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Advancing Sustainable Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #485

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Rachna Malav

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One Community is advancing sustainable living through open source and free-shared tools and tutorials covering all aspects of eco-living and eco-community construction. They are designed to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will create 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

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Advancing Sustainable Living
One Community Progress Update #485

Advancing Sustainable Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #485

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is advancing sustainable living 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 generated updated rendering image for the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions. We used the Twilight rendering tool in the SketchUp application to render images for a section cut of the dome with the table/benches in the down position, updated textures of the table and benches to wood, placed boxes in the loft, moved items on shelves and nightstands, and changed shadow settings to latest time to avoid sunshine inside the dome. The work helps in advancing sustainable living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #251 of Dean’s work and he produced 2 more test renders for the bathroom ares of the bathroom/kitchen dome.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 35th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, she primarily worked on comparing the live document and the website version of the Roadways, Walkways, Parking Lot, and Gutters report. Throughout this process, she made comments when she saw that the versions did not match one another. She made sure that everything was color coded on the live document so that it was easier for other editors to know what needs to be updated. She made edits to the roadway excel sheet and added new images and narrative to the roadways report regarding the initial and maintenance costs. See pictures below.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei found that a reinforced concrete water tank (RCC) could be an alternative solution for stormwater storage. A reinforced concrete water tank costs slightly less than an Atlantis Flo-tank, with materials readily available worldwide. An overflow pipe with an air gap prevents backflow between the rooftop and stormwater tanks. A 3,800-gallon septic tank was designed for 100 occupants, ensuring a 1.5-day retention period and annual sludge removal. The design of drainage of the Earthbag Village for stormwater harvesting still needs more investigation. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 14th 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 researched biomass gasification, focusing on Energypedia and academic papers to help in advancing sustainable living. He reviewed small-scale examples but found them unsuitable due to specific feedstocks, non-electric outputs, and missing key details like citations and cost analysis. The work helps in advancing sustainable living. Pictures below show this work.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week of work. This week, Dave carefully reviewed the rest of the sources for the Roadway and Parking Lot Tables and Charts but needed more information on the application of it to One Community in order to proceed. He got that clarity on a call with his manager and will complete double checking the details this week. The work helps in advancing sustainable living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Below are pics of some of the content he reviewed.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 6th 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 main Google doc. She proofread the doc and will continue to do so, looking out for unclear content, spelling/grammar mistakes, and synthesizing duplicate information. For this week, she worked on the first several pages on the introduction of various WTE technologies. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 advancing sustainable living 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 52nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. The work helps in advancing sustainable living. This week Luis’ efforts surrounded some detail adjustments to the presentation of the 3D models and providing consistency through the narrative. Aside from this, he expanded the detail within the foundation section and updated images to align with the analysis. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 41st 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 to match the new plans. She also corrected sections C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. The work helps in advancing sustainable living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development by updating the Cost analysis, AutoCAD, and SketchUp model of Room 1, “Forest Immersion”. She also continued with the design of Room 8, “Nautical Room”. Yujue researched the structure of a large wooden ship and extracted elements from it to simulate the room like a ship’s cabin room. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 5th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. Gabriela made many changes to room 12 (the fairy garden themed room), changed the layout many times, solved the problem with the table and chairs that weren’t fitting right in the room, and started working on the bathroom for this same room (adding the basic floor and wall finishes and fixtures). She also updated the Cost Analysis table with new items. The work helps in advancing sustainable living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 4th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica completed multiple rounds of updates to finish the bathroom for the beach themed “Oasis” room. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 advancing sustainable living 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 responded to replies to all previous comments, suggested further additions through page 15 of the Fresh Week A menus, then completed reviews and comments of the FWD menu, and began the FDE menus regarding food substitutions. We also completed comparisons of similar products such as agave and maple syrup and addressed terminology for additions such as “smashed/avocado/spread”.

The core team also continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We checked dimensions of the east/west sides of the nesting boxes, floor supports and floors for second and third levels, nesting boxes door framing, nesting boxes dividers, doors framing, roof for the nesting box, doors for all nesting boxes, hinge latches and handles, lip boards and landing perches. And we added a windows and fans installation section.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 12th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn created recipes and recipe summaries for Fresh Week F, Fresh Week G and Fresh Week H. She researched more vegan recipes to be able to easily add omnivore proteins to substitute for the vegan meals. She also took time to respond to feedback and suggestions for the created menu blocks. She also began searching for recipes for second week menu blocks. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 3rd week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week she worked on the top half of the shopping list. She found prices, costs per unit and ingredient sizes. She updated the ingredient list with bulk items from nut.com, fixed errors in the conversions calculator, and added lunch and dinner bar details to the master recipe and 3-day menu document. The work helps in advancing sustainable living. Below are some images related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is advancing sustainable living 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. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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

Highest Good education, open source education, progressive education, One Community education, forward-thinking education, learning skills

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is advancing sustainable living 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 in advancing sustainable living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Phu worked on the Tangible Hours Category. He made some changes and pushed to PR 447. However, Yiyun reviewed the PR really well and pointed out three main points that need to be fixed. Phu took that and changed the logic, however, the problem was more complicated since it was not able to keep the changes after refreshing the page. He will continue working on this. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time on helping other team members, including PR reviews, Github reverting a PR problem, and debugging an unrelated task on the Main. Additionally, she updated her PR per Jae’s suggestion on filtering tasks and projects for time entries. These PRs have already been approved and merged. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries. He also helped team members with working with postman, mongodb, and the backend. In terms of software development, he continued to work on the task notification feature. On the frontend, Eiki implemented the “mark as notification as read” feature as well as suggested changes to design and functionality of the task differences modal. He then merged the development branch and cleaned up the PR. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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) completed his 7th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week, Yongtae created 10 new images using assets from Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels, as well as some of the master graphics provided. He also revised some of the previous images as well as the one image from last week. For the new images, Yongtae paid attention to scaling down images for 1197×627 scale instead of cropping them down. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera was working with the People Reports page. She redesigned the header and replaced it with several separate blocks. Also, she started to redesign the table of contributed tasks. Vera moved the filters (by a task name, start date etc.) outside the table, so now they display over the table. Also, she upgraded the display of these filters. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason worked on trying to get the progress bar implementation re-merged again and helps in advancing sustainable living. In addition, he worked on reviewing a few PR’s from Yiyun. Jason is now working on fixing the last remaining issues related to UI design from suggestions given from the prior week. Left alignment of tasks is complete and committed to GH. He is still working on the clock wrapping and testing. The work helps in advancing sustainable living 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 Yujue Wang to the Design Team!

Posted on July 5, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Yujue Wang to the Architectural Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yujue graduated from The University of Pennsylvania where she received a Master’s Degree in Architecture. She is very interested in sustainable and regenerative design and is always exploring how architecture can bring a better life to people. She believes that thoughtful architecture can make a positive difference in the quality of life, shared sense of purpose, and vitality of a community. As a volunteer architect and interior design member of the One Community team, Yujue is applying her skills to deliver meaningful, innovative, and sustainable design to the rooms within the Duplicable City Center.

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Adaptable Solutions for Community Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #484

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Rachna Malav

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Adaptable solutions for community living are needed to address both the diverse needs and evolving challenges of our growing global population. To meet this need, we are creating and evolution of sustainability through open source and free-shared sustainability solutions covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. This is the July 3rd, 2022 edition (#484) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Community Living
One Community Progress Update #484

Adaptable Solutions for Community Living - One Community Weekly Progress Update #484

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for community living 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 completed another round of reviewing the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions export to make adaptable solutions for community living. We resolved some comments and added comments with corrections for parts for the storage drawers. Thickness of the drawer walls was increased from ¼” to ½”. We also generated updated rendering images with sections cut off the dome and the Murphy bed in the upper position and table/benches in down position.The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #250 of Dean’s work and he produced three more test renders for the bathroom dome.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 34th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela focused on the Flexible Pavements Design Section. She started off by reviewing all comments and kept up with them throughout the week. She then continued to write and add more to the narrative based on her previous research and note taking. For some sections, she had to refer back to the original documents in order to obtain further information. She then input this rough draft into the roadways document and added formatting to the headings. Lastly, she continued writing and addressing the comments she had left for herself. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei Zhang determined the catchment area, 16000 sq ft, and storage capacity, 20000 gallons, of the stormwater harvesting system for usage of the toilet flushing of 100 occupants. The water tank consists of Atlantis Flo-tank needs 676 tank blocks which cost about $22300 total. This is HALF the price compared to using regular water tanks for the same storage capacity. Two sedimentation chambers trap debris before water reaches the tank. A submersible pump supplies net-zero bathrooms, with a pressure tank protecting the pumps. Pictures below show some of this work.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week of work. This week, Dave received new tasks. He carefully read resources and began understanding the existing work on the Roadway and Parking Lot Tables and Charts sheet. He also made a plan to tackle the new tasks to find adaptable solutions for community living. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 5th 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 a lot of time looking for applicable case studies. She struggled a little bit to find case studies on smaller communities with lower amounts of waste generation, but managed to research and write about the incineration at Polk County in MN. She continued to look for additional case studies that would be geared towards other WTE methods. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team provide feedback on the City Center Hub Connector final report and had a conversation with the Hub Connector team. We helped with a summary table and write-up on why we deviated from the traditional dome, and discussed remaining tasks, such as the costing section, and then we coordinated the completion of remaining tasks. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 51st week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued making improvements to the plumbing section narrative. This portion of the design is crucial to understanding the small parts that play a large role in the performance of the system. This section covered everything from valves to fittings, and he will finish up the portion related to the jet assembly next week. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 40th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She updated the South elevation according to the SketchUp Model and changed the position of vehicle entry and some columns in order to match the new plans. She corrected sections C-C and C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 37th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya finished modeling all the new doors according to the CAD drawing and worked on updating the doors on the 1st floor in the master model. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 35th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi fixed the elevator shaft in the SketchUp model, as well as adding elevator doors, call buttons, and the display panel. Roof covering over the shaft was matched with the CAD plan. Due to the shallow depth within the roof, the elevator is most likely to have a deeper pit to adjust for the machine room. Rails on the second floor and third floor were added/updated too. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 9th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil moved towards the final assembly and began altering the frame components to be standard timber sizing. This is to ensure the frame can be easily built. He has completed the first floor dormer leaving enough room for insulation and began working to fix and ensure the second floor dormer is structurally sound and the window fits perfectly. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by updating the renderings of Room 1 and the design of Room 8. She also completed Room 1 cost analysis and presentation documents. She started the design of Room 8 this week. She proposed several ideas for the room theme and chose the nautical theme. Yujue completed the furniture research and design drafts for Room 8. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 4th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. She designed a built-in closet and a new model for the bed to fit in the room with the curvature of the walls. She then rendered 3 images to configure the new materials and lights and see if the new bed and layout would look good in the room. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 building adaptable solutions for community living 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 the new 3-day block menus and provided comments. We also provided supplemental options for the breakfast bar, suggested additional protein options of tofu, tempeh, and ancient grains for various meals, and suggested endives, mizuna, spinach mustard, arugula, collards, dill, kale, etc. for additions to specific dishes.

The core team also continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We continued updating images and started checking dimensions of the nesting box parts that are in the assembly document and comparing them with dimensions in the 3D SketchUp model to make sure they matched.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 31st week helping with web design. This week Yuran helped backup/PDF all the resources on the Highest Good Food page. She also helped finish the case study section of the Permaculture Design page. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 11th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. ‹â€¹This week Marilyn outlined recipe summaries for Fresh Week, Second Week, Summer Week and Winter Week and created recipes for Fresh Week A, Fresh Week D and Fresh Week E. She researched more vegan recipes that are able to easily add omnivore proteins to substitute for the vegan meals and continued to source other recipes as more menu blocks are required due to the new creation of Summer and Winter menu blocks. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) completed her 2nd 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 the cost analysis for the Transition Kitchen Recipe spreadsheet and found prices, counts per unit, and their source links. Yinka also started reviewing recipes on the Master Recipe Document looking for ingredients that may need to be substituted. She also checked and tested how well the conversion calculator is working. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 building adaptable solutions for community living through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building adaptable solutions for community living 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 15 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 us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this.

The core team also renewed our trademarks for Highest Good Economics^®, Highest Good Education^®, Highest Good Society^®, For the Highest Good of All^®, Highest Good Housing^®, Highest Good Network^®, and our horizontal Logo.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 38th week of formal contribution to the Highest Good Network software. Chris helped with a diversity of ongoing support for the team answering questions and helping with various emergency bugs to make adaptable solutions for community living. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu finished the hours field on the volunteer tab. Now an admin can modify hours and get alert to save the changes to the database. He then switched to working on fixing tangible log time adding. Phu got confused on the time log database because the previous developer did not route them correctly, so he posted his idea in the coding problems discussion channel. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into implementing “filter entries by task” on the timelog. More specifically, she changed the backend to let the “Project/Task” show the task name. Yiyun also made it filter only by task, instead of by project, as per Jae’s suggestion. Other than that, she helped the team on Slack and did PR reviews. Yiyun created a bug list too, at the end of the management-dashboard design doc to record bugs or improvements. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron worked on two bugs and a pull request. The issue with the intangible add time entry form for admin + dev accounts has been resolved and a new pull request should be issued in the coming week to merge with the live website. For duplicate user creations, a small tweak is required but should be coming out alongside the upcoming changes. As always, support was provided in reviewing pull requests to assess if changes could be sent over to the application. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living. See pictures below for some of this work.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, Eiki reviewed weekly summaries. In terms of software development, this week Eiki continued to work on the task notification feature. On the frontend, he fully implemented the modal showing the difference in the task before the update and after the update. Eiki implemented the following desired behaviors: 1. On creating a task all task details are displayed as new. 2. On updating a task, the difference between the last acknowledged and new task details are displayed. Finally, he cleaned up code on the backend and frontend by removing unneeded comments, renaming variables, and changing data structures. See pictures below.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 6th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs to make adaptable solutions for community living. This week, Yongtae created 10 new images using Pixabay, Unsplash, and a new free stock site named Pexels. He sent his computer on repair and wasn’t able to move the psd files to his other computer, so there were limitations on making adjustments to the previous images, which he will fix as soon as his computer arrives. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera continued working on the reports functionality. She finished cleaning up the ProjectReport component and started redesigning the reports to make adaptable solutions for community living. She made a similar header for all the reports and added an activity sign to each report. Vera helped Jason with the team tasks table, helping configure the layout so that the progress bar displays properly opposite the name of the task. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living 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 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason worked on finishing up the issues related to PR 454 – Progress bar implementation specifically related to alignment. Jason made some additional edits to the final product, such as adding lines below each task to divide them and make them easier on the eyes to view. In addition, he started looking at his next feature related to the management dashboard: Adding 24/48/72 hr view buttons for team member time logs. The work helps us find adaptable solutions for community living and reinforces our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

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We’re Creating a More Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #483

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Rachna Malav

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We’re creating a more sustainable world through open source and free-shared sustainability resources covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combining these, we will build teacher/demonstration hubs to make sustainability (and eco-communities) easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate the experience luxury-eco living as attractive enough to spread on its own.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 26th, 2022 edition (#483) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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One Community Progress Update #483

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished reviewing the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions export to help us as we’re creating a more sustainable world. We added comments with suggestions for the Murphy bed wall and back storage unit and provided additional images for document updates.We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 33rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started by reviewing all new comments. To address these comments she researched what streets for the site plan would be necessary to have a drainage system. In doing so she reviewed the plans for the drainage system for Earthbag Village and the parking lot. She found a design plan and implemented it into the site plan.

Daniela provided an image of all the main intersections where there would need to be a drainage system. She then added final calculations and comments to the Initial Roadways Costs and Initial Maintenance Costs tabs and continued writing the section for flexible pavement design and completed the section for flexible pavement rehabilitation.We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei determined the layout of the rainwater harvesting system after discussing it with management. Rainwater is collected from the rooftops of the net-zero bathroom, the shower room, and the tropic atrium. Only the rooftop rainwater is used for potable water usage after treatment. For 50 occupants, the net-zero bathroom requires a 1031-gallon water storage capacity to supply yearly faucet uses. A singular redundant 1600-gallon water tank placed under the shower room is applied.

The collected rainwater is treated with filtration and disinfection first and then pumped to the barrels in the net-zero bathroom. The layout of the rainwater harvesting system, pumps, filtration, and disinfection are now 3D modeled. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with 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 13th 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 checked waste-to-energy solutions other than pyrolysis based on type of waste and at small scales. Research papers were read to get an idea how flexible the plant can be made to make the solution economically feasible just like the pyrolysis example. The rest of time was spent on responding to comments and reviewing Kivia’s work to get comments to connect different sections of the report. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week of work. This week, Dave finished double checking the energy demand of the Straw Bale Village. After that, he created pie charts to compare energy drawn from each area and from each type of item. Based on those pie charts and tables, he analyzed data by comparing to US daily energy consumption and validated data by coming up with some adjustment ideas. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team reviewed the City Center Hub Connector final report, added comments to improve the document, and responded to added content. We also reached out to Dave on his progress with double checking energy demand estimates and discussed next steps and Raj and Prathik about their progress and remaining work as they wrap up their volunteer engagement. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for the work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 50th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued his development of the website narrative. As the design process is mostly complete, his focus now is implementing and reformatting the existing research into a cohesive and presentable format. He continued his efforts this week in doing so by standardizing the table formats and developing some other key sections. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 39th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She updated the South elevation according to the SketchUp model and changed the position of the vehicle entry and some columns to match the latest plans. She corrected sections C-C and C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 36th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished modifying the D4 door from fully closed to half-open. She also modified D3’s frame height from 7′-8” to 6′-10′ and modeled D5 and changed its height from 8′ to 8′ 7 3/4” to align with the top line of the adjacent window. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 34th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi coordinated with the team on the D3 sliding door height to be in line with the general wall shape, and the D5 corner glass door to have the same clear opening as the adjacent window for better visual quality, verifying both doors can be designed to those heights. D7 entry door website link and image information was updated, and she reached out to the door company to verify we can get the custom product we want.We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality.

Updated column information from CAD was also imported and verified with the SkethUp model to ensure accuracy. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 8th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. Working towards assembly instructions, he fixed minor errors and details to ensure the design can be constructed. He learned how to use the split feature in solidworks to easily isolate each part and then turn it into a 2D drawing with specifications so it can easily be built. Kamil will continue to do this for the entire design and then make assembly instructions. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued development by updating the window and sofa, designing the ceiling lights, and updating renderings. She also continued to work on cost analysis and presentation documents. In terms of room design, she updated the window model in SketchUp and updated the sofa to one that can be turned into a bed. Yujue also added a themed table lamp and garbage cans in the room. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for pictures related to this work.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 3rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica kept working with Interior Design Cost Analysis and found some items that she thought would be good to add or switch in the project, so she worked doing that in parallel with the 3D model, updating these items. She also started the configuration to render the images, lighting the room. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See below for some pictures of this work.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) also completed her 3rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela made a diversity of requested changes to the design of the “Fairy Garden Room”, most related to the maintenance of the room and for the safety of children. She also updated her City Center Interior Design Cost Analysis table excluding the items she took off from the layout and added the new ones. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed another detailed review of the latest 3-day menu blocks for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed the 3-Day Menu Block Docs through page 26. We focused on the food selections and their appropriateness for the particular meal, suggesting specific oils (olive, avocado, and sesame) over general vegetable oils, minimizing salt in the recipes and having it available on the side for those desiring more, adding various ingredients such as buckwheat and cornmeal flours, honey substituted for sugar, nutritional yeast for a healthier and flavorful condiment, tempeh in conjunction with tofu for enhanced protein, etc. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World for better living quality.

Another team member reviewed the first team member’s comments, made their own, and updated the design criteria to improve the process and help provide detailed review guidance for another new team member that will be assist with data entry.

Yinka Omole (Recipe Reviewer and Data Entry Assistant) also joined the team and completed her first week helping with the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plan recipe review and data entry. This week Yinka reviewed the recipes and read through them and made grammatical corrections to some. Then, she started entering the recipes into the Transition Kitchen Recipe Build Out (Outline) spreadsheet on Google Sheets. Lastly, Yinka entered 3 day Fresh Week Menu A, 3 Day Fresh Week Menu B, and she started entering recipes for 3 Day Fresh Week C. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with 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 more sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality.

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 14th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. During the week, Adolph finalized the AutoCAD drawings of the roof structure. He then began detailed analysis and design of the remaining structural elements (beams, columns and foundations) including structural idealization. In order to maintain the dimensions, Adolph exported the original AutoCAD file (saved as DxF) into Tekla structural designer, and is in the process of finalizing the 3D layout of the entire plan. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with 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 more sustainable world through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 29 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, 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. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures below show some of this.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu finished fixing the tangible hours front end + backend. The tangible hours are now able to be modified and saved by an admin. Phu also started working on the bug: Log on time shows up on its own. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into creating the ability for users to log time on assigned tasks. Currently Yiyun finished the frontend/UI changes and tasks have been added to the TimeEntryForm when users are logging tangible/intangible time. Tasks have also been added to the TimeLog card “Filter Entries by Project and Task”. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron worked on providing support for pull requests that involved performance changes on the front end and which helped to correct data inputs. In development, Ron worked to correct an issue affecting admin accounts when entering intangible time entries and is currently working on fixing a small kink with the fix. In addition, he provided a fix for a CSS display issue in user profiles. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Eiki reviewed weekly summaries, led the biweekly team meeting, and advanced the task notification feature. He pair-programmed with Vera, enabling task notifications on edits, refactored code for adding tasks using a Redux thunk, and set up the modal for the red bell notification. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 5th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week, Yongtae created several images using assets from Unsplash, Pixabay, and Master Graphics. He has experimented with overlaying images with different lights and applying gradations on them so that the main text is more visible. He has struggled to find some new images however because the image samples from those resources are limited and start to become repetitive. He will look for other image resources that are free and copyright safe. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World for better living quality. Below you can see the images he created.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera was working with Eiki. They made it so that when you click on the red bell, a modal opens, in which the difference between the old and edited state of the task will be displayed. Also, now users can edit tasks and see a red bell when there are some updates. Additionally, Vera fixed the bug that appears when a user edits a time entry and changes the date so the time entry must move to another week to help us as we’re creating a more sustainable world.

The wrong behavior was that the edited time entry was moved to another week, but did not disappear from the edited week’s entry list until the page was refreshed. Now it works without refreshing. Vera also started to work on the reports pages header and refactored the project report component, so now it uses hooks. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World for better living quality. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason primarily worked on the Progress Bar component as we’re ceating a more sustainable world with our commitment to a better living quality that he is tasked with. He finished all the functionality related to the component and submitted a PR request for review. Work was reviewed by Yiyun and he then worked to resolve the issues that had been pointed out. Specifically, point 1 on the request, a text alignment issue. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. See pictures below for some of this work.

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We’re creating a more sustainable world to grow with each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this because we’re creating a more sustainable world with our commitment to a better living quality for all people by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create and we’re creating a more sustainable world with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible. We’re Creating a More Sustainable World with our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication we’re creating a more sustainable world with our commitment to a better living quality for all people. 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 creating a more sustainable world with these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow. We’re creating a more sustainable world with our commitment to a better living quality for all people.

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Globally Replicable Eco-models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #482

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Rachna Malav

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Globally replicable eco-models are needed if we are to transition to a sustainable civilization and planet. One Community is supporting this by open sourcing and free sharing replicable sustainability models for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of creating globally replicable eco-models as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 19th, 2022 edition (#482) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Globally Replicable Eco-models
One Community Progress Update #482

Globally Replicable Eco-models - One Community Weekly Progress Update #482

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating globally replicable eco-models 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 updated the Aircrete compression testing content to match the engineering page template. We also added trials that were missed, like foam test, amount of foam, and foam generators, and added a better picture of the impact of hardness on foam. The same team member had a call with the center hub team about the way forward, and reviewed Yuran’s progress on the Walipini, Aquapini, Zenapini content for the web page supporting globally replicable eco-models.

The core team also started reviewing the latest Murphy bed Assembly Instructions export. We found and posted updates to some measurement numbers for the wall framing section and resolved comments in the previous version of the Murphy Bed Assembly Instructions document supporting globally replicable eco-models. The same team member updated the Transition Kitchen Cost Analysis spreadsheet with in-cell images.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #249 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders. Made corrections and updated the wall textures of the kitchen and double-bed domes to match those of the central area supporting globally replicable eco-models.

This week Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 76th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on wrapping up the comments from the shared document and re-saving a new PDF MurphyBed 6.8 document. The revisions to the new components and the wall frame assembly were completed. There have been updates made to the layout of the page designs and the component descriptions supporting globally replicable eco-models.

The measurement notations need to still be made more consistent and this will be worked on going forward to make sure the call outs, arrows and colors used for pointing lines are more consistent. Also a recount of screws and components used is needed. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 32nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started off by reviewing all the newest comments and inputting the research that had been done for the cost of the road maintenance. Various values on the roadway excel sheet were double checked and adjusted based on findings from previous and new sources. She asked for advice concerning the excel sheet and updated her manager on her work so far and also thereby supporting globally replicable eco-models.

Throughout the week Daniela continued to work on the Roadways excel sheet. This included calculating and researching information for the initial costs table. Once all calculations were completed, Daniela added comments for each table in order for the reader to better understand the information provided. As Daniela addressed management’s comments on the excel sheet she ended the week by continuing to write the narrative for the flexible pavement section. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) also completed his 32nd week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week Carlos organized all the final files and provided PDF exports for easy review and sharing. Pictures below show this demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week, Diwei researched some ways of stormwater harvesting, such as micro basins, swales, French drains, permeable pavements, curbs, and road gardens. He also studied the municipal non-potable and potable water treatment processes. Stormwater is usually used as non-potable for toilet flushing and irrigation after simple filtration and disinfection. Using the stormwater for potable water in a stormwater harvesting project is rarely found.

To achieve potable water quality, the stormwater usually goes to the municipal wastewater/sewage treatment plant first, then goes to the drinking water treatment plant. The purification ponds for the greywater of the Duplicable City Center and Earthbag Village are a small-scale simplified version of the wastewater treatment plant. Their capacity, however, cannot be quantified and the quality of resulting water needs to be tested to be guaranteed. The rooftop rainwater is good to be used as potable water after treatment.

The faucets in the net-zero bath need to be supplied with potable water. This means we need two independent water supply lines for toilets and faucets using stormwater and rooftop rainwater, separately. The water supply lines of toilets and faucets of the net-zero bathroom are independent as shown in the current 3D modeling. Thus, it is highly feasible to set up two harvesting systems without modifying the current underground plumbing of the bathroom. Diwei then planned the layout of the entire water supply for the net-zero bathroom. Pictures below show some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 12th 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 did 30 hours of work, typically working on three things: 1) reaching out to professors to get advice and strategies in looking for small-scale waste to energy solutions 2) reviewing sources that professors recommended and reaching out to other faculties that may be more specialized in such areas (though no replies) 3) finding and reviewing two case studies for pyrolysis, one in NJ, and one in China.

Comparisons and evaluations were made for those two systems, and it was concluded that pyrolysis as a small-scale waste-to-energy solution is possible and economically feasible, as shown in the summary table by the company. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week of work. This week, Dave started double checking energy demand data for the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). After a careful review, there are a few things he needs to find more sources to validate the data. For example, some data sources are out of date and some are not available. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 4th 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 finished up her writing on the cost and potential revenues of landfilling, mainly using a resource from the Environmental Protection Agency. She then wrote a case study on the installation of a landfill gas collection and burning system in Cortland county, New York, highlighting the potential revenues from carbon credits. See below for some pictures related to this demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating globally replicable eco-models 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 49th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. After a few weeks away, Luis focused on picking up where he left off. He had just wrapped up developments in the City Center Spa design website and did some quality checks on his progress. While all information was accurate and up to date, Luis found that the formatting needed some updating and standardization in order to be presentable.

This also included checking links to ensure they were working, specifically the Resource section of the document. Next week Luis will continue his progress on the website report and be ready for publishing soon. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

This week Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 38th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on elevations. She updated the South elevation according to the SketchUp Model and changed the position of vehicle entry and some columns on some plans in order to match the new plans. Venus also corrected sections C-C and C’C’ according to her supervisor’s feedback. See pictures below demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 35th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished modeling Door 3 and Door 4 according to the door size detail in the latest CAD drawing and updated them in the SketchUp model. When she updated Door 3 at the entrance for the Dining dome, she noticed that the door was too high for the entrance vestibule and coordinated with Yuxi to find the same type of door but with a shorter height. Pictures of some of this work are below demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 33rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team to discuss the potential need of shifting columns to avoid embedding columns in triangular walls as it would complicate construction. The decision was made to keep the columns where they are as the building pieces will not be pre-fabricated. The team also went over structural items that needed clarification.

To accommodate the adjacent main entry door with smaller clearance width, there was an addition of window type W7 (which is W4 but shorter in width). Wall and column interaction was revisited in SketchUp too, to ensure correct column location fit with the curvature of the dome. Pictures of some of this work are below demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 30th week helping with web design. This week Yuran fixed the existing problems and made new tables for the Eco-community Electric Vehicle Integration and Charging Infrastructure Guide page. She also uploaded click-to-enlarge versions of images for the Aquapini & Walipini page and created a Table of Contents at the top and in the details section for the Village Fire and Medical page demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 24th week helping. with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on creating the manufacturing drawings shared with the manufacturers. He also helped get quotes from the manufacturers and added a “Next Needed Steps” section to the document. This section has plans of what needs to be done next in terms of load calculations and cost analysis. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week of work volunteering. This week Prathik researched how to perform a hand calculation for the load acting on the struts and the center hub in the dome. This has been to perform a thorough analysis to assure the center hub solution the team has decided to move forward with is safe and reliable for any higher load factor than the one considered. He also followed up with the fabricators with a few follow-up questions to know what different materials can be used for the brackets and their manufacturing costs. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 7th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil had more conversations with a carpenter who led Kamil to make structural changes ensuring the design could be made easily and aesthetically. He also began preparing files for the assembly instructions as the design itself is coming to completion. Over the next few weeks he will break down each component into parts and create a simple explanation for how the design can be made. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by updating the window and curtains, designing wood tables, and rendering the bathroom. She also continued to work on cost analysis for the bathroom. In terms of room design, Yujue updated the window model in SketchUp and redesigned the curtains. She also redesigned tables in the room to ensure they were made of wood and could be made on our own. See below for pictures related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 2nd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. For her second week, Jessica worked on updating the room decoration with pallet furniture we already had designed. She added the bed, wardrobe, table and chairs. For the bed-wall she added a design for a painting illustrating an abstract sunset on the beach. He also continued to work on the 3D model, aligning the items picked with what is available in the market. She also started to work on the Interior Design Cost Analysis. See below for some pictures of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) also completed her 2nd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela started working at her ‘City Center Interior Design Cost Analysis’, adding some items for the “Fairy Garden Room”. She also made a few lighting tests for the “fairy dust” effect and a few changes based on management feedback like working more on the silk plants on the walls, removing the wallpaper, and exchanging the swing for a hammock chair. Gabriela still needs to think more about the wall finishes and work on the bathroom design. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating globally replicable eco-models 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 completed a detailed review of the latest 3-day menu blocks for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

We also added and trained another manager how to review these Master Recipe and 3-Day Menu Blocks. That same manager additionally continued reviewing and editing the Chicken Doc starting with comments on page 142, focused on comments on poop trays and roosting bar spans, necessity of 2 handles on chick poop trays, and location of handle attachment to 2×2 and/or 3/4″ plywood.

And the core team created and updated the Transition Kitchen images, cost analysis and other details on the live page.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 10th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started by searching for simplified vegan and omnivore protein options respectively, to create alternative simple proteins for each recipe. After a proper review of recipes, she was asked to add each recipe summary to the menu overview for them to be reviewed for suggestions and corrections. Marilyn made the corrections as per meal suggestion and grammatical reviews on all FRESH WEEK created menus. The pictures below relate to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating globally replicable eco-models 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.

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 13th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week Adolph reviewed, compiled and adjusted the AutoCad drawings while incorporating the calculated design needs. Pictures below are related to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating globally replicable eco-models 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 30 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. Pictures below show some of this demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

The core team also renewed our trademarks for Highest Good Food^® and Highest Good Energy^®.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu continued working on the Tangible Hours Bug. Phu was able to add permission for an Admin/Owner to edit hours and limit permissions for all other users to edit hours. Phu also review PR 441-three icon clocks, 442-scrollbar and display, 443-non editable admin/user, 160-backend for three icon clocks, and 446-hour logged so far this week. The pictures below relate to this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun implemented two features for the management dashboard. The first one is giving different user roles the correct view. More specifically, volunteers/core team can see other volunteer/core team people in the same team as them but manager/mentors are invisible. The second one is implementing the black/green/red three clock icons, making sure green one is the total completed hours of all tasks assigned to one person, red one is the total remaining hours. Both of the two features PRs were raised. Pictures of some of this work are below demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ron continued his work on front end changes to the HGN application. He is currently working on resolving an issue with user profile badges and an issue related to the irregular display of these badges. With the help of other volunteers and troubleshooting he has identified a potential fix and is working to implement this fix. See pictures below for some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th and final week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Steven focused on renovating some parts of the user profile page. He raised two PRs. One added the scroll bar to the blue square section and reorganized the order of the blue squares. The other one fixed the editability of tangible hours to non-admin and non-owner users. He also helped review a PR relative to the display of tangible hours and their categories. See pictures below for some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In terms of management work, Eiki reviewed weekly summaries. In terms of software development, he continued to work on the task notification feature. He pair programmed with Vera to plan, discuss, and implement the feature. On the backend, he implemented the task notification table and added aggregation for task notifications to the getTeamMemberTasks REST API endpoint.

Also, Eiki wrote a REST API endpoint for creating/updating task notifications, and then illustrated, researched, and successfully implemented the logic for what should happen (create/update) to task notifications when a task is created or edited. On the frontend, he wrote code to call the backend API when a task is created, and successfully displayed a red bell after a task was created. See pictures below for some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Jorge Ivan Rodriguez (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week he worked on the “pauseAt cons” and the authentication package jwt-decote. Once we get “const pauseAt” we can work on the function “pauseTimer” to pause the timer component in all scenarios it’s needed. See pictures below for some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 4th week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week Yongtae created 10 new images and made adjustments to the past three images based on manager feedback. He corrected some typos in some of the text and reworked one asset with an entirely new image. The images for the new assets were brought from Unsplash, Pixabay and Master Graphics. Below you can see the images he created demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera worked on displaying weekly tangible time logged so far on a person’s report page. She managed to collect the data about weekly tangible time by the user on the backend and pass this data to the frontend. Vera started to refactor the people report component. She also worked with Eiki on the tasks notifications. They configured the controller so that it now returns the information about notifications and they decided how they will save and update the information about these notifications. See pictures below for some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jason was mostly bogged down with Git. It wouldn’t sync with changes in the dev branch for some reason. He had to play around with it and eventually got it working, for now. Then Jason was able to review and approve a few PR’s related to the management dashboard from Yiyun, and also continued to work on the progress bar implementation. The component is still a work in progress. See pictures below for some of this work demonstrating meaningful efforts towards creating globally replicable eco-models.

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One Community Welcomes Kamil Gajownik to the Design Team!

Posted on June 18, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Kamil Gajownik to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kamil is an Industrial Design (ID) graduate and former Design Engineer with experience in product design all the way through to manufacturing. He has demonstrated success working in fast-paced environments and on complex projects requiring efficient and effective solutions to challenging problems. With a focus on creating meaningful and impactful designs, Kamil prioritizes the user and their needs. Similarly, with a sustainability mindset he designs to make the world a better place for the people that live in it. As a member of the One Community team, Kamil is helping develop the Duplicable City Center dormer by creating assembly instructions and a cost analysis.

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Abundance Through Community Living – One Community Weekly Progress Update #481

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Rachna Malav

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Measuring abundance through community living based on free time, things to do in your free time, and access to the things we want, it is clear we can create more abundance through community living. We can create more free time by cooperating and collaborating to more easily and efficiently accomplish daily living tasks.

We can create more diverse and accessible social and recreational activities through cooperative planning and implementation. Applying cooperation to “stuff”, we can establish resource based economies and tool and equipment libraries that increase access to the things we want also. One Community is open sourcing a model for communities that provide all of this and more.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of abundance through community living as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 12th, 2022 edition (#481) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards abundance through community living:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundance through community living 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 began re-structuring the Aircrete content so it follows the engineering page template. We also had a meeting with the City Center Hub connector team to discuss future work and give new assignments for this week, and we reviewed and responded to Daniela’s responses to roadways cost estimates, and Yuran’s work on the Walipini webpage.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #248 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders. The picture below shows two test renders of the updated bathroom.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 31st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started off by reviewing all the newest comments. Afterwards she continued to work on the Roadways cost analysis excel sheet. Daniela was able to find various sources for decomposed granite that provided various ranges in costs, so she provided three sources in the cost analysis.

She continued to link sources that she had been working on last week and adjusted values based on Sangam’s price suggestion for a material. Daniela was able to complete all changes for tabs ranging from Total Unlimited Expense to Water Catchment Expenses. Next she worked on two tables that were not created by her, these took a bit more time to interpret and research. She also added a bit more narrative to the Roadways document. Pictures below are related to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei modeled a 10000 gallon water tank and placed two of them underground beneath the fountain. He also researched stormwater harvesting. Considering two different end uses, toilet flushing and hand washing, and the huge difference between the two demands, it is better to design two independent sets of harvesting systems.

The rooftop rainwater harvesting with a smaller storage capacity and treatment processing for potable water is used for the faucets’ uses. The stormwater harvesting that collects water from impervious surface runoff or rain garden with a much larger storage capacity and a simpler water treatment is used for the toilet flushing. Pictures below show some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 11th 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 focused on looking for cost estimation of pyrolysis, but sources are not pointing out large scales so were not adopted. The cost analysis and revenues generated from plasma gasification was further elaborated, using a case study in South Africa. The majority of time though was taken to convert things on that paper into the USA’s point of view.

Lastly, a plan of revenue estimates was proposed, since the price of electricity and fuel vary over time, which is considerable and needs to be unified for comparison with other systems. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 3rd 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 the costs and revenue streams of landfilling municipal solid wastes, including the collection of landfill gas. She did research on this to gather information, mostly from an EPA resource. After synthesizing the information, Kivia started writing the narrative on the common Google Doc and will continue to do so next week. See below for some pictures related to this showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundance through community living 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 37th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed all sections, C-C, F-F, D-D, and G_G. She added new furniture, new walls, new columns, and changed the position of some columns and walls to match the updated floor plans. See pictures below showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 34th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she continued working on the window and door updates in the SketchUp Model. She finished modeling Door 14 and Door 8 according to the door size detail in the latest CAD drawing. Huiya also updated Door 14 in the Living dome and Door 8 on the fourth floor in the central area. Pictures of some of this work are below showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 32nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Yuxi continued discussion on entry door and window-column location. It seems that minor structural adjustments could be needed to best preserve the pre-fabrication nature of exterior walls. She will bring the sketch to discussion with the team next week. Floor opening enlargement discussion continued too and they found that it is unlikely to happen due to possible location of the beam, hence there will likely be a minor visual obstruction at one of the social dome windows. Pictures of some of this work are below showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 23rd week helping. with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week though, Raj initially read and reviewed the tutorial to calculate the energy balance using the SAM software. He also worked on adding the missing sections in the hub connectors final document to meet the necessary structure and formatting. Pictures below are related to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week of work volunteering. This week, Prathik also reviewed the “SAM tutorial to calculate the energy balance in One Community” which explains and provides information on how to perform simulations to generate energy model systems for renewable energy and understand the results. He also researched and explored the SAM software website to understand the different models and resources available to better understand the software to perform simulations. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 6th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil continued working on the dormer design project. His focus this week was on structural integrity for both floors of the dormers and ensuring the design fits well into the given space so that the dormer from the inside is easily accessible and looks good. Kamil is getting close to a finalized design which will need to be insulated and turned into assembly instructions. Pictures below are related to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 4th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by designing curtains, costing furniture, rendering interior space, and creating presentation files. She improved the look of the cost analysis spreadsheets and continued to work on cost analysis. In terms of room design, Yujue redesigned the window curtain and started interior renderings. She also started working on the presentation files of Room 1. See below for pictures related to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Jessica Santos (Architect) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. She started searching for theme ideas, and she presented four different themes: Beach, Fall, Candy, and Earth. She then selected room number 2 and decided to start with the theme ”Beach”, and named it “Oasis”. The room Oasis will follow the idea of nature, like a beach day by the sea.

With a color palette of green-blue, yellow, light brown, and elements like Oars, Surf Board, straw material, etc. Jessica presented her references, and started the search for the materials. She also did a new layout design and started the 3D model to play with all the ideas and colors collected, to mix everything together and try to demonstrate a unique space. See below for some pictures of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. At first she felt it was a little messy, she was trying to read everything and start the project at the same time because she was really excited with the assignment.

At the end of this first week though, Gabriela was able to make a first draft of the layout for the first room, themed “Fairy Garden”, and start the SketchUp model. She also came up with two themes for the second room: Treehouse and Rock Star Room, but she has not decided yet which one she is keeping. The rooms she choose to work with is #12 for Fairy Garden and #4 for the second theme. Pictures below are related to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We did a general review of the poop trays and reviewed answers to previous comments on the development doc while providing a solution for strengthening the poop tray handle attachments for screw placement into the plywood vs. the 2×2 framing, as well as adding an additional handle to each of the 3 trays, and using paraffin wax to ease the gliding of the pullout trays on the tray bottoms and rail tops. This will be essential for longevity of the trays.

Another member of the core team updated images and text for the right, central and left manure collection trays. This includes a new design of the tray handles and location of screws on the front of the tray. We also finished updating the roosting ladder right sections. The same team member also resolved some of the open comments on the Murphy Bed instructions and generated the back storage section image shown below.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 29th week helping with web design. This week Yuran linked and fixed the tables in the Aquapini & Walipini page. She also finished creating the Eco-community Electric Vehicle Integration and Charging Infrastructure Guide page, including adding images, tables, the Resource section, and final checking of the format for the page before submitting it for review. The pictures below share some of this developing work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 16th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam worked on reviewing Marilyn’s 3 day block menu submissions in detail and added comments, suggestions, and substitutions. He also reviewed some changes to the master ordering/shopping sheet, and answered emails and text messages. Most of Adam’s time was spent reviewing comments and recipe submissions to make sure that he answered as many as he could. The pictures below relate to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 9th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn adjusted recipes for FRESH WEEK A and FRESH WEEK B, after reviews and suggestions on particular ingredients, relational uses for leftovers, and recipes to fit dietary restrictions. She did this making sure to add protein options specifically for both vegans and omnivores and changing recipes that would be difficult as regards to scaling and portioning.

Marilyn added sourced recipes to the menu block page and updated already created recipes on the recipe page. She is taking time to correct other recipes in menu blocks putting into consideration the suggestions and reviews. The pictures below relate to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundance through community living 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.

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 12th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. During this week, Adolph completed the structural design report of the roof structure including a description of the steps undertaken during design and the assumptions executed to arrive at some of the conclusions.

The report presents the design of a critical truss structure of total span 40ft. Review and adjustment of AUTOCAD drawings will be finalized in this coming week. Pictures below are related to this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating abundance through community living 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. Pictures below show some of this, showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel started by reviewing, testing and approving PR #411. After that, he improved the user permissions management dashboard, getting the frontend part of it done. Then he reviewed, tested and approved PR’s number #422, #428, #432, and #433. Miguel ended his week writing documentation about the user permissions management dashboard and reviewing PR #435. Pictures of some of this work are below showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu worked on the bugs for deleting unnecessary “!” for user roles and rerouting to calculate total tangible hours for each project category. Phu also reviewed Vera’s and Jorge’s pull requests.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into “implementing a single task WBS page from the management-dashboard”. She dug into this problem then figured out reusing current WBS page code would be the easiest way. So she added a condition to filter the WBS task by id to implement that. Coded in PR 432, already got approved and merged. Yiyun then started working on “giving appropriate views for different users”. Pictures of some of this work are below showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ron continued to work on resolving bugs. There were some issues that were caused by the pull requests that he created so they were reverted until a new fix can be provided. Earlier this week, assistance was provided with debugging and identifying two core issues that led to irregular displays with fonts and pop ups throughout the entire HGN application; changes to fix this were made in collaboration with other team members.

For developmental changes, and also in collaboration with other team members, Ron worked to modify variables in two components that resolve functional issues regarding time entries and permission-related issues. See pictures below for some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living. This week Steven helped resolve three bugs and raised PRs according to each bug. First, he applied the “active inactive button” logic in the user management page to the user profile page, this solved the problem that accounts keep coming back if they are deactivated from their profile.

Second, he made the save/cancel buttons only show on the “Basic Information” tab in the user profile when login in as a non-Admin user. Lastly, he rearranged the layout of the save/cancel buttons to make them look more consistent and intuitive. See pictures below for some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living. In terms of management work, this week Eiki reviewed weekly summaries, did work on rescheduling the biweekly meetings with the team, onboarded and answered questions for new team members, and communicated with Jae and the rest of the team for managerial tasks. In terms of software development, Eiki answered coding problems and continued to work on the task notification feature.

His main work this week involved writing queries on the backend to collect weekly completed hours and tasks for users in a user’s team and condensing it all into a single aggregation function. By doing that, Eiki further improved the responsiveness of the app because the backend now only makes one request to the database rather than multiple. See pictures below for some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Jorge Ivan Rodriguez (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living. This week he worked on the timer component by adding some redux libraries as a “REHYDRATE”, the component is working well but the synchronization takes a few seconds to work due to the fetching that the component needs to validate. He also started working to stop the timer after logging out, it is working but doesn’t pass the tests, so still working to fix the issue. See pictures below for some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 3rd week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living. This week, Yongtae made adjustments based on feedback to some of the previous images and created new images from 537 to 546. He focused on manipulating the color schemes of the original image sources to make the texts be more visible. He also experimented with overlaying two images together to give another meaning that aligns with the title. Below you can see the images he created showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera fixed several bugs: she helped Ron to fix broken popups and made a PR that fixed the bug that Admin/Owner was no longer able to edit dates of user time logs and couldn’t change intangible time to tangible. Vera then took over the front end of the reports functionality and now she is trying to fix the display of weekly tangible time on a person’s report page.

Also, she continues to work with Eiki on task notifications: together, they are setting up data transfer between backend and frontend. See pictures below for some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

Jason Kim (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living. This week Jason mostly did research and ran through the relevant codebase related to the feature that has been assigned to him. Jason spent time understanding the workflow and git. In addition, he started looking into implementing the progress bar in the management dashboard. Jason looked into the idea of using the progress bar feature of reactstrap, which was already being utilized in the leaderboard section. However, upon research, it seemed that reactstrap had some color limitations to it.

For example, it looked like indigo and violet colors were not available for use. In response, Jason started building out the progress bar from scratch, setting up a new ‘ProgressBar’ component in React, in response. He was able to create the basic outer skeleton of the progress bar, shown in the current state screenshot in Dropbox in addition to placeholders for the task hours and estimated hours. The component is still a work in progress. See pictures below for some of this work showcasing efforts towards the mission of abundance through community living.

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Eco-renovating Our Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #480

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Rachna Malav

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One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for eco-renovating our living models. They include sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Applying these, we can improve our lives, reduce expenses, and regenerate our planet. This is the June 5th, 2022 edition (#480) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards eco-renovating our living models.

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Here’s our world-change methodology
Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement of eco-renovating our living models as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 5th, 2022 edition (#480) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards eco-renovating our living models:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models 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 75th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey continued to make updates based on the feedback of the three core team members reviewing her work. Updates covered everything from simple changes like alignment and formatting, to more complex changes in hardware and parts. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress towards eco-renovating our living models.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 30th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started by having a virtual meeting with Sangam. During this meeting Daniela and Sangam discussed concerns or questions regarding the roadways cost analysis. All questions were cleared and Sangam made a few suggestions for what Daniela should work on this week. Daniela then primarily focused on researching government based documents that support the cost of each material used in the excel sheet. Once found, she linked each document to the table materials.

This took longer than expected because some material costs were needed in a certain unit while others were difficult to find with credible sources. Daniela completed the majority of the cost analysis materials but still plans on going back to research some of the materials that were more difficult to find. Pictures below are related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei Zhang checked Jose’s calculation of the catchment area of the rainwater harvesting system. He included water-saving toilets and faucets in the estimation of the water demand. Based on the updated water demand, the current layout is short on catchment area and space for the larger storage capacity that is needed. The surface runoff rainwater harvesting could be a solution for more rainwater catchment.

Underground cisterns could be a solution for larger storage capacity which is not limited by aboveground structures. The topic of stormwater management needs to be considered to design drainage for the surface runoff water harvesting. Pictures below show some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 10th 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 smaller scales of biomass gasification systems. Case studies were reviewed but they all mostly emphasized how the systems work. What is needed is information on cost analysis and its economical attributes, so not many things were clarified. Ming also took some time to fix minor errors in the current “Addressing Non-recyclables” document. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress towards eco-renovating our living models.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) completed her 2nd 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. Early in the week, Kivia wrote a section on the master document on the cost of incineration based on Ming’s previous work and her own additional research. Upon receiving some feedback, she made some edits and also added a subsection on the revenues expected from incineration plants. Kivia then proceeded to do research on the cost of gasification. This took quite a bit longer as there are fewer resources available online. See below for some pictures related to this towards eco-renovating our living models.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models 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 Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 31st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Yuxi discussed adjacent entry door wall and window solutions while trying to keep types of windows to a minimum. This still identified a new type of window to satisfy the narrow width by the entryway to the pool area. She also made new second floor wall proposals that will open up views to the interior and improve the view from the mezzanine level. Yuxi made updates in SketchUp to see the effects on the dome and compare the visuals. Pictures of some of this work are below towards eco-renovating our living models.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj read and reviewed the Earthbag Village Engineering page to figure out the structure so he could match the formatting and layout of the geodesic dome hub connector final paper to this structure. He also worked on reformatting the document to match One Community standards. Pictures below are related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik reviewed and verified the results and the conclusion in the final document that was prepared detailing the process used in the design of the center hub connector. He also suggested necessary corrections or suggestions in the document. Additionally, Prathik conducted research to find more vendors that could fabricate the U and V brackets required for the construction of the dome. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress towards eco-renovating our living models.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) completed her 3rd week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by researching artificial plants, curtain design, carpet selection, furniture adjustment, and furniture cost analysis. She researched the plants in the room and chose artificial plants to avoid bugs and having to water them. Yujue also completed most of the room’s cost research and furniture selection. See below for pictures related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models 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 worked on updates for the Aquapini & Walipini Open Source hub. We added images, as well as captions, and reviewed responses and added additional comments as necessary. Pictures below related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

The core team also continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. The focus this week was rewriting paragraphs for further clarity and describing additional specific instructions for assembly of the 3 trays at the bottom of the coop for gluing and screw spacing/frequency. We then made additional edits to the roosting ladder, which will undergo changes related to the horizontal and vertical distance that separate the roosting bars.

Another member of the core team updated the design of the Chicken Coop collection trays by adding additional parts for better connection of the front of the tray. We also updated the designs of the roosting ladder. We removed some of the bars and placed the rest of the bars according to the space requirements for roosting chickens. All images related to these changes were then updated in the assembly document.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 28th week helping with web design. This week, Yuran updated and fixed the Aquapini & Walipini staging page and the Open Source Climate Battery Design live pages based on feedback. She updated the Image Title Attributes and the Alternative texts for the images and made tables and replaced them for the Aquapinis and Walipinis page. Yuran also continued creating the Eco-community Electric Vehicle Integration and Charging Infrastructure Guide page. The pictures below share some of this developing work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 15th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam reviewed Marilyn’s new 3-day block recipes and offered feedback where needed. Then Adam worked mostly on the conversion calculator part of the Master Shopping List, adding in calculations for converting different measurements into other measurements. He also researched by watching YouTube instructions and practiced if it was possible to add a drop down menu with different measurement types that would automatically do the calculations when a measurement type was selected. The pictures below relate to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 8th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn completed two sets of menu blocks; “FRESH WEEK C” and “SECOND WEEK C”. She spent more time sourcing for recipes for SECOND WEEK C to avoid using fresh ingredients in recipes and as a result of that added new found recipes to the recipe development page. This includes replacing a lot of breakfast recipes as it was suggested to her that some recipes would not be suitable for the scaled amount. The pictures below relate to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models 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.

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 11th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph worked on the detailed design report of the roof structure. The report describes the steps undertaken during design and the assumptions that were executed to arrive at some of the decisions.

The roof structure was designed to withstand the prescribed loading conditions in the codes of practice, these were also tailored with the specific regional values provided in the map (wind, snow); tekla structural designer, tekla tedds and tekla structures were used in analysis and design calculation results presented in the report. The designed structure was also verified against LEED® provisions, and materials were selected that satisfied the provisions. Adolph then commenced preparing detailed AutoCAD drawings of the truss structure. Pictures below are related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week of work. This week, Dave finished double-checking energy demands for the Ultimate Classroom. He validated data by comparing it to each area of the Ultimate Classroom and with external reliable sources such as the U.S Energy Information Administration. Pictures below are related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models 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. Pictures below show some of this towards eco-renovating our living models.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 37th week of formal contribution to the Highest Good Network software. Chris helped with a diversity of ongoing support for the team answering questions and helping with various emergency bugs. Pictures below are related to this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel started by reviewing and testing some Pull Requests. After reviewing PR’s #411 and #158, he left comments with things to improve. He raised a PR (#156) that solved a small logical error editing other user’s time logs. After that, he approved PR #158. To finish his week, Miguel started developing the dashboard to manage user role permissions. Pictures of some of this work are below towards eco-renovating our living models.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun got feedback for expanding the current three filters (open/close/all) to six (all, assigned, unassigned, active, inactive, complete) and then she fixed them. She also added “complete” as an option for status when editing a task.

After that, Yiyun put most of her time discussing with Jae about the management-dashboard design, finally they agreed on 24/48/72h buttons for showing people’s time log during that period. And when the manager/mentor wants to create/delete/edit a task, they will wait for the approval by the admin/owner. Also, a notification will show on the admin/owner’s page. After the admin/owner approves/rejects/edits that action, the tasks page will be updated. Yiyun also took some time to help the team review PRs and GitHub things. Pictures of some of this work are below towards eco-renovating our living models.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ron resolved two bugs that were affecting the HGN application. There was an issue with Admin accounts being ‘defaulted’ to add tangible time entries even when the intangible time entry button was clicked. The second issue was related to a display of user badges ‘wrapping’ awkwardly and in certain cases, removing buttons altogether. Both of these issues were resolved with pull requests to the main application and are currently under review.

After these bugs had been resolved, Ron revisited another bug that he had been working on relating to a popup that triggers when duplicate user firstnames + lastnames already exist in the system. The modal was built out from scratch and new logic has been determined for when to trigger the modal, this was achieved with the help of another volunteer. See pictures below for some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 7th and final week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week David started out with adding tasks to the project dropdown list on the time entry form but could not complete it as there seems to be code on the backend which checks for projectId of time entries. Next week he will delve into the backend code or find some other way to circumvent this problem. See pictures below for some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Steven improved the backend cache behavior while doing any user profile modification and raised a PR about this update. He also helped review a PR solving the badge wrapping problem. Then, Steven started working on a new bug that previous paused users automatically come back after deactivating. He tried to copy the logic from the user management page to solve the bug. See pictures below for some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, in terms of management, Eiki reviewed the work of his team by referencing their weekly summary videos. He led a scheduled meeting with Yiyun and David so the team could learn what everyone was working on and struggling with. He integrated a new member, Vera, to the team and worked with her through a couple of programming sessions to help achieve her goals and for mutual knowledge sharing. In terms of software development, he continued to work on the management dashboard and red bell notification feature.

The original code made multiple requests to the backend when it could be simplified to one request, significantly speeding up the loading of the component. Eiki worked on refactoring the existing code by modularizing it – making it easier to add more features to and making it easier for new developers to come in and work with the component. The work involved both the frontend and the backend. See pictures below for some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Jorge Ivan Rodriguez (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jorge tested the timer to fix its functionality. The timer component wasn’t working when the clear button cleared the timer because refreshing brought back the old time. He got it to clear but then couldn’t get the Start button to work. The pause button didn’t work when two timers were open too. To fix the above issues we need to implement stateReconciler: hardSet, that allows it to work with nested props and REHYDRATE as the UI component to render information in different tabs. See pictures below for some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) completed his 2nd week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week, Yongtae created 10 more images, starting from #527 to #536. He focused on manipulating images on top of gradation using different light features that Photoshop provides, to create an interesting overlay (like how sunset shade is created on #535. On top of that, Yongtae applied some of the feedback provided for the previous set of images and made adjustments. Below you can see the images he created contributing efforts towards eco-renovating our living models.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us with checking plugin compatibility and updates to our adwords campaigns. See pics below related to this towards the mission of eco-renovating our living models.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Vera started working with Eiki on the TeamMemberTasks component to contribute efforts towards eco-renovating our living models. They cleaned up the component, introduced react hooks to this component, changed the code so it won’t be making so many calls to the backend and will now receive all needed data in a single call.

Vera also helped Phu with the people reports page: there were problems with sizing of the background, the table and the navbar. These elements’ sizes weren’t matching screen size. Vera fixed that and now the page displays properly. See pictures below for some of this work towards eco-renovating our living models.

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One Community Welcomes Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen to the Mechanical Engineering Team!

Posted on June 5, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Dave is a self-motivated recent graduate of the ABET-accredited Bachelor degree of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Aerospace Engineering. He is especially interested in a world of innovation that is evolving with intelligent, efficient, and secure technology. With this passion, he eagerly utilizes his education and skills to participate in work experiences that forward the realization of such a world. As a member of the One Community team, Dave is applying his engineering knowledge and dedication to help complete the energy analysis needs for our large-scale solar farm sizing.

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