One Community welcomes Yueru Zhao to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yueru received her B.S in Management Information Systems from University of Delaware and M.S in Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining One Community, she worked as a full-time software engineer at SAP. Besides work, Yueru likes hiking and photography. As a member of the Highest Good Network software development team at One Community, Yueru is helping develop the reports functionality.

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One Community and Jooble are working together to promote each other’s volunteer job opportunities. We’re sharing their services with this post and they are helping us share our volunteer positions using keywords related to sustainability.

If you aren’t familiar with Jooble, they are a job search engine created for a single purpose: To help any person find a job, regardless of his or her place of residence, language, religion, skin color or beliefs.

Jooble holds a core believe that labor is one of the leading components of human life, it is a matter of self-actualization, the pursuit of a complete identification and development of personal abilities, which are indispensable conditions for happiness. Jooble believes that there is a suitable job for each individual that can complement his or her life with meaning and joy to be useful to society. We think this is a pretty noble reason to help people find fulfilling positions!

When you perform a search with Jooble, you’ll get links to job postings from more than 20,000 (and growing) different job sites throughout the USA that are the most relevant to your search terms. Jooble’s goal is to save people time and energy, enabling a person to find their desired job from a single query.

In speaking with them, they say that, compared to perusing the newspaper or using a regular job board, job-hunting with Jooble may seem unusual, initially, but once a person fully learns how to master it, they are guaranteed to find the job of their dreams. The only condition is the existence of your dream job.

To make their system easier and easier to use, their team is constantly working in order to make a job search as simple as possible. Jooble is constantly being fine-tuned, as they add new services and features. But, as the saying goes, “A picture paints a thousand words”, so don’t take our word for it, give Jooble a try for yourself: Jooble.org

One Community welcomes Aidan Geissler to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Aidan studied Biology, Anthropology, and Neuroscience at Indiana University. Since then he has had a diversity of experiences: Education, Research, Project Coordination, and Field-Based Natural Resources Work. What unites this wide array of expertise and experiences is his passion for social and ecological justice. As a member of the One Community team, Aidan is contributing research, written content, and revisions for various tutorials, resources, and pages. Pages contributed to include Glass Recycling, Styrofoam Recycling, Plastic Recycling, Most Sustainable Flooring, and Most Sustainable Insulation.

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One Community welcomes David Na to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

David holds a B.S. in mathematics and civil engineering and has experience working with residential and commercial development and pavement management. He is an avid advocate for sustainable design and infrastructure and believes sustainable practices are the key to combating global climate change. He understands the many challenges behind creating a less wasteful future, but is optimistic and an active participant in designing creative solutions that reduce carbon footprint while increasing quality of life. As a member of One Community Global, David is offering his experience with site development to assist with the civil engineering aspects of the City Center, Earthbag Village, roadway/walkway and parking lot designs.

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Every day we are writing the next chapter of humanity’s story. Let’s do it consciously and conscientiously, investing our energy in a future that supports the collective good and our one shared planet. One Community is supporting this with open source and sustainable designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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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 April 4th, 2021 edition (#419) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story
One Community Progress Update #419

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story 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 finished the first-draft development of the new “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” page and submitted it for final review. We used the website edition checklist to verify metadata meets One Community standards, edited a few pictures to update some details related to the OSB cutting, uploaded the references backups to dropbox, and helped to improve a temporary parking lot table. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Earth-dome – Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 36th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued calculating and illustrating the heat loss of the structure, the rainwater storage system, and the exposed water in the top center barrel. He updated the structure heat loss rate calculations to include the heat loss of the restrooms. The heat loss rate of the rainwater storage room was calculated with and without a heating cable installed.

He calculated the amount of heat loss required for the room to reach 0℃ when initially at 3.33℃ and then used it to calculate the time needed for the temperature change to occur. The heat loss was calculated by using properties of air such as density and specific heat. Jose Luis then calculated the required heat loss in order for 1” of the water to freeze in the top center barrel exposed to direct ambient temperature. He did this by assuming the heat loss would be caused by the forced convection of air into the barrel connected to the roof hole. The rate of heat loss in the water was calculated with and without the use of a heating cable.

With the heat loss rate and total heat loss, the time required at various temperatures was calculated to illustrate the effect one heating cable had on the water. The temperatures used ranged from 0℃ to -50℃ which is the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Web page links were added to important constants on the spreadsheet in the event that more detail is sought out by the user. The pictures below show some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 34th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on final files creation and saving a final PDF for review and comments, and looking over all cutting pages for ease of cut directions. She started to coordinate the components list with the placement of those parts in the instructions. Stacey also added page numbers and amounts of boards and components used on tally sheets, and checked the pre-made parts websites for additional supplemental parts needed to install, which will need to be verified. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 31st week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah researched alternative insulation products and installation methods to existing content, edited and organized relevant resources, and updated the FAQ section of the document. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark converted the staircase in the grading plan back into a driveway. He then worked on the roadway design tutorial, making sure it covers all factors needed for proper road design and covers the process by which one goes about designing a road. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su(Civil Engineer) also completed his 12th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had his weekly meeting with David discussing the changes of the driveway and new assignments. He researched information on sidewalks and bikeways, and finished the basic design guidelines for both. The guidelines included the purpose of the design, types of sidewalks and bikeways, and the general design criteria, etc. See pictures below showing some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Sidewalks and Bikeways – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 11th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente upgraded the solar sizing tool including an electricity demand profile as a reference so that a theoretical demand in the community (with the same profile as our state) can be balanced with the solar system considering different values of population and solar power.

He also contacted the working team to welcome Darren and followed up with the activities of Jeson and Luis. In addition, Vicente completed a first balance (preliminary values) for the demand of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village by including a proposed daily profile for the non thermal loads. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Solar Micro-grid Design – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 8th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week, Aidan continued to conduct research and write sections for the Plastic Recycling content. This week’s efforts were primarily focused on recycling via molding, starting your own plastic recycling business, and options for more advanced DIY plastic recycling machines. Aidan also began working on the Most Sustainable Insulation research.

He started editing, revising, and adding additional research to the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet. For this research and analysis, Aidan began creating a comprehensive scoring system with which he will assign each product a score for various relevant characteristics such as sustainability, toxicity, fire resistance, R-value, and cost. Once all of the research and scoring is complete, the composite scores will be used as a metric to compare, rate, and rank each of the options. The pictures below relate to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Plastic Research – Insulation Research – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 5th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson started his follow up with the companies previously contacted. He only got a few responses from the 25+ companies that he contacted. 2 of them, which are utility scale solar companies, do not consider projects that are less than 50 MW. LG only works with residential customers, so it is not an option. Prism Solar came back and referred another company to him, he contacted the new company and no response yet.

Only FirstSolar replied with some valuable simulation results that Vicente could use for reference. Jeson asked First Solar to do another simulation with a few changes to the simulation input. He would consider finalizing his research without real world input. In addition, while waiting for company responses, Jeson started the solar inverter research. He thinks the central inverter would likely be One Community’s choice. 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.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Solar Micro-grid Design – Click for Page

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 4th week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana finished her final contributions to the research and completed her first round of researching a new sustainable toilet option we found. Pictures below show some of this work and content.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Most Sustainable Insulation Tutorial – Click for Page

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle listened to the podcasts of permaculture by Wheaton, read Waste water Treatment by Source Separation by Folke Gunter, and continued research on permaculture greywater processing by ponds/lagoons. She also began research on international greywater guidelines to help One Community’s ability to be international and scale the project. The pictures below relate to this research.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Natural Grey water Processing – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story 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 26th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng added the finished herb garden to the outdoor walkthrough rendering. She also adjusted the paths and roads around the domes. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Herb Garden – Walkthrough Rendering – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 26th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia continued to answer questions from Evan, separated the .dwg files, and tried to make monochrome files but didn’t succeed. She will try again next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Duplicable City Center Plumbing – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 14th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the HVAC data in energy modeling to facilitate the resulting load for cooling and heating. Ian also processed the receptacle/miscellaneous load in DesignBuilder for each space with corresponding schedule of operation and he processed the heating and cooling set point for each conditioned space in DesignBuilder.

He arranged the exterior lighting details with corresponding operation of schedule for the whole year and the metabolic rate of each DCC thermal space. Ian also set up the schedule of operation for mechanical ventilation, heating load and cooling load. Additionally he checked the ventilation requirement from DCC HVAC details and reflected it to DesignBuilder’s required input (minimum fresh air requirement per person). Please see below progress photos for reference.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – HVAC Data in Energy Modeling – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 8th 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 began the week preparing for a meeting and dividing up work amongst his team members for the City Center and Earthbag Village. After the meeting, David sketched the new proposed design for the ramp to replace the stairs to the basement for the City Center project.

The new ramp would be wider and also include a landing at the bottom of the ramp run. He also completed the research and tutorial for ADA Handrail standards as well as the insulation information comparisons for roll-up doors and standard solid wood doors. David has also worked on developing a checks and balances sheet for his design team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – City Center Water Catchment Designs – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha tested 2×12 lumber and Laminated Veneer lumber. LVL lumber has more strength than normal lumber and based on all simulation results, Aluminum 2024-T3 angle bracket (2x2x4) has good results with LVL beams. She also compared the bracket with 30KN and 15KN loads, and 2x2x3 can withstand both loads. Sunitha concluded that 2024 T3 material angle plate/bracket 2x2x3 or 2x2x4 can be bent and fixed along with lumber. The pictures below relate to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – 2×12 Lumber – Veneer Lumber – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis continued his analysis of the hot tub’s heat loss. His primary focus was evaporation and the advantages that different types of covers have on the system. After getting in contact with a spa cover company, he was able to use the thermal resistance values given to calculate the total heat transfer of the hot tub when the system is idle.

These values will help the team come to a decision on which solution would provide the best energy savings. Once the analysis has been completed and the team comes to a consensus on the best method, the analysis of heating and starting up the tub can begin. This will be his last step for energy calculations of the hot tub system and he can begin to look at usage throughout the year and operation requirements. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Hot Tub’s Heat Loss – Click for Solar Energy Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela completed her general checklists, and reviewed materials on all the projects. She also had an introductory meeting with David’s team to further develop expectations and necessary tasks.

Daniela then worked on redesigning a chart for the Temporary Parking Lot Materials Option with Alvero finalizing the design. She also helped with the Aquapini/Walipini project, writing sections to document the design criteria for the seating areas, circulation, recreational areas, architectural design, roofing system, etc. Many of these sections will be further developed as new information becomes available. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Sustainable Tutorial Development – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team finished designing the Duplicable City Center Herbal Garden. We added a double garden shed for tool storage and made final changes to the fence. We also created a “Master Lumber Spreadsheet” with the latest prices for lumber and linked those prices so the changes update the cost analysis for the “Rabbit”, “Goats/Sheep Barn”, and “Chicken Coop” sheets. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Duplicable City Center Herbal Garden – Click for Page

The core team also began the final review and updates for the Aquapini/Walipini structures, working with Daniela to clarify details, check the numbers, and add needed additional graphics, etc.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 25th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry, under the guidance of Amin, dug into the ASHRAE and ANSI handbooks, considered standards in the HVAC industry, looking into greenhouse best practices. Unfortunately, he could not find specific information on a system like the climate battery.

However, using the equations and recommendations on cooling, heating and ventilation for greenhouses, a recommendation can be made about sizing the climate battery system. Henry is working on distilling these recommendations and putting them into a document. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – ASHRAE and ANSI Handbooks – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story 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

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Highest Good Education – Click image for the hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story 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.

The core team additionally completed our 16th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we worked on editing the value of Open Source. We added content to enhance and clarify the nature of this value that defines One Community, even in its current state – before being on the property. We addressed passive voice, long sentences, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Editing the Value of Open Source – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 44th and final week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen completed the documentation of badge functions, pushed all the code, and made a final PR. Sorting badges by ranking on Badge Report was implemented as it was missed previously. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Badge Functions – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 39th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on the conflicts and reviewed comments in the Rest API PR. All corrections are finished and are good now. They also fixed the issue of profile image upload save in the edit page, and introduced a new info to save the changes once the user made any changes in the user profile. Pictures below show some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Conflicts and Comments – Rest API PR – Click for Page

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 #458, #459, #460, #461 and #462. You can see all these new images below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Weekly Updates – Click for Most Recent Weekly Blog

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy continued work on multiple back-end pull-requests and approved them. Not many new unit-testing files have been updated this week because he ran into trouble understanding some of the unit-test files. Vy is currently still investigating and working more on them. Pictures below show some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Back-end Pull-requests – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on filters in the tasks page. Now users are able to filter tasks based on assignment status, active status, and priority level status. Users can apply multiple filters at the same time and the tasks table will render the results automatically based on the filer options the user selects. Next week, Yueru will be working on the users filter and will also debug the update tasks functionality, and classification column in tasks data. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community is implementing global change through open source and free-shared DIY sustainability components. Our goal is to demonstrate a sustainable way of living that is easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to become self-replicating. We are including replicable components covering 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 March 28th, 2021 edition (#418) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Implementing Global Change
One Community Progress Update #418

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team continued with the development of the new “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” page. We created new graphics explaining how to cut OSB sheets for the “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” article, this reduced the count of needed panels from 7 to 5 per loft. While adding this and other images to the site, we also recorded a tutorial explaining how to edit and upload images, add metadata, etc. We also added another template to our Tables Template. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Implementing Global Change – “Earth-dome Loft Structural Engineering” – Click for Page

The core team also continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week we reviewed the new summary of the rockwool and perimeter installations for the winged insulation. We then began the deletion process of outdated narratives, photos, and resources in Sections 8 & 9. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Implementing Global Change – Earthbag Village Footer and Flooring Development Doc – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #217 of Dean’s work and the focus was more creating and testing of the guest room furniture textures and working on fixing an export problem for the Murphy Bed furniture that created duplicates of every part. He also worked on removing all the part numbers from the Murphy Bed export. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Implementing Global Change – Guest Room Furniture Textures – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 35th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the water catchment area spreadsheet. He updated the bathroom fixtures along with their water consumption and updated the roof diameter to match the rendered value. The percent increase in roof size formula was updated to include the ratio between the difference in needed roof size and selected roof size over the selected roof size.

He then began to calculate the heat loss of the structure at various temperatures to accurately recommend the quantity of heating elements in the rainwater storage that can keep the water from freezing. First he measured and listed the dimensions of the outer and inner wall, the interior roof, and the connection between the roof hole and barrel. This data was used to calculate the surface area of the respective sections in the structure. Jose Luis also researched and recorded the R-values of the materials used in the sections. Everything was added and organized in the Net-Zero Bathroom Calculations spreadsheet.

Heat loss of every section was calculated at various ambient temperatures. The total heat loss to the ambient air was calculated and plotted at different ambient temperatures. The number of heating elements can be determined once their generated heat is calculated and compared with the net heat loss. The pictures below show some of this work.

Implementing Global Change – Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 33rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey worked on the components page and getting quantities for the different materials. Also she was doing a general review of all pages again and thinking of ways to indicate cutting direction for wood, trying to accommodate some of the new comments into the instructions, and keeping everything consistent. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Implementing Global Change – Final Edits and Revisions – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 30th 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 updated specific formulas for more clarity, researched using other materials for the floor envelope and exterior insulation, organized the references, updated the table of contents and moved information to other One Community documents that were not relevant to the FFF doc. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Implementing Global Change – Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked on drafting erosion blocks, THE erosion control plan, and also converted the driveway into a staircase. He also helped with turning bullet points for the roadway and walkway tutorials into paragraph form to make it easier to follow. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Implementing Global Change – Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 11th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had his weekly meeting with David discussing the roof drainage plan, the change about the stair of the basement floor plan, erosion control plan, and pump design. He finished the roof drainage plan AutoCAD drawing with David’s requirements. See pictures below showing some of this work.

Implementing Global Change – AutoCAD Drawing With David’s Requirements – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 10th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente reviewed the Duplicable City Center energy demand to update and find a more real annual profile. He is preparing graphical balances per month to identify the different supply situations: 100% of grid supply; 100% of PV supply (excedents to the grid); hybrid supply PV-grid.

Vicente created a first version of a schedule by a gantt diagram for the time follow-up of the whole process; this tool will be regularly updated to illustrate the real process. He also explored the EIA web to find references on the energy demand in our state. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – DCC Energy Demand – Real Annual Profile – Click for Solar Energy Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 7th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. He spent the week creating content for the Plastic Recycling webpage. This work consisted of researching and writing sections about the process of plastic recycling via shredding, extrusion, 3D printing, and molding. For each of these strategies, Aidan provided information, considerations, and resources for both purchasing and building various machines. The pictures below relate to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Plastic Recycling Webpage – Click to Visit

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 4th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson researched the new type of solar harvesting technology offered by some companies. The concentrated solar thermal tech involves heating a working fluid using concentrated sunlight.

The heated fluid can then be used with conventional power generation equipment (i.e., turbines, generators, etc.) to produce electricity. However, there are many variations of this tech, again a quote and specs from the requested companies are needed to make a comparison. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Implementing Global Change – Solar Harvesting Technology – Click for Solar Energy Page

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 3rd week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana focused on updating all necessary finishes to her research in order for it to be appropriate and legible for the website. Research for sustainable toilet options was also begun. Pictures below show some of this new content.

Implementing Global Change – Most Sustainable Insulation Tutorial – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) continued helping with 3D render work, completing his 2nd week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders. This week he focused on adding people, plants, and objects to the two renders shown here.

Implementing Global Change – People, Plants, and Objects – Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle began research on the composition of household water that will be part of the greywater system. The pictures below relate to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Composition of Household Water – Grey water System – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team finished adding all the temporary parking lot research and instructions to the Sustainable Parking Lots Page.

Implementing Global Change – Temporary Parking Lot Research – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 25th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng was concentrating on the outside walkthrough rendering. She fixed green still covering some of the grates, updated the texture around the sliding glass doors to match the dormer window white, scaled down some bushes so they weren’t covering half the path, and changed the video path not to cross through trees. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 25th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week, Ksenia answered question from Evan, and changed the architectural plan for the Living Dome toilets. She also made PDF files for Evan’s further review and updated all the files in the common folder. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 13th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian processed the occupancy data of the Duplicable City Center that is pursuing LEED Platinum certification. The occupancy is based on actual, as per designed, or from the client. This occupancy has data of the schedule of operation which he also provided.

The schedule of operation should be the same with the proposed and baseline design. Ian also provided details of activity of spaces per zone, and created the summary or tabulated details of receptacle power density and lighting power density. Additionally, he revised the previous lighting power density according to the details from the electrical engineering team. Please see below progress photos for reference.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center – Click for DCC Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 7th 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 began the week with a team meeting to set action items for the week. He completed sketches for the erosion control and basement to stairwell conversion so that his team can begin making the changes into the design.

To access the teams progress and productivity, David used a gannt chart template from another team and has modified it to show action items that are needed to complete the civil drainage plans. David has also been looking into ADA handrail design standards, walkway/bicycle design, and roadway drainage design. He is currently working the technical writing portions of the report/tutorial. Lastly, David is working on a design to incorporate a fire lane truck access and turnaround hammerhead into the Earthbag Village’s design to meet the Fire Apparatus Access Roads requirement. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Sustainable Roadways – City Center Water Catchment – Click for Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week he began writing the final report. The introductory part of the report is now complete, the loads part has been started, and the dead load part continues to be written. Picture below shows this work-in-progress.  

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Beam – Column Design Report – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha used the Aluminium 2024-T3 plate as an angle bracket with length of 4 inches on each side and with 6 holes. She did static analysis simulation and the results were better than the small bracket. The pictures below relate to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Connectors – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis focused on another state of heat transfer that the hot tub experiences: the idle stage. When covered and not in use, it is crucial that the hot tub maintains its heat level for use at any time. The hot tub experiences a significant reduction in heat loss by convection and evaporation due to the cover.

His efforts this week focused on calculating the evaporative heat loss and sourcing a cover to understand the conductive heat loss through the cover. Each variable is crucial to the description of the system and understanding where optimizations can be made. His goal is to wrap up the analysis of the idle stage in the coming week and begin assessing the heat start-up energy requirements of the system. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Implementing Global Change – Solar Micro-grid Design, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We placed four picnic tables outside of the East fence line of the Herbal Garden, and designed a greenhouse with two entrances on opposite ends and placed it on the side that is closest to the Dining Dome. The fence on the side of the greenhouse was also removed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Herbal Garden Design – Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 24th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on updating the 3D model of the climate battery system and continued his work organizing the main research document. He met with Amin (a senior engineer who has joined the team to consult on this component) and discussed an approach for moving forward with the project, including more research and use of the ASHRAE Handbook. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Implementing Global Change – 3D Model – Climate Battery System – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

One Community is implementing global change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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

Implementing Global Change – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team completed 28 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 15th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished editing the value of Community Contribution, completing both the draft webpage and the mind map, addressing passive voice and doing a final review before passing it along to Jae for his final review and updates to the live page on the site. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Implementing Global Change – Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Our Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 43rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen created a delete confirmation popup to prevent actions that accidentally delete and badges. She also created information icons for badge functions. She has been adjusting the text and styling based on Jae’s feedback and requests. Other miscellaneous tasks include making the ranking field accept integers only, making 0 the highest number in sorting rankings, and adding a secondary sort by names for badges with the same ranking. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Delete Confirmation Popup – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy updated more feedback on the PR#45 (which is related to Forgot-password changes”. He also tested and approved related Badge features. Vy additionally started to go over many different old unit-test files and update them so that the total fail test cases of the project will reduce down as much as possible before he continues to work on more unit-test files. Pictures below show some of this work.

Implementing Global Change – Feedback on the Pr#45 – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru continued working on showing tasks data on the project report page. She used the WBS ID to filter all the tasks data to render the tasks that belong to the specific project. Now the task data is rendered to the project report page with information about the task name, priority and status. She also added the priority level and status filter options. Next week, she will be working on filtering the tasks based on the options that the user choses. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Showing Tasks Data on the Project Report Page – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Zhiheng “Samson” Su to the Engineering Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Samson earned his bachelor’s degree from Cal State Long Beach University and currently holds the Civil Engineering E.I.T license. His educational background lies in civil engineering with the emphasis in transportation, structure, and water resource management. As a member of the One Community team, Samson is contributing to the design of the Duplicable City Center’s drainage plan, road and walkway plans, and helping write the pavement design tutorial for non-industry people.

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One Community welcomes Vy Dao to the Software Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vy graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and minored in Computer Information Technology. He has work experience in several domains including AWS Cloud Computing, Full-Stack, and APIs developments. Vy also works on several projects related to making Cross-platform mobile applications for iOS and Android. He believes quality and scalable open-source programs are the keys to fix many global challenges. As a member of the One Community team, Vy is helping develop the time tracking software component of the Highest Good Network application.

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One Community welcomes Vicente Subiela to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vicente became an engineer in 1993 (University of Zaragoza, Spain), and then was researching CO2 balances and energy & economic balances in life cycle analysis within the R&D center CIRCE. He started as project manager in the Canary Islands Institute of Technology in 1997, where he was involved in off-grid autonomous-renewable-energy-driven desalination projects (electric and thermal processes) and other sustainability activities until 2014, when he retired after a larynx cancer. Four years later, he completed his PhD on technical & economic optimization of solar & wind powered reverse osmosis systems. He has more than 20 publications. Vicente has been active since 2014 by attending courses in photography, graphic design and coaching. He balances his activities with hiking, meditation, cooking, dancing, and family life (3 kids). He is also an active member in a gender equality men’s association, and hosts conferences to share his experience and life learning during and after his cancer. As a One Community volunteer, Vicente is leading the solar design and research team.

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One Community is building sustainable living models based on open source and free-shared DIY-replicable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Our goal is to demonstrate our complete model as a teacher/demonstration hub living option that is easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread and evolve globally on its own.

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• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 21st, 2021 edition (#417) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Living Models
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVING MODELS

One Community is building sustainable 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 with the transformation of the tables into images for the new “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” page. We edited more images, placed the latest previously created images from the calculation tables on the site, researched some technical terminology and construction details to make it easier for future readers to understand, found some videos that explained these concepts, and made a few more corrections to the template tables from last week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering – Click to Visit

The core team also continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week we focused on Section 7 of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring doc: Horizontal Wing Insulation. This included Required Usage Parameters based on the AFI (Air Freezing Index), Finish Grade, Extension Length, Materials, and Shallow Foundation Consideration. Associated links were reviewed, additional research on portions of the section, edits completed, and a list of questions compiled for further elaboration of the chapters within the section for clarifications to novice builders. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Earthbag Village Flooring Development Doc – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #216 of Dean’s work and the focus was creating and testing the guest room furniture textures. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Guest Room Furniture Textures – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 34th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed updating the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions by adding user recommendations, adding renderings and video recommendations. He calculated and added the calculated estimate to the heating element section of the tutorial/instructions and briefly explained how the elements prevent pipes from freezing.

Additional insulation costs were added to the cost analysis and the power consumed, along with running costs, of the heating elements were added to the power budget of the cost analysis. Jig saw blades were researched to determine an appropriate blade to cut through thin sheet metal with good maneuverability and durability. The selected blade was added to the materials/tools introduction of the tutorial/instructions. He began reviewing and updating the rainwater collection and use calculations to determine if the calculations are correct and whether the roof size is sufficient to self-sustain its water supply. The pictures below show some of this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 32nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey finished the cutting pages and created a PDF with all the sections. Next step is to have this checked in 3D for accuracy. We’ve tried our best to do all math correctly but there may have been some unrealistic layout or maybe too many pieces are too close together. Checking in 3D will finalize it all. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Created a PDF With All the Sections – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 29th 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 discuss the content with other team members and edited the tutorial to reflect updated design changes.

She did so by altering the size of the sheets for the horizontal wing insulation, researching alternative options for mineral wool adhesive tapes, researching non-toxic insulation options to fill gaps around the dome perimeter and updating the detailed description of how to place the insulative layers around the dome. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked on creating a section view of the basement floor grading plan. Additionally, he created a grading plan for the first floor, did cut area calculations on the basement floor, converted bullet points on “how to compile a pavement recommendation” into a paragraph format, and worked on creating blocks for erosion control on AutoCAD. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Basement Floor Grading Plan – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 10th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had a weekly meeting with David discussing the additional detail and calculation of the basement drainage plan and the ground floor drainage plan. He did some calculation of the elevation of the pump and the pipes’ transition and added some additional detail required by David to the basement drainage plan drawing. He also finished the ground floor drainage plan. See pictures below showing some of this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 9th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente researched different sources of data for the electricity demand in our location to have a reference of hourly demand. He also continued the support to Luis and Jason on their respective activities and reviewed the solar sizing tool (XLS file) to update the “readme” (First tab) so that the different tabs are easier to be understood and used.

He then started to create preliminary graphical monthly energy balances to identify the gaps between energy production and demand and redid the simulations and tests with the SAM software. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Electricity Demand in Our Location – Click for Solar Energy Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 6th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan primarily worked on the Plastic Recycling content, by researching and writing about strategies for recycling, reusing, and repurposing plastic. So far, this research has included ways to reduce plastic consumption, options for reusable and sustainable alternatives, innovations of bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, and several creative DIY projects for repurposing plastic (such as planters and bird feeders). The pictures below relate to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Strategies for Recycling, and Repurposing Plastic – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 3rd week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson researched on the solar hardwares from different companies on the market. He found that no company provides the pricing for their solar hardwares and he wrote emails to ask for a quote.

In addition, he found a few companies which showed great credibility through their past work, and he attached their webpage link to the company names on the google sheet. Also, most companies do not show the specs for their hardware. He plans to email those companies for a quote and hardware specs. Furthermore, he found more solar technology on the market that shows great efficiency and lifetime. He also found the most recent cost estimation from an accredited research lab. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Solar Hardwares – Click for Solar Energy Setup Page

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 2nd week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana started and completed the first draft of the written section for the page. The necessary research was done to ensure the work matched the page. Pictures below show some of this new content.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Most Sustainable Insulation Tutorial – Click for Page

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed her first week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle watched videos on permaculture greywater treatment projects, took notes, and began researching state laws on greywater systems. The pictures below relate to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Natural Grey water Processing Pond Design – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVING MODELS

One Community is building sustainable 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 24th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng recreated the planting design spreadsheet in google slides. She also worked on modifying the walkthrough rendering based on the feedback from last week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Planting Design Spreadsheet in Google Slides – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 24th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week, Ksenia answered questions from Evan’s review, made notes about what she’s done so far in this project, and wrote a letter to Christopher with additional questions she had. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 13th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian revised the cupola roof and cupola ceiling of Duplicable City Center for LEED Platinum Certification. The R-value is more efficient than ASHRAE Baseline. He checked the required inputs to facilitate the cooling and heating loads based on the available information developed by the team, and checked and updated the fenestration spreadsheet summary.

Additionally, he assessed the LPD of the Building, requested additional inputs, and processed/revised the proper naming/tagging of materials in DesignBuilder for easy reference. He also changed the infiltration rate of each thermal zone as required by ASHRAE std, processed the lighting power density of each zone or spaces in the model, and updated the infiltration rate of the building. Please see below progress report for reference. The pictures below relate to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 6th 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 began the week by holding a meeting with his team. He answered questions regarding the AutoCAD design and assigned more design action items to his team for the week. Because his team is preoccupied with design duties, David took on the technical writing and report responsibilities for his team this week.

David has completed the review and changes for the pavement design tutorial and has reformatted it in a way to improve readability and comprehension for the general public. David is also in the process of completing an excel template for grading calculations. Lastly, he has made changes to the design for the City Center by changing the driveway into the basement into a stairway due to the sloping for the driveway making it way too long. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Sustainable Landscaping Tutorial Development – Click for Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week he identified and fixed a problem in the model (from the period values T= 822466.455) where some points in the model were faulty. Faulty beams were identified, the problems were resolved, and the period values returned to normal. Live load was added and activated in the model. Pictures below are related to this.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Duplicable City Center Beam – SAP2000 – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha did the load calculation for LVL beams and new angle brackets. More simulations are needed and she will work on this and a longer bracket size in the coming week. Sunitha will also work on changing the bending angle and increasing the number of holes in the bracket. The pictures below relate to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Load Calculation for LVI Beams – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis continued his work on the City Center eco hot tub design. This week he focused on solving the hot tubs heat transfer analysis. After completing his Energy 2D simulation of the hot tub, Luis had some guideline numbers to reference. He then moved on to studying the combined heat transfer caused by convection and evaporation.

He was able to gather all of the variables necessary to calculate the surface temperature and heat flux of the system. These values will allow Luis to continue and find the evaporative heat loss, giving him the two most important values when looking at the energy transfer. Next week he’ll be wrapping up his analytical calculations of the hot tub when in use, and will begin analyzing the hot tub when covered and idle, along with the energy usage when starting up the system. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – City Center Eco Hot Tub Design – Click for Page

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week Evan coordinated with Ian on the roof insulation for the second floor, prepared a preliminary equipment schedule, air device selection, and kitchen ventilation calculations. He also reviewed the kitchen appliance cut sheets. Some of them are gas supplied and will need to be replaced. Below are some images related to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – City Center Open Source HVAC Designs – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVING MODELS

One Community is building sustainable 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 continued working on the Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. This week’s work was concentrated on designing deer protective fences that consist of double fences 4’ apart. We built an 8-foot tall pole/double-rope fence on the inside perimeter of the garden. Between the poles on the lower rope we hung wind activated homemade decorations. We also updated the right leaf garden bed to a 3D model and placed an extra bench with a storage compartment under the seat near the South entrance. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Herbal Garden Design – Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 25th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu worked further on updating the models in Rhino and Lumion. Unfortunately though, the model has gotten too big to be further developed by Jiayu, so she spent the rest of her week organizing her files and work to pass along to a new designer. Pictures below relate to this final week of her work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Models in Rhino and Lumion – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on organizing, verifying, and summarizing the work and information collected by previous team members regarding the climate battery. He attempted to organize into a section regarding general information about climate batteries, most useful for someone looking to build their own and then presenting the specific work done on the One Community design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Climate Batteries – Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVING MODELS

One Community is building sustainable 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

Building Sustainable Living Models – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVING MODELS

One Community is building sustainable 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 34 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 14th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we edited the value of Community Contribution, both the website and mind map. The mind map is evolving to have a more organized appearance. The website text has improved flow, less passive voice, less long sentences, and added content. Formatting has also been updated, bullet-style changed, anchors moved to correct location, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.  

Building Sustainable Living Models – Value of Community Contribution – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 42nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen finished the CSS tuning for the badge counter. The filters for the badge list were also completed: text search on “name”, “description”, and “project”, dropdown menu on “category”, and sort (ascending or descending) by “ranking”. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – CSS Tuning for the Badge Counter – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 38th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were working on the changes in user profile, reviewing comments, and resolving pull request conflicts. We also changed the forgot email text in the rest api. A new message was also introduced in the user profile to indicate the successful save changes upon different actions inside the user profile. Pictures below show some of this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Resolved Pull Request Conflicts – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 30th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on incorporating a savings analysis of the plan chosen vs. a standard plan that would be used for an unhealthy American. She also worked on adding more details to the introductions in the spreadsheet. Pictures below show some of this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Plan Chosen Vs. A Standard Plan – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 25th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris fixed errors having to do with the Organization Data and the Time Entry Form not being cleared when using the timer. Chris also worked on sending an email whenever a Time Entry was edited, but is still working on it. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 24th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week we created images for weekly progress updates #453, 454, 455, 456 and #457. You can see all these new images below.

Building Sustainable Living Models – Progress Updates #453, 454, 455, 456 and 457 – Click for Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy worked on 6 different Pull-Requests where he left some comments for some that were outdated, or included some conflict files. He also approved one PR where everything seems to work normally. There is a bug when users try to update classification for a task, but it does not fall under the PR branch. He also committed more code and updated more unit-tests for the UserProfile component. Pictures below show some of this work.

Building Sustainable Living Models – 6 Different Pull-requests – Click for Highest Good Network

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