One Community has spent the last 10 years creating an open source global conservation model. It covers all aspects of a sustainable civilization for the 21st century. Sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices are all integrated and designed for DIY viral replication.

• 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 September 27th, 2020 edition (#392) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Conservation Model
One Community Progress Update #392

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ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials, continuing working on tools and equipment selection, pictures, and descriptions. This content will be for a page of the website that will be referenced by all construction pages, so we can just put linked lists on the pages for the construction of various components, rather than pictures and descriptions on each of those pages. See below for pictures and on how this relates to our global conservation model

Continued Working on Tools and Equipment Selection, Pictures, and Descriptions – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 25th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week’s focus was changing the format of certain parts of the text, editing some tables to make them clearer and more appealing, and preparing the images with SEO metadata. You can see some images related to this work and global conservation model below.

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial ” Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis added joinery diagrams to the Net-Zero Bathroom roof plan on AutoCAD. The diagrams displayed how the wooden beams would interconnect to form the inner roof frame and the roof access.

He labeled the beams in order to clarify the orientation of the diagrams. He created a view of the inner roof frame being attached to a support underneath it. He also created a top and bottom view of the inner roof frame and funnel connected. The views show how the corrugated steel panels and the inner roof frame will attach. Pictures are below for this work, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

Added Joinery Diagrams to the Net-zero Bathroom Roof Plan on AutoCAD – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was getting some answers on the number of floor bolts and the number of vertical beams used to create the bed frame. Since there were so many different views, the drawing was not staying consistent too, so she started moving wood prep steps to the beginning of the instructions to show that the pieces that need to be drilled and marked should be prepped before the pieces are used.

She also labeled the pieces of wood in the complex instructions and will note when a step is being applied to A-front or B-back side of the frame. Further labeling may be needed for R-right or L-left side since pieces are often assembled laying down and then flipped over when they are attached to the wall. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how it relates to our global conservation model.

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

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 6th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials by finishing the rough outlines of the steps required in earthbag dome construction, based on the Bioveda courses and videos. She also began to work on the updated loft design for the domes in the 3-dome cluster. You can see some screenshots of this work below and on how it relates to our global conservation model.

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

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei created the initial landscape plan analysis, vegetation analysis, and began deciding on the best areas for plantings according to the current design layout and plan. You can see some pictures of this initial work below and on how it relates to our global conservation model.

Began Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click to Visit

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model 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 and how they relates to our global conservation model: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 17th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week, Angela researched more specific lightbulb products again to make sure that they were the best ones from the company identified as the best.

Additionally, she began implementing edits and writing a new section about the affects of different types of lighting on the nervous system. She also began helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial by researching what is recyclable and what is non-recyclable and looked into various processes that are better than landfills or traditional incineration. You can see some of this work in the pictures below and on how this relates to our global conservation model.

Continued Researching Specific Lightbulb Products – Click to Visit Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 11th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish continued working on updating the drawings related to sprinkler systems. Layer formatting, external references to architectural drawings and properties of text related to fire protection systems properties were adjusted. Also, location for exit lights were identified for the third and fourth floors. You can see some of the results of this work below and on how this relates to global conservation model.

Continued Working on Updating the Drawings Related to Sprinkler Systems – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on learning the details of the project kitchen, external systems, and water diagrams. Also learning the related codes. Pictures of some of this are below, see how it relates to our global conservation model. 

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

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. This week he started research on possible ground drainage systems for the ground component. He assumed the pond would need to be large enough to accumulate 93,712 gallons of water yearly. Dividing this by 7.481 we get approximately 12,525.67 cubic ft of water. He assumed the drainage pipe leading to the pond to be 4” PVC based on the previous calculations from other members. The pipe would extend about 60ft northeast to the potential pond in zone 3.

He also hand sketched one possible option for a drainage system. This would be three underground drainage pipes leading from the ground gutters to one main pipe that would be connected to the reservoir pond. Pictures of AutoCAD sketch and hand sketches are shown below, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

Possible Ground Drainage Systems for the Ground Component – Click for Water Catchment Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he began a list of small-scale solutions to non-recycling methods and related useful videos. The challenge is that most methods require extremely large-scale equipment, good if the communities we build grow to larger populations, but not appropriate for the initial community stages. Sorting at an individual level, then addressing sorted waste based on type seems the best approach so far and will greatly simplify the recycling process. Pictures of some of this work are below, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

Small-scale Solutions to Non-recycling Methods and Related Useful Videos – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we added missing images with parts dimensions and detailed descriptions for images throughout pages 114-131. You can see some of this work below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Continued Working on the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

Sam’an Herman-Griffiths (Assistant Kitchen Manager) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Sam’an started development of the complete weekly food menu overview by compiling 4.5 weeks of menu items. These included full vegan and omnivore versions of brown rice and russet potato recipes and half a week of omnivore pasta-focused recipes. He also researched 5 vegan options for both daily sauce & snack choices. You can see some pictures of this work below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a global conservation model 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 for our global conservation model: 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 14th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the third draft of all of the external playground details and began a new render of the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 7 hours into the render process and still with 160 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is only 2.5 minutes. The list on the left are the requested changes from the core team that were integrated into this latest render. See pictures below for how they relate to our global conservation model.

Third Draft of the External Playground Details and Began New Render of the Walkthrough in Lumion

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 13th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei modified the SketchUp and Lumion model based on the suggestions of the core team shown at the bottom of the picture below. She then started to re-render the walkthrough video. As you can see, it is 8 hours into the process with 32 hours to go. See picture below on how they relate to our global conservation model

SketchUp and Lumion Model Based on the Core Team Suggestions – Click for The Ultimate Classroom

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview on how it relate to our global conservation model: 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 33rd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he found a potential problem when the number of tasks in the excel files is large, requiring a rebuild of the way the database functions to address the large number of tasks for the Work Breakdown Structures we’ll be importing. This causes the calculation and relationship of tasks to break after we input the files. Henry began this rebuilding process and estimates 1-2 more weeks to complete it. Some related imagery can be seen below and on they relate to our global conservation model.

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 23nd week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing, and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers ” Click for Helping Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 18th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen worked on the badge view. The size and the arrangement of the badges were adjusted and a scroll bar was added to the section of “Badges Earned Before Last Week”. It’s only visible when scrolling on that section. A button for the expand-window option was also added.

The pop-up full view of the badge history is now a work-in-process. Wen would like to do a modal pop-up, but got a “click child component to render parent component” error. In order to make it work, she re-organized all the badges-related React components. Wen still needs to do more research though to solve this. Some pictures of this work are below, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

Worked on the Badge View – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 12th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi updated edit-time reminders and implemented a “Clear” button near the timer. When people start the timer by mistake, they can now click this “Clear” button to reset the timer. She also updated the edit-time reminders and completed the initial “i” icon functionality for people to click to get more information. Yiqi additionally fixed a bug where a timer at “00:00” having “stop” clicked results in a time entry form popup. You can see some of this work below on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Updated Edit-time Reminders and Implemented a “Clear” Button Near the Timer – Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry added necessary fields to the Task model to support showing Why, Intent, and Endstate info. The frontend was also appropriately changed to support displaying and editing Why, Intent, and Endstate info. Tasks in each user’s task list now link to their appropriate WBS details page. Jerry also researched possible ways to implement individual notifications on change of Why, Intent, and Endstate info. Pictures are below showing some of this work, see how they relate to our global conservation model.

Added Fields to the Task Model to Support Showing Why, Intent, and Endstate – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) also completed her 7th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on the benefits and costs of the BCBS HMO plans. She went through the website to figure out what each type of plan offered and their associated costs based on what she could find on the website. You can see some of this work below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Worked on the Benefits and Costs of the BCBS HMO Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris completed a good portion of the Project Membership tests. He also spent some time fixing a bug due to a conflict with a new installed package that was causing several of his previous Login/Logout tests to fail, requiring looking through a large amount of previous code and commits. Chris also commented out several components that are no longer in use in the project as they have been replaced to see the changes on code coverage. You can see some screenshots of the behind-the-scenes code below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Completed a Good Portion of the Project Membership Tests – Click for Highest Good Network

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun started to work on the unit-testing on the UserProfile component. He finished 3 subcomponents, including the BlueSquares, UserLinks, and UserProfileEdit. He then started to develop the UserProfile component. Jun spent some time reading the code that this component already has, and then finished the functionality for administrators to add or remove teams from certain user’s profiles. You can see some of this work below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Started to Work on the Unit-testing on the UserProfile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 2nd week helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #397 #398 #400 and #401. You can see these images below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Continued Creating the Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs ” Click for Page

Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also helped create four Highest Good Network icons and the icon for One Community’s insurance page and the earthdome loft construction tutorial. See below for pictures on how they relate to our global conservation model

Created Icons for Highest Good Network and Other Pages – Click for Highest Good Network

Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also helped analyze and fix a web traffic dropping problem. He completed a traffic performance analysis, identified our traffic seems to have gone back to normal on its own, researched intermittent “Error establishing a database connection” on wordpress, and implemented troubleshooting & testing of cloudflare on our old site www.onecommunityranch.org. You can see pictures of some of this work and process below and on how they relate to our global conservation model.

Helped Analyze and Fix a Web Traffic Dropping Problem – Click for One Community Ranch Site

AND WE PRODUCED THIS WEEKLY UPDATES BLOG – CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

 

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL PAST UPDATES

One Community welcomes Stacey Maillet to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Stacey is a creative graphic design artist with over 15 years experience in technical product design. She has the ability to see complex problems clearly and communicate ideas using images and graphic language. Stacey holds a degree in fashion design and is a certified color specialist. As a member of the One Community team, Stacey is helping develop the Earthbag Village dome-home DIY Murphy bed assembly/constructions using Adobe InDesign.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM STACEY!

FOLLOW ONE COMMUNITY’S PROGRESS (click icons for our pages)

INVESTOR PAGES

OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

Adaptable solutions for eco-living are needed if we are to reach the necessary level of involvement to achieve global change. One Community is supporting this through open sourcing and free sharing all the eco-living components needed to build eco-village teacher/demonstration hubs that will develop even more adaptable solutions. We call this living and creating for “The Highest Good of All” and it has the potential to create a sustainable world within our lifetime.

• 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 September 20th, 2020 edition (#391) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Adaptable Solutions for Eco-living
One Community Progress Update #391

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

ONE COMMUNITY WEEKLY UPDATE DETAILS

HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Earthbag Village construction tutorials. This week’s focus was on tools and equipment selection, pictures, and descriptions. This content will be for a page of the website that will be referenced by all construction pages, so we can just put linked lists on the pages for the construction of various components, rather than pictures and descriptions on each of those pages. See below for pictures on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living

Focused on Tools and Equipment Selection, Pictures, and Descriptions – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 24th week as a member of the team and continuing to work on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial. This week his focus was on updating the formatting, editing tables to make them clearer and more appealing, and testing some of the previous replace rules and coding some new ones. Here are some images related to this work and adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Continued Working On the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis compared the web page of the Net-Zero Bathroom with the information in its corresponding spreadsheet, looking for and marking any differences in their respective results. He researched and found a pump to generate sufficient pressure in the sink water plumbing system and added the pump to the cost analysis spreadsheet.

He also began constructing the roof plan in AutoCAD where he completed the top view of the roof’s 4 layers, completed the elevation view of the interior roof frame, and began making diagrams for the wooden beam connections in the interior roof frame. Pictures are below for this work and on adaptable solutions for eco-living.

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

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. The wall and bed frame section has been the most complicated to figure out so far. Stacey’s work this week focused on finding and fixing issues with how the instructions were drawn and visual representations that were incorrect. There were many size changes in the boards and placement. She also was able to reduce the number of pages needed for this section. Pictures of some of this adaptable solutions for eco-living work are below.

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

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 5th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials by completing the note taking process on the relevant Bioveda Course videos for earthbag and aircrete dome construction. She wrapped up the course by learning about sculpting the upper levels of the dome, installing skylights, windows and doors, finishing the dome with plaster, waterproofing and flooring. Hannah also began to create rough outlines for the main topics in earthbag dome construction. You can see some screenshots of this work below on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Relevant Bioveda Course Videos for Earthbag and Aircrete Dome Construction – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 16th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week Angela finished editing her tutorial and submitted it for review, editing her writing and picked the most useful information to keep. She also finished her Resources and FAQ sections. Final remaining steps are review and updates to her spreadsheet to add more details to each individual brand and their products. You can see some of this work in the pictures below on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Finished Editing Light Bulbs Tutorial and Submitted It for Review – Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 10th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish started working on re-designing the sprinkler system for the basement, first and second floor levels. The sprinklers needed to be relocated as per the new architectural layouts.

Layer formatting, rerouting of piping, and relocation of sprinkler heads were worked on. Ashish also identified the possibility of distractions that can be caused by improper placement of emergency and exit lighting. He listed out certain basic guidelines that need to be followed to avoid disability glare for occupants in an emergency scenario. You can see some of the results of this work below and on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Started Working on Re-designing the Sprinkler System for the Basement – Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she designed draft 1 of the sanitary sewer systems. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below and on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Designed Draft 1 of the Sanitary Sewer Systems – Click for Duplicable City Center

Mario Strachan (Aerospace Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the ground-based components of the City Center Water Catchment Design. His focus for this first week was familiarizing himself with the City Center, researching natural greywater processing, and drawing up rough sketches of the collection system and pond where the greywater/rainwater will accumulate. The height and width of the pond and distance away from the main center made for sizing purposes. A few of his sketches are shown below, see how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Natural Greywater Processing, and Drew Up Rough Sketches of the Collection System – Click for Page

Diego Guardiola (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping finish research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week he completed his onboarding process and reviewed the previous notes taken.

Most of the methods previously researched are too large and not capable of being implemented at the desired initial small scale, so Diego began researching into methods more suitable for One Community’s requirements of small-scale implementation beginning with applications that do not require industrial equipment or intensive maintenance. You can see some of Diego’s initial notes in the picture below and on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about the structures on how they relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we worked on instructions for installations of the nesting box doors, hinges and latches (pages 124-128). See below for pictures and on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Installations of the Nesting Box Doors, Hinges and Latches – Click for Chickens Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. 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 for adaptable solutions for eco-living: 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 13th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the second draft of all of the external playground details and began a new render of the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 71 hours into the render process and still with 9 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is only 2.5 minutes. See below for picture and on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living

External Playground Details and Began a New Render – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 12th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei updated the master CAD file and SketchUp model and rendered an indoor walkthrough video for review of these updates and other requested changes. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below and on how this relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Master CAD File and SketchUp Model and Rendered an Indoor Walkthrough Video – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living: 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 32nd week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry found a library that supports reading Excel files, a library that was released just one month ago. This fixes problems we were having with importing .CSV files. He then modified the import feature to use this library but found that it works.

However, there are some challenges: The Excel file on Google Docs and Excel file on Microsoft Excel display differently, and it appears we can’t add multiple lines into 1 cell on Microsoft Excel – which is one of the .CSV problems we’re trying to fix. The reading function also only reads one sheet (tab) of the excel file, so we have to delete sheets which are not necessary. The WBS works slowly too, when we have multiple tasks open at the same time. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work and on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Reading Excel Files, Which Fixes Problems With Importing .CVS Files – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 22nd week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing, and on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers ” Click for Helping Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 17th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen solved the badge description box overlay coverage issue. She also spent some time debugging bugs on the back end controller part. Some adjustments were made to the Redux badge store so that the data is more clean, and so it will be easier to make changes later as more badge functions are added. Some pictures of this work are below, see how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living. 

Solved the Badge Description Box Overlay Coverage Issue – Click for Highest Good Network

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam focused on wrapping up his PR for his UserProfile Module 1.4, working on bug reports and other merge conflicts. After talking with Chris and getting some feedback, Adam was able to wrap up all bugs related to his current module PR. Adam wrapped up the week developing prototypes for components Teams, Projects and Time (hours committed). You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below and on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Focused on Wrapping Up His PR for His UserProfile Module 1.4 – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 16th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the team name edit functionality and resolved conflicts and merged the PR for teams functionality. A new edit button was introduced in teams list and upon clicking a popup will be shown with team name in edit mode, upon clicking ‘ok’ it updates the team name. You can see some of this work below and on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Edit Functionality, Resolved Conflicts and Merged the PR for Teams Functionality – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 11th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the “Close” button and updated “Project/Task” in time entry. She also made updates to the odd numbered reminders and even numbered reminders. She removed the blue box in time entry form and added an “i” icon for additional information about how the page works. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Changed the “Close” Button and Updated “Project/Task” in Time Entry – Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry completed a basic working version of TeamMemberTasks component. The missing functionality is the progress bar of each task. Next week, Jerry will work off of Henry’s working branch and attempt to make a PR to add ‘Why, Intent, and End state’ functionality to tasks. This will probably consist of 2 PRs: one for API and small update to the tasks form in frontend as well. Pictures of some of this are below, see how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Completed a Basic Working Version of of TeamMemberTasks Component – Click for Page

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) also completed her 6th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked on organizing the costs portion of the Molina Healthcare plans. She analyzed what each plan offered and their corresponding price. She went through each of the plan’s summary of benefits and coverages to find the prices. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on Organizing the Costs Portion of the Molina Healthcare Plans – Click for Insurance Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris worked on four pull requests, discussed with Jun about the PR Changes, set the default branch of HGN Rest, and started to work on the Project Membership tests. You can see some screenshots of the behind-the-scenes code below and on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

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

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun fixed the tests of Timelog and UserManagement that were failing due to new changes of the component. He also added more test cases to the tests of these two components so achieve a higher coverage rate. Jun then finished the tests of the Timer component, which is a newly added component. All of the code was then pushed and merged into the development branch. You can see some of this work below on how it relates to adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Fixed the Tests of Timelog and UserManagement That Were Failing – Click for Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and began helping create the YouTube and social media graphics for these update blogs. This week he created images for weekly progress updates #392, #393, #394, 395 and #396. You can see these images below on how it relates adaptable solutions for eco-living.

Youtube and Social Media Graphics for These Update Blogs – Click for Page

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One Community is about building DIY sustainable eco-villages that provide a better, healthier, and more enriching living experience. Our open source and free-shared designs include sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Our goal is to demonstrate these villages as teacher/demonstration hubs that are easy enough, affordable enough, and enjoyable enough to live in so that they spread on their own.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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 September 13th, 2020 edition (#390) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building DIY Sustainable Eco-villages
One Community Progress Update #390

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about how it relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models on building DIY sustainable eco-villages: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. We focused on working through page 30 on our materials doc with upgrades, research and edits and researching and sourcing electrical meters and bases to include a meter that has immediate visual reference to determine if meter is working with a combination of digital and dial readouts.

Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content ” Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #199 of Dean’s work and the focus was color corrections, learning a new way to put in a background, and testing the perspectives we’ll use for the final external renders. See below for pictures on how this relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 23rd week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro finished developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial and submitted it for final review. He also began working on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance tutorial by changing the format of certain parts of the text and testing out some of the previews replace rules and coding some new ones. Here are some images related to this work on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Began Working on the Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Tutorial – Click for Page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis analyzed and modified the roof of the Net-Zero Bathroom focusing on the funnel support frame and the roof access support frame. He calculated the deflection ratio of the support beams used in the frames to be certain they would withstand the weight of the funnel, interior roof panels and roof access frame. He also began reorganizing and adding more information to the Net-Zero Bathroom Cost Analysis and Material spreadsheet. Pictures are below for this work on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

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

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on the Wall section and construction, finalizing all of the wood prep boards and how they are cut. She also added measurements to the floor layout and placement of pieces. Pictures of some of this work are below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Focused on the Wall Section and Construction, Finalizing All of the Wood Prep Boards – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 4th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials for publication by taking notes on more Bioveda course videos for earthbag and aircrete dome construction. She focused on several topics such as the construction of the walls, sculpting walls around doors and windows, interweaving the tensile structure for outer force and sculpting the upper levels of the dome. You can see some screenshots of this work below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

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

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages 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 building DIY sustainable eco-villages: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 15th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week Angela found several helpful videos that informed the reader about sustainable light bulbs. Additionally, she reordered her sustainable lightbulb company ranking after further research into each company. Finally, she made overall edits to her tutorial and now needs to complete just her FAQ and Resources Section. You can see some of this work in the pictures below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial ” Click for Page

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 9th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish described in detail the components for the mains converted emergency lighting system. He described the conversion kit in detail and also defined the working of its components. He formatted the existing general lighting layout plan drawings to include the exit and emergency lighting layer and identified locations for the exit lights for different zones on the first floor. You can see some of the results of this work below onbuilding DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Continued Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages 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 onbuilding DIY sustainable eco-villages: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing with building DIY sustainable eco-villages: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

Finished the Instructions for the Nesting Boxes Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 12th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished the first draft of all of the external playground details and began to render the walkthrough in Lumion. The picture below is of the video 120 hours into the render process and still with 10 hours to go. The total length of this video she is rendering is 2 min and 22 seconds. See below for pictures on how this relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages

All External Playground Details and Began to Render the Walkthrough in Lumion – Click for Page

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei focused on the indoor Lumion details and rendered the first complete walkthrough of this area. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Indoor Lumion Details and Rendered the First Complete Walkthrough of This Area – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building DIY sustainable eco-villages 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 and on how this relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages: 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 continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+. This week we worked out additional details of applying consensus at a large scale, and finalized a table summarizing the functions and sizes of the groups that make up the consensus structure. We also began reviewing and doing additional research for how we’ll handle non-recyclable waste on the property. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below onbuilding DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Continued Behind-the-scenes Updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ Content ” Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 31st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he spent his time solving conflicts, fixing bugs to get ready for the live launch and testing. There were many conflicts and problems because we haven’t merged the codes to the development branch for a long time. There were more conflicts than he expected. However, all conflicts were solved and it is now ready for us to test all the features. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Solved Conflicts, Fixing Bugs to Get Ready for the Live Launch and Testing – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 21st week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing and how this relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Promoted Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Newspapers – Click for Helping Page

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon worked on fixing the countdown timer digits display for Mac OS based browsers. He also designed a mockup of the Notification/Activity bar for the dashboard. Another major thing he did this week is converted the Weekly Summary section to be viewed in a popup. With that, he moved the countdown-timer to the dashboard area so it’s visible all the time and serves as a link/button to open/edit the Weekly Summary. You can see screenshots of some of this work below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Worked on Fixing the Countdown Timer Digits Display for Mac Os Based Browsers – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 16th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen merged updates on her local machine and solved a few conflicts and then focused on CSS tuning. This is making it so, when hovering on the badge images, a description box of the badge pops up. Some pictures of this work are below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages. 

Merged Updates on Local Machine, Solved a Few Conflicts and Focused on CSS Tuning – Click for Page

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam fixed merge conflicts and submitted his PR. By the end of the week Adam was able to wrap up his PR for his module with the help of Chris Weilacker’s review and comments. Once Adam was finished, he resumed studying Unit Testing in React. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below on how this relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Fixed Merge Conflicts, Submitted His PR and Resumed Studying Unit Testing in React – Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 15th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team were working on the suggestions, corrections and validations of the team functionality. The PR has been raised and merged with the changes in user profile and all the conflicts have been resolved. Along with that they resumed the Azure migration task for the React app and successfully deployed it in Azure. You can see some of this work below onbuilding DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Worked on the Suggestions, Corrections and Validations of the Team Functionality – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 10th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added the exact number in the reminder when editing time more than 5 times. She also implemented and tested the email sending and infringement function. She fixed a bug and changed the initial status of the number of words and variable has_link to avoid mistakes. She checked the code, solved the conflicts and made a pull request. You can see some of this work below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Added the Exact Number in the Reminder When Editing Time More Than 5 Times – Click for Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry added an additional route to API for tasks. This will allow querying of all tasks each member is assigned to. With this in place, Jerry will work to deliver a basic version of WBS 2.1 and 2.2 by the end of this week. Pictures of some of this are below on building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Added an Additional Route to Api for Tasks – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 5th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor refined the insurance research spreadsheet to present the information in a more concise and clear way. She also started creating a cost-benefit analysis of Molina Healthcare and the best option for that healthcare plan. She used the information from the spreadsheet to compare the different options from Molina Healthcare and created a table to help layout those differences. You can see some of this work below onbuilding DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Insurance Research Spreadsheet and Cost-benefit Analysis of Molina Healthcare – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This Week Chris managed 4 or 5 large pull requests coming in at the same time. He has approved 3 pull requests and is waiting on changes for another two pull requests. You can see some of the code for Chris’ work below on how this relates to building DIY sustainable eco-villages.

Managed 4 or 5 Large Pull Requests Coming in at the Same Time – Click for Highest Good Network

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

GET INVOLVED

DONATE | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

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One Community welcomes Jose Luis Flores to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jose Luis holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His undergraduate work involves participating in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge and developing an Integrated Scissor Jack System for Motor Vehicles. He has 7 years tutoring engineering fundamentals at South Texas College where he offers one-on-one tutoring and develops student workshops. His goal is to contribute to the development of eco-friendly technologies and infrastructures so that future generations can experience and admire the wonder and beauty of our Planet. As a member of the One Community team, Jose Luis is helping finish development of the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM JOSE LUIS!

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

We think humanity is on the brink of creating an age of cooperation and collaboration that will transform our society into a sustainable one. One Community is supporting this with DIY and open source and free-shared plans and tutorials for teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together in a global cooperative for “The Highest Good of All.”

• 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 September 6th, 2020 edition (#389) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating an Age of Cooperation
One Community Progress Update #389

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

CLICK HERE IF YOU’D LIKE TO RECEIVE AN EMAIL EACH WEEK WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW UPDATE

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CREATING AN AGE OF COOPERATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. We completed polished concrete research to confirm any construction detail differences with common concrete floor details and focused on tools doc research to ensure appropriate tools are designated for the proper purpose.

This involved angle grinders, 3 categories of grinding wheels, cordless drivers, impact drivers, and hammer drills, plus pintle and combination ball hitches ” determining the most effective use for our purposes and necessity of each tool. You can see some of the added and edited content below.

Continued Review and Development of Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content

The core team also continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed more comments and questions with Stacey and designed and integrated a Spring Lock for securing the table/benches legs shown below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #198 of Dean’s work and the focus was continued modeling, addition and texture correcting on trees and other plants.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Modeling, Addition and Texture Correcting on Trees & Other Plants

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 22st week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial.

This week he focused on adding the titles to the hyperlinks that had none and coding more replacement rules to make this process faster and easier in the future, for examples adding these titles to the hyperlinks that reference a section in the webpage can be done all at once by running a replace rule.

Now he only needs to click in the highlighted rule to do that (using Visual Studio Code). Here are some related images of this work.

“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 15th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued working on the Material Specifications, Descriptions, and format for final integration from the Google Docs to the Google Sheets. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis & Tutorials

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the detailed drawings of the Door and Windows, displaying the placement and orientation of both fixtures.

He also made and properly scaled the floor plan drawing into the Title Block Template and created a reference document for the upcoming plumbing and electrical plans. He started doing research into the upcoming plans for the plumbing, roof, and electrical systems and made a rough drawing of the roof plan.

Pictures are below for this work.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey and the core team were working on the Wall section instructions. There were many adjustments needed to the sizes of wood required.

All of the pieces of wood in the key were not to scale anymore so she had to resize all the pieces so that they were all in scale relative to all the other pieces. We also had to recheck and question many of the size updates because there were several pieces that ended up being the same size. So going forward, if possible, we can combine these same size wood pieces with different numbers into the same number.

Pictures of some of this work are below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Worked on the Wall section of the Murphy bed Instructions

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 3rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the remaining tutorials for publication by watching videos and taking notes on earthbag and aircrete construction.

She specifically focused on videos about the construction of foundations, doors and windows, making arch/opening forms, and how to create aircrete bricks. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials

CREATING AN AGE OF COOPERATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed updating the City Center Water Catchment Design open source hub with all the rainwater collection specifics for the building itself. This is in preparation for our newest member of the engineering team who has joined to finish the related ground-based gutter system and water storage specifics.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Completed Updating the City Center Water Catchment Design

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 14th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial. This week she further benchmarked the lightbulb companies using a Google spreadsheet and researched more into lighting accessories and strategies. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Working on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Companies Tutorial

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 13th and final week helping with research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed most of the section for understanding windows and doors. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 8th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish researched ideas on how mains lighting could be converted into emergency lighting in a given scenario. Locations of exit signs for zone E, zone F1 and zone D1 on the first floor were also identified.

You can see some of the results of this research below.

Researched Ideas on How Mains Lighting Could Be Converted Into Emergency Lighting

And Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she focused on familiarization with the project, collection of initial data for design (architectural plans, regulatory documentation, etc.), and design of the necessary templates. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Joined the Team and Worked on the Plumbing Designs

CREATING AN AGE OF COOPERATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for the roosting ladder and started working on the steps to build the nesting boxes. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Finished the Roosting Ladder Instructions and Worked on the Steps to Build the Nesting Boxes

CREATING AN AGE OF COOPERATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) completed her 11th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu added tree and people elements in Lumion and test rendered various locations in preparation for the final walkthrough video render. You can see some of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Added Tree and People Elements in Lumion and Test Rendered

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei also added people and other details to the indoor and outdoor aspects of the SketchUp model and completed test renders in Lumion as part of preparing for the final walkthrough. You can see below some screenshots related to this work.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details

CREATING AN AGE OF COOPERATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating an age of cooperation 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 continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+.

This week we updated the structure to have 5 as the minimum number of members per group, adjusted the emergency process to an 80% majority instead of 90% to reflect the original intent that it would take 3 people in a 10-or-more group to stop a decision the rest of the group felt strongly about.

We also  added a diversity of new FAQs, updated the ideas mind map to integrate dotted lines to show the path of an idea vs solid lines for related comments, and we created a new graphic to clarify the group structures. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” BTS of Updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ Content

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 20th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week’s focus was promoting our project and the One Community helping page to newspapers. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and a version of the press release he is sharing.

Creating an age of cooperation, Focused on promoting our project and One Community to Newspapers

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon spent some time helping out Adam and Jerry over a voice chat regarding questions they had.

He then worked on the Heroku server (dev environment) addressing the server’s idling issue which was affecting cronjobs as well as investigating why email isn’t working on that server. On the WeeklySummary component, he did updates to the form submission notifications and added a minimum of 50 word count requirement to the summary text.

He then did some code refactoring and small bugs fixing for the WeeklySummary and submitted a pull request for review and merge. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 14th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the functionality to add and delete members of a team. Administrators can search for all available users and assign one user to a specific team by clicking the teams icon on the list page.

They also corrected the confirmation message on deleting a team. An autocomplete text input box has been introduced in the team members list popup which allows the admin to search and select a user and then add that user as a member to the team. You can see some of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Completed the Functionality to Add and Delete Members of a Team

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 9th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the position and the function of the “cancel” button. After people edit time, an edit-time notification pops up. If people click “cancel”, the edited time will be reset to the original one.

Also, she resolved all conflicts between “feature/Timer” and “development” and completed the function so that an email will be sent if they get a blue square and popup reminders will inform them how close they are to a blue square when time is edited 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, etc. times. You can see some of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Changed the Position and the Function of the “Cancel” Button

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 4th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor determined what could be potential drivers for increases in premiums. She reviewed several papers and webinars to understand the components of a premium and all of the factors that are taken into account when creating a premium.

She also consolidated the information she has gathered thus far to only include the information that is most relevant to finding the best insurance plan for our organization. Some of the materials researched included a webinar on the drivers of health insurance premiums as well as articles that provided in-depth explanations of health insurance premiums. You can see some of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Determined what could be potential drivers of Increases in Premiums

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris completed testing of the Header and Monthly Effort Components.

He looked through some of the other components that were assigned to Jaspal and realized that they were not connected to the App so skipped them at this time as he was not sure if they were functional. Chris started on Unit Testing the Project Component and has completed a good portion of that component.

At the current moment Chris has gotten test coverage of 50%, which once Jun Hao’s tests are pulled in the testing coverage should reach in the 60-80% range, as there are several unconnected components that haven’t been used and tested. These will have to be taken into account from a code coverage perspective. You can see some of the code for Chris’ work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Completed Testing of the Header and Monthly Effort Components

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun finished the unit tests for the UpdatePassword component from last week. He tried different approaches, such as mocking the action creator for just testing the component and mocking the server for testing the whole component-action-reducer process.

Finally he utilized MSW to mock the server for achieving better test coverage. He then started working on the UserManagement component. He created separate test files for each sub-component for better code layout and better readability. He finished almost all the components expect for the integrated UserManagement component. You can see some of this work below.

Creating an Age of Cooperation ” Finished the Unit Tests for the Updatepassword Component

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One Community welcomes Yiqi Feng to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yiqi received her B.S. in Automation from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China and her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. She is passionate about full stack development and big real-time data technologies and has hands-on experience with React, Redux, and Node.js. Before joining One Community, Yiqi finished several large-scale programming projects and developed an open source real-time data management system to receive dataflow from distributed servers. As a volunteer at One Community, she’s helping develop the React.js version of the Highest Good Network software timer functionality and edit time functions.

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One Community welcomes Ashish Hirani to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Ashish earned his bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, India and his master’s in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has 6 years of experience designing, testing and commissioning fire suppression systems for substations, high-rise buildings and refineries. As a fire protection engineer, he studies the causes of fires, the behavior of fires in different environments and methods to help mitigate the risks associated with fire. In his spare time, Ashish loves hiking, playing table tennis, cricket and biking. As a member of the One Community team, Ashish is helping with the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Systems Design.

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Rebuilding our world as a sustainable one is possible if enough people want it. One way to achieve this is to demonstrate a self-replicating sustainability model that provides a way of living that is better than the way most people are living now.

One Community’s designs for such a way of life are an evolution of sustainability that combines sustainable approaches to food, energy, and housing with sustainable and “Highest Good” approaches to education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices.

• 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 August 30th, 2020 edition (#388) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Rebuilding Our World
One Community Progress Update #388

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REBUILDING OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was research and additions to the narrative, tools, and equipment details. You can see some of the added and edited content below.

Focused on Research and Additions to the Narrative, Tools, and Equipment Details

The core team also continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed a diversity of comments and questions with Stacey and researched resources for securing the bed and settled on and designed the Hook Eye Latch and L-brackets shown below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Continued With the 2nd-to-final Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #197 of Dean’s work and he fixed the problem from the last couple weeks with all the trees rendering with boxes around them. He also added furniture to the patio and more plants to the front area by the main window.

Rebuilding Our World ” Helping With the Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 21st week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial.

This week he finished the editing of the images and tables of the article, and started to edit the images on his next article about hydropower.

Image-addition tasked included finding the same image as the researchers at the best possible quality, resizing it to the standardized size of 640px width, renaming them to one community image name conventions, adding the 2px black borders, adding caption text where needed, adding SEO alternative text, transform the tables to images and make them click-to-open the spreadsheet.

Here are some related images of this work.

“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 14th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week she continued developing the Master Tools and Master Materials lists and updating the Master Spreadsheet to match.

This last week’s main focus was copying images in Google in such a way that they will stay where she places them. She also tried to establish a standard code for those materials and tools. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Developing the Master Tools and Master Materials Lists and Updating the Master Spreadsheet

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis formatted the layers of the AutoCAD floor plan to standard specifications.

He added framing details for the doors and windows and completed the section views and an elevation view with the updated rearrangement of the bathroom fixtures to meet both ADA and public bathroom regulations. Pictures are below for this work.

Rebuilding Our World ” Formatted the Layers of the AutoCAD Floor Plan to Standard Specifications

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacy completed updating the Clothing&Storage assembly group. This assembly was complicated and required us to simplify many of the instructions.

Many of the measurements needed to be rechecked and some of the screw lengths needed to be adjusted. The headers of each page and the key was kept consistent with the previous 2 projects. All page numbers were adjusted so that there is no more duplication between page numbers and wood piece labeling.

Consistency throughout the instructions was addressed and changed as needed. There is still some improvement needed across all groups for components and page layouts. Next she will update the wall section group which includes the bed construction. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Completed Updating the Clothing&storage Assembly Group

REBUILDING OUR WORLD – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 13th week as a member of the team. This week Angela worked on editing her content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial, fixing grammar, doing more research, and finishing compiling her list of products so they are now ready for final formatting. You can see some of this work in the pictures below.

Editing Content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies Tutorial

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 12th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued to make additions and edits to the window and door specifics and formatting.

He finalized most of the formatting, added to the resources section, started listing spec sheets, and began working on sections for understanding the different types and efficiency differences of the various kinds of windows and doors.You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Making Additions and Edits to the Window & Door Specifics and Formatting

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused further on the design of exit lighting. The basic exit sign formatting, lighting requirements and spacing distance between the exit signs was identified. Location of exit signs in the basement floor level were also identified.

You can see some of the results of this research below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design

REBUILDING OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for the roosting ladder and started working on the steps to build the nesting boxes. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Rebuilding our world, Finished instructions for the roosting ladder & Steps to Build the Nesting Boxes

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 32nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week Mohammad worked on the design criteria report, completing a climate battery integration check, and climate battery modeling. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 96% complete with these structural details.

Rebuilding Our World ” Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Engineering Details

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 10th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week Jessica and Aly created the meals and recipes for Butternut Squash Chili, Lentil & Potato Dahl, Vegan Cornbread, and Rice Noodle Ramen, all for the vegan recipe pages. Pictures of this work are below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

REBUILDING OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu imported her model into Lumion and began updating the materials in Lumion to prepare it for rendering. You can see some of this work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Imported the Model Into Lumion and Updated the Materials for Rendering

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei also started to put the SketchUp model into Lumion and worked on preparing it for the walkthrough. You can see below some screenshots related to this work.

Rebuilding Our World ” Put the Model Into Lumion and Worked on Preparing It for the Walkthrough

REBUILDING OUR WORLD – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is rebuilding our 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 continued behind-the-scenes updating of the Consensus and Groups of 200+ content to better explain the specifics of how the process will work to be efficient and inclusive of all people with groups so large. This week we further developed the mind maps to make them clearer and easier to understand and created and refined an excel sheet to show different transition points as the community grows and the self-governance structure shifts to accommodate that growth. We also began reviewing the content developed for glass and polystyrene recycling. Pictures of some of this work can be seen below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Developed the Mind Maps to Make Them Clearer and Easier to Understand

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 30th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he completed the “moving tasks” feature and functionality.

This was a big challenge because changing the list of tasks could make an error in the structure of the WBS. Now, when we move a task to a new position, the WBS will re-calculate the position of all the tasks including the task’s subtasks. Pictures below show some of this new functionality.

Rebuilding Our World ” Completed the “Moving Tasks” Feature and Functionality

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 19th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to newspaper and TV outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Promote Our Project and the Helping Page to Newspaper and TV Outlets and Philanthropists

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Andon started off this week by reviewing other member’s video and screenshot overview of last week’s work.

He then provided some feedback on Slack to those members that he felt had some issues or needed further clarification. A big chunk of his time this week was also dedicated on helping out with a full review and merge of pull requests #71-73 from the “HighestGoodNetworkApp/unit-testing” branch (Unit testing Login, Logout, Dashboard and ForcePasswordUpdate tests) working closely with Chris Weilacker.

He then spent some time updating the documentation for WBS 1.6 in the “HGN Functional Specifications Documentation”. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 13th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the team functionality. They completed the functionality to update the status, delete a team, and listing the users of a team. You can see some of this work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Working on the Team Functionality

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Adam completed a mock data unit test for the user profile, checking that the components are stored and fetched properly.

At the end of the week, Adam collaborated with team members over best methods of approach for Unit Testing in React, and laid out a development plan for the rest of the unit tests. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 8th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added a “cancel” button to the time entry form and invalidated the edit button when it’s not the same day or has been edited 5 times.

As a result, people can’t edit their time entry form after their 5th time edit. She changed the original algorithm for counting the time edits too. Now, Only editing the TIME should cause them to get a warning. Editing their description should not give a warning or count as editing their time. You can see some of this work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry spent this week considering the groundwork needed for WBS 2.1. Consideration was given for the database models that will be changed as well as those that will need to be added.

Additional routes will need to be added to the REST API in order to query these database changes. Ideally, database and API design can be completed next week so that tangible work can begin. Pictures of some of this are below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Worked on Considering the Groundwork Needed for WBS 2.1.

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued her research finding different plans that each insurance company offered. She also did more research on the information needed by each company to get a quote.

For each company she has looked for a general summary of their benefits and coverage and the costs provided with each different type of plan. You can see some of this work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Continued Researching Different Plans That Each Insurance Company Offered

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris completed and cleaned up the Login and Dashboard Test files utilizing Screen and wairFor whenever possible. Chris also completed the ForceUpdatePassword tests and got them passing. You can see some of the code for this work below.

Completed and Cleaned Up the Login and Dashboard Test Files Utilizing Screen and WairFor

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun finished the unit tests for the Timelog component. Specifically, Jun finished all 27 test cases for the Timelog component, where 16 of 27 were finished this week, and 11 of 27 were completed in the first week.

Jun then started to build the unit test for the UpdatePassword component. Jun refactored the previous tests (which were implemented in enzyme and were completely failing) with react-testing-library and fixed most of the test cases. You can see some of this work below.

Rebuilding Our World ” Finished the Unit Tests for the Timelog Component

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What if we were globally addressing climate change with local solutions? Would this be a better approach than the government-led approaches currently being used and promoted? One Community supports doing both and we’re leveraging our open sourcing and free sharing philosophy to help through carbon-neutral and carbon-negative approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 23rd, 2020 edition (#387) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions
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ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was organizing headings, reviewing articles and adding info to the soils testing section. We also researched, created the narrative, and added photos to a new section called Compaction of Construction Project Site and added more resources.

Focused on Organizing Headings, Reviewing Articles and Adding Info to the Soils Testing Section

he core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed a diversity of comments and questions with Stacey and researched different latches for securing table/benches, designed the right angle lock, and tested all the possible latches on the 3D model as shown below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” 2nd-to-final Review of Murphy Bed Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #196 of Dean’s work and the focus was trying to fix issues with some trees showing up with black backgrounds or boxes around them.

This has been a multi-hour process that has yet to be successful. Now Dean is trying other workarounds, seeking to identify and remove the trees creating this problem rather than trying to fix them.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Designs

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 20th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial.

This week’s focus was on editing the images of the article, finding the same image as the researchers at the best possible quality, resizing them to the standardized size of 640px wide, renaming them to onecommunity image name conventions, adding the 2 pixel black borders, caption text where needed, SEO alternative text, and making some of them click to enlarge.

Also some other web edition details and replacing rules to make things easier to complete in the visual studio code. Here are some related images of this work.

“Best Small & Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 12th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela completed the final round of plastic recycling tutorial edits and additions.

She also made good progress making edits to her Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is also finishing compiling the lists of lightbulb products. She hopes to be completing her lightbulb tutorial this week. The pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Completed the Final Round of Plastic Recycling

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the Net-Zero Bathroom floor plan by rearranging the bathroom fixtures for the purpose of meeting public and ADA bathroom regulations.

He added information to the cost analysis document by researching the availability and prices of the items listed out in the materials document. He also began educating himself on the standards for our title blocks in preparation for the completion and approval of future plans. Pictures are below for this work-in-progress.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she addressed many comments on the development doc and really focused on seeing this part of the project more as a whole, rather than a series of separate files.

She double checked we are using the correct measurements and components, cleared up issues regarding the hinges being used on the benches and table, and focused mostly on the clothing and storage area, which she has almost completed. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Final Edits and Revisions

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials.

This week Hannah made alterations and improvements to the dome calculations spreadsheet, read and prepared suggestions for the behind-the-scenes Dome-home Site Selection, Planning, Preparation and Maintenance, and reviewing the current behind-the-scenes Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial.

She also began taking notes on the Bioveda earthbag and aircrete construction videos. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Helping Complete All Earthbag Village Tutorials

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 11th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued work on the window and door report by adding product images, refining the formatting, and reading the work over to make various edits. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on research and design details for emergency lighting, related power supplies, optimum lumen levels, etc. You can see some of the results of this research below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Sprinkler & Emergency Lighting

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we continued with the building instructions for the roosting ladder, developing pages 105-111 of the complete instructions, and you can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Building Instructions for the Roosting Ladder

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 9th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week Jessica and Aly created the meals and recipes for Carrot Cabbage Slaw, Cheezy Biscuits, Simple Mashed Potatoes, Split Pea Soup, and Shepherd’s Pie, all for the vegan recipe pages. Pictures of this work are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Food Plan

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the updated/final designs of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Alanis focused on two main goals.

The first one was to correct the volume, surface area and heat loss calculations to match updated geometries of the structures. The second one was to start the selection of the climate batteries optimum duct sizes using the friction loss method. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Climate Battery Design

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu modified the amphitheater to a more natural design and made an axion section cut to show the effect of the design. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Playground and Other Details

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei combined the Ultimate Classroom’s SketchUp model and rendered an axion view to show the other half of the external design. You can see some of these contributions below.

Combined the Ultimate Classroom’s Model & Rendered an Axion View

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with local solutions 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 began updating the Consensus and Groups of 200+ content to better explain the specifics of how the process will work to be efficient and inclusive of all people with groups so large. This week we developed a mindmap showing how ideas are implemented using the large group consensus model.

We also developed a mindmap of the general explanation of the different groups within the large group consensus model. We added to the FAQs and made a simple excel sheet that calculates the number of each group that you need for this model based on the population size, then we developed a table summarizing the Who, What, Why of each group, as well as a pictorial of the model.

Lastly we brainstormed different names for the groups, to better differentiate between the Discussion Groups and Decision Groups.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Updating the Consensus & Groups of 200+ Content

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 29th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he was working on the final feature for the WBS: moving tasks (or drag and drop). The “drag and drop” which he developed last month has some bugs and he tried to change it to a feature that lets the user select the position of the task instead of “drag and drop”.

For each task, there is a dropdown to select the position the user wants to change. However, he couldn’t make it work this week, so he’ll continue development next week. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Worked on the Final Feature for the WBS

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 18th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to newspaper and TV outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Promoting Our Project to Media Outlets

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen has been working on the React Overlay. She did some coding experiments of different implementations, mainly for her learning experience and to satisfy her curiosity. In addition, Wen attempted to import batch data and finished a related tutorial.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon started off investigating an issue with the Development Environment where it didn’t run some cron jobs as the week transitioned to the next week.

He also updated the weekly summaries reports page to generate PDFs with custom names as well as improved the Weekly Summary page responsive display for better views on mobile devices. Additionally he updated the documentation for the HGN Unit Testing Guide to now include testing with React Testing Library (RTL) and Mock Service Worker (MSW).

Finally, as Andon completed the Weekly Summaries (WBS 1.6), he now turned his attention to the Leaderboard component (WBS 1.2) which has been assigned to him as the next task. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the team page functionalities.

The confirmation popup to status change and delete has been created and completed the option for adding a new team. Default sorting has been implemented in the descending order of created date, also the total team count and active team count has been added. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Continued Working on the Team Page Functions

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam began researching unit testing done in a React environment. He also completed privacy settings and the toggle switches for the user profile, as well as fixed a bug dealing with viewing user profiles without privacy settings instantiated.

Adam also began working on the user profile, teams and projects component. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Researching Unit Testing in a React Environment

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 7th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added blue square functionality in the time entry page. If users edit a time entry more than 5 times (5 is the total time that users can edit the form even when they refresh the website), a blue square will be issued. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Added Blue Square Function in Time Entry Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry continued work on task WBS 2.2.1. This week, Jerry was able to fetch all necessary data from the backend.

Currently, the component is able to display all teams the user is managing, the members belonging to each team, as well as each member’s total hours. Jerry will spend further effort on the visual design of the component and having current week’s hours displayed for all members. Pictures of some of this are below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Continued Work on Task Wbs 2.2.1.

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began working on organizing the different plans and insurance companies available to choose from. She has chosen ten insurance companies to pick from and has gathered information on their contact info, reviews, and the types of plans offered.

For each company, she has listed several different plans to choose from, what those plans offer, and how they are different from each other. You can see some of this work below.

Began Working on Organizing the Different Plans and Insurance Companies Available to Choose From

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris looked into the Unit Testing being done on the HGN project.

After splitting up the work with Jun and Jaspal he got the Login.page.test.js file to work, added a test for a snapshot of Dashboard, and created a mock state file with code that can render a Redux app via React Testing Library. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Unit Testing Being Done on the HGN Project

Jaspal Bainiwal (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jaspal set up the unit testing environment on his local machine. He then began unit testing his first component, the Memberships.

As his first week there were struggles to getting familiar with the frameworks and the codebase of HGN. As a result Jaspal completed one component unit testing in full coverage. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Set Up the Unit Testing Environment

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun spent some time setting up the development environment, playing with the HGN web app, and understanding the behavior of each component.

Chris, Jaspal, and Jun had a meeting to divide the unit testing work, and Jun decided to take charge of Reports, Timelog, UpdatePassword, UserManagement, UserProfile, WeeklySummaries, and WeeklySummary components. This week, Jun mainly worked on understanding the detailed logic of the Timelog component and its sub-components.

He finished the unit tests for DeleteModal, TimeEntry, and TimelogNavbar. He also finished some reusable helper functions for helping render components that require react-router and redux-store. You can see some of this work below.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Joined the Team and Worked on the HGN Software

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