One Community welcomes Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Gabriela holds of a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Urban Planning, and also has a scholarship in the Brazilian government program “Ciência Sem Fronteiras” (Science Without Borders), where she studied abroad at Washington State University, taking English and Architecture classes. Gabriela has 5+ years of professional experience as an Architect working with Corporate Interiors improving the daily work experience of 5,000+ employees. She believes that design is more than what you see, it is what you experience on a daily basis and how it contributes to improving your quality of life. As a member of the One Community team, Gabriela is helping design a unique “Fairy Garden” themed hotel room for the Living Dome of the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM GABRIELA!

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The time has come for creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth. We’re creating one that is open source and free-shared, includes all aspects of sustainable living, demonstrates a more luxurious living experience, and designed to build DIY-replicable teacher/demonstration hubs that will further the movement and make comprehensive sustainability accessible to anyone who wants it. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth 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 is the August 7th, 2022 edition (#489) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth
One Community Progress Update #489

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 39th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued writing the sections regarding Flexible Pavement Design. She started off the week by focusing on the preliminary analysis. In order to further explain some concepts, she reviewed some resources and analyzed the information in order to fully comprehend the material. Daniela also wrote and addressed some commentary for her work.The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Once finishing the write up for the preliminary analysis section, she started making additions to the CBR Design Procedure section. In all subsections Daniela added more information in order to ensure that the reader understood not only the concept but also the charts she had provided. Daniela also went on to address other comments she had left in the maintenance and rehabilitation section. She added images to break up the text and started researching some information based on her previous comments. She then bolded all concepts that may need definitions either in the narrative or in the glossary and make a blueprint for a sustainable earth. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week, Diwei added more details for drainage and structure to the Earthbag village 3D model to help make a blueprint for a sustainable earth. The procedure for determining the dimension of the drainage with a given flow rate and the slope was documented. For simplicity, the rectangular section was used. The most efficient rectangular section has a width:height ratio equal to 2:1.  Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 18th 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 over what waste types should be considered if they come from something toys, razors, or other appliances to help make a blueprint for a sustainable earth. This is crucial because he needs to confirm all the feedstocks for power generation to estimate the amount to be treated each year. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 10th  and final week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia focused on reviewing and editing mostly on the sections on plasma gasification and case studies on where waste to energy solutions are already in effect. The latter requires some more research to provide the most up-to-date information. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 45th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed the North, West, East, and South elevations according to the SketchUp Model and plans. This work helps make a blueprint for a sustainable earth. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 41st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya coordinated with Jae and Kamil to sort out the discrepancy in the window design she found last week. After she got the correct window frames, she modeled the living dome windows using the correct window structural model. Next week, she will open the window holes on the living dome shell. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 39th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi worked on the Dining Dome’s large windows. Shell surfaces were cleaned and prepared for the windows. The old window was sized for the inner wall, so moving it outward disrupted the transition between surrounding planes. Though new to multi-plane modeling, she found a method to create the desired window and plans to complete it next week. Pictures of the work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 13th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil began creating the final assembly by splitting the parts of the design into timber pieces. He finished assembling the frame of the first floor dormer by mating all the pieces together within SolidWorks. Then he started working to complete the second floor assembly with drawings of each timber piece. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 11th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue Wang continued the development of Room 8, the Nautical themed room. She worked on the window design and furniture design in SketchUp. She also updated the plan in AutoCAD the Interior Design Cost Analysis Spreadsheet. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for pictures related to this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked to finish the trees inside the room, adding more branches and leaves, changing the texture and running a few test renders to see if it’s working. She will add a few more branches and leaves as requested. Gabriella also did a few adjustments on the Cost Analysis Table and added a few details in the bathroom. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica adapted the theme ”Fall” to ”Country cabin”, this was done to avoid a seasonal theme that might appeal less to people during other seasons. This change meant she needed to do more research to have references to work with, then she changed the 3D model that was already in progress. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

She kept the same color palette, removed the pallet furniture, and picked rustic furniture to compose the new theme. Elements like shaggy carpets, rustic furniture, plaid fabrics, wood, trees and mountain animals decor were inserted. Jessica did the design in parallel with the search for items available on the market, adding them to the Design Cost Analysis for room number 11 spreadsheet too. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth 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 and added comments on the 3-Day Menu Block doc through page 86. Subject matter included suggesting elimination of almond milk due to its expense and various unhealthy additives, eliminating cornstarch from the ingredients list, pre-soaking beans to reduce cooking time and increase digestibility, and commenting on garlic seed cloves curing and storage. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also continued working on the Assembly Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn. We finished assembly of the feeder section with instructions for attachment of the cattle panel inserts. We then started working on the assembly steps for the milking station. We made a couple of corrections to the milking station design to improve stability of the stand by adding leg braces and head gate braces to the design. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Below are some images related to this.

The core team additionally worked with Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) (completing his 23rd week helping) review all comments on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan master Google Doc of recipes to make appropriate substitutions for every ingredient not on the Master List. We spent 3 hours on a Zoom doing this and then updated all the Master Spreadsheets with new ingredients that we agreed should be added and then we fixed all the connection codes and related formatting. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Below are some images related to this.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 16th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to make adjustments to menu blocks which included changing some recipes as suggested after review, as well as adjusting the changed recipe instructions and old menu block recipe instructions. She also started to fill out missing recipes on the SECOND WEEK menu blocks and is researching and saving recipes for future menu blocks. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 7th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on updating and correcting the cost analysis spreadsheet. She started updating column H (estimated cost per unit) of the spreadsheet. She also reorganized and started fixing ingredients listed on the spreadsheet and updated the master recipe document with the comments for ingredient substitution for FWA-FWD recipes. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for a sustainable earth 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.The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph continued with the element analysis and design process of structural elements including sizing of the beams, column and wall elements. The model has not yet satisfied drift adjustments. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 20 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun finished her rework on the updating timeEntry controller backend PR, per Eiki’s review. It is now ready for merging and testing. After that, she started creating a new task component for each task, so when clicking each task from the management dashboard, it will render to a single task page. Before, this feature only worked for level 1 tasks, with the new component added, it works for all level (1/2/3/4) tasks. This work helps make a blueprint for a sustainable earth.Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries and reviewed PR 173, found bugs, made suggestions to fix them, and approved the fixed PR. Eiki advanced the task edit suggestions feature by implementing backend fetching, auto-creating suggestions for users without edit permissions, and enabling rejection of suggestions. He also ensured the component only displays for users with edit permissions. This work supports a sustainable earth. See pictures below.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan continued to work on the buttons. She created a delete button, and if the user clicks the “delete last day” button, the end date will be shown as N/A on both the user profile and volunteer time page. The “delete” button will also change back to the “set the final day” button. A bug was also identified where, after saving the selected last day date, the user’s status changes from active to inactive. This work helps make a blueprint for a sustainable earth. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur completed the initial setup and then went through all the resource materials that are at his disposal. He organized and renamed each file in the dropbox shared with Jae, created good file management folders on his laptop, and almost finished the first draft of the first video, “Overview”. The work helps One community’s mission of a blueprint for a sustainable earth and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this developing work.

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One path to happier living and global sustainability is facilitating a global community collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate them. A self-replicating model like this has the potential to create positive and permanent global change within one generation. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. One Community is supporting this with what we call “Highest Good” designs and open source and free-shared plans for all aspects of sustainable living.

• 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. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This is the July 31st, 2022 edition (#488) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Community Collaborative
One Community Progress Update #488

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 78th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Her work focused on addressing additional comments on the new PDF export. The work helps  global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Screenshots below show some of her latest updates.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 38th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela primarily focused on writing more narrative for the flexible pavement design section she has been working on. She reviewed the narrative as a whole to ensure that the section sounded cohesive and added a few more notes for herself. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Based on the sources she took notes on last week, she wrote more information for the flexible pavement widening section, researched more information for the preliminary analysis section, and found more sources. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. Diwei confirmed the fire engine meets access requirements for the Earthbag Village and that the entrance ramp allows pickup truck access. Drainage details were added, including stormwater harvesting trenches.The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 17th 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 was first looking for medium-scale wast-to-energy examples in the United States, trying to see how close he can get to small scales. However, the focus was narrowed down to certain waste types containing plastic and metal.

For the rest of the week, Ming learned properties of non-biodegradable wastes like razor and toys, how they are treated, and how they are recycled or turned into energy using steam turbines. The next step is to find whether they can be treated on small scales. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 9th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia spent some time reviewing some of the existing tutorials and getting reacquainted with the formatting in order to translate it into the Addressing Non-Recyclables document. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. She also continued to review and proofread the content in the document, ensuring that it is clear and easy to digest. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 54th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on updating the design documentation for the Spa with what he hopes will be finishing touches. This week he expanded on the energy requirement calculations and the jet fitting assembly by providing more context to both. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Next week Luis will be finalizing the waterfall description and making the necessary adjustments to make the transition from the website team as easy as possible. Pictures below are related to this work. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 44th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed the West, East, and South elevations. She still needs to work on the North elevation according to the SketchUp Model. Main changes were windows in order to match the new plans and new elevation. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 40th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya tried to apply the redesigned living dome window to the new shell but it turned out that the window could not fit into the new shell. She modeled the window using the exact dimensions of the redesigned window and shared it with the team.The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 38th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi fixed all of the wall and door frame connections of the Dining Dome. The dome’s round shape has made the door frame hard to situate. With the previously proposed wall thickness and wall framing concepts, the fixed connection proposed a smoother transition from plane to plane making it more visually pleasing. At the same time, the design kept the essence of angulating walls so that interior walls reflect the characteristics of the exterior walls. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 12th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil was working specifically on the roofs and their connection points with the dome frame. Ensuring the design can be easily cut and assembled required some creativity to simplify the design. Moving forward, Kamil will be making the final assembly using the split feature on solidworks to make simple instructions for assembly. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued updating the design of Room 8, the Nautical-themed room. She worked on the window, beam, and furniture design in SketchUp. She continued to do furniture research, designed the window and curtain, and designed the living room and bathroom. She also worked on the Interior Design Cost Analysis spreadsheet details. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for pictures related to this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 6th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. Gabriela continued working on Room #12. She focused on changing the existing closet to a corner closet, adding a few more details to the bathroom and adjusting the light for the render process. For the bedroom, Gabriela began working on the trees for the interiors, doing first the trunks and then the leaves. She also updated a couple of lines on the Cost Analysis table. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 6th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica did the research for the room themed ”Autumn”, and picked room 11 to work on it. She defined colors, materials and elements to use on the design. Jessica also defined two options for the layout for the room and picked the one with a bed in front of the window, so people could enjoy the view from outside.

She started the 3D model and studied all the colors, materials and elements picked, worked to find the best way to mix everything, tried different wallpapers for the bed-wall, and added a tree bookshelf and a colorful carpet to give the idea of autumn leaves falling on the ground, illustrating the phenomenon in an abstract way. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for some pictures of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed and answered comments on the 3-Day Menu Block doc, supplied additional comments, and made substitutions in some recipes. We submitted and tested a healthy 3-ingredient buckwheat flapjack recipe and included a 3-step flour making process.

We also assessed a recipe replacing flavored yogurts with plain homemade, utilizing fruits as sweeteners, and researched the diminished quality of roasted nuts vs. raw nuts. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also continued working on the Assembly Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn.We started the feeder assembly section with a material list and reference link to a Premier 1 single unit feeder pdf instructions document, and created step-by-step build images and detailed descriptions for each image.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 15th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to adjust already created menu blocks for Second Weeks to the standard for reviews as well as from suggestions and feedback for already created recipes (which required her to replace some). She also adjusted already created recipes to fit the review criteria for recipe summaries.

In addition to these, Marilyn searched for recipes for cooked staple foods to minimize cooking time in some of the recipes. She is presently working on the menus for the second weeks that have not been created yet, putting into consideration that there should be minimal or no fresh produce in the recipes. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 6th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on updating and editing the master recipe google document. On the master recipe document, she worked on reviewing the recipes and checking that their ingredients are on the master ingredient list. Yinka also made edits to the document on the sections and comments that were assigned to her. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 16th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. Adolph finalized the analysis process of beams, columns and wall elements. He specifically focused on model set-up and input of the data. Element dimensions were adjusted to ensure that the structure is able to withstand the prescribed loading and exposed environmental conditions respectively. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 16 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun finished the feature “create ability for a user to log time on tasks”. She made some code changes on the timeEntry controller from the backend, so when the user is posting or deleting or editing a tangible timeEntry, the “hoursLogged” field of the current task will be updated accordingly. PR is created and waiting for review. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Eiki reviewed weekly summaries and continued frontend work on the task edit suggestions feature. He finished most of the work writing the reducer, actions, thunks, and others. He also moved the state and actions for fetching and sorting the task edit suggestions from within the component to the reducer. Finally, Eiki started work on the backend, setting up the router, controller, and schema. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera redesigned and refactored the team report page. She corrected the height of all report pages – now it occupies the entire available screen. The team report page now looks similar to the people report page. These pages use the same components. Also, Vera created and added a new logo for the team report. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) also completed his 9th and final week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week Yongtae created 10 more images and focused on ways to unify the size of texts so that they all respect the same amount of margin no matter how long the text is. He also looked into using more images from the HGN website. Some of them don’t have very high resolution, so some sort of filtering work on photoshop is necessary. The new images are below.Below you can see the images he created.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason worked on fixing the category hours not being displayed in the profile page. It looked like Phu had already fixed that bug and it just needed to be approved. Jason, therefore, switched his focus on continuing to implement the timelog button feature. He made a few changes to the buttons, namely adding a thicker border and changing the background colors to a mix that looks more pleasing to the user. The work helps global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan this week started to work on the detailed function for this setFinalDay Button. She created a deactiveUser function so that, after clicking the setFinalDayButton, the final day will be shown on volunteer time – end date and user Profile – end date. The work helps  global community collaborative and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Eiki Kan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Eiki graduated from Northeastern University with an MS in Computer Science. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Eiki is developing and managing the management dashboard system of the app. He has demonstrated initiative and effectiveness by identifying problems and implementing solutions in both the frontend and backend – meeting requirements while improving the responsiveness of the website and the modularity of the codebase. Eiki manages the breakdown and distribution of tasks, facilitates open communication, and encourages knowledge sharing.

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One Community welcomes Kivia Sugiarto to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kivia is a passion-driven sustainability professional with interests in waste management, circular economy, carbon neutrality, and corporate sustainability. Having recently completed her Master’s degree in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, Kivia is in her early stages of her career and is looking forward to creating tangible impact in the field. As a One Community team member, Kivia is helping with the research and the writing process for the open source “Addressing Non-recyclables” report and tutorial.

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One Community is forwarding active sustainable reinvention of our world with the open source plans needed to regenerate it sustainably. Our designs include DIY sustainable and replicable models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, enhancing adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This is the July 24th, 2022 edition (#487) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Active Sustainable Reinvention of Our World
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is forwarding active sustainable reinvention of our world through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team reviewed the energy analysis details for the Solar Microgrid sizing and created all new imagery for the site, enhancing adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The images below share some of this work.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #253 of Dean’s work and he produced new renders of the the bathroom/kitchen dome, main bedroom dome, and children’s/guest dome. The top-left image is a final render of the children’s/guest dome. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 37th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started off by reviewing all the newest comments to help in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world. She then adjusted the placement of a few paragraphs and downloaded all the resources linked in the Roadways and Parking Excel sheet. These resources were converted into PDFs, renamed, and uploaded to Dropbox. One resource was missing, so she found a credible alternative with the same information. Additionally, Daniela continued taking notes for the flexible pavement section, identifying key details for the narrative and adding relevant paragraphs. See pictures below for related work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei checked the dimensions of the 3D model against the CAD files. He corrected minor dimension inaccuracies, confirmed the previous layout couldn’t fit a standard wheelchair ramp, and designed a zig-zag ramp to meet slope requirements. However, this reduced the vehicle ramp width to 200 inches, falling short of the 240-inch minimum for fire engines. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 16th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. Ming compared WTE solutions in India, the US, and China, noting how factors like the Clean Air Act and low population density affect transferability. He proposed merging small waste units into a medium-scale WTE plant for better economics and explored methane-based power generation. Next week, he’ll assess the easiest integration method. See pictures below for related work.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 8th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia reviewed the main document, looking out for any duplicates in the content as well as paraphrasing a lot of the content that was copied directly from the source. She finished reviewing the section on existing waste to energy technologies and will move forward to the next sections next week. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 53rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on his summaries of the cover and energy calculations. His efforts targeted data validation and formatting for the tables presenting the energy calculations, as well as the narrative for the cover design. Luis also made progress on updating the parts list for the spa to correspond with the current design models. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 43rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She Updated the North elevation according to the SketchUp Model and changed the position of some columns and furniture and corrected sections C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 39th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya finished the work of updating all the doors on the third floor, fourth floor, and basement in the master SketchUp model. She also started working on fixing the windows in the living Dome because of the new shell applied. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 37th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. Yuxi verified basement storage rack organization and optimized the CAD plan, confirming its efficiency. She studied storage optimization to avoid column obstruction, re-imported elevator doors to fix a file issue, and adjusted outer wall openings in SketchUp for accuracy. Her work supports sustainable innovation and better living quality.Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 11th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil continued working on the second floor dormer, ensuring that the roof and supporting pieces all fit accurately and can easily be made by a novice. With just a few issues remaining, and then cleaning up, Kamil is ready to go into final assembly and turn all the components into parts and drawings. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue Wang continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by updating the design of the Room 8-Nautical-themed room. She continued to work on the window and wall model in SketchUp, did furniture research, designed the window, and designed the living room and bathroom. The design of the bathroom is also Nautical-themed. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for pictures related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 5th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, she completed the presentation document, adding 3D renders, materials, and furniture for the Interior Design Cost Analysis. She researched and included EcoPaints colors, updated the AutoCAD layout for room 2, and refined the Cost Analysis sheet with finishing square footage, a themed visual update, and total cost. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We worked on the 3-Day Menu Block doc through page 60 responding to comments, creating new comments, and generally reviewing the meal plans. We also focused specifically on scrutinizing Kodiak Cake Mix for flapjacks and waffles, preparation of sweet potatoes, comparing olive, avocado, macadamia nut and coconut oils, and reviewing Mayo and Harvard research on coconut oil. This ultimately led to us removing it from the master cooking ingredient list. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also continued working on the Assembly Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn. We finished the section for assembling the gate with diagonal cross-bucks and installation of gate hardware. We also designed a Slide Bolt Gate Latch SketchUp 3D model to be used as 2D images for the instructions document. The same team member also resolved some comments in the Murphy Bed Assemble document and replied with more detailed information on some other comments. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 14th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn added recipes for Fresh Week D, Fresh Week E, Fresh Week F, Fresh Week G and Fresh Week H. She also spent time finding new vegan and omnivore recipes as substitutes for each meal that requires vegan or omnivore proteins. She also started to search for additional recipes for Second Week menu blocks. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 5th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on identifying which ingredients were not on the shopping list spreadsheet for Fresh Week recipes A through H. On the master document, she also made clarifications for ingredients and worked on the shopping list by updating the ingredients with the prices, source links, and costs per unit. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph continued with analysis and design of the beams, columns and foundation elements. He specifically focused on the review process of the references and technical specifications and provisions in the engineering codes of practice. Adolph also started compiling the design report which, when finished, will contain the detailed design results of the entire structure. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 14 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this. 

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu fixed Ron’s PR 476 and 477 by reversing the logic on the tangible time log form, close modal, and merge errors. He also reviewed Vera’s PR 481 on the Report page. Phu then added two bugs to the Bugs Document. First, developers need to implement logic to find duplicate users, possibly by email or username. Second, for the user profile, we need to fix the front end two decimals input field. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time debugging why the “hoursLogged” field couldn’t update on the frontend. After asking for help from the team, she finally figured out the problem is she updated the backend API, but didn’t actually call the API from the expected part of the frontend. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Eiki reviewed weekly summaries and assisted Yiyun with a backend issue on the Logged Hours feature. He began frontend work on task edit suggestions, creating table components, rows, a differences modal, sorting, and opening suggestions. He also started developing the reducer, actions, and thunks. His work supports sustainable innovation and quality living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera finished the first part of the redesign of the reports pages and raised a PR with the redesign of the people reports page. She then started working on the team report page. The code of this page was outdated, so she refactored it. Now Vera is working on a new design of the team report page. Vera also helped Yiyun solve a problem with adding a new hoursLogged field to tasks. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason continued to work on the timelog buttons. He made some refinements to the buttons such as color and click effects to make it more user friendly. In addition, Jason also started looking into a bug that is outstanding with regards to user total hours not getting picked up per category. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed the equivalent of his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This work included helpIng a diversity of team members with bugs and other software challenges that required a senior engineer’s assistance, enhancing adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Yan started front-end work, enhancing adaptable solutions for active sustainable reinvention of our world. She studied the HGN APP code, learned React, and built a demo for the “Set Final Day” button with an onclick event (Date Picker), aligning it on the basic info page. She also reviewed a PR on GitHub. Next, she’ll add functions like account deactivation. See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community welcomes Jason Kim to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

A UCLA graduate with a degree in Math and Economics, Jason has 2 years of general programming experience and 1 year experience primarily as a Full Stack Developer with a focus on React. Before that, he worked as a CPA for 8 years. During his time as a CPA, Jason developed a passion for development and building solutions that others will use. He then decided to embark on a journey to follow his passion, building several personal projects using the latest tech such as React. Jason felt the Highest Good Network would be a great opportunity to put his development skills to use in a professional setting, and at the same time have a lasting impact on a good cause. As a member of the One Community team, he is helping to develop critical features in the Management Dashboard, review code, and debug.

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One Community welcomes Vera Timokhina to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Vera graduated from the Ural Federal University with a degree in Computer Security. She has 4 years of experience as a Front-End Developer working on a CRM-system. This has included great experience in web technologies such as HTML5, SASS, React, Redux, Typescript and Javascript. As a Middle Web Developer, Vera was a mentor to an intern and junior Front-end Developer. She is passionate about learning, developing hard and soft skills, and getting to know new technologies and best practices. As a member of the Highest Good Network team, Vera is leading completion of the reports pages and functionality.

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One Community welcomes Yongtae “Yogi” Park to the Graphic Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yogi is a UX/UI designer based in Los Angeles, California, with experience in conceptualizing and creating digital products. He is passionate about making the world a better place with his design skills, and likes helping businesses and non-profit organizations complete their mission for a good cause. Yogi has helped Save the Frog meet its goal of protecting amphibian populations and forming a community of nature conservations. He did this by developing a UX Mobile App prototype for the official mobile app and providing other digital assets such as flyers and social media posts for promotional purposes. Yogi also joined a charity rock band as a guitarist in 2021. The band was attached to Live and Loud, a charity hobby band organization in Korea that donates to local animal shelters and disability resource centers through fundraising events. At the annual concert, his band contributed $520 through ticket sales, to the total collection of $1860 by the organization. As a member of the One Community team, Yogi is helping create the social media images we use for our weekly progress updates.

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One Community is developing adaptable solutions for global sustainability. They include all the foundations needed for a sustainable civilization. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. These open source foundations include DIY-replicable approaches for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 17th, 2022 edition (#486) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #486

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

his week the core team finished PhotoShop edits to the updated rendering images for the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. You can see them below.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #252 of Dean’s work and he produced this new render of the bathroom/kitchen dome looking from the shower area through the kitchen and into the living room.

This week Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 77th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Her work focused on addressing comments on the new PDF MurphyBed 6.8 document. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Screenshots below show some of her latest updates.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 36th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week she read and responded to all new comments on the Roadways document. She reorganized the narrative on the live document to match the website and edited the roadways cost analysis, highlighting updates in blue for easy changes. She added a paragraph to the Flexible Pavement Design section on the AASHTO equation and Preliminary Analysis, ensuring accuracy through research. Additionally, she researched flexible pavement design, focusing on widening and maintenance, and planned narrative updates based on useful information. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei focused on the design of the septic tank. One 2,500 gallons septic tank with two chambers is used for each net-zero bathroom. Two 2,500-gallon septic tanks are used independently, which is more cost-effective than a single 5,000-gallon tank. The smaller tanks are placed closer to the bathrooms, improving wastewater flow. The ramp and staircases are designed for vehicle and wheelchair access, but the ramp slope can’t meet the maximum hand-propelled wheelchair standard due to space limitations. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 15th 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, he reviewed literature on waste-to-energy analysis in both developing (India) and developed (Europe, Germany) countries. While the studies are large-scale, he believes they can inform cost analysis for small-scale projects. He identified that some costs, like capital material costs for a pyrolysis plant, aren’t scale-dependent, while others are. He’s searching for breakthrough points. Pictures below show this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week of work. This week, Dave finished writing up the “Foundational Calculations” sections for all major structures of Phase I using the methodology within the Solar Sizing Sheets. In this content, he explained how he approached double checking, comparing and validating data by sorting energy demand by area and by item category with the visual aid of pie charts. With this method, Dave can easily determine which area in general, or which item in specific, needs to be taken into consideration for adjustment. In addition, he also started reviewing the tutorial to calculate the energy balance in One Community (SAM software). Pictures below are related to this work.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 7th week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia focused on reviewing the content on the main document, looking out for duplicates in content as well as paraphrasing any content that was taken directly from the sources. She will continue working on this for the next couple of weeks. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 42nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She updated the North elevation according to the SketchUp Model, changing the position of some columns and furniture to match the new plans. Venus also corrected sections C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 38th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished the work of updating all the doors on the first floor and the second floor in the master SketchUp model. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 36th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi focused on adjusting the basement in preparation for rendering. Interior walls were verified and the boiler room size was changed according to the CAD plan. One column was added as it was missing from previous edits. Furniture such as shelves, carts, food elevator, and mobile tables were rearranged into the square configuration and missing outside walls were added. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 10th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil focused on the second floor dormer; primarily adjusting the dimensions and framework based on the exact window size and also ensuring the dormer frame for the second floor can be easily made. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We completed the review for the Master Recipe and 3-day Menu Block Doc for sections FWD, FWE, and FWF through page 53. We also provided two recipe options for inclusion, resolved some comments and added numerous others, assessed nutritional values of some ingredients and suggested eliminating some with low nutrient value. Then we updated the complete Master Ingredient List and created links to the Master Cost Analysis so it will automatically calculate the cost of any 3-day menu block and every ingredient within that block so we can use it for shopping. Pictures below relate to this.

The core team also reviewed/checked the Cost Analysis spreadsheets for the Apiary, Transition Kitchen and Rabbits. We then started creating Step-by-Step instructions for setting up the Sheep and Goats barn. We wrote a section with a materials list and images for the pole barn and horizontal panel, and started working on instructions for the gate assembly. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability.We also added links for the barn kit and to the video for using a pocket hole jig.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 13th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to research and develop recipes for future menu blocks while waiting for the final review of all Fresh Week menu blocks. She corrected menus based on feedback and reviewed recipe documents for menu blocks. Marilyn added useful recipes to her draft, discarded others, and, after approval, began adding recipes to Fresh Week A and is working on Fresh Week D. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 4th week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka worked on updating the shopping list ingredients. Her focus was finding information for new items and trying to find the ingredients in bulk amounts. She also worked on the master recipe document and reviewed the ingredients for the different recipes for FWA to SWA. As part of this, Yinka also identified ingredients that were not on the shopping list. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability. This week he focused on structural idealization, analysis and design of beams, columns and foundations elements. Adolph started by reviewing technical specifications and provisions in the engineering codes of practice regarding the analysis and design of the above structural elements and other reference documents collected earlier. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu completed #447, ensuring the field accepts any number except negatives (which are converted to positive). He fixed errors with saving fields to the database and ensured no delay/repetition when updating numbers before hitting “Save Changes.” He reviewed Ron’s PRs 477 and 476, suggesting logic changes. Yiyun’s suggestion to limit decimals was rejected as it would break the logic. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun updated the backend app to make the “hoursLogged” field of the tasks work. She connected Postman and the backend app for testing changes and created a PR for all the backend changes, which is under review now. She also helped the team do a couple PR reviews. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week he reviewed weekly summaries that helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability. He assisted team members with Postman and made final adjustments to the task notification feature. He implemented Yiyun and Jae’s suggested changes, fixed bugs with task filtering, the “mark as read” button, and multiple task notifications in one modal. One pull request was approved, and another is pending. He also broke down feature requests into user stories, clarified questions, and started planning the next user story: allowing managers/mentors to make task edit suggestions that require owner/admin approval. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 8th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week, Yongtae created 10 new images using open source images and master graphics. He didn’t need to revise previous images, since they did not have notable issues. His focus has been on improving legibility, playing with text spaces and sizes for different title sizes. Yongtae’s still figuring out a consistent system for making the texts more natural. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Below you can see the images he created.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability. This week, Vera redesigned the contributed task modal, making it modern, scrollable, and screen-friendly. She also revamped the filters in the contributed tasks table, adding highlights, calendar icons, and default options. Additionally, she fixed a bug where badge edges were cut off. The work helps in making adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jason addressed the red clock hour wrapping issue caused by too many digits, contributing to adaptable solutions for global sustainability. He reviewed and approved a PR and continued working on the timelog button feature, setting it up and planning to implement the logic. This work supports sustainability and a better quality of life for all. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan completed the onboarding process and set up her local environment for making adaptable solutions for global sustainability. She selected a task and created a design document outlining the project name, description, requirements, and her methodology for completion. This work contributes to adaptable solutions for global sustainability and reinforces our commitment to improving quality of life for all. See pictures below for some of this work.

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