It’s time for a replicable blueprint for a sustainable world. If we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough, it will spread on its own. One Community is developing an open source and free-shared version of this as a self-replicating pathway to global sustainability.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 29th, 2022 edition (#479) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team integrated Dr. Bai’s input after his review of the Final Aircrete Compression Testing Report, as well as re-formatted, re-wrote, and reorganized much of the report to match the style of current content. They also met with the Center Hub Connector Team and re-directed some of their efforts to researching options for manufacturing the DIY bracket they’ve been designing, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

The core team also worked on Murphy bed edits for pages 30-34.5, regarding Wall Sections. We addressed comments but had difficulty in relating the comments to the proper page on the doc. After a call to clarify the circumstances we made further progress. We also finished checking in 3D the assembly instructions for the rest of the Murphy Bed. We checked measurements for all parts of the night stands, assembled the night stands in SketchUp 3D following the assembly instructions and placed them next to the Murphy bed shelving unit on the side of the bed, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below related to this progress.

And the core team finished another big round of feedback and website updates for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below related to this progress.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 96th week helping finish the Net-zero  Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the calculations involving the fatigue life of the bolts for the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom. After gathering constants from graphs in the literature such as the static stress concentration factor and the notch sensitivity factor, and calculating the fatigue stress concentration factor, he came to the conclusion that failure would occur when using 3 support beams at a length of 34in.

The bending stress developed was at 83.4 ksi, much higher than the ultimate tensile strength of 60 ksi. Though strain hardening can be taken into account to get a more accurate figure, the variation of this would be too unstable for use. He then changed the design to include 6 beams and shortened the distance to 27.25in. This led to a bending stress of 33.4ksi, which when intersected on the S-N curve, was found to have a total cyclical life range of 334000 to 335000 cycles.

Next Jose Luis will implement the calculations to make a spreadsheet that will correlate rainfall, water catchment, and the fatigue life of the bolts to have an idea of service life in different areas. This will be accomplished by using a cumulative damage model, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 74th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey continued to make updates based on the feedback of the three core team members reviewing her work. Updates covered everything from simple changes like alignment and formatting to much more complex changes in hardware, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 29th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela began by reading through and responding to all comments as the Core Team submitted them while reviewing the cost analysis section. The rest of her time was spent reading through the resources she had gathered for the Flexible Pavement Design section. She noted important details that would help further explain the topic.

In the images, all notes Daniela took that are in green font were notes previously made, and the notes in black were research completed this week. Daniela then started to write the Flexible Pavement Design section, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 27th week helping with web design. This week Yuran continued working on creating the co-community Electric Vehicle Integration and Charging Infrastructure Guide page using the Google Doc content. She also added some new content and updated the tables for the Sustainable Roadways page. Then she updated the Open Source Climate Battery Design page with feedback from Jae, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei designed the collection and storage of the rainwater harvesting system. Four 1000-gallon tanks under the shower room are connected in parallel. The Inlet pipe reaches to the bottom of the tank with a return bend end to reduce the disturbing of water momentum on the debris at the bottom.

The conveyance pipe is designed at 1.8 degrees to enhance the flow. The downspout filter is added to filtrate debris or leaves. Gutters were also added in the front of the Tropical Atrium at 2.8 degrees slope to enhance flow, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 9th 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 discussed his thoughts and plans with Kivia regarding the cost estimation study. Some comments were made and got resolved.

The majority of his time was spent on cost estimations of biomass and plasma gasification. Since there are more materials to read in the biomass section, plasma gasification was the main focus of this week. The Plasco Conversion process was mentioned as the smallest scale plasma gasification found so far. Cost estimation was based on that case study, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 7th week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi researched LED light bulbs. She created a table summarizing/comparing the lumen efficiency of incandescent bulbs, CFL bulbs, and LED bulbs. Yushi also researched the health risks of LED and why LEDs flicker and how to prevent that, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See below for some pictures related to this.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) joined the team and completed her 1st 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 took time to get familiar with the topic of waste-to-energy (WTE) conversion by reading existing notes under the “Addressing non-recyclables” google doc and doing her own research. She reviewed Ming’s work on the cost analysis of WTE and provided feedback, then supplemented the work with her own research focusing on the cost and revenue of incineration plants, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 49th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis put his efforts towards updating the information on the control panel system details and configuration, along with updates to the heating systems descriptions. Validating the information now will allow minimal work to be done by the publishing team during implementation. Luis also went back and updated sources for various parts of information and began implementing links where necessary, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 33rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, after meeting with Yuxi to discuss the appropriate location to use D6 and D7, Huiya finished modeling Door 6 and included how Jae instructed for the Dining Dome doorway. She also modeled and submitted for feedback four different ways to place the D7 door and the windows on both sides for the main entrance, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 30th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi re-verified doors and window counts with changes reflecting the new allocation of D6 and D7 doors based on comments. Door widths were updated in the plan views in CAD to be more accurate. An inquiry was also made regarding the width of the D7 door next to the pool and concerns about the flanking windows (W6). Helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj continued the final review of the final document on how the team arrived at a solution. He changed the document to third person format, converted it into a shareable google doc and added content, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik researched fabrication techniques to make the v and I bracket. He contacted APEC, AMERITEX fabrications, 5 Point Fabrication, MetalFab Group and WeldFlow Metal vendors for budgetary quotes. The budgetary quotes were based on the rough number of brackets based on the draft sketch of the geodesic dome, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 5th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week, with the response from the team, the design concept 1 was chosen. It was chosen primarily due to the criteria of ease of assembly as this concept was the most straightforward in regards to structure. Kamil continued by creating a detailed model using correct dimensions of timber and ensuring he followed the carpenters advice in terms of load distribution, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished updates for the Transition Kitchen using SketchUp. We moved some of the tables on the sides to free up space in the central area, added three more storage shelves along the wall, and added single person entry doors on both ends, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The final layout is below. 

The core team also continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We replied to comments for the trays, updated hinge placement on the entry door, generated new images for the tray assembly including screws, and researched roosting bar horizontal/vertical spacing that will require further changes in the design of the roosting ladder, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world.

The core team completed the first draft of the Transition Kitchen food plan spreadsheet that is linked to the 3-Day Menu Blocks so they all update when the master doc is updated, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pics below.

The core team also completed detailed review and feedback on the Climate Battery design page along with some image creation and additions, formatting improvements, and content updates, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 14th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam spent the week reviewing work as per mentions on the recipe sheets, and had meetings, emails, and other messages to reply to. Adam additionally researched the best way for putting the conversion calculator between two different measurement amounts, and started developing the sheet for how to make it the easiest and most efficient to use, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 7th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to develop recipes for the three day block menus and added “SECOND WEEK A” and “SECOND WEEK B” to the block menu recipe page. She then sourced more recipes that would not require fresh ingredients, while substituting recipes that were not fit for scaled potions (smoothies, etc). She also input recipes to the three day block template, adding ingredients and converting their measurements to the template for sample and review, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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 10th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph completed the analysis and design of the roof truss structure. He then commenced preparing a detailed design report. In this report, Adolph will describe all the steps undertaken during the design and the assumptions that were undertaken to arrive at key decisions. This will be preceded by a compilation of detailed autoCAD drawings, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 24 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, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel began with reviewing, testing and approving PR #408 and testing PR#411. PR #411 needed extra testing and review due to errors. After that, Miguel solved some errors he had on his own PR #406 (new user permission system) and resolved some merging conflicts. He finished his week reviewing and testing more Pull Requests, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put half of her time into reviewing and testing Miguel’s frontend PR for creating new user classes. After a couple discussions and code changes, it finally got approved and merged. She also finished the “implement open/close filter” task and created a PR for it that was approved.

She reviewed two other small PRs and left comments on them and started working on the “implement a pettier WBS UI page” task. Yiyun was unclear on some of that task’s details though, so she documented them and submitted them for answers, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron worked on helping to approve pull requests that included changes to the frontend. In addition, development was provided to rectify two issues that came up in the Beta Bugs document, and changes were made to the production version of the application. There are still a few kinks that need to be ironed out in order for the changes to display and alternative measures are being investigated, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week David rounded up all the tasks for the frontend management dashboard component he’s been working on and addressed problems in his pull request. These included the progress bar, progress bar color logic, red clock, red clock number, alignment of tasks and the project bar, and dividing task view based on the role of the user, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Steven helped review and approve two PRs, one fixes the wrapping badges issue in the user profile and the other fixes the timer consistency when opening multiple HGN pages. He is still trying to reproduce the bug that causes a previously paused user to keep coming back. In addition, Steven finished the backend cache improvement when creating and deleting users and is working on the last part when updating users, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, in terms of management, Eiki reviewed the work of his team by referencing their weekly summary videos. He checked in with David after seeing his was missing and helped him get set up. Everything else was in order. He additionally helped with two different PRs by answering questions in one and testing, reviewing, and approving another. Eiki also started coding for the task notification feature and completed work on the backend and starting setting up and planning for the frontend, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jorge Ivan Rodriguez (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jorge was working on the timer component. Now the timer synchronizes when the user opens more than one tab. The time intervals were changed to make this work, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) also joined the team and completed his first week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week Yongtae created images covering title #517 ” Combining Diverse Eco-Elements to #526 ” Supporting the Abundance of Earth. He experimented with some of the filter options in Adobe Photoshop to create images in illustrated style while focusing on creating images that reflect some of the keywords of the title, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Below you can see the images he created.

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One Community welcomes Phu Nguyen to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Phu graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He is interested in Web Development, Mobile Development and Data Structures and Algorithms. Phu started to learn about coding after he read “Cracking the Python – Introduction to Computer Programming” by his high school alumni. One of Phu’s hobbies is cooking and he would love to become a master chef in the US. As a member of the One Community Team, Phu is developing the reports functionality and helping with debugging of the Highest Good Network software web application.

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

Yiyun has 2 years professional experience as a software engineer. She earned her Masters degree in Computer Engineering and Bachelors degree in Software engineering. Yiyun has experience in Object-Oriented programming and testing and knowledge of design principles and coding practices. In her free time, she likes watching dramas, doing fitness and baking. Yiyun joined the One Community team to participate and contribute to a large-scale project and is helping with the Highest Good Network application.

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One Community welcomes Marilyn Nzegwu to the Highest Good Food Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Marilyn has over 5 years of culinary experience as a Sous Shef, Head Chef, and Restaurant Manager. She has proven knowledge of food sanitation and safety, menu development, and plating and food presentation. Being in an industry that thrives on perfection, her attention to detail has been a significant contributor to her success as a culinary professional, and she enjoys leveraging these skills to successfully contribute to the culinary growth and development of a company. As a One community volunteer, Marilyn is working on recipe development and menu planning as part of the Highest Good food component and Transition Kitchen rollout process.

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One Community welcomes Adolph Karubanga to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Adolph attended Kyambogo University and obtained a Master of Science in Structural Engineering, Bachelor’s in Civil and Building Engineering, and Diploma in Water Engineering. He is also a Certified Project Management Professional and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI-USA), and Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers (UIPE). Adolph is currently serving as a Civil Engineer at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in Uganda (Africa). As a member of the team, he brings in-depth knowledge and more than 7 years of experience in structural analysis techniques, engineering design, construction supervision and project management using PMBOK® methodologies. He has worked on small and large-scale infrastructure projects and is highly motivated and energized by working with a diverse team to peer discuss, create solutions, and propel a project to successful delivery. Adolph believes that resilient and sustainable infrastructural systems are an essential component of society. As a One Community consultant structural engineer, he is helping to finalize the DIY Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. Adolph enjoys this role because it has given him the opportunity to expand his scope and make an impact on an international level.

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One Community welcomes Ming Weng to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ming earned his bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Policy & Planning and Microbiology at UC Davis, and a master’s degree in Geography & Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His ultimate career goal is to find a remedy for contaminated aquatic environments in urban regions. Ming feels people should never downplay current issues in global water resources, such as dead zones and drinking water scarcity. With this goal, he is always seeking opportunities that could strengthen his research and communication skills. As a member of the One Community team, Ming is helping research the best community-based solutions for waste-to-energy conversion of non-recyclables.

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One Community welcomes Elyse Lam to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Elyse graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a degree in Business Administration. She currently works on data pipelines maintenance and support for the Google Cloud Platform. Elyse is interested in expanding beyond cloud infrastructure by learning more web development. She lives in Seattle, WA and is a coffee addict. As part of the One Community team, Elyse is working on various bugs and feature requests for the MERN stack Highest Good Network web application.

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One Community welcomes Diwei Zhang to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Diwei received his master’s degree in the major of Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research background includes numerical analysis, modeling and analysis of dynamic systems, and control theory. Since joining One Community, Diwei has worked on the 3D modeling, cost analysis, and plumbing design of the hot tub, and artificial waterfall of the City Center Eco-spa component. He is now helping develop a rainwater harvesting system and water distribution network for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

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If ever there were a time for achieving Earth’s sustainable potential, it is now. We have the ability to create a sustainable world that will benefit all people and life on this planet. In so doing, we can address climate change, homelessness, food insecurity, social injustice and inequality, poverty and more. One Community is developing open source teacher/demonstration hubs to form a global collaboration of groups working on and evolving the open source and free-shared solutions needed to accomplish this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 15th, 2022 edition (#477) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Achieving Earth’s Sustainable Potential
One Community Progress Update #477

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential 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 made substantive comments on the Aircrete Compression Testing Final Report, edited and reviewed the comments that had been addressed, and re-wrote sections that needed attention. The core team also reviewed solar sizing work and asked that the pie charts be integrated into the summary writeup, reviewed Yuran’s responses to comments made on the walipini, aquapini, and zenapini content, and had the regular weekly meeting with the Center Hub team for which only Prathik was able to attend. 

A different core team member also continued working with the assembly instructions for the Murphy bed. We checked the assembly instructions for the front part of the wall, bed framing perimeter, bed hardware, attachment of the bed frame to the wall, assembly of the benches and table and attachment of them to the bed frame, and the installation of the locking hardware for securing benches and table in the up position, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below related to this progress.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #247 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders. The picture below shows a final render of the bathroom, but we realized in creating it that this is the ADA bathroom and it needs to be updated with the other bathroom we designed, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 94th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the size limitations of the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He first completed the buckling analysis by determining the critical buckling load of the support column. He assumed the column was fixed and free ended and calculated the critical load. He then used that value and half the barrel weight to calculate the factor of safety which equaled to 19.5.

Buckling is a very unlikely cause of failure in the column. After brainstorming he decided that the bolts were one of the more likely contributors to failure in the structure. After reading literature pertaining to screw and bolt design, the first step was to determine the state of stress in the bolt used for the support beams.

Due to the deflection of the beams caused by the barrel weight, a tension and compression is created along the lower and upper areas of the beam respectively. This deflection will cause the bolt to have a moment acting on it, due to the frictional forces exerted on the bolt due to the bolt head and nut trying to slide with the change in length of the beam.

To determine the frictional force, the tightening load had to be calculated by gathering specifications from the literature and the bolt manufacturer. With these calculations, the bending stress acting on the bolt can be determined. After determining this value, a fatigue analysis will need to be conducted because of the cycling involved from the filling and emptying of the barrels causing a fluctuation of stresses, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below show some of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 33rd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team responded to comments and made corrections/revisions to the Final Report. They looked through previous documents and added information to present to future readers from all of the documents created during the experimental phase, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 27th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela completed writing and editing the ADA Requirements section. She incorporated all the information she had written into the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report. This included adding images she had taken from the code in order to explain the narrative better. After reviewing any last errors Daniela then reviewed all comments from last week and this week.

She responded to questions on the ADA section and added more to the narrative for the roadways cost section. Daniela also rearranged some of the formatting/images. Lastly Daniela went back to the Roadways excel sheet to research information regarding the cost of excavation, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 25th week helping with web design. This week Yuran updated the FAQ section and created, added and linked new spreadsheets for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. She also added images to the Climate Battery live page and fixed the existing problems for the Aquapini & Walipini open source hub, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 24th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas answered questions and addressed comments throughout the doc, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei did a benchmark problem to demonstrate the Newton-Raphson method for the branched & looped multiple reservoirs water distribution network system by using Maltab. The code can be used for further water distribution of stored rainwater. He also created sheets for calculations of the rainwater harvesting system.

Monthly climate normals, average supply, total indoor water demand, indoor rainwater demand, outdoor rainwater demand, total rainwater demand, supply-to-demand ratio, and optimization of storage are included in the calculations. Entire calculations are produced based on a reference book Essential Rainwater Harvesting: A Guide to Home-Scale System Design (Sustainable Building Essential Series, 11) written by Rob Avis and Michella Avis, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 5th week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi kept on searching for light bulb replacements from #1 and #2 companies with higher luminous flux or lower power and the same functions. If the companies do not have the replacements meeting the requirements, she then searched for other ranked companies for the best replacement. Then research deeper for LED technology, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential 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

The core team also completed an extensive review and addition of content for the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing tutorial, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 47th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis worked on more documentation updates for the future website content. Along with this, he has been focusing on finding regulations and code that justify the circulation designations and turnover rates from the designs. Many of the parts manufacturers specify their design recommendations, but he is yet to find standardized legislation with tangible requirements. He aims to complete his research next week to continue on with his progress of finalizing the design documentation, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 36th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed corrections for section C”-C” and G-G and made changes on section C’-C’ and C”-C” according to her supervisor’s feedback. She added columns and changed the thickness of the walls and floors and changed the position of some columns and walls, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 31st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya finished updating the doors in the Living Dome. She also accomplished the work of modeling Door 9 which is the freezer and cooler door in the Dining Dome, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team and discussed the potential for pushing the walls of the Social and Dining dome on the 2nd floor open area back further to allow better circulation and visibility. The team concluded that there is the necessity of adding another column and have to see other impacts such as implications for the structure of the dome above. In addition, D7, 11, 12, and 14 door CAD elevation and section were added, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik researched and explored different methods to construct the dome in Revit. He constructed a geodesic glass dome. He also tried to add the DIY-designed bracket into and construct the dome, by doing this the actual model could be constructed and then exported to SolidWorks for structural analysis of the dome, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week of work. This week Dave checked materials for the Eco-spa design in order to validate power needs, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. This week, Dave double-checked energy demands from the Ultimate Classroom by going through each one of the data sources carefully. He also validated data by adding visual aids, such as pie charts, a comparison of our numbers with real-world energy consumption values, and a break-down of energy demands by each category, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 3rd week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil continued his design on the Dormer project by generating 3D concepts for both floors. Experimenting with similar heights and similar roof angles, he attempted to make the dormers look identical to each other for both floors. More visualizations will be required to select the most aesthetic and structurally sound design. He also communicated with a carpenter for more insight into how the frame will be constructed to ensure strength and meet industry standards, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by researching wood furniture, researching room styles, drawing CAD floor plans, and designing the interior of a nature themed room.

The room uses wood as the main element, the furniture is wooden furniture, wood material, and green plants create a warm interior atmosphere. She designed two plan layouts and one of them was chosen for deepening the interior design. In the interior design stage, she tried two sofa options and three wall decoration options, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential 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 with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. The week was spent focusing on the roosting ladder and nesting boxes. We reviewed the distances of the perch separation on the nesting ladder, the materials list for the nesting boxes, and requested a blow up drawing of the nesting boxes for further clarification of some of the necessary measurements for the nesting box construction, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member placed all the Transition Kitchen items in the SketchUp model according to size and dimensions taken from the Transition Kitchen spreadsheet list. We labeled each appliance according to the numbers in the spreadsheet and created a layout image, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below related to this progress.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 12th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam primarily worked on the 3-day block of recipes spreadsheets. He experimented with how to make the calculations work best in creating a readable, usable, cohesive recipe set to generate a master shopping list. Adam also had a couple of meetings with Jae and Marilyn and did more adding of suggestions or approving of Marilyn’s recipes, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 5th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued recipe development and menu plans, focusing on recipes that will work with food ingredients for the 2-months meal plan. After having a meeting about a three-day menu block to input in a new spreadsheet that will scale the required ingredients to create shopping lists, she went on to create the first three-day menu block.

It is designed to put to good use all perishable food items in the kitchen for quality control. She used recipes without too many dietary restrictions and designed to serve Vegans and Omnivores, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential throughh 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 8th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph focused on finalization of the design and researched on conditions prescribed in LEED® standards (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards). LEED® provides a framework for healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings. He accessed a website link on the U.S Green Building Council, USGC (http://www.usgbc.org/guide/bdc.).

He commenced learning about the criterion followed by these standards including, the five critical areas of focus (sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality). The structure will therefore be evaluated based on the rating system provided under the international codes of practice (IBC, CBC, and U.S codes) and LEED® standards, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 30 hours managing One Community 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, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel started by working on the new role, “Owner”, adjusting its permissions. He had a meeting with Nicky and talked with Chris to figure out how the leaderboard component worked, then changed a pipeline on MongoDB to get all users in the system to show up on the Owner’s dashboard. He tested the Owner profile and came to the conclusion it’s done. After that Miguel started working on another new role, Mentor, making changes on the permissions for that role and for the Manager role, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse worked on fixing the badge assignment bug. Badges in the same category should be removed once a badge in the same category with higher hours is added. When an instance of a Badge is created, she worked to filter the badge.category for the highest value in req.body.totalHrs, and that’s the only badge of that category that will be updated to the user profile, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu finished adding a calendar and fixed a bug for the calendar not showing up once clicked. There was a minor error in the end date of the user though, it kept changing to the newest day. Phu will fix it next week. For the task contribution, Phu added a custom expanding resources column, so it would look more professional. He also noticed an error on the resources filter that it did not show the resources (users) when the filter was applied, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun reviewed and approved several PRs both frontend and backend. She put most of her time on creating the ability for a user to see the timezone difference of others’. The PR is out and waiting for review now. Other than that, the development of the management-dashboard starts next week. Yiyun and Eiki and David will have the first meeting to discuss development details next Sunday, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron resolved a bug that was causing spacing issues in the Highest Good Network application. He assisted with pull requests to test changes that were made to the application and ensured that the changes did not have any conflicts with any existing code. In addition, after consulting with another team member, he identified a possible solution to the duplicate user creation bug that will likely come in a fix during this upcoming week, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky was mostly focused on helping out various people, helping Elyse out with a badge problem she was running into on the backend, meeting with Miguel to discuss the architecture of his permissions feature and going through the frontend and backend code with him to figure out a MongoDB error having to do with owner, which ended up being a MongDB thing and not a Frontend/Backend issue.

He also helped out Phu with the report component and will continue to do so next week on more resources architecture. He was able to dive a bit more into the timezone persistence issue that Jae was seeing with timezone not persisting on the non-new page, and will work on a PR for it next week, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Jipeng was working on the oauth 2.0 send email task and finished the first version of pr. GCP refresh token will expire in 7 days when the project is in testing state so he updated the project to prod state to make sure the token will not expire in 7 days. He did several testing scenarios locally for sending emails and all the scenarios are looking good, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week David completed more functionality for visualizing team member tasks. A large part of the work was discovering the connection between tasks and time entries. This connection was found in the project property of both task and time entries, so he set it up to fetch for both task and time entries and matched them together for the display, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Steven helped review and approved a PR that fixed the location persistence bug. Then he spent most of his time researching the behavior and the data flow of the application. He figured out the problem, fixed it, and raised the PR to remove checking duplicate phone numbers when creating new users and to instantly update the user management table when adding/deleting new users, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. This week, Eiki completed his orientation, onboarding, and dev environment setup. He then performed an initial scan of the code base and refamiliarized himself with the related React, Redux, and JavaScript tools.

He also helped other team members with coding problems, set up a plan for the Management Dashboard, brainstormed ways and chose a way to assign and breakdown tasks (deciding on a backend/frontend work breakdown structure), and watched at least 5 weekly summary videos left by the previous designer to see what has been done and his thought process. He then broke down the specifics of what has already been done by reading the documentation and shared his findings in the Management Dashboard Outline google doc to save other team members time, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

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We can create abundance through sustainability. Not just abundance, but a luxurious life with more time and resource access while also regenerating our planet. One Community is supporting this through open source sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week the core team touched based with Mary, Yuran, Dave, and Marcus, and had a weekly meeting with Center Hub Connector Team (Raj, Prathik, and George). We responded to emails, comments, and texts to keep projects moving forward and began reviewing recently completed roadways design numbers. We also continued to work on the Compression Testing Final Aircrete Report, namely reviewing the summary table, responding to comments, reviewing responses, and adding content, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below relate to all this. 

The core team also completed an extensive review and addition of content for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #246 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The picture below shows two more finished renders.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 93rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the maximum dimensions of the rain barrel support structure of the Net-zero Bathroom. He first calculated the maximum bending moment and shear stress of the support beams. It was determined that the bending moment was much greater than the shear stress. By using a best fit polynomial curve he found a relationship between the moment and the length of the beam.

He then calculated the maximum allowable bending stress by using a safety of factor of 2, determined by using the factor of safety criteria, and the yield strength. Jose Luis substituted the value into the best fit function and calculated a max length of 11 feet. Next he began working on a buckling analysis of the main support columns, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below show some of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 32nd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing team continued to work on finishing the final report for the Compression Testing Project. They conducted a water test to see what type of water was used during the process of making the cylinders. The team also addressed any comments that were given for this week and continued to make improvements on the report, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 24th week helping with web design. This week Yuran backed up the websites mentioned in all the tabs of the “Solar Sizing – ENERGY BALANCE (on grid)” spreadsheet. She also fixed the Aquapini and Walipini page with core team feedback and continued working on adding content to the Climate Battery live page. Yuran checked all the websites mentioned in the page, finished the resource section and then backed them up as PDF files, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei studied modeling and analysis of the water distribution system for the barrel storage system and further water distribution network with extra rainwater harvesting units in the shower room. A report using a part of the barrel storage system as an example discusses a standard schematic representation of the water distribution system, mass and energy conservation for the establishment of the branched & looped multiple reservoir system, and solving the system of nonlinear equations with the Newton-Raphson method, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 7th 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 reviewed multiple reports about cost comparisons between different waste-to-energy solutions, primarily for incinerators, gasification units, and pyrolysis. These documents were collected last week, but they were long pages and took time to find comparable information. After designing criteria of cost estimation, a general cost estimation was proposed.

The results showed gasification seems to be the best waste-to-energy solution. Although it is not the cheapest option, its versatility gives it potential to be modeled into a more efficient engineering system in the future, so its social utility can be optimized, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 4th week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi worked on ranking light bulb companies and their products, integrating the content into the pasted website content and formatting the bulbs and company section to match other pages. She also searched for the light bulb replacements that were equal or better than existing choices, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week the core team completed a detailed review and feedback on the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 46th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. Luis focused on finalizing and signing off on calculations for the heat transfer and plumbing of the design. These calculations are being directly implemented on the planned website content and have been adjusted on the spreadsheet for ease of access, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 35th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed corrections for section A-A, B-B, D-D , F-F, and C’-C. She added columns and updated column positions, and changed the thickness of the walls and floors according to her supervisor’s feedback, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 32nd week working on Duplicable City Center updates. This week she continued to build the roof model and its structure in SketchUp, exported the SketchUp model of the Living Dome for the interior designers, and added labels for the various section drawings in the AutoCAD file, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 30th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, after coordinating with Yuxi, Huiya modified some details for Door 1 and Door 2 and modeled door D13 for the restrooms. She also accomplished the work of adding the D1, D2, and D13 to the Living Dome, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi had a brief discussion with the team on hardware on doors and coordinated their type and location based on varying situations, including location of pull or push bars based on egress routes, types of hardware based on security (regular door handle or equipped with card reader), etc. Furthermore, elevation and the plans of doors D5 and D9 were updated to correct sizes with details, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj compiled all the research and work done throughout the months and started creating a document which explains the design considerations and the successes and failures of each design leading up to the final design, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik explored using the Architectural design software Revit for testing. He designed a simple dome to understand how to use the software and the different tools available. He then designed a glass dome and tried changing the beam joint to the DIY solution the team has designed, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week of work. This week Dave checked materials for the Eco-spa design in order to validate power needs. He made corrections to the calculation that resulted in substantially lower power draws, updating the average energy demand of 782.5 kWh/day to 502.7 kWh/day. He also added pie charts as a visual to compare energy demands by different categories from the City Center and Earthbag Village and sized and selected an electric heat pump for the pool, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 2nd week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week, Kamil continued his work on the Dormer dome design project. He did further research into how dormers are constructed on domes and the typical way in which they are attached. He also began creating 3D visualizations in SolidWorks as to how the dormer frame might connect to the dome frame. Moving forward he will create multiple designs for both floors of the dormer to ensure an aesthetic but also functional and easy to build dormer design, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is facilitating abundance through 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 with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We made corrections from pages 117-150. The main areas of focus included Coop Door Materials, Hanging the Coop Entry Door, Installing Sliding Chicken Door, Building Shutters for Ventilation Openings, Building Manure Collection Trays, and the Roosting Ladder, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below. 

A different core team member worked on the SketchUp model and render updates for the Chicken Coop. After changes to thickness of parts in all three poo collection trays, we updated text with new dimensions and generated new images. We also updated and reviewed instructions for the entry door and chicken door also, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below related to this progress.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 11th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. He had a zoom meeting with Jae and discussed next steps pertaining to making the recipe tabs that tie into a master shopping list, worked on the related spreadsheets and researched best ways to organize data and create filters, entered in all the ingredients, color coded all ingredient groups, and added to ingredient groups such as specific pastas in one group, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 4th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued recipe development and menu plans and researched recipes that would work with the food ingredients for a 2 months meal plan as well as researching food that would fit the kitchen plan in line with the approved ingredient list, dietary requirements and kitchen equipment. She spent some time avoiding recipe repetition and working to find substitutes for some food items, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is facilitating abundance through 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 7th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph focused on the finalization of the design model. Initially, Adolph had generated one critical truss but later realized he needed to fit all the trusses on the roof plan and then execute modeling of the entire truss system. He therefore focused on the tekla structural design and tekla structures where he incorporated all the trusses and roofing material.

Adolph plans to review and incorporate LEED provisions and finalize the design during the following week. He will then compile a detailed design report showing the steps undertaken during execution of the assignment, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is facilitating abundance through 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 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, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel implemented the new user permissions system on the backend (Miguel-userPermissions branch). Miguel also started working in the implementation of the 2 new user roles (Owner and Mentor) and their permissions in the system. He worked together with his colleagues to get help and to help them in their own problems, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse worked on the badge awards bugs where “100 hours total contributed to economics / energy / society / education / food / housing / stewardship category” badge is not awarded when a user completes 100 hours of work on a project labeled with the respective category. She tested manually assigning badges as an admin for Housing, Food, and education. She added console.log() statements to badgeController.js file in function assignBadges.

In the terminal, the badge group that was printed out shows the added new badges but the front end takes a few minutes to display the changes. Elyse needs to confirm how Mongodb saves this data. This might not be a bug but rather a caching delay, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu tested merging Irene’s branch to the Dev branch. A few errors and conflicts occured, so Phu contacted Nicky to get help, but it seems like only Phu was experiencing the problem. He continued researching to fix the errors and also fixed a filter problem, enabling it to search by project, people, and team name while active/not active/all statuses were applied. He also started working on adding start dates and end dates, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time on fixing the incorrect tangible hours on Volunteering Times tab, personal profile page. The PR of fixing “total tangible hours this week” she created was reviewed and merged. Yiyun digged into “other category hours” fixing, she created a PR #401, but after discussion and clarification with Jae, she realized there was some misunderstanding. So she closed her PR, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Ron worked this week to provide assistance in reviewing pull request changes in regards to issues with the display in the HGN application. He also continued to work on creating popup confirmation for user duplication. Ron most recently took on a new bug that is creating a spacing issue between elements in the HGN application, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky was involved in various support tasks to help out David, Yiyun, Thien, Elyse, and Miguel. He also worked on the bug to fix persistence on the location & time zone issue where things weren’t getting saved from the add user profile page. Nicky also fixed the edit portion of it on the basic information tab section, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Jipeng started setting up the gmail api for oauth 2.0. In the first stage, he set up gmail api using his own testing account. He then set up gmail api with oauth 2.0 using the Highest Good Network test account. Jipeng is able to generate an access token to send email by refresh token. In the next stage, he will set it up in the cloud platform, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, David focused on fetching relevant data and demonstrating them in the table and also verifying Team Member Tasks data shows correctly. This unfortunately couldn’t be completed as a function to fetch time entries because a specific task has not been built yet. David will now focus his energy on doing that, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Steven started with onboarding, reading through all the Google Docs, and setting up the dev environment. He also picked up a bug to start on, which is related to the behavior after the update of newly created users in the User Management system. He also spent time familiarizing himself with the codebase and the data flow of the application, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

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