One Community welcomes Angela Mao to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A high school student from Long Island, New York, Angela has always had an interest in sustainability and the environment. She has been a member of her school’s speech and debate team and DECA team for 3 years. She is also an active member of the Sierra Club and enjoys volunteering at beach cleanups and the Alley Pond Environmental Center. Passionate about researching a sustainable lifestyle for herself and for others, and wanting to have a positive impact on the planet, Angela believes that a balance can be struck between the environment, businesses, and our lifestyles. As a member of the One Community team, Angela helped write the complete clothing/textile tutorial, edit and finish the paper and plastic recycling tutorials, and is now researching the most sustainable bulbs, bulb companies, and other related sustainability topics.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANGELA!

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Building open source sustainable communities is possible just like building anything else open source. One Community is doing this for “The Highest Good of All.” Step one is finishing the open source designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices. Step two is confirm everything is correct as we use them to build the initial teacher/demonstration community. Step three is hosting visitors and supporting others for global replication as we continue to build the additional open source village models.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 28th, 2020 edition (#379) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Open Source Sustainable Communities
One Community Progress Update #379

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 how it relates to building open source sustainable communities: 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 created version 1 of the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) video walkthrough. This included recording and editing the audio, minor video edits, and adding the first round of transition elements, labels, and effect. You can see some of this work in progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Created Version 1 of the Earthbag Village Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #191 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was developing the ground texture and variability around the domes. See below for pictures on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities

Developed the Ground Texture and Variability Around the Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 8th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. this week Ashwini began working on the excavation, footers and foundation research and content updates. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 2nd week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi This week Pallavi began researching Pyrolysis and Gasification options for community processing of non-recyclable waste products. You can see pictures of some of this initial research below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 4% complete.

Pyrolysis and Gasification Options for Community Processing of Non-recyclable Waste Products

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team began a 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 SketchUp files to the latest so the OpenStudio Plugins can be correctly extended, updated the proposed wall construction to R-37 (previously R-36), and updated the glazing materials and construction sets with more easy-to-follow names. You can see below some of this work-in-progress on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Began a Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis – Click for Page

And the core team began working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we reviewed the current models of the structure in the AutoCAD drawings, worked on importing the CAD files to SAP2000 with adjusted scale and selected structural members, and reviewed the load design in ASCE 7-16 and calculated the required snow load with the guidance of the code specifications. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Began Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 32nd week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding in the central area and cupola sections of the structure, fixing textures, and adding a diversity of additional people and objects throughout all areas. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 25% complete.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough – Click for Page

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 3rd week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian finished initial examination of products from all listed companies. He also performed supplemental research on weatherstripping and began plotting company sustainability rankings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Finished Initial Examination of Products From All Listed Companies – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 on building open source sustainable communities: 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 phase 1 of developing the open source permaculture design content by wrapping up the Case Study section with the final rollout details for each component. Next step for this is independent review and revisions by an experience permaculture designer joining our team next week.

Wrapped Up the Case Study Section With the Final Rollout Details for Each Component – Click for Page

The core team also continued researching rabbits. This week’s focus was taking info from 21 different rabbit articles and adding the best of what we learned to the developing research Google Doc. You can see some of this below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued Researching Rabbits – Click for Page

And 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 resizing images, checking/correcting spelling of the whole document, updating pages 58 and 59, adding pages 61-66, and adding missing Step 10 on pages 32-34. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Open Source Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 22nd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on multiple new exhaust and intake layouts for the climate battery. These were needed to address conflicts with the internal layouts of the structures. You can see some of the proposed designs being discussed below and on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Worked on Multiple New Exhaust and Intake Layouts for the Climate Battery – Click for Page

And 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 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they created and tested recipes for Greek Root Veggies, Veggie Scrap Vegetable Stock, and French-Style Onion Soup for the vegan recipe pages. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Created and Tested Recipes for Greek Root Veggies, Veggie Scrap Vegetable Stock – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 and on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities: 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 10th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao analyzed the structure with new dimensions and spacings. The columns, lateral beams and girders were designed with PSL rectangular shapes in minimum required sizes. Straw bales were designed as thermal insulation layers attached to the wood structure. The details of straw bales attached to the wood columns and wood frame walls were designed to match the architectural design and construction. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 45% complete.

Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details: Analyzed Structure – Click for Page

Xiaolu Song (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 Xiaolu started the first step of the ultimate classroom outdoor landscape architecture design by completing a basic site condition plan, bubble diagram, and iconic reference image analysis. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building open source sustainable communities 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 and on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities: 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 21st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry developed a function to import One Community Work Breakdown Structures from Excel. This is a challenging task because the structure of the Excel file is different. The display for the start and end day was also fixed, so now you can add an empty day. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Function to Import One Community Work Breakdown Structures From Excel – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 14th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro reviewed Tengxiao’s pull request and added comments to his code. He also started to document the questions he got during the reviewing process so other reviewers have a guide for making reviewing easier in the future, especially if they are new to the process. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s behind-the-scenes work below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities. 

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. This week Wen researched on the implementation of a cron job and learned how the cron job for the blue squares is built. She has been creating and testing a new cron job for badges – a script running automatically at a specified time we set to check the criteria and assign badges. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below on how it relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Cron Job and Learned How the Cron Job for the Blue Squares is Built – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 10th 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 and on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click for Page

Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon came very close to completing the work for the WBS #1.6.7. He created a way for an Admin to run a weekly report of all the users’ summaries for the current week, last week or the week before last.

He made the “Weekly Summaries Report” page and menu only available to admins. On that page an admin can now also generate PDF versions of the report so they can be downloaded for offline viewing. Andon also did review and testing for a WBS # 4.2.4 pull request in HGNApp (Pause or resume option in user management) and had it merged with the “development” branch. You can see screenshots of some of this work below on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

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

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the additional changes for Pause functionality by implementing a popup to choose the reactivation date upon pause. They also completed the delete-user functionality so now, upon clicking the delete button on the user grid, a new popup will be shown so the Administrator can choose the delete options (Delete forever, Archive or Inactive) from the popup.

Along with these, a generic protected route React component has been created with generic role-based restrictions and the same is merged to the development branch so that everyone can use this. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

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

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam completed module subsection 1.4.3, allowing users to create a professional job title for themselves on their profile. In order for Adam to complete the 1.4.3 he needed to familiarize himself with Node.js as he developed his module. With helpful guidance by Andon, Adam was able to update the database schema to contain user job titles, which allowed the front end to push and pull said data appropriately.

Adam also added a reminder overlay on the user profile, any time the user made a change to their profile a message would appear reminding them to save their profile. Adam wrapped up his week with comprehension of the Node.js DB and looking over issue 1.4.6, nearing completion. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to building open source sustainable communities.

Completed Module Subsection 1.4.3, Allowing Users to Create a Professional Job Title – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Zebao Chen to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Zebao is a structural designer who graduated with double majors in architecture and civil engineering in structural engineering. She had two years experience as a teaching assistant in structural courses during graduate school, and has worked on offices, schools, residentials and renovations projects in architecture firms. She is familiar with building anatomy, construction details and structural planning. As a member of the One Community team, Zebao is helping develop the roof structure of the Ultimate Classroom.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ZEBAO!

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One Community welcomes Andon Ignatov to the Highest Good Network Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A graduate from Carleton University with B.Sc. in Computer Mathematics, Andon has acquired over 12 years of experience working with various web technologies. He has worked as a consultant for the Canadian Government as well as numerous private sector projects. He also built a business creating and offering WordPress themes, with one of his most successful premium WordPress themes purchased and used by over 50,000 websites worldwide. As a member of the One Community team, Andon is helping develop the React.js version of the Highest Good Network Software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ANDON!

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Sustainable global change is possible if enough people want it. One Community sees the path to accomplishing this as making such change easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. We’re designing and will build the first DIY-replicable teacher/demonstration hub to start the process. Over 400 volunteers have contributed to the open source and free-shared plans we’re developing. These plans cover sustainable 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.

• 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 June 21st, 2020 edition (#378) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Global Change
One Community Progress Update #378

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about how this relates to sustainable global change: 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 work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was a 2nd-person review and edits to identify final changes and additions needed to finish the tutorial. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change and this brings us to 98% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial.

Continued Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also finished the second 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 what the edited page looked like after. We’d say this page is now 70% complete. See below for pictures on how this relates to sustainable global change

“Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot Guide” for Web Publication – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 7th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued research and updates to the spreadsheet for all the materials, tools and equipment required for the construction of Earthbag Village and Tropical Atrium. This included updating all the costs and links to purchase the items. You can see some of this sustainable global change work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) joined the team and completed her 1st week researching on sustainable global change and how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi began writing the introduction for this tutorial and completed research on 3 different models which were using sustainable options for non-recyclables and were using recycled materials in construction. You can see some of the results of this research below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 2% complete.

How to Sustainably Manage and Process Non-recyclable Waste – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function related to sustainable global change: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we fixed the Dining Dome window frames, missing second floor railing, and inside dome color, Living Dome window frames, and inside color of the dome, the Central Area window frames in all domes, added the waterfall shown below and rearranged the furniture, and updated the Social Dome window frames, removed parts sticking out from the walls, and updated the inside color of the dome. You can see some of these updates on how this relates to sustainable global change below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 15th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka finished all the research and integration of all feedback to produce the final draft of this tutorial, submitting it for final review and preparation for addition to the website. The pages shown below were reviewed and approved for publication and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 90% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough and completed his 31st week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was fixing textures and adding a diversity of people to all the structures. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change and we’d say creation of this walkthrough video is now 10% complete.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) also completed his 2nd week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to look into the product lines of the top window and door production companies. So far he has completed notes for 2 of them. He paid special attention to the merits of fiberglass vs steel and aluminum as component materials. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the sustainable global change 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 developing the open source permaculture design content realted to sustainable global change. This week we completed subsection Observation And Research By Component within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study Section, which included mind maps, phased roll out details, conscious application of and thought to permaculture ethics and principles now and always, a list of observational focuses once on the property, and a summarized sector analysis and zones.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 30th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad helped with the climate battery designs including: Finalizing annotations for the floor plans and site, exporting 2D drawings, reviewed the climate battery design to detect clashes between the climate battery design and architectural, structural, and plumbing models. He also prepared the outline for the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below on how this relates to sustainable global change and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/walipini Engineering Details – Click for Page

And 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) joined the team and completed their first week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week they created behind-the-scenes recipes for Channa Saag Rice and Garden Veggie Stir Fry recipes for the Vegan Rice Recipes page, and Bolognese-Style Pasta for the Vegan Pasta Recipes page. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing sustainable global change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 on how this relates to sustainable global change: 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 81st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he helped with selection and addition of new room security for when this structure is used for after-hours events related to and not related to the school. You can see these additions covering the rooms here in view #2 of the central area showing this space being set up for a theater presentation.

Render Additions and Finishing Work for the Rooms in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao Chen finished the schematic drawings including the floor plan, ceiling plan, roof plan, section, and elevations. The updated plans reflected the new structure layout, room layout, and furniture layout. Zebao also worked on the elevations. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 35% complete.

Floor Plan, Ceiling Plan, Roof Plan, Section, and Elevations – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview on how it relates to sustainable global change: 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 20th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added an edit function that lets users edit the task after they create them. The edit function will update the task with new information and also update their parent tasks. The challenge for this task is to work on both front-end and back-end (API).

There are some bugs that need to be fixed to remove members from task. It is also still missing the loading bar that lets the user know all information is updating. Additionally, we still have a problem with the re-order functions that make drag and drop inconsistent. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to sustainable global change.

Added an Edit Function That Lets Users Edit the Task After They Create Them – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 13th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro started to review some code pull requests, one related to a version bump in a software tool we are using inside the webapp and another one from a peer volunteer developer. During these reviews he also added additional content in the Workflow and Github documentation to improve related internal processes. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to sustainable global change. 

Code Pull Requests and Added Content in the Workflow and Github Documentation – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 9th 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 and how this relates to sustainable global change.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon implemented a new API endpoint in the HGNRest API that can be used to request reports and emails for weekly summaries. He also did some file and variable renaming so things are more semantic and easier to understand. Andon also refactored and improved the function that generates the emails of all users weekly summaries, included in the weekly summaries auto-email how many valid summaries have been submitted by each individual up to that point, and helped out with the review and testing of WBS #: 4.2.1 (new pull request).

He then finished off the week by working in the HGNApp (frontend) to add a new page “Weekly Summaries Report” which will be used by administrators to generate summaries’ reports for the past three weeks of all users. You can see screenshots of some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Implemented a New API Endpoint in the HGNRest API – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the code review comments implementation and unit testing of the user management component. The pull request has been completed and merged to the development branch. They also completed version 1 of the WBS item 4.2.4 pause or resume (deactivate/activate a user) functionality so that the admin can pause or resume a user by clicking the Pause or Resume button in the user management table. You can see some of this work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

Code Review Comments Implementation and Unit Testing – Click for Page

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam continued to work towards fixing and moving towards completion of WBS 1.4. Starting with profile pictures, the user (when uploading a photo) will either successfully upload a photo, meeting HGN max file size, or encounter a photo upload error. The photo error is a custom modal that prompts the user with why the error occurred, and options to resolve the issue. Adam finished the week by completing WBS uploading user photos (1.4.1) & altering username (1.4.2). You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to sustainable global change.

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

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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 open sourcing renewable eco-collaboratives. We are doing this to build the first of 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. We see doing this so they are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own as a path to global sustainability within our lifetime.

• 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 June 14th, 2020 edition (#377) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Renewable Eco-collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #377

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

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 renewable eco-collaboratives: 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 work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week’s focus was adding in all the needed video notations for the videos we’ll be adding during construction, final formatting and organization, final content additions, and then submitting it for final review and feedback by another member of our team. You can see some of this work below and this brings us to 95% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial.

Continued Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 6th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week Ashwini completed the calculation of quantities for the domes and continued to integrate all the Items in Master Table, cross checking everything on the material list. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 6th week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela officially wrapped up her clothing recycling tutorial by putting all the resources into Dropbox. After working on it and researching the whole week, she is almost also now complete with her additions to the plastic recycling business tutorial and her paper recycling business tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work for our renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options; Wrapping up Tutorial – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 for our renewable eco-collaboratives: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details, for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week’s focus was the cupola and central area. We added missing dirt catchers and water fountains, reversed the opening direction for the laundry door from the court, placed lounge chairs and tables in the court area, replaced sliding door to folding door between Dining Dome and central area, placed washers and dryers in the laundry room.

We also reversed direction of the laundry room door to the Dining Dome, placed tables and chairs on the 2nd floor next to the Dining Dome and Social Dome, placed tables with lounge chairs outside the cupola activity room, and updated all the furniture inside the cupola activity room. You can see some of these updates below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 13th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week, Radhieka modified the ranking and hence the content based on a new ranking methodology focused more on products. The score was also modified in the benchmarking sheet, adding and reducing points based on sustainability of product offerings.

Finally two rankings were created – one with focus on products (the main one) and the other with the uniform benchmarking (given in the FAQs). She also modified the FAQ as well to explain this modified process of ranking. Furthermore, she has added a glossary for all certifications mentioned in the doc along with some key terms used as part of FAQ. You can see some of this work-in-progress for our renewable eco-collaboratives below, and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 83% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. – Click for Page

And Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) began working on the Duplicable City Center 3D walkthrough in our renewable eco-collaboratives, and completed his 30th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was combining the 3 domes, adding plants and other outdoor details, updating textures, and running the initial test renders shown below.

Began Working on the Duplicable City Center 3D Walkthrough – Click for Page

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) also joined the team and started research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide to establish renewable eco-collaboratives. He selected 9 companies and took notes on how well they met sustainability criteria. Ian also started looking into the sustainable options in the inventories of each company. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 on renewable eco-collaboratives: 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 developing the open source permaculture design content to establish renewable eco-collaboratives. This week we completed the first draft of the Observation and Research by Component subsections within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study Section, which included mind maps, phased roll out details, conscious application of and thought to permaculture ethics and principles now and always, and a list of observational focuses once on the property. The observational focuses part was the newest and most time consuming and is shown below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 29th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details for our renewable eco-collaboratives. This week he continued preparing the 2D construction drawings by further remodeling the structures’ side walls, modifying the topography, side walls, and site concrete floor according to the new design, updated the site drawing annotations, and started the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 on Renewable Eco-collaboratives: 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 80th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he began work on view #2 of the central area showing this space being set up for a theater presentation. This week’s work included removing the items that won’t be present during a presentation like this and adding in the test curtain and lighting shown below.

Began Work on View #2 of the Central Area of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details to establish renewable eco-collaboratives. This week Zebao updated the structural elements layout to match the roof shape. In order to remove the central columns in the opening space, she also changed the design to three bays of columns instead of two. To match the rafters layout, the roof shape was further adjusted.

Theses changes increased the storage space in the attic and now the ventilation ducts, which are located in the ceiling, can exhaust through the openings on two sides of the attic. Rafter design and analysis was then done again and showed the triangular shape of rafter with two columns supporting can resist the combined load applied on the roof (and the ceiling storage load if needed to attach to the roof). You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 25% complete.

Updated the Structural Elements Layout to Match the Roof Shape – Click for Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is helping establish renewable eco-collaboratives 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 on our renewable eco-collaboratives: 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 19th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao added pop-up alerts in order to remind users of time logging before they log out or leave the page. A bug in the TimeEntryForm was fixed. He also added a 2-day buffer for the token expiration to avoid failure (especially timer related operations) when the user is working. The token lifetime on the backend side is 10 days. But the frontend will force the user to re-login to acquire a new token. You can see some of this work-in-progress to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Added Pop-up Alerts in Order to Remind Users of Time Logging – Click for Highest Good Network

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 19th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added an automatically refresh function to update the interface after we have a new task or delete a task. He also implemented a big change for the resources so that the parent resources are now updated by the children tasks, and all members of the children will display on their parents. You can see some of this work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 12th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and web design team. This week Alvaro researched redux principles for react file structuring and finished the first draft of editing and preparing “the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide” for web publication. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below. 

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 8th 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 this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Continued to Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon started the week fixing some bugs and formatting the blue square notification emails and messages. Then he implemented a weekly summary auto-report email function that can be used to send out email to admins with the weekly summaries for a particular week for all active users.

He also added a cron job that runs the weekly summary auto-email once the week ends. Andon finished the week by doing some code review for the WBS #: 4.2.1 pull request. He also added a rule to fill in the blank field before submitting a new task. You can see screenshots of some of this work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

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

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh & the TEKtalent team completed the user management list page and related filter and search options. All users will be listed in this page and administrators can apply filters by Name, role, email and weekly committed hours. Also it is now possible to filter the list based on active or inactive users. Additionally, there is now a wildcard search option which can be used to search any value in the list. You can see some of this work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

User Management List Page and Related Filter and Search Options – Click for Highest Good Network

And Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam completed the on-boarding process, got the app running locally, and began reviewing the React code base. Adam discussed the design pattern of the React App with the team and brought up shifting the project into a Ducks design pattern. Further discussion is required with the team in order for a design pattern to be established after the initial phase. Phase 1 of the React App project will focus on functions and getting the application working.

Phase 2 will be refactoring the code base for future development, phase 2 still needs further discussion. Once Adam was done understanding the components code base, he continued to develop and test the user profile. Currently Adam is working uploading pictures for a profile picture. Images that are too large cause an error after confirming that the size is too large. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work to establish renewable eco-collaboratives below.

Got the App Running Locally, and Began Reviewing the React Code Base – Click for Page

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

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INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW       ●       LOCATION       ●       FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE    ●     WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP     ●     MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

Open source eco-village design has the potential to launch a new paradigm of individual and large-scale DIY-sustainable living. One Community is focused on building the first large-scale open source, 100% replicable, teacher/demonstration hub dedicated to this. Our 100% volunteer team is developing the plans necessary for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 7th, 2020 edition (#376) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Eco-village Design
One Community Progress Update #376

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

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village design 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 the open source eco-village design: 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 work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was editing the Factors Affecting Site Selection, surveying, leveling, supplying power details, etc. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 90% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial for the open source eco-village design.

Continued Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #190 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was filling in and texturing the area around the hot tub for the open source eco-village design.

Focused on Filling in and Texturing the Area Around the Hot Tub – Click for Earthbag Village

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough for the open source eco-village design, and completed his 29th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding more racial diversity to the complete village walkthrough and then re-rendering it. You can see below some examples of the diversity the video now contains.

Earthbag Village Walkthrough; Adding More Racial Diversity – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 5th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. Ashwini has been working extensively on the specifics of the earth domes to calculate the quantities and generate a detailed Bill of Quantities that is linked to a master table for materials and equipment. She also worked on figuring out the coefficients for labor and material for Unit quantities, so that the Unit price could be re-used for similar projects/activities. You can see some of this work-in-progress for the open source eco-village design below.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 5th week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela finished editing her clothing recycling tutorial and reformatted it. She then began writing her business section for paper recycling and looking through Etsy for product ideas. She also did a lot of reading on paper recycling processes and began looking into plastic recycling ideas. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work for the open source eco-village design below.

Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options; Completing 1st Draft of Tutorial – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village design 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 for our open source eco-village design: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week for the Living Dome we designed the stone table, table and 2 chairs and sun-chair for the sundeck and updated the dome exterior color. For the Social Dome we updated the dome exterior color and added the one missing dirt catcher. For the Dining Dome we added dirt catchers, made changes to the dome exterior color, and remodeled the kitchen food preparation tables around new window location. You can see some of these updates below on our open source eco-village design.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 12th week researching the This week Radhieka worked on resolving concerns about accurately ranking sustainability-focused companies that produce unsustainable products. She also continued formatting the final company left in the list and reordering and editing content. After this, she worked on further proof-reading all the 8 kinds of flooring and added a short reasoning for each ranking. You can see some of this work-in-progress below for our open source eco-village design, and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 80% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village design 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 in our open source eco-village design: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content for the open source eco-village design. The mind maps were edited further for content and formatting consistency. All the permaculture ethics and principles tables were updated for consistency and the food and energy infrastructure content was further improved. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 28th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details for the open source eco-village design. This week he continued preparing the 2D construction drawings by remodeling the structure entryways. He then modified the topography, side walls, and site concrete floor according to the new design. He also updated the related site-drawing annotations. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 95% complete with the structural details for our open source eco-village design.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 21st week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali updated his preliminary climate battery design and pipe layers and layout specifics to match the updated structure designs. You can see some of these updated designs for our open source eco-village design below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village design 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 of our open source eco-village design: 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) also completed her 7th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details for the open source eco-village design. This week Zebao updated the structure system to reduce the beam span of failing members. She also tried to keep the central space as open as possible for community events. Zebao used shorter beams for the central span and added columns at the perimeter to help reduce the load concentration to the interior columns and beams. She ran the structural analysis and figured out the dimensions of each element.

The most critical beams are the middle rafters that span across the central space. Zebao also further checked these elements and added a tension bracing to help the rafter stability. The results show that the analysis of wood members of 3 2×6 beams would work under the dead load, snow load, live load, wind speed of 100 mph, etc. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 20% complete.

Updated the Structure System to Reduce the Beam Span of Failing Members – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating open source eco-village design 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 for the open source eco-village design: 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 18th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao integrated the Timer component with the TimeEntryForm. When a user stops the timer, a time entry form modal will now open. The date and time fields will also be auto-filled and disabled.

If the user successfully submits the time entry, the timer will be reset to 0 and the app will redirect to the timelog page to show the new time entry. If the user decides to log the time later and close the modal, the timer will be paused instead of resetting to 0. The TinyMCE editor was also changed from self-hosted to cloud deployment and all the self-hosted library files were removed from our code base. You can see some of this work-in-progress for our open source eco-village design below.

Integrated the Timer Component With the Timeentryform – Click for Highest Good Network

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 18th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added rules to create a task and also added suggestions to help the user create a task faster. He additionally developed automatic functions that update the parent tasks after any changing of subtasks. They are Priority, Start and End dates, and Assigned. The real time will be updated but it is currently a lower priority because we can manually refresh the page. You can see some of this work for our open source eco-village design below .

Added Suggestions to Help the User Create a Task Faster – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 11th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and web design team for the open source eco-village design. This week Alvaro started to review Andon’s code related to submission of the weekly HGN summary. He read through most of it and made some suggestions for improvements in the design of the webapp and this functionality. He also further improved the documentation. Separately, he worked on data gathering on the complete web page design process and submitted a report covering possible automation opportunities. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below. 

Code Related to Submission of the Weekly Highest Good Network Summary – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 7th week helping promote One Community, and the open source eco-village design. 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 promoted our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers, and various supporters of The Venus Project. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon worked on assigning blue squares for weekly summary infringements. This had to be implemented within the existing code that assigns blue squares for time not met. He updated the proper cron job functions that run weekly at the end of each week to now run checks for the weekly summary submitted for that week.

Andon also updated infringement messages that are stored in the database as well as included in emails so they are now representative of whether weekly summary or time not met or both caused the assignment of blue square for that week. He also added one extra piece of information to the notification emails to now include the total number of blue squares that a user has been assigned. You can see screenshots of some of this work for our open source eco-village design below.

Worked on Assigning Blue Squares for Weekly Summary Infringements – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also joined the team and completed their 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week the TEKtalent team, led by their senior programmer Nithesh, completed the orientation, document checklist and the local dev setup of the react app. They also started the development of the user management page, the link was added and the basic grid for listing the users has been built. You can see some of this work for our open source eco-village design below.

Orientation, Document Checklist and the Local Dev Setup of the React App – Click for Page

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Raising planetary sustainability consciousness is necessary if we want to create global sustainability. Showing people how sustainability can improve their lives, health, and happiness while reducing the cost of living is one way to accomplish this. One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans to build and share teacher/demonstration hubs that will do this for “The Highest Good of All.”

• 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 May 31st, 2020 edition (#375) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Raising Planetary Sustainability Consciousness
One Community Progress Update #375

DONATE  |  COLLABORATE  |  HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 on raising planetary sustainability consciousness: 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 work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was editing the Step-by-step Process section. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 80% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Edited The Step-by-step Process Section – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #189 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was textures and minor edits to the hot tub area and french door. See pictures below on how this relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping With Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Design – Click for Earthbag Village

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 28th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding a diversity of plants and rocks and redoing the flyover and walkthrough video showing one dome, then a 3-dome cluster, then a 6-dome cluster, and finishing with a fly through and over the complete village. He also created a new video featuring a fly by a single dome, then a 3-dome cluster, a 6-dome cluster, and then a complete village. You can see some screenshots of some of this work below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Earthbag Village Walkthrough; Plants and Rocks and Redoing the Flyover – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 4th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini worked on establishing the center point for a 3-dome cluster, recalculation and checking for accuracy, and working on the quantities as per the drawings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 4th week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela completed her 1st draft of the clothing recycling tutorial. This included adding various DIY recycling products that one person or a community could duplicate and possibly resell for a profit, edited the tutorial, and adding in videos and graphics. She then began research on paper recycling methods and potential business opportunities for paper. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options; Completing 1st Draft of Tutorial – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. This week we mainly worked on the Dining Dome. Work completed included merging the latest dome structure, basement design, bathroom design, under-stairs storage, appliances, first floor furniture, second floor with all furniture, update color of the window frames, update color of the dome and inside walls, reset the texture of the concrete of the first floor, and adding the tiled columns feature. Pictures of some of this are below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 11th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week she worked on formatting the content to match existing tutorials, editing and polishing it further. The introduction was especially edited to emphasize more on the need for this research, while adding some statistical figures.

Radhieka also added an introduction before the ranking to explain the idea behind the ranking. While formatting the company rankings, she worked on editing the content there as well and worked on some of the pre-existing comments. This included further research into some aspects and rearranging the attributes based on importance for the first 4 companies. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 70% complete. See work below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 developing the open source permaculture design content on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. All mind maps have been developed and some have been finalized. The phased rollout table was transposed, as well as made for individual components for easier sharing and reading. All tables have been formulated on how each component takes into consideration permaculture ethics and principles. A list has been started for each infrastructure component of observation aspects that serve as a guide to conscientiously observe and learn from once on the property. The Energy Infrastructure section within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study was restructured and improved too. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 27th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he started preparing construction documents and 2D drawings including the site plan, level 1 architectural plan (ground level), level 2 architectural plan (recreation level), roof architectural plan, roof structural framing plan, structural foundation & columns plan, water supply plumbing plan, drainage & ventilation plumbing plan, sections, elevations, and 3D views. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 94% complete with the structural details. See work below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. : 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 79th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished view #1 of the central area showing this space before setup for a theater presentation. Final additions included more items on the shelving, new and additional people, shadows, and the outdoor scene through the windows. See picture below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued View of the Central Area That Will Show Area Being Used for Theater – Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details for raising planetary sustainability consciousness. This week Zebao updated the structure design to remove the skylight and add storage in the attic. The dimensions were updated to match the code requirements per building code in California.

Zebao has designed the structure to avoid columns in the middle of the public space, which would benefit the community to plan flexible events and activities during the school beaks. She did the analysis to design individual structural elements and found out that 4 of the roof rafters, which were designed as beams, cannot resist the loads. This result will require shorter spans or more columns within the space. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 15% complete.

Updated the Structure Design to Remove the Skylight and Add Storage in the Attic – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. : 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao connected the Timer component with the backend APIs and MongoDB database. He created Redux actions and reducers to manage the state of the timer component. When opening the page, the timer will now load with the exact time at which the timer was paused. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Connected the Timer Component With the Backend APIs and MongoDB Database – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 17th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry developed the ability for the app to renumber tasks after we deleted a task. He also made an algorithm to update hours of the parent tasks and grandparent tasks, so all tasks will be updated every time we add or remove a task. He also implemented a little change in the WBS structure so that the first task will start with 1 instead of zero now. You can see some of this work below relating to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Developed the Ability for the App to Renumber Tasks After We Deleted a Task – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued working on the badges. As badges are a new collection, she needs to play with the database. Her free trial of Studio 3T (GUI for the MongoBD database, where she can add or modify data) just expired, so she started using Compass this week instead. Her focus was working on the backend, adding logic for getting badges, posting a new badge, and assigning badges. For the frontend, some styling was done according to the latest approved mockup. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below relating to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 10th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and web design team. This week Alvaro did some mock up ideation for the HGN leaderboard, continued working on the checklist to review new One Community web pages, and reviewed the new content added to the open source sustainable parking lots behind-the-scenes Google Doc. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below that works on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. 

Highest Good Network Software Team and Web Design Team – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 6th 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 promoted our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers, and various supporters of The Venus Project. He also created the first draft of a 12-page One Community overview that he will be sharing with media outlets. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview below that work on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon moved his work mainly in the backend section (HGNRest). He did more research into the existing HGNRest codebase related to assigning blue squares, sending auto-emails out and cron jobs.

He also worked on implementing the weekly summary tabs content in the backend (HGNRest) so now the tabs content is automatically shifted once the week ends each Saturday at midnight (PST) so the new week starts with a blank summary. Then Andon modified the weekly summary and countdown timer components to now use PST time as initially it was implemented using local time. You can see screenshots of some of this work below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Highest Good Network Software; Mainly in the Backend Section – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Wen Zhang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Wen earned her M.S. in Accounting with a specialization in Management Information Systems from University of Delaware, and B.S. in Economics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Before being a Developer, she was a CPA and worked in Public Accounting and Corporate Finance for over 4 years. In 2018, Wen completed the Software Engineering program at Fullstack Academy, and has been working in Software Development since then. She is passionate about Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and FinTech. While not coding, Wen loves yoga and travel. As a member of the Software Development team at One Community, Wen is helping build the badge and awards functionalities for the React version of Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM WEN!

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One Community is creating a new sustainability path with open source and sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will teach people DIY-replicable models for eco-living. The plans we are developing cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 24th, 2020 edition (#374) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Sustainability Path
One Community Progress Update #374

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 us creating a new sustainability path: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models in creating a new sustainability path: 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 wrote and timed the script for the Earthbag Village walkthrough village we’ve been working on in creating a new sustainability path. You can see the script below. We’ve requested more racial diversity in the people in the video and then we’ll finalize the script and add it to the video along with music and other graphics.

Wrote and Timed the Script for the Earthbag Village Walkthrough Village – Click for Page

The core team also resumed work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was editing the What, Why and Factors sections. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 30% complete with this tutorial.

Resumed Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #188 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was trim textures.

Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Design Focusing on Trim Textures – Click for Earthbag Village

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 3rd week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials in creating a new sustainability path. This week Ashwini worked on developing the BOQ further and writing the specification for the same, also evaluating the Material tables and updating the links and prices. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 in creating a new sustainability path: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we placed art work on the wall, corrected/removed tree leaves in the ball room walls, designed area rugs for in front of the 2nd-floor windows, set second floor textures, redid the second-floor furniture placement, corrected the placement of pool and all plants, remade the opening in the dome wall for the pool door, rearranged the artistic butterflies, and added seating around the supporting posts that look like trees. Pictures of all of this works in creating a new sustainability path are below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 10th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka worked on writing the FAQs for the research document, referring to existing ones along with adding new questions relevant to the document. This was done in line with the formatting needed for the final output. You can see some of this work-in-progress of creating a new sustainability path below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 60% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 in creating a new sustainability path: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing with creating a new sustainability path: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This last week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week the first round of mind maps were developed for the Energy, Housing, Education, and Economics Infrastructure component which will be included under Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work in creating a new sustainability path below.

Mind Maps for the Energy, Housing, Education, and Economics Infrastructure – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 26th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details in creating a new sustainability path. This week he added circulations pumps to the Zenapini 1 & 2 piping network, modified the back-wall pipe height to be lower than the overflow pipe by 1”, created an exploded 3D model and modified it to include the steel connections and catch basins, exported the updated models to CAD, and started the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 93% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 of creating a new sustainability path: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together in creating a new sustainability path: 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 78th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom that are creating a new sustainability path. This week he continued developing the view of the central area that will show this area being used before and after for theater. What you see here is version 2 of this render with the newest additions being more items on the shelving and the addition of various people.

Continued View of the Central Area That Will Show Area Being Used for Theater – Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao updated the floor plan to add windows in individual toilet rooms for natural light and ventilation. Before the analysis of structural elements behaviors, Zebao also did research on the building code to design the structure layout and location . Zebao has reviewed the design requirements for wood structures, nonbearing walls, ceiling frame, and roof frame.

Zebao has additionally reviewed the load combination, live load, dead load, and load factors to design individual structural elements. You can see some of this work of creating a new sustainability path below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 10% complete.

Updated the Floor Plan to Add Windows in Individual Toilet Rooms – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 in creating a new sustainability path: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing in creating a new sustainability path: 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 in creating a new sustainability path: The Highest Good Network

This week Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao designed the MongoDB schema and implemented the backend APIs for the timer component in creating a new sustainability path. One API can update the timer record or create the record if it doesn’t exist (called when interacting with the timer: start, pause and stop). The other can fetch the timer record from the database (called when loading the timer component). You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Designed the MongoDB Schema and Implemented the Backend APIs – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen created 3 versions of mockups for the badge section in creating a new sustainability path. Badge controllers are a work in progress and the coding work was mainly at the backend. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below.

Created 3 Versions of Mockups for the Badge Section – Click for Highest Good Network

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 9th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro started to research Design languages like material design that could be applied to HGNapp, he also researched prototyping tools like invision, and learned a little bit more about Progressive Web Pages and how we could benefit from this for creating a new sustainability path. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below. 

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 5th 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 for creating a new sustainability path. This week he promoted our project and the One Community helping page to philanthropists, educators, and engineering schools. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon continued with the frontend Weekly Summary component to add new features and improvements. As part of this he converted the form notifications to now use react-toastify, made the Media Files URL a required field, experimented with implementing the weekly summary section as a modal and shared a screenshot of that on Slack with the team, added a consent checkbox for the Media Files URL, so the user is reminded to provide the required media files upon submission.

He also added tooltips to the form so more info can be provided for each field on the spot, keeping it more informative and transparent, added tabs to the component so the last three weeks of summaries can be accessed, where each week’s content is in its own tab, and implemented a Countdown Timer component to be used in the Due Date/Time box to indicate how much time has left until time is up to submit the weekly summary report. You can see screenshots of some of this work below for creating a new sustainability path.

Add New Features and Improvements – Click for Highest Good Network

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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