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

• 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 of eco-renovating our living models as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 5th, 2022 edition (#480) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards eco-renovating our living models:

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

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph worked on the detailed design report of the roof structure. The report describes the steps undertaken during design and the assumptions that were executed to arrive at some of the decisions.

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is eco-renovating our living models through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 20 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this towards eco-renovating our living models.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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One Community welcomes Ron Magpantay to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ron is an aspiring Fullstack Software Engineer that completed a Software Engineering Immersive at General Assembly. He is pivoting from a background in Sales and Administration because of his interests in the tech industry, his desire to solve problems, and he enjoys creating products from start to finish. Ron is a team player and a lifelong learner. As a member of the One Community team, Ron is helping with reviewing and approving other people’s code and fixing bugs in the Highest Good Network .

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It’s time for a replicable blueprint for a sustainable world. If we make it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrate it as attractive enough, it will spread on its own. One Community is developing an open source and free-shared version of this as a self-replicating pathway to global sustainability.

• 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 May 29th, 2022 edition (#479) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Blueprint for a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #479

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team integrated Dr. Bai’s input after his review of the Final Aircrete Compression Testing Report, as well as re-formatted, re-wrote, and reorganized much of the report to match the style of current content. They also met with the Center Hub Connector Team and re-directed some of their efforts to researching options for manufacturing the DIY bracket they’ve been designing, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

The core team also worked on Murphy bed edits for pages 30-34.5, regarding Wall Sections. We addressed comments but had difficulty in relating the comments to the proper page on the doc. After a call to clarify the circumstances we made further progress. We also finished checking in 3D the assembly instructions for the rest of the Murphy Bed. We checked measurements for all parts of the night stands, assembled the night stands in SketchUp 3D following the assembly instructions and placed them next to the Murphy bed shelving unit on the side of the bed, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below related to this progress.

And the core team finished another big round of feedback and website updates for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below related to this progress.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 96th week helping finish the Net-zero  Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the calculations involving the fatigue life of the bolts for the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom. After gathering constants from graphs in the literature such as the static stress concentration factor and the notch sensitivity factor, and calculating the fatigue stress concentration factor, he came to the conclusion that failure would occur when using 3 support beams at a length of 34in.

The bending stress developed was at 83.4 ksi, much higher than the ultimate tensile strength of 60 ksi. Though strain hardening can be taken into account to get a more accurate figure, the variation of this would be too unstable for use. He then changed the design to include 6 beams and shortened the distance to 27.25in. This led to a bending stress of 33.4ksi, which when intersected on the S-N curve, was found to have a total cyclical life range of 334000 to 335000 cycles.

Next Jose Luis will implement the calculations to make a spreadsheet that will correlate rainfall, water catchment, and the fatigue life of the bolts to have an idea of service life in different areas. This will be accomplished by using a cumulative damage model, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 74th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey continued to make updates based on the feedback of the three core team members reviewing her work. Updates covered everything from simple changes like alignment and formatting to much more complex changes in hardware, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 29th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela began by reading through and responding to all comments as the Core Team submitted them while reviewing the cost analysis section. The rest of her time was spent reading through the resources she had gathered for the Flexible Pavement Design section. She noted important details that would help further explain the topic.

In the images, all notes Daniela took that are in green font were notes previously made, and the notes in black were research completed this week. Daniela then started to write the Flexible Pavement Design section, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 27th week helping with web design. This week Yuran continued working on creating the co-community Electric Vehicle Integration and Charging Infrastructure Guide page using the Google Doc content. She also added some new content and updated the tables for the Sustainable Roadways page. Then she updated the Open Source Climate Battery Design page with feedback from Jae, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei designed the collection and storage of the rainwater harvesting system. Four 1000-gallon tanks under the shower room are connected in parallel. The Inlet pipe reaches to the bottom of the tank with a return bend end to reduce the disturbing of water momentum on the debris at the bottom.

The conveyance pipe is designed at 1.8 degrees to enhance the flow. The downspout filter is added to filtrate debris or leaves. Gutters were also added in the front of the Tropical Atrium at 2.8 degrees slope to enhance flow, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 9th 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 discussed his thoughts and plans with Kivia regarding the cost estimation study. Some comments were made and got resolved.

The majority of his time was spent on cost estimations of biomass and plasma gasification. Since there are more materials to read in the biomass section, plasma gasification was the main focus of this week. The Plasco Conversion process was mentioned as the smallest scale plasma gasification found so far. Cost estimation was based on that case study, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 7th week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi researched LED light bulbs. She created a table summarizing/comparing the lumen efficiency of incandescent bulbs, CFL bulbs, and LED bulbs. Yushi also researched the health risks of LED and why LEDs flicker and how to prevent that, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See below for some pictures related to this.

Kivia Sugiarto (Sustainability Research Manager) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping manage and complete the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Kivia took time to get familiar with the topic of waste-to-energy (WTE) conversion by reading existing notes under the “Addressing non-recyclables” google doc and doing her own research. She reviewed Ming’s work on the cost analysis of WTE and provided feedback, then supplemented the work with her own research focusing on the cost and revenue of incineration plants, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 49th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis put his efforts towards updating the information on the control panel system details and configuration, along with updates to the heating systems descriptions. Validating the information now will allow minimal work to be done by the publishing team during implementation. Luis also went back and updated sources for various parts of information and began implementing links where necessary, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 33rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, after meeting with Yuxi to discuss the appropriate location to use D6 and D7, Huiya finished modeling Door 6 and included how Jae instructed for the Dining Dome doorway. She also modeled and submitted for feedback four different ways to place the D7 door and the windows on both sides for the main entrance, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 30th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi re-verified doors and window counts with changes reflecting the new allocation of D6 and D7 doors based on comments. Door widths were updated in the plan views in CAD to be more accurate. An inquiry was also made regarding the width of the D7 door next to the pool and concerns about the flanking windows (W6). Helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj continued the final review of the final document on how the team arrived at a solution. He changed the document to third person format, converted it into a shareable google doc and added content, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 16th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik researched fabrication techniques to make the v and I bracket. He contacted APEC, AMERITEX fabrications, 5 Point Fabrication, MetalFab Group and WeldFlow Metal vendors for budgetary quotes. The budgetary quotes were based on the rough number of brackets based on the draft sketch of the geodesic dome, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 5th week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week, with the response from the team, the design concept 1 was chosen. It was chosen primarily due to the criteria of ease of assembly as this concept was the most straightforward in regards to structure. Kamil continued by creating a detailed model using correct dimensions of timber and ensuring he followed the carpenters advice in terms of load distribution, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished updates for the Transition Kitchen using SketchUp. We moved some of the tables on the sides to free up space in the central area, added three more storage shelves along the wall, and added single person entry doors on both ends, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The final layout is below. 

The core team also continued working on updates for the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We replied to comments for the trays, updated hinge placement on the entry door, generated new images for the tray assembly including screws, and researched roosting bar horizontal/vertical spacing that will require further changes in the design of the roosting ladder, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world.

The core team completed the first draft of the Transition Kitchen food plan spreadsheet that is linked to the 3-Day Menu Blocks so they all update when the master doc is updated, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pics below.

The core team also completed detailed review and feedback on the Climate Battery design page along with some image creation and additions, formatting improvements, and content updates, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 14th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam spent the week reviewing work as per mentions on the recipe sheets, and had meetings, emails, and other messages to reply to. Adam additionally researched the best way for putting the conversion calculator between two different measurement amounts, and started developing the sheet for how to make it the easiest and most efficient to use, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 7th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued to develop recipes for the three day block menus and added “SECOND WEEK A” and “SECOND WEEK B” to the block menu recipe page. She then sourced more recipes that would not require fresh ingredients, while substituting recipes that were not fit for scaled potions (smoothies, etc). She also input recipes to the three day block template, adding ingredients and converting their measurements to the template for sample and review, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph completed the analysis and design of the roof truss structure. He then commenced preparing a detailed design report. In this report, Adolph will describe all the steps undertaken during the design and the assumptions that were undertaken to arrive at key decisions. This will be preceded by a compilation of detailed autoCAD drawings, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 24 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel began with reviewing, testing and approving PR #408 and testing PR#411. PR #411 needed extra testing and review due to errors. After that, Miguel solved some errors he had on his own PR #406 (new user permission system) and resolved some merging conflicts. He finished his week reviewing and testing more Pull Requests, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun put half of her time into reviewing and testing Miguel’s frontend PR for creating new user classes. After a couple discussions and code changes, it finally got approved and merged. She also finished the “implement open/close filter” task and created a PR for it that was approved.

She reviewed two other small PRs and left comments on them and started working on the “implement a pettier WBS UI page” task. Yiyun was unclear on some of that task’s details though, so she documented them and submitted them for answers, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron worked on helping to approve pull requests that included changes to the frontend. In addition, development was provided to rectify two issues that came up in the Beta Bugs document, and changes were made to the production version of the application. There are still a few kinks that need to be ironed out in order for the changes to display and alternative measures are being investigated, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week David rounded up all the tasks for the frontend management dashboard component he’s been working on and addressed problems in his pull request. These included the progress bar, progress bar color logic, red clock, red clock number, alignment of tasks and the project bar, and dividing task view based on the role of the user, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Steven helped review and approve two PRs, one fixes the wrapping badges issue in the user profile and the other fixes the timer consistency when opening multiple HGN pages. He is still trying to reproduce the bug that causes a previously paused user to keep coming back. In addition, Steven finished the backend cache improvement when creating and deleting users and is working on the last part when updating users, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, in terms of management, Eiki reviewed the work of his team by referencing their weekly summary videos. He checked in with David after seeing his was missing and helped him get set up. Everything else was in order. He additionally helped with two different PRs by answering questions in one and testing, reviewing, and approving another. Eiki also started coding for the task notification feature and completed work on the backend and starting setting up and planning for the frontend, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jorge Ivan Rodriguez (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Jorge was working on the timer component. Now the timer synchronizes when the user opens more than one tab. The time intervals were changed to make this work, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. See pictures below for some of this work.

Yongtae “Yogi” Park (Graphic Designer, UX Designer) also joined the team and completed his first week helping create the social media images for these weekly progress update blogs. This week Yongtae created images covering title #517 ” Combining Diverse Eco-Elements to #526 ” Supporting the Abundance of Earth. He experimented with some of the filter options in Adobe Photoshop to create images in illustrated style while focusing on creating images that reflect some of the keywords of the title, helping in create a blueprint for a sustainable world. Below you can see the images he created.

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One Community welcomes Phu Nguyen to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Phu graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He is interested in Web Development, Mobile Development and Data Structures and Algorithms. Phu started to learn about coding after he read “Cracking the Python – Introduction to Computer Programming” by his high school alumni. One of Phu’s hobbies is cooking and he would love to become a master chef in the US. As a member of the One Community Team, Phu is developing the reports functionality and helping with debugging of the Highest Good Network software web application.

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One Community welcomes Yiyun Tan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yiyun has 2 years professional experience as a software engineer. She earned her Masters degree in Computer Engineering and Bachelors degree in Software engineering. Yiyun has experience in Object-Oriented programming and testing and knowledge of design principles and coding practices. In her free time, she likes watching dramas, doing fitness and baking. Yiyun joined the One Community team to participate and contribute to a large-scale project and is helping with the Highest Good Network application.

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One Community welcomes Marilyn Nzegwu to the Highest Good Food Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Marilyn has over 5 years of culinary experience as a Sous Shef, Head Chef, and Restaurant Manager. She has proven knowledge of food sanitation and safety, menu development, and plating and food presentation. Being in an industry that thrives on perfection, her attention to detail has been a significant contributor to her success as a culinary professional, and she enjoys leveraging these skills to successfully contribute to the culinary growth and development of a company. As a One community volunteer, Marilyn is working on recipe development and menu planning as part of the Highest Good food component and Transition Kitchen rollout process.

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One Community welcomes Adolph Karubanga to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Adolph attended Kyambogo University and obtained a Master of Science in Structural Engineering, Bachelor’s in Civil and Building Engineering, and Diploma in Water Engineering. He is also a Certified Project Management Professional and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI-USA), and Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers (UIPE). Adolph is currently serving as a Civil Engineer at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in Uganda (Africa). As a member of the team, he brings in-depth knowledge and more than 7 years of experience in structural analysis techniques, engineering design, construction supervision and project management using PMBOK® methodologies. He has worked on small and large-scale infrastructure projects and is highly motivated and energized by working with a diverse team to peer discuss, create solutions, and propel a project to successful delivery. Adolph believes that resilient and sustainable infrastructural systems are an essential component of society. As a One Community consultant structural engineer, he is helping to finalize the DIY Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. Adolph enjoys this role because it has given him the opportunity to expand his scope and make an impact on an international level.

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One Community welcomes Ming Weng to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ming earned his bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Policy & Planning and Microbiology at UC Davis, and a master’s degree in Geography & Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His ultimate career goal is to find a remedy for contaminated aquatic environments in urban regions. Ming feels people should never downplay current issues in global water resources, such as dead zones and drinking water scarcity. With this goal, he is always seeking opportunities that could strengthen his research and communication skills. As a member of the One Community team, Ming is helping research the best community-based solutions for waste-to-energy conversion of non-recyclables.

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One Community welcomes Elyse Lam to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Elyse graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a degree in Business Administration. She currently works on data pipelines maintenance and support for the Google Cloud Platform. Elyse is interested in expanding beyond cloud infrastructure by learning more web development. She lives in Seattle, WA and is a coffee addict. As part of the One Community team, Elyse is working on various bugs and feature requests for the MERN stack Highest Good Network web application.

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