One Community welcomes Daniela Andrea Parada to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Daniela currently studies at the University of California, Irvine and is working to graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in General Civil Engineering. She has worked for various organizations that have strengthened her abilities and further pushed her to efficiently overcome obstacles within her teams. Daniela wants to continue empowering the communities around her and encouraging the leading women in her life. She believes that sustainability is a major key to establishing a better future for our society. As a One Community volunteer, Daniela is helping with the City Center Water Catchment designs, Roadway and Walkway tutorials, and Aquapini and Walipini designs team.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DANIELA!

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Global sustainability is possible through regenerative community establishment. One Community is designing the prototype teacher/demonstration hub to provide all the open source plans needed to replicate these communities.

They include sustainable and open source plans for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. This is the May 16th, 2021 edition (#425) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of regenerative community establishment as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 16th, 2021 edition (#425) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Regenerative Community Establishment
One Community Progress Update #425

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REGENRATIVE COMMUNITY ESTABLISHMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is supporting regenerative community establishment through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued finalizing the Earthbag Village Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc, integrating input from 3 core team members. These last reviews are from a potential users perspective.

They addressed some issues that we overlooked and we have responded with additional information to reconcile the concerns where appropriate. We’d say this tutorial is now about 90% complete behind-the-scenes.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Doc.

The core team additionally continued the final review of the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page. We integrated Hannah’s input and had a phone call for further clarification. We also discovered some mistakes in the new spreadsheet, so it was decided to use Hannah’s original spreadsheet instead of the one we’d edited for visual aesthetics.

We identified areas where additional images would be helpful to the reader and edited and rearranged the order of a couple sections. We’d say the final review and final editing of this page is now about 95% complete.

Regenerative Community Establishment, Review of Earthbag Village dome home loft engineering page

The core team also confirmed all of Zachary’s updates from last week to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book and created a new list of requests covering up through page 50. Pictures below show some of this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Working on the Tree House Village Online Book

Lastly, the core team finished the latest version of the Murphy bed assembly instructions document. Last review with corrections and suggestions were done for the closed storage unit and nightstand assembly, covering pages 102 -119. Pictures below are related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Murphy Bed Closed Storage Unit and Nightstand Assembly

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #221 of Dean’s work and the focus was was mostly texturing and placement of the quilt shown in the pictures below. Dean added some items to the guest room too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 42nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished calculating the maximum scaling factor of the Net-Zero Bathroom exterior roof. He also calculated the relationship between the scaling factor and the amount of material needed to construct the exterior roof.

A relationship was calculated between the number of tangential beams and weight. This was needed to accurately calculate the relationship between weight and the surface area of the exterior roof. The same principle was used to determine a relationship between the weight of both the radial beam and the galvalume panel and the number of tangential beams.

Graphs were constructed using the calculated weight and the number of tangential beams. A best fit line was generated to have an estimated equation to calculate the weight based on the number of tangential beams. This approach was taken to calculate the maximum scale factor and the amount of material needed by calculating the total weight using the best fit line equations from the generated graphs.

With the calculations completed he began creating a scaling factor section in the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment, Maximum Scaling Factor of Net-zero Bathroom Exterior Roof

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 38th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Stacy focused on going through the updates slowly one-by-one and trying to make the changes suggested. This week was still making updates to different wood types and cuts of wood in the different areas and assembly.

It is definitely helping the clarity of the instructions to pull everything together visually in the beginning of the wall section and initial frame construction. All while keeping a close eye on the changes in any screw counts and parts needed as per the new construction changes. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 36th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial and the loft dome design tutorial.

She continued to elaborate on details within the FFF doc and worked with team members to enhance the presentation and content of the loft structural design. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Working on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 17th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente reviewed the calculations for the tub thermal losses for different situations and the associated report, making comments and contributions to improve it.

The inserted chart (picture on left) illustrates a summary of Luis’ calculations indicating the highest heat loss is when the tub is in use (about 25 kW required under the worst situation: environmental temperature -6.7 ºC); this means that the power demand will never be higher than this value.

He has updated the tub report to remove old/inactive comments. The economic balance that compares two options for the electric service has been updated as well, illustrating a clear advantage for the case of RMP. Vicente also reviewed and commented on the quote from the inverters company.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson completed the research of solar incentive rate in California, Utah, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

He found that most of the power utility companies offer 1:1 net metering, which is as good as it gets, meaning the rate of selling energy to the utility company is the same as what is charged for using their energy. However, for the utility provider of the current location, Garkane Power Association, the cost of energy is at $ 0.07500/kWh and the energy being credited is only $ 0.02600/kWh.

In other words, for the same amount of energy, the customer pays 2.88 times more than they are credited. The next closest power utility company in Kanab, Utah is Rocky Mountain Power. They offer basically 1:1 net metering, which would be much more desirable than Garkane Power Association. He summarized his findings in both the solar collaboration doc and his solar incentive rate research doc.

He also called and sent the email to both Garkane and RMP for the solar rate and size confirmation. Finally, Jeson finished the evaluation and selection of the best solar PV and inverters, given all the collected quotes and data. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

regenerative community establishment, solar microgrid design, sizing, & cost analysis specifics research

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY ESTABLISHMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is supporting regenerative community establishment 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 completed another round of review and feedback for what will become the Duplicable City Center connector tutorial covering the engineering that went into identifying the best designs for the hub connectors for the dome frames. Pictures below show some of this work.

Regenerative community establishment, Review & feedback of the duplicable city center connector

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 30th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia added ventilation in the kitchen, cleaned up the  background of the floorplan, and started to calculate hot water for the kitchen. She also deleted pipelines between the domes. Pictures below are related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 20th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian finalized the operation of schedules for the Duplicable City Center. He also transferred all the data of operation schedules from the spreadsheet to the energy simulation software.

He finalized the operation of schedule for occupancy, process loads, artificial lighting, air ventilation, heating and cooling demand and domestic hot water. This operation of schedule has a significant effect considering the energy savings of the building (especially when the project is pursuing LEED Platinum certification).

Below are some images related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Energy Analysis Calculations for the Duplicable City Center

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David sent out an email to coordinate and distribute action items to his team on Monday because his team was not available to meet.

A progress update meeting was held to gauge how much work was needed for completion so that David and his team can prepare a submittal to Jae for review. David has also responded to emails, worked on the landscaping tutorial, and finished up the Storm Drain drainage design tutorial section.

He also looked into the greywater processing pond project to familiarize and prepare himself to work with the design team when they are ready. Pictures below are related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Parking Lot & Sustainable Roadways Development

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis encountered some setbacks with regards to his completion of the City Center Eco-spa  report.

With the help of the One Community Team, he was able to identify some errors in his evaporative heat transfer calculations with regards to the water densities he was using, along with the mass transfer coefficient of water. This was a small setback, but it is important to provide the correct information with confidence and certainty.

He was also tasked with putting together a table that displays the heat loss of the tub when partially covered. This will allow some heat to be saved while in operation. Furthermore, the report is in its final stages and awaits approval from the team. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 7th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. Daniela started off this week by editing the grading and drainage plans of a basement for a City Center structure.

As she has been making various edits within the past few weeks, she continued to make alterations in order to receive more feedback from David. Daniela also met with David and his team in order to explain the completed work from last week and continued to discuss questions/expectations for the current week.

Afterwards Daniela worked on creating a glossary for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot Report. She began by reading through the document and choosing technical terminology that non-engineers would need further descriptions on. Once completed Daniela researched for the most accurate and clear definitions in order to better describe terminology.

To wrap up the week Daniela made further alterations to the grading design as the driveway did not properly align with the semi circle. This included making attempts to find the best and most efficient drainage design. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week as a member of the team. This week Yufan worked on WBS #: 2.2.3.3: City Center SketchUp, AutoCAD 3D and 2D Dormer Window Design for the Duplicable City Center. For this task, she worked on the SketchUp model and modified the dormer’s frame, trimming the improper structure out of the wall.

At the same time, she previewed the tutorials about 3D AutoCAD. After communicating with Jae and identifying the right place to make adjustments, Yufan researched the IBC fire code and other relevant code, and also scanned some design references. Then she worked on the new proposals for the dormer in the SketchUp model. The pictures below relate to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – WBS #: 2.2.3.3: City Center Dormer Window Design

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 4th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol did research and wrote the Different Street Types section, including “Commercial”, “Residential”, “Industrial”, and “Mixed-Use” Streets.

She also did additional research and worked on sections “Consideration for Sidewalk Width Determining”, “Design Features” for intersection, and “General Bikeway Design Criteria (Design Considerations)”. In addition, she also wrote the introductions for “Alternative Pavement Options” and “ADA Requirements for Parking Lot”.

Carol also made some changes in the “Roadway Initial Costs” spreadsheets. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Rushabh contacted the cover vendor to finalize the cover for the hot tub. He also worked on designing the piping and drainage system of the hot tub and assembled the whole setup.

Special consideration was given to the connection of the overflow drain to the main drain and also the piping for incoming water. Rushabh also started research towards finalizing the hardware parts and specifications. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Regenerative Community Establishment – City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY ESTABLISHMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is supporting regenerative community establishment 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 returned to working on the open source “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” tutorial. We compared it with the “Website/Web Page Reviewing Checklist” to make sure everything followed One Community standards, finished formatting the reference links, and fixed other formatting and content details. We’d say the tutorial is now about 90% complete.

Regenerative Community Establishment – “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship”

This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 32nd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week she read all the background materials of the project and went through all the existing files. Qiuheng also cleaned up the existing design model and exported a plan for further development. Pictures below are related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Aquapini & Walipini External Landscaping Details

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY ESTABLISHMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is supporting regenerative community establishment 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

Regenerative Community Establishment – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels |

REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY ESTABLISHMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 24 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 29th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #483, #484, #485, #486 and #487. You can see all these new images below.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #483 to #487

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on the edit button on the project reporting page. Once the user clicks the edit button, a popup window will show on the specific task and user can edit the task information there.

Also she modified the collapse button, so when there are more than 2 resources, the “view” button will show. After clicking the “view” button, users will see all the resources for a specific task. If there are less than 2 resources, the resources will show directly. Pictures below are related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Worked on the Edit Button on the Project Reporting Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 15th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. The badges he is creating are for the 7 primary components of our project.

This week Robert’s focus was more additions to the badge shown at right and representing 1000 hours contributed to the core component of “Stewardship”.

Mike Suarez (Software Developer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This was a very development-focused week for Mike. It started on Sunday getting the live site back online. On Monday he went back to testing and fixed 6 of the 17 broken tests.

He also approved a pull request on that day and created another with the tests fixes. From Tuesday to Thursday he made a great push to get the dev environment up and running. The week ended up on a high note on Thursday at 10 pm after finally figuring out what was breaking the dev site.

Along the way Mike learned a lot and interacted with Mongo, Azure, Azure DevOps, CircleCI and Surge. The pictures below are related to this work.

Regenerative Community Establishment – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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Humanity is capable of designing a more sustainable world. One Community is supporting this through open source, modular, sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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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 May 9th, 2021 edition (#424) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Designing a More Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #424

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued finalizing the Earthbag Village Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc. We added more color to images, clarified additional text components, added more comments and questions for Hannah, and started adding in all the notices for where and what videos we’ll be shooting to clarify and demonstrate various design components.

Pictures below are related to this and we’d say this tutorial is now about 80% complete.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Doc.

The core team additionally continued the final review of the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page. We finished the first round of reviewing, editing, and re-writing all the sections and formulated a final question list for Hannah to help with areas needing more text or images to help with the explanation. We’d say the final review and final editing of this page is now about 70% complete.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Review of Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering Page

Lastly, the core team continued working with the latest version of the Murphy bed assembly instructions document. We put comments, corrections and suggestions for pages 75 to 101. These comments were all related to the assembly of the Closet Storage Unit component. Pictures below are related to this work.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Assembly of the Closet Storage Unit Component

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 41st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued the research and analysis to determine the maximum exterior roof size. He began by updating the densities of the materials to use the correct conversions.

The densities were used with the volume of the material to determine the current weight of the design. The surface area and length of the wall supporting the exterior roof was measured as part of the parameters. Calculations were done on paper to determine the maximum weight and the location of the reactive forces.

The free body diagram was constructed and inserted into the maximum roof size spreadsheet. Equations were typed out and added alongside with the diagram and the graph used to determine the maximum lateral forces. The final step is to determine the maximum radial beam length and divide it by the original beam length to determine the maximum scaling factor.

Once determined, additional analysis will be conducted to calculate the maximum roof size with one row of exterior support columns. The pictures below show some of this work.

Designing a more sustainable world, Research & Analysis to determine the maximum exterior roof Size

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 37th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey started to go through all the updates listed after reviewing the assembly following current instructions.  She mainly worked on revising the trouble pieces of lumber that were now made from combining 2 pieces of wood into 1 assembly step.

Everything is much more cohesive and the different sections are working together well. There have been a few updates overall and we want to keep the instructions as simple as possible. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 35th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She continued to revise diagrams and figured in the document based on comments from other team members.

Hannah also added a specific section in the document for the crowdfunding campaign 3-Dome Cluster. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for the Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 16th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente reviewed the documentation written and collected by Jeson that describes and analyzes the information from different suppliers to identify the best hardware for the panels and inverters.

He regularly checked the schedule diagram to update the dates and completion column according to the ongoing actions. He also updated the distribution of tasks for the involved people according to their preferences to arrange the tasks, have an easy view of the ongoing work, and check what is pending.

He additionally made a first review of the final report by Luis on the calculations for the hot tub. The pictures below are related to this work.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 13th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to conduct and compile research for the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet. He worked on researching, adding, and evaluating additional products such as ThermaCork, ThermaFiber, Aerogel Spaceloft, and Havelock Sheep Wool.

He also corrected grammar, formatting issues, and design aesthetics. Additionally, Aidan reviewed and offered comments and suggestions for multiple research documents, including the City Center hot tub design. and the Pavement Types research. Pictures below are related to this work.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Research for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson contacted FIMER for their inverter quote, and will follow up on it on Mon. He also got a response from Enphase Energy saying they can forward the quote request to their business partner.

In addition, he found two good sources (http://www.dsireusa.org/ and http://www.energysage.com/solar/101/net-metering-for-home-solar-panels/) showing the national solar incentive programs. Jeson also wrote a summary of his research on the solar incentive rate, and he is working on adding more data to his research.

He finished gathering data from California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Oregon. Only Washington, Oregon, and Idaho are left, and he will be finishing this research next week. Most states offer dollar for dollar solar credit for excess energy generation. However, in our county, the utility provider Garkane Power Association Inc. only gives $ 0.026 per kWh while charging $ 0.061 per kWh usage.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, & Cost Analysis Specifics

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 4th week as a member of the team. This week Yufan completed WBS #: 2.1.1.2 Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions. For this task, she worked on five renders, added people with activities, and enriched the scenery.

She also started WBS #: 2.2.3.3: City Center SketchUp, AutoCAD 3D and 2D Dormer Window Design. For this task, Yufan researched the design and fire code of the dormer. The pictures below relate to this work.

Designing a More Sustainable World – WBS #: 2.1.1.2 Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) continued helping with 3D render work, completing his 3rd week as a volunteer now helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders. This week he focused mostly on adding plants and trees to the two images shown below.

Designing a More Sustainable World – Plants & Trees to the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Renders

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design Outside

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Tabulation/summary of Ideal Process Loads on the Spreadsheet

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways Development

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – City Center Natural Pool & Spa Web Page Heat Transfer Details

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

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Hot Tub Frame and Cover Design – Click for Pool and Spa Page

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

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, & Landscaping Tutorial

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

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

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing a more sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Designing a More Sustainable World – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels |

DESIGNING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 23 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Adding the Filter Buttons on the Project Reporting Page

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

Designing a more sustainable world, Badge showing hours contributed to Component of “Stewardship”

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

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

Designing a More Sustainable World – Working on the Highest Good Network Software

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Earth-care collaboratives are an earth-regenerative approach to global sustainability. Working together, humanity has the ability to create more beauty and support for ourselves while also stewarding the planet we all share.

One Community is supporting the creation of earth-care collaboratives through earth-care teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs include and develop open source and sustainable models for food, energy, housing, education models, for-profit and non-profit economic structures, 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 May 2nd, 2021 edition (#423) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth-care Collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #423

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EARTH-CARE COLLABORATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating earth-care collaboratives 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, an additional member of the core team began proofreading the Earthbag Village Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc, watching videos to clarify some technical concepts, linking them to the document, looking for ways to present the information in a more friendly way, making some infographics for the “construction steps”, and hyperlinking the resources in the right place to facilitate the edition process in the future.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Earthbag Village Construction of Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Doc.

A second core team member continued edits and worked with Hannah on the technical details for this same Earthbag construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc.

They began integrating the comments of the previous core member and adding notations regarding future video insertions indicating where videos produced onsite and created by our team members during the actual build of the earthbag/airkrete village will be added.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Earthbag Construction of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring Doc.

The core team additionally continued double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. We added more specifics for the electrical demands, set up referenced cells so we can change the number of domes of each kind easily, and integrated comments and questions from other collaborators. We’d say this evaluation/estimation task is now about 60% complete.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design

We also began final review of the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering page. We added multiple introductory paragraphs and formatted the page for consistency. We’d say the final review of this page is now about 40% complete.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Review of the Earthbag Village Dome Home Loft Engineering Page

Lastly, the core team continued working with the latest version of the Murphy bed assembly instructions document. We put comments, corrections, and suggestions for another 15 or so pages of the instructions, covering from WS1k to WS20. Our comments can be seen below and are related to missing parts, incorrect dimensions, labeling of the parts, and suggestions about cutting oversized parts.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions Document – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #220 of Dean’s work and the focus was adding in the roof/loft floor to each dome and beginning the process of adding common objects (like books) into the rooms. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 40th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began researching proper scaling feasibility of the Net-Zero Bathroom. Scaling through proportions is beneficial for different space and/or water collection needs.

It was determined that the most efficient part of the structure to scale was the outer diameter of the Net-Zero Bathroom and its exterior roof. Scaling has its limitations due to the growth of the structure needing more support because of increase in the structure’s weight.

In order to determine these limitations, it was necessary to research the mechanical properties and stresses involved in the construction of earthbag structures. To organize this information Jose Luis began constructing a spreadsheet of these mechanical properties and the dimensions of the exterior and interior roof panels and supports.

The information gathered will be used to calculate the maximum diameter of the Net-Zero Bathroom which, when applied in a ratio with the original diameter, will result in the maximum scaling proportion. Finite element analysis was applied to the structure using the weight of the roof from the original design as the principal load.

This was done to help understand where the maximum stresses and deflections occur in order to focus the analysis on the specific areas of the Net-Zero Bathroom. The pictures below show some of this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Began Researching Proper Scaling Feasibility of the Net-zero Bathroom

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 34th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial.

She continued to revise the document to be more specific by clarifying topics such as how to fill in gaps in insulation and defining common construction terms. Hannah also began to add content for the 3-Dome cluster for the crowdfunding campaign. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Continued Working on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 15th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente upgraded the comparison between the two potential utilities for the electric supply and connection of the solar PV, with clear pros & cons for each case.

For the moment, it seems that the current location (Garkane option) seems to be the best option. Nonetheless, final results are pending confirmation of data for incentives and compensation rate in RMP. He also dprepared two new ad profiles for electrical engineers and supervised and gave feedback on Jeson and Luis’ work. The picture below shows the  related to this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 12th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan nearly completed the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet that he has been working on for the past several weeks.

He made edits to the various scoring categories to ensure they appropriately reflected One Community’s top priorities for insulation: Health and Safety, Sustainability, Cost, DIY-ability, and Durability. Aidan conducted more research, compiled content, and evaluated each product in each scoring category.

He calculated the cumulative score for each product and currently has a tentative ranking for the 12 considered insulation products. Additionally, Aidan added a sheet that diligently documents the scoring system he created. This helps ensure that people can clearly understand how each category was evaluated and scored, and makes it easier to add and score new products in the future.

Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Nearly Completed the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson followed up with the inverter quotes and focused mostly on the solar incentive research. He is halfway through the research and writing up the final report details shown below.

Next is putting the numbers into a table for easier visual comparison and finalizing the report. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Inverter Quotes & Focused on the Solar Incentive Research – Click for Page

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 3rd week as a member of the team. This week Yufan started on WBS #: 1.1.1: Finalize development of the AutoCAD plans for the Transition Kitchen. For this task, she made a plan, front elevation and section of the transition kitchen with dimension markers, also made the table of each equipment and labeled them in the plan.

Each drawing is scaled and placed in the spreadsheet for formal print. Then she kept working on WBS #: 2.1.1.2: Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions. Yufan changed the position of additions in “03b-Earthbag Village 4DC Final Looking SE2” and added additions in “04-Earthbag Village 4DC Final Looking E”. Pictures below show some of this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Development of the AutoCAD Plans for the Transition Kitchen

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also began helping complete the editing of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book. This week he integrated all the edit requests shown below. These edits finalize the book through page 31.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Tree House Village (Pod 7) Online Book – Click for Page

EARTH-CARE COLLABORATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 30th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. She fixed the final identified problems in the rendering based on last week’s comments. These included updating ground materials, removing and replacing trees on the wrong locations, and patching the broken-textured/discontinuous areas of the road. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 18th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian processed/revised the operation schedule of Duplicable City Center for the occupancy, process loads, artificial lighting, air ventilation, heating/cooling demand and domestic hot water.

He also finalized the design parameters of the living dome roof based on the latest design provided. The Duplicable City Center is targeting a R-value of R74.6 on the roof to attain high level energy performance and to eventually achieve LEED Platinum certification level. Below are some images related to this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Operation Profile – Duplicable City Center Heating & Cooling Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on the details of material properties, beam calculations, and load calculations of LVL beam and yield strength under 15KN and 30KN loads.

She also added details on why galvanized steel is chosen as a material for the hub connector and included references. Sunitha additionally explained how to compare angle brackets with different loads. The pictures below relate to this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives, Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build Domes

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis continued his summarization of spa design calculations. He continued formatting and making tables that make the data easier to interpret.

This included verifying his calculations and correcting some previous mistakes he identified. This report will be added to the City Center Natural Pool and Spa web page, once the report has been verified by his team. It will include a detailed analysis of the heat transfer equations used, along with justifications for the design of the hot tub. The pictures below are related to this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Summarization of Spa Design Calculations – Click for Solar Energy Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 5th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela researched more information regarding the grading ordinances for our county, which uses the International Building Code.

The Code provided pages on Grading Requirements and Permit Applications. She also collaborated with Carol for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot Report. They reviewed and edited each other’s work to ensure that the information was properly relayed. Daniela also calculated the grading necessary for the Dome that has the basement.

She analyzed information provided in previous files and determined which calculations needed to be made. Daniela started off with calculations to determine the general amount of cut and later refined it. Once completed, Daniela then focused on researching erosion control requirements and resources.

Various resources were found and analyzed for both grading ordinances and erosion control. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Grading Ordinances for Our County – Click for Sustainable Roadways Page

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week he focused on integrating drainage system and support system for the covers. Rushabh also started working on sourcing and researching about vendors regarding the insulating cover and made drawings for the same.

He then started analyzing the work to be done on the pallet furnitures while waiting for communication from the hot tub cover vendors. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Earth-care Collaboratives – City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol worked on summarizing, revising and paraphrasing the following sections of the report: Fire Department Access Requirements, Water Catchment, Water Catchment Roadway, Irrigation Systems and Project Specific Conditions to Consider.

In addition, she reviewed other parts that her team member Daniela worked on, including “Understanding Pavement Structure Layers, Walkways, ADA Requirements for a Parking Lot, and Walkway/Bicycle Design.” The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Earth-care collaboratives – Summarizing, revising & paraphrasing the many sections of the Report

EARTH-CARE COLLABORATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating earth-care collaboratives 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

Earth-care Collaboratives – Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age

EARTH-CARE COLLABORATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating earth-care collaboratives 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 emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team also began a detailed review and update for the Highest Good Network Work Breakdown Structure and documentation. We finished about 50% of this task, shown in the screenshots below.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Review for the Highest Good Network Work Breakdown Structure

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 28th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created the following images for 5 more weekly progress updates (#478, #479, #480, #481 and #482). Pictures are below and the words will be added later.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #478 to #482

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on adding more columns in the task table in the project reporting page. Classification, resources, and estimated hours are now included. There are some data structure changes in the tasks data too, so she was also modifying the code for that filter feature.

Next week, Yueru will add the filter for tasks table in the project reporting page and also add the edit button so the user will be able to modify the edit task in the project reporting page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Task Table in the Project Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 13th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network.

This week Robert returned to working on the badges for total hours contributed to each of the 7 primary components of our project. This week’s focus was the badge shown below and representing 1000 hours contributed to the core component of “Stewardship”.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Badge representing 1000 hours contributed to component of “Stewardship”

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abdel continued fixing warnings he was getting when trying to post Pull Requests when he ran the project locally.

He then created a pull request (PR) on Github from his branch to the main development branch, and also started working on a new task, editing the badge section. Additionally, Abdel added a new feature to export (or download) badge information as a PDF report but is still working on getting the badge images to show up. Pictures below show some of this work.

Earth-care Collaboratives – Working On The Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Jeson Hu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jeson is a certified Engineer-In-Training who graduated from UCLA with a Master degree in Aerospace Engineering. Currently he’s a Project Engineering Advisor in a small company that analyzes and advises on company’s technology investments. He has designed aircraft/UAV models with attention to detail, demonstrated capability of delivering challenging engineering projects under set time-frames, and has extensive knowledge of building light-weight and durable components according to customer/client requirements. Jeson believes that collaboration is the key to business success and commits on a daily basis to building positive relationships with colleagues and senior management. It is through these bonds that organizations build success. As a member of the One Community team, Jeson is helping with research for One Community’s solar microgrid sizing, cost analysis, and rollout details that are part of the Highest Good Energy component.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JESON!

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One Community welcomes Sunitha Paraselli to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sunitha is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering program at the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), and former mechanical engineer in Ecoboard Industries Ltd. She loves working on Eco-friendly projects, which is one reason she chose to volunteer with One Community. Sunitha has extensive experience providing technical designs for equipment in Bio-gas Plants, is proficient at creating detailed mechanical drawings and running simulation for parts and assemblies using AutoCAD, Solidworks and Catia, and is well versed in creating, reading, and interpreting drawings and P&I diagrams. She also has advanced skills in CAD/CAE/CAM tools, SAP ERP systems, and Estimation of materials required for the project. As a member of the One Community team, Sunitha is helping with the engineering needed to identify the optimal open source and replicable designs for the hub connector hardware that will be used for the Duplicable City Center wooden frame.

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Sustainable social models are models of living that merge society with ecology to create a richer and more enjoyable living experience. Models like this recognize supporting and regenerating the planet is essential to the health and happiness of the people who depend on it.

One Community is supporting the creation of models like this through what we call “Highest Good” and comprehensively sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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 April 25th, 2021 edition (#422) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Social Models
One Community Progress Update #422

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SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week’s focus was edits and further clarifying existing information throughout the doc. New paragraphs were included, going into further detail and polishing the narrative and tying it in with the existing work. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Sustainable Social Models – Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc.

The core team also continued what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions, assembling the bed in 3D to test them. This week we created a list of updates and suggestions for the Table and Benches assembly section. Updates included measurements for some parts and shifting of location of affected parts/items. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Updates and Suggestions for the Table and Benches Assembly Section

The core team additionally confirmed all of Zachary’s updates from last week to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book and created a new list of requests covering pages 12 to 31. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Tree House Village Online Book and Created a New List of Requests

And the core team additionally began double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. This week’s focus was working on compiling the list of energy consuming components within the Earthbag Village.

We had 2 meetings regarding energy consumption, began cleaning up the brainstorm list and added a ‘Data Source’ column, so the source of the information could be traced to its origin. We also began the list for the Dome Homes (residence) and added Greywater, Earthbag Village General, and Overall Property to the area category.

We also corrected some equations within the Water Use Calculations spreadsheet and updated the Hydropower Spreadsheet based on that information. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Social Models – List of Energy Consuming Components Within the Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #219 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing precise placement of the furniture in all of the domes. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Social Models – Placement of the Furniture in All of the Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 39th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom to coincide with the Solidworks rendering, and reorganized the format to simplify the order of construction and installation.

The updates included adding flash to the interior roof diagrams to illustrate that the installation comes after the exterior flash installation. The elevation view of the roof was also updated to include the drip edge flash. Jose Luis then began working on a section explaining the construction and installation of the roof support frame.

The support frame consists of a series of beams that support the load of the panels that rest on top of them. The introduction and material list for the roof support frames was added. The Solidworks rendering was then updated to help illustrate the location and orientation of the supports used to hold them to the structure and to each other.

The updated renderings will be added to the roof support frame section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 36th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she tried to clear up a few issues mentioned in earlier comments. The measurements listed for wood sizes needed to be updated to show depth of wood first.

The page arrangement was also updated and all corresponding page numbers needed to be updated if they are referenced in several other places. She started to work on cutting instructions for a couple boards and found this can be simplified and probably quite easy to follow by the user.

She also continued to work on the renders and front booklet pages for tools and components, still brainstorming for a table of contents page and what that might look like. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Sustainable Social Models – Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 33rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial.

She revised the tutorial to include further explanation on specific topics, such as placement of the welded wire fabric in the concrete slab floor, the placement of the vapor barrier around the foundation, and the need for additional rebar through the footer and into the ground. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Sustainable Social Models – Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 14th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente focused on reviewing and updating the schedule plan and attending to the questions and needs of his team.

He looked into comparing two possible options of electric service (Garkane Energy that supplies energy to our county, and Rocky Mountain Power, another utility that operates in our state but doesn’t supply energy to our county).

Both options have several pros & cons with different aspects (technical, economic, mobility) and the decision is still unclear and requires more research. He also collaborated on the writing of two ads for new team members. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 11th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to conduct and compile research for the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet.

Much of the research for this week was focused on sustainability, which he has broken down into the following scoring categories: sustainability of the materials, sustainability of production and transportation, the direct environmental impacts, and other sustainability considerations. He also spent time locating, providing links, and reviewing the Health and Safety Data Sheets for each product.

Additionally, the aesthetics of this document have been improved, so Aidan also spent time transferring content and adding product images to the newly constructed Comparison Table. Lastly, Aidan reviewed the Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info to provide edits, comments, questions, and suggestions.

Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Research for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 8th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson gathered inverter spec data, contacted the RMP electricity power provider for solar incentive program and rate, and left a voicemail to the solar department, but no answer back.

He also organized and input important email communication and files to the dropbox folders using Vicente’s suggested order. In addition, Jeson constructed an inverter quote request email and sent ~10 quote emails and company website requests.

Then he linked the company web address and product spec web address to the google sheet for future easy access, finalized the best solar harvesting product research, and added web addresses into the solar tech and company comparison google sheet for future easy access. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Social Models – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week as a member of the team. This week Yufan started on WBS #: 2.1.1.2: Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions.

For this task, she worked on the PSD file, researched sources of royalty free images including people and plants, changed the size and color of sources in photoshop, placed them into appropriate places, and added shades and rendered the landscape of the original picture. Based on the comments, she modified the PSD file twice.

Yufan also reviewed the information of the transition kitchen for next week. Pictures below show some of this work.  Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Started on WBS #: 2.1.1.2: Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social models 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 created the initial review and outline for what will become the Duplicable City Center connector tutorial covering the engineering that went into identifying the best designs for the hub connectors for the dome frames.

Sustainable Social Models – Outline for Future Duplicable City Center Connector Tutorial

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 29th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng combined the herb garden model with the landscape model she has been working on. In the combined file, Qiuheng was able to fix the road system to the herb garden and entryways, and placed several seating areas. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Sustainable Social Models – Herb Garden Model With the Landscape Model – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 17th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian processed/revised the operation schedule. This operation schedule is the frequency/occurrence of occupancy, process load, artificial lighting, air ventilation, heating and cooling demand on an hourly basis.

Ian also processed the simulation requirements of domestic hot water particularly in the Living Dome that is currently using a heat pump. He also researched how the hydronic system works and how this technology will be modeled in the simulation software. Below are some images related to this work.

Sustainable Social Models, Operation Profile – Click for Duplicable City Center Heating & Cooling Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha focused on editing the final report in Google Docs, adding more details and appropriate references , explaining what exactly the Hub Connector Analysis is and why we perform them.

She also explained what is included in the analysis, what the safety factor is, and how much safety factor we should look for. In addition to this, Sunitha updated the load calculations of the LVL beam. The pictures below relate to this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis began to verify and summarize his calculations for the hot tub heat transfer analysis. He began the week by double checking his work on his early calculations regarding the convective and evaporative heat transfer of the tub during operation.

Luis found all of his links and numbers to be in order and proceeded on to the idle state analysis. Simultaneously, he began drafting the engineering justification for his documents. Verifying while documenting is an effective strategy for organizing and validating findings. Moving forward, Luis will continue his report and prepare his findings to be published to the City Center Natural Pool and Spa web page.

The pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Calculations for the Hot Tub Heat Transfer Analysis – Click for Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 3rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela worked on editing and rewriting. She analyzed paragraphs and ensured that the material was easy to comprehend for both engineers, clients, and the general public.

Daniela also researched more information about grading ordinances in our specific planned location for the Duplicable City Center. As this information was not easy to come by, she also obtained material focusing on the general grading ordinances for Los Angeles. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Social Models – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. Rushabh started with the design and development of the hot tub model. This week’s process included recording the parameters and modeling the initial structure of the tub, and making adjustments based on feedback. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Sustainable Social Models – City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol added the all-caps titles, subtitles, and organized the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot” report sections so they appear in the order of the table of contents.

She created the bookmarks in the table of contents to link the headers to their respective sections below. In addition, Carol also worked on summarizing, paraphrasing, and revising the report. The sections focused on this week included Flexible Pavements, Rigid Pavements, Composite Pavements, Process Overview, Preparing a Pavement Recommendation, and Project Specific Conditions to Consider.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Social Models – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social models 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 returned to working on the open source “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” tutorial, this time adding the meta data to the images, formatting them correctly, and correctly hyperlinking all the timestamps of the YouTube videos referenced within the text. We’d say the tutorial is now about 80% complete.

Sustainable Social Models – “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” Tutorial

The core team also conducted a detailed review of the initial climate battery design overview.

Sustainable Social Models – Review of the Initial Climate Battery Design Overview on the Google Doc.

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th and final week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week’s focus was reviewing and integrating feedback on the “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Google Document.

Once published, this tutorial will serve as a guide to anyone interested in building their own climate battery. He also helped organize all the relevant information so it will be easier for anyone who works on the project next to jump in and start helping. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Sustainable Social Models – “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Google Doc – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social models 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 SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social models 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 emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 27th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #473, #474, #475, #476 and #477. You can see all these new images below.

Sustainable Social Models – Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #473 to #477

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 26th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris fixed some remaining errors and finished the technical documentation for WBS item #4.5: Fix Blue Square and Auto-email Functionality. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Sustainable Social Models – “Fix Blue Square and Auto-email Functionality” – Click for HGN

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru added the estimated hours column in the task table for the people reporting page so that the estimated hours for each task are showing.

She also worked on the resources filter so, based on the specific resource that the user chooses, the tasks table will render dynamically and show the right results. She also spent time on the input range field and will be working on the estimated hours field next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abderrahmane focused on editing the team member tasks table. He added a mouseover popup for all the headers items (titles and icons) under Team Member Tasks.

He created a fork from the main repository, and pushed his branch that contains the changes of what he did during these three weeks (changes in TeamMemberTasks.jsx and style.css files). Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Social Models – Editing the Team Member Tasks Table – Click for Highest Good Network

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One Community welcomes Luis Manuel Dominguez to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Luis received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University. He has experience working in clean energy with regards to cryogenic hydrogen generation. His past projects ranged from designing a hydrogen detection and ventilation system, to creating a vibration damping structure for a mobile hydrogen generation unit. Luis has a passion for tackling challenging and novel engineering problems and hopes to continue his work in sustainable energy to accelerate the path towards a cleaner planet. As a part of One Community team, he is helping with the PV Solar energy designs to create a solar microgrid that provides clean reliable energy as part of the Highest Good Energy component. Contributing to this, Luis is currently finishing up the designs for maximizing the energy efficiency of the City Center Eco-spa.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM LUIS!

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Do-it-yourself-replicable sustainable eco-cooperatives are one path to a sustainable future that will benefit every person and living thing on our planet. One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for building them.

These plans include sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. They also include how to combine all of these to create a network of teacher/demonstration hubs to help people with implementation, evolution, and adaptation globally.

• 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 April 18th, 2021 edition (#421) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #421

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc focusing on Section 5 “Foundation Construction” through page 56.

This included Foundation Marking, Set Gravel Layers, Secure Layers with Rebar, Exterior Waterproofing Membrane, Vertical Interior Insulation, & Top and Interior Waterproofing Membrane. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc.

The core team also continued what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions, assembling the bed in 3D to test them. We started on the Wall Section assembly and framing of the bed. Detailed suggestions with corresponding images were added to the list for Stacey to address. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

The core team additionally began double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. This week’s focus was making a list of energy consuming components within the Earthbag Village. We did the first round of brainstorming for the Tropical Atrium, Net Zero Bathrooms, Communal Showers, and Vermiculture Bathroom.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design

And the core team helped to improve the design of the Most Healthy, Sustainable, and Practical Insulation Comparison Table and the scoring criteria table related to that. This one was built using a previous template but it has more complexity added to the layout due to the score cell being next to the cell description cell.

The same team member also continued editing the Chickens article, focusing mainly on adding more images throughout the page.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Most Healthy, Sustainable, and Practical Insulation Comparison Table

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 38th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom to coincide with the Solidworks rendering and reorganized the format to simplify the order of construction and installation and also in the correct order.

The updates included adding flash to the interior roof diagrams to illustrate that the installation comes after the exterior flash installation. The elevation view of the roof was also updated to include the drip edge flash. Jose Luis then began working on a section explaining the construction and installation of the roof support frame.

The support frame consists of a series of beams that support the load of the panels that rest on top of them. The introduction and material list for the roof support frames was added. The Solidworks rendering was then updated to help illustrate the location and orientation of the supports used to hold them to the structure and to each other.

The updated renderings will be added to the roof support frame section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 35th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on looking over all the components and links. There are still many parts that need to indicate where they are used and how many of them are used total.

Since the wall section is more complete, Stacey started counting up the screws used and other components. She also started integrating the final-review feedback from the team. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – All the Components and Links of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 13th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente continued the analysis of the long term economic balance considering the option of off-grid batteries, an option that was discarded due to the high investment cost.

He confirmed with the support of Jeson the selling kWh rate delivered to grid (0.026 USD) for the case of Garkane Energy. He also identified successful experiences in our planned state and concluded the high dependence on the utility kWh rates from/to the grid to reach a feasible option.

Vicente has prepared a micro tool to estimate the required area to locate the PV field depending on the sloping down degree of the location. He then began a discussion with Jae to find the best options for the optimal economic balance. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 10th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to work on the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet. He researched the flame spread index, LEED credits, other certifications, and miscellaneous pros and cons for each of the products.

Aidan continued to develop a weighted scoring system that will incorporate the 5 priorities for considering the best insulation option: Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 7th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This Week, Jeson researched for the project site electricity provider and their rates and possible solar energy compensation rate.

He got most of what’s needed, and only requires a call to Rocky Mountain Power to confirm the most updated solar incentive program rate. Jeson also composed a short summary regarding this research in the collaboration docs. In addition, he finally formatted the best solar harvesting tech report.

He then followed up with First Solar and Arzon Solar for additional questions and added the updated company quotes in the report conclusion section. Finally, Jeson started the conclusion of the best type of solar inverter report, and listed a few companies and products for future reference.

Although string inverters are on the expensive side, he thinks One Community’s choice should be string inverters because of their significantly easier installation and maintenance. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 32nd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week she reviewed comments and questions to the existing document and made changes to clarify points or marked items for discussion, such as the necessity of rebar embedded through the footer and clarification of gravel sizes within the footer. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 28th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng adjusted the road details based on feedback. She also added the updated herb garden with the overpass and modified it to fit with the rest of the model.

The road connected to the laundry is now 8’-9’ wide and connected to the outside road system. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia made new hot water calculations for the kitchen. Evan checked it and gave some notes all of which she hasn’t integrated yet.

She put the water pipeline for the kitchen above the kitchen’s ceiling, put the sewer pipeline from the kitchen above the basement’s ceiling, and made the vent system for the kitchen. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 16th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center.

This week, Ian polished the operation profile. This operation profile covers the occupancy percentage, process load percentage, artificial lighting percentage, mechanical ventilation on and off schedule, heating demand and cooling demand. This schedule of operation corresponds to the hourly interval for weekdays and weekends that the simulation software considers for the whole year.

Ian also provided a heating and cooling load summary of calculation results and inputs from excel in IP units. Below are some images related to this work. 

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Polished the Operation Profile – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David started the week holding a meeting with his team to assign action items.

Throughout the week he reviewed his team’s work and answered any questions that they may have regarding the tutorials and design. With Samson, David is trying to create a combined master site plan that will include both City Center, Earthbag Village, the greywater processing pond, as well as the roadway layouts in order to begin roadway plan details and quantity estimations.

David is also working with a new team member, Daniela, to create and design the grading plans and quantities for City Center. He has also created a grading calculations template and color coordinated the cells so that his team and future teams will be able to understand and make use of it without the need for guidance.

David has additionally begun preliminary drainage planning for the Earthbag Village so that he can have action items ready for his team when they are ready to begin the designs for this area. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable eco-cooperatives – Parking lot & sustainable roadways Tutorial, & water catchment designs

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on correlating all the documents and making a final conclusion document comparing all the simulation results.

She determined the safety factor and stress resistance for the angle brackets of different sizes and materials and produced the first draft of the Conclusion Document, some of which is shown below. The pictures below relate to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis wrapped up his assessment of the different cover methods to understand what solution would be most effective for the eco hot tub.

He found that the use of an air gap significantly increases the efficiency of using a pool cover as opposed to having the water touch the cover. When used in conjunction with a thermal blanket, the evaporative and convective heat losses will be reduced substantially. This will be useful information when the final designs for the spa are being made.

The final step of calculations was understanding the energy and time required to heat up the hot tub after being filled with water for a cleaning, as this will have a high energy demand. With a majority of the calculations complete, designing the hot tub and finding energy efficient parts will be in the near future.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela was working towards finalizing the access road turnaround for the Earthbag Village project.

A 120’ Hammerhead had been designed the previous week, but to ensure symmetry, the Hammerhead design was extended East to West. Daniela also attended two meetings this week. The first was with David’s team to continue discussing our action plans for this week and the next two weeks.

The second meeting with David clarified questions concerning the Earthbag Village, as the AutoCAD would not properly offset the main street to 20’. This meeting also covered a deeper explanation concerning the grading design of the Earthbag Village. Later on in the week Daniela focused on rewriting sections for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report.

This also included writing a new section on ADA requirements for the parking lot. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Finalizing the Access Road Turnaround for the Earthbag Village Project

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week, Evan reviewed the kitchen plumbing design and water heater calculations. He also reviewed the load calculations and made comments on both. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Reviewed the Kitchen Plumbing Design and Water Heater Calculations

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team made more changes to the Herbal Garden behind the Duplicable City Center. On the North side of the Dining Dome, by the kitchen entrance, we added a cross-over bridge for easy access of the herb garden from that entrance. We also removed fencing from the side connected to the dome.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Herbal Garden Behind the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 27th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry worked on the “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” document which details the specifics of a climate battery, making recommendations on designing your own and sharing the specifics for One Community’s design.

Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Document – Click for Page

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week as a member of the team. This week Yufan completed the orientation and initial set up procedures and then started on WBS #: 1.4.1: Aquapini/Walipini AutoCAD file creation using the Revit files.

For this task, she worked on the Revit file, imported the DWG file to Revit, and edited the plan layout and elevation levels in Revit. Yufan also set up a PDF printer for the export task. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable eco-cooperatives, Orientation and initial set up procedures – Click for Aquapini:Walipini

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
  
• Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
• Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
• Curriculum for Life
• Teaching Strategies for Life
• Learning Tools and Toys for Life
• Evaluation and Evolution

Highest Good Education: All Subjects | All Learning Levels | Any Age – Click for the open source hub

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 30 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 41st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on the documentation and related suggestions for the user management area. These focused mostly on visibility updates and editing permissions for volunteers vs Admins.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Documentation & Related Suggestions for the User Management Area

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 26th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #468, #469, #470, #471 and #472. You can see all these new images below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #468 to #472

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy reviewed and approved 3 more Pull Requests. These included bug fixes and changes for the User Profile, corrections and a message to remind the user to save their changes inside the User Profile, and updating a dependency.

Then he made some updates and changes in the UserProfileEdit unit-test file, improving coverage from 36.36% to 43.32%. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Reviewed and Approved 3 More Pull Requests

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru added the resources column in the task table in the people reporting page so the people who are involved in certain tasks are showing. She also added the following filters: assignment status, active status, priority level, status, classifications and users.

The task table will now render dynamically based on these and the other filters that the users choose. Next week Yueru will continue working on the users filter and estimation hours filter. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abdel focused on editing the team member tasks table. He changed what he did last week. The first change was to remove the unnecessary arrow icons from the table’s rows of the members who have no tasks or only one task.

The second change was to remove the scroll bar from the member’s row that has no more than four tasks. And in the last change, Abdel added an expand-all icon for Administrators and Managers to see at glance what everyone is working on. He is now focusing on fixing a bug with this last functionality where a person can’t individually close the tasks if they’re opened with this new button/function.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – Focused on Editing the Team Member Tasks Table

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Let’s talk about addressing climate change with holistic living models. Through ultra-sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs that provide more enriching and enjoyable environments, we can demonstrate a better way of living that is also carbon neutral or even carbon negative.

The teacher/demonstration hubs One Community is designing will also teach others how to live this way too, making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough to spread on its own. A self-replicating model like this, spreading globally, is capable of launching the massive socio-economic and mindset changes that could address and even solve our current climate crisis.

• 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 the movement of addressing climate change with holistic living models as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 11th, 2021 edition (#420) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change
With Holistic Living Models
One Community Progress Update #420

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ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic living models through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week’s focus was verifying calculations, making general edits, finalizing research of past contributions, wrapping up the video & resource reviews, etc. through page 47.

We think this is most likely the next-to-the-last review of this doc. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

`Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Footer, Foundation and Flooring Dev Doc.

The core team also began what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions. We checked “Material Components”, “Material Boards”, “Material Lumber”, “Tools”, “Pre-made Components”, and started checking “Wall” sections. We also created a list of comments and suggestions to improve readability of the instructions. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Final Review of the murphy bed instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #218 of Dean’s work and the focus was more creating and testing the Murphy Bed furniture textures and texture combinations. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Murphy Bed Furniture Textures

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 37th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the heating elements effectiveness calculations. The calculations were done in order to quantitatively determine how many heating elements should be used depending on the climate.

The calculations determined how long the water or rain water storage room would take to reach freezing temperatures. Knowing the time was crucial to maximize the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the type and quantity of heating elements necessary to keep the room and rainwater at above freezing temperatures.

The section added covered the heat loss associated with the structure such as the walls and the roof and the heat loss of the water stored in the top center barrel. The findings help determine where to install the heating elements to further maximize their effectiveness. Illustrations were added to the section to help visualize the placement of the heating elements.

Jose Luis then began updating the roof plan to coincide with the latest additions to the SolidWorks rendering such as drip edge flash on the edge of the exterior roof panels. He also began rearranging the AutoCAD models to follow the order of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Heating Elements Effectiveness Calculations

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 13th and final week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark’s work was primarily focused on making written revisions to the Roadway Design and Roadway Drainage tutorials. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Written revisions to Design & Drainage Tutorials

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 12th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente added new tabs to the sizing tool: a specific one for the Earthbag Village energy demand and another for the feasibility analysis and economic balance vision on the long term.

This tool allows having a vision of the evolution of the annual energy & economic balances, and how the economic rates affect the net balance. Vicente also continued the follow-up of the collaboration team. He has repeated the simulations with SAM to find the best match with the outcome from a potential PV supplier. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Working on solar microgrid design & analysis

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 9th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week, Aidan’s work for the week was devoted to compiling information for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet.

He researched and assigned point values to features pertaining to sustainability, safety, and effectiveness for various insulation products made with wool, straw, hemp, keraf, and magnesium oxide from seawater.

In order to compare the costs of these products while taking into consideration differences in R-values, Aidan calculated the average price per square foot per R-rating for each product. The pictures below relate to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Info for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson researched the best solar inverters and studied the related specs. He also finalized the best solar harvesting technology research.

The answer to the best technology or company or product is not clear without the cost input, which he is struggling to find. Almost all the companies contacted did not have much interest in this 2MW project. However, Jeson provided their product specs and contact info for future reference.

He also determined that, if One Community wants to have a battery bank, a battery based inverter would probably be the choice. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Best Solar Inverters and Related Specs

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 5th and final week doing research for One Community. Her focus this week was finishing researching a new addition to the Most Sustainable Toilets tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work and content.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Addition to the Most Sustainable Toilets Tutorial

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 4th week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle started taking notes on Wheaton’s Permaculture podcast titled “Wheaton Permaculture – 076 Create an Oasis With Greywater”.

She also found a copy of the reference book online and began taking notes on that too. The pictures below relate to this research.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Natural Greywater Processing Pond Design

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also returned to the team and completed his 1st week helping complete the editing of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book. Shown below are this week’s edits that were addressed.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Tree House Village Online Book

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 27th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng adjusted the road system access to the domes and the herb gardens, and replaced some of the plants with 3D options from the Lumion plant library. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia focused on making changes to the plans according to Evan’s review and notes. She added floor traps in all bathrooms, put a sink in the boiler room, and changed pipelines in bathrooms 13, 15, and 16. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Design Plans

Ian Oliver Malinay(Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 15th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the target illuminance level per space zone. He checked all inputs are correct, considering also the ASHRAE standard.

Ian also checked the lighting control from the electrical consultant and the mech vent per area requirements. He arranged the Lux Level according to space type/uses, processed the percent openability of each glazing on the dome, and changed the material of the dome entrance. Ian also finalized the heating and cooling load calculation of the project.

Please see below progress photos for reference.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Target Illuminance Level Per Space Zone

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David started the week holding a meeting with his team to assign action items.

David was responsible for the review of Samson and Mark’s technical writing work as well as overseeing their CAD design work, which includes the new driveway, landing, basement door and garage roll-up door. David also put time into the grading calculation excel worksheet/template for his design team and future design teams to use for grading quantities.

Lastly, he has also begun creating a tutorial/checks and balances sheet for the hydrology report he is preparing for the City Center. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways Tutorial, and City Center Water Catchment Designs

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on the comparison of the small bracket and the big bracket (increasing the length).

She also compared the bracket with less number of holes to a bracket which has more holes. The bracket which has more holes has more stress resistance. Then she ran the simulation for the safety factor; galvanized gauge steel has more factor of safety when compared to aluminum. The pictures below relate to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Comparison of small bracket & big bracket

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela joined the weekly meeting with David’s team concerning the Earthbag Village project.

For this team, she adjusted the widths of the streets to 20 feet and added an access road turnaround to one end of the site, this is all for fire truck access. She then updated this design and ensured that both the north and south ends of the site had proper access road turnarounds. She also continued last week’s work on the Aquapini/Walipini design documentation.

Measurements were taken from AutoCAD designs and more information on the project was brought to light. Many descriptions were further detailed and a new table was created to clarify watering information. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, Sustainable Roadways, Landscaping Tutorial

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week, Evan reviewed and provided comments on the plumbing drawing. The plumbing design lacked detailed information in terms of piping system clarification, pipe size and piping route.

Also, each dome will have their own hot water heater systems. This design approach will minimize piping work and cut down unnecessary hot water loops. Evan also completed his preliminary HVAC design markup for a designer to use as a reference. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Comments on the Plumbing Drawing

And long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) continued with his 3rd week helping with Duplicable City Center architectural details. Bahy’s focus this week was a roof proposal for the Living Dome. Pictures below relate to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Roof Proposal for the Living Dome

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic living models 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 returned to working on the open source Chickens tutorial, moving text from the research Google Doc to the One Community WordPress site and formatting it. We also found and added an infogram to better explain chicken combs terminology for farming beginners. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Open Source Chickens Tutorial

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 26th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry continued his work on digging into the HVAC handbooks in order to find relevant information relating to the climate battery design.

Working with the existing recommendation for greenhouses and incorporating specific climate battery recommendations he put together a first draft of a climate battery design guide. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models – Climate batteries for the Aquapini/walipini

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic living models 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

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Highest Good Education

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic living models 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 22 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 17th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished the behind-the-scenes editing of the value of Open Source.

We re-read the content and made final edits for clarity, transformed/fixed additional passive voice issues, added web-links to the mind map, and passed it along to Jae for final review and integration into the live page. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – BTS Editing of the Value of Open Source

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 40th week helping with the Highest Good Network software.

This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team made links in the Profile Links section open in a new window/tab so the person doesn’t automatically leave the app, so the Create New User role is “volunteer” by default, added a size limitation of 50 kb for profile pics and a popup that tells them how to compress their image, updated the top of the Profile page to say “Favorite badges section coming…”, and added a new user role section to the Profile page that is visible to all but editable only by an Admin. They also fixed a bug where editing Skype, Zoom, etc. preference did not save. Pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Profile Links Section Open in a New tab

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 25th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #463, #464, #465, #466 and #467. You can see all these new images below.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Images for weekly progress updates #463 – #467

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru planned to work on the estimation hours, classification, and resources filter in the tasks reporting page but she was not able to pull data from the tasks table. She spent time on debugging the issue but still was not able to get the tasks data.

The other tasks filter functionality is blocked until the task data issue is resolved. Yueru also spent time working on modifying the people report page UI. Now the blue square data is showing in a table format. Next week, she will continue the estimation hours, classification, and resources filter if she can pull the data. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Highest Good Network Software

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abderrahmane focused on editing the team member tasks table. He changed the view of the lines in the table by adding the collapse feature and an arrow icon to open it.

For the users who have more than one task, the collapse will be opened with fixed size and a scroll bar will appear to display the rest. Abdel also made this table responsive like the leaderboard table. He’s now focused on fixing problems finding data for the progress bar of each user’s task and making the eye icon work as requested. Pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – Highest Good Network Software

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped update our site to the latest Google Analytics code, addressed an indexing error we were getting, created an ad campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials tutorial and Pictures below are related to this work.

Created an Ad Campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Tutorial – Click for Page

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