The time has come for creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth. We’re creating one that is open source and free-shared, includes all aspects of sustainable living, demonstrates a more luxurious living experience, and designed to build DIY-replicable teacher/demonstration hubs that will further the movement and make comprehensive sustainability accessible to anyone who wants it.

• 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 August 7th, 2022 edition (#489) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth
One Community Progress Update #489

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth 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 Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 39th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued writing the sections regarding Flexible Pavement Design. She started off the week by focusing on the preliminary analysis. In order to further explain some concepts, she reviewed some resources and analyzed the information in order to fully comprehend the material. Daniela also wrote and addressed some commentary for her work. Once finishing the write up for the preliminary analysis section, she started making additions to the CBR Design Procedure section. In all subsections Daniela added more information in order to ensure that the reader understood not only the concept but also the charts she had provided. Daniela also went on to address other comments she had left in the maintenance and rehabilitation section. She added images to break up the text and started researching some information based on her previous comments. She then bolded all concepts that may need definitions either in the narrative or in the glossary. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week, Diwei added more details for drainage and structure to the Earthbag village 3D model. The procedure for determining the dimension of the drainage with a given flow rate and the slope was documented. For simplicity, the rectangular section was used. The most efficient rectangular section has a width:height ratio equal to 2:1. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 18th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming looked over what waste types should be considered if they come from something toys, razors, or other appliances. This is crucial because he needs to confirm all the feedstocks for power generation to estimate the amount to be treated each year. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 10th  and final week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia focused on reviewing and editing mostly on the sections on plasma gasification and case studies on where waste to energy solutions are already in effect. The latter requires some more research to provide the most up-to-date information. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth 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 Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 45th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed the North, West, East, and South elevations according to the SketchUp Model and plans. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 41st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya coordinated with Jae and Kamil to sort out the discrepancy in the window design she found last week. After she got the correct window frames, she modeled the living dome windows using the correct window structural model. Next week, she will open the window holes on the living dome shell. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 39th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi worked on the Dining Dome’s large windows. Shell surfaces were cleaned and prepared for the windows. The old window was sized for the inner wall, thus by moving it outward it does not create a seamless transition between surrounding planes. Although not familiar with multi-plane modeling editing, a method was found to create the desired window and she’s ready to make the full window next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 13th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil began creating the final assembly by splitting the parts of the design into timber pieces. He finished assembling the frame of the first floor dormer by mating all the pieces together within SolidWorks. Then he started working to complete the second floor assembly with drawings of each timber piece. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 11th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue Wang continued the development of Room 8, the Nautical themed room. She worked on the window design and furniture design in SketchUp. She also updated the plan in AutoCAD the Interior Design Cost Analysis Spreadsheet. See below for pictures related to this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked to finish the trees inside the room, adding more branches and leaves, changing the texture and running a few test renders to see if it’s working. She will add a few more branches and leaves as requested. Gabriella also did a few adjustments on the Cost Analysis Table and added a few details in the bathroom. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica adapted the theme ”Fall” to ”Country cabin”, this was done to avoid a seasonal theme that might appeal less to people during other seasons. This change meant she needed to do more research to have references to work with, then she changed the 3D model that was already in progress. She kept the same color palette, removed the pallet furniture, and picked rustic furniture to compose the new theme. Elements like shaggy carpets, rustic furniture, plaid fabrics, wood, trees and mountain animals decor were inserted. Jessica did the design in parallel with the search for items available on the market, adding them to the Design Cost Analysis for room number 11 spreadsheet too. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth 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 detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed, answered and added comments on the 3-Day Menu Block doc through page 86. Subject matter included suggesting elimination of almond milk due to its expense and various unhealthy additives, eliminating cornstarch from the ingredients list, pre-soaking beans to reduce cooking time and increase digestibility, and commenting on garlic seed cloves curing and storage. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also continued working on the Assembly Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn. We finished assembly of the feeder section with instructions for attachment of the cattle panel inserts. We then started working on the assembly steps for the milking station. We made a couple of corrections to the milking station design to improve stability of the stand by adding leg braces and head gate braces to the design.

The core team additionally worked with Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) (completing his 23rd week helping) review all comments on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan master Google Doc of recipes to make appropriate substitutions for every ingredient not on the Master List. We spent 3 hours on a Zoom doing this and then updated all the Master Spreadsheets with new ingredients that we agreed should be added and then we fixed all the connection codes and related formatting. Below are some images related to this.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 16th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to make adjustments to menu blocks which included changing some recipes as suggested after review, as well as adjusting the changed recipe instructions and old menu block recipe instructions. She also started to fill out missing recipes on the SECOND WEEK menu blocks and is researching and saving recipes for future menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 7th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on updating and correcting the cost analysis spreadsheet. She started updating column H (estimated cost per unit) of the spreadsheet. She also reorganized and started fixing ingredients listed on the spreadsheet and updated the master recipe document with the comments for ingredient substitution for FWA-FWD recipes. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph continued with the element analysis and design process of structural elements including sizing of the beams, column and wall elements. The model has not yet satisfied drift adjustments. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 20 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun finished her rework on the updating timeEntry controller backend PR, per Eiki’s review. It is now ready for merging and testing. After that, she started creating a new task component for each task, so when clicking each task from the management dashboard, it will render to a single task page. Before, this feature only worked for level 1 tasks, with the new component added, it works for all level (1/2/3/4) tasks. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries and reviewed PR 173, found bugs, made suggestions to fix them, and approved the fixed PR. In terms of software development, Eiki continued frontend and backend work on the task edit suggestions feature. He implemented fetching all task edit suggestions from the backend, implemented roles without edit permissions to automatically create task edit suggestions when they attempt to edit a task, and implemented rejecting a task edit suggestion. Eiki also implemented the task edit suggestions component to only display for users with edit permissions. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan continued to work on the buttons. She created a delete button, and if the user clicks the “delete last day” button, the end date will be shown as N/A on both the user profile and volunteer time page. The “delete” button will also change back to the “set the final day” button. A bug was also identified where, after saving the selected last day date, the user’s status changes from active to inactive. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur completed the initial setup and then went through all the resource materials that are at his disposal. He organized and renamed each file in the dropbox shared with Jae, created good file management folders on his laptop, and almost finished the first draft of the first video, “Overview”. See pictures below for some of this developing work.

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One path to happier living and global sustainability is facilitating a global community collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate them. A self-replicating model like this has the potential to create positive and permanent global change within one generation. One Community is supporting this with what we call “Highest Good” designs and open source and free-shared plans for all aspects of sustainable living.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 31st, 2022 edition (#488) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Community Collaborative
One Community Progress Update #488

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global community collaborative 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 Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 78th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Her work focused on addressing additional comments on the new PDF export. Screenshots below show some of her latest updates.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 38th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela primarily focused on writing more narrative for the flexible pavement design section she has been working on. She reviewed the narrative as a whole to ensure that the section sounded cohesive and added a few more notes for herself. Based on the sources she took notes on last week, she wrote more information for the flexible pavement widening section, researched more information for the preliminary analysis section, and found more sources. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei confirmed that the fire engine is able to cover the entire Earthbag Village based on the fire department access requirements. Also that the entrance ramp, with the zig-zag wheelchair ramp along one side, allows regular pickup trucks to access. More details of the Earthbag Village were added to the model for the design of drainage. A part of the drains and the trenches of the stormwater harvesting were modeled. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 17th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming was first looking for medium-scale wast-to-energy examples in the United States, trying to see how close he can get to small scales. However, the focus was narrowed down to certain waste types containing plastic and metal. For the rest of the week, Ming learned properties of non-biodegradable wastes like razor and toys, how they are treated, and how they are recycled or turned into energy using steam turbines. The next step is to find whether they can be treated on small scales. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 9th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia spent some time reviewing some of the existing tutorials and getting reacquainted with the formatting in order to translate it into the Addressing Non-Recyclables document. She also continued to review and proofread the content in the document, ensuring that it is clear and easy to digest. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 54th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on updating the design documentation for the Spa with what he hopes will be finishing touches. This week he expanded on the energy requirement calculations and the jet fitting assembly by providing more context to both. Next week Luis will be finalizing the waterfall description and making the necessary adjustments to make the transition from the website team as easy as possible. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 44th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed the West, East, and South elevations. She still needs to work on the North elevation according to the SketchUp Model. Main changes were windows in order to match the new plans and new elevation. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 40th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya tried to apply the redesigned living dome window to the new shell but it turned out that the window could not fit into the new shell. She modeled the window using the exact dimensions of the redesigned window and shared it with the team. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 38th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi fixed all of the wall and door frame connections of the Dining Dome. The dome’s round shape has made the door frame hard to situate. With the previously proposed wall thickness and wall framing concepts, the fixed connection proposed a smoother transition from plane to plane making it more visually pleasing. At the same time, the design kept the essence of angulating walls so that interior walls reflect the characteristics of the exterior walls. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 12th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil was working specifically on the roofs and their connection points with the dome frame. Ensuring the design can be easily cut and assembled required some creativity to simplify the design. Moving forward, Kamil will be making the final assembly using the split feature on solidworks to make simple instructions for assembly. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued updating the design of Room 8, the Nautical-themed room. She worked on the window, beam, and furniture design in SketchUp. She continued to do furniture research, designed the window and curtain, and designed the living room and bathroom. She also worked on the Interior Design Cost Analysis spreadsheet details. See below for pictures related to this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 6th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. Gabriela continued working on Room #12. She focused on changing the existing closet to a corner closet, adding a few more details to the bathroom and adjusting the light for the render process. For the bedroom, Gabriela began working on the trees for the interiors, doing first the trunks and then the leaves. She also updated a couple of lines on the Cost Analysis table. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 6th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica did the research for the room themed ”Autumn”, and picked room 11 to work on it. She defined colors, materials and elements to use on the design. Jessica also defined two options for the layout for the room and picked the one with a bed in front of the window, so people could enjoy the view from outside. She started the 3D model and studied all the colors, materials and elements picked, worked to find the best way to mix everything, tried different wallpapers for the bed-wall, and added a tree bookshelf and a colorful carpet to give the idea of autumn leaves falling on the ground, illustrating the phenomenon in an abstract way. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global community collaborative 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 detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed and answered comments on the 3-Day Menu Block doc, supplied additional comments, and made substitutions in some recipes. We submitted and tested a healthy 3-ingredient buckwheat flapjack recipe and included a 3-step flour making process. We also assessed a recipe replacing flavored yogurts with plain homemade, utilizing fruits as sweeteners, and researched the diminished quality of roasted nuts vs. raw nuts. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also continued working on the Assembly Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn.We started the feeder assembly section with a material list and reference link to a Premier 1 single unit feeder pdf instructions document, and created step-by-step build images and detailed descriptions for each image.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 15th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to adjust already created menu blocks for Second Weeks to the standard for reviews as well as from suggestions and feedback for already created recipes (which required her to replace some). She also adjusted already created recipes to fit the review criteria for recipe summaries. In addition to these, Marilyn searched for recipes for cooked staple foods to minimize cooking time in some of the recipes. She is presently working on the menus for the second weeks that have not been created yet, putting into consideration that there should be minimal or no fresh produce in the recipes. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 6th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on updating and editing the master recipe google document. On the master recipe document, she worked on reviewing the recipes and checking that their ingredients are on the master ingredient list. Yinka also made edits to the document on the sections and comments that were assigned to her. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. Adolph finalized the analysis process of beams, columns and wall elements. He specifically focused on model set-up and input of the data. Element dimensions were adjusted to ensure that the structure is able to withstand the prescribed loading and exposed environmental conditions respectively. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global community collaborative 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 16 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun finished the feature “create ability for a user to log time on tasks”. She made some code changes on the timeEntry controller from the backend, so when the user is posting or deleting or editing a tangible timeEntry, the “hoursLogged” field of the current task will be updated accordingly. PR is created and waiting for review. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Eiki reviewed weekly summaries and continued frontend work on the task edit suggestions feature. He finished most of the work writing the reducer, actions, thunks, and others. He also moved the state and actions for fetching and sorting the task edit suggestions from within the component to the reducer. Finally, Eiki started work on the backend, setting up the router, controller, and schema. See pictures below for some of this work.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera redesigned and refactored the team report page. She corrected the height of all report pages – now it occupies the entire available screen. The team report page now looks similar to the people report page. These pages use the same components. Also, Vera created and added a new logo for the team report. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) also completed his 9th and final week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week Yongtae created 10 more images and focused on ways to unify the size of texts so that they all respect the same amount of margin no matter how long the text is. He also looked into using more images from the HGN website. Some of them don’t have very high resolution, so some sort of filtering work on photoshop is necessary. The new images are below. Below you can see the images he created.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason worked on fixing the category hours not being displayed in the profile page. It looked like Phu had already fixed that bug and it just needed to be approved. Jason, therefore, switched his focus on continuing to implement the timelog button feature. He made a few changes to the buttons, namely adding a thicker border and changing the background colors to a mix that looks more pleasing to the user. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week started to work on the detailed function for this setFinalDay Button. She created a deactiveUser function so that, after clicking the setFinalDayButton, the final day will be shown on volunteer time – end date and user Profile – end date. See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Eiki Kan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Eiki graduated from Northeastern University with an MS in Computer Science. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Eiki is developing and managing the management dashboard system of the app. He has demonstrated initiative and effectiveness by identifying problems and implementing solutions in both the frontend and backend – meeting requirements while improving the responsiveness of the website and the modularity of the codebase. Eiki manages the breakdown and distribution of tasks, facilitates open communication, and encourages knowledge sharing.

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One Community welcomes Kivia Sugiarto to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kivia is a passion-driven sustainability professional with interests in waste management, circular economy, carbon neutrality, and corporate sustainability. Having recently completed her Master’s degree in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, Kivia is in her early stages of her career and is looking forward to creating tangible impact in the field. As a One Community team member, Kivia is helping with the research and the writing process for the open source “Addressing Non-recyclables” report and tutorial.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM KIVIA!

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One Community is forwarding active sustainable reinvention of our world with the open source plans needed to regenerate it sustainably. Our designs include DIY sustainable and replicable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• Here’s our project overview
• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
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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 July 24th, 2022 edition (#487) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Active Sustainable Reinvention of Our World
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team reviewed the energy analysis details for the Solar Microgrid sizing and created all new imagery for the site. The images below share some of this work.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #253 of Dean’s work and he produced new renders of the the bathroom/kitchen dome, main bedroom dome, and children’s/guest dome. The top-left image is a final render of the children’s/guest dome.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 37th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started off by reviewing all the newest comments. She then made some alteration to the placement of a couple paragraphs and downloaded all the resources that were linked in the Roadways and Parking Excel sheet. These resources were converted into pdfs, renamed, and then uploaded onto the dropbox. One resource was no longer showing up, so she searched for a credible document that stated the same information. Additionally, Daniela continued to take notes for the flexible pavement section, noting down which information she wanted to use for the narrative and then adding paragraphs to the narrative. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei checked the dimensions of the 3D model against the CAD files. He updated some minor inaccurate dimensions of the model, validated that the previous layout is definitely not spacious enough for a standard straight wheelchair ramp, and designed a zig-zag wheelchair ramp to satisfy the required slope. Because of the existence of the zig-zag ramp, the left 200 inches width of the ramp for vehicles does not satisfy the minimum 240 inches width for the fire engine. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 16th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming first compared WTE solutions in different countries, including those in India, US, and China. He realized that situations (typically national conditions that cannot be shared/influenced between countries) in other countries are not applicable to the US, like the Clean Air Act, and small population density. Then, Ming suggested combining different small scale-waste management units into a medium one, so the WTE plant would become medium scale and more economically viable. There are several power generation solutions, including some using methane as feedstock, which can be made by syngas, so these solutions can become WTE solutions. But which solution is easier to combine and transform into WTE solutions will be the question next week. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 8th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia reviewed the main document, looking out for any duplicates in the content as well as paraphrasing a lot of the content that was copied directly from the source. She finished reviewing the section on existing waste to energy technologies and will move forward to the next sections next week. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 53rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on his summaries of the cover and energy calculations. His efforts targeted data validation and formatting for the tables presenting the energy calculations, as well as the narrative for the cover design. Luis also made progress on updating the parts list for the spa to correspond with the current design models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 43rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She Updated the North elevation according to the SketchUp Model and changed the position of some columns and furniture and corrected sections C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 39th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya finished the work of updating all the doors on the third floor, fourth floor, and basement in the master SketchUp model. She also started working on fixing the windows in the living Dome because of the new shell applied. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 37th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi double checked the basement storage rack organization. She conducted a study on storage optimization and to avoid column obstruction. After the study, it was validated that the current CAD plan is the most optimized. Elevator doors were re-imported as there was a file overwriting issue and, with the wall thickness added to the current model, openings needed to be reflected onto the new outermost wall. SketchUp modeling included manually adding openings to the outer wall while remaining mindful of accurate dimensions. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 11th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil continued working on the second floor dormer, ensuring that the roof and supporting pieces all fit accurately and can easily be made by a novice. With just a few issues remaining, and then cleaning up, Kamil is ready to go into final assembly and turn all the components into parts and drawings. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue Wang continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by updating the design of the Room 8-Nautical-themed room. She continued to work on the window and wall model in SketchUp, did furniture research, designed the window, and designed the living room and bathroom. The design of the bathroom is also Nautical-themed. See below for pictures related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 5th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica started and finished the presentation document by adding all the 3D images rendered and materials/furniture chosen on Interior Design Cost Analysis. She also searched for painting colors and added all those details on the Cost Analysis sheet. For this she picked the painting brand approved by One Community, Ecopaints. Jessica also updated the AutoCAD layout for room 2 according to the 3D model. She then added more details on the Cost Analysis sheet. For example, the square foot information for finishings for the bathroom, updated the visual of the sheet, to match with the room theme, and added the total cost on the top of the sheet. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the 3-Day Menu Block doc through page 60 responding to comments, creating new comments, and generally reviewing the meal plans. We also focused specifically on scrutinizing Kodiak Cake Mix for flapjacks and waffles, preparation of sweet potatoes, comparing olive, avocado, macadamia nut and coconut oils, and reviewing Mayo and Harvard research on coconut oil. This ultimately led to us removing it from the master cooking ingredient list. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also continued working on the Assembly Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn. We finished the section for assembling the gate with diagonal cross-bucks and installation of gate hardware. We also designed a Slide Bolt Gate Latch SketchUp 3D model to be used as 2D images for the instructions document. The same team member also resolved some comments in the Murphy Bed Assemble document and replied with more detailed information on some other comments. 

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 14th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn added recipes for Fresh Week D, Fresh Week E, Fresh Week F, Fresh Week G and Fresh Week H. She also spent time finding new vegan and omnivore recipes as substitutes for each meal that requires vegan or omnivore proteins. She also started to search for additional recipes for Second Week menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 5th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on identifying which ingredients were not on the shopping list spreadsheet for Fresh Week recipes A through H. On the master document, she also made clarifications for ingredients and worked on the shopping list by updating the ingredients with the prices, source links, and costs per unit. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph continued with analysis and design of the beams, columns and foundation elements. He specifically focused on the review process of the references and technical specifications and provisions in the engineering codes of practice. Adolph also started compiling the design report which, when finished, will contain the detailed design results of the entire structure. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 14 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this. 

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu fixed Ron’s PR 476 and 477 by reversing the logic on the tangible time log form, close modal, and merge errors. He also reviewed Vera’s PR 481 on the Report page. Phu then added two bugs to the Bugs Document. First, developers need to implement logic to find duplicate users, possibly by email or username. Second, for the user profile, we need to fix the front end two decimals input field. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time debugging why the “hoursLogged” field couldn’t update on the frontend. After asking for help from the team, she finally figured out the problem is she updated the backend API, but didn’t actually call the API from the expected part of the frontend. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries and helped Yiyun with a problem she had on the backend related to the hoursLogged feature she was working on with the TimeEntry and Task tables. In terms of software development, this week Eiki started frontend work on the task edit suggestions feature. He created the basic components: the table, the rows, and the modal of differences with appropriate buttons. On the table, he implemented features for sorting and opening a specific suggestion. Eiki also started work on writing the reducer, actions, thunks, and others. See pictures below for some of this work.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera finished the first part of the redesign of the reports pages and raised a PR with the redesign of the people reports page. She then started working on the team report page. The code of this page was outdated, so she refactored it. Now Vera is working on a new design of the team report page. Vera also helped Yiyun solve a problem with adding a new hoursLogged field to tasks. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason continued to work on the timelog buttons. He made some refinements to the buttons such as color and click effects to make it more user friendly. In addition, Jason also started looking into a bug that is outstanding with regards to user total hours not getting picked up per category. See pictures below for some of this work.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed the equivalent of his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This work included helpIng a diversity of team members with bugs and other software challenges that required a senior engineer’s assistance. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan started to work on the front end of her project. She read the HGN APP code and learned the React framework. She completed a demo for the button ” Set Final day, and created an onclick event for this button(Date picker), and aligned the button on the basic information page. She also commented on a PR review on Github. For the following weeks, she will work on the other functions related to her button, eg. deactivating accounts on the system. See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Jason Kim to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A UCLA graduate with a degree in Math and Economics, Jason has 2 years of general programming experience and 1 year experience primarily as a Full Stack Developer with a focus on React. Before that, he worked as a CPA for 8 years. During his time as a CPA, Jason developed a passion for development and building solutions that others will use. He then decided to embark on a journey to follow his passion, building several personal projects using the latest tech such as React. Jason felt the Highest Good Network would be a great opportunity to put his development skills to use in a professional setting, and at the same time have a lasting impact on a good cause. As a member of the One Community team, he is helping to develop critical features in the Management Dashboard, review code, and debug.

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One Community welcomes Vera Timokhina to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vera graduated from the Ural Federal University with a degree in Computer Security. She has 4 years of experience as a Front-End Developer working on a CRM-system. This has included great experience in web technologies such as HTML5, SASS, React, Redux, Typescript and Javascript. As a Middle Web Developer, Vera was a mentor to an intern and junior Front-end Developer. She is passionate about learning, developing hard and soft skills, and getting to know new technologies and best practices. As a member of the Highest Good Network team, Vera is leading completion of the reports pages and functionality.

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One Community welcomes Yongtae “Yogi” Park to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yogi is a UX/UI designer based in Los Angeles, California, with experience in conceptualizing and creating digital products. He is passionate about making the world a better place with his design skills, and likes helping businesses and non-profit organizations complete their mission for a good cause. Yogi has helped Save the Frog meet its goal of protecting amphibian populations and forming a community of nature conservations. He did this by developing a UX Mobile App prototype for the official mobile app and providing other digital assets such as flyers and social media posts for promotional purposes. Yogi also joined a charity rock band as a guitarist in 2021. The band was attached to Live and Loud, a charity hobby band organization in Korea that donates to local animal shelters and disability resource centers through fundraising events. At the annual concert, his band contributed $520 through ticket sales, to the total collection of $1860 by the organization. As a member of the One Community team, Yogi is helping create the social media images we use for our weekly progress updates.

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One Community is developing adaptable solutions for global sustainability. They include all the foundations needed for a sustainable civilization. These open source foundations include DIY-replicable approaches for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 17th, 2022 edition (#486) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #486

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for global 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

his week the core team finished PhotoShop edits to the updated rendering images for the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions. You can see them below.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #252 of Dean’s work and he produced this new render of the bathroom/kitchen dome looking from the shower area through the kitchen and into the living room.

This week Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 77th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Her work focused on addressing comments on the new PDF MurphyBed 6.8 document. Screenshots below show some of her latest updates.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 36th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela read and responded to all new comments on the Roadways document. She shifted the placement of some of the narrative on the live document in order for it to reflect the website. Daniela also made some edits to the narrative for the roadways cost analysis along with making final comparisons with the website. All information that needs to be updated was changed to blue so that all changes could be made more easily. Next, Daniela added a paragraph to the Flexible Pavement Design section for both the narrative regarding the AASHTO equation and the Preliminary Analysis. While doing this, she double checked equations with research to ensure that all the information she was providing was accurate. Then Daniela researched more on flexible pavement design in order to expand on the narrative. She found that the largest component of the design was the pavement width which she already wrote about. Daniela went on to research other aspects of Flexible Pavement Design and found documents on pavement widening and maintenance. This included reading through various documents and finding what information was useful. Once she found reliable sources, Daniela took notes on the information she plans to include in the narrative. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei focused on the design of the septic tank. One 2,500 gallons septic tank with two chambers is used for each net-zero bathroom. Two septic tanks are set up independently. There are some advantages of applying a septic tank for each net-zero bathroom instead of two bathrooms sharing a single large septic tank. The total cost of two 2,500 gallons septic tanks is cheaper than the cost of a single 5,000 gallons septic tank. Two smaller septic tanks can also be placed in positions that are closer to the net-zero bathroom and a shorter convenient distance enhances the flow of wastewater. The ramp and the staircases between two net-zero bathrooms are designed in detail with consideration of vehicle passibility and wheelchair ramp requirements. However, the slope of the ramp cannot be designed to satisfy the maximum ramp for hand-propelled wheelchairs because of limited space. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 15th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming did literature reviews on the papers regarding waste-to-energy analysis in developing countries (typically India) and developed countries (typically Europe, Germany). They are all large scales, but Ming thinks he can use them for cost analysis for small scales. For example, for each cost like a capital cost of materials for a pyrolysis plant construction for feedstock of a wood type, the cost wont be affected by its scale (except cost of import maybe). For other costs though, they can be dependent on scale. So what Ming’s searching for are breakthrough points. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week of work. This week, Dave finished writing up the “Foundational Calculations” sections for all major structures of Phase I using the methodology within the Solar Sizing Sheets. In this content, he explained how he approached double checking, comparing and validating data by sorting energy demand by area and by item category with the visual aid of pie charts. With this method, Dave can easily determine which area in general, or which item in specific, needs to be taken into consideration for adjustment. In addition, he also started reviewing the tutorial to calculate the energy balance in One Community (SAM software). Pictures below are related to this work.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 7th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia focused on reviewing the content on the main document, looking out for duplicates in content as well as paraphrasing any content that was taken directly from the sources. She will continue working on this for the next couple of weeks. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for global 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 Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 42nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She updated the North elevation according to the SketchUp Model, changing the position of some columns and furniture to match the new plans. Venus also corrected sections C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 38th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished the work of updating all the doors on the first floor and the second floor in the master SketchUp model. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 36th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi focused on adjusting the basement in preparation for rendering. Interior walls were verified and the boiler room size was changed according to the CAD plan. One column was added as it was missing from previous edits. Furniture such as shelves, carts, food elevator, and mobile tables were rearranged into the square configuration and missing outside walls were added. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 10th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil focused on the second floor dormer; primarily adjusting the dimensions and framework based on the exact window size and also ensuring the dormer frame for the second floor can be easily made. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for global 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 the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We completed the review for the Master Recipe and 3-day Menu Block Doc for sections FWD, FWE, and FWF through page 53. We also provided two recipe options for inclusion, resolved some comments and added numerous others, assessed nutritional values of some ingredients and suggested eliminating some with low nutrient value. Then we updated the complete Master Ingredient List and created links to the Master Cost Analysis so it will automatically calculate the cost of any 3-day menu block and every ingredient within that block so we can use it for shopping. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also reviewed/checked the Cost Analysis spreadsheets for the Apiary, Transition Kitchen and Rabbits. We then started creating Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn. We wrote a section with a materials list and images for the pole barn and horizontal panel, and started working on instructions for the gate assembly. We also added links for the barn kit and to the video for using a pocket hole jig.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 13th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to research and develop recipes for future menu blocks while waiting for the final review of all Fresh Week menu blocks. She also made corrections on menus based on suggestions and feedback. She was referred some recipe documents to review and use in menu blocks too. Marilyn added the useful recipes from there to her work draft and discarded the others. After approval, she went on to add recipes to Fresh Week A and is in the process of completing recipes for Fresh Week D. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 4th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on updating the shopping list ingredients. Her focus was finding information for new items and trying to find the ingredients in bulk amounts. She also worked on the master recipe document and reviewed the ingredients for the different recipes for FWA to SWA. As part of this, Yinka also identified ingredients that were not on the shopping list. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week he focused on structural idealization, analysis and design of beams, columns and foundations elements. Adolph started by reviewing technical specifications and provisions in the engineering codes of practice regarding the analysis and design of the above structural elements and other reference documents collected earlier. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing adaptable solutions for global 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 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu finished up #447, the field now can be input with any number except a negative one. If a negative number is added, it will change to positive. Also, Phu fixed the errors for saving those field to the database. Whenever an Admin updates any number, these numbers need to be saved somewhere before the admin hits the “Save Changes” button to send them to the database. This is so it does not have any delay/repetition when saving. He also fixed errors before merging #447. Yiyun suggested keeping only two decimals for those input fields, Phu has tried this before but it will break the logic. He also reviewed Ron’s PRs 477 and 476 and suggested some logic changes. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun updated the backend app to make the “hoursLogged” field of the tasks work. She connected Postman and the backend app for testing changes and created a PR for all the backend changes, which is under review now. She also helped the team do a couple PR reviews. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries. He also helped team members with working with postman. In terms of software development, this week Eiki made finishing touches on the task notification feature. He implemented the suggested changes by Yiyun and Jae. He also made bug fixes related to filtering tasks, the mark as read button on the task notification modal showing for tasks not from the logged in user, and multiple task notifications showing on the same modal. One pull request was successfully approved and another one is pending approval. In terms of planning and organization, Eiki also broke down feature requests into user stories on the management dashboard outline document, asked clarifying questions, and started planning for the next user story he was going to implement. He chose to implement the feature to make managers/mentors only able to make edit suggestions to tasks which owners/admins need to approve. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 8th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week, Yongtae created 10 new images using open source images and master graphics. He didn’t need to revise previous images, since they did not have notable issues. His focus has been on improving legibility, playing with text spaces and sizes for different title sizes. Yongtae’s still figuring out a consistent system for making the texts more natural. Below you can see the images he created.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera redesigned the modal with information about a contributed task. That modal opens when you click on the task in the table of contributed tasks on the people report page. This modal was too big to fit on the screen, and it also looked bad. Now it looks modern and can scroll. Vera also finished redesigning the filters in the table of contributed tasks. She added a highlight to all the filters, calendar icons to the date filters, and default options to the select filters. She fixed a bug with the edges of badges being cut off too. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jason worked on finishing up the red clock hour wrapping issue when there were too many digits present. He also helped to review and approve a PR and continued working on the timelog button feature. Jason was able to get the button set up and now will work on implementing the logic behind it. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan completed the On-boarding process and set up her local environment. She then selected a task and created a design doc. The design doc included the project name and description, requirements, and her plans/methodology for completion.  See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community is advancing sustainable living through open source and free-shared tools and tutorials covering all aspects of eco-living and eco-community construction. They are designed to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will create even more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 10th, 2022 edition (#485) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing sustainable living 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 generated updated rendering image for the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions. We used the Twilight rendering tool in the SketchUp application to render images for a section cut of the dome with the table/benches in the down position, updated textures of the table and benches to wood, placed boxes in the loft, moved items on shelves and nightstands, and changed shadow settings to latest time to avoid sunshine inside the dome.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #251 of Dean’s work and he produced 2 more test renders for the bathroom ares of the bathroom/kitchen dome.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 35th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela primarily worked on comparing the live document and the website version of the Roadways, Walkways, Parking Lot, and Gutters report. Throughout this process, Daniela made comments when she saw that the versions did not match one another. She made sure that everything was color coded properly on the live document so that it was easier for other editors to know what needs to be updated. Daniela also made edits to the roadway excel sheet and added new images and narrative to the roadways report regarding the initial and maintenance costs. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei found that a reinforced concrete water tank (RCC) could be an alternative solution for stormwater storage. The cost of constructing a reinforced concrete water tank is slightly less than using the Atlantis Flo-tank. Materials for constructing an RCC water tank are easily accessible worldwide. An overflow piping connecting the rooftop rainwater tank to the stormwater tank was designed with an air gap to prevent backflow. The size of a septic tank was also calculated based on the demands of toilet flushing, faucet use, and showering of 100 occupants. A 3,800 gallons septic tank is needed for a 1.5-day retention period, sludge removal per year, and an estimated 8 gallons of sludge accumulation per person per year. The design of drainage of the Earthbag Village for stormwater harvesting still needs more investigation. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 14th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming looked for examples of biomass gasification. Most of his time was spent on Energypedia and links, and reading papers on it. Examples of small scale biomass gasification were reviewed one by one. However, all of them are not applicable to our situation for three major reasons: feedstocks are too specific; products are more likely diesels or primary energy sources in developing countries (rather than electricity that can be made alternatively), and lacking key information (citation and valid links, costs analysis, which community utilized that system). Next week, Ming will search for a solution in a different way, by searching by feedstock type instead of system type. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week of work. This week, Dave carefully reviewed the rest of the sources for the Roadway and Parking Lot Tables and Charts but needed more information on the application of it to One Community in order to proceed. He got that clarity on a call with his manager and will complete double checking the details this week. Below are pics of some of the content he reviewed.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 6th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia focused on reviewing the main Google doc. She proofread the doc and will continue to do so, looking out for unclear content, spelling/grammar mistakes, and synthesizing duplicate information. For this week, she worked on the first several pages on the introduction of various WTE technologies. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 52nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis’ efforts surrounded some detail adjustments to the presentation of the 3D models and providing consistency through the narrative. Aside from this, he expanded the detail within the foundation section and updated images to align with the analysis. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 41st week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus worked on elevations. She updated the North elevation according to the SketchUp model and changed the position of some columns and furniture to match the new plans. She also corrected sections C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. See pictures below.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development by updating the Cost analysis, AutoCAD, and SketchUp model of Room 1, “Forest Immersion”. She also continued with the design of Room 8, “Nautical Room”. Yujue researched the structure of a large wooden ship and extracted elements from it to simulate the room like a ship’s cabin room. See below for pictures related to this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 5th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. Gabriela made many changes to room 12 (the fairy garden themed room), changed the layout many times, solved the problem with the table and chairs that weren’t fitting right in the room, and started working on the bathroom for this same room (adding the basic floor and wall finishes and fixtures). She also updated the Cost Analysis table with new items. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 4th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica completed multiple rounds of updates to finish the bathroom for the beach themed “Oasis” room. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is advancing sustainable living 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 detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed and responded to replies to all previous comments, suggested further additions through page 15 of the Fresh Week A menus, then completed reviews and comments of the FWD menu, and began the FDE menus regarding food substitutions. We also completed comparisons of similar products such as agave and maple syrup and addressed terminology for additions such as “smashed/avocado/spread”.

The core team also continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We checked dimensions of the east/west sides of the nesting boxes, floor supports and floors for second and third levels, nesting boxes door framing, nesting boxes dividers, doors framing, roof for the nesting box, doors for all nesting boxes, hinge latches and handles, lip boards and landing perches. And we added a windows and fans installation section.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 12th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn created recipes and recipe summaries for Fresh Week F, Fresh Week G and Fresh Week H. She researched more vegan recipes to be able to easily add omnivore proteins to substitute for the vegan meals. She also took time to respond to feedback and suggestions for the created menu blocks. She also began searching for recipes for second week menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 3rd week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on the top half of the shopping list. She found prices, costs per unit and ingredient sizes. She also started working on the new ingredients added to the list and updated some of the ingredients with items from nut.com that are on the shopping list and can be purchased in bulk. Yinka additionally corrected the errors with the conversions calculator and added information about the lunch and dinner bar to the master recipe and 3 day menu document. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 20 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Phu worked on the Tangible Hours Category. He made some changes and pushed to PR 447. However, Yiyun reviewed the PR really well and pointed out three main points that need to be fixed. Phu took that and changed the logic, however, the problem was more complicated since it was not able to keep the changes after refreshing the page. He will continue working on this. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on helping other team members, including PR reviews, Github reverting a PR problem, and debugging an unrelated task on the Main. Additionally, she updated her PR per Jae’s suggestion on filtering tasks and projects for time entries. These PRs have already been approved and merged. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries. He also helped team members with working with postman, mongodb, and the backend. In terms of software development, he continued to work on the task notification feature. On the frontend, Eiki implemented the “mark as notification as read” feature as well as suggested changes to design and functionality of the task differences modal. He then merged the development branch and cleaned up the PR. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 7th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week, Yongtae created 10 new images using assets from Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels, as well as some of the master graphics provided. He also revised some of the previous images as well as the one image from last week. For the new images, Yongtae paid attention to scaling down images for 1197×627 scale instead of cropping them down. Below you can see the images he created.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera was working with the People Reports page. She redesigned the header and replaced it with several separate blocks. Also, she started to redesign the table of contributed tasks. Vera moved the filters (by a task name, start date etc.) outside the table, so now they display over the table. Also, she upgraded the display of these filters. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason worked on trying to get the progress bar implementation re-merged again. In addition, he worked on reviewing a few PR’s from Yiyun. Jason is now working on fixing the last remaining issues related to UI design from suggestions given from the prior week. Left alignment of tasks is complete and committed to GH. He is still working on the clock wrapping and testing. See pictures below for some of this work.

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