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Helping People Create a Sustainable World – One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Ratna Shivakumar

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One Community is helping people create a sustainable world through open source sustainability plans covering all aspects of sustainable living. They include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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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 November 29th, 2020 edition (#401) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards helping people create a sustainable world:

Helping People Create a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #401

Helping People Create a Sustainable World - One Community Weekly Update #401

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #203 of Dean’s work and the focus was lighting levels and attempting to run final renders. Lighting levels were fixed so shadows weren’t so dark as to look black but now the renders are producing jagged lines where they should be straight, even though the pixel quality is higher. You can see some screenshots of this process below that contributes to the mission of helping people create a sustainable world.

Earthbag Village, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Focused on Lighting Levels and Attempting to Run Final Renders – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 33rd week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. For this week Alvaro worked on the “Reducing Your Use of Plastics” section of the plastic article. He started the eco-flowchart for handling bottles at onecommunity and investigated PETG, R-PET filaments and another DIY filament extruder. As an extra, he also did some research on tire recycling due to his participation on an external hackathon.

Lastly he started the “Other Interesting plastic recycling options” section where he added the alternatives to transform plastic into food (yes, food… crazy) or into nanocarbon tubes+hydrogen. Pictures below show some of this work for helping people create a sustainable world.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the SolidWorks rendering of the Net-Zero Bathroom to include metal flashing covering the roof access along with the exterior roof support beams. He researched and rendered possible filters and grates to block debris and insects from entering the water supply. The metal flashing used on the roof access provides water sealing and water diversion. The exterior roof beams cannot be completely wrapped in the metal flashing and can be protected by a wood sealer.

The challenge with the insect and small debris filter was finding one large enough to fit the orifice of the roof, along with being easy to maintain and clean. The “Rain Harvesting Guardian” was found to provide the best benefits with minimum trade offs. There were a wide variety of dome grates used for filtering large debris, but the challenge was finding one that needed minimum modifications to fit over the roof orifice. The cylindrical drain dome strainer was found to be the simplest grate to retrofit while having sufficient gaps to allow water to flow through it. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Continued Finishing the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 17th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she made it on to page WS21, reworking many prior pages as she went. She also went back to the other sections and re-saved the views showing correct perspectives of the wall section. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Murphy bed instructions, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 15th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah created an updated loft design to include timber beams, bridges and bearing plates as well as three connections: joist hangers for the bridges, steel angles to connect the beams to timber plates, and nails to connect the plates to the walls. In doing so, Hannah verified adequate spacing of the nails on each member, checked the relevant failure modes for each member, and created a preliminary materials needed list. You can see some screenshots of this work below for helping people create a sustainable world.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials ” Click for Page

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering. This week Alvin went through the orientation, familiarized himself with the existing research and files, and made a preliminary design in AutoCAD. The pictures below show examples of some of this work for helping people create a sustainable world.

Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Communal Eco-shower Footer, Foundation and Flooring Engineering – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia created the plan for the water supply and sewage systems in the kitchen. Pictures below show some of this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Plan for the Water Supply and Sewage Systems in the Kitchen – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 8th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy focused on combing through papers and online sources, and reading the work that the previous people did on the tutorial. Next week she will begin writing. Pictures below show some of what she reviewed.

Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng focused on further modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file, checking off last week’s requested changes as she went. You can see some of the updated areas below.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design and Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen. We updated the foldable tables to match the equipment list, placed 24″x12″ portable locking hard floor tiles, added an additional middle row of tables, and checked to confirm all appliances from the equipment list were in the SketchUp model. We also created a new “Materials Price List” spreadsheet.

And we consulted with a representative of Big Floors, confirming the choice of Fast Deck 2.0 flooring for our transition kitchen and is seeking feedback from one of their end users who purchased Fast Deck 2.0. Pictures below show some of this work.

Transition Kitchen, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Continued With Our New Plan for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we reviewed and edited the coop doc through page 15, addressing numerous details helping with clarification for the wall construction. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress for helping people create a sustainable world.

chicken coop step-by-step instructions, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Reviewed and Edited the Chicken Coop Doc Through Page 15 – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 9th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu continued making the outdoor model in Rhino. She finished the first half of the outdoor model, started researching the plant material on our website, and began making the test walkthrough in Lumion. Some pictures of this work-in-progress for helping people create a sustainable world are below.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Continued Making the Outdoor Model in Rhino – Click for Aquapini & Walipini

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei completed the first full SketchUp model for the Earthbag village landscaping and submitted it for review. Pictures of this work-in-progress for helping people create a sustainable world are below.

landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Completed the First Full SketchUp Model for the Earthbag Village Landscaping – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry got the climate battery simulations working in SolidWorks with simulated soil and began research on accurate inlet and outlet air. Once the air conditions are accurate the simulation should be complete and optimized for the greenhouse specifications. You can see some pictures related to this work for helping people create a sustainable world below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 8th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana analyzed 3 climate batteries and compared their specs to our Aquapini/Walipini current design. She realized that increasing the number of subsystems will decrease the friction loss. The “Blue House” climate battery most closely resembled the Aquapini/Walipini design and the following specs: 7 pipes per subsystem = 147′ tubing and manifold + risers = 22′ tubing. Diana made two new configurations of the Aquapini/Walipini current design:

8″ manifold and 7 4″ pipes , -40 ft in manifold length for subsystem 1 and -20ft for subsystem 2.
10″ manifold and 7 4″ pipes , -40 ft in manifold length for subsystem 1 and -20ft for subsystem 2.

The friction loss for these configurations is calculated in the “Aquapini and Walipini Air Flow Rate Calculations” google sheet. The result was a friction loss of 4000 Pa – 5500 Pa but a 8-inch inline duct fan only provides ~350 Pa for a 241 cfm, meaning the fan cannot balance this system. Diana decided to calculate the friction loss in the “Blue House” and found that it was ~28,000 Pa which is significantly higher than the Aquapini/Walipini design. According to the “Blue House” analysis report, the system did not achieve turbulent flow but still provided 242,000 BTU in heating mode and 992,00 BTU in cooling mode. Although it was not an efficient system it still worked.

Diana then analyzed the effects of the diameter of the manifold and tubes on friction loss. This can be found in the “Aquapini and Walipini Air Flow Rate Calculations” google sheet under the “Blue House – friction loss” tab. The friction loss decreased exponentially as the diameter was increased. By increasing the manifold diameter and tube diameter by 1 inch the total friction loss decreased by ~70 in wg or ~1700 Pa. Diana will be creating new configurations of the Aquapini/Walipini climate battery (adjusting the diameter) to analyze the friction loss and provide them to Henry for heat transfer analysis. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below.

Analyzed 3 Climate Batteries and Compared Their Specs to – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes was able to get access to SolidWorks and is learning how to use flow simulation to apply it to our current design. He also worked on adding conversions into his Matlab code to make it easier to use regardless of the units being used. He additionally spent significant time trying to get the software working properly on his Mac, which requires a special Windows environment to run SolidWorks. You can see some pictures related to this work for helping people create a sustainable world below.

Learning How to Use Flow Simulation to Apply It to Our Current Design – Click for Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily finished research on ADS pipe and provided a thorough table of ADS pipe kinds with attributes. In addition, Lily started working on the cost analysis based on previous research and then researching other costs approximations. You can see pictures related to this research for helping people create a sustainable world below.

Research on ADS Pipe and Provided a Thorough Table of ADS Pipe Kinds- Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is helping people create a sustainable world through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’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 such as helping people create a sustainable world:

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 21 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. Thus, contributing meaningful efforts towards helping people create a sustainable world.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished re-reading the Large-Scale Consensus content and made notes for things to re-check and links/anchors to add. We then began transferring the content to the web editor and this process is now about 2/3rds done. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work for helping people create a sustainable world below.

large-scale consensus content, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Continued Editing the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content ” Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 40th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry made the format for Why/Intent/Endstate so that Add, Edit, and View are now the same. He also added the editor tool set to it, so an Admin can add a table, bullets, text formatting, etc. He moved these to a new location too, then updated the permission for WBS and Task editing to Admins only. He also added a “confirm deletion” popup. The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality catered towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Highest Good Network software, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Format for Why/Intent/Endstate – Add, Edit, and View are the Same – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 26th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen is back to work with a new laptop! It took her about 3 hours to set up the dev environment and installed everything the HGN project needs (iTerm2, bash profile, IDE setting & extensions, global git, Node, MongoDB compass, etc.). The Node failed to compile at first. She solved the error and the app is now running successfully on her local. She rewrote some work-in-process code that she didn’t commit to git and lost from her last laptop focused on helping people create a sustainable world.

In the coming week, she will finish reproducing the testing data, wrap up what she has and create a PR, as the planned MVP launch is a few days away. Pictures of some of this work towards helping people create a sustainable world are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software with a New Laptop ” Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team completed the create new user profile functionality and the validations. Now Admins can create a user profile, can see the users and do all other actions in the user management area. Pictures below show some of this new functionality that contributes to the mission of helping people create a sustainable world.

The Create New User Profile Functionality and The Validations – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 18th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi moved the bar to the top of the page. She Added space between badges and adjusted the size of words and icons. She found the right size of badges should be 85x85px. Yiqi also implemented the notification function for “Tasks” and “Badge Earned” and finished the initial click function setup for the “Blue Squares” icon. You can see some pictures related to this work towards helping people create a sustainable world below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry changed the notification modal UI as so the previous and current state of task infos are shown, as well as a third field highlighting their differences. Modal UI for editing tasks was also made slightly larger to accommodate entering task infos. Pictures are below showing some of this work towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Changed the Notification Modal UI – Previous and Current State of Task Infos Are Shown

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on the navigation toggle buttons getting them to work properly when they are clicked both for the header and timelog sections. Chris also worked on having the timelog entry popup be on intangible time by default if on mobile view for the timer or manually adding an entry to the timelog, unless the user is an Admin. Pictures related to this work towards helping people create a sustainable world are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was mainly working on cleaning up the code for the user profile component, writing unit tests, and fixing bugs. Specifically, Jun split the user profile into sub modules, so the future code maintenance and feature extension can be easier. He finished all the unit tests for the submodules and the only unit tests he left is the integrated test for the whole user profile component. You can see some of this work below catered towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Worked on Cleaning Up the Code for the User Profile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 11th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing work on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week’s focus was making design and size corrections on the badges he created last week and figuring out ways to compress the files without compromising the definition of the images, making contributions towards helping people create a sustainable world. Pictures of the updated badges are below.

Badges for Highest Good Network, Helping People Create a Sustainable World, One Community Weekly Progress Update #401

Continued Creating New Badges for the Highest Good Network ” Click for Page

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HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE WORLD –

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together by helping people create a sustainable world. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

Throughout our design process of helping people create a sustainable world we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs for helping people create a sustainable world. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub for helping people create a sustainable world. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living such as helping people create a sustainable world.

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this helping people create a sustainable world model can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation such as helping people create a sustainable world, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are helping people create a sustainable world.

One Community Welcomes Lindy Rzonca to the Research Team!

Posted on November 25, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Lindy Rzonca to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Lindy is passionate about our planet and the people on it. As a graduate from UC Berkeley with a B.S in Society & Environment, this passion has propelled her through her educational and professional life. She is currently working on developing sustainable living solutions as a Sustainability Analyst at LIM Living. And as a member of the One Community team, Lindy is helping to educate people globally by conducting research and writing tutorials covering sustainable flooring, sustainable non-recyclable waste processing, and more.

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One Community Welcomes Jingwei Jiang to the Landscape Design Team!

Posted on November 25, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jingwei Jiang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jingwei is from Chengdu, China. She achieved her Bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture (BLA) from University of Washington on June 10, 2018. Soon after graduation Jingwei completed internships in China and received an offer from the Architecture School of University of Virginia. In 2020, she finished her education and graduated with her Master degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) and Urban Design Certificate (UDC). As a member of the One Community team, Jingwei is helping create the complete landscaping plan for the Earthbag Village.

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One Community Welcomes Quiheng Xu to the Landscape Design Team!

Posted on November 25, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Qiuheng Xu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Qiuheng graduated from the University of Virginia Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program. During the past few years, she has participated in several different types and phases of projects through both school and intern experiences. Through these, Qiuheng was able to get hands on with residential projects, civil engineering, urban planning, and habitat design. She also has some web design experience. Qiuheng believes landscape should be part of daily life because what we are building are living environments. As a member of the One Community team, Qiuheng is helping with both internal and external Duplicable City Center visualization walkthrough and landscaping design.

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One Community Welcomes Jiayu Liang to the Landscape Design Team!

Posted on November 25, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jiayu Liang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jiayu has over 8 years of design-professional training across multi-scale and various design types. She earned her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism from the University of Southern California, with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Art Design. Last summer she went to Tbilisi, Georgia, and was responsible for an entrance and parking-lot grading design in the Veli project. Jiayu is self-motivated, strong-minded, and a goal-oriented challenger. She believes that landscape design not only creates beautiful environments balancing people and wild-life habitats, but also digs the deepest cultural roots. As a member of the One Community team, Jiayu is helping with the Aquapini/Walipini greenhouse structures interior and exterior landscape design and visualizations.

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Path to a Sustainable Civilization – One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Ratna Shivakumar

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Want to see what a path to a sustainable civilization looks like? Check out One Community’s open source plans for achieving a path to a sustainable civilization through a global cooperative of self-replicating eco-communities and teacher/demonstration hubs.

Here’s our project overview

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 22nd, 2020 edition (#400) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards a path to a sustainable civilization:

Path to a Sustainable Civilization
One Community Progress Update #400

Path to a Sustainable Civilization - One Community Weekly Update #400

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” section of the Net-Zero Bathrooms. He added detailed steps, diagrams, measurements, and organized the material list for the “Roof Panel Construction” section. Detailed steps were added to the “Roof Panel Installation” section too. Hence, contributing meaningful efforts towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

The SolidWorks model was also updated to include the drip edge roof flash on the edges of the exterior roof panels. The addition of metal flashing around the roof access was added as well. The images from these updates will be used in the section as a visual reference. Pictures are below for this work towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Updated the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” Section – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 16th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Stacey is excited to almost be done with the now 26-page wall section. She reworked all groups by making sure all the fonts are the same. Stacey also verified all the call outs and zoomed images are colored in the same way across all groups, and have clear pages marked now from the wall section into the 3 other groups. She also figured out many of the old renders and updated with the correct wall image in all places. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Murphy bed instructions, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Worked on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 14th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the tools required to place nails and cement between each layer, and working on the structural design of the lofts.

For the three tools, she finalized the initial designs of each and prepared the associated master AutoCAD. Hannah also continued the loft design by selecting the joist size and spacing, the bridge size and locations, determining the bridge hanger manufacturer / product, and beginning to work on the bearing calculations for the end supports. You can see some screenshots of this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia created the plan for the hot and cold water pipelines in the kitchen and main bathroom areas. Pictures below show some of this work for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 7th week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy finished the Sustainable flooring research and Google Doc. She finished the section on Vinyl flooring, and she proofread the entire document and made some changes to reflect the new changes. Pictures below show some of this work for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Most Sustainable Building Materials, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Confirmed and Expanding the Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen to promote a path to a sustainable civilization. We started working on a new SketchUp design for 30’x50′ Transition Kitchen structure we agreed on as best from last week. We also created three possible layout templates for kitchen/eating/serving areas.

Then we did research on different floor covering for the Transitional Kitchen portable building. Lastly, we created a list of problems that we found during the detailing process with the old Hexayurt design for the Transition Kitchen structure. Here they are and pictures of the other work follow them:

Challenge to place appliances in Hexagon shaped building.
Insulation boards are not strong enough to handle multiple assemble/disassemble activities.
Insulation boards as roof are not strong enough to handle snow loads.
Leakage and structural problems with the insulation boards because suggested tape doesn’t hold up for more than 2 weeks of sun damage, it gets crusty and peels off. Alternative attachment options would all break down the insulation boards too much or over very short periods of time in inclement weather conditions.
Insulation board is not sustainable. We could overlook this if it would last being used like this (which we initially thought it would) but it won’t.
Rising lumber prices and adding in the cost for a solid floor made this structure almost 3x as much as it was originally projected to cost.

Transition Kitchen, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Continued With New Plan for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we reviewed chicken coop drawings and related videos suggesting a more standardized approach to wall layout design for improved efficiency, clarity, and ease of interpretation for the novice builder. We also explored different hinge locations for the nesting boxes, and further revised the initial pages of the coop assembly based on all of the above. Pictures of some of this work are below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes was able to get access to SolidWorks and is learning how to use flow simulation to apply it to our current design. He also worked on adding conversions into his Matlab code to make it easier to use regardless of the units being used.

He also spend significant time trying to get the software working properly on his Mac, which requires a special Windows environment to run SolidWorks. You can see some pictures related to this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

climate batteries for Aquapini:Walipini structures, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 8th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu focused on making the 6 greenhouse models and the model of outdoor landscapes in the Rhino. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Continued With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the landscaping specifics for the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei focused on finishing the CAD plan according to previous developed SketchUp models. The final planting list was further developed too. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

landscaping specifics for the Earthbag Village, Path to a Sustainable Civilization

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on the climate battery simulations and optimization. He worked with his team to improve the SolidWorks simulations related to the pressure in the pipes. You can see some pictures related to this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Worked on the Climate Battery Simulations and Optimization – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana continued her research on friction loss of the system and calculations of the static pressure of the system. She learned to use a Friction Loss chart that will provide the friction loss of the system given two of the following parameters: velocity, duct diameter, or cfm.

According to the chart, our system is recommended to have a duct diameter of 10-12 inches because any lower and the friction loss per 100ft is very high. Using an equation that closely describes this chart, Diana calculated the friction loss per 100ft on the “Air Flow Rate.xslx” and varied the size of the manifold to be 8-12 inches and the velocity from 1000 – 1500 fpm. It was found that 10-inch diameter with a 1100 fpm initial velocity to be 0.54 in wg (inches of water gauge) per 100 feet (this is a reasonable amount of friction).

Then using these parameters the friction loss per 100 ft was calculated for the 4-inch pipes branching off of the main pipes. The small pipe diameter was varied from 3-5 inches but 4 in will be kept because its friction loss is only ~0.05 in wg per 100 ft. Diana met with Henry to discuss the high friction loss and the following steps will be taken to resolve the issue: decrease the number of pipes, decrease the length of the manifold, and increase the diameter of the manifold from 8in to 10 inches.

Diana also researched how to account for pressure when calculating the friction loss because the charts available are accurate for standard conditions and not high elevations. She tabulated the 6000 ft elevation correction factors on the “Air Flow Rate.xslx” under the tab cfm – elevation correction.

This tab takes in the total volume of a building and desired ACH and then calculates the corrected CFM at a 6000 ft elevation for temperatures between -20 F to 100 F. Then it takes in a diameter for the main manifold and the pipes to calculate the total friction loss per 100 ft.

For a specific temperature the total friction loss is calculated. It was found the friction loss is extremely high and a fan cannot create enough static pressure to balance it. By increasing the manifold diameter to 10 in the static friction decreased by half but this value is still too high. Reducing the number of pipes will be the next step. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 4th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Daniela focused on further recipes and researching suitable video instructions for previously chosen dishes. She also double checked that the image she’s supplied so far are not copyright protected. You can see some of this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Path to a Sustainable Civilization

Focused on Further Recipes and Researching Suitable Video Instructions for Previously Chosen Dishes

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we refined and edited the large-scale consensus governance content in preparation for putting the content into the web editor. We added links, formatted the write-up (bullets and justified text), made the content more consistent, and re-read the content. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

large-scale consensus content, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Refined and Edited the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 39th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added the folder icon for the expanded tasks. The folder icon was used instead of an arrow or other icon because we think it makes the most sense communicating that the parent tasks (folders) are the sum of all children tasks. Henry also worked on the remove function.

Removing a task will affect other tasks, so he worked on debugging this so the other tasks renumber and move up correctly to fill in the newly empty line. He still needs to update the task ID and hours calculation though, which is on his action list for next week. The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Highest Good Network software, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Added the Folder Icon for the Expanded Tasks – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team continued working on creating the user profile by adding the option to assign a team and project while creating a user. An administrator can now click on add a new team / project button and search and find the team/project to assign the user. Pictures below show some of this new functionality for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Added the Option to Assign a Team and Project While Creating a User – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 17th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi established the frame of DashboardNotificationBar. She divided it into four parts. The first part is mainly about username, the second is about work hours, the third is about summary, and the last is about Badges. She finished the text inside these parts and added icons (exclamation, check), which are similar to the patterns in the picture below. Also, she adjusted the size and percentage of these parts in the bar, but they still need further modification. You can see some pictures related to this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Established the Frame of DashboardNotificationBar – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry implemented the requested changes from a number of weeks ago. Color contrast is improved for the table. The text differences for the notifications are now human readable. Next, Jerry will work on having task info updates be condensed if a field is updated multiple times. Pictures are below showing some of this work for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Implemented the Requested Changes From a Number of Weeks Ago – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 13th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began the comparative analysis portion of this project. She went through each of the plans from each company that she thought were relevant to the goals of this organization and chose the ones that were most applicable. She created a final spreadsheet of the few plans that she would like to research and compare further. She also reformatted many of the plans, so that they all followed one set of criteria. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

Insurance options, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Began the Comparative Analysis Portion of Health Insurance Research – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on the timelog component adding it to the dashboard. Chris also edited the formatting for the timelog and timer components to be displayed in mobile views with scrollbars. Pictures related to this work are below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 10th week helping with various graphic design work for the project. This week Jaime started creating new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he re-created 8 badges for the 30-week streak accomplishment. You can see these newly created images below towards the path to a sustainable civilization.

graphic design, Path to a Sustainable Civilization, One Community Weekly Progress Update #400

Started Creating New Badges for the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

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

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living such as a path to a sustainable civilization.

PATH TO A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this path to a sustainable civilization can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this path to a sustainable civilization.

One Community Welcomes Ksenia Akimov to the Engineering Team!

Posted on November 18, 2020 by One Community

One Community welcomes Ksenia Akimov to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ksenia is a Mechanical Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing complex plumbing, water supply and drainage systems for commercial, residential and military projects. She has expertise in internal and external portable, firefighting, water recycling supply systems and sanitary, industrial, storm drainage solutions. She also has experience with multi-family residential, large scale retail, manufacturing and education projects. As a member of the One Community team, Ksenia is helping with the complete plumbing designs for the Duplicable City Center.

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Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Posted on November 15, 2020 by One Community

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We’re building a model for addressing social inequality with open source sustainability. We’re doing this through open source plans and resources that cover everything from food and housing to education and economics. Together, these open source communities will provide a better way of living than most people are living right now. People with shared values and desires will be able to come together and replicate what we’re doing more affordably than current living models, providing a path to social equality and financial freedom for anyone willing to collaboratively work towards it.

Here’s our project overview
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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 November 15th, 2020 edition (#399) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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ADDRESSING SOCIAL INEQUALITY WITH OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY: HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about how our work relates to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week we finalized details regarding EPS replacement with Comfortboard and Perminator. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Earthbag Village construction tutorials, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Finalized Details Regarding EPS Replacement With Comfortboard and Perminator – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 32nd week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week’s focus was writing a draft of a section called “What is Plastic Elimination, Substitution, Conservation & Promotion” and continuing the research on the subject looking for the best recycled plastic-use cases. He also made some corrections to the hydropower article. Below are pictures of some of this work, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial ” Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished fixing minor constraint errors on the Solidworks rendering and added some detail to the AutoCAD roof plan of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He began brainstorming and drafting additions to the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/final report.

Two sections were drafted covering the materials and the roof panel construction for both exterior and interior levels of the Net-Zero Bathroom roof. New tools and material were added to the Earthbag Village Spreadsheet, CFC Material and CAF Tools and Equipment documents all being sourced from sections drafted. A third section is being drafted involving the installation of the exterior and interior level roof panels. Pictures are below for this work, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Continued Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 15th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey worked on the electrical placement within the wall, it was a little bit difficult understanding how the outlets get installed into the 2 sides of the wall beside the bed frame. She’ll revise and check measurements again after completion to assure everything is correct. She also worked in the section where the benches and table will be constructed but she thinks there will also be a break in the wall section instructions to add more electrical instructions. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Murphy bed instructions, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 13th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by finalizing the updated design for the floor envelope. She also edited the centerpoint re-establishment section of the tutorial document, and began to update the footer section. Hannah also worked on the initial draft of the design and drawings for the three nail placement tools. You can see some screenshots of this work below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Continued the Development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia focused on the boiler calculations necessary to compute the capacity of the boiler. Boiler BW*010-60C appears to work for our needs and she drew the water supply risers and made an axonometric view of the storm drain system. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Focused on the Boiler Calculations Necessary to Compute the Capacity of the Boiler – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 7th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng focused on further modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file, checking off final requested changes as she went. You can see some of the updated areas below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Focused on Further Modifications in Both the SketchUp File and Lumion File – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about the structures on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team changed our focus for the Transition Kitchen to identify a better alternative to the hexayurt. We did research of portable structure alternatives including 13 different temporary structures. This research covered animal shelters, sheds, garages, disaster relief tents, military tents, medical emergency tents, dome shelters and quonset huts. Pictures of this research are below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Transition Kitchen, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Portable Structure Alternatives Including 13 Different Temporary Structures – Click for Page

The core team also began rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step descriptions. This week we worked on generating new detailed images and completed editing the assembly doc through page 12. Pictures of this work are below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Chickens, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Began Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Descriptions – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 7th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the outdoor landscape layout, and she also updated the new plant version for the large production aquapini. She also began making models in Rhino, and almost completed walipini # 1, walipini #2, and aquapini #1. One big correction coming to the 3D modeling you see here is that the terraces should be on the South/bottom wall. They are the perfect height to not cast shadows in the winter.

So the 3D models will be flipped this coming week so the tall side of the structure is in the North/back. They are designed like this so light can pass over the terraces and hit everything growing there, then we will grow trees along the back wall. Jiayu made this mistake because the high side is in the front on the website, but we changed that to make the buildings more cost and energy efficient since all that height wasn’t needed once we covered the whole structure with transparent SolaWrap and eliminated the skylights. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Aquapini & Walipini landscaping, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Helping With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on redesigning and parametrizing the Solidworks model for optimization. He also worked on determining assumptions, possible inaccuracies and ways to improve the fluid flow simulation of the climate battery. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Continued the Development of Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures and on addressing social inequality with open source sustainability. This week Diana met with Henry to discuss future steps with the current Climate Battery design. They decided to simplify the design by reducing the set of pipes in a layer from 2 to 1 for the flow simulation. She also found a video that demonstrates how to analyze the condensation rate in the Solidworks flow simulations.

The temperature decreases as the condensation rate increases so Henry can analyze the rate as he makes changes to the configuration. The team also met as whole and discussed how to expand on their current research and how it could possibly be used to help Henry as he works on the Solidworks file. Diana developed code to calculate the heat transfer from the pipe to the soil but realized that a constant temperature was chosen to model the temperature inside the tube which is inaccurate. The temperature is dependent on velocity and, in order to simulate this on Matlab, she would have to derive an equation for temperature as a function of velocity and space.

The most efficient way to analyze the heat transfer would be through Solidworks. Diana also recalculated the CFM of the system using ACH 5-8 and included the CFM per subsystem. A deeper explanation was then added to the Climate battery doc under Diana’s Research on Fan Selection. She also learned to read/use characteristic equations for fan selection. She researched how static pressure affects the system and how the fans balance static pressure for proper airflow. She will be working with Henry to recalculate to static pressure of the system for the fan selection. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Met With Henry to Discuss Future Steps With the Current Climate Battery Design – Click for Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily kept working on research of ADS pipes, created a table of pipe materials and dimensions, and established a relationship with a local representative for price inquiries. In addition, Lily started working on cost analysis and ADS pipe and will keep working on it next week. You can see pictures related to this research below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Continued the Development of Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 3rd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week she continued into week 5 of the rotating staple scheme, adding video recipes on previous weeks as well. The salad bar has now been laid out in two different configurations, one for the first week after grocery day, and one for the second. Dressing and creams have been introduced, with recipes. See below for pictures on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Rotating Staple Scheme for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

Program Overview on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability: 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 Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing social inequality with open source sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability: 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 19 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, and volunteer-work review and collaboration.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished re-evaluating the 12 Focus Group categories. We made a summary table covering all of them, received and integrated feedback, and then translated the information in the table to paragraph form. You can see some of this work-in-progress below onhow they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Large-scale consensus content, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Finished Re-evaluating the 12 Focus Group Categories – Click for Consensus Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 38th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Henry fixed a popup problem we were having and fixed all the display issues to produce a friendly mobile view. The adding functionality was completed, the format for WHY and others was designed, and he also added the WBS name on the top of the Tasks list. Some related imagery for this work can be seen below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 23rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on creating a new user profile. They integrated the user profile changes and started to create the new user profile.

An Administrator can now click on the “create new user” profile button from the user management page and a popup will open. After entering the basic details, clicking on create will create a new user with those details and then navigate to the user profile edit page so that the detailed profile of that user, team and projects assignment can be done. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Worked on Creating a New User Profile – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 25th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen made some adjustments to the badge popup based on feedback. She changed all the popups to style #2 which was created last week, and centered everything in the popup window. Wen also started to create the badge report component, which will show up when clicking the “Badge Report” button. It’s a basic layout for now.

Features like selecting their favorite badges to show on their profile, selecting badges to download as a PDF report, etc. are not included yet. She also reviewed two pull requests. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Made Some Adjustments to the Badge Popup Based on Feedback – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 16th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi implemented popup notification under the button “Add Time Entry Form” with required formatting and finished debugging this part. She also pushed this new feature from the “feature/Timer” branch to the “development” branch. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 12th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor concluded her research on the different health insurance plans that are relevant to One Community. She sifted through several different insurance plans that belonged to several different companies and compiled them into one last sheet that included relevant plans. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

One Community's insurance options, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Concluded Research on the Different Health Insurance Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was still working on improving the User Profile component. He refactored the whole component and changed it to a single-page component, which means users no longer have to be redirected to a new page for editing. He also added some minor features such as mouse-over descriptions. You can see some of this work below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Continued Working on Improving the User Profile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris pushed up his changes for the Leaderboard after finishing some unit testing. He also reviewed the changes pushed up by Yiqi and corrected some errors. Pictures related to this work are below, see how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

Finished Some Unit Testing and Pushed Up Changes for the Leaderboard – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 9th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #430, #431, #432, #433 and #434. You can see these newly created images below on how they relate to addressing social inequality with open source sustainability.

graphics for the update blogs, Addressing Social Inequality With Open Source Sustainability, One Community Weekly Progress Update #399

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #430, #431, #432, #433 and #434 ” Click for Page

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Long-term Sustainable-change Engine – One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Posted on November 8, 2020 by One Community

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One Community sees itself as a long-term sustainable-change engine that, once started, will continue to grow, improve, and replicate on its own. To make this possible, we’re open sourcing everything necessary to build the prototype and invite people to participate and see for themselves that a better life is possible through cooperative and sustainable living.

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

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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 November 8th, 2020 edition (#398) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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One Community Progress Update #398

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models: on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine 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 review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week we reviewed and verified measurements to the excavation drawing updates and completed edits through page 46 of the Footer, Foundation, and Flooring doc. We also reviewed the earthbag dome insulation updates regarding replacement of EPS with Rockwool. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Earthbag Village construction tutorials, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Excavation Drawing Updates and Continued with Edits – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 31st week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week’s focus was mainly researching on the internet, especially precious plastic, and organization doing and amazing job openly sharing on YouTube and on their website. We added a section draft about “compostable vs bioplastics vs biodegradable plastics” and started working on additional details covering “when to use plastic” and “when to avoid plastic”. Below are pictures of some of this work, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial ” Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began new updates to the Net-zero Bathroom AutoCAD and Solidworks files. He began by experimenting on AutoCAD with a six panel and eight panel design for the interior part of the roof.

The eight panel design was the most cost effective using only four sheets of metal instead of six, but had added complexity and reduced longevity due to metal trim running oblique to the flow. The six panel design required six sheets of metal, but had reduced complexity and had the metal trim run along the rainwater flow. With the AutoCAd roof plan updated, he began the update of the Solidworks rendering. The AutoCAD roof plan was referenced to accurately update the Solidworks rendering. Pictures are below for this work, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine

Began New Updates to the Net-zero Bathroom AutoCAD and Solidworks Files – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 14th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey was working on the back side of the wall frame and electrical installation, updating placements of the outlet and light switches. She also went back into the benches & table and the closet & storage groups because they had incorrect images of the wall section in the places they had been used in those instructions.

Also, the places in the wall section where you would need to jump in between the different assembly groups is important because you can’t do just one section completely without having to stop to do another or do multiple assemblies at the same time, but this can easily be rearranged in the final files and adjusted as needed. Pictures below show some of this extensive work-in-progress, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Murphy bed instructions, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Continued Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 12th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial by adding details and drawings for the alternative dome design option, which is geared towards domes built in colder climates. She also researched more sustainable options for rigid insulation under the dome’s floor slab and redesigned the floor envelope to include a vapor barrier. Hannah also continued the development of the nail-cement trough system by drawing the details for the second tool. You can see some screenshots of this work below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Continued the Development of the Footer, Foundation and Flooring Tutorial – Click for Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei focused on modifying the sketchUp plans and delivering the planting pallet. The local environment requires deciduous trees and drought tolerant plants, so Jingwei changed them into oaks and chestnut trees. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Focused on Modifying the SketchUp Plans and Delivering the Planting Pallet – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine 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 onhow they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksensia tried to calculate the consumption of hot water. She searched for methods on the Internet and found a project to replace boilers and counted according to the method indicated there. According to the enlarged indicators, the BW*1-060C boiler is enough to supply the building. But this is not accurate, we need to clarify some contributing elements. Pictures below show some of this research, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs ” Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 6th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng completed all the updates requested in the initial list and submitted them for review. You can see some of the updated areas below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Duplicable City Center landscaping, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Completed the Updates Requested in the Initial List and Submitted Them for Review – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 6th week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy was finally able to add the information about material sourcing and manufacturing and added the updates to the scorecard and flooring tutorial. Then she noticed some gaps in the scoring/ranking, as vinyl flooring was not mentioned, so she began research on Vinyl, ranked it and wrote her rough draft on the flooring tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Most Sustainable Building Materials, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Confirm and Expand the Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials ” Click for Page

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) completed her 3rd week helping with the sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies. Keerthi completed the benchmarking Ranking for complete list of companies and individual sections for Toilet, Urinal, Shower Head and Hand Dryer manufacturers. The first draft was completed and submitted for review. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Helping With the Sustainability Benchmarking of Various Hardware Companies – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began work on the Transition Kitchen final updates and assembly instructions. This week we finished placement of the plywood sheets on the kitchen floor and began work on the Transition Kitchen wall framing using 2×4 lumber. Outside walls were sheeted with Rigid Foam Insulation Boards. We also began installation of the 4×4 posts and ridge and central beams for roof support. Pictures of this work are below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Transition Kitchen, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Began Work on the Transition Kitchen Final Updates and Assembly Instructions – Click for Page

The core team also began rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step descriptions and edits through page 8 and suggested changes to the flooring and header construction. You can see some of this work-in-progress below onhow they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

chicken coop, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Began Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Descriptions and Edits – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 2nd week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week she focused on developing the third and fourth week menu outlines and clearing some points as suggested by the core team. She’s now focusing on recipes for which we can find a video in plain english, with little distractions, so while the progress is slower, it saves much work in the following phases. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Focused on Developing the Third and Fourth Week Menu Outlines – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week he worked on confirming the heat loss calculations done previously. Henry found a different result likely due to consideration of the SolaWrap material. He also worked on Solidworks simulations and collaborated with Diana to confirm that the current configuration is inefficient because of the varied flow rate between pipes. He then started on a redesign. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 6th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu updated the large production aquapini and outdoor landscape designs. She also wrote the initial detailed design report and began the next important process: 3D model in Rhino and Lumion. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Updated the Large Production Aquapini and Outdoor Landscape Designs – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana worked with Henry on the Solidworks flow simulations. In her research she found a video of Solidworks flow and heat transfer simulation that closely resembled the Climate battery design. This was very helpful in providing direction on how to conduct the simulation. She also found a video that explained the goals related to the flow rate of the system.

Diana documented her analytical solution onto the Climate Battery Details doc where she explained the equation and how it may be used. Diana researched the different types of pipe materials that have been used in working Climate Batteries and found that the ADS pipe is favored for Geothermal Systems. Diana also researched the diameter of the tubing and found that a 4″ diameter is standard across all current and functioning climate batteries. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Worked With Henry on the Solidworks Flow Simulations – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 4th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily focused on market research and price analysis of shell and tube heat exchangers. She contacted several local and international suppliers for product pricing ranges and product features. A table was created with the criteria listed. You can see pictures related to this research below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Focused on Market Research and Price Analysis of Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 4th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes finalized research for the distance between the tubes. He also created a MatLab code that allows the user to find the heat transfer rate per unit length. You can see below some pictures related to this work on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

Program Overview on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine: 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 Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a long-term sustainable-change engine 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 24 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, and volunteer-work review and collaboration.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we made significant updates to the large-scale consensus governance content, re-evaluated the 12 Focus Group categories, and added a bunch of new questions to FAQs. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

large-scale consensus content, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Made Significant Updates to the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 37th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Henry fixed some layout bugs and started thinking for the mobile UI for it. He applied the new structure and algorithm for the adding task, so the task will be added immediately when you click ‘save’ now. The import format for new fields will be designed next week with the goal to finish up everything related to this task by the end of the month. Some related imagery for this work can be seen below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Highest Good Network software, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Fixed Some Layout Bugs and Started Thinking for the Mobile Ui for It ” Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 29th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was creating spreadsheets organizing the contact information for all the US television stations and newspapers Ross contacted over the past 24 weeks. You can see below a picture of some of this on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

helping promote One Community, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine

Contact Information for All the US Television Stations and Newspapers Contacted – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 22nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on completing the documentation and the reset password option in the login page (forgot password). There is now a forgot password button and upon clicking it, it will navigate to the password reset page and there a user can enter their email, first name and last name. Upon clicking submit, an email with a new password will be sent to the user and redirect to the login page. See below for pictures on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine

Documentation and the Reset Password Option in the Login Page ” Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 24th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen was working on the size of the badges and the popup box for the badge. The preview image of the badges was set to 50px, and the enlarged one was set at 200px.

The description box she created before was implemented with React overlay, but those had coverage issues she could not fix to any extent that she could be satisfied with. It was just not the optimal user experience, so she switched to Reactstrap popover. Instead of static mockups, Wen worked on two branches (2 versions in different code) so that she could better demonstrate the dynamics. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Worked on the Size of the Badges and the Popup Box for the Badge ” Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 15th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi reviewed her code for the timer component and submitted for review her updates to the Timelog, Timer and TimeEntryForm. She also solved all conflicts between the Timer branch and development branch. Yiqi added userProfile into the elements of TimeEntryForm to count totalCommittedHours and reviewed code for the next component she’ll be working on. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 12th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor researched the different healthcare plans for Kaiser Permanente that were most relevant to the vision of One Community. She analyzed the summary of benefits and coverages offered by each plan and extracted the information that provided the most insight and comparison to the other plans. You can see some pictures related to this work below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Insurance options, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Researched Different Healthcare Plans for Kaiser Permanente – Click for Insurance Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was mainly working on adding features that were requested by the core team in comments last week. Jun resolved most of the requests, then he started to work on refactoring the whole UserProfile component for less code redundancy and easier future maintenance. You can see some of this work below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Worked on Adding Features That Were Requested ” Click for Highest Good Network

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris finalized the colors for the Leaderboard progress bar and changed it to allow the leaderboard to be scrollable in a mobile device with a floating header that centers on the user logged in. Chris also updated the unit testing for the Leader Board. Pictures related to this work are below, see how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software Team – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 8th week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #425, #426, #427, #428 and #429. You can see these newly created images below on how they relate to long-term sustainable-change engine.

YouTube and social media graphics for the update blogs, Long-term Sustainable-change Engine, One Community Weekly Progress Update #398

Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #425, #426, #427, #428 and #429 ” Click for Page

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