One Community is creating the building blocks for communal permanence. They include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We’re open sourcing and free sharing each component as we’re developing them so we can build a global collaboration of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to evolve the plans and develop even more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 25th, 2022 edition (#509) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Communal Permanence
One Community Progress Update #509

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks for communal permanence through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on how they relate to communal permanence: 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team created a task list for the aircrete team, helped them figure out the correct recipe based on Aircrete Harry’s PDF, and had 3 phone calls with the team to clarify information and provide guidance. The same team member also addressed comments regarding the rainwater catchment for the Net-zero Bathroom and continued to work on the DIY section for hub connectors. See below on how they relate to communal permanence.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 35th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming looked for pyrolysis solutions and consulted Dongguan and Henan Yuenan for WTE incinerator options. It is a customizable plant based on our demand, but the minimum treatment capacity is 100kg/h, which is too much for us. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 15th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy spent most of her time researching pyrolysis plants for the community of 50, 100, and 200 populations. She found some alternatives but needs to verify whether they meet our requirements. She also addressed all the comments left in the spreadsheet and some of them in the tutorial. See below for some pictures related to this work and on how they relate to communal permanence.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 14th week with the team. This week, Julia finalized the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc and checked final corrections to the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” webpage. She updated this webpage’s table of contents with corrections for grammar and spelling on the mouseover texts and then finalized this task.

Julia then went over Chuck’s integration of requested fixes for the “City Center Eco-laundry” webpage and resolved and addressed comments on the corresponding Feedback PDF as well as making grammar, spelling, and formatting corrections on the live page. She checked on the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved and addressed comments there.

Also this week, Julia continued her review of the “Waste to energy incinerators master” spreadsheets where she resolved comments that had been integrated and further added her feedback. She also reviewed the corresponding “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc up to the “Small and medium-sized community solutions ” Sustainability, emissions, and cost comparison” section, making grammar and spelling corrections as needed and inputting her feedback using the comments. Finally, Julia continued converting recipes from metric to imperial measurements on the “Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks Doc” and completed this from page 92 up to page 100. See below on how they relate to communal permanence.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 9th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week, the Compression Testing Team took time to understand the calculations with the spreadsheet and learned how to use the little dragon as a backup foam generator. They continued to have trouble with Aircrete Harry’s foam generator holding pressure. They tested 2 batches of aircrete (6 cylinders) with soft water and Drexel, and started on an excel sheet to show the different recipe mixes used to make aircrete. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 6th week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. This week Yifei worked on the Net-zero bathroom and Earthbag Village rainwater content for Web publishing. She rearranged the content according to the outline, added some subsections so that the web designer will have a clear idea about what to insert on the web page, and answered comments. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to communal permanence: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team worked with the Duplicable City Center SketchUp 3D model to find out the number of connection nodes in each row/level using the Dining Dome model. This is for the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering web page. The same team member worked with the food infrastructure SketchUp files to set up correct time stamps for shadow movement through the days of December 21 and June 21 for our specific location. They also continued reviewing the Murphy Bed Assembly Instruction document, checking and correcting issues, resolving completed ones, and replying with detailed information to corresponding questions in the comments. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence. 

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 65th week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. This week, Luis continued to review the Solar Sizing Calculations and focused on the power demands above 400 kWh, which are the most noteworthy across the 4 sites and should be understood for their purpose in the development of each site. Luis researched and evaluated the validity of these components to provide an explanation for the large demand. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 56th week, focusing now on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. This week Daniela responded to the comments left in the glossary of the Roadways report. She then continued to read through the Updated City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. Daniela added comments, checked for errors, added titles, and edited the formatting. She was able to finish reading through the document and added new links to the Table of Content for both images and tables.

Once completed, Daniela started addressing the comments she had left for herself. Originally she was going to link resources in sections where they were explicitly mentioned, but she decided to leave this for last because this report lists many resources without linking them. Daniela then began to go through the untitled images and tried to see if she could find them online in order to obtain a title that exactly references what it is mentioning. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 25th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on the Cost Analysis table adding a few more details that were missing. These included proposed improvements such as: Adding a drawer, more frames with movie posters, changing the wall finishes beside the bed, added 4 built-in speakers in the ceiling, and running 2 more test renders for these new ideas. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 15th week helping with web design. Charles continued to work on the City Center Eco-laundry page comments. Charles revised the Table of Content to indent the subservient sections. He also did a lot of work to shorten the image captions to one line, moving the text to the paragraph above the image. Where feasible, Charles linked the images to the appropriate tabs in the corresponding spreadsheets, making sure they all opened in a new tab. Where appropriate, he also pointed the links to the corresponding row numbers in the spreadsheet. Check out the pictures below as examples of this work and on how they relate to communal permanence.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 3rd week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran focused on the modification of the SketchUp model based on feedback from last week and the previous renderings. She also cooperated with Yuxi to verify the location and material of some details.

Modified areas include 1) Social Dome: made the new seating area by the column a solid seating area, no plants in the middle of the new area; fixed the butterflies to make them fly up the wall between the windows; restored the rug in the entry to the library. 2) Dining Dome: fixed the first floor and second floor of this area. During Ranran and Yuxi’s meeting, they discussed the shape of the floors in the Dining Dome and the roof lighting in the restaurant area. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to communal permanence.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures on how they relate to communal permanence: 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 core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed the 3-Day Menu Block doc for content, provided additional comments addressing particular excessive quantities of sodium and olive oil (one recipe containing 5 cups of olive oil was the standout!), and correlation of the ingredients’ lists to instructions while determining some of the ingredients in the instructions were not included in the ingredients list, etc. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks for communal permanence 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.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together to promote communal permanence: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating the building blocks for communal permanence 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 on how they relate to communal permanence: 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

Over the past week the core team completed 30 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 36th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun spent most of her time on fixing the “infringement cannot be assigned/edited/added” problem. She solved the problem on Dev but still got an empty page on Main, then she hotfixed it again. Other than that, she helped with management of the complete team via Slack, fixing release merge conflicts, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week fixed the bug for high priority issue #6 and pushed PR #258 for the backend. She also clarified the next task requirement, to create a button on the other links/team page able to set a team manager as a team leader able to receive the weekly summary of all their team members. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to communal permanence.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kevin looked more into why WBS uploading is not working, it is a complicated process. He also worked on doing the final requests for PR #559 about deleting folders and tasks from the tasks management pages. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Guilherme Wustro (Full Stack Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Guilherme this week finished the task showing assigned tasks as projects on the User Profile “Project” Tab, including a filter for Active, Completed, and All Tasks. He also changed the timelog so that it will only show the active tasks. An administrator/owner can now change the task to Active or Complete just by clicking on a button beside the task in the Project Tab. This was done making sure that it will not affect the tasks data for running reports. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. The auto-assignment of badges and re-creation of bugs is now possible. Aashish then worked on checking all the XhoursforXWeek badges. Given the last hours logged by the Dev admin account, the 90-hour and 60-hour-a-week badges are being auto-assigned, and the count for both the badges goes up when the same code is run multiple times. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu (Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang spent most of his time reviewing pull requests because there were many urgent bugs on the bug list that needed to be reviewed as soon as possible. He also continues working on fixing the volunteering times component. Due to Yiyun and Jae’s review, the hours still cannot be logged properly with tasks. He will debug this issue next week. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Alan, this week, started by working on the view “team weekly summaries” button. The main features were already done and working, but he was asked to change the positioning of the button to the top.

There were some bugs and conflicts on the PR so he carried on fixing those issues. A fellow teammate that reviewed the PR pointed that we should be able to see the 3 latest summaries, so he still needs to implement that. Later, Alan worked on urgent bug number 8 and he made a PR. Alan hopes it can be merged soon. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun paused her work for phase two and helped with the bug fixing of phase one. She first worked on the blue square counts being incorrect in emails. After checking the logic of related functions, she made a comment of her conclusion and it was consistent with the bugfix submitted by the other developer.

She then worked on the bug that submitting any profile changes will cause a save alert. She located the problem and ruled out the usual causes at the front end. She provided a hotfix for now and wrote an analysis report with RJ for future developers’ reference. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. RJ worked on approving PRs # 596, #597, #223. She approved #596 and #597 and is awaiting additional input on #223. She also worked on a user profile change issue along with Jianjun, submitted a detailed analysis for further references, reported possible errors and fixes to Yiyun on Slack, and fixed critical incorrect filename reference (compile errors) and made a PR #250 for this. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Aishwarya reviewed PR #239: Alan fix eslint problems and has provided review comments which need to be incorporated to move further with the merging of the PR. She then picked a medium-level (bug no. 13) from the bugs document and started investigating the issue as well as going through and understanding the code base.

She has found the files in which changes are to be made and has been successful in making the name clickable. Aishwarya is still working on routing the URL after clicking on the name to the correct user profile. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny almost finished his task of “Creating sub-tasks in a WBS doesn’t create a new folder and makes the tasks uneditable”. Now he just needs to finish some details on this task such as creating a delete button to delete the task. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Shaun worked on refreshing the current date and time for all intangible clock outs. Created a new component to get the current date/time and refresh every 60 seconds, but could not get it to render though. He tried a few different approaches, all of which failed. Yiyun helped a lot, pointed him towards PR #587 as a guide. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

Pedro Elton (Frontend Software Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Pedro focused on onboarding, reading docs, communicating with project leaders, setup according to the “Instructions for “Running HGN React App Locally” file, and started redesign and bug fixing. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to communal permanence.

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One Community welcomes Guilherme Wustro to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Guilherme graduated in civil engineering but decided it wasn’t what he wanted to focus on, so he looked for other career choices and, as someone who has focused his entire life on technology, thought that IT was something he would pursue. He then joined Kenzie Academy Brazil to further explore this option. There he developed various projects, a pet hotel page, a delivery website dedicated to people with dietary restrictions, and others (all found at his portfolio page). As a way to develop his programming skills, he joined the One Community team, where he was in charge of the Highest Good Network APP permissions management, bug fixing and polishing the user tab. Guilherme is comfortable with React, Javascript, Next.js, some other languages, and still learning new ones. His goal is to be capable at every back and front-end task. While working at One Community, he also remains engaged in other projects, being responsible for full stack menu management pages, a school food delivery company’s contracts, as well as some other page improvement. As a passionate developer, Guilherme strives to make a positive difference in the IT universe and be a capable force for the industry. He is doing his best to improve society’s quality of life, all while making sure the planet doesn’t suffer for it.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM GUILHERME!

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One Community welcomes Kaixiang “Kevin” Gu to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kaixiang has 5 years experience as a STEM teacher. He taught programming and drone courses for over 500 students. After that, Kaixiang became a self-taught developer, focusing on building meaningful, high-quality projects with a desire to make a positive impact on society and our future. Passionate about programming and developing great things all the time, Kaixiang joined the One Community team working on the Highest Good Network Software and has been helping to maintain and update software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM KAIXIANG!

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One Community is making living a more luxurious life through sustainability easier with open source and free-shared DIY-replicable and how-to plans for comprehensively sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, these plans will be used to construct One Community as the first of many teacher/demonstration hubs that will teach, evolve, and open source even more plans.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 18th, 2022 edition (#508) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Living a More Luxurious Life Through Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #508

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability: 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team prepped the tasks for the Aircrete team for the week, and reviewed the rainwater catchment and stormwater catchment and septic tank content, as well as followed up on some past comments, on the Net-zero Bathroom doc. The same team member began writing up the section on the DIY option for the hub connector report for the City Center. The write up includes the equipment needed and the cost estimate. See below on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 85th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to resolve the comments received from the team. There are still some issues regarding cutting boards and the amount of wood needed. The alignment of text and size of fonts is becoming more cohesive. The visual elements are getting updated and the comments have been great at also pointing out small discrepancies that may have been missed earlier. Screenshots below relate to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 34th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming primarily consulted the Henan Yuenai and Dongguan Haibao for their waste incinerators that potentially generate electricity. The progress is very slow.

Meanwhile, Ming is searching for papers to further understand the current WTE technologies, such as fluidized bed and pyrolysis. So two tracks are in progress: consulting existing product vendors and discovering potential technologies, either already existent or under development. Refuse-derived fuel is the primary target. It is a practical WTE technology, but the detailed RDF procedure is very waste-type specific, and may not be feasible in small scales. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 14th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy created new tables for scoring criteria and calculations using the given style.

She took some time to solve her confusion regarding the objectives of the project and then finished the general solutions and small community recommendations. She also did research on business options and collected cost and revenue information and relevant data. Mercy addressed Julia’s comment on the spreadsheet and tutorial as well. See below for some pictures related to this work and on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) also completed his 14th week helping with web design. This week, Charles completed the two Tables of Contents for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” webpage. These included the main ToC at the top of the page and the secondary one further down.

Charles included mouseover text and descriptive anchor links. Charles also completed the Table of Contents for the City Center Eco-laundry, which also included mouseover text and descriptive anchor links. After reviewing the page, he checked off the items in the Webpage Checkoff List and presented the page for review. After receiving the feedback pdf, he resolved most of the issues, entering “Done” in the reply area. See below on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 5th week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. This week, Yifei continued to work on revising the net-zero Bathroom Design and Assembly Instructions for web publishing. She focused on rearranging the content according to the outline, checked for errors, and went through the grammar mistakes. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team uploaded the Duplicable City Center video tour to YouTube, SEO optimized it, shared it on all our social media networks, and added it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Here’s is the completed video too:

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 64th week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. This week, Luis worked on the Solar Sizing website documentation by expanding the standard operating procedures. He took a deep dive of the functionality within the “kWh Demand for DCC and Earthbag Village” tab and developed a list of descriptions for the functions and inputs throughout this tab. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 55th week, focusing now on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. Daniela started off by fixing a couple of the links that were altered last week. Afterwards, Daniela started reading through the report and reviewing the narrative. She made edits to the formatting, font, spelling, and grammar. She also titled some of the tables and images that correlated to that section. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 25th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This last week Jessica finalized her work with the Room 03, themed Sunrise Dream. She submitted the final AutoCAD and SketchUp files, finished adding the furniture, price and quantities details on the Interior Design Cost Analysis, and finished the Interior Design presentation. This completed Jessica’s work with One Community. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ranran focused on the modification of the SketchUp model and cooperated with Yuxi to verify the location and material of some details. Modified areas include 1) Social Dome hall: modified the columns to make them look like trees; moved the seating areas under the columns; modified the swimming pool, including the passageway, horizontal plane, and deleted excess walls; modified the entrance door. 2) Social Dome hall 2: deleted useless leaves on the second floor 3) Library: modified the columns to make them look like trees; moved the carpet to the correct location.

During Ranran and Yuxi’s meeting, they discussed the material and location of the columns in the Social Dome hall and they also discussed the problem of the narrow gap between the seat and the edge of the pool. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability: 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 core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed, edited, and commented starting at the beginning of the doc and going through page 27. We addressed primarily specific issues concerning content, replacement and substitutions of the categories at the bottom of each recipe, matching of ingredients in the ingredients list to the instruction list, and overall quantities to be certain our meals would provide sufficient nourishment. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

The core team also worked with the Food Infrastructure SketchUp files to recreate the correct shadow path for December 21 and June 21 for the Aquapini/Walipini page. We researched sunrise and sunset for those dates for our specific location, researched about procedures for setting up geo-location in the SketchUp model, and recreated the correct shadow pattern for the specified day. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

The core team additionally realized more changes were needed for the Aquapini/Walipini video tour and worked on a new intro to the weekly progress blogs that can be seen in this week’s blog and the pictures below, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is making living a more luxurious life through sustainability easier with 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.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together to promote living a more luxurious life through sutainability: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making living a more luxurious life through sustainability easier with 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

Over the past week the core team completed 24 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 35th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on fixing the “infringement cannot be assigned/edited/added” problem. She figured out the problem and found the cause, and solved half of the problem. Next week she will continue on fixing this and other high priority bugs. Other than that, she ran management work, provided help on Slack, fixed release merge conficts, and provided a couple other hotfixes. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 21st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan, for this week, pushed her PR for the backend (#248) and frontend (#592). The #248 PR code was to achieve the emailsender function when reaching our reactivation date and fix a bug when reaching the reactivation date caused the user to be deactivated.

It also changed the email format. For the deactivate user function, Yan changed the email format and fixed a problem where the end date was a day off. For #592 PR, she added an auto refresh function when clicking the Pause and Resume buttons. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 20th week helping create videos. This week, Arthur finished the very last video of his collaboration with One Community: The Aquapini Tour. A few things needed to be corrected, mostly the intro blocks that were not matching the music beats. See pictures below that are related to this work on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung started off with rebasing issues. He got notified from Yiyun regarding the error and I believe it is caused by package.json error so he fixed it. Then he tested if the API currently removes the task totally and rewrote the API function in the frontend and tried to rebase the branch. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Kevin, for this week, worked on adding new suggestions made by the reviewer of my WBS task deletion PR – this included formatting the code, changing the controller row (with the actions) to properly span the correct amount of rows, and changing it to match the amount of columns the parent has.

He also did a PR review for Yiyun – Backend and frontend of tasks suggestions by managers and mentors, looked into some extra tasks Jae assigned to the WBS task deletion regarding changing the warning message, and looked into the API call to the backend to make sure tasks are not actually getting fully deleted. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Guilherme has finished the task of removing Tasks from a userProfile. Now, when you click delete, the task will be removed from the user profile page of the user, but will not change anything in the task. The user will still be on the task. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, codes related to the auto-assignment of badges were explored further. Because the badge is auto-assigned based on last week’s data, the current week’s data needs to go past the end of the week time. And that is tied to other related components and that is why it’s taking longer to solve even though the problem is right there and found. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang reviewed three pull requests submitted by his teammates. He also completed his own task which is to fix the volunteering times on the Profile Page. He made a new pull request for other people to review. In this PR, he fixed the page breaking bug when a user manually edits hours and now hours will update correctly when a user edits the time log. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started off by working on fixing the issues that may have been caused by fixing misspellings that were in the app. The first obstacle was to make sure what was causing this. Alan started by making some changes in the frontend and making sure that we check a date is in the current week to decide whether a summary was submitted or not. So we won’t take into account summaries that were submitted prior to the current week.

Then Alan looked into the backend and saw there were some issues in the formatting of the 3 dates that are returned by the backend function. At first glance it looked good but he made some changes in the conditional to make sure the right data was returned. Alan needs other members to test his PR thoroughly before merging it. Then he carried on working on the view summaries button and fixing ESlint problems, which is less urgent. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Jianjun continued working on the wireframe design of the material, equipment, tool and project tracking system this week. She completed all the equipment/tool related subtasks. The daily usage log form, equipment/tool list (master) page, detail page as well as the status update history page haven’t been designed yet. She wrote the documentation to explain all the design and a video to show the prototype workflow. She also did a PR review. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Aishwarya Kalkundrikar (Full Stack Software Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Aishwarya completed the initial setup and installation of React, node, visual studio, etc. locally. While installing npm she faced a version issue which was investigated and solved.

She got introduced to her teammates RJ and Jianjun and understood the functionality of HGN app and time logging. She went through and understood multiple important documents like WBS, the wireframes for phase 2 on Figma, and the phase 2 design document. Now she is clear with the work and all set up to start working on designing phase 2. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Johny dos Santos Anastacio (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Johny finished his first task and is waiting for it to be merged, now he is working in the second task the bug #1 from the Priority medium list – “creating sub-tasks in a WBS doesn’t create a new folder and makes the tasks uneditable”. He is still searching for what is generating the bug and how to fix it. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

Shaun Sullivan (React/MongoDB Developer) joined the team as well and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Shaun took over Bruce’s code and entered it into Github so we have a remote copy. There were errors upon pasting code into VS Code, so Shaun refactored until most were gone. There is still one error left that he could not figure out involving the end of the crawl function. Shaun then created a new branch under Shaun_Make_App_Get_ProfilePic that can be accessed by all. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to living a more luxurious life through sustainability.

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One Community welcomes Kevin Shields to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kevin is a Southern California native who grew up in Orange County. He spent several years working as a QA tester for different companies. During the Covid pandemic, he decided to devote his free time into a career transition to full stack development. He loves technology and programming, and his other passions include: hiking, traveling, craft beer, the beach, and playing a lot of board games. As a member of the One Community team, Kevin is helping with the Highest Good Network software.

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Creating an abundant planet is recognizing that global abundance is measured by those of us who have the least. To help those who need help the most, while helping everyone else too, One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for teacher/demonstration hubs that will teach, evolve, and make globally accessible sustainable, regenerative, and replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the December 11th, 2022 edition (#507) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Abundant Planet
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on how they relate to creating an abundant planet: 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team held the weekly meeting with the aircrete team, made a list of tasks for the team, and responded to comments and emails. The same team member also addressed comments in the City Center hub connector final document, and Net-zero Bathroom doc, as well as following up with Luis as he approaches the end of his volunteer term.  Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Another member of the core team used SketchUp to follow the assembly instruction steps for the Murphy bed build. We finished checking the lumber selection and parts layout for the Closet and Storage section and Nightstand section. We pointed out missing parts, misalignment and corrections for alignments of some parts in the lumber cut-out steps, checked corrected issues and resolved corresponding comments. See below on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 54th week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela started off the week by responding to all comments that were left on the Flexible Pavements Design section. She was able to find a resource in order to help the reader reference a database and decided to remove a subsection that was previously created because it related too much to a more elaborate subsection.

Daniela then went through the Roadways document and edited all images that were numbered by cropping them and making sure the title was under the image. She then started working on the Updated Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report. Daniela reviewed what she was previously working on and started off where she left off. She numbered all of the figures and added in anything that she had left out previously. Afterwards Daniela bookmarked and linked the images that had titles in addition to adjusting the formatting. She plans to read through the document next week. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 33rd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming primarily did searches on new waste treatment plant options. All the results were searched via typing: incinerator / gasifier / pyrolysis with electricity generator / generation, then digging into the details. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 13th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy researched, edited, and rewrote the Non-recyclables Recycling Options (Metal recovery from e-waste and aluminum composite material, Crushing method for construction and demolition waste, Separation method for absorbent hygiene products) and the Non-recyclables Waste-To-Energy Options (Pyrolysis technology) of the tutorial. She carried out new research requested in the comment and integrated Ming’s research findings. See below for some pictures related to this work on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 13th week with the team. This week, Julia completed her final review of the “Flexible Pavement Design” section from the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She resolved and addressed comments as needed. Julia then made all remaining fixes to the images on the “City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool” webpage and resolved all of the comments on the corresponding Feedback PDF.

She then continued to work on the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” webpage, addressing, resolving, and adding comments as needed to the source Google Doc. She also re-sourced and re-uploaded a few blurry images from the site to update them with improved quality and legibility. Julia then added new resources from the Google Doc to the “Resources” section of the live page and backed each one up to her shared Dropbox folder.

Finally, Julia completed her initial review of the “Waste to energy incinerators master” spreadsheet. She used the comments to leave feedback and to ask questions, and made various formatting updates to make the sheets more visually effective. The pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 8th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Aircrete Team made aircrete utilizing a 7-gallon bucket instead of a 5-gallon bucket, which was successful in containing the aircrete better and mitigating material loss due to splashing. The team continued to have trouble maintaining the right foam density, so care was taken by checking the density before measuring the amount needed when mixing. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 4th week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. ‹â€¹This week, Yifei continued to work on revising the net-zero bathroom design and assembly instructions. She mainly focused on how to make the content easier for readers to understand. Yifei made suggestions, rephrased the content based on her understanding, and asked Diwei questions. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to creating an abundant planet: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 58th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. Venus completed roofs number 1 and 3. She modeled the roof in Revit according to the SketchUp model and started to create the section view of these roofs to show the R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 24th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica designed the Bathroom for room 3. She kept the same pallet used in the room. She tried different compositions of finishes, and got the images you see below. Jessica chose furniture and finishes, and started adding in the Interior design Cost Analysis. She also added the bathroom page on the PPT. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 24th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on improving the materials of the 3D model and doing a few tests as the TV didn’t work as planned. She added a nightstand on both sides of the bed, a few more details at the bathroom, the surround sound system, and asked and worked on the Cost Analysis Table. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 13th weeks helping with web design. Charles spent the week working on the City Center Eco-laundry page. He worked on the Interactive Tool Tutorial, Search Results of Specific Machines, Eco-Laundry Research Methods, Discussion and Frequently Answered Questions sections. The pictures below share some of this developing work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Ranran Zhang (Architectural Designer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the updated video internal and external walkthrough for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ranran finished the onboarding process and gained an initial understanding of the workflow. On Tuesday, Ranran had her first meeting with other members (Xuanji, Yuxi, and Huiya) on zoom. During the meeting, Ranran learned more about the project through the presentation of the other team members.

On Thursday, Ranran and Yuxi had a second meeting to discuss the rendering. They found out that there are still some details of the SketchUp model that need to be modified before importing it into Lumion. Therefore, in the second half of the week, Ranran focused on modifying the SketchUp model. She repaired the shell of the living dome. And she referred to the AutoCAD files to modify the materials of the main entrance of the building and the entrance of the social space. Ranran also modified some details inside the building, like the position of trees and butterflies. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures on how they relate to creating an abundant planet: 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 core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We went through the 3-Day Menu Block doc resolving comments that had been addressed or were outdated. The comments all pertained to a series of back and forth comments by various team members addressing a multitude of food issues throughout the doc and mostly related to complete proteins, amino acids, sodium amounts, etc. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

The core team also finished guiding the creation of the Aquapini/Walipini video tour. All that remains now is to upload it to YouTube, SEO optimize it, share it on all our social media networks, and add it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant planet 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.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together to promote creating an abundant planet: 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an abundant planet 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

Over the past week the core team completed 27 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

The core team also wrote the SEO content and uploading this video to YouTube:

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 34th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on fixing the “cannot save task edits” problem, she figured out the problem and found the cause, and solved the problem in her 3rd cherry-pick PR. Other than that, she ran management work, provided help on Slack, fixed release merge conflicts, and hotfixed the app as usual. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 20th and 20th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Yan tried to fix the bug when reaching out about the reactivate date and found when reaching out the end date did not automatically get deleted, which may cause this bug. She also refined the email format details, including the date format. Yan additionally added an email to notify the Admin when the app reactivates a paused person. She also tried to fix the bug about a deactivated user ending one day too soon. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 19th week helping create videos. This week, Arthur worked on the last video: The Aquapini Labeling video. He mostly had to improve the tracking of some labels and re-time the blocks of the introduction to match the music beats. Arthur delivered a total of 6 exports for Jae. This final video should be ready and approved within the next week. See pictures below that are related to this work and on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung started off with rebasing the fix-timelog branch and pushing it back with changes. While he waited for the fix-timelog to be reviewed, he made 2 changes to the task-dashboard branch. First, he fixed an error so Owners/Admins can also delete tasks. Second, he changed the delete function from reducers to utils folder. Then Kaung noticed there was a node error in the fix-timelog github PR and worked on installing the node packages again. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kevin worked on adding new suggestions made by the reviewer of his WBS task deletion PR. This included formatting the code and changing the controller row (with the actions) to properly span the correct amount of rows and changIng it to match the amount of columns the parent has.

He also did a PR review for Yiyun – Backend and frontend of tasks suggestions by managers and mentors, looked into some extra tasks Jae assigned regarding WBS task deletion and changing the warning message, and looked into the API call to the backend to make sure tasks are not actually getting fully deleted. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Guilherme finished the task to show the tasks in the user’s profile project tab. The layout and a brief demonstration were provided. The delete option is just appearing to the users that have the permission “unassignUserInProject”, so just the Administrator and the Owner. The tasks are being shown in the ascending order by their id. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, codes related to the auto-assignment of badges after completion of the due date was found. Each method was analyzed. To make changes and check changes, due dates need to be manipulated so that the changes become immediate instead of having to wait until the end of the week. That part of the problem is still being worked on. Once it is worked out, the rest of the badge related bugs should be easy to configure. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang spent most of his time debugging the user profile issue, and he made a quick fix for that bug. He also helped other team members by reviewing their pull requests. The rest of the time, he worked with the volunteering times bug, he made it so task hours can be logged correctly, and will continue working on this bug next week. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan started by working on fixing an issue that was not resolved in a PR he raised previously so the correct data will show when viewing another person’s dashboard. The problem was that the wrong tasks sometimes would show up in the Timelog component, and to make sure this did not happen anymore, Alan made some changes in the Timelog component.

The component now renders based on only the userID that is passed as a prop by dashBoard component. He also made sure that the popUpBar sticks to the top when we scroll through the dashboard. After he raised a PR that fixes this, he carried on to work on fixing ESlint problems on the backend and he raised a PR for that. Then he continued working on ESlint problems in the frontend. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Worked on the design tasks 1.2.1 – BM summary dashboard and 1.2.3 – Project specific page. She submitted 1.2.3 for final review, made a short walkthrough video for easy understanding, and also suggested some improvements at the end of the video. In addition to this, she reviewed Jianjun’s user flow design and wireframes designs and provided suggestions for consistency. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun started working on the wireframe design of the HGN Phase II system. She first proposed a new navigation bar with a hamburger menu, then changed it back to a drop down menu to match the existing system. She reorganized the layout of the original “add material/equipment or tool” pages and reduced its complexity. She also redesigned the “daily log E/T issue” page as “update E/T status” page with a redirection page to make it easier to use. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to creating an abundant planet.

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One Community is paving the path to rebalancing the biosphere with open source plans for teacher/demonstration hubs that will teach and evolve radically sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are developing this as an open source and free-shared model for living and creating for “The Highest Good of All”.

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• 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 December 4th, 2022 edition (#506) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Rebalancing the Biosphere
One Community Progress Update #506

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere: 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team reviewed work that the aircrete team had done last week, followed up on unaddressed comments, and led the weekly meeting. The same team member also responded to comments within the climate battery document, and continued to work on the quotes for the punch and dies needed for the City Center hub connectors. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Another member of the core team used SketchUp to follow the assembly instruction steps for the Murphy bed build. We finished checking lumber selection and parts layout for the wall assembly and Table/Benches assembly sections. Suggestions made were related to size of the lumber, parts layout changes, missing parts and lumber selection. See below on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 53rd week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela started off by reviewing all the newest comments made on the Flexible Pavement Design section. She researched information that was being asked for and incorporated her finding into the narrative for the Cold in Place Recycling subsection. Throughout the week she continued to address other comments on the section and altered the narrative based on questions left.

Daniela finished up responding to the majority of the comments, then decided she needed to do more research for the last subsection. It was difficult for her to find an image that correctly represented the concept so she looked for more resources. Daniela found multiple resources and read through them to ensure that what she wrote was correct. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 32nd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming continued research on new and alternative incinerator equipment for small-scale mixed-waste treatment. No significant discovery was made since all the equipment is less versatile than that provided by Dongguan Haibao. Also, a clarification for incineration over landfill was made and incorporated into the main doc. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 13th week with the team. This week, Julia watched and reviewed the “Ultimate Classroom” video and added comments with her feedback. She then continued to work on the “Flexible Pavement Design” section of the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Webpage and resolved and added comments as necessary while also editing new content. Julia also worked on the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” webpage.

She completed her review and editing of the content for grammar and spelling fixes on the live page and used the source Google Doc for questions and clarifications. As these comments were addressed, Julia integrated fixes to the content. For this webpage, she also updated all of the embedded links throughout the content and in the Resources section with the correct settings and mouseover texts. She also reviewed all of the images and ensured their Alternative texts and Image Title Attributes were correctly formatted. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also completed her 3rd week working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. ‹â€¹This week she added content to the file according to the outline, proofread for grammar mistakes, and adjusted figures’ content. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team finished creating the video tour of the Duplicable City Center and surrounding grounds. All that remains now is to upload it to YouTube, SEO optimize it, share it on all our social media networks, and add it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 57th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value for roof number 3 and modeled the roof according to the SketchUp model on the Revit file. See pictures below on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 23rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica searched for ideas to start designing the bathroom for the Sunrise Dream – Room 3. She continued with the 3D model, started the PTT with images and details of furniture and textures, and also did renderings of the different colors for the string lights for the sun on the dome wall. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 23rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on the room layout, changing the position of the couch, adding one more position for the room, but still having the main bed centered with the TV. She also started working on the bathroom design, running a few render tests of the bathroom to check the finishes and materials. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 13th weeks helping with web design. Charles spent the week working on the City Center Eco-laundry page. He converted the Product Type/Criteria Levels graphic from a table to an image and started adding content to the section Summary and Limitations near the graphic called “Annual Baseline Water Consumption Across Different Washing Machine Types”. The content included the sections Initial Machine Rationale and Flexibility Strategy, Industrial Laundry, Summary, Running Your Own Calculation, and the Interactive Tool Tutorial. Charles paid particular attention to the metadata including alt and title text.  The pictures below share some of this developing work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This past week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We focused on addressing and agreeing quinoa was a food staple, providing lesser expensive costs than 25# bags of black beans and long grain brown rice. We also clarified by rewording the omnivore and vegan recipes, stating the elimination of the meat/dairy ingredient and replacing it with a vegan substitute so as not to confuse the interpretation of the recipe. This clarifies we’re replacing something rather than just adding to, for instance, a complete vegan recipe, without a substitution of the omnivore ingredient for the vegan ingredient. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

The core team also started guiding the creation of the Aquapini/Walipini video tour. Below are some images related to this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This last week, the core team finished creating the video tour of the Ultimate Classroom and surrounding grounds. All that remains now is to upload it to YouTube, SEO optimize it, share it on all our social media networks, and add it to the relevant pages of our website. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is rebalancing the biosphere 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 on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere: 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

Over the past week the core team completed 26 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and setting up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 33rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into helping the team solve the backend merge conflicts and researching on cleaning up the Dependabot PRs. She also did some management work like reviewing the DropBox submissions and tasks’ progress. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 18th week helping create videos. This week, Arthur worked on finishing the Ultimate Classroom Labeling video and the Duplicable City Center Labeling video. Working on the animated introduction of the Ultimate Classroom video was a big part of his week as well. Both videos were completed and delivered. Arthur then started to work on the Aquapini labeling video as well as creating its animated intro. See pictures below that are related to this work on how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang reviewed four pull requests. Three have already been merged and one is still waiting for the fix. Kaixiang found a new bug that he could not load the user profile page and left a message on Slack.

After he did debug he found it was because the backend side PR of misspelling infringements has not been merged and he left a message to let Alan know it. A new volunteering times bug was found by Jae on his previous work and he started working on fixing those. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Alan started working on re-enabling ESlint. He read the feedback that Yiyun Tan left, and read how ESlint is expected to be used in the Front End Project. He then researched best practices and made sure it works well with prettier code formatter. He made a PR for re-enabling ESlint, then Alan chose to tackle the task of creating a button that displays all the summaries of the “teammates” of the current user. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Rajasri “RJ” Janakiraman (React/MongoDB Full-stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week RJ completed the onboarding process and got the app working on her local machine. She analyzed the existing design document of Phase II and clarified her doubts, cleaned up the wireframes by organizing the pages and removing the old designs, and outlined a few points for the BM summary dashboard which will be incorporated into the design.

She worked on “Finalizing the WBS for Phase II” and has come up with the System design WBS but it requires further refinement and estimation for each task. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

Jianjun Luo (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jianjun first set up the development environment as suggested, then completed the onboarding checklists. After the initial setup, she joined the team to complete the HGN Phase II Outline document. She improved the user class structure and clarified their authorization. After the discussion in the kick-off meeting, Jianjun drew a new user task flow diagram to represent a user’s journey through the usage process. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to rebalancing the biosphere.

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One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science by applying our values for the “Highest Good” of all people and life on this planet to every area we’ve identified as necessary to achieve a truly sustainable civilization. This includes developing open source and free-shared sustainability models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, they will be used to construct teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and evolve these ideas even more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 27th, 2022 edition (#505) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Ethics as a Design Science
One Community Progress Update #505

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating ethics as a design science through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about how we promote ethics as a design science: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on how they relate to ethics as a design science: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two that relates to ethics as a design science: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team organized materials for the team, watched and reviewed methods used by Aircrete Harry, and guided the team on how to make the next 4 batches of experimental aircrete. The same team member also followed up with Yifei regarding her tasks, and Luis about a detail in his weekly summary, as well as responded to several comments from Julia regarding the climate batteries. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Another member of the core team used SketchUp to follow the assembly instruction steps for the Murphy bed build. We finished building the sections for wall base, wall framing, bed framing and table with benches, including checkIng all the lumber measurements and reviewing the order of the wall assembly. Then we did the same for the bed, bedside shelves, back storage unit and nightstand assembly. We also started checking the lumber cutting section by recreating the lumber selections with the required assembly parts for the wall section in 3D.See below on how they relate to ethics as a design science

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 84th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more revisions based on team feedback. Revisions were focused mainly on formatting and alignment fixes. Screenshots below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 52nd week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week, Daniela continued to focus on responding to comments/questions. She started by researching more information for the Cold in Place Recycling section. Once she completed adding more narrative to this section she then started researching why this form of pavement rehabilitation was considered more eco friendly than others. Daniela then incorporated her findings into the narrative.

She was also able to find a resource that further explained a process for another section and linked it in the narrative. Daniela also did more research based on the definitions she added to the glossary in order to ensure a proper explanation. After doing so, she researched and added more information for the FDR section. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 30th and 31st weeks helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. These past two weeks, Ming primarily followed up with suppliers that were contacted previously. After checking with their engineers, a representative from Dongguan Haibao Machinery Technology has endorsed the feasibility of waste-to-energy on mixed waste at small scales, although pre-sorting is needed. Ming also did additional searching on Alibaba for alternative facilities.

One important distinction that was made this week when consulting with suppliers, they referred to WTE as energy-saving facilities for waste processing, not a source of generating renewable energy (Changzhou Jintian is an example of a company that said this). Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 11th and 12th weeks with the team. In the past two weeks, Julia finished reviewing the completion of the “Duplicable City Center Dome-Hub Connector Engineering” Webpage and made necessary coding fixes and content edits to finalize this page. She also checked the corresponding Feedback PDF and resolved comments that had been correctly integrated. Julia then went through the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc, leaving thorough feedback using the comments for recommended research expansion. While doing this, she made edits for grammar and spelling in the content itself.

She also completed review of the Feedback PDF for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” Webpage and left comments for further fixes as necessary. She then began going through the corresponding source Google Doc to check that suggested edits had been integrated properly on the live page.

Finally, Julia completed reviewing the remainder of the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and did a final run through, adding more feedback for further edits as needed. The next week (this last week), Julia worked on the “Sustainable Window and Door Research” Spreadsheet and resolved comments that had been correctly integrated. She also left additional feedback for recommended updates and edits with the comments. Julia then reviewed the Feedback PDF for the “Open Source Climate Battery Design” Webpage and made necessary updates to image formatting and coding.

She begun editing the content of this webpage on the live site and left comments on the source Google Doc for any questions she had. Julia updated all of the linked resources on this webpage so that they are now embedded in the text rather than to reference numbers. Also, Julia continued to address comments and leave feedback on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc, as well as editing added content in the “Flexible Pavement Design” section.

Finally, Julia went through the Feedback PDF for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” Webpage again to address comments, and then she made fixes to coding, formatting, images, and the ToC’s on the live page as needed. See below on how they relate to ethics as a design science

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 11th and 12th weeks working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. For the past two weeks, Mercy focused on the comparison table and evaluating criteria.

She searched for new information (energy input, carbon emission, etc.) on existing selected waste processing plants. She also looked for smaller models to replace options with large capacities. Regarding the criteria, she wrote the equation for emission and population calculation. She updated the comparison table and filled it in with plants that process multiple types of waste. She spent a lot of time researching benchmarks, carbon emission calculations, and carbon capture.

She also contacted suppliers for information not provided on the website. There are several blanks in the table and she will fill them in once the suppliers reply. Since the time spent on the comparison table exceeds her estimate, she will need another 30 hours to work on the narratives and rewrite parts according to the new comparative study. See below for some pictures related to this work on how they relate to ethics as a design science.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

Over the last two weeks, the Compression Testing Team continued to troubleshoot issues related to generating foam of consistent density. They also identified larger buckets to purchase to minimize loss of aircrete volume due to splashing while mixing, and they learned that longer mixing times lead to more bubbles popping, which lead to more water being in the bottom of the cylinders. They then made two batches using Aircrete Harry’s instructions, which had a different method for testing foam density and a lower target foam density than other recommendations. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Yifei Zhu (Analyst and Researcher) also joined the team and completed her 1st and 2nd weeks working on reviewing and formatting for publication the newest content for the Net-zero Bathroom and Earthbag Village water collection and storage. ‹â€¹For her first two weeks, Yifei worked on proofreading the Net-zero Bathroom Design and Assembly Instructions from page 325 to the end, adding comments, fixing spelling and grammar mistakes, and raising clarifying suggestions. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to ethics as a design science: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 63rd week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. Over the last week he was able to continue elaborating and formatting the descriptions of the Energy Demand Template tab. This expansion and explanation makes it much easier for new users to understand this open source information and replicate these substantial energy budgeting strategies. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 56th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. For the last two weeks, Venus worked on modeling rafters and the roof layers for Roof #3. She modeled the roof according to the SketchUp model and using Revit. Venus added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value and worked on making a section of the roofs to show the R-value as defined by the roof layers. See pictures below on how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 21st and 22nd weeks working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This past couple weeks, Jessica fixed the lighting configuration, putting led strings behind the wood rays, and tested different colors for these LED lights. She tested pink, blue and orange.

She also made small changes in the overall design, so it would look more fluid. And Jessica changed to a round carpet that looks better in the center of the room, aligned with the sun on the wall and chandelier above it. She also reduced the 2 chandeliers to one centralized chandelier and added small lights in the hall and above dresser and couch.

Then she updated the headboard hexagonal pattern to be more organized and updated the ottoman to one that will serve as a stool for the desk too, removing the need for a chair and creating more space for circulation. Jessica also added to the Interior Design Cost Analysis the new furniture and elements and added quantities for floor finishes and wallpaper. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 21st and 22nd weeks working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This past two weeks, Gabriela worked a bit more on the sign to make it fit, but it didn’t, so she changed the entire room to Room 6, as requested, and it looks good. It won’t fit a pull-out couch though.

She also tried a different layout with the decorations and the mirror, changing the brick wall and the “Hollywood” sign to “Old Hollywood”, the name of this room, and worked on a few new layout options to add one more bed. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 11th and 12th weeks helping with web design. This past couple weeks, Charles completed addressing the comments for the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. This included the misalignment of the captions of side-by-side images that were not 50%. ie. some being 30% the the other 70%. The width of all the 30/70 side by side images added up to 640px. The problem was that the caption widget did not center the captions correctly.

Charles then started working on comments to the Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page. Charles finished the images’ alt text and title case for captions comments. Charles also added descriptions for links to the images. He will work on the TOC next week. The pictures below share some of this developing work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures on how they relate to ethics as a design science: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing to promote ethics as a design science: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This past two weeks the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We sorted through individual recipes and touched on ingredient quantities, grammar, bold facing headings that weren’t bold faced, questioning the grouping of ingredients under specific headings, and rewording the vegan and omnivore recipe adaptations to reflect the replacement of one item over the other instead of utilizing the addition of an item when they clearly should be a replacement that was not mentioned, etc. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

And Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 29th and 30th weeks helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Marilyn continued to add recipes to the Summer Fresh Week J menu block and started on Summer Fresh Week K. She focused on using saved and old recipes and scaling them to work as one recipe for both vegans and omnivores where possible. The pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

• Program Overview on how they relate to ethics as a design science: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together to promote ethics as a design science: 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

These last couple weeks, the core team continued creating the video tour of the Ultimate Classroom and surrounding grounds with many more rounds of review and feedback for Arthur. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview on how they relate to ethics as a design science: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing on how they relate to ethics as a design science: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models to promote ethics as a design science: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

Over the past 2 weeks the core team completed 41 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

The core team also updated additional areas of our site with the new videos from Arthur. See below on how they relate to ethics as a design science

Here’s the latest one we’ve finished and added!

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 31st and 32nd weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. This past couple weeks, Yiyun put most of her time on wrapping up the “edit suggested tasks” development. She created her 2nd “changes pick up” PR, got the 3rd “changes pick up” PR ready, and helped some on the Dependabot PRs that need review. She also helped with reviewing/testing other people’s PRs, answering questions and helping debug on coding problems. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 19th and 20th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan’s work for the last two weeks focused on the user management page setup of the final day button. It is about PR #221 for back end (HGN) and PR #557 for front end HighestGoodNetworkApp. She got feedback on her PR and revised the code and recommitted it. Yan also worked on a bug where the final day is setting one day too advanced. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 16th & 17th weeks helping with updating all our homepage videos. In the last two weeks, Arthur completed the final export of the Main Page Video, and delivered multiple new versions of the Ultimate classroom labeling video and its animated intro. He also started the Duplicable City Center Labeling video. See pictures below that are related to this work on how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 11th and 12th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. ‹â€¹These past two weeks, Kaung continued working on the bug that was not sending requests to the backend. After getting help from Yiyun, Kaung figured out that he was calling the backend with the wrong link. He changed the link and was able to delete the task. At first, whenever the task was deleted though, the WBS was also deleted. It is not the case with a WBS with 1 task, but if the WBS haS more than 1 task, it is a problem. He changed the request link and was able to delete the tasks without deleting the WBS.

The next week (last week), Kaung got feedback from Yiyun regarding the PR from the previous week. The feedback was to change the deletion icon into an imported icon from FontAwesomeIcon and to align the tasks tabs. At first he tried to import the X button from FontAwesomeIcon but he could not use it. He later realized that the documentation he was reading is 5.0 version which is different from 4.0 version. Kaung switched the version and was able to change the X button.

He then saw that there were multiple tables within each row which may be causing the misalignment of the tasks tabs. He tried refactoring them but he broke the code. So instead Kaung changed the tab’s elements to a grid element from CSS and was able to align the tasks. He then pushed the PR. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 9th and 10th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. These past two weeks, Bruce read the source code of the HGNRest(backend) and was able to find the API he needed to get access to the database to call getUserByName. He found that this API has already implemented the function of splitting firstname and lastname, but since some users have 3 to 4 words in their name, this API needs some modifications.

Bruce spent the next week trying to get users from the database but he could not because of all those not in the database. He then managed to write a function and determined that out of 238 contributors in this page, 213 are not in the database. Also, he tried to get the profilePic from the users but nothing was returned because no image was associated with the users in the database. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. For the past couple weeks, Kevin looked into a crash that Aashish was getting, an unhandled exception crash on code Kevin previously committed. Kevin could not reproduce the code and not likely something he did, but likely exposed by his code so he implemented a PR with new code that will catch the unhandled exception and will prevent the app from crashing and instead display an error – but the deletion/assignment should work as intended.

Then he worked on getting the WBS task button to properly delete, this helped him find out it was an improper API call to the backend which resulted in a 404 response from the server. Lastly, Kevin worked to reimplement a new button on the WBS task to display the hidden task actions that were hidden and hard to get to before. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. These last two weeks he made a correction in his first PR, two code reviews, and started a new task, 2.3.2 Show assigned tasks as projects on user profile “project” tab; make them deletable.

He is still thinking about what is the best way to display the info about the tasks inside the table. Guilherme already made the logic to display everything, but still needs to sort the tasks and call the delete function for deleting a task. He then fixed a bug in the dashboard permissions. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 6th and 7th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. Over the last two weeks, Aashish worked on the solution to getting the badges displayed by streak. It’s complicated. First, the already existing streaks will be corrected and after, a filter will be put to give precedence to the higher streak, thus removing the previously accumulated streaks. A few PRs were also looked into.

The fix for badge streak will require a little bit more time to find where in the code it is auto assigned. A majority of badge related bugs require filters to get them working the way they are supposed to but so far none of the files Aashish has worked on have such codes. So, once the code where the auto-assigning of badges is figured out, Aashish will have an easier time fixing the badge bugs as a group. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 3rd and 4th weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. Over the past two weeks, Kaixiang tested, reviewed and approved Guilherme’s PR. He tested Alan’s PR and left his comments on Slack, fixed ‘Zoom’ as the default value of the video call preference, and completed the UI update for the permissions management dashboard task, and made the related pull request in GitHub. Kaxiang also reviewed and approved Alan and Guilherme’s PRs and started working to fix the auto-refresh bug of category hours. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd and 3rd weeks helping with the Highest Good Network software. For the last two weeks, Alan continued to work on the dashboard component. He was able to fix the problem with the summaryBar component not displaying the correct data for the current user, and he created a pull request for that. He was able to do this by making sure we are displaying the data based on userID rather than the authenticated user.

He also fixed some conflicts in the PR he created that fixed the problem where the wrong data was displayed when a new dashboard window popped up after clicking the dot next to a name in the leaderboard. He was able to fix that and the PR was eventually approved. Then Alan worked on fixing the misspellings of infringements that were on the frontend and backend, and he was able to do that without affecting the functionality of the app. He then carried on working on the misspelling of committed, and was able to fix most of the misspellings but not all of them. It seems that the variable name in the MongoDB schema must be changed.

He also deleted yarn files and dependencies from the project and created a PR for that. On Saturday, Alan noticed that the tangible time in the Leaderboard and the tangible time in the summaryBar did not match for the current user, so he created a PR fixing that. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to ethics as a design science.

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Working with nature is only one part of being conscious and conscientious global stewards. To really make a difference, sustainably addressing our systems for food, energy, housing, and even education, economic design, and social architecture is needed. One Community is designing open source and free-shared plans that do this for all these areas and more. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This is the November 20th, 2022 edition (#504) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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This last week the core team members responsible for production of these weekly progress updates were out of town for three days and then got notice of a death in the family and were required to be out of town an additional 2.5 days. For this reason, and for the first time in over nine and a half years, we put the weekly progress reporting on pause for a week. 

We’ll report on everyone’s work for this week along with their work next week. 

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We’re developing these resources for use as standalone solutions or integrated into teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will drive the creation of more hubs as awareness and knowledge expand, supporting One Community’s mission of working with nature and improving quality of life for all.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone and our mission of working with nature for better living quality for all people.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We offer hands-on training to expand our sustainable foundation, making this solution accessible, duplicable, and inspiring worldwide—advancing One Community’s mission and commitment to better living for all.

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

The more people that are inspired and desiring for themselves what it is that One Community creates, the more demand there will be for spreading the One Community model. This leads to the directing of financial resources and resourceful people where we believe they are needed most: the establishment of additional sustainable communities around the world. We also feel this duplication will specifically happen quickly internationally due to the affordability of overseas land, less restrictive building environments, and the spirit of adventure in many people who really desire to make a difference for those who need it most. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

To meet the increasing demand for sustainability that we are contributing to, we are coordinating with manufacturers, education institutions, individuals, and vendors. This is also part of this model to help the world. Its purpose is to facilitate more engagement of the sustainability industry, produce the absolute best possible consumer value, and the most convenient delivery of goods and methodologies for building sustainable living communities and sustainable living components. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

This means we not only provide education and increase needed sustainability resources, we also address the underlying roadblocks to a sustainable planet by decreasing the cost and simultaneously increasing the demand and generating financial support for global sustainability, philanthropy, and humanitarian movements and organizations. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

As demand increases, so too will the ways to participate. Right now people are participating as consultants or partners donating time to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and others are more involved as Pioneers of the core team that will be moving to the property. We also have options for people to just follow our progress or participate through internet contribution. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Once the supportive physical infrastructure is about 30% developed, One Community will be ready to additionally expand what we offer to include scholarships, free weekend learning groups, core team members choosing to travel abroad to help others get established too, handling the marketing for all similar models operating for The Highest Good of All, and hosting classes and other sponsored events to promote and demonstrate additional methodologies. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

We also imagine the high likelihood that our organization will become a foundation that can be trusted as the donation point for distribution of monies to help others to establish this model also. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other. This work helps One Community’s mission of working with nature and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

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

One Community is charting a path to true wealth using radical sustainability. We’re doing this because we believe it’s not money that people want, but rather the things money can (and can’t) buy. In our opinion, “true wealth” is a life that fully meets our foundational needs, builds and maintains quality relationships, includes more of the things that make us happy and more time to do those things, and, in the case of our team, makes a difference in the world. Our open source and free-shared plans are designed to achieve all of these and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 13th, 2022 edition (#503) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Path to True Wealth
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on how they relate to a path to true wealth: 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 member managing the aircrete compression testing team emailed a schedule to the aircrete team for the next two weeks, had a weekly meeting with them, and reviewed the data collected to date. The same team member also created an outline and reviewed the tasks list for the rainwater catchment content, and continued working on the DIY option details for the hub connectors for the City Center. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Another member of the core team finished updating the “Aircrete Engineering and Research” website and submitted it again for review by Julia. We resolved comments by fixing indent level for the Materials List, changed the list from numbered to bulleted list, added missing anchors for the “Related Pages” section, fixed broken links in the Resources section, updated the FAQ section with bold font for all questions, and updated all images attributes with captions. See below on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

The core team also worked with the software development team further evolving the user stories and flowcharts for the Highest Good Network software Phase 2 which is a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking component of this web application. See below on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 51st week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela worked on adding more to the narrative for the Flexible Pavement Design section. Based on previous comments, Daniela decided to research and find more information about certain topics that needed more clarification or explanation.

Throughout the week she searched for more resources and read through current documents in order to find the information she was looking for. She changed some paragraph formatting for better narrative flow in addition to adding new images. Daniela responded to comments and changed some sections within the Flexible Pavement Design section in order to add more narrative. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 34th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ‹â€¹This week Diwei summarized the storage container of the stormwater harvesting system. Different types of water tanks such as fiberglass cisterns, Atlantis flo-tank systems, and reinforced concrete (RCC) water tanks were presented. Designs of the sedimentation chamber upstream of the water tanks were illustrated. Pump stations, submersible pumps, and pressure tanks downstream of the pump were shown too. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 10th week with the team. This week, Julia worked on more on reviewing the “Flexible Pavement Design” section on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She also went through the “Duplicable City Center Natural Pool & Spa” Feedback PDF and addressed and resolved comments for finalizing this Webpage.

Julia then continued to work on the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF and resolved comments that had been integrated. She added further comments for suggested improvements to make these instructions as visually effective as possible. Also this week, Julia began the management of feedback for the “Addressing Non-recyclables” Google Doc. She reviewed and edited the content, making minor grammar and spelling fixes and added comments for needed expansions on research. See below on how they relate to a path to true wealth

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 10th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy edited the non-recyclables tutorial and researched on the questions raised in the comments. She spent most of her time researching whether incineration is a recommended WTE for small communities and the distinction between recycling and WTE. She is now reevaluating recommendations related to incineration. Mercy also edited some sections in the related hardware research spreadsheet. See below for some pictures related to this work and on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 9th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip finalized the draft of the best windows tab and made adjustments to the best door tab. He also started working on a spreadsheet to rank the best door companies by figuring out what the most important criteria are for ranking these companies. See below for some pictures of this work and on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 5th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the team purchased a lot of distilled water. They began making standard aircrete with soft water and Drexel, and tagged and compressed all 6 cylinders (2 batches) at the 48 hr mark. The first batch of 3 experienced collapse, about 0.5 to 1 inch. During compression testing these 48 hr cylinders “squished” instead of breaking or cracking. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to a path to true wealth: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 62nd week, now helping with energy analysis for our open source solar microgrid design. This week Luis developed the Solar Sizing calculations and website narrative. He updated and validated the minimum, maximum, and average energy demands across the Duplicable City Center, Earthbag Village, Ultimate Classroom, and the Strawbale Village. He also formatted and added to the narrative for the website. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 55th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing roof number 3. She modeled the rafters and the roof, added layers to the roof to achieve the desired R-value, added the joint details, and started to make a section of roof to show R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 20th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica configured all the lights and materials so she could start to render all the scenes. She added the led strip lights on the rays for the dome wall. Also the clouds lamps. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 20th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela worked on improving the size, location, sign and other details of the box for the TV. She also made a box office for the window to fix the problem with the curtains and changed the room layout to center the bed more on the TV. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 10th week working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. Charles completed working on Jae’s comments on the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page feedback PDF. The focus there was mostly mouseover text in the Table of Contents. Charles also completed the comments by Julia on the pool and spa page. The focus on that page was areas that he’d fixed before and needed additional fixing. See below on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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 detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed, answered questions, and commented throughout the 3-Day Menu Block doc. We also made suggestions for standardizing the individual recipes regarding the inconsistencies in the title caps, spacing, bold print of instructions, ingredients, spacing between separate entities, etc. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

This week Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 28th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to research recipes for Summer Fresh Week J and K menu blocks. She utilized some recipes that were taken out from previous Fresh Week menu blocks and developed some new recipes that require fresh ingredients. She commented on the recipe summaries overview and is continuing the process of adding recipes to the menu blocks. The pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week the core team began creating the video tour of the Ultimate Classroom and surrounding grounds. Below are some pictures of this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth 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 on how they relate to a path to true wealth: 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 23 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

The core team also completed another 5 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery for the new overview video Arthur is developing. See below on how they relate to a path to true wealth

We also uploaded, shared, and added to the appropriate places on our website this finished video!

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan finished the set final day button on the user management page this week and fixed the related bug (described last week). Now it is possible to set the final day and delete the final day as an Admin. Now, both the admin and user can select the last day. All that remains is to push the PR for the above coding, which means the front-end work of this project is finished. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 15th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This Week, Arthur mostly worked on delivering new exports of the Main Page video and Ultimate Classroom Labeling video. For the Main Page video he changed out images for the redesigned ones, replaced the animated GFX with a bigger font, and updated the formatting of the intro. For the education video, Arthur added images from the education PDF, updated the callout elements, and worked on the tracking of the callouts. See pictures below that are related to this work on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. ‹â€¹This week, Kaung continued working on the Dashboard component button for deleting tasks. He incorporated the changes request such as changing the button into X instead of “Mark as Done” and also showing a text that says “task will be marked complete and be deleted if the button is clicked”. Kaung realized that the status on editing the tasks does not work also, so now he is focused on just deleting the tasks instead. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce checked and made sure that all the people on this page are crawled down by comparing the page with the output from the code one by one. He also made sure that even if the HTML content is not consistently formatted, the code worked fine and could find all the people on the page. He then found out how to get the authorization token to access the backend APIs that he was struggling with in the last week. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin fixed a UI bug with the featured badges system where the featured checkbox was not properly aligned with its corresponding column. As a member of the Management Dashboard team, he worked on adding a task deletion method within the WBS tasks area.

Kevin noticed there was already pre-existing functionality and design for this feature, so for the time being, he copied the existing code for a ‘Remove’ button on the Action column of the WBS task table. It still needs further testing though before he raises the PR. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme finished the Dashboard permissions. He needed to change the hasPermission function in all files again, in order to adapt to permissions of a specific user. The user permissions management layout needed to be changed too. He then raised the PRs for back-end and front-end for code review, explaining what was changed. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week the duplicate badges have been removed from the HGN APP (surge.sh) for dev admin. There were some issues that disabled badge functionality in the app but they were fixed. The display of badge streak is still a work in progress. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Vivian Baik (Software Engineer and Project Team Leader) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software, specifically on Phase 2, a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking web application. Vivian continued to develop the wireframes and documentation for the project. She updated the ‘Add Tool or Equipment’ form, daily logging of Tool/Equipment form, and the main project dashboard. She also created a wireframe for creating a new team page, time log for members and Build Manager dashboard. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Alan Lee Sing Chan (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Alan got his local environment set up and began working on a bug related to viewing other people’s dashboards. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaixiang focused on two issues for the volunteering times bug. He added features that allow an admin and manager to manually input numbers in volunteering times and made it so category hours will track edited time entries to increase/decrease the number compared to their old entry. Kaixiang then made a PR, posted it on Slack, and updated the Google Docs. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us fix an issue where our other sites were prompting users to download a .gz formatting file. The pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to a path to true wealth.

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