these companies. Amal also worked on the consumer site section, searching for alternatives for the City Center Project. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

This week, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed another week of assisting with the team, forwarding positive change in our projects. This week, Julia oversaw and assessed Amal’s progress on her Light Bulb research, providing editorial revisions and offering feedback through comments when necessary. Following that, she dedicated her efforts to the”Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance” webpage, making necessary edits and addressing comments received on the source Google Doc.

Additionally, she reconstructed outdated tables for this page and updated corresponding screenshots and links on the source Google Doc. Julia then focused on resolving spacing issues on the “Eco-laundry” webpage, successfully resolving them and ensuring the page’s completion.

Julia devoted considerable time to working on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design” EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, refining its content by editing grammar, spelling, and format, while utilizing comments to pose clarifying questions. She backed up various sources to her Dropbox, updating screenshots, source links, image captions, and Resources sections on the Doc accordingly. Furthermore, she replaced broken links and sourced new images and products as needed. Lastly, Julia integrated relevant content from older sections into already-edited segments and removed any obsolete information. See the images below that show‹ ‹some of this work.

FORWARDING POSITIVE CHANGE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding positive change through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed another week of assisting with web design, forwarding positive change in our projects. Charles worked on feedback for the Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance tutorial. The comments involved correcting links to images and tables, and ensuring that all other figures had links to spreadsheets where applicable. Then he worked on comments for the Duplicable City Center Engineering page. Some comments were to add bullets to some of the lists, make a number of corrections and add missing images, convert equations from image to html text, and make additions to some of the Tables of Contents. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Julio made progress in the installation of hub connectors along the nodes for the City Center Dome, forwarding positive change in the project. Julio successfully completed the placement of 9 hub connectors on the right side of the node for the second row.

The only discernible distinction between these hub connectors is a minute difference in angle. Although this discrepancy is not expected to impact the overall design, it is essential to incorporate these slight variations in the 3D model to ensure precise fitting during the final assembly. To differentiate between brackets with different opening angles, distinct colors were assigned. These brackets will play a crucial role in the completion of the hub connector assembly for all the nodes in the second row. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering, forwarding positive change. This week, Yiwei completed a report comparing the Traditional Geodesic Dome Model with the City Center Dome Model. The simulation worked on vertical loads, wind loads, snow loads, and earthquake situations. The findings of the report revealed that the load capacity of the City Center Dome surpassed that of the traditional dome. See some of this work in the pictures below.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed another week of assisting with the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough, forwarding positive change in the project’s presentation. This week, Ranran addressed some errors present in the Lumion Model, ensuring its accuracy and functionality. Additionally, she dedicated her efforts to incorporating video clips into the project. By carefully selecting specific views that showcased the herb garden and root cellar, Ranran enhanced the overall visual experience. To further augment realism, she integrated figures and plants into these chosen views. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

FORWARDING POSITIVE CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding positive change through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • 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 further reviewed the open-source Chicken Coop designs, forwarding positive change. We completed updates, reviews, and edits for the Chicken Doc pages 166-199, which cover the topics of nesting boxes and window and fan installations. We also reviewed the FAQs and completed some of the unanswered questions. See the pictures below that are related to this.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed another week of assisting primarily focused on data entry tasks for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, completing three of them and partially filling out the fourth. Due to the absence of specific numbers and factors for certain ingredients, he invested additional time to determine accurate values, thereby forwarding positive change in the accuracy of the data.

He also helped with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing but encountered challenges with the Aircrete WBSs due to misunderstandings, resulting in a prolonged effort to address them. Although he dedicated considerable time to this task, he was unable to complete it and aims to exert his utmost effort to finalize it in the upcoming week. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

FORWARDING POSITIVE CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding positive change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: 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

This week Brian Muigai Mwaniki (Structural Engineer) completed work helping with the Ultimate Classroom, forwarding positive change. Brian made significant progress in completing the structural details, with 98% of the work now finished. The remaining 2% involves editing a few text elements, which will be addressed once the structural design is finalized. Additionally, the ongoing Structural Analysis, utilizing STAAD Pro, is currently in progress. See below for pictures related to this work.

FORWARDING POSITIVE CHANGE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • 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 68 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug-fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The pictures below show some of this work, forwarding positive change.

Another core team member began verification of all the modifications made to the working Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. She conducted testing on HGN PRs (Pull Requests). After a thorough evaluation, she marked the following PRs as fixed: 727, 412, 886, 930, 926, and 948. However, several PRs were identified as not fixed, including 908, 916 (working only for Owner accounts), 920 (working only for Owner accounts), 928 (requiring changes in seven different locations), 941 (missing “WEEKLY SUMMARIES LINK” field in the user’s profile), and 840 (not fixed for certain accounts).

Additionally, a new bug was discovered. The committed hour’s changes were not reflected on the Core Team Dashboard, but it was resolved during this week as well. Tatyana also prepared the account data setup for retesting PR757. See the images below for examples of this work in progress.

Abdelmounaim “Abdel” Lallouache (Software Developer) continued his work helping with the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Abdelmounaim focused primarily on frontend development. One of the key accomplishments was the addition of the “setUpNewUserPopup” modal file, which facilitates the process of sending a setup profile link to a provided email address. Additionally, the “tokenProtectedRoute” component was implemented, enabling the validation of token-based links and subsequent redirection to the setup page.

On the backend side, Abdelmounaim introduced the “sendLinkMessage” function, which generates the email body for sending the setup link. Notably, the “getSetupToken” function was also updated to include the functionality of sending emails to new users, providing them with a link to set up their accounts. The pictures below are related to this work.

Alyx Parr (Senior Support Specialist) completed another week of assisting with management, coordination, and overall support of the One Community project, forwarding positive change. This week, Alyx transferred the summaries of the volunteers onto a Google Doc. prepared for the One Community Website Blog.

In addition, she acquired the knowledge, through a process of experimentation and refinement, necessary to prepare the blog for Sara’s inclusion of the accompanying visual content. Furthermore, Alyx provided assistance to the volunteers by offering guidance on measurements and ingredients relevant to the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. The pictures below are examples of this work.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Aishwarya successfully resolved a bug related to double notification emails for a blue square that was manually assigned. Aishwarya identified and removed a duplicate ‘useEffect’ hook in the code responsible for the blue square, specifically within the handleSubmit function, which handles user profile saving logic. The presence of the duplicated ‘useEffect’ caused the handleSubmit function to trigger twice, resulting in the user profile being saved twice and two email notifications being sent instead of the intended one.

Additionally, Aishwarya conducted thorough testing of the functionality, including its corner cases. In addition, she reviewed and approved frontend PR#925, and began working on another assigned bug related to a change in the total remaining hours for users. Further understanding of this change is required to address the bug as the functionality to mark a task as complete is now changed.

Aishwarya also went through some files to find issues related to no blue square getting assigned even when the weekly summary was not provided. She found that many changes were done in the file WeeklySummary.jsx and suspects that the issue lies in it. The pictures below show some of her work.

Eduardo Horta (Software Engineer) provided more of his ongoing assistance with the Highest Good Network software too, forwarding positive change. This week, Eduardo took the initiative in improving the user experience by implementing Skeleton Loading components throughout the application.

He created a SkeletonLoading folder in the common directory, replacing the outdated <Loading /> component. The new SkeletonLoading component was designed to dynamically switch between different cases based on the props it receives. Eduardo successfully added Skeleton Loading to the WeeklySummary and WeeklySummariesReport pages, enhancing the loading experience for users.

Furthermore, he implemented Skeleton Loading for the UserProfile and UserManagement pages, ensuring a seamless loading transition. Eduardo also dedicated time to cleaning up the SkeletonLoading component for the UserManagement page and updating it for the UserProfile page. In order to consolidate the changes, he raised PR #962, titled “Eduardo add skeleton loading feature to all components,” and skillfully resolved any conflicts that arose during the pull request process. The images presented below exemplify his work.

Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack (Software Engineer) dedicated his efforts to advancing the development of the Highest Good Network software, effectively forwarding positive change. This week, Edwin completed the task “Change location and function of red X” by aligning the deadline notification icon in the progress bar, preventing it from occupying extra space in the team member task rows and instead placing it on top of the progress bar component.

Additionally, Edwin submitted a pull request (PR) that made the “Total Time” in the leaderboard appear blue when it differed from the “Tangible Time.” Furthermore, Edwin worked on enabling Owner/Admin to edit the “Total Valid Weekly Summaries” number. To achieve this, he created a new ArrowCounter component that allowed users to increase or decrease the number displayed on the screen. Upon clicking the up or down arrow, a request was sent to the backend to update the corresponding property, ensuring that the new count would be displayed upon refreshing the page. Images showing this progress are below.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Jianjun successfully implemented a new feature on the report page. The feature enables admin to conveniently view or hide the number of members who have contributed over ten hours, along with their total tangible hours, for any selected time period.

Additionally, a bar graph is dynamically generated to depict the monthly or yearly distribution of the data, depending on the duration of the selected period. To facilitate further exploration, users can effortlessly access a detailed list of the contributing members and directly navigate to their individual profiles with a single click. The pictures below are related to this work.

Jinchao Feng (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Jinchao focused on cleaning up commits on the main branch and updating it to the same version as the development branch to resolve merge conflicts in the latest pull requests. He also addressed issues related to the timer not functioning correctly and investigated and resolved a bug that prevented the editing of time entries. Additionally, Jinchao began the process of formatting the code according to the latest ESLint and Prettier rules. Please refer to the pictures below.

Jonathan Carpena (Full Stack Developer) gave his continued support to the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Jonathan undertook a review of two pull requests, namely 925 which addressed badges and text, and 944 which focused on fixing linting errors and nesting element errors. Subsequently, Jonathan dedicated his efforts to the implementation of a new feature in the application.

This feature empowered admin users with additional options for their Weekly Summaries, including the ability to choose “Not Required” or select a specific team. Following the successful completion of the initial pull request, Jonathan proceeded to debug website issues that had been reported in the coding-problems channel on Slack.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) focused on the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Kaixiang dedicated time to conducting final reviews for three pull requests, namely PR905, PR906, and PR908. In addition, he addressed an issue where the weekly committed hours couldn’t be updated in the user profile.

Kaixiang successfully resolved this problem by implementing a hotfix, submitting a new pull request, and obtaining approval. He also allocated time to setting up the application environment on a Mac, and reinstalling all necessary components from scratch, resulting in the successful running of the application. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lawrence Chua (Full Stack Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Lawrence focused on two tasks to enhance the functionality of the system. The first task involved improving the visibility of time entries that were not associated with specific tasks.

To achieve this, Lawrence implemented a solution that highlighted the text of such time entries by making it bold and introduced a white bar within the colored bar on the left side of the task to indicate it as a non-task entry. With the completion of this task, Lawrence proceeded to open his first pull request.

The second task entailed resolving a bug related to name changes for assigned resources when adding a task. Lawrence successfully identified a solution to this issue, which involved ensuring that the task displayed the updated name of the user even after their name was changed. See the images below to get a look at some of this work.

Leon Zhuang (Software Engineer) continued helping with the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Leon addressed a bug related to the display of user profiles. Specifically, he rectified an issue where, when viewing a user’s profile, the text indicating the number of badges earned by that user incorrectly implied that it reflected the viewer’s own accomplishments rather than the user whose profile was being viewed.

To resolve this, Leon implemented logic to verify whether the user was viewing their own profile, and subsequently modified the text accordingly. Additionally, he contributed to the bugs and new features document by generating a descriptive summary for a newly developed interactive map feature. His work by him is shown below.

Lucas Emanuel Souza Silva (Software Developer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Lucas diligently focused on implementing code for a specific task, utilizing the slice with userProfile to establish the appropriate state when users access another user’s dashboard. Additionally, Lucas extended the codebase to enforce limitations on user interactions within the dashboard, while preserving distinct interactions for owner and administrator users.

Throughout the week, Lucas devoted time to reviewing pull requests (PRs) that required final review before submission and commenced the implementation of code to retrieve tasks associated with the viewed user. Furthermore, Lucas resolved challenges encountered during the merging of the development branch with the task 171 branch and contributed to the final review process by assessing a PR. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Lucile Tronczyk (Full Stack Software Developer) continued developing the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Lucile conducted a thorough investigation into the bug that arises when attempting to edit blue squares while users are set as inactive or active.

Despite the modal no longer appearing, an error persisted in the console. Lucile dedicated efforts to further examine and address the issue, particularly focusing on resolving the steps involved in making a user inactive and subsequently editing their corresponding blue square. Additionally, Lucile initiated the creation of a Google document intended to serve as an informational resource for the app, aiming to include relevant information points.

Moreover, Lucile engaged in a search to identify the specific location of an existing information point within the app, with the intention of drawing inspiration for the creation of other information points. The pictures below relate to this.

Nathan Hoffman (Software Engineer) continued improving the Highest Good Network software. forwarding positive change This week, Nathan actively engaged in the code review process and carried out various tasks related to permissions. He reviewed PR 401 and generated a bug report.

Additionally, he re-reviewed PRs 867 and 842, providing additional suggested changes. Nathan reviewed the implemented changes in PR 881, ensuring their effectiveness, and subsequently approved the PR. Upon request, he re-reviewed PR 842. Furthermore, Nathan verified the existence of all necessary permissions in permissionsBackEnd and immersed himself in permissions documentation.

He completed a form for proposing changes and worked on merging back-end and front-end permissions. During the process, he encountered an instance without back-end permissions and proceeded to replace front-end permissions that had corresponding back-end equivalents.

Nathan’s efforts included attempting to set up a test database for alternate permissions, but instead, he created an alternate role collection in the main database. Despite this, he successfully achieved the functionality of alternate permissions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Nida Zaki (Software Engineer) further assisted with the Highest Good Network software, forwarding positive change. This week, Nida researched React hooks and successfully implemented the functionality to set the latest project value and latest team value within their respective functions called in the useEffect hook.

Furthermore, the cause behind the issue of the front-end failing to send requests for updated changes to the server was identified for the task when saving the edited changes in the time entry form. To address this, appropriate measures were taken to rectify the problem.

Additionally, improvements were made to the system’s functionality by implementing sorting capabilities for the list of names in the resources field. This enhancement allows for sorting by either first name or last name when adding or editing a WBS task. The pictures below are examples of this work.

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One Community welcomes Papia Sharmin to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Papia is a Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on building optimized and scalable projects using React.js and Next.js. With a natural aptitude for learning, Papia easily adapts to emerging technologies and stays up to date with the latest industry trends. She approaches every task with determination, strives for perfection while delivering projects on time, and excels in problem-solving and debugging, tackling challenges with a methodical approach to find effective solutions. With a comprehensive skill set encompassing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, and Testing, Papia possesses a solid foundation in Full Stack Development and joined the One Community team as a developer working on the open source Highest Good Network.

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One Community welcomes Edwin Estuardo Lau Mack to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Edwin is an international student from Guatemala, recently graduated, with a B.S in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. He is an enthusiastic, professional and hard-working person who is always seeking new opportunities to learn and expand his circle of skills. His interests are in software development and he loves to create products that will bring satisfaction and a smile to users and customers. One of Edwin’s key accomplishments during his academic career is that he was able to successfully deliver a full-stack project during his internship at Amazon. This project was the first front end application that managed the booking of warehouse transportation of Amazon merchandise. Edwin joined the One Community team to help with our open source Highest Good Network software and, through demonstrating both professional excellence and outstanding software development skills, was promoted to the management team in less than 2 months.

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One Community welcomes Xiao Tan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Xiao is a first-year Masters student at the University of Southern California specializing in Communication Data Science. She has a passion for the convergence of technology and business that drives her to create technology-powered products, services, and experiences guided by data-driven decisions. She has a strong foundation in Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Computer Science, and Business and her previous internships at JD.com and Bytedance also provided valuable experiences in project management. There she collaborated with cross-functional teams, conducted market research, led feature development, and presented actionable recommendations based on data analysis. These experiences further fueled Xiao’s dedication to data-driven decision-making and inspired their pursuit of a graduate degree in Data Science, with the goal of becoming a proficient project manager in the future. As a member of the One Community Team helping develop the open source Highest Good Network software, Xiao quickly distinguished herself and is now a manager on the PR Review Leadership Team.

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One Community is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to maximizing sustainable yields through our holistic approach to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our open source and free-shared model, meticulously designed to become self-replicating, serves as the foundation for creating a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs commitment to “The Highest Good of All“.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 2nd, 2023 edition (#536) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Maximizing Sustainable Yields
One Community Progress Update #536

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MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABLE YIELDS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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, Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 35th week with the team. Julia assumed responsibility for overseeing and managing Amal’s Light bulb research, addressing and resolving comments on her development Google Doc. Additionally, Julia produced a Feedback PDF for the “Solar Microgrid Setup Maintenance” webpage, completing her initial review of Chuck’s incorporation of new content onto the page, ensuring that the changes were aligned with the goal of maximizing sustainable yields.

Throughout the process, Julia utilized the comments to communicate necessary fixes, making minor edits to the code and formatting as needed. To ensure accuracy, she consistently referenced the source Google Doc during the integration of all new content. Furthermore, Julia conducted a review of Chuck’s implementation of her feedback for the “Eco-laundry” webpage, resolving comments on the Feedback PDF and finalizing the page.

In parallel, she worked on the “Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design EDITED CONTENT FOR WEB” Google Doc, addressing comments and editing the content with a focus on maximizing sustainable yields. Lastly, Julia reviewed the “Hot Tub Sanitizer Alternatives” Google Doc, confirming its completion and readiness for integration into the website. Â Ã¢â’¬¹See the images below that show‹ ‹some of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 12th week helping now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial. This week, Amal worked on various sections of the research project. She began by conducting further research and making adjustments to the sustainability benchmarking section, particularly focusing on refining the descriptions of each company with an emphasis on maximizing sustainable yields.

In this context, Amal undertook the development of a new methodology aimed at enhancing the ranking of companies. This involved investing time in gathering the necessary information and organizing it in a table format. Currently, her main focus is on validating the sustainability benchmarking section, as the ranking plays a crucial role in the subsequent stages of the research.

Thus far, Amal has identified alternative proposals for the city center project, specifically suggested by Signify, which holds the top position due to its exceptional sustainability achievements and commitment to maximizing sustainable yields. For the remaining two rankings, she is relying on the utilization of the new set of four metrics to ensure a robust decision-making process and establish a solid ranking.  Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Vidhi Bansal (3D Visualization Artist) completed her 11th week helping with video and AutoCAD renders for a 4-dome cluster Earthbag Village housing design. This week, while working towards maximizing sustainability yields, Vidhi focused on the 4 Dome Flythrough project, integrating the Tesla charger, glass box, and road pathway into the scene. He worked on the scene’s overall layout and resolved material issues for several assets. He also made significant changes and edits to the materials of the Tesla charger and the glass box.

In his quest for optimal placement, he experimented with positioning the charger on the walls of the Domes and concluded that situating it alongside the Tesla was a superior solution. Additionally, Vidhi dedicated time to enhancing the landscape materials and achieving a realistic appearance for the entire scene through lighting adjustment. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week, helping now with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing preparation. This week, while working towards maximizing sustainability yields, Zhide completed the finalization of the Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs) for the Aircrete project and integrated them into the standard documentation. Additionally, he familiarized himself with another project involving data entry for a transition kitchen intended to serve a population of over 50 individuals. Zhide, promptly began assisting with the data entry tasks and successfully completed two of the plans while also commencing work on the third one. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABLE YIELDS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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, while working towards maximizing sustainability yields, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 35th week helping with web design. Charles continued working on feedback for Solar Energy Microgrid Setup and Maintenance tutorial. The comments involved adding links to the pie chart figures to the corresponding spreadsheet, and insuring that all the other figures had links to spreadsheets where applicable. Then he worked on comments for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering page. Some comments were to add bullets to some of the lists, and comments asked to replace equations that were imaged with text. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, while working towards maximizing sustainability yields, Julio dedicated time to researching various hub connector concepts but decided to prioritize testing the current model due to its comparatively simpler manufacturability in comparison to other options.

His initial focus was on designing the “V” bracket for the right side of the first row, encompassing two models with slight variations in plate angles. Although these angle differences were fractional (0.2 degrees), they were deemed negligible in terms of performance impact. In the event that this model fails simulation testing, he will explore more intricate design alternatives. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, while working towards maximizing sustainability yields, Yiwei focused on the simulation aspects of the two dome structures, delving into the intricacies of the design and construction. She dedicated her efforts to ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of the simulations, while also taking into account the potential impact of various weather conditions.

In addition, she completed the finalization of the Aircrete ordering list, meticulously reviewing the details to ensure the correct quantities and specifications. As part of her responsibilities, she checked the contents of the solar page, verifying the accuracy and relevance of the information presented. See some of this work in the pictures below.

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABLE YIELDS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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 while focusing on maximizing sustainability yields, continued to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked with 3 new team members as we imported the recipe information from the Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc to the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out. We also uploaded PDF recipes to the Source Recipe PDFs folder. See below for pictures related to this.

The core team also reviewed the open-source Chicken Coop designs with a focus on maximizing sustainable yields. This week we reviewed and provided edits for the chicken doc pages 117-140 regarding the topics of Coop Entry Door Construction, Hanging the Coop Entry Door, Installing Sliding Chicken Doors, and Building Shutters for Ventilation Openings. We then provided suggestions to format headings in a grammatically similar format and to also unify the material lists with the same sequential three-line items. See the pictures below that are related to this. 

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABLE YIELDS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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

MAXIMIZING SUSTAINABLE YIELDS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is maximizing sustainable yields 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

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At One Community, an all-volunteer organization, we are dedicated to creating a society that works for everyone. We are supporting this with open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combining these, our model is designed to be self-replicating, inspiring others to join our mission of regenerating our planet through a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs, where our sustainability practices will be further evolved and open sourced.

• 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 June 25th, 2023 edition (#535) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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CREATING A SOCIETY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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, Loza Ayehutsega (Civil Engineer/Assistant Civil Engineer) completed her 21th week helping, now focused on Earth Dam Design & Construction for Water Retention, Pond & Lake Creation. This week Loza worked on the Dam safety guidelines topic. This topic is quite broad. The guidelines are given for the possible failure mechanism. Dam risk mitigation by considering the possible failure mechanism is reported on this topic. The safety of Dams relates to many disciplines, including Dam owners, Dam inspectors, construction sectors, authorities, and government representatives, all contributing to Creating a Society that Works for Everyone. Take a look at the pictures below to get a glimpse of this work.

Amal Lazar (MS Mechanical Engineering) completed her 11th week helping now with the research for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies: Research, Energy Savings, and More tutorial, contributing to Creating a Society that Works for Everyone. This week, Amal focused on finalizing the sustainability benchmarking part. She diligently gathered data on each company and meticulously summarized the findings in a comprehensive table.

Amal conducted thorough comparisons between companies to initially determine and predict the most accurate ranking. In the process, She identified and corrected numerous mistakes, refining the narratives and expanding certain paragraphs. Additionally, Amal conducted research on alternative lighting solutions for the Duplicable City Center. Below, you’ll find some images of this work.

Zhide Wang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week, helping now with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing preparation. This week, Zhide successfully organized the Aircrete information and revamped the Aircrete Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs) contributing to Creating a Society that Works for Everyone. The WBSs now feature concise task titles, clearly outlined task importance, implementation guidelines, and expected end states, making them ready for review. Additionally, Zhide found a lack of clarity regarding the stabilized earth task and conducted thorough research to address this gap. Get a closer look at this work through the pictures below.

CREATING A SOCIETY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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, Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 35th week helping with web design. This week, Creating a Society that Works for Everyone, Charles continued working on Julia’s feedback to the Eco-Laundry research tutorial. The comments involved adding blank lines before some of the headings, and correcting links in the Resources section. Then he worked on the Solar Microgrid Setup and Maintenance page. He compared the contents of the Google Doc to the WordPress page. The only issues that were found were a few missing blank lines before headings, and missing anchor links in the Choosing the Best Solar Hardware section. The pictures below offer a visual representation of this work.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 28th week working on the updated video for the Duplicable City Center internal and external walkthrough. This week, Creating a Society that Works for Everyone, Ranran undertook several modifications and adjustments based on the feedback received. In particular, she made changes to the model to address the suggested improvements. Additionally, she decided to alter the material used for the countertop, freezer, and various kitchen machines, and carefully selected specific views that showcased the vegetable greenhouse and the entrance to the garden. Take a look at the images below to see some of the progress made in this work.

Julio Marín Bustillos (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Creating a Society that Works for Everyone, Julio focused on developing a practical model for the City Center dome. Building upon the previous week’s work, which utilized a dome composed of cylinders to analyze reactive forces and determine maximum stresses, Julio successfully redesigned the dome using genuine beams featuring an 8-inch hub diameter to prevent beam intersections.

To accomplish this, Julio leveraged the wire model to generate the beams effectively. This newly constructed model will serve as a valuable resource for designing an improved hub connector and conducting additional simulations to assess the design’s optimization and compliance with performance requirements. The pictures below provide a glimpse of this work.

Yiwei He (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering. This week, Creating a Society that Works for Everyone, Yiwei focused on the simulation aspects of two dome structures, delving into the intricacies of their design and construction. She dedicated her efforts to ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of the simulations, while also taking into account the potential impact of various weather conditions.

In addition, Yiwei completed the finalization of the Aircrete ordering list, meticulously reviewing the details to ensure the correct quantities and specifications. As part of her responsibilities, she also diligently checked the contents of the Solar Microgrid page, verifying the accuracy and relevance of the information presented. See some of this work in the pictures below.

CREATING A SOCIETY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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 to work on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, focusing on Creating a Society that Works for Everyone. This week we worked on the Loose Measurements column in the Shopping List and completed those calculations. We also began adding Absolute Reference markers to the calculations in the Shopping List and did so for the first two columns. We then imported FWC and FWD to the Master Recipe Template. See below for pictures related to this. 

The core team also reviewed the open source Chicken coop designs. This week while working on Creating a Society that Works for Everyone,  we reviewed and provided edits for the chicken doc pages 117-140 regarding the topics of Coop Entry Door Construction, Hanging the Coop Entry Door, Installing Sliding Chicken Door, and Building Shutters for Ventilation Openings. We then provided suggestions to format headings in a grammatically similar format and to also unify the material lists with the same sequential three line items. See pictures below that are related to this. 

CREATING A SOCIETY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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 SOCIETY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a society that works for everyone 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

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One Community welcomes Zhide Wang to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Zhide is a dedicated and passionate graduate from the University of Florida with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his studies, he developed a strong interest in the fields of solar energy and high-performance vehicles, actively participating as a member of the Formula SAE team. Prior to graduation, Zhide gained valuable industry experience through internships with NIO and AVIC, focusing on mechanical design and system management. These experiences honed his skills in designing and optimizing mechanical systems. As a member of One Community, Zhide has helped contribute to the completion of the City Center Structural Engineering Tutorials, helped to enhance the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village Water Collection and Septic Design, aircrete compression testing organization and planning, and Food Self-sufficiency Transition Plan.

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One Community welcomes Alexander G Huerta to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Alexander is a full stack software engineer known for his curiosity, passion for learning, and problem-solving prowess. With a degree from the rigorous Hack Reactor Software Engineering immersion, he continuously expands his knowledge and embraces new technologies to deliver innovative solutions. Prior to his software development career, Alexander spent seven years in real estate, cultivating exceptional communication skills, a solution-oriented mindset, and effective time management abilities. Currently, he explores his love for trying new things by learning to play soccer and actively participating in a local league. Alexander’s interests extend beyond technology, as he is deeply committed to global sustainability and seeks to make a positive impact on the world. He indulges his love for diverse cultures by sampling new foods and embarking on enriching travel experiences, continuously broadening his horizons. As a member of the One Community team, Alex is helping create the open source Highest Good Network software.

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One Community welcomes Lucile Tronczyk to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Lucile combines over 10 years of professional expertise in fast-paced environments and complex projects, where she consistently delivered efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. With her recent transition to full stack software development, she is now fueled by a strong desire to embrace fresh challenges and expand her knowledge. Joining the One Community team as an entry-level developer, Lucile actively contributes to the maintenance, debugging, and development of the Highest Good Network Software.

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One Community welcomes Vishvesh Sheoran to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vishvesh is a highly skilled and accomplished AI specialist with a broad range of technical experience in machine learning, programming, and data analytics. He has successfully managed multiple projects, including developing a mental health app for Northwestern University and a sentiment analyzer for Solidus Labs, and scaled a startup core team from 30 to 3000+ members. Vishvesh is a strategic thinker with expertise in finance, management consulting, and risk analysis. His experience as Head Software Analyst for Optimum Security Solutions demonstrates his ability to handle high-pressure situations and draft technical specifications for government tenders. As a member of the One Community team, Vishvesh is applying his proactive, resourceful, and versatile professional experience to help explore and integrate machine learning and AI into the Highest Good Network software and the One Community website.

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