One Community welcomes Luis Manuel Dominguez to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Luis received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University. He has experience working in clean energy with regards to cryogenic hydrogen generation. His past projects ranged from designing a hydrogen detection and ventilation system, to creating a vibration damping structure for a mobile hydrogen generation unit. Luis has a passion for tackling challenging and novel engineering problems and hopes to continue his work in sustainable energy to accelerate the path towards a cleaner planet. As a part of One Community team, he is helping with the PV Solar energy designs to create a solar microgrid that provides clean reliable energy as part of the Highest Good Energy component. Contributing to this, Luis is currently finishing up the designs for maximizing the energy efficiency of the City Center Eco-spa.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM LUIS!

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Do-it-yourself-replicable sustainable eco-cooperatives are one path to a sustainable future that will benefit every person and living thing on our planet. One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for building them.

These plans include sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. They also include how to combine all of these to create a network of teacher/demonstration hubs to help people with implementation, evolution, and adaptation globally.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 18th, 2021 edition (#421) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #421

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SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives 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 continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc focusing on Section 5 “Foundation Construction” through page 56.

This included Foundation Marking, Set Gravel Layers, Secure Layers with Rebar, Exterior Waterproofing Membrane, Vertical Interior Insulation, & Top and Interior Waterproofing Membrane. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc.

The core team also continued what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions, assembling the bed in 3D to test them. We started on the Wall Section assembly and framing of the bed. Detailed suggestions with corresponding images were added to the list for Stacey to address. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

The core team additionally began double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. This week’s focus was making a list of energy consuming components within the Earthbag Village. We did the first round of brainstorming for the Tropical Atrium, Net Zero Bathrooms, Communal Showers, and Vermiculture Bathroom.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design

And the core team helped to improve the design of the Most Healthy, Sustainable, and Practical Insulation Comparison Table and the scoring criteria table related to that. This one was built using a previous template but it has more complexity added to the layout due to the score cell being next to the cell description cell.

The same team member also continued editing the Chickens article, focusing mainly on adding more images throughout the page.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Most Healthy, Sustainable, and Practical Insulation Comparison Table

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 38th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom to coincide with the Solidworks rendering and reorganized the format to simplify the order of construction and installation and also in the correct order.

The updates included adding flash to the interior roof diagrams to illustrate that the installation comes after the exterior flash installation. The elevation view of the roof was also updated to include the drip edge flash. Jose Luis then began working on a section explaining the construction and installation of the roof support frame.

The support frame consists of a series of beams that support the load of the panels that rest on top of them. The introduction and material list for the roof support frames was added. The Solidworks rendering was then updated to help illustrate the location and orientation of the supports used to hold them to the structure and to each other.

The updated renderings will be added to the roof support frame section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 35th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on looking over all the components and links. There are still many parts that need to indicate where they are used and how many of them are used total.

Since the wall section is more complete, Stacey started counting up the screws used and other components. She also started integrating the final-review feedback from the team. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” All the Components and Links of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 13th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente continued the analysis of the long term economic balance considering the option of off-grid batteries, an option that was discarded due to the high investment cost.

He confirmed with the support of Jeson the selling kWh rate delivered to grid (0.026 USD) for the case of Garkane Energy. He also identified successful experiences in our planned state and concluded the high dependence on the utility kWh rates from/to the grid to reach a feasible option.

Vicente has prepared a micro tool to estimate the required area to locate the PV field depending on the sloping down degree of the location. He then began a discussion with Jae to find the best options for the optimal economic balance. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 10th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to work on the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet. He researched the flame spread index, LEED credits, other certifications, and miscellaneous pros and cons for each of the products.

Aidan continued to develop a weighted scoring system that will incorporate the 5 priorities for considering the best insulation option: Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 7th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This Week, Jeson researched for the project site electricity provider and their rates and possible solar energy compensation rate.

He got most of what’s needed, and only requires a call to Rocky Mountain Power to confirm the most updated solar incentive program rate. Jeson also composed a short summary regarding this research in the collaboration docs. In addition, he finally formatted the best solar harvesting tech report.

He then followed up with First Solar and Arzon Solar for additional questions and added the updated company quotes in the report conclusion section. Finally, Jeson started the conclusion of the best type of solar inverter report, and listed a few companies and products for future reference.

Although string inverters are on the expensive side, he thinks One Community’s choice should be string inverters because of their significantly easier installation and maintenance. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 32nd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week she reviewed comments and questions to the existing document and made changes to clarify points or marked items for discussion, such as the necessity of rebar embedded through the footer and clarification of gravel sizes within the footer. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives 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, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 28th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng adjusted the road details based on feedback. She also added the updated herb garden with the overpass and modified it to fit with the rest of the model.

The road connected to the laundry is now 8′-9′ wide and connected to the outside road system. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design ” Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia made new hot water calculations for the kitchen. Evan checked it and gave some notes all of which she hasn’t integrated yet.

She put the water pipeline for the kitchen above the kitchen’s ceiling, put the sewer pipeline from the kitchen above the basement’s ceiling, and made the vent system for the kitchen. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 16th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center.

This week, Ian polished the operation profile. This operation profile covers the occupancy percentage, process load percentage, artificial lighting percentage, mechanical ventilation on and off schedule, heating demand and cooling demand. This schedule of operation corresponds to the hourly interval for weekdays and weekends that the simulation software considers for the whole year.

Ian also provided a heating and cooling load summary of calculation results and inputs from excel in IP units. Below are some images related to this work. 

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Polished the Operation Profile – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David started the week holding a meeting with his team to assign action items.

Throughout the week he reviewed his team’s work and answered any questions that they may have regarding the tutorials and design. With Samson, David is trying to create a combined master site plan that will include both City Center, Earthbag Village, the greywater processing pond, as well as the roadway layouts in order to begin roadway plan details and quantity estimations.

David is also working with a new team member, Daniela, to create and design the grading plans and quantities for City Center. He has also created a grading calculations template and color coordinated the cells so that his team and future teams will be able to understand and make use of it without the need for guidance.

David has additionally begun preliminary drainage planning for the Earthbag Village so that he can have action items ready for his team when they are ready to begin the designs for this area. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable eco-cooperatives ” Parking lot & sustainable roadways Tutorial, & water catchment designs

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on correlating all the documents and making a final conclusion document comparing all the simulation results.

She determined the safety factor and stress resistance for the angle brackets of different sizes and materials and produced the first draft of the Conclusion Document, some of which is shown below. The pictures below relate to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis wrapped up his assessment of the different cover methods to understand what solution would be most effective for the eco hot tub.

He found that the use of an air gap significantly increases the efficiency of using a pool cover as opposed to having the water touch the cover. When used in conjunction with a thermal blanket, the evaporative and convective heat losses will be reduced substantially. This will be useful information when the final designs for the spa are being made.

The final step of calculations was understanding the energy and time required to heat up the hot tub after being filled with water for a cleaning, as this will have a high energy demand. With a majority of the calculations complete, designing the hot tub and finding energy efficient parts will be in the near future.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela was working towards finalizing the access road turnaround for the Earthbag Village project.

A 120′ Hammerhead had been designed the previous week, but to ensure symmetry, the Hammerhead design was extended East to West. Daniela also attended two meetings this week. The first was with David’s team to continue discussing our action plans for this week and the next two weeks.

The second meeting with David clarified questions concerning the Earthbag Village, as the AutoCAD would not properly offset the main street to 20′. This meeting also covered a deeper explanation concerning the grading design of the Earthbag Village. Later on in the week Daniela focused on rewriting sections for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report.

This also included writing a new section on ADA requirements for the parking lot. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Finalizing the Access Road Turnaround for the Earthbag Village Project

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week, Evan reviewed the kitchen plumbing design and water heater calculations. He also reviewed the load calculations and made comments on both. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Reviewed the Kitchen Plumbing Design and Water Heater Calculations

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives 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 made more changes to the Herbal Garden behind the Duplicable City Center. On the North side of the Dining Dome, by the kitchen entrance, we added a cross-over bridge for easy access of the herb garden from that entrance. We also removed fencing from the side connected to the dome.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Herbal Garden Behind the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 27th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry worked on the “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” document which details the specifics of a climate battery, making recommendations on designing your own and sharing the specifics for One Community’s design.

Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Document – Click for Page

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week as a member of the team. This week Yufan completed the orientation and initial set up procedures and then started on WBS #: 1.4.1: Aquapini/Walipini AutoCAD file creation using the Revit files.

For this task, she worked on the Revit file, imported the DWG file to Revit, and edited the plan layout and elevation levels in Revit. Yufan also set up a PDF printer for the export task. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable eco-cooperatives, Orientation and initial set up procedures – Click for Aquapini:Walipini

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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 for the open source hub

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-cooperatives 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 emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 41st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on the documentation and related suggestions for the user management area. These focused mostly on visibility updates and editing permissions for volunteers vs Admins.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Documentation & Related Suggestions for the User Management Area

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 26th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #468, #469, #470, #471 and #472. You can see all these new images below.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #468 to #472

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy reviewed and approved 3 more Pull Requests. These included bug fixes and changes for the User Profile, corrections and a message to remind the user to save their changes inside the User Profile, and updating a dependency.

Then he made some updates and changes in the UserProfileEdit unit-test file, improving coverage from 36.36% to 43.32%. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Reviewed and Approved 3 More Pull Requests

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru added the resources column in the task table in the people reporting page so the people who are involved in certain tasks are showing. She also added the following filters: assignment status, active status, priority level, status, classifications and users.

The task table will now render dynamically based on these and the other filters that the users choose. Next week Yueru will continue working on the users filter and estimation hours filter. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abdel focused on editing the team member tasks table. He changed what he did last week. The first change was to remove the unnecessary arrow icons from the table’s rows of the members who have no tasks or only one task.

The second change was to remove the scroll bar from the member’s row that has no more than four tasks. And in the last change, Abdel added an expand-all icon for Administrators and Managers to see at glance what everyone is working on. He is now focusing on fixing a bug with this last functionality where a person can’t individually close the tasks if they’re opened with this new button/function.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Focused on Editing the Team Member Tasks Table

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Let’s talk about addressing climate change with holistic living models. Through ultra-sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs that provide more enriching and enjoyable environments, we can demonstrate a better way of living that is also carbon neutral or even carbon negative.

The teacher/demonstration hubs One Community is designing will also teach others how to live this way too, making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough to spread on its own. A self-replicating model like this, spreading globally, is capable of launching the massive socio-economic and mindset changes that could address and even solve our current climate crisis.

• 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 the movement of addressing climate change with holistic living models as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 11th, 2021 edition (#420) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change
With Holistic Living Models
One Community Progress Update #420

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ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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 the core team continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week’s focus was verifying calculations, making general edits, finalizing research of past contributions, wrapping up the video & resource reviews, etc. through page 47.

We think this is most likely the next-to-the-last review of this doc. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

`Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Footer, Foundation and Flooring Dev Doc.

The core team also began what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions. We checked “Material Components”, “Material Boards”, “Material Lumber”, “Tools”, “Pre-made Components”, and started checking “Wall” sections. We also created a list of comments and suggestions to improve readability of the instructions. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Final Review of the murphy bed instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #218 of Dean’s work and the focus was more creating and testing the Murphy Bed furniture textures and texture combinations. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Murphy Bed Furniture Textures

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 37th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the heating elements effectiveness calculations. The calculations were done in order to quantitatively determine how many heating elements should be used depending on the climate.

The calculations determined how long the water or rain water storage room would take to reach freezing temperatures. Knowing the time was crucial to maximize the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the type and quantity of heating elements necessary to keep the room and rainwater at above freezing temperatures.

The section added covered the heat loss associated with the structure such as the walls and the roof and the heat loss of the water stored in the top center barrel. The findings help determine where to install the heating elements to further maximize their effectiveness. Illustrations were added to the section to help visualize the placement of the heating elements.

Jose Luis then began updating the roof plan to coincide with the latest additions to the SolidWorks rendering such as drip edge flash on the edge of the exterior roof panels. He also began rearranging the AutoCAD models to follow the order of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Heating Elements Effectiveness Calculations

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 13th and final week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark’s work was primarily focused on making written revisions to the Roadway Design and Roadway Drainage tutorials. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Written revisions to Design & Drainage Tutorials

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 12th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente added new tabs to the sizing tool: a specific one for the Earthbag Village energy demand and another for the feasibility analysis and economic balance vision on the long term.

This tool allows having a vision of the evolution of the annual energy & economic balances, and how the economic rates affect the net balance. Vicente also continued the follow-up of the collaboration team. He has repeated the simulations with SAM to find the best match with the outcome from a potential PV supplier. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Working on solar microgrid design & analysis

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 9th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week, Aidan’s work for the week was devoted to compiling information for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet.

He researched and assigned point values to features pertaining to sustainability, safety, and effectiveness for various insulation products made with wool, straw, hemp, keraf, and magnesium oxide from seawater.

In order to compare the costs of these products while taking into consideration differences in R-values, Aidan calculated the average price per square foot per R-rating for each product. The pictures below relate to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Info for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson researched the best solar inverters and studied the related specs. He also finalized the best solar harvesting technology research.

The answer to the best technology or company or product is not clear without the cost input, which he is struggling to find. Almost all the companies contacted did not have much interest in this 2MW project. However, Jeson provided their product specs and contact info for future reference.

He also determined that, if One Community wants to have a battery bank, a battery based inverter would probably be the choice. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Best Solar Inverters and Related Specs

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 5th and final week doing research for One Community. Her focus this week was finishing researching a new addition to the Most Sustainable Toilets tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work and content.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Addition to the Most Sustainable Toilets Tutorial

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 4th week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle started taking notes on Wheaton’s Permaculture podcast titled “Wheaton Permaculture – 076 Create an Oasis With Greywater”.

She also found a copy of the reference book online and began taking notes on that too. The pictures below relate to this research.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Natural Greywater Processing Pond Design

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also returned to the team and completed his 1st week helping complete the editing of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book. Shown below are this week’s edits that were addressed.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Tree House Village Online Book

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 27th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng adjusted the road system access to the domes and the herb gardens, and replaced some of the plants with 3D options from the Lumion plant library. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia focused on making changes to the plans according to Evan’s review and notes. She added floor traps in all bathrooms, put a sink in the boiler room, and changed pipelines in bathrooms 13, 15, and 16. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Design Plans

Ian Oliver Malinay(Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 15th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the target illuminance level per space zone. He checked all inputs are correct, considering also the ASHRAE standard.

Ian also checked the lighting control from the electrical consultant and the mech vent per area requirements. He arranged the Lux Level according to space type/uses, processed the percent openability of each glazing on the dome, and changed the material of the dome entrance. Ian also finalized the heating and cooling load calculation of the project.

Please see below progress photos for reference.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Target Illuminance Level Per Space Zone

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David started the week holding a meeting with his team to assign action items.

David was responsible for the review of Samson and Mark’s technical writing work as well as overseeing their CAD design work, which includes the new driveway, landing, basement door and garage roll-up door. David also put time into the grading calculation excel worksheet/template for his design team and future design teams to use for grading quantities.

Lastly, he has also begun creating a tutorial/checks and balances sheet for the hydrology report he is preparing for the City Center. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways Tutorial, and City Center Water Catchment Designs

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on the comparison of the small bracket and the big bracket (increasing the length).

She also compared the bracket with less number of holes to a bracket which has more holes. The bracket which has more holes has more stress resistance. Then she ran the simulation for the safety factor; galvanized gauge steel has more factor of safety when compared to aluminum. The pictures below relate to this work.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Comparison of small bracket & big bracket

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela joined the weekly meeting with David’s team concerning the Earthbag Village project.

For this team, she adjusted the widths of the streets to 20 feet and added an access road turnaround to one end of the site, this is all for fire truck access. She then updated this design and ensured that both the north and south ends of the site had proper access road turnarounds. She also continued last week’s work on the Aquapini/Walipini design documentation.

Measurements were taken from AutoCAD designs and more information on the project was brought to light. Many descriptions were further detailed and a new table was created to clarify watering information. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, Sustainable Roadways, Landscaping Tutorial

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week, Evan reviewed and provided comments on the plumbing drawing. The plumbing design lacked detailed information in terms of piping system clarification, pipe size and piping route.

Also, each dome will have their own hot water heater systems. This design approach will minimize piping work and cut down unnecessary hot water loops. Evan also completed his preliminary HVAC design markup for a designer to use as a reference. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Comments on the Plumbing Drawing

And long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) continued with his 3rd week helping with Duplicable City Center architectural details. Bahy’s focus this week was a roof proposal for the Living Dome. Pictures below relate to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Roof Proposal for the Living Dome

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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 returned to working on the open source Chickens tutorial, moving text from the research Google Doc to the One Community WordPress site and formatting it. We also found and added an infogram to better explain chicken combs terminology for farming beginners. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Open Source Chickens Tutorial

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 26th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry continued his work on digging into the HVAC handbooks in order to find relevant information relating to the climate battery design.

Working with the existing recommendation for greenhouses and incorporating specific climate battery recommendations he put together a first draft of a climate battery design guide. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models – Climate batteries for the Aquapini/walipini

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Highest Good Education

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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 22 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 17th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished the behind-the-scenes editing of the value of Open Source.

We re-read the content and made final edits for clarity, transformed/fixed additional passive voice issues, added web-links to the mind map, and passed it along to Jae for final review and integration into the live page. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” BTS Editing of the Value of Open Source

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 40th week helping with the Highest Good Network software.

This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team made links in the Profile Links section open in a new window/tab so the person doesn’t automatically leave the app, so the Create New User role is “volunteer” by default, added a size limitation of 50 kb for profile pics and a popup that tells them how to compress their image, updated the top of the Profile page to say “Favorite badges section coming…”, and added a new user role section to the Profile page that is visible to all but editable only by an Admin. They also fixed a bug where editing Skype, Zoom, etc. preference did not save. Pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Profile Links Section Open in a New tab

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 25th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #463, #464, #465, #466 and #467. You can see all these new images below.

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Images for weekly progress updates #463 – #467

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru planned to work on the estimation hours, classification, and resources filter in the tasks reporting page but she was not able to pull data from the tasks table. She spent time on debugging the issue but still was not able to get the tasks data.

The other tasks filter functionality is blocked until the task data issue is resolved. Yueru also spent time working on modifying the people report page UI. Now the blue square data is showing in a table format. Next week, she will continue the estimation hours, classification, and resources filter if she can pull the data. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Highest Good Network Software

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abderrahmane focused on editing the team member tasks table. He changed the view of the lines in the table by adding the collapse feature and an arrow icon to open it.

For the users who have more than one task, the collapse will be opened with fixed size and a scroll bar will appear to display the rest. Abdel also made this table responsive like the leaderboard table. He’s now focused on fixing problems finding data for the progress bar of each user’s task and making the eye icon work as requested. Pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Highest Good Network Software

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped update our site to the latest Google Analytics code, addressed an indexing error we were getting, created an ad campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials tutorial and Pictures below are related to this work.

Created an Ad Campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Tutorial – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Yueru Zhao to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yueru received her B.S in Management Information Systems from University of Delaware and M.S in Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining One Community, she worked as a full-time software engineer at SAP. Besides work, Yueru likes hiking and photography. As a member of the Highest Good Network software development team at One Community, Yueru is helping develop the reports functionality.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM YUERU!

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One Community and Jooble are working together to promote each other’s volunteer job opportunities. We’re sharing their services with this post and they are helping us share our volunteer positions using keywords related to sustainability.

If you aren’t familiar with Jooble, they are a job search engine created for a single purpose: To help any person find a job, regardless of his or her place of residence, language, religion, skin color or beliefs.

Jooble holds a core believe that labor is one of the leading components of human life, it is a matter of self-actualization, the pursuit of a complete identification and development of personal abilities, which are indispensable conditions for happiness. Jooble believes that there is a suitable job for each individual that can complement his or her life with meaning and joy to be useful to society. We think this is a pretty noble reason to help people find fulfilling positions!

When you perform a search with Jooble, you’ll get links to job postings from more than 20,000 (and growing) different job sites throughout the USA that are the most relevant to your search terms. Jooble’s goal is to save people time and energy, enabling a person to find their desired job from a single query.

In speaking with them, they say that, compared to perusing the newspaper or using a regular job board, job-hunting with Jooble may seem unusual, initially, but once a person fully learns how to master it, they are guaranteed to find the job of their dreams. The only condition is the existence of your dream job.

To make their system easier and easier to use, their team is constantly working in order to make a job search as simple as possible. Jooble is constantly being fine-tuned, as they add new services and features. But, as the saying goes, “A picture paints a thousand words”, so don’t take our word for it, give Jooble a try for yourself: Jooble.org

One Community welcomes Aidan Geissler to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Aidan studied Biology, Anthropology, and Neuroscience at Indiana University. Since then he has had a diversity of experiences: Education, Research, Project Coordination, and Field-Based Natural Resources Work. What unites this wide array of expertise and experiences is his passion for social and ecological justice. As a member of the One Community team, Aidan is contributing research, written content, and revisions for various tutorials, resources, and pages. Pages contributed to include Glass Recycling, Styrofoam Recycling, Plastic Recycling, Most Sustainable Flooring, and Most Sustainable Insulation.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM AIDAN!

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One Community welcomes David Na to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

David holds a B.S. in mathematics and civil engineering and has experience working with residential and commercial development and pavement management. He is an avid advocate for sustainable design and infrastructure and believes sustainable practices are the key to combating global climate change. He understands the many challenges behind creating a less wasteful future, but is optimistic and an active participant in designing creative solutions that reduce carbon footprint while increasing quality of life. As a member of One Community Global, David is offering his experience with site development to assist with the civil engineering aspects of the City Center, Earthbag Village, roadway/walkway and parking lot designs.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM DAVID!

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Every day we are writing the next chapter of humanity’s story. Let’s do it consciously and conscientiously, investing our energy in a future that supports the collective good and our one shared planet. One Community is supporting this with open source and sustainable designs for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 4th, 2021 edition (#419) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining how nature is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story:

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story
One Community Progress Update #419

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team finished the first-draft development of the new “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” page and submitted it for final review. We used the website edition checklist to verify metadata meets One Community standards, edited a few pictures to update some details related to the OSB cutting, uploaded the references backups to dropbox, and helped to improve a temporary parking lot table. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Earth-dome – Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 36th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued calculating and illustrating the heat loss of the structure, the rainwater storage system, and the exposed water in the top center barrel. He updated the structure heat loss rate calculations to include the heat loss of the restrooms. The heat loss rate of the rainwater storage room was calculated with and without a heating cable installed.

He calculated the amount of heat loss required for the room to reach 0âžÆ’ when initially at 3.33âžÆ’ and then used it to calculate the time needed for the temperature change to occur. The heat loss was calculated by using properties of air such as density and specific heat. Jose Luis then calculated the required heat loss in order for 1″ of the water to freeze in the top center barrel exposed to direct ambient temperature. He did this by assuming the heat loss would be caused by the forced convection of air into the barrel connected to the roof hole. The rate of heat loss in the water was calculated with and without the use of a heating cable.

With the heat loss rate and total heat loss, the time required at various temperatures was calculated to illustrate the effect one heating cable had on the water. The temperatures used ranged from 0âžÆ’ to -50âžÆ’ which is the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Web page links were added to important constants on the spreadsheet in the event that more detail is sought out by the user. The pictures below show some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Net-zero Bathroom Component ” Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 34th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on final files creation and saving a final PDF for review and comments, and looking over all cutting pages for ease of cut directions. She started to coordinate the components list with the placement of those parts in the instructions. Stacey also added page numbers and amounts of boards and components used on tally sheets, and checked the pre-made parts websites for additional supplemental parts needed to install, which will need to be verified. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 31st week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah researched alternative insulation products and installation methods to existing content, edited and organized relevant resources, and updated the FAQ section of the document. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Earthbag Village Tutorials ” Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark converted the staircase in the grading plan back into a driveway. He then worked on the roadway design tutorial, making sure it covers all factors needed for proper road design and covers the process by which one goes about designing a road. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Landscaping Guides – Click for Parking Lot Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su(Civil Engineer) also completed his 12th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had his weekly meeting with David discussing the changes of the driveway and new assignments. He researched information on sidewalks and bikeways, and finished the basic design guidelines for both. The guidelines included the purpose of the design, types of sidewalks and bikeways, and the general design criteria, etc. See pictures below showing some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Sidewalks and Bikeways – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 11th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente upgraded the solar sizing tool including an electricity demand profile as a reference so that a theoretical demand in the community (with the same profile as our state) can be balanced with the solar system considering different values of population and solar power.

He also contacted the working team to welcome Darren and followed up with the activities of Jeson and Luis. In addition, Vicente completed a first balance (preliminary values) for the demand of the Duplicable City Center and the Earthbag Village by including a proposed daily profile for the non thermal loads. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Solar Micro-grid Design – Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 8th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week, Aidan continued to conduct research and write sections for the Plastic Recycling content. This week’s efforts were primarily focused on recycling via molding, starting your own plastic recycling business, and options for more advanced DIY plastic recycling machines. Aidan also began working on the Most Sustainable Insulation research.

He started editing, revising, and adding additional research to the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet. For this research and analysis, Aidan began creating a comprehensive scoring system with which he will assign each product a score for various relevant characteristics such as sustainability, toxicity, fire resistance, R-value, and cost. Once all of the research and scoring is complete, the composite scores will be used as a metric to compare, rate, and rank each of the options. The pictures below relate to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Plastic Research – Insulation Research – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 5th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson started his follow up with the companies previously contacted. He only got a few responses from the 25+ companies that he contacted. 2 of them, which are utility scale solar companies, do not consider projects that are less than 50 MW. LG only works with residential customers, so it is not an option. Prism Solar came back and referred another company to him, he contacted the new company and no response yet.

Only FirstSolar replied with some valuable simulation results that Vicente could use for reference. Jeson asked First Solar to do another simulation with a few changes to the simulation input. He would consider finalizing his research without real world input. In addition, while waiting for company responses, Jeson started the solar inverter research. He thinks the central inverter would likely be One Community’s choice. If One Community wants to have a battery bank, a battery based inverter would probably be the choice. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 4th week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana finished her final contributions to the research and completed her first round of researching a new sustainable toilet option we found. Pictures below show some of this work and content.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Most Sustainable Insulation Tutorial – Click for Page

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle listened to the podcasts of permaculture by Wheaton, read Waste water Treatment by Source Separation by Folke Gunter, and continued research on permaculture greywater processing by ponds/lagoons. She also began research on international greywater guidelines to help One Community’s ability to be international and scale the project. The pictures below relate to this research.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Natural Grey water Processing – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story 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, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 26th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng added the finished herb garden to the outdoor walkthrough rendering. She also adjusted the paths and roads around the domes. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Herb Garden – Walkthrough Rendering – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 26th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia continued to answer questions from Evan, separated the .dwg files, and tried to make monochrome files but didn’t succeed. She will try again next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Duplicable City Center Plumbing ” Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 14th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the HVAC data in energy modeling to facilitate the resulting load for cooling and heating. Ian also processed the receptacle/miscellaneous load in DesignBuilder for each space with corresponding schedule of operation and he processed the heating and cooling set point for each conditioned space in DesignBuilder.

He arranged the exterior lighting details with corresponding operation of schedule for the whole year and the metabolic rate of each DCC thermal space. Ian also set up the schedule of operation for mechanical ventilation, heating load and cooling load. Additionally he checked the ventilation requirement from DCC HVAC details and reflected it to DesignBuilder’s required input (minimum fresh air requirement per person). Please see below progress photos for reference.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – HVAC Data in Energy Modeling – Click for Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David began the week preparing for a meeting and dividing up work amongst his team members for the City Center and Earthbag Village. After the meeting, David sketched the new proposed design for the ramp to replace the stairs to the basement for the City Center project.

The new ramp would be wider and also include a landing at the bottom of the ramp run. He also completed the research and tutorial for ADA Handrail standards as well as the insulation information comparisons for roll-up doors and standard solid wood doors. David has also worked on developing a checks and balances sheet for his design team. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – City Center Water Catchment Designs – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha tested 2×12 lumber and Laminated Veneer lumber. LVL lumber has more strength than normal lumber and based on all simulation results, Aluminum 2024-T3 angle bracket (2x2x4) has good results with LVL beams. She also compared the bracket with 30KN and 15KN loads, and 2x2x3 can withstand both loads. Sunitha concluded that 2024 T3 material angle plate/bracket 2x2x3 or 2x2x4 can be bent and fixed along with lumber. The pictures below relate to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – 2×12 Lumber – Veneer Lumber – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis continued his analysis of the hot tub’s heat loss. His primary focus was evaporation and the advantages that different types of covers have on the system. After getting in contact with a spa cover company, he was able to use the thermal resistance values given to calculate the total heat transfer of the hot tub when the system is idle.

These values will help the team come to a decision on which solution would provide the best energy savings. Once the analysis has been completed and the team comes to a consensus on the best method, the analysis of heating and starting up the tub can begin. This will be his last step for energy calculations of the hot tub system and he can begin to look at usage throughout the year and operation requirements. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Hot Tub’s Heat Loss – Click for Solar Energy Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela completed her general checklists, and reviewed materials on all the projects. She also had an introductory meeting with David’s team to further develop expectations and necessary tasks.

Daniela then worked on redesigning a chart for the Temporary Parking Lot Materials Option with Alvero finalizing the design. She also helped with the Aquapini/Walipini project, writing sections to document the design criteria for the seating areas, circulation, recreational areas, architectural design, roofing system, etc. Many of these sections will be further developed as new information becomes available. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Sustainable Tutorial Development – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

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

This week the core team finished designing the Duplicable City Center Herbal Garden. We added a double garden shed for tool storage and made final changes to the fence. We also created a “Master Lumber Spreadsheet” with the latest prices for lumber and linked those prices so the changes update the cost analysis for the “Rabbit”, “Goats/Sheep Barn”, and “Chicken Coop” sheets. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Duplicable City Center Herbal Garden – Click for Page

The core team also began the final review and updates for the Aquapini/Walipini structures, working with Daniela to clarify details, check the numbers, and add needed additional graphics, etc.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 25th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry, under the guidance of Amin, dug into the ASHRAE and ANSI handbooks, considered standards in the HVAC industry, looking into greenhouse best practices. Unfortunately, he could not find specific information on a system like the climate battery.

However, using the equations and recommendations on cooling, heating and ventilation for greenhouses, a recommendation can be made about sizing the climate battery system. Henry is working on distilling these recommendations and putting them into a document. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – ASHRAE and ANSI Handbooks – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Highest Good Education – Click image for the hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – WRITING THE NEXT CHAPTER OF HUMANITY’S STORY

One Community is writing the next chapter of humanity’s story 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 emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 16th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we worked on editing the value of Open Source. We added content to enhance and clarify the nature of this value that defines One Community, even in its current state – before being on the property. We addressed passive voice, long sentences, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Editing the Value of Open Source – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 44th and final week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen completed the documentation of badge functions, pushed all the code, and made a final PR. Sorting badges by ranking on Badge Report was implemented as it was missed previously. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Badge Functions – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 39th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on the conflicts and reviewed comments in the Rest API PR. All corrections are finished and are good now. They also fixed the issue of profile image upload save in the edit page, and introduced a new info to save the changes once the user made any changes in the user profile. Pictures below show some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Conflicts and Comments – Rest API PR – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 25th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #458, #459, #460, #461 and #462. You can see all these new images below.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Weekly Updates – Click for Most Recent Weekly Blog

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy continued work on multiple back-end pull-requests and approved them. Not many new unit-testing files have been updated this week because he ran into trouble understanding some of the unit-test files. Vy is currently still investigating and working more on them. Pictures below show some of this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Back-end Pull-requests – Click for Page

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru worked on filters in the tasks page. Now users are able to filter tasks based on assignment status, active status, and priority level status. Users can apply multiple filters at the same time and the tasks table will render the results automatically based on the filer options the user selects. Next week, Yueru will be working on the users filter and will also debug the update tasks functionality, and classification column in tasks data. Pictures below are related to this work.

Writing the Next Chapter of Humanity’s Story – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community is implementing global change through open source and free-shared DIY sustainability components. Our goal is to demonstrate a sustainable way of living that is easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to become self-replicating. We are including replicable components covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 28th, 2021 edition (#418) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Implementing Global Change
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

One Community is implementing global change 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 continued with the development of the new “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” page. We created new graphics explaining how to cut OSB sheets for the “Earth-Dome Loft Structural Engineering and Calculations” article, this reduced the count of needed panels from 7 to 5 per loft. While adding this and other images to the site, we also recorded a tutorial explaining how to edit and upload images, add metadata, etc. We also added another template to our Tables Template. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Implementing Global Change – “Earth-dome Loft Structural Engineering” – Click for Page

The core team also continued edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week we reviewed the new summary of the rockwool and perimeter installations for the winged insulation. We then began the deletion process of outdated narratives, photos, and resources in Sections 8 & 9. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Implementing Global Change – Earthbag Village Footer and Flooring Development Doc ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #217 of Dean’s work and the focus was more creating and testing of the guest room furniture textures and working on fixing an export problem for the Murphy Bed furniture that created duplicates of every part. He also worked on removing all the part numbers from the Murphy Bed export. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Implementing Global Change – Guest Room Furniture Textures ” Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 35th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the water catchment area spreadsheet. He updated the bathroom fixtures along with their water consumption and updated the roof diameter to match the rendered value. The percent increase in roof size formula was updated to include the ratio between the difference in needed roof size and selected roof size over the selected roof size.

He then began to calculate the heat loss of the structure at various temperatures to accurately recommend the quantity of heating elements in the rainwater storage that can keep the water from freezing. First he measured and listed the dimensions of the outer and inner wall, the interior roof, and the connection between the roof hole and barrel. This data was used to calculate the surface area of the respective sections in the structure. Jose Luis also researched and recorded the R-values of the materials used in the sections. Everything was added and organized in the Net-Zero Bathroom Calculations spreadsheet.

Heat loss of every section was calculated at various ambient temperatures. The total heat loss to the ambient air was calculated and plotted at different ambient temperatures. The number of heating elements can be determined once their generated heat is calculated and compared with the net heat loss. The pictures below show some of this work.

Implementing Global Change – Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 33rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey worked on the components page and getting quantities for the different materials. Also she was doing a general review of all pages again and thinking of ways to indicate cutting direction for wood, trying to accommodate some of the new comments into the instructions, and keeping everything consistent. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Implementing Global Change – Final Edits and Revisions – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 30th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial. She updated specific formulas for more clarity, researched using other materials for the floor envelope and exterior insulation, organized the references, updated the table of contents and moved information to other One Community documents that were not relevant to the FFF doc. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Implementing Global Change – Earthbag Village Tutorials ” Click for Page

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark worked on drafting erosion blocks, THE erosion control plan, and also converted the driveway into a staircase. He also helped with turning bullet points for the roadway and walkway tutorials into paragraph form to make it easier to follow. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Implementing Global Change – Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Guides – Click for Page

Zhiheng “Samson” Su (Civil Engineer) also completed his 11th week on the team and woking on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week, Samson had his weekly meeting with David discussing the roof drainage plan, the change about the stair of the basement floor plan, erosion control plan, and pump design. He finished the roof drainage plan AutoCAD drawing with David’s requirements. See pictures below showing some of this work.

Implementing Global Change – AutoCAD Drawing With David’s Requirements – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 10th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente reviewed the Duplicable City Center energy demand to update and find a more real annual profile. He is preparing graphical balances per month to identify the different supply situations: 100% of grid supply; 100% of PV supply (excedents to the grid); hybrid supply PV-grid.

Vicente created a first version of a schedule by a gantt diagram for the time follow-up of the whole process; this tool will be regularly updated to illustrate the real process. He also explored the EIA web to find references on the energy demand in our state. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – DCC Energy Demand – Real Annual Profile – Click for Solar Energy Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 7th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. He spent the week creating content for the Plastic Recycling webpage. This work consisted of researching and writing sections about the process of plastic recycling via shredding, extrusion, 3D printing, and molding. For each of these strategies, Aidan provided information, considerations, and resources for both purchasing and building various machines. The pictures below relate to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Plastic Recycling Webpage – Click to Visit

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 4th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Jeson researched the new type of solar harvesting technology offered by some companies. The concentrated solar thermal tech involves heating a working fluid using concentrated sunlight.

The heated fluid can then be used with conventional power generation equipment (i.e., turbines, generators, etc.) to produce electricity. However, there are many variations of this tech, again a quote and specs from the requested companies are needed to make a comparison. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Implementing Global Change – Solar Harvesting Technology – Click for Solar Energy Page

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 3rd week researching new additions to the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Indiana focused on updating all necessary finishes to her research in order for it to be appropriate and legible for the website. Research for sustainable toilet options was also begun. Pictures below show some of this new content.

Implementing Global Change – Most Sustainable Insulation Tutorial ” Click for Page

Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) continued helping with 3D render work, completing his 2nd week helping with the Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster renders. This week he focused on adding people, plants, and objects to the two renders shown here.

Implementing Global Change – People, Plants, and Objects – Earthbag Village Renders – Click for Page

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle began research on the composition of household water that will be part of the greywater system. The pictures below relate to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Composition of Household Water – Grey water System – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

One Community is implementing global change 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 finished adding all the temporary parking lot research and instructions to the Sustainable Parking Lots Page.

Implementing Global Change – Temporary Parking Lot Research – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 25th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng was concentrating on the outside walkthrough rendering. She fixed green still covering some of the grates, updated the texture around the sliding glass doors to match the dormer window white, scaled down some bushes so they weren’t covering half the path, and changed the video path not to cross through trees. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 25th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week, Ksenia answered question from Evan, and changed the architectural plan for the Living Dome toilets. She also made PDF files for Evan’s further review and updated all the files in the common folder. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 13th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian processed the occupancy data of the Duplicable City Center that is pursuing LEED Platinum certification. The occupancy is based on actual, as per designed, or from the client. This occupancy has data of the schedule of operation which he also provided.

The schedule of operation should be the same with the proposed and baseline design. Ian also provided details of activity of spaces per zone, and created the summary or tabulated details of receptacle power density and lighting power density. Additionally, he revised the previous lighting power density according to the details from the electrical engineering team. Please see below progress photos for reference.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center – Click for DCC Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David began the week with a team meeting to set action items for the week. He completed sketches for the erosion control and basement to stairwell conversion so that his team can begin making the changes into the design.

To access the teams progress and productivity, David used a gannt chart template from another team and has modified it to show action items that are needed to complete the civil drainage plans. David has also been looking into ADA handrail design standards, walkway/bicycle design, and roadway drainage design. He is currently working the technical writing portions of the report/tutorial. Lastly, David is working on a design to incorporate a fire lane truck access and turnaround hammerhead into the Earthbag Village’s design to meet the Fire Apparatus Access Roads requirement. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Sustainable Roadways – City Center Water Catchment – Click for Page

Saffet Kilçer (Structural Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center beam and column designs using SAP2000. This week he began writing the final report. The introductory part of the report is now complete, the loads part has been started, and the dead load part continues to be written. Picture below shows this work-in-progress. Â 

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Beam – Column Design Report – Click for Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha used the Aluminium 2024-T3 plate as an angle bracket with length of 4 inches on each side and with 6 holes. She did static analysis simulation and the results were better than the small bracket. The pictures below relate to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Duplicable City Center Connectors – Click for Page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis focused on another state of heat transfer that the hot tub experiences: the idle stage. When covered and not in use, it is crucial that the hot tub maintains its heat level for use at any time. The hot tub experiences a significant reduction in heat loss by convection and evaporation due to the cover.

His efforts this week focused on calculating the evaporative heat loss and sourcing a cover to understand the conductive heat loss through the cover. Each variable is crucial to the description of the system and understanding where optimizations can be made. His goal is to wrap up the analysis of the idle stage in the coming week and begin assessing the heat start-up energy requirements of the system. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Implementing Global Change – Solar Micro-grid Design, and Cost Analysis Specifics – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the Herbal Garden design for behind the Duplicable City Center. We placed four picnic tables outside of the East fence line of the Herbal Garden, and designed a greenhouse with two entrances on opposite ends and placed it on the side that is closest to the Dining Dome. The fence on the side of the greenhouse was also removed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Herbal Garden Design – Duplicable City Center ” Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 24th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on updating the 3D model of the climate battery system and continued his work organizing the main research document. He met with Amin (a senior engineer who has joined the team to consult on this component) and discussed an approach for moving forward with the project, including more research and use of the ASHRAE Handbook. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Implementing Global Change – 3D Model – Climate Battery System – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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

Implementing Global Change – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE

One Community is implementing global change 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 28 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team additionally completed our 15th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished editing the value of Community Contribution, completing both the draft webpage and the mind map, addressing passive voice and doing a final review before passing it along to Jae for his final review and updates to the live page on the site. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Implementing Global Change – Improving the Content for All Our Values Pages – Click for Our Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 43rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen created a delete confirmation popup to prevent actions that accidentally delete and badges. She also created information icons for badge functions. She has been adjusting the text and styling based on Jae’s feedback and requests. Other miscellaneous tasks include making the ranking field accept integers only, making 0 the highest number in sorting rankings, and adding a secondary sort by names for badges with the same ranking. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Delete Confirmation Popup – Click for Highest Good Network

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy updated more feedback on the PR#45 (which is related to Forgot-password changes”. He also tested and approved related Badge features. Vy additionally started to go over many different old unit-test files and update them so that the total fail test cases of the project will reduce down as much as possible before he continues to work on more unit-test files. Pictures below show some of this work.

Implementing Global Change – Feedback on the Pr#45 – Click for Highest Good Network

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru continued working on showing tasks data on the project report page. She used the WBS ID to filter all the tasks data to render the tasks that belong to the specific project. Now the task data is rendered to the project report page with information about the task name, priority and status. She also added the priority level and status filter options. Next week, she will be working on filtering the tasks based on the options that the user choses. Pictures below are related to this work.

Implementing Global Change – Showing Tasks Data on the Project Report Page – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Zhiheng “Samson” Su to the Engineering Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Samson earned his bachelor’s degree from Cal State Long Beach University and currently holds the Civil Engineering E.I.T license. His educational background lies in civil engineering with the emphasis in transportation, structure, and water resource management. As a member of the One Community team, Samson is contributing to the design of the Duplicable City Center’s drainage plan, road and walkway plans, and helping write the pavement design tutorial for non-industry people.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM SAMSON!

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