One Community welcomes Ian Coletti to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ian is an Environmental Studies undergrad at the College of the Holy Cross, volunteering in the Eco Action club for sustainability on campus. Over the summer of 2020 he also took part in working groups which have helped to draft a climate action plan for the college. Ian hopes to find work in positions that positively impact the environment. He is currently conducting research on sustainable window and door products for One Community.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM IAN!

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Global collaboration for The Highest Good of All can create a sustainable world. Working together, we can simultaneously address the greatest challenges of this generation and the next while improving global happiness and living standards.

One Community is supporting this through Highest Good tools, tutorials, and resources covering sustainable 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
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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of global collaboration for the highest good of all as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 9th, 2020 edition (#385) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All
One Community Progress Update #385

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GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL = HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good of all housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we reformatted and further added to the hydropower details. We also added example scenarios for sites without natural streams or rivers.  Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 90% complete.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Review of Research Completed on Hydropower

The core team also updated the formatting of the Loft Engineering page in preparation for a new engineer who will be double checking all those details.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Updated Formatting of the Loft Engineering Page

The core team also finished formatting and addition of the content to the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide. This completes addition of all the research we’ve done so far for this page. 

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Formatting & Adding Content to the Open Source

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #195 of Dean’s work and the focus continues to be the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic. The most recent pictures are below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Adding Trees and Made the Textures Look Realistic

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 18th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro focused on the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial, focusing on the formatting, text editing, images and table parts of the article. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s work below. 

“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options”

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 13th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini worked on Polished Concrete Flooring research, editing the Google Doc for site selection, and she completed adding all the Materials in the Google Doc as per the Master Google Sheet.

She also started the process of adding tools. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 8th and final week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi formatted her research and integrated requested edits after a detailed review by the core team.

This is in preparation to pass this research along to a new researcher and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 80% complete.

Formatted Her Research and Integrated Requested Edits After a Detailed Review by the Core Team

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis checked the water flow in the water storage system for the Net-Zero Bathroom, being sure that every tank would be in sync and checked the fail safe system. He designed and installed windows in the Solidworks file of the bathroom, meeting the design criteria that included natural lighting and ventilation. He also added urinals and the majority of the water barrel support structure to the AutoCAD floor plan. Pictures are below for this work. 

Checked the Water Flow in the Water Storage System for the Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions.

This week Stacey corrected all updates listed in our corrections document for B&T (pages 67-76). Pending 2 issues remain for B&T assembly: point 9 on latching to wall & just a final confirm on hinge type used on this project with link for component page. She also updated all sketches to show correct hinge location, board placement and assembly.

She simplified the instructions and submitted for review all pages except B&T0&1 (cutting page) as those need additional renders and information. Stacey also reworked layout to be more understandable and clean. We plan to implement this layout on all projects throughout instructions. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is leading global collaboration for the  highest good of all 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 of the Duplicable City Center video walkthrough and corrected a diversity of errors we found. You can see below this list of errors and the screen grabs associated with them.

Completed a Detailed Review of the Video Walkthrough and Corrected a Diversity of Errors

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 9th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued work on ranking window and door products and made minor changes and additions to the company sustainability benchmarking. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Research for Sustainable Windows and Doors

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer)  also completed his 4th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on Researching Exit Lighting datasheets and comparing with other brands. This is to understand which brand suits best. He also worked on identifying the best exit sign locations for various areas. You can see some of this work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Researched Exit Lighting Datasheets

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good for all 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 created all the imagery needed for the open source permaculture design page.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Created All the Imagery for the Permaculture Page

We also added two case studies, new construction content, and new FAQs to the DIY Dam Design and Construction open source hub.

Added Two Case Studies, New Construction Content, and New Faqs to the DIY Dam Design Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 8th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week Jessica and Aly created recipes for Chick’n & Rice Soup, Hummus Dressed Kale & Whitebean Salad, Fresh Salsa on Rice & Beans, Banana Bread, Lentil Meatballs on Pasta, Super Nut & Fruit Loaf, and Peanut Tofu Surprise, all for the vegan recipe pages, as you see here.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Creating Vegan Recipes for the Food Plan

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the design of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. She started her work studying the existing research on the subject developed by other members and creating a design plan to be followed for the successful completion of each one of the climate batteries.

She also worked on the selection of the ideal burial depth for the Walipini 3 climate battery. You can see some of this work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of all, Joined the Team & Worked on Climate Battery Design

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good of all 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu built the SketchUp model for half of the complete plan. You can see some of her work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Model for the First Half of the Playground Plan

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei built the SketchUp model for the other half of the complete plan. You can see some of her contributions below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Model for the Second Half of the Playground Plan

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good of all 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 27th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated functions to make the app more user-friendly. The functions added included Collapse and Expand all the tasks, Go back button, Delete WBS items (also deletes all children tasks ), and Tool-tips displaying converted working hours.

He also tested again the basic functions and did more debugging. You can see some of this work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of all, Updated functions to make the app more User friendly

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 16th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists, setting a new outreach record. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Promoting Our Project to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software.

This week Andon completed all work related to the WeeklySummary and WeeklySummariesReport components in the frontend (HGNApp) and backend (HGNRest). Some of the refinements he did this week were to make the weekly summaries tabs display either “Last Week” or “Week Before Last” or the actual dates if the weeks the summaries are older than the 3 week period.

The summaries reports page however will only have to display the reports based on “This Week”, “Last Week” or “Week Before Last”, any older summaries outside that range will not be considered. Andon also completed the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component with over 90% code coverage.

He also prepared the weekly summaries (WBS1.6) git branches to a state free of conflicts with “development” branch where they can be submitted for review (pull request) so they can easily be merged with the “development” branch. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Completed All Work Related to the Weekly summary

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team were continuing with the eslint and unit test correction tasks. Also doing the task to migrate the application from surge to azure.

The Azure resources have been created and the pipeline build, but it is not completed yet as we are getting some errors. You can see some of this work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Continued Working on the HGN Software

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 5th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi completed the feature in 1.5.8 and uploaded the code under feature/timer branch.

She designed an attach-link notification popup page and avoided the conflicts between two notifications when input is less than 10 words and lacks a link. As a result, users can complete their inputs with enough words and link attachment following the step-by-step reminders. You can see some of this work below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Completed the Feature and Uploaded the Code

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry setup his local dev environment so he can now sign into the frontend locally, access API routes with Postman, and connect to the production MongoDB cluster with MongoDB Compass. Pictures of some of this are below.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Joined the Team and Worked on HGN Software

Last but not least, Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) joined the team and began helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began researching the Medical Provider Network and doing research on the different types of healthcare options available.

She is working through Action Task Items 1 and 2, which includes understanding what a Medical Provider Network is and what are the steps a business must take to establish a Medical Provider Network (MPN) in California. Furthermore, she began research on different insurance options that One Community may be interested in, which includes individual and group insurance options.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – Joined the Team and Researched Insurance Options

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One Community welcomes Adam Capdeville to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Adam is currently attending California State University Channel Islands and will graduate December 2020 with his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, minoring in mathematics, statistics and data analytics. He is especially passionate about creating complex and compelling user interfaces. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Adam is applying this passion to help develop a seamless user interface for the new user profile page.

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

Aly is a student in Antioch University Bachelor’s Leadership for Service and Change program, creative director & co-owner of Roots of Medicine, and kitchen co-manager and secretary on the board of directors at The Artisan Wheelhouse. She is also independently studying herbalism and holistic medicine, and plant-based nutrition and sustainability. Her additional interests include multicultural studies, sculpture, writing and photography. Aly’s main goals for joining the One Community Highest Good Food team involve designing sustainable meal plans with ingredients sourced from local farms and small businesses with hopes to share the model with small groups and communities in need.

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One Community welcomes TEKtalent Inc. to the software design team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

TEKtalent Inc. is one of the leading staffing and consulting companies in Silicon Valley, California, providing quality staffing and custom programming solutions. TEKtalent has proved to be reliable in the provision of employment to those who are actively looking for work. With years of experience in the staffing industry, TEKtalent provides career opportunities and new ventures, permanent and temporary, so that the job seeker could find the job that is right for him or her. In order to meet the specific needs of employers and job seekers, they build a customized and creative staffing strategy. As a member of the One Community team, TEKtalent is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

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Ethical cooperative replication is about open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed to build a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for The Highest Good of All. One Community will be the first of these hubs and will include open source plans and demonstrations of sustainable 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward the ethical cooperative replication movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 2nd, 2020 edition (#384) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethical Cooperative Replication
One Community Progress Update #384

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ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added functionality to the hydropower potential calculator in Google Sheets to include springs and earth dams without streams feeding into them, a pipe diameter component, as well as head loss.

In the end, we found an excel sheet online that does exactly what was being created. We also continued to refine the hydropower writeup by sorting out turbine selection criteria. Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 80% complete.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #194 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Added More Trees and Made the Textures Look More Realistic

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 12th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to research Utility Excavation and Geotextile Fabrics, updating the status and Google Docs and sheets on the material pages with related details. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Tutorials

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 11th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished compiling a list of lightbulb products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is preparing to organize the information in a spreadsheet next week.

She also worked on editing the written section of her light bulb tutorial. In addition to this, she finished another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. The pictures below show some of this work.

Compiling a List of Lightbulb Products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs Tutorial

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 7th week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi filled in some gaps in research and completed the FAQs and Why Open Source content.

She has added a DIY for recycling disposable diapers. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 70% complete.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Research for the Best Options for Sustainable Processing

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis converted the list of materials for the Net-Zero Bathroom into the Dome 1 format. While formatting the collected data he also researched prices and available dimensions of the needed materials.

He gathered and recorded the dimensions and positions of the bathroom furnishing such as the toilet, sink, and urinal from the Solidworks model. After collecting the needed measurements he added the furnishing to the AutoCAD floor plan. You can see pictures of some of this work below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we created the initial basement wall and door strategy, adjusted sizing of radiant floors, applied the electrical equipment loads in the kitchen, and did another overview and integration of all the schedules. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis

The core team also continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team adjusted the number of columns connecting the fourth level to the second and third level. We also continued performing load combination analysis to the updated integrated model.

The addition of columns reduces some of the stress and deflection of the overall structure, but the core team discovered that the third level exhibits unusual deflection in the load combo of snow, dead and live loads. Further investigation is required to fix this deflection issue and other overloaded columns between the fourth and third floor, and to test larger columns as a substitute for more columns.

You can see some of this work below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Details

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 8th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed an initial draft of all spreadsheets and an initial draft of the company sustainability rankings. He also began work on describing and ranking products. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish adapted more drawings to the title block. You can see some of this work below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 our research on rabbits by completing a final round of review and edits and team Q&A sessions covering the specifics of how we’ll be presenting our research on the website. This behind-the-scenes work is now complete and ready for publication.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Completed a Final Round of Review and Edits of the Rabbit Doc

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the steps for shutter installation to cover all the ventilation openings, updated all the images that showed the old ventilation shutters, and started the instructions for the manure collection trays.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Working on the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 7th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week they made recipes for Apple Cinnamon Muffins, Curry Lentil Soup, Carrot Cake Muffins, Almond Milk, and Blueberry Lemon Muffins, as you see here and all for the vegan recipe pages.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 84th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on both the renders for the central area that will be used for theater and other events.

Final additions included more people, cords and other additions to the lighting guy on the right, boxes at the top of the pull-down security walls, and shadows. This picture is now on the Ultimate Classroom page also.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Finished Work on Render of Central Area for Theater & Other Events

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished two detailed plans, the basketball court and vernal. She also researched paving materials and companies. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei drew two sections, the micro-topo area and amphitheater area. She also researched playground equipment. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Drew the Micro-topo and Amphitheater Area, and Researched Playground Equipment

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) created responsive ad text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign and launched it, added account-wide structured snippet to the ads, reviewed & implemented multiple suggestions to expand responsive ads (97.3% optimization score), and created responsive ads for our wind energy page.

He also compared last week’s automated bidding vs without. If you look at the totals, clicks have increased by 25%, a very good sign! This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Created Responsive Ad Text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign & Launched

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 26th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed the total hours bug with a function to test all the logics and fix all of them every time the user presses the refresh button or F5.

He also added a reset button for the task entry popup and made it so clicking names will open a person’s profile. And he updated the function to assign users for the tasks, so now we can add, remove and search for the users faster than before. You can see some of this work below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Fixed the Total Hours Bug With a Function to Test All the Logics

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 15th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Promoting Our Project & the One Community Page to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software.

This week Andon did some refactoring and code improvements in the WeeklySummaries component, added things like prop-types validation for the WeeklySummary, WeeklySummariesReport and related components and a new tooltip for the weekly summaries tabs explaining what “Last Week” and “Week Before Last” mean in terms of calendar week vs last time a summary was submitted.

He also did the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component and redux related functions. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Refactoring & Code Improvements in the Weekly Summaries

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the changes suggested for the reset password validations and messages. They also started the cleaning up activities of the react code base by correcting the lint errors.

The lint configuration has been completed and the existing error corrections are in progress. The completed lint corrections so far are all js files and started the same for jsx files. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Changes Suggested for the Reset Password Validations and Messages

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam focused on researching methods of implementing user projects, teams and total worked hours.

After Adam had a video conference call with Nithesh, he pivoted from working on the users projects, teams and hours to further developing the users profile responsive design. Adam’s pivot was due to a few variables that are currently relying on Nithesh’s module. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Researched Methods of Implementing User Projects, Teams and Total Worked Hours

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 4th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi refactored the timer component. She added modals for the not-enough-words notification popup and designed the popup page. She completed the function in 1.5.9 under both Add and Edit mode.

She also began work on the attach-link notification popup. You can see some of this work below.

Ethical Cooperative Replication – Refactored the Timer Component of the HGN Software

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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One Community is making sustainability more accessible through open source and free-shared sustainable solutions covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. These resources are being designed to construction replicable teacher/demonstration hubs that will produce even more sustainable tools, tutorials, and resources.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of making sustainability more accessible as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 26th, 2020 edition (#383) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Sustainability More Accessible
One Community Progress Update #383

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page.

This week we watched a 3-part series on the potential of generating power using rainwater collected on a roof, continued to integrate our notes into the hydropower section, and gained a better understanding of potential, kinetic, mechanical, and electrical energies, as well as kW versus kWh. You can see some pictures of this research below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Detailed Review of Research Completed on Hydropower

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 10th week as a member of the team. This week Angela continued work on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies by completing collection of her information on each of the 6 companies she selected.

She has been researching specific light bulbs from each of the companies to see which are the best. She also completed another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Work on the Most Sustainable Light bulbs and Companies

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 6th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi compared different recycling options and estimated them to arrive at her initial conclusion. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 60% complete.

Making Sustainability More Accessible, Researching How to Sustainably Manage Non-recyclable waste

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began and completed the list of materials needed for the Net-Zero Bathroom. His research involved thoroughly studying the Net-Zero Bathroom final design and interior interface to determine what to record on the list.

He also reviewed the material listed for the water barrel support beams and concurred the best material was structural wood. He dissected the Solidworks final design to gather the dimensions and the quantity of material used to build the structure, roof, water storage system, and plumbing.

After finishing the list, he began converting the floor plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom structure from Solidworks to AutoCAD. You can see pictures of some of this work below.

Joined the Team and Began Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we updated the dome wall construction values, updated and fixed windows to be triple panels, adjusted the indoor pool temperature based on our operation plans (58°F in winter, 78°F in summer, 75°F for the rest of year), adjusted the hot tub schedule and temperature based on our operation plans, and conducted research on the best basement door for drive-up access.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we assigned area loads to the integrated SAP model and conducted analysis for the entire model, including different load combinations. The analysis results show very high axial loads for the tentative locations of the fourth level columns.

Therefore there is need to increase the number of columns connecting the second and fourth level. Further analysis can be done after the update of column locations and the integrated seismic analysis can be performed as well. You can see some of this work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Details

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 7th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed most of the corporation sustainability spreadsheet and began the process of adding minor final details to all three data sheets. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on detailing the sprinkler system and adapting it to the One Community title block. You can see some of this work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Detailing the Sprinkler System and Adapting It

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the under-roof siding and fan installation instructions for the East and West wall and started the installation instructions for the shutters over the ventilation openings.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished the Under-roof Siding & Fan Installation Instructions for East & West Wall of Chicken Coop

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 23rd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the info and drawings of the newest design. In this design, a North/South mixed intake/outtake is implemented to improve efficiency.

Layers 1 and 3 are used for cooling with the intakes at the north of the structure closer to the ceiling. Layer 2 is used for heating with the intake at the south of the structure closer to the floor.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Completed the Info and Drawings of the Newest Design

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 6th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week they cooked and took pictures of Lentil Veggie Soup, Herbed Potatoes, Mac n Cheese, Bean Chili, Chili-Cheese Nacho Potatoes, Caramelized Onions, Chili Ketchup, Peanut Sauce, Chili Ginger Burger Lettuce Wraps, Black Bean Brownies, and Vanilla Banana Ice ‘Cream’.  You can see these below and they are all for the vegan recipe pages.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

And Moti Scotti (Permaculturalist) completed her 2nd week on the team and her help reviewing the Permaculture Doc the core team has been developing for the past year. She finished her review and general edits and additions to the core 80 pages, in addition to comments and questions towards overall presentation and design for better understanding.

The image below shows a  couple of the areas where she made significant edits.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Finished Detailed Review of the Permaculture Doc

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) completed her 14th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao made final adjustments to the schematic drawings, structural elements design, and construction details. Pictures of this work are below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 95% complete.

Made Final Adjustments to Schematic Drawings, Structural Elements Design, and Construction Details

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 83rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the 2nd render for the central area that will be used for theater and other events.

Development this week included updating the lighting, adding people, stage lights, a table and lighting guy on the right, and minor changes to the background.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Work on Render of Central Area for Theater & Other Events

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to make a colored plan and detailed plans including the amphitheater and micro topos.

You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei continued to update the SketchUp model for the building and drew two sections for two detailed plans. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Updating Model of the Building and Drew Two Sections

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 edited the content from several of our other videos and provided it so Moneyless Society could include it in the video they produced and can be seen below.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also reviewed & implemented appropriate Google Ad recommendations, updated all campaigns to automated bidding strategies to maximize clicks, reviewed and created (from Recommendations) Responsive Ads for 3 Ad Groups.

He also  added responsive ads for the “Paper Recycling” ad group and launched it, reviewed the performance of our most recent bidding strategy change and found a strong increase, started the Water-Saving Faucet Ad Campaign, and added 16,038 keywords.

Jin has been a member of our team for almost 10 years and you can see some of this work from him below. This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Working on our Marketing Team by Implementing Appropriate Google Ad Recommendations, etc. –

This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 25th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed more bugs in the import and table totaling functionalities. He also remade the colors for tasks so when you collapse them you can see tasks easier.

He’s also identified another bug where importing large files causes the calculation not to work in some cases. If he can’t fix it next week, he will add a ‘fix’ button to refresh the calculations when a user sees they are incorrect. You can see some of this work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Fixed More Bugs in the Import and Table Totaling Functions

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. Wen is now using React Overlay to display the badge description on hover. With this, the description box covers the badge itself when the mouse hovers over the badge.

If we would like to see both the image of the badge and its description at the same time, then the description might cover other badges, assuming the description box shows on the right of the image on hover. Mockups are coming to help us decide. 

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Continued Working on the HGN Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 14th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Promoting Our Project and the Page to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software.

This week Andon updated the implementation and some of the behavior of the Weekly Summary component to incorporate some changes like allowing the user to edit all three weeks’ summaries (current, last and before last) rather than how it was originally designed to just be able to edit the current week’s summary.

He also updated and improved the component’s state management. Additionally this week Andon helped with code review, testing and approval of PRs. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the suggested review changes in reset password option and started the infringement (blue square) related functionalities.

The blue squares have been displayed in a user profile and added the option for the administrator to add a new infringement, edit the already added one and delete an existing infringement. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Suggested Changes in Reset Password Option and Started the Infringement Functions

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Links are now grouped in one edit window, where the user/admin can add, edit & delete as they chose. Adam then began reworking the layout of the user’s profile to be more streamlined.

He separated edit functionality into a secondary view of the user profile. This way the default view of the user profile is no longer cluttered with edit fields, and instead info is presented in a more concise way. Next week Adam will add in Projects & Team view and edit components. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 3rd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi ran backend and frontend code successfully and fixed the bug about yarn install error. Also, she found a solution for finding the yarn path.

In addition to this, she modified the MongoDB connection condition code under HGNRest file. She used post_file post actions in Postman to create a login account. You can see some of this work below.

Making Sustainability More Accessible – Ran Backend & Frontend Code Successfully and Fixed the Bug

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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Creating a more sustainable world is easier with open source sustainability infrastructure. One Community is supporting this by creating open source plans, tools, and tutorials covering sustainable 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 the movement of creating a more sustainable world as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 19th, 2020 edition (#382) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a More Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #382

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we created an excel sheet to calculate power, began consolidating our notes for our introduction to hydropower, and researched resources for hydropower engineering design and equipment.

You can see some pictures of this research below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Review of Research Completed on Hydropower

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 9th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished editing her plastic recycling tutorial and submitted it for review. She also compiled a list of the best products from each of the lighting brands and continued to research deeper into each of the brand’s sustainability practices.

She also looked for the best lighting practices to conserve energy. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World -Finished Editing Plastic Recycling Tutorial & Submitted to Review

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 11th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini focused on researching compass installation, rubble trench footer formworks, rainwater harvesting, and french drains and gutters. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Helping With Earthbag Village Cost Analysis & Open Source

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 5th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched cities and organizations already using waste to energy systems. She looked in to some differences in the types of these systems and into the economics and incentives for setting up such businesses.

You can see some of the pictures of the research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 30% complete.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Researched Cities & Orgs Already Using Waste to Energy

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create all the new Highest Good Housing icons you see below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Helped Create All the New Highest Good Housing Icons

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial. This week we adjusted the thermal efficiency for the boilers and remodeled the HVAC system based on the Mini Split designs and added clear labels. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team continued implementing an approach to accommodate all floors of the structures into one integrated model and brought this process to 90% complete. The final provision will be extending the supporting columns and specify the material and section details for the individual members.

In addition to this, the core team also inserted the seismic analysis function and load cases into the analysis. Once the model is ready for analysis after all the setup, hopefully by next week, the seismic analysis can be conducted to determine the displacement and reactions in the structure. You can see some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structure

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 19th and final week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka finished editing the ‘types of flooring descriptions’ by restructuring the features and pros/cons sections into Features/Pros and Cons sections to make the benefits more clearly separated from the negatives.

This brings the behind-the-scenes design of this tutorial to 100% complete.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 6th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed what should be a majority of the window and door spreadsheets and began working on the company ranking spreadsheet. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide – Click for Page

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish developed the Basis of Design document for emergency & exit lighting systems. He also prepared an A1 drawing template layout, that could be adapted for all A1 sized AutoCAD drawings.

Joined the Team and Began Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our research on rabbits and added edits and updates to pages 1-28, incorporating various paragraphs into more appropriate sections, reading through the pages and deleting and adding various info, and adding more sources to the resources section. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with this research.

Continued Our Research on Rabbits and Added Edits and Updates to our Google Doc.

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing the south wall (nesting boxes wall) siding and windows installation and updating all the related instructions on pages 79-87. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-Step Building Instructions

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 31st week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad finished the introduction of the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with the structural details.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Finished the Introduction of the Design Criteria Report

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 5th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week they completed recipes for Pumpkin Muffins, Garden Veggie Red Sauce Pasta, Vegan Oatie Brownies, Red Curry, and Curry Burgers, all for the vegan recipe pages, as you see here.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

And Moti Scotti (Permaculturalist) joined the team and began a detailed review of the Permaculture Doc the core team has been developing for the past year. She corrected errors, rewrote some sections, and deleted parts that would be confusing to the reader. You can see some screenshot of some of her changes below.

Joined the Team and Began a Detailed Review of the Permaculture Doc

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 13th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao updated the section design and construction details to match the new material selection, light cement insulation. In addition, she researched the structure at the openings, windows and doors.

Her new perspectives show additional wood frame to support the straw bales above the openings. She also created the 3D models showing the construction detail and process. The 3D view and the elevation now show the element relationships in the structural system. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 75% complete.

Updated the Section Design and Construction Details to Match the New Material Selection

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to create a colored plan, two detailed plans include outdoor learning space and a small town for younger kids. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei continued to update the planting selection board and SketchUp model and drew a cross section for the North side of the site.

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 24th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs from last week, fixing a problem with the sum of hours not adding properly from the excel file. Now the app will automatically recalculate tasks and other information after you import them from excel.

He also found another problem on the hour format with numbers including decimals not calculating accurately. If you put 52.5, it will keep 52 only. You can see some of this work below.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 17th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software and web design teams. This week Alvaro improved the webpage review checklist so it now includes all reviewed aspects of the “Sustainable Parking Lot Construction Guide” and has a better format.

He also started to edit the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial, began to discuss the use of linting and code formatting tools and created a “Requirement Management Procedure For AirB&B Code Style conventions” doc to detect if this improvement is worth the effort or not.

You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Working on the HGN Software and Web Design

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 13th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen worked on the MongoDB database, read part of the reactstrap documentation and learned some new tricks, and created the different views for badge display and badge descriptions shown below.

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 13th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists.

You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Promoting the Project & One Community Page to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon wrote full tests for the Weekly Summaries Report page and related components. That work included doing research on whether React functional components with hooks can be tested using Jest and Enzyme.

He wrote the tests for the “WeeklySummariesReport” component with React Testing Library including the redux store related code (actions, reducers) utilizing the Mock Service Worker (MSW) library. Andon also included snapshot testing for the components used to generate the reports data for the web page and the PDF report files.

You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Wrote Full Tests for the Weekly Summaries Report Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the reset password functionality and introduced hyperlinking in the user management grid item to open the user profile.

Upon clicking the first name or last name the user profile page shall open with details. The reset password button has been introduced in both the grid and user profile page, upon clicking this button a popup will be shown to enter and confirm the password. Once the administrator enters the new password and clicks, the reset password button will trigger the password reset.

You can see some of this work below.

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

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam began his week fixing issues with the displaying of blue squares. Admins will now be the only one who can edit blue squares. The Blue Squares edit screen has been fixed so Admins can edit single fields if they choose to do so.

Display of user links and admin links are now grouped together too. Adam optimized the links by displaying the buttons with the link name, instead of displaying link name and link URL next to each other. The link URL, often too long and incoherent, was extra information that didn’t need to be displayed.

Adam refined the links to be clean and more straight to the point. Users will be able to add and edit personal links, while admins will be able to add permanent work links that are listed first. Next week Adam will wrap up links and finish refactoring module 1.4. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

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

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 2nd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi continued learning how the timer and time log component works and worked on getting her local machine to run the backend code and React App. You can see some of this work below.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Continued Learning How the Timer and Time Log Works

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also got the keywords created for a new adwords campaign we’ll be running, 728 keywords were researched. He also ran reports to identify what words have been performing best in our existing campaigns. You can see some of this work below and this marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

Creating a More Sustainable World – Created Keywords for A New Adwords Campaign

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

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One Community has developed an open source sustainability model capable of creating global sustainability within our lifetime.

When the designs are complete, we’ll use them to launch a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate sustainable environments integrating ecological and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

Doing this so they are modular and easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own is how we will accomplish our global sustainability goal.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of an open source sustainability model as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 12th, 2020 edition (#381) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

An Open Source Sustainability Model
One Community Progress Update #381

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. The focus this week was reviewing several documents in support of the hydropower topic. You can see some pictures of this research below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Detailed Review of Work and Research on Hydropower

The core team also began final formatting, editing, and development of the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide. This week we fixed HTML code issues accidentally transferred from the Google Doc into the entire page and then finalized the content and imagery for the introduction, table of contents, What, Why, and first section of the Details. We’d say this page is now 90% complete. 

Began Final Formatting, Editing, and Development of the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #193 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adjusting textures for trees and plants and adding a fire pit and sitting area. You can see some of this work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Adjusted Textures for Trees, Adding a Fire Pit and Sitting Area

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 8th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished her plastic recycling business tutorial and is now awaiting Core Team review of her work.

Angela also narrowed down the best lightbulb brands down to 6 and is now researching their sustainability practices. She also started to compile a list of the most sustainable products from each of these brands. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Created, Updated and Further Developed Colored Plans

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 10th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials.

This week Ashwini continued to work on the Construction of Footer Foundation and Floor page for 3-dome and 6-dome clusters by conducting research on excavation and trenching and safety aspects as per OSHA and The Associated General Contractors of America. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued to Work on the Construction of Footer Foundation

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 4th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched on Plasma Gasification process, Plasco WTE system, Precious Plastic machines for shredding and recycling, and Dendro Liquid Energy.

You can see some of the pictures of the research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 20% complete.

Research on Plasma Gasification Process, Plasco WTE System, Precious Plastic Machines

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we applied construction sets and schedule sets to the various spaces, added an economizer to the HVAC system, adjusted the coefficient of performance (COP) for the DX Coil Heating based on data in the document, adjusted thermal efficiency for the electric boiler based on data in the document, and adjusted the layout of Mini Split A and B, with corresponding COP.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we continued working on the SAP model to incorporate all the three levels in a single SAP file to create an integrated structural model for analysis. The combining process is currently at ⅔ of the overall, where the fourth level isn’t combined with the other two yet.

Another task started was the code (ASCE7-16) guidance of the seismic analysis. We researched the parameters needed for preliminary analysis and plan to calculate related values next week. You can see some of this work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Structure

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 18th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka edited the structure of the ‘types of flooring descriptions’ by converting the paragraph form into description, key features, and pros/cons. We’d say this brings this tutorial to 98% complete.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Material

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 5th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to fill out the window information chart. His primary focus was on glazing options and energy star ratings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Research on the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was more work on final formatting and additions covering info on harvesting and lack of inspections. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with this research.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued Researching Rabbits on our Behind-the-Scenes

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was finishing the steps for the siding of chicken door side wall (East), framing the chicken door and getting details for sliding door installation, and starting the siding instructions for the Nesting Box wall (South).

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Working on the Open Source Chicken Coop Instructions

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 12th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao searched on the fire resisting construction of the straw bale walls and the wood structure. Per the 1-hour fire rating requirement, Zebao updated the structure plan by increasing the exposed wood elements dimensions.

According to the building code and ASTM E119, the flat straw bale stack without metal mesh will provide enough fire resistance of 1 hour. In addition, Zebao added more construction details indicating the section details of ceiling, roof, and overhead construction.

With the continuous thermal insulation surrounding the whole building, the building will have better energy performance and will save on maintenance costs in the long term. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 70% complete.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to create the updated and further developed colored plans and diagrams shown below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Created, Updated and Further Developed Colored Plans

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei updated the plant selection research based on the project location, discussed the concept plan and programs location with Xiaolu, and updated the SketchUp model.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Working on Ultimate Classroom Playground and others

AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY MODEL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing an open source sustainability model 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 23rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed problems from last week.

Now the commas will be back after we changed them in CVS files, the orders and task’s ID are working properly, a popup will display for users to see how to import tasks from the CVS, a bug was fixed to remove double quotation marks when adding tasks, he made the software default to Status “Not Started”, removed the need to input a date when adding new tasks, and other minor bug fixes.

There are problems with update functions and performance that still need to be fixed next week. You can see some of this work below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 16th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro worked on “Using Prettier and ESLint to produce better code” documentation for the HGN development team, mainly understanding the difference between prettier and ESlint, if they should work together, and how to configure them.

He also started talking with Yiqi to coordinate her work in continuing Tengxiao;s work on the timer features. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

Worked on “Using Prettier and ESLint to Produce Better Code” Document for HGN Development Team

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen’s major progress is that the front end talks to the back end – a milestone. Front end fetches data from the badge collection in the database. “Real” badges can be displayed. Some bugs at the back end were also fixed. You can see some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress below.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 12th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. He finished his promotion to educators and began promotion to media outlets. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and screenshots of the overview and press release he is sharing.

An Open Source Sustainability Model–Finished Promoting to Educators & Began Promotion to Media

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the remaining changes and actions in the “User Management” list page. The paused filter has been added in the search filter so that the admin can filter the paused users only.

The corresponding changes have been done in the REST Api as well. An action was also been given to the status column so that clicking on the status icon will ask for a confirmation and change the status of the user. You can see some of this work below.

Completed the Remaining Changes and Actions in the “user Management” List Page

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam started week five by continuing to work on bugs and web app aesthetics dealing with module 1.4, the user profile. Adam fixed the privacy settings feature for email, phone number and blue squares.

Adam also disabled the ability for users to add resource links, and only allowed social media links to be added and deleted. Admins currently have the ability to add and delete resource & social media links. Adam created a custom modal that allows admins to file blue squares manually (blue squares are infringements done by users).

The modal contains two fields, one for the date the infringement was made, and the second, a summary of the infringement. Currently access to add blue squares are allowed by all roles, next week, Adam will work to make blue squares limited to admins, and other users will only be able to see blue squares. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued to Work on Bugs and Web App Aesthetics Dealing With Module 1.4, the User Profile

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) joined the Highest Good Network software team and completed her 1st week. This week Yiqi read the project instruction and got familiar with HGN tools. She also set up her local development environment (Node.js, ESLint, Prettier, etc) and discussed with Tengxiao and Alvaro how to take over development of the timer functionality.

An Open Source Sustainability Model – Joined HGN Software Team, Read the Instruction

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community is creating an open source blueprint for ecological living. It includes open source and sustainable approaches for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

When the plans are complete, we’ll use them to build the first teacher/demonstration hub to check our work, add video and other media elements, and begin the global replication process.

• 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 5th, 2020 edition (#380) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for Ecological Living
One Community Progress Update #380

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

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A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological 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 finished the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) video walkthrough edits and additions to produce the video below.

The core team also began a detailed review of work and research completed to date on hydropower and began adding more details to finish this tutorial so it is ready for publication on the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Review of Work and Research to Date on Hydropower

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #192 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adding and working to perfect the grass and bush additions shown in front of the window here.

This seems like a small thing but the grass alone took over 6 hours of work to get right.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Working to Perfect Grass & Bush Additions in Front of the Windows

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also finished the 3rd draft of editing and preparing the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide for web publication. You can see some screenshots of the feedback before integration and some of what the newly edited page looked like after.

We’d say this page is now 85% complete. 

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 7th week as a member of the team. This week Angela finished the final research needed for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page by researching paper businesses and various paper products that a small business could produce.

She also began research for sustainable lightbulb company ranking. So far, she has identified several brands and is browsing their websites for information about how sustainable they are. In addition to this, she added to her plastic recycling tutorial by looking at how plastic can be converted into oil and exploring options for creating plastic bottle schools and other buildings.

 You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 9th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to work on the Excavation for Footer and Foundation page and writing the content for 3-dome and 6-dome Clusters. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 3rd week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi researched on landfills, incinerators and plasma gasification options for community processing of non recyclable products.

She was able to find some implementations of these processes as well. You can see some pictures below of this research and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 10% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Landfills, Incinerators and Plasma Gasification Options

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological 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 the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we updated the design days by updating the ddy file from the EnergyPlus website, updated the Occupancy under People Definition based on the measurements listed in that file, updated and verified the lighting definitions, with units converted, updated the freezer’s rate in Electrical Equipment Definitions, and updated the construction sets to the corresponding space types.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy

And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we used access to the previous SAP model of the structure to review the current model with assigned material, section details and the end release conditions. With last week’s calculated snow load, different load combinations were performed to visualize the stress in the supporting columns.

The current challenge of the SAP model is to integrate the four floors in the same model in order to calculate the seismic reactions of the structure as a whole. Therefore, next week’s emphasis is on finding out the approach for this integrated SAP model. You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Working on Duplicable City Center Structure

This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 17th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka updated the pictures to royalty free ones and edited the 2 benchmarking spreadsheets from a rough version to a formal one, for linking in the main document. We’d say this brings this tutorial to 94% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 33rd week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was completion of draft one of the walkthrough by adding the remaining people needed, adjusting the walkthrough path, and fixing textures.

You can see some of this work below and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 80% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 4th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week This week Ian finished an initial determination of sustainability rankings for companies and began filling out an information spreadsheet for window products. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological 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 also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was working on final formatting and additions and restoring some lost content.  You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with this research.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Researching Rabbits – Click for Page

The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was updating all the images on pages 35-72 after updating the screening. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions

Continued Working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan; Created new Vegan Meals

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological 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.

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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 82nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the 2nd render for the central area that will be used for plays and other events.

He redid the security coverings for the classrooms and curtains and backdrop, darkened the room, updated the lighted area, and added the first people to the scene.

Continued Helping With Render Additions & Finishing Work for the Rooms in the Ultimate Classroom

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer)  completed her 11th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao continued to analyze the structure system to support the attic storage area and roof. With the design dimensions, Zebao also double-checked the critical beam design with a large load applied to it.

The result shows the dimension is enough for strength design. With the final design result and code requirements in IBC, Zebao updated the structural layout plans for the ceiling plan, roof plan, and the section. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 60% complete.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Ultimate Classroom Structure

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used photoshop to make new colored plans and diagrams, completed a view analysis, and then converted these plans into digital plans in AutoCAD. You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom.

This week Shuwei did research about the plant selection suitable for the general children play area, found precedent projects related to sustainable landscape design, analyzed design strategies for stormwater management, and created the summaries and presentations shown below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Playground, Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

A BLUEPRINT FOR ECOLOGICAL LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing and sharing a blueprint for ecological 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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 22nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed major bugs after we imported the WBS from CVS. There are still some minor bugs for right now but they will be easy to fix. He also added a function in the backend to find the users in the resources and link them to the user page.

The task of this week was especially challenging for Henry because he needed to re-designed some structure of the wbs and change algorithms to make the import data work with our database. You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Fixed Major Bugs After We Imported the WBS From CVS

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 15th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro continued the code review of Tengxiao’s timer component and researched how to make sure installation of plugins happened during the local environment set up.

This is so Tengxiao could verify the airbnb code style conventions compliance of his pull request. This would also clean up the formatting noise of future pull requests for a faster code review in the Highest Good Network development team.

This has been a complex topic for Alvaro since he had to learn how different development tools work behind the scenes to start understanding what was going on and how others in the team could make sure Linting tools are working in their development environments. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below. 

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen helped with code review, cleared some google doc comments/questions, and continued with her focus on the badge functionality, testing code on her local machine. You can see some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 11th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview he shares.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Promoting Our Project Page to Supporters of the Venus Project

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon’s work mainly involved helping out with pull request reviews for others. That involved review and testing as well as related discussions on Slack, approval and merge of WBS4.2.6/Delete_User pull request.

He also implemented a new feature and submitted a pull request WBS# 4.2.4 for the HGNRest (backend), this feature will automatically reactivate a user based on the scheduled date. Towards the end of the week Andon started working on designing the unit testing for the Weekly Summaries Report component. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Worked on Helping Out With Pull Request Reviews for Others

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the Delete functionality changes. This will allow the administrator to delete a user with three options 1) Delete forever 2) Make them inactive 3) Delete user and archive data.

Upon clicking the delete button in the user management grid a popup will display with these three options. They have also added a new column in the user management grid which displays the resume date for the paused users. The team also introduced a default sort for the user management grid in the descending order of the created date so that the latest users will be listed on top.

You can see some of this work below.

A Blueprint for Ecological Living – Completed the Delete Functionality Changes

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam completed half of 1.4.8, profile blue squares visibility and added the ability for users to delete their own links. Viewability privacy for phone, email, blue squares is still in the works.

Adam also worked on creating a more minimal profile design and layout. Next week Adam will be working towards completing the privacy layer of user profiles as well as the overall overhaul of the look and feel of the profile. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Completed Half of 1.4.8, Blue Squares Visibility, Added the Ability for Users to Delete Their Own Links

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