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Building Sustainable Eco-villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #453

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Open source building sustainable eco-villages is a path to making comprehensive sustainability accessible for anyone that wants it. One Community is creating the free-shared and DIY-replicable components needed for this. They include 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

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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 November 28th, 2021 edition (#453) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Sustainable Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #453

Building Sustainable Eco-villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #453

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BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages 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 followed up with DomeGaia regarding continued issues for collapsing aircrete. We started Frank on a new task, namely making the solar tutorial more user friendly, began conversations with experts to understand which stabilized earth mixes the Compression Team should test, and how to make sure appropriate clay is purchased. We also added an introduction to the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini design writeup, and created an outline.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #230 of Dean’s work and the focus was more lighting testing and adjustments. This last week three hours were spent working on how to show the light coming trhough the different colors of the bottle wall.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 71st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis added a wooden platform made from a 2 by 8 to the net-zero bathroom pump rendering. The purpose of the platform was to elevate the pump and make the swapping of the pump easier by having the platform removable to leave a gap between the pump and the floor. After completing this task, he began rendering images of the pump installation process.

The illustrations consisted of the step-by-step process and proper installation of accessories such as a digital pump control and a pressure gauge. These accessories will allow for monitoring and automatic control of the pump system. Next, the images will be added to the net-zero bathroom instructions/tutorial, along with descriptions and recommendations. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 22nd week helping building sustainable eco-villages throughwith the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela started off by reading through and going over all new comments left of the documents she had been working on, along with comments that were left on some DropBox files. Daniela incorporated new edits to the Earthbag Village Drainage Plan AutoCAD based on the comments Jae had mentioned and created new PDFs for the changes and wrote a small summary on the Earthbag Village pavement types for the Water Catchment Report.

As more comments came in for the Drainage plan, Daniela continued to make changes to the CAD. Once completed, Daniela tried multiple ways to export new PDFs onto different sized paper that would provide the best formatting. In addition, Daniela responded to various comments on the Aquapini and Walipini report and wrote new material for two sections, one of which required some research to confirm that the correct information was being provided, contributing to building sustainable eco-villages. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 18th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing, which helps in building sustainable eco-villages through. This week the Compression Testing Team made aircrete using recommended measurements provided by DomeGaia: 9.4 lbs cement, 0.7 gallons water, and foam to reach 4.5 gallons of overall aircrete.

In addition to this mix, the team created another set of aircrete using extra cement. Both batches of aircrete did not hold up and shrinkage was again observed. Then the team worked on creating a document showcasing all of the compression tests done from June to the present day, building sustainable eco-villages. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 4th week helping with web design, now focused on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week Becky started developing the staging version. This tutorial has 150 pages and a lot of headings and a huge table of contents. She met with Jae, which helped as he went over more efficient ways of formatting than what was used before. Becky will continue to build this page into the coming weeks helping building sustainable eco-villages. Pictures below are related to this work.

Karla Ulloa (Front end Developer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the open source Dome-Home Site Clearing, Preparation, and Maintenance staging page. This week Karla did on-boarding on Wednesday and previewed and reviewed the google docs for this page that was assigned to her. On Thursday she took the first steps to establishing the page by mimicking the layout that was requested. After properly placing the layout Karla began to add the desired functions, fonts and style. Friday was a continuation of applying all desired criteria to the page, contributing to building sustainable eco-villages. See below for pictures related to this work.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECO-VILLAGES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages 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 worked with 3D SketchUp for the City Center to provide detailed images with all dimensions and angles for the framing of the City Center dormer windows. This week we provided detailed images with all rotational angles in three different planes for the beam framing of the City Center dome structure so they can be used for the dormer designs. Detailed step-by-step instructions were provided for central, lower-right and upper-right beams. We also exported a 3D SketchUp model of the second floor beams as a TSL file, contributing to building sustainable eco-villages.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 29th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the finalization of the jet assembly and fittings. In order to find the best match for the City Center Spa Design, he researched the different kinds of jet fittings that were available and what benefits they each offered. Hydrotherapy jets are very beneficial but require significant plumbing, therefore the team decided to stick with a lower number of jet outlets with stronger streams.

The rotary fittings that were selected allow a blower to be incorporated into the system, and provide an adjustable nozzle to target an ideal spot for a user. This prioritizes the systems efficiency and the users experience to provide benefits for all. Next week, Luis will begin looking into control systems for the design and potentially develop code that will suit the functional needs of the system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 19th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, helping building sustainable eco-villages. This week, Venus made some changes to the roofs according to the latest update of the roof plans and her supervisor’s suggestions, had a zoom meeting with her supervisor about these roofs, and added the new roofs to the previous Revit file. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 13th week working on building sustainable eco-villages through Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she worked on updating the layout of storage shelves in the basement, the furniture in the Social Dome first floor, and the fountain in the swimming pool. Xuanji also cleaned up the walls and columns to export the floor plan pdf for review by the Core Team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on building sustainable eco-villages through Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished the SketchUp Model for the first-floor living dome, which included building up the walls according to the latest CAD drawings and placing the new rescaled doors.

However, after placing the second floor CAD drawings into the SU Model, Huiya found that many places on the first floor and the second floor did not match up. So she set up a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi, and they decided to modify the CAD drawings first, and then continue modeling after each floor was aligned correctly. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 8th week working on building sustainable eco-villages through Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to work on the SketchUp model to correct door sizes and add specialized door modeling. She remodeled the kitchen serving bar table in the Dining Dome according to the updated CAD file, as well as other kitchen appliances. Later in the meeting with the rest of the team, Yuxi discovered a few issues with placement of columns and walls through 3D modeling, thus requiring updates to the CAD file to deliver a more accurate plan. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Min Jung Koo (Industrial Designer) completed her 3rd week working on building sustainable eco-villages through Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week Min Jung began to build the basic beam structure in Rhino. It took some time due to the complex structure. She started on building the garble dormer on top of the beam structure on the CAD for the second floor. Min Jung continued with research on the most commonly used materials and structure of the garble dormer along with the windows. The pictures below relate to all of this.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building sustainable eco-villages 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 a comprehensive review and final edits on our Sheep research, consolidating some paragraphs for further clarity, addressing grammar and sentence structure issues, researching lamb and ewe costs, and discussion on overall approach to bringing everything together for web publication. Check out the pictures below related to this work.

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 60th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng finished updating the Aquapini and Walipini Design in AutoCAD and adding the notes for each element. She labeled the plant names and created multiple tabs, including the one with notes, a clean design version, and planting design only for team use. After completing the CAD drawing, she uploaded everything and shared them with the team. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs which helped building sustainable eco-villages. This week Frank worked on the summary document related to the Aquapini and Walipini HVAC designs. The methods of infiltration that are used on the Tropical Atrium were used to determine the infiltration energy calculations of the Aquapini and Walipini designs. He was also introduced to the System Advisor Model Program to help with solar design. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 10th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on developing the transitional kitchen menu design layout to ensure that the waste was minimal and so that the kitchen crew could perform all the duties necessary to cook for the volunteers every day and every meal. Brian also interviewed and brought on a new volunteer, contributing to building sustainable eco-villages. Below are some images related to this.

Jennifer Lee (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the open source Permaculture Design staging page. This week Jennifer worked on populating the first pages of the Open Source Permaculture webpage, contributing to building sustainable eco-villages. She worked on the table of contents, images, general body of text, fixed header formatting, and added anchor links to the new additions. See below for pictures related to this work.

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

BUILDING SUSTAINABLE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 18 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 27th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan worked on the building sustainable eco-villages through Health Insurance research. He continued to work on the conclusion of the narrative, which will outline the costs of health insurance, the importance of health insurance, medical emergency scenarios, and the cost savings analysis of opting for low-premium Bronze plans. Aidan has been double-checking and revising the details of the various plans that have been analyzed. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 16th week working on building sustainable eco-villages for our open source social media strategy helping build sustainable eco-villages through. This week focused on correcting 31 posters from week 15, using feedback and examples for corrections. She also started working on icons and looking for images for inspiration and layouts. Making different variations and eliminating the unsuccessful versions, working on colors, typography and layouts for those icons that were provided by email. Some of her latest meme creations are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week working on building sustainable eco-villages through Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah pushed her changes for form validation and switched her approach to debugging. After a couple weeks of trying to understand the fundamental logic of the streak badge and consulting someone with more experience, she still could not find a solution.

So this week, Hannah began re-writing the code. It is currently functional outside of the context of the userHelper (written in an isolated failed with mock data to begin with) but is not fully integrated into the main codebase. She will integrate and test it in the main code base this weekend and next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with building sustainable eco-villages through the Highest Good Network software. This week Navya looked into updating the New Max Personal Record Badge. She checked all the code for image url, how it is displaying, checking the CSS and communicating with Jae to determine the correct functional requirements. Jae helped Navya to understand exactly what was needed and she finished the first round of solving the issue. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 3rd week helping with building sustainable eco-villages through web design, this week focused mainly on the health insurance content on the staging web page. She revised the missing parts of the table of contents, finished the content and formatting of the page, added the reference section, and modified the tables and added them to the web page. Yuran also fixed some problems for the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kitan García (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with building sustainable eco-villages through Highest Good Network software. ‹â€¹This week, Kitan reviewed a PR from Navya and spent more time working on fixing the badges bug assigned to him. He was able to trace its source, but unable to actually fix the bug, due to some gaps in understanding with MongoDB and still needing to gain familiarity with schemas and how they fit into this project. Kitan also communicated on Slack for the best way to handle fixing the bug and found why it occurs. Pictures below are related to this work.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us create and update our Adwords campaigns for promoting the Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options and Most Sustainable Flooring Materials pages. See pics below related to this.

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One Community Welcomes Yuxi Lu to the Architecture Team!

Posted on November 28, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Yuxi Lu to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yuxi is a graduate of the MARCH and M.S. CEE Construction Management program at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With an interest in architecture-related disciplines, she also took a few urban planning classes and pursued a minor in landscape architecture. Her passion in architecture encouraged her to participate in student organizations to share and collaborate with others. The most recent event Yuxi was involved in was Illinois Solar Decathlon Build Competition that challenged students to build sustainable and innovative housing. During the process, she learned and developed more skills on Building Information Modeling, architectural documentation, and communication. As a member of the One Community team, Yuxi is helping the architecture team to update CAD architectural drawings, SketchUp model, and sections and elevations for the Duplicable City Center.

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One Community Welcomes Huiya Yang to the Architecture Team!

Posted on November 22, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Huiya Yang to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Huiya graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a dual degree in Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning. With one year of work experience and 8 years of academic experience, she is highly skilled in the preparation of detailed project designs, and the production of construction documents. Thinking of herself as an architect and urban planner, Huiya believes that she has an obligation to contribute her knowledge and passion to the sustainable development of society and the environment. As a member of the One Community team, Huiya is helping with design updates for the Duplicable City Center.

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One Community Welcomes Venus Abdollahi to the Architecture Team!

Posted on November 22, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Venus Abdollahi to the Architecture Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Venus is an architectural designer with several years of experience in different aspects of architecture including energy efficient-design, energy-conscious design, and BIM design. She enjoys remaining involved in all phases of the process in order to deliver a successful project that stays true to the original concept. Venus contributes both creative and technical deliverables to create architecturally transformative stories and experiences that are inclusive, impactful and compelling to align with the design intent. As a member of the One Community team, Venus is helping with the Duplicable City Center roof, dormer, and floor plan designs.

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A New Paradigm for Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #452

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Let’s create a new paradigm for sustainability that includes consideration of what is for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet. One Community is open sourcing everything needed to build teacher/demonstration hubs for this purpose, contributing to a new paradigm for sustainability.

Here’s our project overview for a new paradigm for sustainability
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 November 21st, 2021 edition (#452) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A New Paradigm for Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #452

A New Paradigm for Sustainability - One Community Weekly Progress Update #452

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A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team responded to comments and reviewed/edited the text added by Daniela to the Aquapini & Walipini Design document. We also began re-reviewing the document in its entirety and made notes of the additional work necessary, such as reviewing the associated spreadsheet and overall document outline. We also set Frank up with another task, namely helping with the remaining work on the solar design tutorial and energy demand estimates, began an email communication to Hajjar to investigate why the aircrete is once again collapsing, and requested that the Aircrete team provide pictures and text to document their journey with aircrete.

Two other core team members reviewed and made more suggestions to the Murphy bed assembly instructions. We reviewed and edited Stacey’s Murphy Bed doc from Section WS3-WS19. This included sections on Walls, benches and tables, and the first floor ceiling joists. There were numerous details to sift through regarding accuracy of the quantities of furniture pieces, specific numbers and lettering sizes (advising to enlarge to lessen eye strain), and miscellaneous related corrections. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #229 of Dean’s work and the focus was more lighting testing and adjustments. Pictures below show some of this.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 70th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis adjusted the water storage plumbing by elevating the pipes connected to the auxiliary pump in the Net-Zero Bathroom. The pipes were raised to increase pump accessibility for the purpose of maintenance or changing the pump itself.

He then began researching all the parts that are necessary to ensure a secure connection between the pump and the water line. The list of parts and tools were added to the Net-Zero Bathroom Instruction/Tutorial. Pricing on the parts were researched and added to the cost analysis. The parts researched are to be rendered and used in an assembly to help illustrate the steps to realize a long and optimized pump life. The pictures below show some of this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 21st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Daniela focused on making changes to the Earthbag Village Drainage Plan. She based changes off of notes that David had created for her. This included altering the legend, including a chart to indicate how large the drainage areas are, and adding a pathway for ADA compliance.

Some aspects of David’s notes were changed because they did not take into account the rock swale around the outer end of the roadway. Due to this, Daniela made slight changes to the ADA compliance pathway and the perforated pipes. Later she created new PDFs in order to include the images into the Updated Earthbag Village Water Catchment Content. Small details were changed in order to ensure the visualizations were clear to the viewer and the images were then included into the report. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 18th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Shreyas worked on finalizing the battery chemistry to be used for the Solar Farm Storage application. He continued to make changes with respect to the Final Report on the EV Integration. He also re-ran the techno-economical analysis of one of the charging cases and researched additional details regarding the golf carts for the community. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Team double checked their procedure and did the process of mixing very carefully. They focused on the foam density and noticed that the density of foam changed very quickly after the first sampled amount which measured within the desired range of 90 to 100 g/L. The Team continues to investigate this issue and communicate with DomeGaia for their input. Pictures below are related to this work.

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team worked with 3D SketchUp for the City Center to provide detailed images with all dimensions and angles for the framing of the City Center dormer windows, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This included generating orthographic drawings for the second floor dormer section.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 27th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan worked on the Health Insurance research. He has been constructing the conclusion of the narrative, trying to determine and explain the most cost-effective health insurance strategy for One Community. As part of this endeavor, Aidan has been revamping the scoring system that ranks the best health insurance options. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 18th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week, Venus made some changes on section A_A according to her supervisor’s suggestions. She edited her mistakes on the drawing and changed the line weight. She also updated the basement furniture according to the latest updates to the plans and removed some lines and added windows and furniture. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 17th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. Carlos finished this week delivering the new segment for Bed Pallet and fully completing said furniture. For the wardrobe, he is currently finishing the Bifolding Door Hardware animation and adding new camera angles. All these new incorporations should be finished next week, as well the complete Wardrobe Pallet render. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 12th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week she worked on updating the Living Dome and basement. Xuanji removed part of the hallway on the first and second floor, then expanded bedrooms 3, 4, 9, and 10 and added a storage room on the second floor. She also did some study for resizing the boiler room. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Huiya had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the feedback from Jae about the new updates to the floor plans and the working plan to revise the SketchUp model. After the meeting, she worked on revising the architectural SketchUp model for the Living Dome according to the latest CAD drawings. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Yuxi met and collaborated with the team on the Dining Dome basement changes to better fit for efficient space usage. She also remodeled ramps for the vehicle entry to the basement, made the columns of Dining Domes to be continuous model wise so they would be easier to change later, and using the model as a cross-reference, discovered a few columns were not accurately aligned in the CAD file. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Min Jung Koo (Industrial Designer) completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Min Jung started on the CAD files and noticed there weren’t clear dimensions. She talked with Tatyana to receive the dimensions needed, did research on different types of dormers and windows, and held multiple meetings with Bryan to discuss the designs. The pictures below relate to all of this.

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 59th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Qiuheng worked on developing the Aquapini and Walipin external and internal design plan in AutoCAD. She traced the color design plan for the interior of the structures, revised her planting plan based on the 3D rendering, updated the path system to leave space for drainage, and detailed the central terrace design. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Frank revised HVAC calculations for the Tropical Atrium, and the Walipini Aquapini designs. He solved an error in his equations. The data and tables, as well as the different graphs, were updated and a comparison graph was created to visualize the difference between the 3 methods: Online-tool-assisted, ASHRAE, and Standard ANSI EP406.4. The pictures below relate to this.

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

A NEW PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 29 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week, Guy finished the badge for “New Personal Maximum Hours Logged in a Week”. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 15th week working on images for our open source social media strategy, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Alex took a different approach to her poster creation. She is making her newer posters trying to keep the images without any changes by adding a mask over the image with text to make it more readable. Alex is using colors from the images for the masks. Some of here latest creations are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Hannah wrote logic for an error message to popup as a user types into their input boxes if they are ignoring a required field. However, she realized after completing this logic that a partially functional validation function already existed. Upon this realization, she deleted her code and altered the existing code to accomplish the goal of the PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 3rd week helping with web design, still focused on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Becky began with her second webpage. She has laid down all she could, including creating all the headers and uploading all the images as needed. Becky will need to wait for the webpage’s other updates in order to complete the webpage. She has also received the corrections for her first webpage and is working on changing the errors. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week, Navya worked on a Dashboard function to click the dot by a person’s name in the Leaderboard and have it show that person’s Dashboard. She did code debugging, checked where the issue was, and added some code so it was able to show the leaderboard by clicking the dot. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also completed her 2nd week helping with web design, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Yuran checked and revised the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial page based on feedback. This included remaking the tables, checking the formats, images and links, adding links to the references, and uploading the resource files to Dropbox. She also started working on creating the health insurance page by adding the table of contents and the content of some paragraphs. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kitan García (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software, which helped in creating a new paradigm for sustainability. This week Kitan spent a good portion of his time getting the project up and running and configuring his workflow. He needed to install a specific kind of npm version manager that was more difficult than he thought because of his system but was able to downgrade his npm version to be compatible with the project.

Kitan also disabled his linter so that he could use ESLint as requested for this project. It took about 3 hours to get his environment completely set up, create an account, read documentation, and pick a bug to work on. He then spent about 7 hours looking through the code, figuring out how to get it to run correctly, and progressing through finding the bug. He faced some blocks, but was able to get some help from Hannah. Kitan’s now traced the bug to where he believes it is coming from and thinks/hopes he should be able to come up with a solution soon. Pictures below are related to this work.

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Building Open Source Eco-villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #451

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Building open source eco-villages is a doorway to a more sustainable world. One Community is committed to building open source eco-villages and free sharing everything needed to create replicable versions of them. This includes sustainable and DIY-replicable versions of 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 for building open source eco-villages
Here’s our world-change methodology
Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of building open source eco-villages as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 14th, 2021 edition (#451) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building Open Source Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #451

Building Open Source Eco-villages - One Community Weekly Progress Update #451

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BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 summarized findings for different stabilized earth mixes for compression testing. We corresponded with Daniela, Frank, Amin, George, and the Compression Team, conveyed information to George about the bolts and different bracket configurations and to systematically make the bracket smaller to identify the threshold, and emailed the Compression Team about possibly testing the potential residue chemical in buckets throwing off their ability to make aircrete successfully. Pictures below are related to all of this.

The core team also finished assembling the Murphy bed wall framing with the over-bed section that has the lights. We also revised electrical circuit pages and provided comments, and modeled the back storage unit with shelves and drawers. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Two other core team members reviewed and made more suggestions to the Murphy bed assembly instructions, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This involved a very close look at each of the renders and drawings and looking for consistency and accuracy to achieve a finished doc. 70+ comments were made to address inaccuracies, clarity, and make specific recommendations and improvements. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #228 of Dean’s work and the focus was more lighting testing and adjustments. Pictures below show some of this.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 69th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Jose Luis began analyzing and determining the accessibility of the water pump for the rainwater storage system of the net-zero bathroom. When reviewing the dimensions of the pump, he noticed the pump inlet and outlet were connected to the wrong ends based on the company diagrams.

He repositioned the pump and added a valve above the outlet and along the line of the inlet to reduce the spillage if replacement is ever needed. He then began creating an introduction for both the rainwater storage system and the water pump. Research on PVC system pump installation was done to create detailed instructions. To help visualize the process, Jose began creating renderings for each step. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 55th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Stacey’s focus was integrating feedback and making corrections to what we think is the final instruction set. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 27th and final week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week David reviewed and redlined Daniela’s Earthbag Village CAD for remaining steps. David also looked through his files to see if any were missing on the dropbox and learned that everything he has in his folder is up to date. David also reviewed his action item list and left his comments on what tasks have been completed and what still remains to be finished. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 20th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components, which helped in building open source eco-villages. Daniela started off the week by reviewing all comments left on documents such as her action plan, the Roadways report, in addition to the Aquapini and Walipini Report. She then recorded videos from the BioVeda Course she had been working on. Large videos were compressed to make the upload to the drive easier. She then made edits to the Roadways report regarding the section for water harvesting on rural roads and reviewed the finalized version.

Daniela then went over to ensure that all BioVeda course videos were recorded and placed on the drive. With only one video needing to be recorded a second time, Daniela moved on to edit the Aquapini and Walipini report. She made various paragraph revisions adding and removing parts to the narrative in addition to addressing comments. Lastly, in order to illustrate the bioswales that would be placed in front of the Aquapipi and Walipini, Daniela designed two visualizations. One which was created on AutoCAD. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 17th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Shreyas updated content covering what the document aims to explain, why the document is important to open source, the table of contents, changed topics and subtopics, proof-read the document, and added to the overall conclusions for the analysis. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 16th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week the Compression Testing Team tested aircrete formulations and found that 95%, 90%, and 80% foam aircrete all experienced shrinkage. The team discussed what improvements could be made. The group also collaborated about documentation. Pictures below are related to this work.

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 28th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Luis focused on his progress with the blower and jet fittings. He was able to do some calculations to get some estimates on the overall design, while also researching the various jet fittings that are available on the market. Both of these findings allowed him to update existing charts and modify the plumbing and instrumentation diagram for the system, next week Luis hopes to expand on the design selection by focusing on sone essential valves and a few other components. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 26th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Aidan continued with his main focus on the the Health Insurance Research. He finished reading through and providing updates and comments to the research, then focused his attention on the final analysis. The goal is determining and demonstrating the most cost-effective health insurance plan for One Community. This plan will entail saving money by purchasing a low premium, high deductible plan for everyone. This saved money will then be available for health emergencies for members of the community. Communicating this with easy-to-understand spreadsheets and text is the final focus.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 17th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Venus removed some lines and added windows and furniture to the section A_A, fixed mistakes and changed the line weight, and added columns to the elevations. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 16th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms, which helped in building open source eco-villages. Carlos delivered the Pallet Bed render with bed sheets, pillow, and other objects. He received feedback and will be adding connection hardware to the headboard next. He also modeled and did research for installing the folding door hardware for the Pallet Wardrobe, updated camera angles, and modeled said hardware. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 11th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Xuanji worked on the structure of the Cupula, Social Dome and Living Dome. She updated the columns in the Social dome and Cupula to have a better grid and expanded the floor on the second floor in the Social Dome to better match the updated column layout. She also provided feedback to all members of her team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Huiya had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the feedback from Jae about the new floor plan updates. Based on that, she finished adjusting the location of the second-floor restrooms in the Living Dome. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Yuxi discussed with the team the most recent edits on the AutoCAD plan and how to move onto 3D modeling using Sketchup.

She started with the Dining Dome basement, changing the original circular form into rectangular walls. Then, due to wall changes, the custom stairs to the basement from the first floor kitchen needed to be edited, along with its railings. Ramps leading from outside to the basement level were also adjusted and scaled properly. Furniture at the basement level was also adjusted to maximize storage space. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Min Jung Koo (Industrial Designer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Min Jung focused on completing her onboarding process and understanding what needs to be done. She was one of the people looking through the Murphy bed assembly instructions and providing feedback, then she looked into Bryan’s Google doc and looked at youtube videos on how to build dormers in order to understand the background of the project, and spent the majority of her time getting the softwares (Keyshot and Rhino) installed on her laptop in order to start on the project. The pictures below relate to all of this.

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building open source eco-villages 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 58th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Qiuheng worked on fixing the issue with people’s movements in the video. She found out that the maximum time frame for the advanced moving tool in Lumion has a time limit of 99 seconds. This is the tool that controls all the movement, so it looks like the video has to be split into two and reconstructed. It is a work-in-progress this week. She also worked on revising the AutoCAD file to match the rendering views. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs, which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Frank searched for errors in his spreadsheet because of the extreme difference between the 2 different infiltration methods he used. He double checked units and formulas, as well as checked the individual cells. The numbers appear to be twice the other. He noticed drastic differences between the infiltration values due to air changes and condensation. Frank has not spotted the error yet. He also prepared the HVAC write up for Amin’s review. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 9th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Brian focused on outlining and laying the framework for the updated menu plan.

Brian worked on determining the timeframe for perishable produce in order to build a menu guide that can be built around a two-week produce drop time with limited refrigeration space. Based on the amount of turnaround from chickpeas, black beans, lentils, soybeans, and potatoes that can be utilized and repurposed multiple times in order to avoid flavor profile redundancy, larger batches of starches can be cooked once a week and labor time can be reduced. Below are some images related to this.

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

BUILDING OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) also continued his help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software, helped in building open source eco-villages . This week, Guy began submitting proposals for updated versions of both the “New Personal Record” and “Most Hours in a Week” badges. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 14th week working on images for our open source social media strategy which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Alex continued working on posters and using images and quotes that are approved. For quotes without images, she created new images based on available images from other quotes. Alex has also been experimenting with mixing images and applying masks to them. Some of the approved images for this week are below. Some of our favorites are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software which helped in building open source eco-villages. This week, Hannah worked on debugging the badges. She also picked up a bug from the HGN Beta Test Bug document and is working on form validation there. She will continue working on this form validation before going back to badge testing next week. Currently, she just needs to confirm which fields are required, display a message on focus, and change the message to tooltip. Pictures below are related to this work.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) additionally completed her 2nd week helping with web design, still focused on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics helped in building open source eco-villages. This week Becky learned how to input images, which was quite a steep learning curve. She figured out how to optimize images, how to edit them to make them good for SEO, and how to resize them. Becky just has to look over the page, and then she can move on to the next webpage. Becky also has to update the SEO information of the previous images put into the page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Navya Madiraju (React.js/MongoDB Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software helped in building open source eco-villages. This Week Navya Worked on Issue 6.a: Profile Page Functionality â Add Profile Picture. She did code debugging, checked where the issue was, added a few lines of code, and then tested all the functionality (multiple times) by uploading large files, different formatted files, redirecting to another website, and resizing and then uploading again. In all the scenarios it worked, so Navya committed the code and raised the related PR. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with web design. This week Yuran was exposed to and learned about the process and weekly tasks related to web development, talked with her manager and started creating the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial page on the demo page. She also watched some online courses about HTML and studied the requirements for pages on the One Community web design details spreadsheet.

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Creating a Global Sustainability Movement – One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Kishan Sivakumar

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Successfully creating a global sustainability movement is about making it viral. This is possible if we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. One Community is doing this through open source and free-shared DIY-replicable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We’ll use these to forward a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs that will show people how much better life can be through a model like this.

Here’s our project overview project overview focused on creating a global sustainability movement
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 creating a global sustainability movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 7th, 2021 edition (#450) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Global Sustainability Movement
One Community Progress Update #450

Creating a Global Sustainability Movement - One Community Weekly Progress Update #450

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CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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 responded to comments and added text to clarify information in the Walipini and Aquipini design document, made a new tab for the Compression Testing Team that boiled down the aircrete recipes to test different foam content, and began reviewing the book “Earthbag Building – The Tools, Tricks and Techniques” to better choose different stabilized earth mixes for the compression testing. Pictures below are related to all of this.

The core team also continued working on checking the Murphy bed assembly instructions document. This is the 8th time we’ve constructed the entire Murpy bed in SketchUp 3D. This week we built the wall framing, bed framing, swivels installation, legs to support the bed, benches and table with hardware, and side shelf units. We also identified and fixed problems with dimensions of some of the lumber pieces.

Another core team member reviewed and made suggestions to the Murphy bed assembly instructions. The subject matter included the tools used, distinguishing between the sizes and type of lumber and plywood, hardware sizes and lengths of nails and screws, procurement lists, pre-made components, and wall sections through page 31. See pictures below for examples of some of the suggestions made.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 68th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Jose Luis continued to render and analyze the optimal pump position for the water storage system of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He first positioned and rendered the pump under the bottom center barrel. Along with the connection running from the barrel to the pump. He then added a three way exit or a cross to the outlet of the pump. This was deemed to add more costs and make the construction more complex.

He then rendered a connection from the outlet of the pump to the midpoint of the connections between the outer barrels. This simplified the assembly and also reduced costs while still evenly distributing the flow. The pictures below show some of this work.

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week David reviewed Daniela’s work regarding rural road design. He also added his own input that he believes would be helpful to know regarding rural roads. David also commented on some questions Jae had for Daniela and left a few comments for Daniela with what he thinks would improve the section. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 19th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Daniela continued working on the narrative related to the Water Harvesting of Low Standard Rural Roads notes she had previously taken. She wrote paragraphs concerning information that would be helpful when designing the rural roadways for the site, input images from the text to ensure that the reader understood the text better and were able to clearly see the visuals, and spent time editing the text and adjusting the paragraphs to make sure the narrative flowed well.

Daniela also recorded more videos from the BioVeda Course that were unable to be downloaded. She additionally responded to some comments on the Aquapini and Walipini report concerning new edits. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 16th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, Shreyas worked on writing the overall conclusion for the techno-economical analysis results. He has also provided more information regarding why the document is important and what the document is trying to explain, researching the downsides of certain battery manufacturing processes, and which chemistry of batteries would be ideal for the energy storage application. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 15th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week the Compression Testing Team made a batch of aircrete to see how far they could push the foam content before the mixture collapsed. They looked for potential soil suppliers and organized those findings by unit price and delivery price. The Team stayed organized using the assignments document. They had several meetings to keep everyone on track. Pictures below are related to this work.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 27th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Luis continued his progress with the blower selection and also extended his research with jet fittings. The blower selection is nearly complete, but with Cade Hermeston now a part of the team, he will be helping out with the modeling of our system. Once this model is complete, the fluid dynamic calculations of the system can begin and all selected parts can be confirmed.

Luis also had a meeting this week to introduce Cade to the team and explain the details of the project along with the current progress and future tasks at hand. They had a great discussion on their passion for sustainability and look forward to working together. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 25th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan completed reviewing and commenting on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Battery Storage research. He also spent time providing feedback and suggestions to help guide the development of the Duplicable City Center Energy Modeling content. Additionally, Aidan continued to read through, revise, and update the Health Insurance Research.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 16th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, Venus worked more on section A_A. She added two windows and furniture, edited mistakes based on feedback, and is now waiting on updated column details. See pictures below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 15th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. Carlos finished adding the final details for the Pallet Bed. After showing the draft render with the proper animations, he produced the final videos with the usual engine. What’s next is to join said segments with the ones generated weeks ago in a professional video editing software. He also did research on the folding door hardware, so now he needs to model the product he found on Amazon and add it in the final segment of the Pallet Wardrobe. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Xuanji was working on the structure of the cupola, Social Dome and Living Dome. The challenge was to make the columns in the Living Dome align with columns supporting the Cupola. To achieve this, Xuanji moved some furniture and interior walls in the bedroom. She also provided feedback to each of the members of her team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Huiya had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the application of the new moment frame columns system. After the meeting, she helped develop new floor plans for the living dome using the moment frame columns system. Also, Huiya finished another option of the 2nd-floor plan for the Living Dome which coordinates with the original column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, George reviewed work from previous weeks. He incorporated the insights provided to date and took a look into the moment area under full load. He redesigned the bracket for full width of the beam to balance the moments and rearranged the bolt patterns. George performed simulations using the wide bracket, and noted that the displacement was less as compared to previous designs and the stress with the brackets at maximum displacement was within acceptable limits. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Yuxi received feedback on preliminary structural edits creating new column grids. After understanding which columns are better not to be moved due to their impact on the structure and aesthetics, she revised her proposals so they would better merge and fit into the architectural plan and walls. Pictures of some of this work are below.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global sustainability movement 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 57th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the next round of adjusting the walkthrough video, modified the details based on last week’s comments and feedback, and started to fill the inside models of the structures in SketchUp, so they match the design plan. Pictures below are related to this.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank calculated the condensation infiltration energy losses for the 3 designs: Tropical Atrium, Walipini, and Aquapini. He worked on fixing the problems with the equation and the results. Frank also used another tool-assisted calculator online to compare against. The pictures below relate to this.

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 8th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian worked on developing recipes that were Thai inspired. He developed a Seared Salmon entree, a coconut Thai soup, seared chicken stir fry and a roasted pumpkin red curry. Below are some images related to this.

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

CREATING A GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement, not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 13th week working on images for our open source social media strategy, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, Alex continued working on new poster creation and writing new quotes, now focused mostly on using images from the One Community Global dropbox sources and matching quotes with images and their blog numbers with related slogans. Alex also started playing with color and saturation on images to create a more united look. She completed 43 approved images this week. Some of our favorites are below.

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week, Hannah looked into PRs and attempted to address the issues brought up in one. Currently, she does not know enough about jest nd axios in order to support Pranav’s review but she is learning more and will examine it in more depth next week if still unaddressed.

Additionally, she has continued to work through badge logic. Hannah believes she has identified the section of the streak badge that is still causing the bugs but is uncertain exactly what about it is stopping badges from dropping off. She will continue to look into this next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software, contributing to creating a global sustainability movement. This week Pranav started with debugging failing tests for the PR, and with some reading and help, successfully solved the failing tests. Pranav then continued development of location-based timezone functionality, integrating an external API to achieve this. He also helped out the new recruit, Navya, to get set up and reviewed her PRs. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Becky Xin (Volunteer Web Editor) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with web design. This week Becky started on her first webpage, adding (behind the scenes) the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, getting more familiar with the basic functions like creating anchor links and justifying, etc. Pictures below are related to this work.

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One Community Welcomes Brian Storz to the Highest Good Food Team!

Posted on November 3, 2021 by One Community

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

Brian is a One Community Mentor Team Member and Culinary Project Manager. He has over 14 years of professional experience in the culinary field including: kitchen management, molecular gastronomy, a culinary consultant, a business owner, and as a sushi chef. He grew up on a farm in Northern California and is passionate about sustainability, ethical business practices, and organic farming. The culinary arts and gastronomy have fascinated Brian for years, leading him to become a teacher in food preservation and a mentor to many talented young cooks and chefs. He has worked for over 5 years as a sous chef, also worked as a manager and chef in Japanese kitchens and sushi bars for 4 years, worked at the 3 Michelin Star level, and also run a culinary department in a casino as an executive sous chef with 50+ employees, three restaurants, and a catering operation, all while making the department profitable for the first time. After years of training and learning the industry inside and out, Brian has brought his 14+ years of experience to help finish the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. Click here for additional information on Brian’s full bio page.

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Sustainable Eco-community Design – One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Posted on October 31, 2021 by One Community

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Let’s open source and free-shared everything needed for sustainable eco-community design. One Community is doing this so it includes DIY-replicable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the October 31st, 2021 edition (#449) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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One Community Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design - One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

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SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing sustainable eco-community design through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: 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 worked on the different stabilized earth compositions to test for compressive strength. We had conversations with Marcus and Frank to keep their efforts moving along, reached out to get help with HVAC work and coordinated a review by Amin, and responded to and reviewed Daniela’s comments/edits on Walipini and Aquipini design criteria.

stabilized earth compositions, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Stabilized earth compositions

The core team started to generate another 3D SketchUp model of Murphy bed using the latest assembly instruction document. We checked sections on lumber requirements, tools and hardware items. We then started assembling the Murphy bed wall framing using SketchUp.

3D SketchUp model of Murphy bed, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – 3D SketchUp model of Murphy bed

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 67th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began analyzing and rendering the best possible location for the pump in the water storage system of the Net-Zero Bathroom.

The best possible location was in between the bottom center barrel and the junction distributing the rain water to the barrels surrounding the center. The pump dimensions were found on the company’s page and were used to create a replica of the motor to have an accurate model. Different distribution arrangements from the pump were analyzed to determine the most uniform one.

It was determined that the best possible distribution would be to have the pump connect to a midpoint junction between the outer set of barrels. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 53rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey completed the Murphy bed design PDF and submitted it for review by several other team members. We have gone through a couple drafts and almost all of the errors in wood piece sizes have been corrected.

There were also some changes made to the layouts of the lumber cutting pages with different icons for saw blades and cutting directions. There is still some discussion to be had regarding the overview and cover pages, as well as the cut piece listing pages. Some of the page numbers have been revised since the last draft but the instructions still complete with 120 pages.

Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Murphy bed instructions

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 24th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan completed his final review of the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial, the page with all the new content is now live! Aidan has also continued to provide comments, feedback, and guidance on the Electric Vehicle and Solar Farm Battery Storage research.

Additionally, Aidan began reviewing and revising the Health Insurance content. Below are some images related to this work.

Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 18th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela first screen captured some missing BioVeda courses regarding sustainable living.

She then worked on updates for the Aquapini and Walipini report. She responded to comments and rewrote paragraphs in order to make them clearer. Some new images were incorporated into the narrative as well. Lastly, Daniela wrote paragraphs summarizing information from the notes she took on water harvesting for low-standard rural roads.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 15th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week, Shreyas continued to complete and conclude his work in the “EV Integration and 100% Off-grid Needs” report.

He researched and found information regarding the charging of the Teslas that have been selected to be a part of the community. He has added more information regarding the choice made towards the Tesla Model X, information regarding the case studies and journal papers that have been listed in the report as support documents, and added information in the conclusion area.

He also worked towards editing the sentences and addressing comments in the document. Pictures below are related to this work.

solar microgrid design specifics, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Solar microgrid design specifics

This week the Compression Testing Team organized all documents required for final testing. They put the stabilized earth spreadsheets together, wrote up the step-by-step procedures for the aircrete and the stabilized earth, and researched a document of previous compression tests on stabilized earth.

They also completed aircrete calculations based on a 90% foam to 10% cement mixture and researched a location to buy dirt for stabilized earth. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aircrete and earthbag compression testing, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team added all the updated graphics, linked the updated spreadsheet, and proofread the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. The updated page is now live.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, Luis focused on the City Center Hot Tub Design’s blower component which will integrate air in the form of bubbles into the system.

The current design is to have a separate air supply line to the spa from the blower, and then use venturi jets to integrate the air comfortably into the flow. Luis was able to roughly calculate the anticipated pressure from the water that would be met at the venturi jet which determines the sizing requirement of the blower.

All that is left is determining the proper blower available on the market that is best suited for the system’s design. Moving forward, Luis will finalize the component selection and the electrical requirements to supply the energy team. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Eco-spa designs, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 15th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the other half of section A_A called A”_A”. She edited section A”_A” according to the new cut line and new positions of the stairs. Venus also checked the floor heights and added furniture to the section. See pictures below.

Duplicable City Center designs, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 14th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos finished the updated assembly animations for the Pallet Bed. These included generating several items to be included in the render.

A clock, glasses, books, pillow and bed sheets were added, all with proper physics behavior and animation as they dropped in. Pictures below are related to this work.

pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Pallet furniture designs for Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she worked on the structure of the cupula and basement. The basement has been changed to a rectangular shape with new columns.

Xuanji also added the columns and grid for supporting the cupola and worked on the grid for the Living Dome and Social Dome. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center architectural review, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center architectural review

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she had a meeting with Xuanji and Yuxi to discuss the application of the new moment frame columns system.

After the meeting, she helped develop new floor plans for the living dome using the moment frame column system discussed. She also finished another option of the 2nd-floor plan for the Living Dome which coordinates with the original column system. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center architectural review

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, Bryan redesigned the dormer to be less costly and increased the insulation. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi attempted a new grid for the columns in the Social Dome as the team wanted to see whether the new grid could spark new ideas.

She started with a 20 x 20 ft grid, and through the process of elimination adjusted the shifting of grids according to existing walls back and forth to ensure the ideal placement of columns. The goal is to make the least amount of impact possible while building remains structurally sound. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Duplicable City Center architectural review

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We reviewed text and images of the document from the beginning and corrected/updated text and images that were not clear or detailed enough.

We also discussed placement of the small studs on the second level on east and west wall framing. Pictures below are related to this work.

Chicken Coop Assembly document, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another team member reviewed the chicken document through page 68. Discussions included adding short studs to the east and west upper walls, various images and different perspectives of those images, securing the hardware cloth, and rephrasing existing text to accommodate changes to some of the images.

chicken document, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Chicken Coop document

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 56th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on the next round of adjusting the walkthrough video path and visual fixes based on last week’s comments and feedback.

Then she started to fill the inside model of the structures in SketchUp, so they can match the design plan. Pictures below are related to this.

Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on energy calculations of the HVAC system and the comparison of the different approaches that one can take to get the values needed for infiltration.

The values calculated for the tool-assisted calculation were also compared in graphical form. The pictures below relate to this.

Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 7th week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week, through experimenting in the kitchen, Brian developed a soup base for vegan and omnivores that is delicious.

It has an amazing nutritional value, is very cost effective to buy and to produce. Brian will keep working on recipes like this that can be the base of the menu and can optimize production and flavor for the kitchen. Below are some images related to this work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

Sustainable Eco-community Design - Highest Good education, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGN – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 32 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

managing One Community volunteer, work reviewSustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Managing One Community volunteer

The core team also added all the updated Economics and Stewardship badges to the Highest Good Network software. The image below shows some of these along with their descriptions.

Economics and Stewardship badges to the Highest Good Network software, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Economics and Stewardship badges to Highest Good Network

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 12th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex focused on correcting mistakes from the previous week and adjusting her new work according to feedback. Now the text is shorter and bigger. She also watched videos about text highlighting and how to make illustrations out of photography.

In total, 51 images were approved this week.

open source social media strategy, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Open source social media strategy

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah reviewed multiple times to eventually approve a PR. Additionally, she broke down logic in the streak badges, took notes on what she understood the goals of various code sections to be, and monitored how data changed as it moved through the code.

Hannah identified two issues in the logic and solved them but it has not yet addressed the bug in them not dropping off. She will continue to move through this badge logic and focus on the bug next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software, Sustainable Eco-community Design, One Community Weekly Progress Update #449

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Highest Good Network software

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav took care of deployment issues requiring him to go beyond and debug an issue outside his expertise. He successfully solved it in a short amount of time and got the system back on track.

Later in the week, Pranav incorporated feedback on active PRs and implemented the suggested changes. He then picked up the implementation of the timezone component and integrated external API for helping to get the Timezone for a given location. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-community Design – Highest Good Network software

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