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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.

One Community Welcomes Alvaro Hernández to the Highest Good Software and Web Design Team!

Posted on May 10, 2020 by One Community Hs

One Community welcomes Alvaro Hernández to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Alvaro has over 8 years of Tech Entrepreneurship experience with most of that time in social projects. He has provided consultancy services to a variety of businesses about the selection and implementation of open source technology in their processes. He shares the vision and the values of One Community and is committed to help at least 1 million people to achieve the life of their dreams, until now the best path he has found to attain this is a comprehensive demonstration of a Resource Based Economy. Recreationally, Alvaro enjoys dancing and prides himself in being an exceptional self-learner. As a member of the One Community team, Alvaro is on the path to becoming a One Community Pioneer and helping to develop the Highest Good Network and open source web tutorials.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ALVARO!

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Conservation Collaboratives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Jim Zhang

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One Community is building the foundation for conservation collaboratives. These will form a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate and evolve sustainable environments integrating ecological and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Doing this so they are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own is 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 May 10th, 2020 edition (#372) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conservation Collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #372

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation 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: Conservation 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 in the effort of conservation collaboratives began creation of the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options open source guide. This week we set up the initial formatting, created and tested the table of contents links, and created the header and social media graphics. We’d say this brings this page to about 30% complete.

Began Creation of Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Open Source Guide, conservation collaboratives

Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off! In her 1st week back she focused on conservation collaboratives and reviewing and adding content to the Sustainable Site Selection page she’d previously worked on, researching various Earthbag constructions all over the world, and working on developing a standard format for a Master Table for the entire Earthbag Village list of Materials, Tools and Equipment, Cost Analysis and Bill of Quantities. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Earthbag Village, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Master Table for the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #186 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the new stairway design. This new design saves materials, allows for better views from the dining room, conservation collaboratives, and fixes a head clearance issue.

Earthbag Village, 4 dome cluster designs, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on conservation collaboratives and the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 26th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding more bushes and greenery where requested, putting the Lion King back on the TV in one of the shots, fixing multiple shelving objects, adding more shelving objects, fixing a couple places where the walkthrough went partially through a wall, removing a leftover TV mount, and creating a final flyover video of the complete village. You can see some screenshots of some of this work below.

Earthbag Village walkthrough, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 23rd week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi worked on finishing a 1st proper draft of the paper and styrofoam waste processing tutorials. See below for screenshots of the work he completed. His research brought the following conclusions to be reached: DIY compost and DIY insulation blocks are the best recycling methodologies for paper and polystyrene respectively. The reasons behind these choices were the low labor, inexpensive, conservation collaboratives, and sustainable aspects of each of these processes.

Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 2nd week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela started researching textile recycling options for more rural areas, which encounter different obstacles when it comes to implementing an effective recycling program. Angela also began researching and developing a guide to starting one’s own for-profit textile recycling business. After doing all of that research, Angela has completed most of her tutorial and is now focusing on refining and editing it. You can see some of this conservation collaboratives behind-the-scenes work below.

researching Clothing Recycling, Repurposing Options, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Continued Researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation 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: conservation collaboratives-Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued on conservation collaboratives updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we continued with elements within the Social Dome. As part of this we designed the triangular tables and leather sitting chairs for the main room, moved the bathroom wall, added the water fountains, added one more urinal, added the frame for the bathroom mirror, added wood area under the bathroom sinks and redesigned the sinks themselves, and updated the window frames. Pictures of all of this are below.

Duplicable City Center 3D model, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation 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: 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 researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit food, water, conservation collaboratives, and exercise details.

Rabbits, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Rabbit Food, Water, and Exercise Details, and Added to the Google Doc – Click for Rabbits Page

The core team also continued developing the conservation collaboratives open source permaculture design content. This week various iterations were made to produce mind maps to condense and make more visual and organized the text within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study, beginning with the Food infrastructure. Coogle was selected as the mind mapping tool after looking into several open source options. The free version of Coogle was the most straightforward in terms of ease of use and intuitiveness and was able to make hyperlinks in the same format as those on the current website. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

open source, permaculture design, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

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

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 24th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he researched steel mesh ceiling products and calculated the required quantity, collected references for the structural analysis and started the structural analysis for the structures, finished the structural design for all structures, calculated the proper sheet size for the structures to minimize waste (6’ SolaWrap sheets for the small structures and 5’ SolaWrap sheets for the large structures) and continued editing/updating the property topo. You can see some of this conservation collaboratives work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with the structural details.

Aquapini:Walipini engineering details, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation 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: Conservation 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 76th week helping with conservation collaboratives render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished this view of the main area looking South by fixing shadows and lighting levels and adding objects and people. You can see the final render below and it is now on the website too.

Ultimate Classroom, South, final, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

Finished View of the Main Area Looking South – Click to Visit Ultimate Classroom

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the conservation collaboratives Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao added options for a service area layout, including toilet rooms, sinks, drinking fountains, a storage room, a janitor room, and extra shelves. We tried a symmetric toilet layout but it won’t work for our building length. There is no space for circulation and other service rooms. The adjustable layout has toilets and storage rooms on two sides of the middle hallway, and keeps the back door in the middle of the building. Another consideration is the floor under the sink could be wet, especially children using more frequently.

To keep the floor dry and separate it from the main circulation area, a third option was proposed with toilet rooms and sinks in an enclosed space and the main building space accessible from the back door directly, instead of passing the sink area. Zebao also verified the roof space is enough for having HVAC ducts and storage in the ceiling. The storage area is 400 square ft. For the shallow roof slope, the roof system will only use straw bales as membrane material, not the structure elements. You can see some of this conservation collaboratives work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 5% complete.

Continued Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation 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: Conservation 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 Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 3rd week helping promote our project, conservation collaboratives, and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders. 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 it. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

One Community helping page, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

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

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 7th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and made significant contributions to conservation collaboratives. This week Alvaro documented the leaderboard component on HGN Functional Specification Documentation, made some very basic unit tests to the leaderboard component (WBS 1.2), contributed to the development workflow and github, and updated the style of some of the software documentation docs to match the One Community Software Documentation Design Guide and Template. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Conservation Collaboratives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #372

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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 15th week with the team and working on conservation collaboratives and the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs on the drag and drop function to move tasks on the Work Breakdown Structure. Now users can drag tasks to re-order them and all the children task’s ID will be updated once a task is moved. He also added a function to display a long list of resources by using an expand button to view more people if the task has more than 2 people who are working on it. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed Bugs on the Drag and Drop Function – Click for Highest Good Network Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao continued work on the Timer component. He researched best practice for MongoDB data modeling and came up with two options: (a) embed the timer data in the userProfile collection or (b) create a separate collection for timer data. Reasons for (a): Timer data is always loaded together with user profile data when opening the app.

They are both one-user-to-one-xxx relationship and can be queried by user ID. Embedding makes reads faster. Reasons for (b): Timer data is updated frequently while user profile data isn’t. Separate collection would avoid frequent updates to userprofile collections and makes writes faster. This also wouldn’t make any change to the current user profile data model. He also added auto-linking functionality. You can see some of this conservation collaboratives work-in-progress below.

Continued Work on the Timer Component of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) joined the team and completed his first week working on conservation collaboratives and the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon began the work on WBS #1.6 by first going over all the documentation, initial local development environment setup, updating the “HGN Functional Specification Documentation”, creating a mockup of the Weekly Summary section (WBS 1.6) and then began coding the UI component based on the mockup. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Completed His First Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community Welcomes Radhieka Nagpal to the Research Team!

Posted on May 9, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Radhieka Nagpal to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Radhieka has over a year of experience working in tech consulting for one of the Big 4 firms and has received several awards during her tenure. While professionally rewarding, her passion for sustainability and its potential to have a positive impact on the environment, economy and human lives led her to exploring career opportunities as a climate change consultant. Radhieka wishes to utilize and promote the existence of sustainable alternatives to help reduce the global carbon footprint, especially by large scale industries. In the future, she wishes to be in a position to advise governments and organizations on the best sustainable practices. As a member of the One Community team, Radhieka is following her passion and desire to help reduce the global carbon footprint by helping develop the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. tutorial, a tutorial with in-depth research on dramatically reducing our carbon footprint.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RADHIEKA!

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Global Regeneration – One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Posted on May 3, 2020 by Jim Zhang

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Global regeneration has never been needed more. One Community is creating open source plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and teach people how to accomplish it. These plans include sustainable and DIY-replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. When combined, they will demonstrate an example of what we call living and creating 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 3rd, 2020 edition (#371) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Regeneration
One Community Progress Update #371

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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:
  - Global Regeneration-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 Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on global regeneration with the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 25th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was fixing a glitch where a person vanished and another suddenly appeared, adding more trees, shrubs, and other greenery throughout the village, removing a TV so we can show one room without it, and adding and removing various objects on the shelves within the domes. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Earthbag Village walkthrough, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 22nd week with the team and continued research for global regeneration with the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi cleaned up the 4 material processing tutorials formatting and made sure the references were all listed in order. He also conducted further research to determine the best practices for One Community’s plan to tackle recycling of each of these materials. Lastly, Oluyomi completed a table comparing roadway material options for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page.

Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, Repurposing Options tutorials, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials – Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed her 1st week as a member of the team. This week Angela began the contribution to global regeneration by researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. First, she researched brands that use recycled textiles and/or incorporated sustainable practices. Then she began exploring options for individual consumers. These included donating to thrift stores and various options offered by large municipalities that recycle clothing.

Clothing Recycling:Repurposing Options, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Began Researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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:
  - Global Regeneration-Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued the work with global regeneration by updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we focused on elements within the Social Dome. This included updating the floor design by adding the N-E-S-W, designed the four-panel glass door, updated the dome opening for the four-panels door, updated the railing to a bamboo texture, updated pool border to match the stone planters, designed the wall bench between the two doors, designed the entry door dirt catchment track, and created and placed four sofas and 5 sets of 2 chairs and tables. Pictures of all of this are below.

Duplicable City Center 3D model, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

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

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 6th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro continued with development of global regeneration with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. He revised the page layout, proposed improvements to the collaboration process, and continued updating the content and logging the related time measurements. Related to this, Alvaro also got his Highest Good Network software local development environment running. This is the time and materials tracking software we’re developing and he suggested minor changes to the setup guide and began dashboard unit tests. You can see a combination of these two areas of work below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Continued With Development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 8th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started benchmarking the types of flooring to better assign ranks to them. She researched the manufacturing process and installation processes to evaluate the carbon footprint for each and also added important updates to the descriptions. She did this for Cork, Linoleum, Bamboo, Tile, Concrete, and Carpet. She slightly updated the introduction as well. You can see some of this work-in-progress for global regeneration below.

Most Sustainable Building Materials, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished researching on global regeneration with if we need to be concerned about CO₂ levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures. What we found was some truly fascinating research about how excessive CO2 affects nutritional value of plants, which has been known and suspected within the plant research community for sometime. A more detailed summary can now be found in the FAQ sections of the Aquapini and Walipini page and the Highest Good food page.

CO2 levels in the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Global-Regeneration, One-Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Finished Researching Possible Concern About Co2 Levels in the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design content relate to global regeneration. This week the Phased Rollout Table was completed. Text was also completed for the Stewardship Infrastructure within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

permaculture design, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

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

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 23rd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he finished the small structure’s roof and exterior shell structural members by choosing 10X49 Wide Flange main beams, 10X49 Wide Flange columns, 5X3X3/16 Hollow Structural Section wall and roof supports, and 6X25 Wide Flange secondary beams.

He also chose loam as the berm soil behind the structures based on angle of repose of 40ᵒ, finished the topo around the small structures in the south, continued modeling the large structures roof and exterior shell, and continued editing the topo behind the back and side walls. You can see some of this global regeneration work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 88% complete with the structural details.

Aquapini:Walipini engineering, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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: Global Regeneration-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 75th week helping with global regeneration and render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on the yellow room by adding the final objects to the shelving. This room is represents the subject of Math and various empowering character traits and the final render can now be found on the website.

Ultimate Classroom, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Finished Render Work on the Yellow Room of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on global regeneration and the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao checked the critical state building code, 2019 California Building Code for minimum plumbing number and occupancy load. Based on the new requirement and function, she updated the floor plan. The new floor plan kept the furniture layout, maintained adequate storage spaces, utilized natural roof ventilation, skylights, and built operable partitions between classrooms. Interior corners in the classrooms were updated to perpendicular or larger than 90 degrees, which allows for a more flexible furniture layout for different owners. It is also optional to adjust the outline of the floor plan closer to a circular shape.

For the use of community recreation or other events, a potential kitchen was also designed for consideration as part of the floor plan. Zebao additionally analyzed the heating and cooling ventilation in terms of global regeneration within the building on building sections. According to the products research, the operable partitions can use tracks in the ceiling, avoiding tracks on the floor, which would be easier for maintenance.

To operate the roof skylight, the product with solar power and remote control is also built with the rain sensor to close automatically in bad weather. She also updated the structure form to match the new building form. You can see some of this global regeneration work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 3% complete.

Ultimate Classroom, structural engineering, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Continued Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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: Global Regeneration-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 Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 2nd week helping promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing and global regeneration, and just offered to help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in it. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

One Community helping page, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 14th week with the team and working on global regeneration and the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry focused on how to reorder tasks. He changed the move up and down function for reordering the tasks to much more user friendly drag and drop option. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Regeneration, One Community Weekly Progress Update #371

Continued Work on Highest Good Network Software Focusing on How to Reorder Tasks – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen designed and improved the Dashboard layout. For the backend, two more fields were added to the badge collection and a boolean type for “featured” was used to avoid duplicate data. For the frontend, time was mostly spent on the Reactstrap library (Card, Layout, etc) and CSS work, plus some component restructuring and reassigning. Some screenshots of Wen’s global regeneration work-in-progress are below.

Designed and Improved the Dashboard Layout on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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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.

Creating a Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Jim Zhang

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Creating a sustainable world is possible if enough people want it. One Community sees the path to accomplishing this as making sustainability 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.

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, one of the important step in creating a sustainable world. This is the April 26th, 2020 edition (#370) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #370

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CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about: Creating a Sustainable World-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 modeled a ceiling-mounted TV option for the Earthbag Village domes. This exact setup is already in use by one of our members and will save space for residents interested in a TV up to 65″. The ceiling mounted TV is lowered by remote and has an adjustable angle for optimized viewing from the bed, as shown below. Cost of the hardware is less than $70. This option helped us to make one step further in creating a sustainable world.

creating a sustainable world, modeled a ceiling-mounted TV option, Earthbag Village domes, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Modeled a Ceiling-mounted TV Option for the Earthbag Village Domes – Click to Visit

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 24 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding in the TV the core team modeled, creating a new dome view showing use of the fold-down table and benches, adding more objects to the bedrooms, removing the ladder in the student’s/visitor dome option, and updating the walkthrough to focus on additional requested views. You can see some screenshots of this below.

creating a sustainable world, Earthbag Village walkthrough, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 21st week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi worked on the glass, plastic and paper waste processing sections. A major discovery during his work is the possibility to transform waste plastic into Fuel through a process known as Pyrolysis, which contributed in creating a sustainable world. The following additional details were added to the tutorials:

Glass: Shredding glass to add to cement for construction
Plastic: Shredding to use for construction and other applications
Paper: Shredding to make papercrete and insulation
Styrofoam: Melting to form compacted blocks to sell

Our research continued and you can see some of the related work-in-progress in the picture below.

Best Recycling tutorials, Best Reuse tutorials, Best Repurposing Options, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials – Click for Page

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about this building and it’s function: Creating a Sustainable World-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 remodeled the door and began work on the furniture and polished concreted floor art in the Social Dome, which is one step further in creating a sustainable world. You can see some of these updates below.

Duplicable City Center 3D model, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Continued Updating City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 5th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro continued with development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page, which contributed in creating a sustainable world. Alvaro also finished the reviewing and refining process needed before publishing. This process included the optimization of images for the web pages, reviewing all the content created by the researcher, formatting updates to match existing web tutorials, initial publishing for feedback, and recording the time it took for each micro task to create data to see where time could be saved during the implementation of the various improvements. You can see some of this work below.

Sustainable Roadways, Sustainable Walkways, Sustainable Landscaping, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Continued With Development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began researching if we need to be concerned about CO₂ levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures. The questions we’re trying to answer are whether or not we have a CO₂ deficiency in these closed-loop structures and/or if CO₂ supplementation would be a good idea, the answers are essential in creating a sustainable world. You can see some of the results of this behind-the-scenes research below.

researching CO2 levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Began Researching Co2 Levels in the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 22nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he went through several redesigns and remodeling of the structure roof and exterior shell, changed columns and wall height, designed and modeled new roof supports and beams, designed and modeled new wall supports, modified the topo based on the new designs, performed a sun study for the new design, and calculated the angle of repose for the property soil type to berm behind structures’ back walls, which are significant contributions to creating a sustainable world. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 84% complete with the structural details.

Aquapini:Walipini engineering details, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

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

Ali Ghahremannezhad (M echanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 20th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures, an important element in creating a sustainable world. This week Ali worked on the Preliminary climate battery design and the general layout of the pipe layers. He also worked on the thermal properties of SolaWrap to replace a double layer SolaWrap in the previous simulations. He additionally continued to work on 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah using SolaWrap as the ceiling material for the greenhouse. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

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

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 74th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room that covers the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 9th round of additions to this room and the continued focus was adding learning books, tools, toys, and now “math objects” to the shelving on the left and right. With his latest additions, we’d say this room is now 99% complete and closer to creating a sustainable world.

Ultimate Classroom, yellow room, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Continued Work on the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room; Adding Books, Tools, and Toys

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week she reviewed the building code of Utah state, checked the minimum design requirements, and reduced the restrooms to 3 toilets. This will reduce construction material, energy consumption, and the budget. She also started to design the roof structure, provided 3 options and developed one of them. The updated design uses more repeated dimensions and elements to simplify the construction. Zebao then started to build the analysis model in 3D software to decide the critical elements for future design. We’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 1% complete.

Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Joined the Team and Began Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team wrote the content for the Phased Rollout sections of the Permaculture Design Case Study section covering Society and Stewardship. This content will be used to complete these sections on the Phased Rollout Table and in creating a sustainable world. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Permaculture Design Case Study, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Wrote the Content for the Phased Rollout Section Covering Society and Stewardship – Click for Page

The core team also finished comprehensive updates to all three of our pages for funders. This included the Building a Better World page, Location Essentials page, and the Funding Options pages. Updates in creating a sustainable world included simplification, reviewing and editing the information to match the latest Business Plan details, adding links to our Business Plan, and creating new social media images for all three pages. You can see some of these details below.

finished funding updates, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Finished Comprehensive Updates to All Three of Our Pages for Funders – Click for Funding Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) also joined the team and had made great contributions in creating a sustainable world to help promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders.

promoting our project, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Joined the Team to Help Promote Our Project – Click for Our Helping Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software, and had made one step further in creating a sustainable world. This week Tengxiao worked on the “Notes” field of the TimeEntryForm. The placeholder and error message was modified and he successfully integrated the TinyMCEEditor as the rich text editor, so users will be able to apply a diversity of formats to the notes. This was able to be done using the same rich text editor as used in the (current) Ember app by integrating it locally without the API-key and access to TinyCloud.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #370

Worked on the “Notes” Field of the TimeEntryForm – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) additionally completed his 13th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software, and had made one step further in creating a sustainable world. This week Henry changed the workflow and interface of WBS to be more user-friendly. He added tag colors to group tasks starting with the same WBS’s ID, drop downs to have a dynamic view of tasks, auto generated WBS’s ID to avoid mistakes, the estimated hours to now be calculated by the times we input in the other fields, and the toolbar will keep track of the task a person is working on. You can see some of this work below.

Changed the Workflow and Interface of WBS to Be More User-friendly – Click for Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 12th week as a member of the volunteer team working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Blue Square Functionality on the mobile app. Now the user will see stars in blue color and the number of infringements will determine the number of stars with 5 being the highest. Siddharth also created an Admin section which would be visible only for an Admin and will let the Admin access all projects and all users. Siddharth also fixed a bug on the Modal which sometimes prevented the user confirmation appearing for tasks like Delete Project and Remove Project Member. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Blue Square Functionality on the Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen added the badge model in the database. Problems with the database left from last week were successfully solved this week. Wen did some research on CronJob, which will be used to check the criteria and assign badges. The Blue Square (vs Badges & Blue Badges) name issue took some time to figure out – digging into Sentry’s log and Shubhra’s legacy code on deleting the Blue Square. Now Wen moves on to improving the UI of the badge section and dashboard layout, another important element in creating a sustainable world. Some screenshots of her work-in-progress are below.

Added the Badge Model in the Database – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

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Global Caretaking – One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Posted on April 19, 2020 by Sneka Vetriappan

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Conscious and conscientious global caretaking is possible. This planet is the only one we have to live on, it is our one shared home. One Community is helping to make it a sustainable planet and home through open source and sustainable 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that answers why global caretaking is important. 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 that explains why global caretaking is important. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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 April 19th, 2020 edition (#369) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining why global caretaking is important:

Global Caretaking
One Community Progress Update #369

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

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

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #186 of Dean’s work and the focus was trying to create a circular stairway to the rooftop patio that used minimal resources, had sufficient head clearance, and could be DIY-replicated. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Earthbag Village, 4-dome Cluster Designs, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Continued Working on Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 20th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week, Oluyomi completed the first drafts of the glass, paper and plastic waste processing tutorials. After analyzing the cost, labor and feasibility of the different methodologies for the materials, the following plans are in the lead for recycling those materials:

Glass: Shredding then mixing with construction materials
Paper: Making papercrete and forming shredded paper compost
Plastic: Shredding then selling to plastic manufacturers or forming new products that are useful to our communities using an extrusion machine

Our research continued and you can see some of the related work-in-progress in the picture below.

Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Click for Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 23 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding a look into the loft storage during the walkthrough, changing out some of the people, adding more objects to the various views, and updating the side tables in the Couple’s Domes to be the ones we’ll actually build. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Earthbag Village, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

One Community is global caretaking 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. This week we updated the first floor Living Dome’s bathroom walls, door openings, and toilets. We also updated the Living Dome room example to add a sofa, updated closet, and floor, and rebuilt the second floor bathrooms walls to match first floor. You can see some of these updates below.

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Global Caretaking – Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center 3D File – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 4th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro switched his focus to working on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. As his work on this will be a process that will be repeated several times in the future, he is taking the time to measure the time it takes of every task during the process. The goal is to create a formatting guide for the researchers, look for ways to improve the web page creation process, and define a checklist to use to improve and streamline the complete creation and review process. You can see some of this work below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Began Working on the Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

One Community is global caretaking 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 Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 21st week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he continued working on the steel structure.

This included: searching the proper roof and cladding support system, selecting the structural system for the gardens in addition to the roof and cladding supporting system, designing two structural models to compare cost and efficiency, continued designing of the steel beams, steel columns, steel connections, and rafters, and replacing the conventional roof and cladding system with SolaWrap. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing about 80% complete with the structural details.

Aquapini:Walipini engineering details-Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

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

Ali Ghahremannezhad (M echanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 19th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the thermal properties of SolaWrap to replace the previous heat calculation with Solexx. Now we’re moving forward with a double layered SolaWrap in the ceilings as well as the walls. He also worked on the 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis considering SolaWrap as the material in the ceiling. And he worked on the preliminary climate battery design and the general layout of the pipe layers. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 73rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room, a room about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 8th round of additions to this room. The continued focus and final needed additions are adding learning books, tools, toys, and aids to the shelving on the left and right. With the latest additions, we’d say this room is now 95% complete.

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Global Caretaking – Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

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

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

This week the core team finished the Phased Rollout Table sections covering Economics and started it for Society too. Text was completed for Economics and started for Society within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study section after reviewing all material available on our website on the topics related to this. You can see some of this work below.

Permaculture, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Finished the Phased Rollout Table Sections – Click for Permaculture Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao modified the form validation for the TimeEntryForm component. The submit button is no longer disabled. Instead, errors are displayed for empty fields. He also refactored the code to make it more concise. The indigo, violet and purple color codes for the progress bar were also updated.

Highest Good Network software, Global Caretaking, One Community Weekly Progress Update #369

Global Caretaking – Form Validation for the Timeentryform Component – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) additionally completed his 12th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated new functions to add tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in the database. The profile picture will show up on the resources as a dropdown to show all members in the project for the user to select from. A calendar interface will be used to select the start and due date functions.

All information about a task can be stored in our mongoDB. Henry also realized last week’s method is not a good way to add WBS IDs because the dropdown will show a very long list when the WBS has many tasks. The new idea is to directly select a task on the task list, then add child tasks to it. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Updated New Functions to Add Tasks to the WBS – Click for HGN Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 11th week as a member of the volunteer team working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth fixed the bugs that occurred due to refactoring. Now the user can edit their first name, last name, email, phone number and job role. He also completed more refactoring to make the code cleaner. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Bugs That Occurred Due to Refactoring – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. Wen’s focus this week was working on the badge section. She created a mongoose collection for the badges and a skeleton of the React component. Code was added to both the frontend and backend. She had some difficulty with the database and will continue resolving the problem next week. Some screenshots of her work-in-progress are below.

Global Caretaking – Created a Mongoose Collection for the Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

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Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #368

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Sneka Vetriappan

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One Community is building an open source sustainability collaborative 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 to confirm everything we’ve designed is correct as we use them to build the initial teacher/demonstration community. Step three is hosting visitors and supporting global replication as we continue to build and open source our 6 additional village models. This is the April 12th, 2020 edition (#368) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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 April 12th, 2020 edition (#368) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining why building an open source sustainability collaborative is important

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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

This week the core team finished the Phased Rollout Table sections covering Housing and Education. We also roughly outlined the section for Economics. Rough notes for the text to be included within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study covering the topics of Education and Economics were also created. You can see some of this work below.

Housing, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Finished the Phased Rollout Table Sections Covering Housing and Education – Click for Housing Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #185 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was adding and adjusting the internal and external lighting sources. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Earthbag Village, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Earthbag Village 4 – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 19th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week Oluyomi started the plastic waste processing section. His research showed that there are multiple ways of using plastic bottles sustainably after original use. These include: water bottle sprinkler, watering can, water filter, and others. Alternate options include bird feeder, trash can, and bottle garden. See below for some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress.

Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorial – Click for Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 22 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding objects and updating the three internal dome views shown here.

Earthbag Village walkthrough, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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

This week the core team created and updated all the floor plan images on the Duplicable City Center main page and the plans download page. We also created a new DropBox structure for sharing huge click-to-enlarge files like these that will allow for easier download, comments on them, and faster website speeds.

floor plan images, the Duplicable City Center, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Created and Updated All the Floor Plan Images on the Duplicable City Center Main Page – Click to Visit

The core team also began updating the Duplicable City Center 3D file to match the updated floor plans. This week we updated the bathroom details. You can see some of these updates below and we’d say this brings the complete update to about 10%.

Duplicable City Center 3D-Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Began Updating the Duplicable City Center 3D File to Match the Updated Floor Plans – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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

This week the core team continued researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit raising articles. You can see some of our new content below.

Rabbits, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Click for Rabbits Page

This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 20th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he completed editing the Revit model to match the SketchUp model. The revit model now includes Floor Drains, a Drainage Network, Ventilation Pipes, a Water Supply Network, and Bell Siphons. Mohammad also completed the architecture and plumbing construction drawings (except for roofs), researched roof systems and Solexx roofing system, the property soil type for footing design, and started designing the structural system that includes isolated footings, steel columns, steel beams, and framing. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing about 75% complete with the structural details.

Aquapini:Walipini engineering details, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (M echanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 18th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued developing a simple-to-use thermal model to predict the temperature fluctuations of the walipini and aquapinis in different weather conditions and using different greenhouse materials. He also worked on reviewing material for roof and walls of the greenhouse including Solexx vs Polycarbonate and SolaWrap. The 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah were started using Solexx as the ceiling material for the greenhouse. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Aquapini/Walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 72nd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 7th round of additions and they focused on finding and adding more learning aids and books to the shelving. This brings this room to about 93% complete.

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Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room, Adding More Learning Aids – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

One Community is building an open source sustainability collaborative through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped fix a problem created by the latest WordPress update where large images were automatically compressed when adding them to the media browser. This meant we could no longer have click-to-enlarge images that would be really large and clear. Jin helped fix this problem and also created the alternative DropBox hosted solution discussed above in the City Center section above.

Helped fix a problem created by the latest WordPress update, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Helped Fix a Problem Created by the Latest WordPress Update – Click for Home Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented the form validation for the TimeEntryForm so the submit button is disabled until all the fields are filled (this will force everyone to fill in all the fields including the notes). It also checks whether the values are valid and display error messages. The date picker itself does a validation, so any invalid date is viewed as an empty field, disabling the submit button. You can see some screenshots of this functionality below.

Highest Good Network software, Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative, One Community Weekly Update #368

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Highest Good Network – Click for Page

Henry Ng (React Developer) completed his 11th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry made an interface for admins to add tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure. He tried many ways to make an interface that was easy to use and avoid mistakes such as adding the wrong WBS ID, adding wrong members to the WBS, etc.

Now the WBS ID is automatically created to avoid typing mistakes and searches for members before adding them to the data for making sure we select the right one. Another challenge was to arrange the data in a small area because we don’t want to make it too long like the Excel file. You can see some of this work below.

Interface for Admins to Add Tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure – Click for Highest Good Network

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 10th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Edit Profile Functionality for the mobile app. For that he wrote actions and reducers to handle logic and backend calls for the User Profile Data. You can see some of this work below.

Building an Open Source Sustainability Collaborative – Edit Profile Functionality – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen revised and finalized the documents according to the suggestions by other team members, and continued addressing questions and comments. Now the “badge” tasks begin! Wen spent the rest of the week thinking about the technical solutions based on all the requirements and trying to design the new database collections (tables and fields related to the badges), and researching and learning how to do mockups using Sketch.

Revised and Finalized the Documents – Click for Highest Good Network

And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 3rd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro continued working on the One Community Software Documentation Design Guide and Template so the documents related to HGN have more constancy and aesthetic appeal. You can see some of this work below.

One Community Software Documentation Design Guide and Template – Click for Page

SUMMARY – BUILDING AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY COLLABORATIVE

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

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One Community Welcomes Siddharth Gore to the Software Development Team!

Posted on April 11, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Siddharth Gore to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Siddharth completed his Masters from San Jose State University in Software Engineering. He has more than 5 years of work experience including companies like Nexient, N3N, Food Corporation Of India, and Accenture. In his free time, Siddharth enjoys playing Fifa, Call of Duty, chess, table tennis, and hiking. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network software team, Siddharth is helping revamp our Highest Good Network Web Portal and creating the iOS and Android versions of the software.

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One Community Welcomes Henry Nguyen to the Software Development Team!

Posted on April 11, 2020 by One Community

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

Having earned his BS in Computer Sciences and minored in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington, Henry is both a software developer and an artist. He also loves to work with communities, connecting and bringing people together. Born in Vietnam, Henry came to the US in 2013 and helped build a Vietnamese community in Seattle that grew to one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US. As a community builder he has also been a video maker, administrator, and a web developer. Henry feels software programming is the art of connecting people, so he has a passion for making software that can help people connect to each other. Henry joined the Highest Good Network team to be a part of a project that supports and connects people globally.

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