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Working With Nature – One Community Weekly Progress Update #504

Posted on November 20, 2022 by One Community

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

Working With Nature
One Community Progress Update #504

Working With Nature - One Community Weekly Progress Update #504

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

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

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

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

GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTABLE REPLICATION MODEL

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

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

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

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

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

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

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

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

Phase I: Demonstrating a Better Way

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

Phase II: Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

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

Phase III: Inviting the World to Participate

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

Phase IV: Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

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

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

WHY OPEN SOURCE

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

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

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

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

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

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

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

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

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

SUMMARY

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

A Path to True Wealth – One Community Weekly Progress Update #503

Posted on November 13, 2022 by One Community

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

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

A Path to True Wealth
One Community Progress Update #503

A Path to True Wealth - One Community Weekly Progress Update #503

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models on how they relate to a path to true wealth: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is charting a path to true wealth through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Earth Care Systems – One Community Weekly Progress Update #502

Posted on November 6, 2022 by One Community

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From One Community’s perspective, all the systems we are developing are earth care systems because they are all designed with sustainability in mind. From the open source and free-shared food, energy, and housing plans to the education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices, everything we’re creating to the best of our ability in the “Highest Good” of all people, all life, and the planet.

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 6th, 2022 edition (#502) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Earth Care Systems
One Community Progress Update #502

Earth Care Systems - One Community Weekly Progress Update #502

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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 earth care systems: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team created a data collection sheet for the aircrete, did general preparation for executing the week’s plan, assessed data from compression of old cylinders, helped with ordering materials, and led the weekly meeting. The same team member also addressed the last section of the city center hub connector final document which covers the DIY option details, and fixed the formula for min and max energy usage by hour for solar sizing. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

A member of the core team reviewed the Murphy bed Assemble Instruction document. This team member began by reviewing the first 100 pages of the MurphyBed Doc for accuracy regarding materials and hardware sections of the doc. We made comments where it was too small of print, miscounts of quantities that require correction, pictures that inaccurately depicted 5 inch bolt size, and other areas needing fixing. The images below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Another member of the core team reviewed the Murphy bed Assemble Instruction document too. This team member added more than 50 comments related to missing or incorrect labels, misalignment of parts on the images, use of images that showed the old design, suggestions for using more screws to connect parts in the storage stepping shelving section, incorrect labeling of previous/next steps, and missing information and labels for using wood glue throughout the whole document. See below for pictures on how they relate to earth care systems.

The core team also did detailed review and feedback on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research. see below for pictures on how they relate to earth care systems

And the core team worked with the software development team creating user stories and flowcharts for the Highest Good Network software Phase 2 which is a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking component of this web application. See below for pictures on how they relate to earth care systems

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 83rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was more revisions based on team feedback. Revisions were focused mainly on formatting alignment fixes. Screenshots below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 50th week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela continued making edits to the Flexible Pavement Design section based on previous comments. The comments she was addressing were ones that she had left to complete last because she knew that these would take more time and research to complete.

Throughout the week, Daniela wrote more narrative and researched various concepts based on each comment. She went back and reviewed the information from the original resource, but also tried to find more information in order to clarify for the reader. Some information was harder to find than others but Daniela made sure to address what was asked for. Lastly, she found images and new resources to refer to in the narrative. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 33rd week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ‹â€¹This week Diwei summarized the design of the stormwater harvesting system. The difference between stormwater harvesting and rooftop rainwater harvesting was specified. Supply and demand calculations were presented to obtain the catchment area and required storage capacity. Using inlet peak flow discharge calculations with catchment sections configuration to size pipes was summarized too. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 29th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming did more inquiring with equipment providers, finding potential new WTE plants on Alibaba, and added some of his own feedback on Mercy’s work. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 9th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy worked on the hot tub sanitary alternatives task. She researched methodology, advantages & disadvantages, and commercial options of non-chlorine alternatives.

She finished the comparison table, comparing all the options and ranked them according to safety, efficiency, sustainability, and ease of implementation. Mercy also wrote the narratives to replace/add to the existing tutorial. See below for some pictures related to this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 8th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip continued his work on the best window research and tried to finalize it as much as possible. Among other things he did styling and formatting of the tables, as well as adding images and checking for grammar and spelling mistakes. Finally he also added some required values that were not yet found. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Sarah-Jean Boyd (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 4th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week, the team completed preliminary testing on the effect of soft water on foam quality. The team also met with Marcus from last year’s team to go over some questions that the team had about how hard water affected the previous year’s results. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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 earth care systems: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team completed another round of detailed feedback on the updated Natural Pool and Spa page. We also created and updated some of the imagery there. The pictures below share some of this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 54th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing the roofs. She added ACT 2X2 on the roof detail, added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value, and joint details. See pictures below on how they relate to earth care systems.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 19th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, to add another element in the room that ”pops’, Jessica created a hexagonal headboard with a cloud shape for the bed. She added birds hanging from the roof, worked on elements on the walls testing a painting, mirror, and fountain, played with colors around the room and ended up adding a mix of blue tones for the living room. Her thought was that this could highlight and sectorize the spaces, helping the room not to be overwhelmingly pink. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 19th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Gabriela tried a new type of TV Support that will work with our high ceilings and in front of the bed. She also worked on the Cost Analysis Table and then changed back to the original support and added a box to get it lower and looking like an old cinema sign. Gabriela added a sound system close to the bed and a Dressing Room sign at the bathroom door too. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 9th week working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. Charles continued working on the Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page PDF comments. He also corrected the comments by Julia on the City Center Dome page. See below for pictures on how they relate to earth care systems

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing earth care systems 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 structure on how they relate to earth care systems: 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 Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 27th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started to research recipe replacements for the Summer Fresh Week I, putting into consideration the foundational ingredients and the vegan and omnivore proteins. She then started to research recipes for the development of the Summer Fresh Week J menu block. She is in the process of adding recipes to the recipe summary section before tagging it to be reviewed. The pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
How the components work together to develop earth care systems 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 more information

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

The core team also completed another 16 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery and video for the new overview video (and other videos) Arthur is developing. The pictures below show some of this review work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Here are some of this week’s images we created for the new video updates:

We also uploaded, shared, and added to the appropriate places on our website these two finished videos!

One Community Global: Large-scale Implementation of Sustainability

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One Community Global: 4-Phase Global Strategy

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Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 30th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put most of her time into helping and managing the Management Dashboard team. This included PR reviews and testing, answering questions, finding resources, updating documentation, solving the backend merge conflicts, etc. She also worked more on merging Eiki’s PRs. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yan wrote the code for the final day button for the user management page. Now it’s possible to set the last day and delete the final day. But there is still a bug in this button. After refreshing the page, the end date is shown in the column, but the button should show “delete final day” and instead shows “set final day”.

Yan also changed the title and adjusted the table size for the user management page. For the back end, she helped colleagues to test code and finalize a PR for merging. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 14th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This Week, Arthur worked on delivering new exports of the Main Page video, Weekly Background Video and Ultimate Classroom Labeling video. For the Main page video, he added new images. For the Labeling video, he replaced animated graphics. For the Weekly Background video, he got it approved and ready to be fully exported. Arthur also had to re-export some of the previous videos like the “Get Involved” video to fix some mistakes. See pictures below that are related to this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaung rebased his previous branch since it is a few commits behind and that could lead to merging conflicts. After that he started working on the dashboard task “mark as done” button.

First, he removed all the complete buttons and wrote a onClick function that would be executed when the user clicks the “mark as done” button. After the user clicks “mark as done”, the status of the task is changed to done. With this he was also able to make the task disappear from the dashboard after the button was clicked. He is refactoring the code so he can raise the PR. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce refactored the code so it’s not having to check for any name in the bold tags thanks to Jae. However, he still found an issue, which is that there are some p tags that have 2 strong tags with the first one having an “img” tag in it, which prevents the crawler from extracting the full name from the first strong tag it finds. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Kevin looked deeply into finalizing the PR fix for badge deletion and assigning. He tried to reproduce an issue a reviewer was getting, but could not. So Kevin is waiting on a 2nd reviewer and the original reviewer to double check before moving on.

Kevin also completed an incremental PR for the management dashboard’s task notification system and completed a PR for the redesign of the project reports page. Kevin was moved into the Management Dashboard team, so he spent time reviewing the relevant docs and code to move onto a new task within this new team too. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Guilherme fixed the bugs that were failing some tests and changed the ProtectedRoute, adapting it with the state roles to make them dynamic. He also created an automatic insertion of the new roles in the backend when the deploys happen. This was done in a way that will not need us to manually add the permissions. He created some tests and also solved some conflicts in the merge (pulling the branch development into the Guilhermes-Dashboard). Guilherme also started the feature that can give permissions to a specific user. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, the duplicate badge bug has been resolved in the local repo. The new task taken this week includes fixing the badge streak bugs.

When a new badge streak is earned, the previous streak badge should be permanently removed from a user’s badge collection. If not, it affects the total count of the badges the user has earned. On the dashboard, only the highest streak badges will be displayed. So, if users only count the displayed badges, the total count will look faulty when in fact the total count is showing an accurate count, because it includes the badges not displayed. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Vivian Baik (Software Engineer and Project Team Leader) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software, specifically on Phase 2, a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking web application. This week she continued to develop the wireframes and documentation for the project. She updated the ‘Add Material’ form and developed forms for adding tools/equipment and daily logging of METs and related issues. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to earth care systems.

Kaixiang Gu (React.js / MongoDB Fullstack Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kaixiang completed all the required actions of the onboarding checklist and got the HGN App working on his local environment. He picked “Fix Volunteering Time” as his first focus.

The reason why hours for each category are not increasing as the user logs time is that the time entries are not logging time to the hoursByCategory property of the user profile and updating in the database. To solve this problem, when a user submits a new time entry, Kaixiang created a new function that will log time to a specific category based on a selected project. For now, volunteering hours will be displayed correctly in the volunteering time tab. Total tangible hours will automatically sum up each category’s hours. Total intangible hours display the sum of all the past intangible hours. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped us with Google’s tag manager and fixing multiple website errors. The pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to earth care systems.

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Creating a Meaningful Life – One Community Weekly Progress Update #501

Posted on November 1, 2022 by One Community

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Creating a meaningful life is challenging when basic survival needs aren’t being met. One Community is creating open source and sustainable food, energy, and housing plans to address this. We see open source and sustainable plans for education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices as part of the solution too.

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 October 30th, 2022 edition (#501) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Meaningful Life
One Community Progress Update #501

Creating a Meaningful Life - One Community Weekly Progress Update #501

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
  - Learn about the different village models on how they relate to creating a meaningful life: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team guided the team to complete preliminary experiments to test soft water as opposed to hard water when making foam, as well as helped with a materials list and items to order, and compared compression testing results of cylinders that had cured for 220 days. The same team member also continued to address comments in the city center hub connector final document and the aircrete final report from the original team. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 65th week. This week Luis continued his transition to his new projects, the Net-zero Bathroom calculations and the Solar Sizing Energy Balancing. He has been able to assist with some smaller tasks on these projects in the past, but he is looking to expand his role and become involved in the narrative integration to the website for each.

Luis wrapped up his smaller tasks and began familiarizing himself with all of the project details by reading old summaries and analyzing the spreadsheet data, mainly for the Solar Sizing Design. Next week he will continue to review the project’s details and begin updating the documents for consistency, content, and other potential edits. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 49th week, returning to work on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial. This week Daniela continued to review and respond to all the comments on the Flexible Pavement Design section.

She researched more in-depth to explain concepts better, reviewed her previous resources in order to understand where her information was coming from and to figure out what needed to be analyzed better, and added to the narrative and moved around paragraphs based on the comments. Definitions were added to the glossary and Daniela figured out ways to clarify what she was trying to portray. By the end of the week she responded to all comments, but left a few of the comments she knew would take more research and writing. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 32nd week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ‹â€¹This week Diwei completed a summarization of the water pump selection of the rainwater harvesting system. Instead of using the Darcy-Weisbach formula to calculate the dynamic pressure drop of water flowing through pipes, the equivalent length of pipes method was used because it is easier and more efficient. Some labels of the inlet and outlet of the water tank were added too. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 28th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming completed routine exploration of small-scale facilities on Alibaba.

The obstacle is still the same as before: limitation of treatment types and scales in the same facility. This week most replies were for plants for agricultural purposes (not elaborated in description, but he learned from conversations), so they were not considered. The good news is, some sellers have suggested some questions regarding our demand, after answering my basic inquiry questions, so the conversations will continue. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 9th week with the team. This week, Julia continued to review and edit content of the “Flexible Pavement Design” section on the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. She addressed, added, and resolved comments as needed throughout this review process.

Julia then addressed and reviewed comments on the Feedback PDF for the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” webpage and made coding updates on the live webpage accordingly. She also began to review and edit the grammar and spelling of the content on the web page itself. Also this week, Julia spent time reviewing the “Murphy bed Instructions” PDF, using the comments to recommend various visual and graphic edits. Below are some images related to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 8th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Mercy finished the non-recyclables tutorials. She researched methods and plants for mixed and composite material products, wrote the related section, and filled in the Alibaba table. Mercy edited the content to switch the focus on non-recyclables recycling and waste-to-energy solutions. She also organized the references and downloaded the pdfs of referenced articles. See below for some pictures related to this work on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 7th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip mainly worked on the ‘Best windows’ tab. Apart from the final section, this research is also complete, even though thorough proofreading still needs to be done. Collecting all the documents and researching other options to add to give a more complete overview were the main tasks this week. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

They completed a handful of tests and mixed a batch of foam utilizing the distilled water, and found that the foam made with soft water appeared to be more dense, other than that, both soft and hard water foam held up well. The team also finished doing the compression testing from last year’s molds, and created a data sheet with all the compressions and included images for each mold that was tested. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

- - Learn about this building and it’s function on how they relate to creating a meaningful life: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued creating the 3D SketchUp model for the City Center dormer framing. We continued working with the design of the 3D model for the framing of the second floor dormer. This included modeling rafter tails for the dormer roof, roof rakes (two on each side), fascia boards and framing for the siding support.

We also researched SketchUp Extension software “SketchUp STL” that will export SketchUp files into .stl format for further use in SolidWorks and used the SketchUp first floor model to create an exploded version of the model, then exported it in .stl format for further work in SolidWorks by a new Industrial Designer volunteer who just joined the team. The pictures below share some of this developing work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 53rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing the cupola roof. She added different layers to the roof to receive the desired R-value, added the joint details, and started working on the roof section view to show R-value and define the roof layers. See pictures below on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 18th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week Jessica searched for types and colors of wood to apply on the sunset panel. She changed the wallpaper on the roof for a warmer color that would match better with the wood panel. She also replaced and rearranged some furniture and colors. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 18th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela worked on the improvements requested by Jae. These included changing the carpet to a recovered hardwood, adding a drop-down TV on the ceiling, a surround sound system, and a new option for the pull-out sofa. She worked a bit on the cost analysis table too, adding a few more items and editing the new sofa. Gabriela then ran a couple of renders to test the lights and materials. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed more recipes through page 170 on the 3-Day Menu Block doc providing comments regarding some of the ingredients relating to the omnivore and vegan options of the same recipe and answering comments related to our previous comments. See below for pictures on how they relate to creating a meaningful life

Marilyn Nzegwu (Chef and Culinary Consultant) completed her 26th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn started with adjusting recipes and making corrections on meals on old menu blocks based on comments and suggestions. She continued to develop recipes for the second week menu blocks taking into consideration suggestions for vegan/omnivore proteins and has concluded the meals for the second week menu blocks ending with the Second Week H menu block. The pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a meaningful life 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 to promote creating a meaningful life: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a meaningful life 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 19 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

The core team also completed another 18 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery and video for the new overview video (and other videos) Arthur is developing. The pictures below show some of this review work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Here are some of the images we created for the new video updates:

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 29th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun worked on wrapping up Eiki’s PRs. She went through Eiki’s DropBox folders and figured out his implementation logic, created a plan to split his huge frontend PR into three or four small ones, and raised the first one for review. Once the first PR is approved and merged, she will create more. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yan push a PR #202, it is now possible to send an email to the Admin’s gmail when a user passes the final day. She also re-organized the user management page look.

Although she has completed the set final day button for the view profile page, there are lots of differences between the profile page and the user management for the set final day button. As of now the button is able to set up the final day and patch the last date to the database, but it is not able to delete the final day which is related to the react hook and props problem. See pictures below for some of this work.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 13th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This week, Arthur worked on updating the Main Page Video, Highest Good Education Video, the weekly background video, and he started a new Ultimate Classroom video labeling task. The main page video is almost done. Putting in the images is all that’s needed. The Highest Good education video is almost ready to export too. See pictures below that are related to this work on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung joined the Management Dashboard team. He was assigned a task to create a “mark as done” button for admins and owners. He started off with reading and understanding the new function document. Kaung then started working on displaying a “mark as done” button for only the admins and the owners. Then he realized that tasks are divided into “not started”, “started” and “complete” categories. And those with complete categories should not be marked as done so he created a way to display if the button is done or not.

He plans to let the other team members know later on about this change. The looks are good but he still needs to implement a function for the buttons to interact with the backend. Kaung also did a PR review for the wbs page but he did not approve it as he wants other team members to confirm it too. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Bruce discussed with Jae a new way to crawl the team page to get all the images and names from each person. Jae refactored the pages to help and Bruce also refactored the functionality of crawling the web page and added the feature of extracting the date on which the image was uploaded. He also extracted the first name and last name of each person. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin continued looking into the code to understand what is going on with the frontend code with the badge system and to track what occurs when trying to delete a badge. As listed from last week, Kevin found the delete function was working properly but the user profile component was getting stale data. Kevin fixed this by updating the user profile and passing in a function from user profile that ‘saves’ the page, to properly update all data and refresh with the correct data.

He also fixed the user profile badge system to properly update the featured badges list when assigning user new badges. This process was much of the same with deleting the badges, so Kevin pretty much called the same function. Kevin additionally fixed deleted badges counting toward the max of 5 featured badges, this involved decrementing the featured badges counter when deleting a featured badge. He also did a PR review of a backend commit of reverting to the old timer system and pushed his PR fix to the badge system. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme changed about 34 files that were using the hasPermission function, but he had some bugs, and not all tests are working right now. He started to modify some tests, adding to the mockStates and mockAdminState the rolesMockup, since it’s a new addition that affects all these components. Guilherme also started to think about the relation about back-end and front-end permissions, including some solutions to this case in the google drive file. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, no new functionality was added. The filter to eliminate duplicate badges isn’t working as intended. The values passed between the components are difficult to pinpoint. How a badge that is a lower streak is still shown in the badgeCollection even after getting a better higher streak is still unknown. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Alisson Rubas (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This past week, Alisson spent his volunteer time studying the users’ authorization roles to try to figure out the best way to fix his bug. Some of his approaches were reading articles, watching videos, and consulting with more experienced devs. As it was requested by Jae, Alisson put the CSS changes from last week back as they were. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

Vivian Baik (Software Engineer and Project Team Leader) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. In addition to getting acquainted with the existing HGN Phase 1 software, she started to develop a user stories flowchart for the HGN Phase 2 which is a material, equipment and tool (MET) tracking web application. Vivian also started to develop wireframes for the main project dashboard and form for adding materials. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to creating a meaningful life.

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One Community Welcomes Philip Bogaerts to the Research Team!

Posted on October 28, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Philip Bogaerts to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Philip has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from KU Lueven. He has worked for almost 3 years as a Regional Technical Advisor for Guardian Industries, a world leader in glass manufacturing. In terms of structural/thermal glass design and performance, he was the main person responsible for all projects in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The main focus was on these three countries, however he also worked on several other projects in different locations around the world. Philip manages multiple priorities effectively, solves problems by making clear analysis, and keeps composure during stressful situations. As a member of the One Community team, Philip is helping research and evaluate the best possible glass and door products and companies for the project.

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One Community Welcomes Jieying “Mercy” Cai to the Research Team!

Posted on October 28, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jieying “Mercy” Cai to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jieying received her Master of Public Affairs with a concentration in climate policy from Brown University and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She has a genuine interest and rich research experience in market-based approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation. As an ex United Nations intern, Jieying is an advocate for climate justice and she believes the Sustainable Development Goals and Net-Zero Goals should be achieved through inclusive climate action, action that tackles climate change and eradicates poverty and inequality as well. As a member of the One Community team, Jieying is helping with research on the Best community-based solutions for waste-to-energy conversion of non-recyclables and other sustainability topics.

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One Community Welcomes Kaung Htet Myat to the Software Development Team!

Posted on October 28, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Kaung Htet Myat to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Kaung came to the United States from Myanmar to study computer science in 2018. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. With 4 years of academic experience, he has worked on various projects implementing reinforcement learning models and web development. From learning web development tools and building small projects, Kaung has experience with MERN stack development too. As a volunteer software engineer, Kaung is helping the One Community team with software design for open source Highest Good Network project and time tracking software.

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Preserving Conditions that Make Life Wonderful – One Community Weekly Progress Update #500

Posted on October 23, 2022 by One Community

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Preserving conditions that make life wonderful is something that can be studied, quantified, constructed and replicated. One Community is developing open source and free-shared models to achieve this. They include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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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 October 23rd, 2022 edition (#500) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Preserving Conditions that Make Life Wonderful
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 preserving conditions that make life wonderful: 7 Sustainable Village Models
  - Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team member managing the aircrete compression testing team worked with the aircrete team to organize a materials list, preliminary testing on foam quality when using soft water, and reiterated better HGN-related communication to avoid further blue squares. The same team member also continued to address comments in the City Center Hub Connector final document and worked on and assigned to Luis the final steps needed to complete the energy task. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 82nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey completed a version of the instructions that are ready for a final review. The PDF has been updated with new cover pages and a directory added to the beginning of the booklet. There is a glossary being added to the back pages that is not completed yet.

The URL links in the component section can be updated to working links but this will be done manually and at the same time we can create the glossary. Depending on final use, several versions of the booklet can be created. For now, we are focusing on a PDF file format which is intended to be either downloaded or viewed online. If the booklet needs to be more interactive with clickable images and links to videos, those features can also be added later to any PDF or ai file. Screenshots below relate to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 64th week, now helping mainly with the Solar Microgrid sizing. Luis met with the core team to discuss the Solar Sizing Project and developed some calculations for analyzing the energy demand. He will continue working on validating his methodology and look to begin documentation modifications for the the Net-zero Bathroom component in the meantime. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 31st week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. ‹â€¹This week Diwei edited spreadsheets of peak discharge calculations for the stormwater harvesting system based on comments and summarized the filtration of the disinfection train of the rainwater harvesting drinking system. Some processes of water treatment were discussed and labels were added to some figures of the storage containers outlet and water treatment train. Pictures below show some of this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 27th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming continued tasks from previous weeks: Calling on business owners that he had already sent messages to, looking for potential plants/facilities, recording their info on the spreadsheet, and contacting sellers for instructions, especially on minimum capacity per day to fulfill our goals for small communities. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Jieying “Mercy” Cai (Sustainability and Climate Policy Researcher) completed her 7th week working on completing the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Mercy continued her research on recycling construction waste. She rewrote the section about impact crushing and added more hardware/plant options. Mercy also researched how to recycle waxed cardboard and absorbent hygiene products. She finished writing both sections and filling the table for plant recommendations for these two feedstocks. See below for some pictures related to this work and on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Philip Bogaerts (Structural Window Designer) completed his 6th week working on completing the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors research. This week Philip corrected the remarks in the door spreadsheet and started determining which window manufacturers will be considered for the ‘Best window’ spreadsheet. In the spreadsheet, Philip finished 2 qualification sections and worked on two others. He did this while adding some research about PVC, comparing them with other materials such as fiberglass and aluminum. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

The Compression Team consisting of Genesis Avila (Engineering Intern Researcher), Joshua Jacob (Engineering Intern Researcher), and Fatima Duenas-Esparza (Engineering Intern Researcher) completed their 2nd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team practiced using the compression testing equipment. They used the old cylinders that the previous team made for stucco and didn’t end up using. This provided the team with practice on how to maneuver the compressor. They also prepared a materials list and shared it with Jae to confirm the procurement of resources and came up with a new approach for recording data. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 preserving conditions that make life wonderful: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued creating the 3D SketchUp model for the City Center first floor dormer framing. We finished modeling the first floor dormer that includes modeling the rafter tails for the dormer roof, roof rakes (two on each side), fascia boards and framing for siding support. We also started creating a model for framing of the second floor dormer. We designed a 48″x48″ sliding window, set up the height from the floor to the window (3′ 5/8″), installed a double sill for the window, and designed framing in the lower part of the under-window wall section. See below on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 52nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus worked on detailing the roofs for the 4th floor. She exported all roofs from SketchUp to Revit with the correct scale and angles and added the joint details to the roofs. See pictures below for how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

This week Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 48th week, now focused mostly on the Duplicable City Center “Updated City Center Project Specification and Design Basis” report. This week Daniela focused on editing and responding to comments on her Flexible Pavement Design section.

She went back to previous resources to look through and figure out how she could clarify the narrative. For a couple of comments, Daniela decided to come back to them later because she began to research but realized she needed more information outside of the sources she already had. Daniela continued research for some comments, added to the glossary, focused on rereading sections and working on how to improve them. Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) completed her 47th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi installed downspouts for the community center. Using previously designed locations as reference, new downspouts were added following the new building additions.

The newly added parts were highlighted in green for further review. The team also pointed out the sustainable ideas behind varying ground pavement that the majority of the roads being compact gravel/soil instead of concrete mix. Road material in the master file was updated according to this so it will be reflected accurately in the renders. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Jessica Santos (Architect) completed her 17th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Jessica researched ideas for pieces and panels made of wood for the curved walls of her sunrise room. She worked on the 3D model, created a panel with a sunset made of wood, and tried different models with different shapes and colors to adapt for the design that she has been creating. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Gabriela Vilela S. C. Diniz (Architect and Urban Planner) completed her 17th week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Gabriela updated the name of her room to “Old Hollywood” and worked on the 3D model, adding more details, changing the chandelier, photo frames, wall covering, pillows and adding a timber ceiling. She also started working on the cost analysis table adding the first basic items (Bed, Closet, Sofa, etc.). Pictures below are related to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Charles Gooley (Web Designer) completed his 8th week working on the City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering webpage and the City Center Eco-spa and Natural Pool page. Charles spent most of the time this week working on the Table of Contents for the spa page, making sure all the anchor links worked, that there were no typos, and no syntax errors. Charles also updated the captions to be title case and corrected the City Center Hub Connector page based on feedback. See below for some pictures of this work on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Julia Meaney (Researcher and Assistant to Executive Director) completed her 8th week with the team. This week, Julia reviewed the Feedback PDF for the “City Center Dome Hub Connector Engineering” webpage and resolved and added comments as necessary. She also continued to edit and review the corresponding Google Doc and made necessary content edits directly to the webpage. Julia then carefully checked this webpage against the Webpage Review Checklist in order to finalize it for One Community’s website.

Julia also reviewed the “BEST DOORS” and “Scoring Criteria Doors” tabs of the “Most Sustainable Windows and Doors” research spreadsheet. She made grammar, spelling, and formatting edits as needed and used the comments to communicate questions and clarifications. Julia then reviewed and edited the “Flexible Pavement Design” section of the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report/Tutorial” Google Doc. Finally, Julia began reviewing the “Aircrete Engineering and Research: Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More” webpage. She went through the Feedback PDF and resolved, addressed, and added comments when necessary. Below are some images related to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 preserving conditions that make life wonderful: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
  - See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued detailed review and feedback on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. We reviewed the 3-Day Menu Block doc and addressed comments, then reworked the recipes through page 163. The primary comments addressed small portions and excess sodium levels. Numerous edits were made to titles, Tbsp vs tsp, capitalizations within the recipe titles and ingredients lists. See below for how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful 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 to promote preserving conditions that make life wonderful: How to use the Education for Life Program
Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
Curriculum for Life
Teaching Strategies for Life
Learning Tools and Toys for Life
Evaluation and Evolution

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is preserving conditions that make life wonderful through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

- - Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
  - Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful: A Day in the Life
  - Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
  - Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, Highest Good Network software checkins and review, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

The core team also completed another 14 hours of reviewing, giving feedback, and creating imagery and video for the new overview video (and other videos) Arthur is developing. The pictures below show some of this review work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Here are some of the images we created for the new video updates:

Yiyun Tan (Management Dashboard Team Leader) completed her 28th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun tried to fix the backend merge issue due to Andrew’s new timer feature. She also dove into Eiki’s PRs, trimming the backend PR code. For the frontend PR, Yiyun spent a lot of time to merge it because of the large scope of it. She merged it successfully but found some functionality that didn’t work. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Vera Timokhina (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Vera finished fixing the bugs with the project’s pie charts where the names of projects were not always displayed in the list. Now the backend passes data about the projects to which the tasks belong to the frontend. Vera also finished redesigning the project report page. She fixed the filters so they work properly and the table now looks like those on the rest of the report pages. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Yan Xu (Software Development Engineer) completed her 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week she created a final day button for the admin user according to the requirement “Only an Admin can make a person inactive. This can be done on their Profile Page or through Other Links â User Management (only visible to Admins).” In the past, the final button was shown only on the view profile page, and this week, she put this button on the user management page too. For the emailsender function, Yan also changed the subject and body based on feedback. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Arthur Olifant (Videographer) completed his 12th week helping with updating all our homepage videos. This Week, Arthur focused on working on the Main page video. He added in the block pictures (2x) and fixed a variety of other details based on feedback. In addition to this, he delivered final versions of all of the Highest Good videos and the 5 main videos to Jae. See pictures below that are related to this work and on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Kaung Htet Myat (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kaung continued working on setting the default tab to tasks if the user role is admin/owner/manager/mentor and/or if the volunteer has any tasks assigned. Kaung wrote a function to check if the volunteer user has a task assigned. At first he encountered a bug where the tasks do not show up if the user is a volunteer.

However, he later found out that this was not a bug, but rather the tasks did not show up because the user account that he is testing has no teams assigned to it. Kaung also reviewed a PR and joined the team working on the dashboard feature. See pictures below for some of this work on how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Bruce Lin (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Bruce finished implementing the functionality of using a web crawler to crawl all the people’s image links and names down for later use. Although he had some difficulties because of the inconsistencies of the html content, eventually he managed to get all the people’s information correctly and is now able to move forward to the next stage. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Kevin Shields (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Kevin continued looking into the code to understand what is going on with the frontend code with the badge system to track what occurs when trying to delete a badge. As mentioned from last week, Kevin found the delete function was working properly but the user profile component was getting stale data. Kevin fixed this by updating the user profile and passing in a function from user profile that ‘saves’ the page, to properly update all data and refresh with the correct data.

Kevin then fixed the user profile badge system to properly update the featured badges list when assigning user new badges. This process was much of the same with deleting the badges, so Kevin pretty much called the same function within this component as well. He also fixed deleted badges counting toward the max of 5 featured badges. This involved decrementing the featured badges counter when deleting a featured badge. Kevin additionally did a PR review of a backend commit of reverting to the old timer system and pushed his PR for fixing the badge system. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Guilherme Wustro (Front End Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Guilherme created the route/roles in the back-end to be used in the front-end. This route is used to update a role that already exists, to create a new role, and to fetch all roles. Using this created route, he made the reducers/actions adapting to the existing logic made by Miguel, but making some changes. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Aashish Thapa Magar (Full Stack Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. The total badge count and header data bug have been fixed. They weren’t designed to update upon login or logout, which is why they were one refresh behind from showing the actual data.

The attempt to reproduce duplicate badges have been unsuccessful. The idea of creating a filter that will first check to see if a badge type is already assigned to a user and if true, add the count to the total count of that badge type is taken into consideration, but at first the code behind creation of duplicate badges needs to be checked. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

Alisson Rubas (Full Stack Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This past week, Alisson helped review the PRs provided by Vera (#534) and Kevin (#531). He also started working on “Medium: bug number 4. The goal of this bug is to see another person’s Dashboard.

This is needed so an Admin or other team member can see exactly what the other person sees. This will save time fixing problems related to their dashboard and communicating with them about it. Also so a non-admin can view relevant information there that might only otherwise be viewable with Admin permissions. Working on this this week, Alisson made some changes in the CSS file for his new task to fix the yellow popup container so it remains at the top of the screen rather than vanishing. Pictures below relate to this work, see how they relate to preserving conditions that make life wonderful.

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One Community Welcomes Charles Gooley to the Web Design Team!

Posted on October 21, 2022 by One Community

One Community welcomes Charles Gooley to the Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Charles “Chuck” is a UCLA graduate and retired aerospace software engineer. Since retirement ten years ago, he has been a web developer for nonprofits. He also enjoys taking science classes and gardening. Chuck joined the One Community team to help develop our WordPress website because he likes web design and applying his development skills. Examples of pages Chuck helped complete are the Compression Testing, Mix Ratios, R-value, and More page and Duplicable City Center Natural Pool and Spa page.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM CHARLES!

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