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1000 Years of Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Sneka Vetriappan

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How do we launch 1000 years of sustainability? One Community has spent the last ten years creating the roadmap for this. Simplified, it is to demonstrate a model of sustainable living that is easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. Teacher/demonstration hubs will help anyone interested in participating. Once it spreads sufficiently to cross the tipping point where we can say we have achieved year ONE as a truly sustainable civilization, we’ll have succeeded in launching the 1000 years.

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 7th, 2021 edition (#415) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, emphasizing 1000 years of sustainability:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – 1000 YEARS OF SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team finished beautifying the Structural Engineering and Calculations tables for the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page.

Structural Engineering and Calculations tables, Earthbag Village, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Structural Engineering and Calculations Tables – Click for Page

The core team also updated the complete open source library Work Breakdown Structure, marking complete the items that were done and crossing them off, adding a couple missing items, updating all the assigned tasks, double checking the sequence of numbers, and making sure that any Resources with general names like Civil Engineer or Video Editor were labeled as ‘No’ under Assigned. See pictures below.

Work Breakdown Structure, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Open Source Library Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Page

And the core team conducted edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc sections 5.4, 5.5, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, and 6.7. This included the exterior waterproofing membrane, vertical interior insulation, vapor barrier installation, welded wire fabric placement, pouring and screeding of concrete, setting of control joints, and broom finish, cure and seal. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – 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 #215 of Dean’s work and the focus was creating and testing the kitchen table texture, fixing broken dome textures, and importing SketchUp models into 3DS Max for texturing.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 32nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the rough draft of the Insulation and Heating Element sections of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. In the instructions he included the steps required to construct the necessary structures to help further insulate the rainwater storage room of the Net-Zero Bathroom. The steps were written out clearly and included details on the reasoning behind the process to help the user determine whether it is applicable to their environment.

With the rendering he was able to determine the amount of aircrete needed to complete the second half of the structure connecting the roof to the top barrel and the aircrete insulating the ceiling. The additional section of heating elements was included to give the user preventative options in the case of freezing environments. It also elaborated how the elements were not necessary to every user, but needed to be gauged as necessary depending on the weather patterns in the location selected. The final touch ups to these sections will involve adding calculations and elaborating more if necessary. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 30th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on the wall section and updating the details, working to finalize the pages by checking the layouts are consistent and adding the greyed-out pieces to the header as they were used. She also continued to work on the components pages.

At this point the files are getting larger and some of the steps had to be separated into different files which won’t matter as to the continuity but it was an unexpected setback taking the time to work on files that were slowing down due to technology restrictions and rechecking little details this week. This brings us closer to completion in the instruction manual but there is still a bit more work to be done. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 27th 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 completed Section 6 (Floor Construction) of the tutorial document by writing the remaining sections for installing the thermal insulation and vapor barrier, placing the welded wire fabric reinforcement in the slab, finishing the concrete floor slab, and applying metal sheet flashing around the interior perimeter of the dome.

Hannah also researched sealant products for the foundation and floor insulation and revised previous sections to include the new information. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked on defining the regulations necessary for a road that is IFC compliant. He also worked on giving brief descriptions of different pavement options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Regulations Necessary for a Road That Is IFC Compliant – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 8th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson wrote paragraphs about his suggestions for pavement, researched de-icing material, cost estimation of porous asphalt pavement, and permeable interlocking concrete pavers. He also wrote the final narrative for porous asphalt pavement including the benefit, cost, challenges, and solution. Additionally, Samson reviewed the comments from Aidan and added some details about the recycling of the materials. He also added some information about types of flexible and rigid pavement materials in the Pavement Types section. See pictures below.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 7th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente has completed a first version of the economic balance, with an example of the economic flows along one day, estimating an idea of the economic deficit. He also discussed with Jae the study of the energy demand for the hot tub and how to incorporate the new collaborators into it.

He has added new data to the solar sizing tool, namely the hourly profile (1 – 8760) of thermal demand for the City Center (based on the environmental temperature given by the SAM software weather database) and following the methodology described in the description document. Pictures below show some of this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Solar Micro-grid Design, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 4th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan contributed further to the Glass Recycling content by researching and beginning to write tutorials for DIY glass kilns and glass crushers. He also revisited the Styrofoam Recycling webpage, where he added supplemental information about comparing the R-values of various insulation materials in order to assess the effectiveness of DIY insulation projects using surplus Polystyrene materials.

Aidan continued to review and provide guidance and suggestions for other current research, including Pavement Engineering and the latest updates to the Health Insurance research too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

review, feedback, and content editing, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – 2nd-to-final Review and Content Editing – Click for Glass Recycling Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson completed the initial setup and orientation, and started the research on the best solar hardware. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Solar Micro-grid Design, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis began his research for our Eco-spa Design and how to increase its power efficiency. He began by understanding all of the internal components that draw the most power: the pump and the heater.

His next step was to understand where the heat was lost for most in-ground hot tubs. Luis discovered that heat is lost primarily to the atmosphere and evaporation along with heat transfer to the ground. His solution to this issue was to provide insulation from the ground through polyurethane or an expandable foam layer and sand beneath that. These would allow the heat loss effects to be decreased significantly and optimize the hot tub. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Solar Micro-grid Design, Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – 1000 YEARS OF SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

This week the core team continued modeling in SketchUp 3D the window framing for the shed dormer windows of the second floor of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome. We designed the dome frame section using 2×12 lumber and created the initial detailed framing shown below.

Duplicable City Center Living Dome, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Shed Dormer Windows in Sketchup 3D – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 23rd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week, Ksenia discussed with Christopher the most efficient way to collaborate on the remaining plumbing details. She made PDF files for Christopher for calculating and put the sinks in the boiler room and mechanical rooms. She also joined water fountains into the water pipes and sewer. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng concentrated on further development of the plant design with the herb garden. She also drew some diagrams to explain the overall design ideas. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Plant Design With the Herbal Garden – Click for Duplicable City Center

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 11th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian checked the overall details of the HVAC system. He tried to understand the installation, heating and cooling results and all the spreadsheet calculations and summary of the HVAC analysis developed by previous Engineers, combining this and their efforts for us to attain our goal of LEED Platinum certification of the building. Ian also created preliminary HVAC designs using the DesignBuilder software for the mini-splits air-conditioner. The pictures below relate to this work.

Energy analysis calculations, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Overall Details of the HVAC System – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 9th and final week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. In Haozhen’s final week working on the project, he completed all the 3D drafting for the City Center rainwater catchment expected Zone D3. He then researched the materials that the zone D-3 can use for its downspout. Two of the materials were identified, polyester and TPE (Thermoplastic Elastomer).

PVC laminate polyester duct hoses are flame-retardant and self-extinguishing and resist damage from moisture, oils, ozone, and UV rays. Thermoplastic rubber duct hoses have an external wear strip that protects the hose from abrasion when dragged, preventing premature wear-through. The wear strip is molecularly bonded to the hose wall and will not delaminate from the hose. These hoses resist chemicals, moisture, ozone, and UV rays and are 4″ in diameter too, which is the perfect size to connect it to the piping system underground. The team was thinking of using TPE as our final product of zone D-3 downspout because TPE is 10% cheaper than polyester while they both can do the job as downspout.

Unfortunately though, this ducting hose is meant for transporting gases, fumes, dust, etc. To use this product (due to its flexible application) in replacement of a rainwater downspout is an interesting alternative, but we have never seen it in application before and therefore cannot say with full confidence that this would be okay. We’ll continue seeking another product. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center Water Catchment Designs, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – City Center Water Catchment Designs – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 4th 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 by organizing and running a meeting with his team to set the pace and deadlines for specific action items. During the week, David worked with Mark to finish up the temporary parking lot tutorial for final submission.

He also worked with Samson to prepare the roadway and parkway design tutorial for a review by Jae. Along with this, David prepared the civil site design plan and layout for the City Center project so that he can assign Mark and Samson CAD responsibilities for after next Monday’s meeting. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Sustainable Roadways Tutorial Development – Click for Parking Lot Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week the earthquake records required to determine the earthquake load were downloaded from PEER. The California earthquake (Kern country-1952 / Mw = 7.36) was chosen among many earthquakes and its intensity acceleration-velocity and time file was downloaded. This one was selected because it was the largest and most severe earthquake in California. The earthquake file was edited in the SAP2000 program and drawn in the Time History area. Pictures below are related to this.

Duplicable City Center beam and column designs, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Duplicable City Center Beam – Sap2000 – Click for Page

Christopher Kinney (Environmental/Civil Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Christopher collaborated with Ksenia about current progress and what needs to be done. He reviewed the latest plumbing plan details and also investigated gray water Systems Plumbing Codes and water fixture flow rates. He compared currently-used water fixture values in the design against those published in the latest international Plumbing Codes and verified its accuracy.

The Utah building codes department notified that there is no enforcement against not having coverage over plumbing pipe in over a food storage area. However, this may still be enforced by health inspectors or the agricultural department. Pictures below show some of this work.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha designed an initial City Center Hub component testing both stainless steel AISI Type 316L and Aluminum 2024-T3 and checked deflection and stress under different loads. As far as loading factor is concerned Aluminum was determined to be a good design. It is readily available and you can also make them by bending.

If you are bending, the bending radius can be 2.5 times the material thickness, and there are multiple ways to bend the metal. This coming week Sunitha will work on designing, testing and comparing other designs. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center connectors, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – City Center Connectors for Building the Domes – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – 1000 YEARS OF SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 23rd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the new structures for the models both in Rhino and Lumion. She has updated the new material of sola wrap for the roofs. She also added new railings and handicap access for the central pond and made a new animation for the outdoor landscape design.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – New Structures – Rhino and Lumion – Click for Aquapini & Walipini

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. It was decided this week that the only way to validate our aquapini/walipini models will be to build the first one and test it. We expect the climate battery system to work perfectly regardless of the Matlab code and based on the assumption that it has worked great for many other people and has allowed a Nebraska farmer to grow citrus with a very small energy bill.

When this system is finished and installed, data will be taken to validate its effectiveness and consider its cost effectiveness and whether to install it in the remaining greenhouses. Henry then worked on Walipini research to see how much that could make a difference given data that is already out there. He did not find any conclusive evidence that could be used to update his Matlab model. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Mayur met with the team members this week and discussed the future plans based on the calculations completed for the climate battery. He looked into the walipini structures, totally passive greenhouses, and rocket mass heaters and researched how all of it would affect and help in a more energy efficient and sustainable design of the greenhouses.

Mayur continued his work to look for heaters and fans for the greenhouse based on the calculations. He found the different available options for the heaters and compared their performances in order to identify the best solution for the greenhouse. He will continue learning about all the different types of heaters and fans, and decide how to select the appropriate equipment for the greenhouse. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Aquapini:Walipini structures, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – 1000 YEARS OF SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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1000 Years of Sustainability – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – 1000 YEARS OF SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is forwarding 1000 years of sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 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 12th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we created 3 mind maps covering the values of Highest Good of All Stewardship, Community Contribution, and Fulfilled Living.

Improving the content for all our Values Pages, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Created 3 Mind Maps – Values Pages – Click for Our Pledge Page

And the core team gave detailed feedback on the final drafts of the One Community’s insurance options research and spent time improving the aesthetics of the tables that will be featured on the webpage. Below are some images related to this work.

feedback on final drafts, insurance, 1000 Years of Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #415.jpg

1000 Years of Sustainability – Tables for Health Insurance Research – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 40th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week of Wen’s work, merge conflicts were solved and new pull requests created for back-end and front-end repositories. The function to delete badges was completed. She also spent quite a lot of time working on the mongoose $pull on the backend (nested data type of badges), and UI fixes on the frontend (Modal and Alert in reactstrap don’t work nicely together). The implementation of alert messages (used in create badge, assign badge, and delete badge) was improved and code cleaned up too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Solved Merge Conflicts and Created New Pull Requests – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 36th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were working on the changes in the forget password flow. A new column for reset password has been introduced in user profile and the same will be getting updated with random password on forgot password option. This will allow the user to login with the password they received in email as well as their original password. Once logged in using the random password they have to reset their password and the random password will expire (this is yet to complete). Pictures below show this work.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Changes in the Forget Password Flow – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 24th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris completed his work on making the Summary Bar responsive as well as building out the backend for the Bug Report form on the Summary Bar. Chris also built out the backend for the Leaderboard to get the information on the entire organization for the summary values not just the leaderboard based on the teams that a person is a part of. You can see some pictures related to this below.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 23rd week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week we created images for weekly progress updates #445, #446, and #447. He also started creating JPG versions of the images for video intro for future use on inspirational quotes. So far he has been able to create around 20 of those JPG images. You can see all these new images below.

Creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs, 1000 Years of Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #415

1000 Years of Sustainability – Weekly Progress Updates (#445, #446, #447) – Click for Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy continued work on reviewing, testing multiple Pull-Requests for both Back-End and Front-End branches. Vy also updates the HGN Functional Specification Documentation with a screenshot of a few unit-testing files. He also worked on multiple unit-test files under the UserProfile component such as UserProfile.jsx, UserProfileEdit.jsx, and more. Pictures below show some of this work.

1000 Years of Sustainability – Pull-requests for Back-end and Front-end Branches – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on updating the “custom range” section in the dropdown. When the user clicks the “custom range”, they will be able to select a random start and end time. She also worked on showing all the tasks that belong to a specific project and all the project members. Pictures below are related to this work.

1000 Years of Sustainability – “Custom Range” Section in the Dropdown – Click for Page

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Building a Sustainable Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Posted on March 2, 2021 by Sneka Vetriappan

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Let’s talk about the steps for building a sustainable future. Step 1: Design a replicable way of living that is sustainable. Step 2: Demonstrate it as better and more affordable than how most people are living now. Step 3: Open source and free-share everything so it can be replicated and also adapted and improved upon to provide a solution as diverse as humanity. Step 4: Repeat until we reach the necessary tipping point where we can say we’ve truly achieved global sustainability. This is what One Community is doing.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 28th, 2021 edition (#414) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Sustainable Future
One Community Progress Update #414

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 the editing and creation process of the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. This week we focused on improving aesthetics of tables, transforming them into the correct size photos and placing them in the WordPress site, improving formatting of the “Earthbag Village Loft Design Calculations” spreadsheet to make it easier for others to use, and also editing and adding some pictures to clarify technical terminology and make it more understandable for non experts.

Earthbag Village, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 31st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the Net-Zero Bathroom cost analysis to include aircrete and the tools necessary to make it. The aircrete was added due to it being chosen as the material of choice to seal the rainwater storage room. To add the solution to the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions he began drafting an insulation section. He added all the possible types of insulation that could be used in the structure to either keep it cool or to keep it warm.

The strengths and weaknesses of the listed insulation types were included. The fabrication and uses of aircrete were researched in order to gain a better understanding of the material and its fabrication process. After becoming more familiarized with aircrete, Jose Luis added an insulation application section. The section gave a general overview of how the insulation types listed would be used and positioned for max effectiveness. He then began adding an insulation installation section where he will include PVC pipe insulation, insulating the rainwater storage room with an aircrete mold and insulating the ceiling with an aircrete layer. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Updated the Net-zero Bathroom Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 29th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she created a semi-final PDF of all current pages. There are currently 107 pages so far and we have to account for additional wall lumber cutting pages which are not done yet. In a digital format the number of pages does not matter very much, but the components section shows only 1 item per page and this is where we could reformat to reduce the amount of pages. All sections have been looked over this week except for the wall section. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Semi-final PDF – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 26th 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 completed Section 5 (Foundation Construction) of the tutorial document by writing the remaining sections for installing the waterproofing membrane and vertical interior insulation around the foundation, as well as backfilling the foundation area. Hannah also began writing the tutorial for Section 6 (Floor Construction) by writing the introduction, information about leveling the floor, and how to lay the gravel base. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark’s focus was centered around restructuring his water catchment tutorial, researching alternatives to asphalt, and exploring water catchment options for the road and walkways. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 7th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson worked on research about “Porous Asphalt” and “Decomposed Granite”. He also worked on the discussion of different types of pavements, including the characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages. See pictures below.

Building a Sustainable Future – Porous Asphalt and Decomposed Granite – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 6th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente updated the solar sizing tool incorporating previous detailed analysis on the energy demand (Pareto Charts) for the City Center and the Earthbag Village in order to review and update the data, mainly times of use of each power need and the associated power required. This will allow a better connection between the demand and generation.

Energy needs have been divided into different types for a better understanding of the demand. Vicente also extended the description document explaining the energy and economic balances, an ongoing development process. Pictures below show some of this work.

Solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Solar Micro-grid Design, Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) also returned to helping with 3D render work, completing his 1st week as a volunteer now helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders. This week he added and received feedback on initial people and tree additions to the first of his latest renders to work on.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Renders – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 used the the architect’s AutoCAD plans to begin modeling in SketchUp 3D the window framing for the dormer windows of the second floor of the Duplicable City Center Living Dome according to the latest AutoCAD drawings. This is a challenging task because of the angle of the dome walls and non-traditional framing structure.

Duplicable City Center Living Dome, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Dormer Windows in SketchUp 3D – Click for Page

And Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 22nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia began working with Christopher, collaborating on a solution for the piping above the food storage, seeking the best solution via the codes, and answering other design questions from Christopher. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Quiheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week, based on the feedback from last week, Qiuheng adjusted the pond area and moved the pond to the west side of the planting design area. She also added the herb garden model to the planting design model. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 10th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian integrated a new high-performance wall with a higher R-value for us to minimize the penetration of extreme weather conditions from outside, resulting in lower energy consumption from the HVAC system and overall energy savings. Ian revised the R-value, C-Factor, F-factor of walls, floors and slab in Energy Modeling Software. He also checked the ASHRAE Baseline requirement if the parameters meet the standard. The pictures below relate to this work.

Energy analysis calculations, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Energy Analysis Calculations – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 8th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week Haozhen designed the 3×4 to 2×3 Gutter Downspout Connector. The purpose of it is to connect the downspout and gutter correctly. Haozhen also designed the sharp edge downspout elbow to connect the sharp turn between zone CR-4 and CP-8.

He finished the detail of the gutter and downspout connection implementation for all zones except for Zone D-3 because the downspout design is in progress for that one. After finishing the design of Zone D-3’s downspout, the whole City Center 3D design will be wrapped up by a week from now. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center Water Catchment Designs, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Designed the 3×4 to 2×3 Gutter Downspout Connector – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 3rd 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. This week David looked into different temporary parking lot alternatives, specifically Grasscrete, Turfblock, and Grasspave2. “Turf” pavement was recommended from Trish, another engineer who believed it could be a potential possibility for the project.

These pavements typically utilize concrete or recycled materials to form a grid that sits directly under the turf. It is a unique alternative to the common gravel lot and is environmentally friendly as well as aesthetically pleasing. They are also very easy to install and can be DIY, although a contractor’s help is recommended. Some downsides to these options include increased costs, maintenance (because of weeds), may not be ADA compliant, and that it has a lifespan that greatly exceeds the needs for a temporary parking lot. David has also began mark ups for the ground design for the City Center project.

This was done so that once the temporary parking lot tutorial is finished, Mark or Samson can help with the AutoCAD design by implementing the changes David has made. David has also prepared what action items he would like to see finished from Mark and Samson for his next zoom meeting with his team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Temporary Parking Lot Alternatives – Click for Parking Lot Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week, due to an AutoCAD version incompatibility, the snow load could not be determined exactly, but the system that can calculate the snow load was created and all parameters were determined. Picture below are related to this.

Duplicable City Center beam and column designs, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Duplicable City Center Beam – Click for Duplicable City Center

Christopher Kinney (Environmental/Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Christopher started by jumping into all the aspects of the Duplicate City Center design which also included review of the relevant plumbing code publications, review of Ksenia’s work up-to-date, design status, water heating system alternatives and talking with the local building code department for questions about plumbing design (more specifically if there exists any local provisions that govern the exposure of plumbing over a storage area). Pictures below show some of this work.

Building a Sustainable Future -Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Lauren Siegel (Impact Analyst) joined the team too, completing her 1st week taking over research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors page. This week Lauren read the document of previous research to get her mind wrapped around the progress and work that had already been done. She clicked on all the links to see where the research came from to see where the research stood right now. Lauren sees a strong start but needs some new research in the coming week of companies that aren’t primarily sky lights. Pictures below are related to this review.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors page, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Page – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 made changes to the Keyhole garden bed for the Herbal Garden, adding a composting center area surrounded by wire mesh for each round bed.

Herbal Garden, Duplicable City Center, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Garden Bed for the Herbal Garden – Click for Duplicable City Center

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu added more plants to Walipini 1 and Walipini 2. She also worked on last week’s requested edits to these structures.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Added More Plants – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry and Mayur worked on the heat transfer effectiveness of the climate battery code. Henry also ran 3D simulations with the climate battery system that showed the system worked well in the summer but not very well in the winter, this matched with the results Mayur and Henry got with matlab code. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Climate Battery Code – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week, Mayur continued working on the heat transfer calculations and worked on validating them. He found a spreadsheet calculator for climate battery design and tried validating the duct and fan size calculations. It can also be used to help validate the heat loss calculations done by Henry. There are some changes that need to be done and he’ll keep working on it with Henry. Mayur found a case study of a climate battery where they installed sensors and checked the performance of the system.

The case study shows that the system is not able to maintain the inside temperature to the desired value on its own, but it was a case study with a completely above-ground structure. It showed that external heaters would be required to support the system. He checked for the available options for fans and heaters which can be used in the system. There are a variety of options and he is working on finding the appropriate components based on our system. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Aquapini:Walipini structures, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Heat Transfer Calculations – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Itztli De La Torre (Executive Chef) completed his 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Itztli began to work through the amazing recipes that another vegan based chef had already amassed for the organization. Then he implemented them into the next weekly meal plan. Chef Itz is looking towards the future in planning the rest of the menu with details like before and organizing the week for best results. In this process he will (after finishing the basis of ingredients) begin to itemize the list so that there’s an active inventory sheet. Pictures below show some of the content he reviewed and integrated.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Next Weekly Meal Plan – Click for Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

One Community is building a sustainable future 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.

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, Building a Sustainable Future, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

Building a Sustainable Future – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

One Community is building a sustainable future 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 31 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 11th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we continued reviewing the Community Contribution page. We also made mind maps for each value: Love/Compassion, Honesty/Integrity, Sustainability, Diversity, Communication, Open Source, Consensus, Community, Freedom, Contribution, Personal Growth, Fulfilled Living, and Highest Good of All. We consolidated how each value feeds into the others, how each is unique/the essences of each, as well as how the infrastructure supports each value and began transcribing handwritten notes using Google.

Reviewing the Community Contribution page, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 39th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the validation and error handling for the new badge data. Success or fail alert was added and she tried uploading some badges to test. It was tested with invalid url links as well. Everything worked as it should and that brought the function to upload new badges to fully complete! The submit button is disabled when badge name, url, or description are missing. Category, project, and ranking are optional fields. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Error Handling for the New Badge Data – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 35th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team implemented the Pause and Resume option inside the user profile so that Administrators can pause or resume a user from the profile page of a user.

The functionality is similar to the one in the User Management page, upon clicking Pause a popup shall be displayed to ask the resume date, clicking “Pause the user” after selecting a date will pause the user until that date and automatically resume on the selected date. He also made some style/alignment improvements to the buttons on the user profile page. Pictures below show this work.

Building a Sustainable Future -Pause and Resume Option – User Profile – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 28th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor updated the narrative of what health insurance plan is the final choice. She updated the ranking of the health insurance point system. Following that, Noor created two projected costs spreadsheets. One spreadsheet organized the costs based on the final plan of choosing, and the second plan organized the costs across all plans. She also ranked these plans in the spreadsheet. Pictures below show some of this work.

One Community’s insurance options, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 23rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on making the Summary Bar Responsive as well as the Bug Report form for the Summary Bar. Chris also looked into how to make the Leaderboard receive the data for the entire organization to be displayed on the first row even for non-Admin. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Building a Sustainable Future – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 22nd week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. He created intro images for youtube and the blog for weekly progress updates #440, #441, #442, #443 and #444. You can see all these new images below.

Creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – One Community Updates Blogs – Click for Most Recent Blog Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 12th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he completed the Highest Good Education Badges! You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Highest Good Network, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – Highest Good Network – Click for HGN Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy worked on reviewing, testing multiple Pull-Requests from both Back-End and Front-End. Vy found a bug where that prevented the user from deleting the task, and he worked with the pull-request author to fix this. Vy also pushes multiple commits up to Github to update unit-test coverage for multiple components TimelogNavbar (97%), Dashboard (100%). Pictures below show some of this work.

Building a Sustainable Future – Testing Pull-requests – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on showing all the data on the project and team reporting page. On the team page, team Name, ID, Active Status, Modified Date time, Created Date time are all showing now. On the project page, Project Name, Project ID, Active Status are also all showing now. She also added the task section and spent time on exploring how to get all the tasks data through API. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Sustainable Future – Team Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 3rd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan completed his review of the One Community’s current Health Insurance Research, where made several suggestions for clarifying and supplemental information. He also finished editing the Styrofoam Recycling Webpage, where he fixed various formatting issues and improved the text’s readability.

To ensure that the webpage’s research was sufficiently comprehensive, he conducted research and incorporated his findings on topics such as the difference between Styrofoam and Polystyrene, and the impacts of Polystyrene on both human health and the environment. Lastly, Aidan began working on incomplete Glass Recycling Research, by collecting, reviewing, and summarizing useful resources on DIY glass recycling methods, such as how to build glass kilns and glass crushers. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Reviewing research, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – 2nd-to-final Review, and Content Editing – Click for Insurance Page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) finished the “custom sidebar” plugin research and created a new analytics dashboard to see 2-year trends of all relevant metrics. He also shot video explanations and then completed additional analytics analysis and created another dashboard to troubleshoot and get more insights between Jun-Aug 2020. The analytics research is all to help us understand a significant drop in traffic metrics that we experienced during this time. Pictures below are related to this work.

Analytics research, Building a Sustainable Future, One Community Weekly Progress Update #414

Building a Sustainable Future – “Custom Sidebar” Plugin – New Analytics Dashboard – Click for Page

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Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Sneka Vetriappan

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How do we go about building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism? One Community thinks we can best achieve this by demonstrating a more enriching and luxurious life that is also good for the planet and other people. Based on sustainable infrastructure that is healthier and lowers living expenses, and cooperative living that provides more free time and things to do with that free time, we can build a better life for ourselves while helping everyone else too.

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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 February 21st, 2021 edition (#413) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 the editing and creation process of the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. This week we modified the tables for aesthetics and easier understanding. We also corrected some aspects of the “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship” tutorial too.

Earthbag Village, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Rabbit Stewardship Page- Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #214 of Dean’s work and the focus was creating and testing the table and beanbag textures.

Earthbag Village 4 dome cluster, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 30th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued developing a solution to seal the hole on the roof of the Net-Zero Bathroom. The seal was to keep the rain storage room insulated by sealing off the water collection hole in the roof while not disrupting the inflow of rainwater.

Last week’s design had the right idea in packaging, but the material used was not durable and would lead to installation difficulties. He collaborated with his supervisor and determined that an aircrete mold would be optimal. The first idea was to make two identical aircrete molds that would sit on top of the top center water barrel and connect to the roof hole, the rainwater would be able to flow into the barrel.

By making two molds, one half could be removed and leave access to the debris filter on top of the barrel. The two molds were to be held in place with wing screw and a wing nut fastened through eye screws attached to the molds. Measurements and calculations were done to determine the maximum height of the mold due the constraints from the interior roof frame. The max height was determined to be 10.76 inches, well short of the 15.5 inches needed.

The final adjustment was to make the two molds only 7.3 inches tall the same as the distance from the interior roof frame to the barrel. And on top of that first mold would be another complete mold being bound to the roof frame by aircrete. The half mold was calculated to be less than 15 pounds, light enough for a person to lift it without being injured. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Net-zero Bathroom – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 28th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week was focused on rebuilding the components pages and reworking the groups with new feedback for labelling used pieces in grey patterned lines after use. We also received updated renders for the electrical work and tried to use those instead of the older renders. There is still some overlap between the electrical instructions and the wall section where outlet installation and placement is called out in both groups.

The additional electrical outlets that are not installed into the Murphy bed, but into the structure’s walls and loft space, which has led to some confusion. The Murphy bed is so integrated into the structure of the dome that it is hard to know how to keep these instructions limited to the bed without explaining some portion of the loft space, walls and doorway. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark mainly focused on completing the temporary parking lot tutorial, so it could be reviewed and added to the website. A first draft was finished and he also began work on the water catchment tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Parking Lot Tutorial – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 6th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson finished the research of both “Rigid Pavement Design” and “Flexible Pavement Design” and began research about Turf Block, Porous Asphalt, and Decomposed Granite Paving. He added links to articles about these three materials to the Google Doc and began writing the introduction and the construction detail about porous asphalt. See pictures below.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Pavement Design – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 5th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente checked the energy needs distribution for the cases of 20-50 and 50-100 people for an initial perspective on the thermal weight on the total demand / installed power, concluding that, according to the current estimation, heating demands more than 75% of energy (case of 20-50 p).

He has improved the SAM simulations to a first view of the energy & economic balance and started a text describing the topic to achieve the net zero balance along the year. He has incorporated new relevant consulting links (a list of incentives applicable to the location). He also updated the tasks for the collaboration team, for faster incorporation into the ongoing work. Pictures below show some of this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Solar Micro-grid – Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 2nd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan finished reviewing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials webpage. He added titles to links, ensured that links functioned properly, added useful anchor links, defined technical terminology, located and added relevant resources, and conducted research to provide additional contextual information and content to fill in gaps.

Aidan then reviewed the current Health Insurance content, where he provided useful comments and suggestions to guide the development of the research and analysis. Finally, Aidan began editing the Styrofoam Recycling Webpage, by correcting typos, fixing missing and broken links, and rephrasing for the sake of clarity and ease of reading. Pictures below show some of the work on these three components.

Most Sustainable Flooring Materials, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Sustainable Flooring Materials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 finalized One Community’s plan for wind energy on the Wind Microgrid page. You can see the new content below.

Wind Microgrid, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Wind Microgrid Page – Click to Visit

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on trying to find codes for water and sewer pipes in food storage rooms. It doesn’t look like this is allowed, so she’s exploring more and trying to come up with alternatives. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Food Storage Rooms – Click to Visit Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 20th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week, Qiuheng focused on redoing the structure model in Lumion as well as updating the new planting design. She changed the greenhouse into a simpler and smaller version. In addition, she modified the path system in the landscape to meet the doors of the domes. Qiuheng also began preparing the first draft of the outside walkthrough video. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Structure Model in Lumion – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 7th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week, Haozhen did the research on the usability of the roof hangers in the absence of the fascia board. He then designed and drafted the “Roof Hanger” from scratch via AutoCAD 3D. He made sure that the scaling and detail are correct and the final result matches the size of the gutter and functions correctly. Haozhen also worked with David on the subject of designing an optimum downspout for the zone D-3. David’s first proposal was using the Rainbird, polyethylene tube.

However, by our research, polypropylene is susceptible to quick degradation by sunlight while polyester innately resists deterioration. Polypropylene is useful for applications that require high heat, chemical, or electrical stresses, but polyester is more suitable for outdoor uses and environmental exposure. Haozhen also designed the Downspout elbow connection with model detail, worked on designing the connection between gutter and the downspout using AutoCAD 3D, and worked on fixing the downspout and gutter connection detail. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center Water Catchment Designs, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Usability of the Roof Hangers – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 2nd 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. This week David worked with Mark to complete the temporary parking lot tutorial for a final review. In the tutorial David and Mark go into detail to discuss everything from the necessary permits needed to be obtained to the different types of temporary parking lot design options.

They conclude the tutorial with a comparative analysis for each design option and explain why One Community Global believes that TrueGrid’s paver design was best suited for the project. David has also worked with Andrew to brainstorm possible solutions for the City Center’s Sunrise patio drainage problem. After looking into the CAD design and the 3D renderings for the building, David has proposed installing area drains on the sunrise patio that would collect and discharge the flow onto the second floor which would then be collected and discharged to ground level via downspout.

However, this solution is not the best solution because it brings the water into the building and would therefore lead to potential leak problems, noise pollution, and other types of inconveniences. With this in mind, David and Andrew are both working on researching an alternative solution which will utilize a flexible drainage pipe with a sock or pipe guard to protect against UV damage. Lastly, David worked on setting up the introductory sections for the sustainable roadways, walkways, and landscaping. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Temporary Parking Lot Tutorial – Click for Page

Long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) also continued with his 2nd week modeling the specifics for how the Duplicable City Center dormer windows will be attached to the domes. This is a challenging task because of the angle of the dome walls and non-traditional framing structure. Bahy’s focus this week was scaling last week’s designs to fit the specific measurements of the dome, as shown below.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Duplicable City Center Dormer – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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

his week the core team continued working on the Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We placed a gabion fence around the garden and trees, designed curved stone benches around the trees, strategically placed two storage benches next to the entry to the garden, and a spool table and seats in the center of the garden. You can see all of these new developments in the pictures below.

Herbal Garden, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Herbal Garden Design – Click for Page

The original core team researcher did a round of review of the Rabbit Stewardship content developing on the website, adding edits for about ⅔’s of the doc, covering the reasons for raising rabbits, rabbit raising details, rabbit shelter needs, rabbit fencing needs, suggested vegetables and fruits for a rabbit diet, rabbit water needs, etc..

Rabbit Stewardship, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Rabbit Stewardship – Click for Rabbit Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 21st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the new animations for Walipini 1 and Walipini 2 with additional plant, people, and structure details. Pictures below show some of her changes.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Animations for Walipini – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. He determined the remaining variables of the heat transfer equations and checked the results. The results seem promising and he moved forward with checking the performance of the system for the different types of soils. The system looks most promising with sandy clay as the soil in the climate battery.

Mayur then checked how the burial depth affects the system performance, as the burial depth increased the system got more efficient. But he needs to check how feasible it is to increase the burial depth. For now, the burial depth is kept at 13 feet (3.9624 meters) and he’ll research more about how much it can be varied and what would be a practical value. Mayur then started looking for the materials which can be used for the climate battery and their costs. He will continue working on that as he moves forward. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Aquapini:Walipini structures, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Heat Transfer Equations – Click for Page

Itztli De La Torre (Executive Chef) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week he spent a good amount of time trying to wrap his head around the program and what’s going to be possible logistically while also meeting the nutritional goals. Itztli spent time looking for recipe ideas that he thinks will most easily adapt all of the requirements while being varied and mindful of waste. He also began a week’s worth of recipes on a new tab that is just for him to get my ideas down and more organized. Pictures below show some of this initial work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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.

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, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Highest Good Education – Click image for hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN IDEALISM AND PRAGMATISM

One Community is building a bridge between idealism and pragmatism 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 10th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished up editing the Fulfilled Living content. Specifically, we shortened paragraphs and sentences, and transformed passive voice, as well as proofread the final product before submitting for final review and then publishing the changes.

We also strengthened the body of the text, by adding additional text and expanding on the material that was already in place, updating the text that was linked to other pages and adding two new graphics. We then began reviewing the Community Contribution page.

Edit of Fulfilled Living content, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Fulfilled Living Content – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 38th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued working on the function to upload a badge, which is now almost complete. Final steps, which she started on, are to create success/fail messages and add validation and error handling. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Function to Upload a Badge – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 47th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added a new column to the imported Work Breakdown Structure and checked and clarified the specifics of the import process. Pictures related to this work are below.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 34th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team continued working on the changes as per the functional spec review in the user profile area. An end date was introduced in the API and front end which will now get updated on resetting a user (not paused) and the same will get displayed inside the user profile and the user management table. Pictures below show this work.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – User Profile Area – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 27th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on editing and reviewing her research, adding requested sections based on team feedback. She recounted the numbers for each plan as well as finished incorporating any additional information that was required. Then Noor began working on the projected costs portion of the project. Pictures below show some of this work.

One Community's insurance options, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 22nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris added the ability for an Admin to view the dashboard as different users allowing the functionality to be passed down to the leaderboard timelog, badges, summary bar and task list. Chris also reviewed a couple of Pull Requests that were in waiting. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 21th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. He created intro images for youtube and the blog for weekly progress updates #435, #436, #437, #438 and #439. You can see all these new images below.

created images for Updates Blogs, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Progress Updates #435 – #439 – Click for Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 11th week helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. His focus this week was continued work on the Highest Good Education Badges. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Highest Good Network, Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism, One Community Weekly Progress Update #413

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Highest Good Education – Click for Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy continued work on reviewing, fixing, and updating multiple unit-testing files such as TimelogNavbar.test.js, TimeEntryForm.test.js, and also working on SummaryBar.test.js. Vy also researched to find a way to work around a few bugs that happen when developers try to change values in multiple fields. Pictures below show some of this work.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Unit-testing Files – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru made adjustments to the option table UI so the table is in the center of the page and the names are left aligned. Yueru also added the time frame dropdown button and the options of past week, past two weeks, past month, past 5 months, past year and custom range.

Then she added the blue square description to the person reporting page and added the team to the state which will hold all the team information like isActive, modifiedDatetime, id, teamName and createdDatetime. There are still some issues though with sending all this data to the state. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Bridge Between Idealism and Pragmatism – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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Sustainable Civilization Creation – One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Sneka Vetriappan

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It seems it is time (past time!) for sustainable civilization creation. An open source and replicable DIY tool set is being created to achieve this. It includes the tutorials and resources necessary to build and maintain sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. One Community calls combining all these into teacher/demonstration hubs as living and creating for “The Highest Good of All“.

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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 February 14th, 2021 edition (#412) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION CREATION

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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 review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. This week we researched and revised the positioning of the sheet metal covering of the rockwool insulation in the aircrete domes so there was additional overlap with each 8”x12” for securement with the tapcon screws. Pictures below show some of this work.

Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Sheet Metal Covering in the Aircrete Domes – Click for Page

The core team also started the editing and creation process of the Earthbag Village “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations“ page. This week we created the indexes, the anchor links, and formatted the text. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations page, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – “Earth-dome Loft Engineering and Calculations“ – Click to Visit

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #213 of Dean’s work and the focus was modeling the cushions under the South window and around the East sitting area.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Modeled the Cushions – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 30th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued on developing plans and ideas for the prevention of frozen pipes and structure insulation. He began by brainstorming and researching materials and devices that could be used to seal off the hole in the roof from the water storage room. His first idea involved constructing a plunger-like seal made of durable and flexible elastomeric insulation that could be lifted by a screw and installed on the roof grate.

The problem with the device was that it would have restricted rain flow into the water barrels and possibly causing secondary failures on the roof. He then began working on a device that would still allow rain water flow, but eliminate convection cooling from the exposed hole. After doing more research Jose began rendering the device on Solid Works. He decided to attach a take off collar on the ceiling aligning concentric with the hole and having another one attached to the barrel inlet over its filter. To ensure a proper seal a circular strip of elastomeric insulation was used to help seal the collar on the sloped ceiling.

The collars outlet on the ceiling was wrapped with a layer of insulation and secured with a hose clamp. The insulation only scaled a bit more than half the distance between the barrel and the hole. From there another piece of insulation was wrapped around the collar attached to the barrel and the hanging insulation. The insulation was secured with a hose clamp to the ceiling insulation duct. The hose clamp is used for a secure fit and an easy removal with a cordless drill to allow easy access to the barrel filter. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Frozen Pipes and Structure Insulation – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 27th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey finished up the Benches & Table group and submitted the PDF for review. She incorporated many of the past comments as she finished this. Stacey also focused on recounting the screws and hardware numbers to double check for use on the procurement list that still needs to be finished. The last bits of the wall section that need to be finished are the wood cutting layouts. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Benches & Table Group – Click for Earthbag Village Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 25th 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 research on the interior trimming product, updated previous drawings in the FFF document to reflect updated changes, and completed the first three sections (5.1, 5.2 and 5.3) in the Foundation Construction section of the FFF document. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week mark worked on converting his research on irrigation, water catchment, and temporary parking into a tutorial. This was done in order to make it easier so a non industry consumer would be able to follow steps into creating the necessary sustainable and eco friendly home amenities. The temporary parking lot tutorial should be finished within the next week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Converting Research on Water Catchment – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 5th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Samson finished the chapter “General Aspect of Pavement Engineering.” He also finished simplifying the chapters, “General Aspects of Pavement Engineering” and “Pavement Engineering Consideration” and submitted them for initial review.

He additionally started to review the new chapter “Rigid Pavement Design,” finished the outline of this chapter and finished the explanation for different types of Rigid Pavement by showing the usage, advantage, and disadvantage of them. He introduced engineering properties and performance factors with the pictures of the table too. He also introduced different types of concrete, including PCC, RSC, and RCC. See pictures below.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 4th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente reviewed and improved the solar sizing spreadsheet tool, namely the calculation of inter row spacing to avoid self-shading for flat and sloping ground.

This was needed to better estimate the total space requirements. Additionally, specific cells have been colored for a better understanding and use of the tool, and new links were added for additional support / consultation, as well as other software and rates information. He also explored improvement for water heating and reviewed the pictures about the location of facilities. Pictures below show some of this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Solar Microgrid Design, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

Sai Kaushik Duvvuru (Masters in Electrical Engineering) completed his 2nd week helping with the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Sai worked on calculating energy demands for the City Center, researching optimal solar panel placements, checking the values for the outcomes, and doing general research for solar panel distribution on empty land. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Calculating Energy Demands – Click for Solar Energy Microgrid Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed his first week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week he completed the On-boarding Checklists, and then dove into developing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials web page on WordPress by editing content, fixing formatting issues, and correcting hyperlinks. Pictures below show some of this work.

Most Sustainable Flooring Materials, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Feedback, and Content Editing – Click for Flooring Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION CREATION

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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 finalized the specifics of which walls will be insulated and how for the Duplicable City Center. We then created a graphic showing these details and added it to the City Center HVAC page.

Duplicable City Center, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Finalized the Specifics – Click for Duplicable City Center

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 20th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she reviewed the Uponor radiant floor designs, continued research for hydraulic calculations, finalized the boiler for radiant floor, and worked on trying to find what code requires for placing water and sanitation lines above food storage. Pictures below show some of this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Qiuheng continued working on the planting design concept and details. She focused on developing the ground texture including understory plants, ground layer plans, and paving materials, getting ready for the walkthrough video. Below are some images showing her work.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Planting Design Concept and Details – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 10th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the insulation / energy efficiency related material into designbuilder as per design requirement and recommendation. He updated the details of the following into the DesignBuilder: Roof R-value, Ceiling insulation, Roof solar absorptance, Ceiling layer by layer details, & Roof layer by layer details.

Ian checked all the material that is required to be updated based on the proposed building process. He changed the material of the dormer sill because DesignBuilder automatically set the material for it. Ian also changed the floor slab of the second floor (exposed) same with the 2nd floor slab inside the dome. Pictures below are related to this work.

energy analysis calculations, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Insulation/Energy Efficiency – Click for Heating/Cooling Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 6th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week Haozhen fixed the problem “Gutter Conflicts with the Pivot Door” by using the Gutter Hangers to avoid the conflicts created by the original design.

During Haozhen’s AutoCAD work, he found and fixed the bug that caused the conversion from SAP2000 to AutoCAD drawing that some of the 3D models of the drawing are missing. Haozhen fixed that by recreating the 3D models which are missing. Haozhen also starts working on the downspout CAD drawing implementation. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center Water Catchment Designs, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – “Gutter Conflicts with the Pivot Door” – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st 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. This week David completed orientation and set up and scheduled meetings with his team to get acquainted with them and their projects.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Joined the Team-Scheduled Meetings – Click for Parking Lot Page

Long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) also continued modeling the specifics for how the Duplicable City Center dormer windows will be attached to the domes. This week’s focus was on the front view shown below.

Duplicable City Center dormer windows, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Duplicable City Center Dormer Windows – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION CREATION

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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 designed additional garden beds for the Herbal Garden. We also updated all 2D beds to 3D beds, added textures to the garden beds, and generated render images. The pictures below are related to this work.

Herbal Garden design, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Garden Beds – Herbal Garden – Click for Duplicable City Center

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 20th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu addressed all the feedback for the Walipini 1, Walipini 2, and Aquapini 1, plus outdoor space. Pictures below show some of her changes.

Aquapini & Walipini internal landscaping, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Walipini 1, Walipini 2, and Aquapini 1 – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry met with Mayur and discussed the code and decided we can get all the information we need from a less comprehensive model than we were working on before; paving the way for faster results. Pictures below show some of the research and code related to this.

Climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Climate Batteries – Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Mayur worked on determining the heat transfer in the climate battery, how the excess energy is being stored underground during summer and later utilized in winter. He considered the underground temperature at 13 feet to be constant at 6°C / 43 °F and considered the temperatures for our location. Based on this, he calculated the performance of the system and found out the output temperatures of the system.

The burial depth code seems to be not giving proper results and it can be determined with the same code used for heat transfer calculations as well. So he will try to use that moving forward and the same code can also be used to determine the component dimensions for the system. Mayur met his teammate and discussed the performance of the system. He will continue working on determining how the energy is stored and utilized later and how it improves the performance of the system. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Aquapini:Walipini structures, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini:walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION CREATION

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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.

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, Sustainable Civilization Creation, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Highest Good Education- Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION CREATION

One Community is demonstrating sustainable civilization creation 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

his week the core team completed 25 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 9th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we took a deep dive into the Fulfilled Living content. We began the process of reducing passive voice and also making sentences shorter and easier to read. The section has been edited substantially with the goal of the significance of this value called out more clearly. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work-in-progress.

Values Pages, Fulfilled Living, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – All Our Values Pages – Click for Fulfilled Living Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 37th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on several fixes and updates to clearing name fields after submit, handling requests with only first name or last name, fixing an unhandled rejection error 404 bug, and handling requests that input name after assigning badges. She also updated the text of the alerts based on feedback. The assign function was wrapped up, and PR was updated too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 33rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were working on the code review comments and the suggestions in the user profile area. They also identified the root cause of the ‘email not sending’ bug. The status of the user and “paused-until date” if the user is currently in an inactive state will also now be displayed in the user profile. Pictures below show this work.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Suggestions – User Profile Area – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 26th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on editing the rest of the work. She expanded on the different types of group plans. Noor also added content to the different individual insurance plans. Following that, she elaborated on how she compared the different insurance plans between companies. Pictures below show some of this work.

One Community's insurance options, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 21st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris tested the email sending and found a limit of 16 emails that GMail was throttling us at, in order to get around the limit he implemented a timeout that allowed one infringement email to be sent every half second until finished.

The tests to Chris’s email showed this allowed 63 infringement emails to be sent without any problems. He also updated the users on the development database to be listed as 0 weekly committed hours to prevent any further emails being sent to old test accounts, while updating the master branch of Azure to stop emails sending until we enable them to be. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 20th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Jaime finished the leader of the team badges. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Highest Good Network, Sustainable Civilization Creation, One Community Weekly Progress Update #412

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Leader of the Team Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 10th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert began creating the Highest Good Education Badges. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Highest Good Education Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy worked on reviewing multiple different Pull Requests. Some of them took a decent amount of time since he found some bugs in the Assign Badge front-end branch, and it happened due to an outdated version of the backend. He also fixed/updated the unit-test for Timelog.jsx component to bring the cover from 76.92% to 83.08%. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Different Pull Requests – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer completed her 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru completed the initial person reporting page. When the user clicks the person’s name in the table listing everyone, the detailed person reporting page will show. Currently, data includes the person’s name, weekly committed hours, total committed hours, start date, blue square counts, and blue square dates. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Civilization Creation – Initial Person Reporting Page – Click for Highest Good Network

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Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Posted on February 7, 2021 by Sneka Vetriappan

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Sustainably addressing population growth is necessary if we are to support our growing cultures. One Community is designing open source teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate what is possible and evolve the necessary plans for global implementation and adaptation. These sustainable communities and villages will demonstrate that we can live better and more luxuriant lives in a way that will support our growing population for the foreseeable future.

Here’s our project overview
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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

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 February 7th, 2021 edition (#411) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING POPULATION GROWTH

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. We reviewed work on sections 3, 4, & 5 of the FFF doc relating to footer construction and centerpoint re-establishment and compass installation. Section 5 was combined with 3 and three chapters were added to section 4. We then followed up with a phone call resulting in a mutual review of updating the first 48 pages of the FFF and removing outdated information.

Also a discussion determined utilization of sheet metal attachment to the concrete floor with tapcon screws to cover the perimeter floor insulation. A new drawing will be drawn and reviewed to determine its feasibility and cost effectiveness. Pictures below show some of this work.

Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

The core team also generated final renders for the lofts for the Earthbag Village domes. The new images we produced show structural details, hardware placements and loft parts placement.

Earthbag Village domes, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Earthbag Village Domes – Click for Page

And the core team completed a detailed review of the flashing installation tutorial for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Flashing Installation Tutorial – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 29th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began working on the cost analysis for the pipe insulation and freeze prevention. He began using the material list containing the pipe lengths, elbows, and tees to calculate the quantity of polyethylene foam insulation needed. Additional research and analysis had to be done to prevent the pipes from freezing due to the water catchment roof’s design. The water storage room is susceptible because of the orifice in the roof allowing air to flow through the room and accelerate the possibility of frozen pipes due to convection cooling.

A few measures were considered to prevent this from happening. One of the prevention measures was to line the spigots with fiberglass wrap along with the insulation foam. The extra insulation being necessary because of the use of copper in that area. Insulating the barrels was considered, but it was found to be costly. Another preventative was to wrap the barrels more susceptible to cooling with a heat cable and cover the cable with foil tape to evenly distribute the heat. Jose simulated the center barrels to have the heat cable wrapped around them because of the opening on top of the top center barrel that allows rainwater to flow in. The pictures below show some of this work.

Cost Analysis – Pipe Insulation and Freeze Prevention – Click for Net-zero Bathroom Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 26th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey mostly finished the benches & table group. There were some boards to lay out and some hardware to add to the directions. She hopes to finish the group this coming week and submit a PDF for review. Stacey is also going to try to implement a used-board effect with this group, to show which boards are used vs. not. She is thinking to use a gray color or maybe a pattern of lines. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Final Edits – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 24th 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 revising the loft design process.

She edited the first four completed sections of the FFF doc to remove all obsolete information, began work on the foundation by researching the use of rebar to join the layers, and continued the development of interior trimming in the dome. Hannah also added image narrative and an executive introduction to the loft design process. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark mainly focused on research concerning drainage design, storm drain design, roadway design, water catchment options, and irrigation options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 4th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson finished explanation of the new section, “Materials”, “Maintainability and Constructibility”, and “Pavement Life-Cycle”. And he started a new chapter, “General Aspects of Pavement Engineering”, and provided an introduction for the new chapter. Also, Samson finished explanation of the section “Pavement Structure Layers”, “Types of pavement projects” and introduced the section “Roles, Resources, and Proprietary Items”. See pictures below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 3rd week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. The focus for Vicente this last week has been upgrading the solar design spreadsheet by including a basic energy & economic balance based on the annual average day, identifying preliminary relevant outcomes (economic balance requires deeper research to know the current reality on rates, credits, incentives, etc.).

He also added more useful links and a section for the calculation of the inter row spacing (“Outcomes” tab), which is a key value to estimate the required ground area for the PV field. Vicente wrote a first list of points / steps needed related to the legal and economic aspects which will function as a preliminary guide for this part of the project. New exploration on SAM software was also made to see the annual profiles generation & demand (internal SAM values). Pictures below show some of this work.

Solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Solar Microgrid Design, and Specifics – Click for Page

Sai Kaushik Duvvuru (Masters in Electrical Engineering) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week’s focus was on calculating the energy demands for the Earthbag Village, conducting research for Net metering tariffs and the ways they are calculated for the proposed site, checking the Basic Energy calculations, and doing research on the number of appliances needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Solar Micro-grid Design, and Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING POPULATION GROWTH

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 23rd week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela integrated requested edits to her lightbulb tutorial. Specifically, she ranked the lightbulb products and added pictures to them. Then, in her Google Spreadsheet, Angela ranked the products that weren’t featured and gave rationale as to why. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Ranked the Lightbulb Products – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Qiuheng focused on setting up key frames and components of the planting design. She divided the planting design into three themes, including four seasons front entrance, cherry blossom alley on the North and South, and warm winter (autumn) on the East. She also synced the model in Lumion for rendering. Below are some images showing her work.

Duplicable City Center, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Components of the Planting Design – Click for Page

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 13th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy worked on the category of non-recyclable paper products. Originally, the category was limited to waxed paper and cardboard. However, she found that this category could be opened up to paper products that aren’t recyclable and aren’t compostable.

This entailed doing some additional research on disposal of these difficult to discard paper products and finishing up the section. She also worked on the universal waste section, doing research and edits on that, as well. The pictures below relate to this work.

Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Non-recyclable Paper Products – Click for Page

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 9th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian transferred all the construction material data from the previous energy model (OpenStudio) to DesignBuilder Software. He was able to almost complete the preliminary construction material data as shown on the figure below. The set-up of material will continue up until the final stage of the design and construction of the building. Pictures below are related to this work.

energy analysis calculations, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Transferred Construction Material Data – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 5th week as a member of the team helping with the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week Haozhen finished all his gutter design and continued his Downspout, Fascia and Soffit design. Most of the Fascia and Soffit are drawn, except for the one that conflicts with the “Pivot door”. The problem is yet to be solved. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center Water Catchment Designs, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Downspout, Fascia and Soffit Design – Click for Page

Long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) also began modeling the specifics for how the Duplicable City Center dormer windows will be attached to the domes. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center dormer windows, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Duplicable City Center Dormer Windows – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING POPULATION GROWTH

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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 designed five different garden beds, added more walking paths and realigned existing beds. The pictures below are related to this work.

Herbal Garden design, Duplicable City Center, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Herbal Garden Design – Click for Page

The core team also finished the first live draft of the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship content. We researched and edited new photos, edited all the hyperlinks, fixed the indexes and anchors, backed up references as pdfs, shared source files of the editable images, updated the summary, and compared it with the website checklist. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Rabbit Stewardship, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Rabbit Stewardship Content – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 19th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the new renderings for the Walipini 1 and Walipin 2 based on feedback and made a new animation for the Walipini 1 and Walipini 2. Pictures below show some of her changes.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – New Renderings: Walipini 1 & Walipini 2 – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry met with Mayur and discussed troubleshooting the matlab code, specifically working on the semi-infinite solid heat transfer section. Together they made good progress with this section by using a new source with relevant equations. They are also investigated transfer functions and positive feedback loops because they think that’s what is causing problems in the main greenhouse code. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures. Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Troubleshooting the Matlab Code – Click for Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 7th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md completed the initial wiring cost analysis of Walipini 1 and the large aquapini based on the design measurements (height, width, depth). A spreadsheet was created so costs can easily be recalculated if the unit cost of the components change. Md estimated that Walipinis 1,2,3 and Zenapinis 1, and 2 wiring costs will be the same based on the design analysis.

The large-scale production aquapini has a slightly different cost. Areas identified as needing more cost analysis research include: Permit License Cost, Installation Cost, Labor Cost, Inspection Cost, Maintenance Cost, and other Miscellaneous Costs. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Aquapini:Walipini electrical layout, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Cost Analysis – Walipini 1 – Large Aquapini – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Mayur continued to work on finding the optimum burial depth for the climate battery. He researched about transient heat transfer functions and about heat transfer in semi infinite solids with a single pipe, he calculated the heat transfer in such a system and calculated the output temperature of the pipe.

This would help in calculating the system size and component dimensions. He also continued researching about the different thermal properties for the different types of soils as the last results did not seem to provide an adequate answer. Multiple references specify different values for the thermal properties (absorptivity and thermal diffusivity) of soils. Mayur calculated the thermal properties based on most of the observations and tried finding the optimum burial depth. The results still seem to be a little off for now and he will continue his work based on these results. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Aquapini:Walipini structure, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Burial Depth for the Climate Battery – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING POPULATION GROWTH

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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.

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, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Highest Good Education – Click image for the hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – SUSTAINABLY ADDRESSING POPULATION GROWTH

One Community is sustainably addressing population growth 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

The core team also completed our 8th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished reviewing the values of Sustainability and Honesty and Integrity. We updated formatting and made language consistent with the other One Community values pages. We made edits to make the overall readability smoother, by shortening sentences and adding language for a deeper understanding. Additionally we reviewed all resources listed within the resources sections, and finalized the additional FAQs for the value of Consensus Self-governance.

reviewing the values of Sustainability and Honesty and Integrity, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Page

Additionally the core team finished a detailed review of the Highest Good Network software documentation of Work Breakdown Structure items 4.1, 4.2, and 4.4. We marked complete the items and functionality that are done and added notes for any aspects of these components that are still needed.

Highest Good Network software, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 36th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen got the bug (TypeError: toAdd.add is not a function) fixed. She added text to display the number of badges selected, and created functions to clear the data of selected badges when needed. Wen added some styling to the contents of the badge assignment tab. Lastly, she worked on name validation and error handling so that the user would get messages about how the request goes and the reason for failure.

Bug (TypeError: toAdd.add is not a function) Fix – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were mainly working on the documentation section as well as some code corrections and fixes. The pull request has been raised and merged to the development branch, and the forgot password bug was fixed. Pictures below show this work.

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Documentation Section – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 25th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on adding intro paragraphs to several different sections. She went into detail on the differences between group and individual insurance options. Noor also went into more detail on the specifics of the individual insurance options (such as who they serve, and the benefits/challenges associated with it). Pictures below show some of this work.

One Community's insurance options, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Adding Intro Paragraphs – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 20th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on giving the timers a notification and communicating with each other to only have one timer going at a time. It’s a work-in-progress that needs more work to be fully functional. Chris also worked to set it up so that the timer would come back in a paused state in the case of a power outage/accidental browser closing. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 19th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he made corrections on the X hours in a week badge group and started the leader of the team badges. He also organized and uploaded master files for 4 different groups of badges. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Badges for Highest Good Network, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – X Hours – Week Badge Group – Click for Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 9th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert completed all of the Highest Good Society Badges! You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

New badges for Highest Good Network, Sustainably Addressing Population Growth, One Community Weekly Progress Update #411

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Highest Good Society Badges – Click for Page

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Vy’s main goal this week was working on fixing/updating unit-testing files so that the yarn test command works again without running into the “JavaScript out of memory” error. He discussed it with Chris, and read a few articles about unit-testing in React to be able to find out the problem. Vy reviewed one pull request and approved it. He also was able to make the yarn test command work again and created a PR for it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Unit-testing Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer completed her 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru finished the filter function in the reporting page. When users select “Active”, “InAcitve”, “All”, the table will show the available options in real time. Users then click the option name to view the detailed report. She also spent time on trying and testing all the APIs available to get all the data needed in the detailed reporting page and researched some React graph packages that will be used later. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainably Addressing Population Growth – Filter Function in the Reporting Page – Click for Page

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Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Sneka Vetriappan

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Imagine what we can accomplish by building open source sustainable cities. We can create cities that are healthier, more fun to live in, more productive, durable, affordable and safer. One Community is creating the open source plans to establish DIY versions of these that will function as the teacher/demonstration hubs needed for global implementation and expansion.

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why building open source sustainable cities is important. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of why building open source sustainable cities is important and showcase what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that answers why building open source sustainable cities is important. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that explains why building open source sustainable cities is important. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the question of why building open source sustainable cities is important, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

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 January 31st, 2021 edition (#410) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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 review and development of the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials. We researched galvanized flashing thicknesses to determine availability and feasible for covering the interior perimeter foundation insulation in the aircrete/earthbag domes. We also reviewed and researched new work in sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 regarding slope drainage and how it relates to soil types. Pictures below show some of this work.

Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation, and Flooring tutorials, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Earthbag Village Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

The core team also finished building the Loft frame for Earthbag Village domes according to the latest updated AutoCAD. Updates were related to the spacing between two middle joists, and changes to the overhead storage-entrance opening.

Earthbag Village, Loft, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Loft Frame for Domes – Updated AutoCAD – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #212 of Dean’s work and the focus was modeling the ceiling-mounted TV in the up position and adding the imagery to it.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Modeled the Ceiling-mounted TV – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan to coincide with the roof access updates in the Solid Works rendering. The updates included step-by-step diagrams of the roof saddle rafts construction. The rafts are cut at compound angles, but by breaking it down the process was simplified. The OBD sheathing was updated to include dimensions on where the flat head screws were to be installed.

The roof saddle flash had to be updated as well to take into account the peak that is formed from the contact of the two pieces of OBD sheathing touching. The original flash that was over the peak had to be cut into two separate pieces with one of the cuts being angled to take into account the ending slope. More dimensions were added to the remaining diagrams to have more descriptive illustrations. With the completed updates, he then added more diagrams to the roof access flash installation section of the tutorial. He included descriptive instructions under the majority of the diagrams and completed the draft of the section. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – AutoCAD Roof Plan – Solid Works Rendering – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 25th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on working on updating the components page. There are screws and nails and other parts that were not included in the assembly for the installation of some of the components. Some parts might come with their own screws and some we might need to add specialty lengths to the list just for those items.

Realizing there are a lot more pieces than had been laid out before in the draft, Stacey is revisiting the links and getting new images to remake the page – making sure to list out the pages where the items are being used and also adding descriptions where needed. Pictures below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Updating the Components Page of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Earthbag Village Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 23rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by revising the loft design process and continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She revised the loft design process to include more narrative and imagery.

She also continued to analyze different options for interior floor trimming, finished the initial draft of Section 4 (Footer Construction) in the FFF doc, and eliminated Section 5 (Compass Installation) of the FFF doc to combine its information with relevant info in Section 3 (Centerpoint Re-Establishment) of the document. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark finished the table to the temporary parking lot and made his recommendation. He also made corrections to his original parking lot design. In addition to this he did research on drainage design, walkway design, and roadway design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 3rd week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson edited the section from the last two weeks with a better format and strikethroughs for the unnecessary details. He finished the explanation of new sections: “ Soil Characteristics”, “Climate”, and “Existing Pavement Type and Condition”.

He also introduced the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS), California R-value, engineering alternatives for expansive soils, the map of California pavement climate regions, and the consideration for reviewing existing pavement type and condition. The pictures below show some of this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 2nd week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente worked on the creation of a spreadsheet to assess the energy balance and solar system size. Preliminary calculations have been made with the support of the online software PVgis and complementary calculations by SAM (downloadable energy simulation software developed by NREL). Other support software was identified and the action plan has been updated including a section for the legal and economic aspects. Pictures below show some of this work.

Solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Solar Micro-grid Design and Specifics – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

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

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

This week the core team worked with Uponor to identify the best locations for the City Center HVAC radiant floor.

City Center HVAC radiant floor, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Best Locations for the City Center HVAC Radiant Floor – Click for Page

The core team also made planting updates for the area around the City Center.

City Center, planting updates, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Planting Updates – Around the City Center – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 22nd week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela implemented requested edits from last week to her lightbulb tutorial and added pictures to the product descriptions. She created a written list of the best lightbulbs and added in an explanation of her ranking. Then, she continued to work on the non-recyclables tutorial, adding in images and video links. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Most Sustainable Lightbulb and the Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Lightbulb Page

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. She spent this week researching hydraulic calculations and plumbing design details for the 3rd floor bathrooms. Pictures below show some of this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Hydraulic Calculations and Plumbing Design Details for the 3rd Floor Bathrooms – Click for City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. Based on feedback, Qiuheng revised the planting plan and planting list and continued to work on the 3D model. She added in all the canopy layers, as shown below. Below are some images showing her work.

Duplicable City Center, landscaping design, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Planting Plan and Planting List – Click for Page

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 12th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy finished some edits for e-waste and construction waste, and researched adding a universal waste category, which would combine two of the current categories and add some more specificity. We now know we’d like to have a better and more concise category for goods containing common but hazardous materials. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Universal Waste Category – Click for Page

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 8th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian revised the construction appearance of the entrance and revised the dormer windows to the latest design and updated the material data of it for energy modeling. Ian also arranged all the site data of the windows and doors considering the quality and the affordability of it without compromising the total energy savings of the building. Progress photos are below.

Energy analysis calculations, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) completed his 4th week as a member of the team and now focusing on the City Center Water Catchment Designs. This week’s focus was the gutter and downspout design. Haozhen Worked on researching our state drainage code and precipitation and then selected proper downspout to attach with the 6″ K-style gutter. He then created a 3D detailed part in DWG format. The fascia and soffit design was also created in a 3D DWG file format. Unrelated to this, he also helped with some research on the thermal diffusivity and absorptivity for different soil properties. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

City Center Water Catchment Designs, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – City Center Water Catchment – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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 rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week the team updated images with correct sheeting size for the East and West walls. We also finished generating images for the South wall assembly including images for the upper portion of the wall with the two windows. We created images for the double plates placement step too.

Chicken coop, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions

The core team also started editing the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Rabbit Stewardship content. We moved all the text from the development Google Doc to our wordpress page, created the index, formatted a good part of the anchors and headers, and also added rabbit images to one of the tables and exported it in the right format. While doing this we also made some small tweaks to the automation tool we are developing for this same editing process.

Rabbits, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Rabbit Stewardship Content – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 18th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu figured out how to put the Revit’s model into Rhino, made needed minor updates to the new structures in Rhino, and updated the model in Lumion. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Aquapini : Walipini Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry continued work on the matlab program. He troubleshooted by breaking the program down into small sections and testing each section. He has reached out to his teammate Mayur and will be meeting next week to go over the code and the specific problem. Henry’s hopeful that the matlab program will be finished soon and looks forward to that day. You can see some pictures related to this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Climate Batteries – Click for Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 6th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md made a rough sketch to analyze the exact location of the components in order to do the electrical wiring. For 100 amp breaker panel service, a 2-gauge non-metallic sheathed electrical cable is recommended. The cable must contain one or two hot wires depending on needs, one neutral wire, and one ground wire. Each wire should be 2-gauge in size. Underground Feeder (UF) is also recommended.

It is a type of nonmetallic cable designed for wet locations and direct burial in the ground and commonly used for supplying outdoor fixtures. Total electrical cost for Individual Walipini had also researched. Considering placement of equipment’s total wiring cost is $589.28 (wiring length: 254’ and wiring cost per ft=$2.32), Breaker cost $50 (Size: 100 Amp, can hold 20 circuits. 20 full size breakers only) and the central bulb cost $8.00 (60watt, Brightness: 800 Lumens, Energy used: 8-Watt) for individual Walipini. Other costs might be taken into consideration: labor cost, permit license cost inspection cost, miscellaneous cost etc. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Aquapini:Walipini electrical layout, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Aquapini:Walipini Electrical Layout – Click for Page

Mayur Rajput (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he researched about the different soils that can be used in the climate battery and is working on determining their thermal properties (‘a’ – absorptivity, ‘a0’ – thermal diffusivity, ‘e’ – emissivity, ‘k’ – thermal conductivity) in order to find the most efficient soil. Mayur figured out all the properties but one (e) and is working on determining the last one.

These properties will help determine the optimum burial depth for the climate battery. He worked on the matlab code for the burial depth while keeping the emissivity constant for now. The graphs for the temperature of the soils throughout the day are pretty much similar. Mayur will check the results again after figuring out the emissivity of the soils. He will continue this and see how the different thermal properties are affecting the burial depth. The pictures below represent his work on all of the above.

Aquapini:Walipini structures, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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.

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

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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building open source sustainable cities 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.

The core team also completed our nonprofit tax filing process.

Completed our nonprofit tax filing process, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Nonprofit Tax Filing Process – Click for Page

And a detailed review and initial formatting of the One Community’s insurance options research.

Insurance options research, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Health Insurance Options Research – Click for Page

The core team additionally completed our 7th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we began reviewing the values of Community and Sustainability. The introduction to the Sustainability page was re-written and anchor and other formatting was fixed. WE also wrote an additional FAQ for the value of Consensus explaining how traditional and consensus voting are different. In preparation for adequately reviewing and improving the value of Community, one of our team members also re-read and typed up notes from Scott Peck’s book “The Different Drum” to include within the Community content. Pictures below show some of this work.

Reviewing the values of Community and Sustainability, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Values of Community and Sustainability – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 35th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the auto suggestion for the names when assigning badges. This function was completed so that we can see a dropdown list including all the names of “ACTIVE” users when filling in name forms. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Highest Good Network software, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Auto Suggestion for the Names – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 32nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK Talent team completed the default password change and the option for the administrator to reset the password of a user inside the user profile. Upon clicking the Update Password button a popup shall open up which asks for a new password and confirms it, clicking “Reset Password” will update the password of that particular user. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 24th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor formatted some of the notes on her research by adding definitions to the key terms of what is most important to understanding the goals of this research project. She also began adding to a FAQ section. Furthermore, she made edits to her previous work by elaborating on how to become a self-insured employer as well as gave an overview of the process used in choosing plans as well as the selection criteria. Pictures below show some of this work.

One Community’s insurance options, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on getting the emails successfully sent for Weekly Summaries and infringements. Chris helped fill in new member Vy Dao on what was completed as far as Unit Testing for the different components and his process for doing Pull Requests. Chris also took a look at having Admins be able to click the red/green button on the leaderboard and see a different users dashboard, something that may require a couple of weeks to implement across all of the dashboard components. Then he fixed a color issue for the top of the dashboard. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 18th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he finished the X-hours-in-a-week badge group. He also organized the x-hours streak master files. Pictures of the new badges are below.

Highest Good Network, Building Open Source Sustainable Cities, One Community Weekly Progress Update #410

Organized the X-hours Streak Master Files – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 8th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert finished the five badges for the Highest Good Society. Badges 100, 200, 400 600 and 10,000. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below.

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Five Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vy spent a lot of time reading all of the documentation from the on-boarding orientation. After that he reviewed all of the different unit-testing files that we already have on our Github repo. He also discusses with Chris about how to work on Unit-testings and PRs reviews. He did review of 2 Pull Requests this week, making some changes to a few files for one of the Pull Requests. After the newest merge he found, for some reason, the yarn test coverage was not working anymore.

He believed this happens because some of the unit-testing files are too old and caused a JavaScript out of memory error. He then investigated all of the old unit-testing files, especially under the UserManagement folder such as: NewUserPopup.test.js and USerProfileModal.test.js. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software.This week Yueru began development of the initial reporting filter page by completing project, person, and team tables. Each project, person and team table can render the options dynamically in real time. All three categories have 3 filter options available: active, inactive, and all. For projects, users have more filter options like data priority level etc. Showing all the options in table layout makes it easier for people to view all the options compared with the dropdown list used in the Ember/current app version. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building Open Source Sustainable Cities – Initial Reporting Filter Page – Click for Page

SUMMARY – BUILDING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.

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One Community Welcomes Robert Pioch to the Graphic Design Team!

Posted on January 28, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Robert Pioch to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Robert is Graphic Designer who brings four years of experience in both digital and print design to the One Community Team. With a keen eye for detail, he leads complex projects, from conception to completion, while ensuring both brand integrity and service excellence. Robert is an avid board gamer and enjoys designing board games in his free time. Focused on mindfulness practice and sustainability, he is thrilled to be a part of the team! As a member of One Community, Robert is helping to design the volunteer badge reward system for the Highest Good Network, and after that will help with layout design for the permaculture open source hub.

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One Community Welcomes Ian Oliver Malinay to the Engineering Team!

Posted on January 27, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Ian Oliver Malinay to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ian earned his Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University of the Philippines and currently holds a License as Mechanical Engineer after passing the PRC National Board Examination. He is passionate about Sustainable Building Design & Assessment, especially Building Energy Modeling using DesignBuilder / Energyplus software which is developed by the U.S. Department of Energy and is one of the most widely accepted modeling software. Ian is knowledgeable with 3-D Modeling, Visualization, Simulation, Daylighting, HVAC Design, LEED E.A. Minimum Energy Performance, E.A. Credit Optimize Energy Performance and ASHRAE 90.1 calculations, Optimization, and Computational Fluid Dynamics calculations. He is also a Facade Thermal Simulator using Therm, Windows, and Optics softwares and qualified to assist in the LEED certification process internationally as a LEED Accredited Professional. In addition to this, Ian is a Licensed Master Plumber in the Philippines (PRC National Board Examination) and qualified also to assist in the TRUE Zero Waste certification process internationally as a certified TRUE Advisor. As a member of the One Community team, Ian is applying his diverse experience to help complete the Duplicable City Center energy modeling and HVAC design so it can achieve LEED Platinum certification.

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Earth-care Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Rachna Malav

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Earth-care cooperatives can demonstrate regenerative living that will help people, communities, and our planet. One Community is creating the open source plans needed to launch these. They include DIY and 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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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of designing earth-care cooperatives as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the January 17th, 2021 edition (#408) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards earth-care cooperatives:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care 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 working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials staging page. This week we finished and integrated the social media infographic, restored and backed up missing resource links, and began editing the next article: Best Small and Large-scale Community Polystyrene & Styrofoam Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse. Pictures below show some of this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Most Sustainable Flooring Materials, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Continued Working on the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Staging Page – Click for Main Flooring Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #210 of Dean’s work and the focus was designing the custom shelving and seating along the South wall. See pictures below reflect efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Focused on Designing the Custom Shelving and Seating Along the South Wall – Click for Earthbag Village

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 26th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began updating the SolidWorks rendering of the Net-Zero Bathroom to illustrate the use of a roof saddle and roof flash in tandem for water sealing the roof access. The updated renderings include the roof saddle assembled in layers instead of one solid piece to show more detail on the installation process. The first layer of the roof saddle has wooden rafts cut from 2 by 4 at multiple angles to compensate for the roof inclination.

The second layer was the OSB sheathing shaped into a triangle to fit over the rafts and was secured in place with screws. The third layer involved installing roof flash around the roof access piece by piece to accurately illustrate the order of the flash. The order of the flash is important because the flash should be overlapping each layer starting from the roof saddle down to minimize water collection around the roof access.

The fourth layer had sheet metal cut into two triangular pieces to cover the frame followed by a strip of the sheet metal to cover the gap in between the frame. The final layer will cover the sides of the frame to prevent any water from seeping through the wood and the interior roof. The pictures below show some of this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Began Updating the Solidworks Rendering of the Net-zero Bathroom – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 23rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy finished updating the clothing and storage, nightstands and electrical sections, submitting her final questions about brackets and hardware numbers and locations. She was able to reduce the nightstands pages down by 1 page by combining steps onto a page that had free space. Cutting pages are nearly complete too. Pictures below are related to this latest progress reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Murphy bed instructions, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Finished Updating the Clothing and Storage, Nightstands and Electrical Sections – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 21st 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 made a new section for the tutorial write-up of the horizontal wing insulation around the dome, researched options for interior trimming to protect the insulation around the edges of the floor envelope, and she re-designed the wall envelope above the graded backfill and below the first earthbag layer to include a vapor barrier to prevent moisture damage. You can see some screenshots of this work below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Continued Working on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Earthbag Village

Haozhen “Andrew” He (Civil Design Engineer) also completed his 2nd week as a member of the team. This week’s focus was finishing his setup process by setting up Civil 3D software as well as getting familiar with connecting Sketchup and AutoCAD. Haozhen met with Mark and Samson for the Earthbag village work splitting, and Haozhen reviewed the Sustainable Parking Lot Construction Guide and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guide. To better understand how to manipulate the piping network, Haozhen also participated in a Civil 3D webinar lectured by Bentley software engineers. Pictures below are related to this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Parking Lot Construction Guide and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guide, Earthbag village, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Set Up Civil 3D Software and Got Familiar With Connecting SketchUp and AutoCAD – Click for Parking Lot Construction Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked to figure out a viable temporary parking lot option while also researching codes and regulations for the permanent parking lot. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Joined the Team and Worked on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Guide

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson finished the onboarding process, reviewed the parking lot, roadway, and walkway webpage, had a meeting with Andrew and Mark, and then began working on the pavement design tutorial by following the Caltrans Highway Design Manual.

This week he listed out the project specific conditions for the evaluation (pavement design life, traffic considerations, soils characteristics, etc.) and wrote a detailed explanation of pavement design life, traffic considerations, and calculation of equivalent single axle load (ESALs), Lane distribution factor and Traffic Index (TI). The pictures below show some of this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Joined the Team and Worked on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Guide

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team created a new graphic showing the locations of all the main plumbing fixtures. We integrated this into the Duplicable City Center Plumbing page and also wrote the What and Why sections there. Pictures below show some of this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Duplicable City Center Plumbing, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Created a New Graphic Showing the Locations of All the Main Plumbing Fixtures – Click for Duplicable City Center Plumbing

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 20th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela revised the company information, the summary, and made an overall edit of the entire tutorial. For her non-recyclables tutorial, Angela narrowed down the best methods and is refining their descriptions. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Revised the Company Information, the Summary, and Made an Overall Edit of the Entire Tutorial – Click for Most Sustainable Lightbulbs Page

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenai checked and updated the hot water calculations based on the latest floor plan clarifications from the core team. Pictures below show some of this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Checked and Updated the Hot Water Calculations Based on the Latest Floor Plan Clarifications – Click for Duplicable City Center

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center, now focused solely on the landscaping design. This week Qiuheng updated the road system and the planting plan and put together an initial planting list. The planting plan was also imported to SketchUp for future modeling and perspective renderings. Below are some images showing her work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Updated the Road System and the Planting Plan and Put Together an Initial Planting List – Click for Duplicable City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 6th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian was able to transfer the site data of the project into DesignBuilder. He then focused on filling in the construction assembly of materials and checking if the information corresponds to ASHRAE 90.1 standard. Progress photos are below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

energy analysis calculations, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Continued Helping Run the Energy Analysis Calculations to Help Us Achieve LEED Platinum Status – Click for DCC Heating and Cooling Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care 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 continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. The focus this week was edits and revisions relating to rafter and roofing installation while reviewing articles and videos related to such. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Focused on Edits and Revisions Relating to Chicken Coop Rafter and Roofing Installation – Click for Chickens Page

Here are some of the new graphics created too. These images are all related to updating parts dimensions for the east wall assembly pages that have the chicken door and two venting openings.

new Chicken coop graphics, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Created New Chicken Coop Graphics Related to the Updated Parts Dimensions for the East Wall – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 16th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week, Jiayu updated the outdoor landscape renders by adding more detail. She also continued adding to the animation for Walipini 1. Hence, reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Added More Detail to the Outdoor Landscape Renders and Continued Adding to the Animation for Walipini 1 – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry met with members of the team and discussed the complicated heat transfer equations involved in modeling the climate battery. It was decided that incorporating the thermal lag in the soil will be too difficult and an estimate will be sufficient. Henry then worked on incorporating all the new information into a new matlab script. You can see some pictures related to this work below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Discussed the Complicated Heat Transfer Equations Involved in Modeling the Climate Battery – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 4th week on the team, now focusing on the Aquapini/Walipini electrical layout. This week Md began creating the electrical plan and conducting related research. Initial placement of components (Mechanical, MEP, etc) was sketched out, a central location for the individual walipini panel was suggested, and locations for the thermometer, heater, backup heater, humidity sensor, etc. were considered. There are picture below related to this work-in-progress reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Aquapini:Walipini electrical layout, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Began Creating the Electrical Plan and Conducting Related Research – Click for Aquapini/Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care 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.

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, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing earth-care 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 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 also completed our 5th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we completed work on the Communication page. We improved readability from ‘needs improvement’ to ‘OK’ by converting passive voice to active voice, and re-wrote some content for added clarity. We also reviewed the resources section and removed links that were bogged down with advertisements. Picture below show this work towards designing earth-care cooperatives and some additional work we did adding our recycling rollout details to our complete phased-in rollout plan.

improving the content for all our Values Pages, Communication, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Improved Readability on Communication Page From ‘Needs Improvement’ to ‘Ok’ – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 45th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry completed the popup editor with the backup function. He also moved the popup management to under the “other links” dropdown. He changed the number of times for backing up to 2 (vs 7) and displayed a confirmation to make sure the user knows what they are about to do. Current popups which can be modified are: Delete Project, Delete WBS, Delete Task in WBS, and Import Task in WBS. Pictures related to this work are below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Highest Good Network software, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 33rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the “assign badges”, coding and debugging. The categories of badges have been updated in the badge model and a third layer of authorization check was included. The “badge management” link is only available to Admin roles now and the non-Admin roles have no access to the badge data, for the table containing all the badge editing info, and can’t submit the “assign badge” request.

The second and third authorization checks are in place in case someone bypasses the UI and tries to access these components of the app. Pictures of some of this work are below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Worked on the “Assign Badges”, Coding and Debugging – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team were focusing on the documentation and completing the suggestion and wrapping the create new user profile functionality. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team migrated the REST API to azure and the dev site is now working in azure with both react and REST API. The pictures below relate to this work reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 22nd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor finished ranking the insurance plans by their coverage type and associated cost. Depending on the cost associated with the coverage, she gave the cell a specific color. Darker colors were associated with better benefits and lighter colors were considered to be not good costs for the associated coverage. You the development so far of the spreadsheet ranking everything below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

One Community's insurance options, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Finished Ranking the Insurance Plans by Their Coverage Type and Associated Cost – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris worked on the Summary Bar component, putting it on the timelog page and removing the summary bar from the timelog component. He also double checked the related functionality and went through and fixed several warnings in the console and lots of compile/style warnings in multiple files and pushed the changes. You can see some pictures related to this below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 16th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he finished the “X Minimum Hours” badges and started the “No Blue Squares” badges. Pictures of the new badges are below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Highest Good Network, Earth-care Cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #408

Finished the “X Minimum Hours” Badges and Started the “No Blue Squares” Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) completed his 6th week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week, Robert completed award badges for Highest Good Energy. You can see pictures of the new designs and development process below reflecting efforts towards designing earth-care cooperatives.

Completed Award Badges for Highest Good Energy for the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for HGN

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