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

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

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One Community welcomes Diwei Zhang to the Mechanical Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Diwei received his master’s degree in the major of Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research background includes numerical analysis, modeling and analysis of dynamic systems, and control theory. Since joining One Community, Diwei has worked on the 3D modeling, cost analysis, and plumbing design of the hot tub, and artificial waterfall of the City Center Eco-spa component. He is now helping develop a rainwater harvesting system and water distribution network for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

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If ever there were a time for achieving Earth’s sustainable potential, it is now. We have the ability to create a sustainable world that will benefit all people and life on this planet. In so doing, we can address climate change, homelessness, food insecurity, social injustice and inequality, poverty and more. One Community is developing open source teacher/demonstration hubs to form a global collaboration of groups working on and evolving the open source and free-shared solutions needed to accomplish this.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 15th, 2022 edition (#477) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Achieving Earth’s Sustainable Potential
One Community Progress Update #477

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential 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 made substantive comments on the Aircrete Compression Testing Final Report, edited and reviewed the comments that had been addressed, and re-wrote sections that needed attention. The core team also reviewed solar sizing work and asked that the pie charts be integrated into the summary writeup, reviewed Yuran’s responses to comments made on the walipini, aquapini, and zenapini content, and had the regular weekly meeting with the Center Hub team for which only Prathik was able to attend. 

A different core team member also continued working with the assembly instructions for the Murphy bed. We checked the assembly instructions for the front part of the wall, bed framing perimeter, bed hardware, attachment of the bed frame to the wall, assembly of the benches and table and attachment of them to the bed frame, and the installation of the locking hardware for securing benches and table in the up position, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below related to this progress.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #247 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders. The picture below shows a final render of the bathroom, but we realized in creating it that this is the ADA bathroom and it needs to be updated with the other bathroom we designed, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 94th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the size limitations of the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He first completed the buckling analysis by determining the critical buckling load of the support column. He assumed the column was fixed and free ended and calculated the critical load. He then used that value and half the barrel weight to calculate the factor of safety which equaled to 19.5.

Buckling is a very unlikely cause of failure in the column. After brainstorming he decided that the bolts were one of the more likely contributors to failure in the structure. After reading literature pertaining to screw and bolt design, the first step was to determine the state of stress in the bolt used for the support beams.

Due to the deflection of the beams caused by the barrel weight, a tension and compression is created along the lower and upper areas of the beam respectively. This deflection will cause the bolt to have a moment acting on it, due to the frictional forces exerted on the bolt due to the bolt head and nut trying to slide with the change in length of the beam.

To determine the frictional force, the tightening load had to be calculated by gathering specifications from the literature and the bolt manufacturer. With these calculations, the bending stress acting on the bolt can be determined. After determining this value, a fatigue analysis will need to be conducted because of the cycling involved from the filling and emptying of the barrels causing a fluctuation of stresses, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below show some of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 33rd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team responded to comments and made corrections/revisions to the Final Report. They looked through previous documents and added information to present to future readers from all of the documents created during the experimental phase, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 27th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela completed writing and editing the ADA Requirements section. She incorporated all the information she had written into the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report. This included adding images she had taken from the code in order to explain the narrative better. After reviewing any last errors Daniela then reviewed all comments from last week and this week.

She responded to questions on the ADA section and added more to the narrative for the roadways cost section. Daniela also rearranged some of the formatting/images. Lastly Daniela went back to the Roadways excel sheet to research information regarding the cost of excavation, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 25th week helping with web design. This week Yuran updated the FAQ section and created, added and linked new spreadsheets for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. She also added images to the Climate Battery live page and fixed the existing problems for the Aquapini & Walipini open source hub, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 24th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas answered questions and addressed comments throughout the doc, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei did a benchmark problem to demonstrate the Newton-Raphson method for the branched & looped multiple reservoirs water distribution network system by using Maltab. The code can be used for further water distribution of stored rainwater. He also created sheets for calculations of the rainwater harvesting system.

Monthly climate normals, average supply, total indoor water demand, indoor rainwater demand, outdoor rainwater demand, total rainwater demand, supply-to-demand ratio, and optimization of storage are included in the calculations. Entire calculations are produced based on a reference book Essential Rainwater Harvesting: A Guide to Home-Scale System Design (Sustainable Building Essential Series, 11) written by Rob Avis and Michella Avis, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below show some of this work.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 5th week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi kept on searching for light bulb replacements from #1 and #2 companies with higher luminous flux or lower power and the same functions. If the companies do not have the replacements meeting the requirements, she then searched for other ranked companies for the best replacement. Then research deeper for LED technology, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential 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

The core team also completed an extensive review and addition of content for the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing tutorial, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 47th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis worked on more documentation updates for the future website content. Along with this, he has been focusing on finding regulations and code that justify the circulation designations and turnover rates from the designs. Many of the parts manufacturers specify their design recommendations, but he is yet to find standardized legislation with tangible requirements. He aims to complete his research next week to continue on with his progress of finalizing the design documentation, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 36th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed corrections for section C”-C” and G-G and made changes on section C’-C’ and C”-C” according to her supervisor’s feedback. She added columns and changed the thickness of the walls and floors and changed the position of some columns and walls, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 31st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya finished updating the doors in the Living Dome. She also accomplished the work of modeling Door 9 which is the freezer and cooler door in the Dining Dome, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team and discussed the potential for pushing the walls of the Social and Dining dome on the 2nd floor open area back further to allow better circulation and visibility. The team concluded that there is the necessity of adding another column and have to see other impacts such as implications for the structure of the dome above. In addition, D7, 11, 12, and 14 door CAD elevation and section were added, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik researched and explored different methods to construct the dome in Revit. He constructed a geodesic glass dome. He also tried to add the DIY-designed bracket into and construct the dome, by doing this the actual model could be constructed and then exported to SolidWorks for structural analysis of the dome, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week of work. This week Dave checked materials for the Eco-spa design in order to validate power needs, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. This week, Dave double-checked energy demands from the Ultimate Classroom by going through each one of the data sources carefully. He also validated data by adding visual aids, such as pie charts, a comparison of our numbers with real-world energy consumption values, and a break-down of energy demands by each category, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 3rd week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week Kamil continued his design on the Dormer project by generating 3D concepts for both floors. Experimenting with similar heights and similar roof angles, he attempted to make the dormers look identical to each other for both floors. More visualizations will be required to select the most aesthetic and structurally sound design. He also communicated with a carpenter for more insight into how the frame will be constructed to ensure strength and meet industry standards, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yujue Wang (Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the interior design for the Duplicable City Center rental rooms. This week, Yujue continued the development of the Duplicable City Center Interior Design by researching wood furniture, researching room styles, drawing CAD floor plans, and designing the interior of a nature themed room.

The room uses wood as the main element, the furniture is wooden furniture, wood material, and green plants create a warm interior atmosphere. She designed two plan layouts and one of them was chosen for deepening the interior design. In the interior design stage, she tried two sofa options and three wall decoration options, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See below for pictures related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. The week was spent focusing on the roosting ladder and nesting boxes. We reviewed the distances of the perch separation on the nesting ladder, the materials list for the nesting boxes, and requested a blow up drawing of the nesting boxes for further clarification of some of the necessary measurements for the nesting box construction, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member placed all the Transition Kitchen items in the SketchUp model according to size and dimensions taken from the Transition Kitchen spreadsheet list. We labeled each appliance according to the numbers in the spreadsheet and created a layout image, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below related to this progress.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 12th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam primarily worked on the 3-day block of recipes spreadsheets. He experimented with how to make the calculations work best in creating a readable, usable, cohesive recipe set to generate a master shopping list. Adam also had a couple of meetings with Jae and Marilyn and did more adding of suggestions or approving of Marilyn’s recipes, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 5th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued recipe development and menu plans, focusing on recipes that will work with food ingredients for the 2-months meal plan. After having a meeting about a three-day menu block to input in a new spreadsheet that will scale the required ingredients to create shopping lists, she went on to create the first three-day menu block.

It is designed to put to good use all perishable food items in the kitchen for quality control. She used recipes without too many dietary restrictions and designed to serve Vegans and Omnivores, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential throughh Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph focused on finalization of the design and researched on conditions prescribed in LEED® standards (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards). LEED® provides a framework for healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings. He accessed a website link on the U.S Green Building Council, USGC (http://www.usgbc.org/guide/bdc.).

He commenced learning about the criterion followed by these standards including, the five critical areas of focus (sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality). The structure will therefore be evaluated based on the rating system provided under the international codes of practice (IBC, CBC, and U.S codes) and LEED® standards, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is achieving earth’s sustainable potential through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 30 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel started by working on the new role, “Owner”, adjusting its permissions. He had a meeting with Nicky and talked with Chris to figure out how the leaderboard component worked, then changed a pipeline on MongoDB to get all users in the system to show up on the Owner’s dashboard. He tested the Owner profile and came to the conclusion it’s done. After that Miguel started working on another new role, Mentor, making changes on the permissions for that role and for the Manager role, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse worked on fixing the badge assignment bug. Badges in the same category should be removed once a badge in the same category with higher hours is added. When an instance of a Badge is created, she worked to filter the badge.category for the highest value in req.body.totalHrs, and that’s the only badge of that category that will be updated to the user profile, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu finished adding a calendar and fixed a bug for the calendar not showing up once clicked. There was a minor error in the end date of the user though, it kept changing to the newest day. Phu will fix it next week. For the task contribution, Phu added a custom expanding resources column, so it would look more professional. He also noticed an error on the resources filter that it did not show the resources (users) when the filter was applied, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun reviewed and approved several PRs both frontend and backend. She put most of her time on creating the ability for a user to see the timezone difference of others’. The PR is out and waiting for review now. Other than that, the development of the management-dashboard starts next week. Yiyun and Eiki and David will have the first meeting to discuss development details next Sunday, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron resolved a bug that was causing spacing issues in the Highest Good Network application. He assisted with pull requests to test changes that were made to the application and ensured that the changes did not have any conflicts with any existing code. In addition, after consulting with another team member, he identified a possible solution to the duplicate user creation bug that will likely come in a fix during this upcoming week, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky was mostly focused on helping out various people, helping Elyse out with a badge problem she was running into on the backend, meeting with Miguel to discuss the architecture of his permissions feature and going through the frontend and backend code with him to figure out a MongoDB error having to do with owner, which ended up being a MongDB thing and not a Frontend/Backend issue.

He also helped out Phu with the report component and will continue to do so next week on more resources architecture. He was able to dive a bit more into the timezone persistence issue that Jae was seeing with timezone not persisting on the non-new page, and will work on a PR for it next week, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Jipeng was working on the oauth 2.0 send email task and finished the first version of pr. GCP refresh token will expire in 7 days when the project is in testing state so he updated the project to prod state to make sure the token will not expire in 7 days. He did several testing scenarios locally for sending emails and all the scenarios are looking good, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week David completed more functionality for visualizing team member tasks. A large part of the work was discovering the connection between tasks and time entries. This connection was found in the project property of both task and time entries, so he set it up to fetch for both task and time entries and matched them together for the display, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Steven helped review and approved a PR that fixed the location persistence bug. Then he spent most of his time researching the behavior and the data flow of the application. He figured out the problem, fixed it, and raised the PR to remove checking duplicate phone numbers when creating new users and to instantly update the user management table when adding/deleting new users, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

Eiki Kan (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. This week, Eiki completed his orientation, onboarding, and dev environment setup. He then performed an initial scan of the code base and refamiliarized himself with the related React, Redux, and JavaScript tools.

He also helped other team members with coding problems, set up a plan for the Management Dashboard, brainstormed ways and chose a way to assign and breakdown tasks (deciding on a backend/frontend work breakdown structure), and watched at least 5 weekly summary videos left by the previous designer to see what has been done and his thought process. He then broke down the specifics of what has already been done by reading the documentation and shared his findings in the Management Dashboard Outline google doc to save other team members time, helping in achieving earth’s sustainable potential. See pictures below for some of this work.

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We can create abundance through sustainability. Not just abundance, but a luxurious life with more time and resource access while also regenerating our planet. One Community is supporting this through open source sustainable 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 May 8th, 2022 edition (#476) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Abundance Through Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #476

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is facilitating abundance through sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: 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 touched based with Mary, Yuran, Dave, and Marcus, and had a weekly meeting with Center Hub Connector Team (Raj, Prathik, and George). We responded to emails, comments, and texts to keep projects moving forward and began reviewing recently completed roadways design numbers. We also continued to work on the Compression Testing Final Aircrete Report, namely reviewing the summary table, responding to comments, reviewing responses, and adding content, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below relate to all this. 

The core team also completed an extensive review and addition of content for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #246 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The picture below shows two more finished renders.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 93rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the maximum dimensions of the rain barrel support structure of the Net-zero Bathroom. He first calculated the maximum bending moment and shear stress of the support beams. It was determined that the bending moment was much greater than the shear stress. By using a best fit polynomial curve he found a relationship between the moment and the length of the beam.

He then calculated the maximum allowable bending stress by using a safety of factor of 2, determined by using the factor of safety criteria, and the yield strength. Jose Luis substituted the value into the best fit function and calculated a max length of 11 feet. Next he began working on a buckling analysis of the main support columns, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below show some of this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 32nd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing team continued to work on finishing the final report for the Compression Testing Project. They conducted a water test to see what type of water was used during the process of making the cylinders. The team also addressed any comments that were given for this week and continued to make improvements on the report, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 24th week helping with web design. This week Yuran backed up the websites mentioned in all the tabs of the “Solar Sizing – ENERGY BALANCE (on grid)” spreadsheet. She also fixed the Aquapini and Walipini page with core team feedback and continued working on adding content to the Climate Battery live page. Yuran checked all the websites mentioned in the page, finished the resource section and then backed them up as PDF files, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Diwei studied modeling and analysis of the water distribution system for the barrel storage system and further water distribution network with extra rainwater harvesting units in the shower room. A report using a part of the barrel storage system as an example discusses a standard schematic representation of the water distribution system, mass and energy conservation for the establishment of the branched & looped multiple reservoir system, and solving the system of nonlinear equations with the Newton-Raphson method, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 7th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming reviewed multiple reports about cost comparisons between different waste-to-energy solutions, primarily for incinerators, gasification units, and pyrolysis. These documents were collected last week, but they were long pages and took time to find comparable information. After designing criteria of cost estimation, a general cost estimation was proposed.

The results showed gasification seems to be the best waste-to-energy solution. Although it is not the cheapest option, its versatility gives it potential to be modeled into a more efficient engineering system in the future, so its social utility can be optimized, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 4th week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi worked on ranking light bulb companies and their products, integrating the content into the pasted website content and formatting the bulbs and company section to match other pages. She also searched for the light bulb replacements that were equal or better than existing choices, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week the core team completed a detailed review and feedback on the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 46th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. Luis focused on finalizing and signing off on calculations for the heat transfer and plumbing of the design. These calculations are being directly implemented on the planned website content and have been adjusted on the spreadsheet for ease of access, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 35th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed corrections for section A-A, B-B, D-D , F-F, and C’-C. She added columns and updated column positions, and changed the thickness of the walls and floors according to her supervisor’s feedback, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 32nd week working on Duplicable City Center updates. This week she continued to build the roof model and its structure in SketchUp, exported the SketchUp model of the Living Dome for the interior designers, and added labels for the various section drawings in the AutoCAD file, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 30th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, after coordinating with Yuxi, Huiya modified some details for Door 1 and Door 2 and modeled door D13 for the restrooms. She also accomplished the work of adding the D1, D2, and D13 to the Living Dome, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi had a brief discussion with the team on hardware on doors and coordinated their type and location based on varying situations, including location of pull or push bars based on egress routes, types of hardware based on security (regular door handle or equipped with card reader), etc. Furthermore, elevation and the plans of doors D5 and D9 were updated to correct sizes with details, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj compiled all the research and work done throughout the months and started creating a document which explains the design considerations and the successes and failures of each design leading up to the final design, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik explored using the Architectural design software Revit for testing. He designed a simple dome to understand how to use the software and the different tools available. He then designed a glass dome and tried changing the beam joint to the DIY solution the team has designed, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week of work. This week Dave checked materials for the Eco-spa design in order to validate power needs. He made corrections to the calculation that resulted in substantially lower power draws, updating the average energy demand of 782.5 kWh/day to 502.7 kWh/day. He also added pie charts as a visual to compare energy demands by different categories from the City Center and Earthbag Village and sized and selected an electric heat pump for the pool, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) completed his 2nd week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. This week, Kamil continued his work on the Dormer dome design project. He did further research into how dormers are constructed on domes and the typical way in which they are attached. He also began creating 3D visualizations in SolidWorks as to how the dormer frame might connect to the dome frame. Moving forward he will create multiple designs for both floors of the dormer to ensure an aesthetic but also functional and easy to build dormer design, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week the core team continued with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We made corrections from pages 117-150. The main areas of focus included Coop Door Materials, Hanging the Coop Entry Door, Installing Sliding Chicken Door, Building Shutters for Ventilation Openings, Building Manure Collection Trays, and the Roosting Ladder, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below. 

A different core team member worked on the SketchUp model and render updates for the Chicken Coop. After changes to thickness of parts in all three poo collection trays, we updated text with new dimensions and generated new images. We also updated and reviewed instructions for the entry door and chicken door also, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below related to this progress.

Adam Weiss (Kitchen Operations Project Manager) completed his 11th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. He had a zoom meeting with Jae and discussed next steps pertaining to making the recipe tabs that tie into a master shopping list, worked on the related spreadsheets and researched best ways to organize data and create filters, entered in all the ingredients, color coded all ingredient groups, and added to ingredient groups such as specific pastas in one group, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 4th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued recipe development and menu plans and researched recipes that would work with the food ingredients for a 2 months meal plan as well as researching food that would fit the kitchen plan in line with the approved ingredient list, dietary requirements and kitchen equipment. She spent some time avoiding recipe repetition and working to find substitutes for some food items, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is facilitating abundance through sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph focused on the finalization of the design model. Initially, Adolph had generated one critical truss but later realized he needed to fit all the trusses on the roof plan and then execute modeling of the entire truss system. He therefore focused on the tekla structural design and tekla structures where he incorporated all the trusses and roofing material.

Adolph plans to review and incorporate LEED provisions and finalize the design during the following week. He will then compile a detailed design report showing the steps undertaken during execution of the assignment, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ABUNDANCE THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

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

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel implemented the new user permissions system on the backend (Miguel-userPermissions branch). Miguel also started working in the implementation of the 2 new user roles (Owner and Mentor) and their permissions in the system. He worked together with his colleagues to get help and to help them in their own problems, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse worked on the badge awards bugs where “100 hours total contributed to economics / energy / society / education / food / housing / stewardship category” badge is not awarded when a user completes 100 hours of work on a project labeled with the respective category. She tested manually assigning badges as an admin for Housing, Food, and education. She added console.log() statements to badgeController.js file in function assignBadges.

In the terminal, the badge group that was printed out shows the added new badges but the front end takes a few minutes to display the changes. Elyse needs to confirm how Mongodb saves this data. This might not be a bug but rather a caching delay, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu tested merging Irene’s branch to the Dev branch. A few errors and conflicts occured, so Phu contacted Nicky to get help, but it seems like only Phu was experiencing the problem. He continued researching to fix the errors and also fixed a filter problem, enabling it to search by project, people, and team name while active/not active/all statuses were applied. He also started working on adding start dates and end dates, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time on fixing the incorrect tangible hours on Volunteering Times tab, personal profile page. The PR of fixing “total tangible hours this week” she created was reviewed and merged. Yiyun digged into “other category hours” fixing, she created a PR #401, but after discussion and clarification with Jae, she realized there was some misunderstanding. So she closed her PR, helping in create abundance through sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Ron worked this week to provide assistance in reviewing pull request changes in regards to issues with the display in the HGN application. He also continued to work on creating popup confirmation for user duplication. Ron most recently took on a new bug that is creating a spacing issue between elements in the HGN application, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky was involved in various support tasks to help out David, Yiyun, Thien, Elyse, and Miguel. He also worked on the bug to fix persistence on the location & time zone issue where things weren’t getting saved from the add user profile page. Nicky also fixed the edit portion of it on the basic information tab section, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Jipeng started setting up the gmail api for oauth 2.0. In the first stage, he set up gmail api using his own testing account. He then set up gmail api with oauth 2.0 using the Highest Good Network test account. Jipeng is able to generate an access token to send email by refresh token. In the next stage, he will set it up in the cloud platform, helping in create abundance through sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, David focused on fetching relevant data and demonstrating them in the table and also verifying Team Member Tasks data shows correctly. This unfortunately couldn’t be completed as a function to fetch time entries because a specific task has not been built yet. David will now focus his energy on doing that, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

Steven (Shaoyu) Wang (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Steven started with onboarding, reading through all the Google Docs, and setting up the dev environment. He also picked up a bug to start on, which is related to the behavior after the update of newly created users in the User Management system. He also spent time familiarizing himself with the codebase and the data flow of the application, helping in create abundance through sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

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One Community is developing a blueprint for regenerative living. It is regenerative for both people and the planet and completely open source and free-shared for easy global replication. The blueprint includes sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 1st, 2022 edition (#475) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR REGENERATIVE LIVING

One Community is creating a blueprint for regenerative 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: 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 met with Marcus on the Compression Testing Team to discuss comments and additional content needed in the Final Aircrete Report. We continued to review the Compression Testing Team’s final report after content was added to address comments. We also reviewed Yuran’s work to insert images from the Compression Testing Team into a Final Summary Table, and assigned Yuran a new task – backing up websites referenced for energy demand and Compression Testing. Then we reviewed the energy demand summary of major findings for the Earthbag Village, and provided guidance on navigating the hot tub design spreadsheet.

The core team also started reviewing the latest updated Murphy bed Assembly Instructions document. We checked the dimensions of the lumber for the Murphy bed wall assembly and added suggestions for the order of the assembled wall frame first steps, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #245 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. The picture below shows this week’s lighting tests and two more finalized renders.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 92nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on optimizing the support structure by developing the necessary calculations for the maximum dimensions of the structure. The calculations will take into account the shear forces, bending moments, and buckling of the structure. The goal is to build a relationship between those variables and the dimensions of the structure, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 72nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey had a full update to the instruction PDF. All of the pages are now updated, including all major call outs regarding lumber cutting and screw sizes.

All of the renders have been updated and replaced with new images in the electrical section and the text and measurements have been enlarged and updated wherever it was noted they were too small. There is still a major update to the assembly of the wall frame needed, which will be the next priority, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 31st week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team organized the One Community materials in the laboratory, as well as completed an inventory for the next team. They also worked on responding to the comments and adding content to the Final Report, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 29th week, now focused mostly on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela started off by responding to various comments on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report. Although she began to make edits to one of the tables on the Roadways excel sheet, she came across an issue and decided to get feedback.

Daniela then went through the ADA Handbook PDFs and noted any code that correlated with our case study. As she went through the two PDFs, she started forming paragraphs in order to include them and better formulate a stronger section for the ADA Standards of the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot report, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 23rd week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on concluding the work related to the “Solar Farm Battery Analysis – EV Integration” report. He added information regarding a case study on fuel v/s electricity cost to address the electricity charges. He also worked on the commercial solution for the integration of the solar panel for EV charging, wrote the narrative for the previously integrated tables for the power requirements, and addressed comments in the document, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 23rd week helping with web design. This week Yuran worked on formatting and adding photos to the tables sharing the results of our compression testing team’s efforts. She did this using Photo Editor to crop and make them square and then inserted them into the appropriate Google sheets. She also continued working on adding the content to the final draft of the Climate Battery page, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week of work, now focused on 3D modeling and analysis review for the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week, Diwei modeled the structure of the net-zero bathroom, the shower room, the tropical atrium, and the walkway via SolidWorks based on the 2D drawing and website pics. He got help from Jose Flores in understanding the calculation of the pressure and flow rate of the net-zero bathroom water storage system. After researching, Diwei categorized the problem into two subjects: rainwater harvesting system and water distribution system.

The task of the first one focuses on the calculation of the supply and demand of rainwater, the configuration of the system, and the selection of equipment. The task of the water distribution system design is more involved and requires determining the layout of the plumbing first to connect all reservoirs and facilities. Then, some systematic methods need to be applied to calculate the water network to ensure sufficient pressure can be supplied with pumps, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below show some of this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 6th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming compared multiple waste-to-energy solutions that were previously researched. The majority of his time was spent on this and reviewing other previous research and new online sources. Ming also reached out to business owners to get estimated costs of potential waste-to-energy solutions using gasifiers. Still no answers back, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 3rd week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi kept working on the most sustainable light bulb research. She read every company’s sustainability report that had one and ranked the companies by their data, initiatives, partnerships and awards. Yushi provided details and reasons for the ranking, and then for each company, she picked the most sustainable light bulb according to efficiency, application and technology, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR REGENERATIVE LIVING

One Community is creating a blueprint for regenerative 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 the core team added the most sustainable company-ranking graphics and source links for our most sustainable hardware pages for shower heads, hand dryers, and urinals, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 34th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus completed the section she was working on and started final corrections. She added columns and changed the thickness of the walls and floors, and changed the position of some columns and walls based on supervisor feedback, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 31st week working on Duplicable City Center updates. This week she continued to build the roof model for the cupola, stair, bathroom, and elevator areas of the 4th floor in SketchUp. She also reviewed the section drawings Venus created and gave feedback, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 29th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya modeled Door 1 and two options of Door 2 in the SketchUp model, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 26th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi worked on doors in the CAD plans and elevations. There were discussions with Huiya on the D2 Living Dome exterior doors with glazing regarding glass partitions, which the team will decide next week. Doors D2, D5, D6, D14 were adjusted in the drawings, all of which considered handle adjustments, double checking swing directions, glazing indications, and minor floor plan adjustments involving swing and obstacles.

During the door verification, design improvements were also brought to the meeting discussion for next week concerning viewing from inside to outside of the Dining Dome, circulation of movement, and view of the mezzanine level, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj researched how to find force members in each beam to complete the dome model. Using this research, he decided to try to create the whole dome in a solidworks model which required a lot of time and angular calculations, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik analyzed the dome in STAAD PRO. He edited the material to the required properties (LVL beams). He added a dead load on the dome which is equivalent to the self-weight of the dome and added a load that would act due to the wind on the structure. By performing this analysis, Prathik was able to find the point with maximum thrust, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week of work. This week Dave finished double checking energy demands from the Duplicable City Center, with the exception of the hot tub components. He also continued reviewing the tutorial on a program (SAM) that can be used for solar sizing, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kamil Gajownik (Industrial/Product Designer) also joined the team and completed his first week of work on the Duplicable City Center dormer window designs and assembly instructions. He began by researching Dormer designs on roofs. Looking into frames, various construction methods and structural integrity. He also created a framework of the dome structure in solidworks to visualize how the dormer design will be constructed on the dome. Moving forward he will create concepts for how the frame of the dormer will attach to the dome frame, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR REGENERATIVE LIVING

One Community is creating a blueprint for regenerative 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: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week the core team continued with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We continued with edits and posed design questions and revision requests to our 3D person regarding the chicken door, hanging the coop entry door, installing the sliding chicken door, building shutters for the ventilation openings, building manure collection trays, and the roosting ladder, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member generated a PDF file for each appliance from the “TRANSITION_KITCHEN_COSTING_01-2022” spreadsheet and provided specifications, images and links for the Transition Kitchen appliance providers. All PDF files were then backed up to the DropBox folder for future reference, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. See pictures below related to this progress.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR REGENERATIVE LIVING

One Community is creating a blueprint for regenerative 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. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR REGENERATIVE LIVING

One Community is creating a blueprint for regenerative 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: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week the core team completed 18 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below show some of this.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 36th week of formal contribution to the Highest Good Network software. In addition to ongoing support for the team answering questions and helping with various emergency bugs, Chris also helped approve some PRs that were too complex for other team members, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures below are related to this work.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel finished implementing the new user permission system on the frontend (branch Miguel-userClasses). In the beginning of the week, Miguel worked closely with Nicky to figure out a solution for a bug happening when logging times. He also had a meeting with several of his teammates to help and get help during the development of other new features and improvements on the HGN app, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Elyse worked on refactoring the Create New User popup component by making the red borders appear on the required inputs Name, Email, Phone Number, and Weekly Committed Hours. This was done by removing the “this.state.formSubmitted” condition. Once input has been detected, the input goes back to normal, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Phu continued working on Task 4.4.1.4. He finished displaying names when hovering over profile pictures and added a calendar for Start Date, End Date. He also added a popup to show extra detail on Tasks from the WBS, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Yiyun spent most of her time working on fixing the total_tangible_hours_this_week problem where they are showing incorrect. It turned out this was happening because of incorrect data conversion. Yiyun fixed it and created the PR.

She then started working on the task to “create a timezone difference tool” that will show a user the difference between their current timezone and the person’s profile they are looking at. Yiyun also took some time to help the team review and approve PRs, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron once again provided support in reviewing pull requests and testing out bugs in the beta and production environment. After having conducted research on learning tracks in Redux, he worked on creating modals in separate repositories with the intention of applying this knowledge to resolve an existing bug regarding user duplication in the HGN application, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jipeng started work on the oauth 2.0 email migration task. He began the initial investigation on using GCP gmail api for sending email which satisfies the new oauth 2.0 policy. Jipeng also investigated the possible cost for this option and created an outline for how long the complete fix will take. Based on the calling rate for our app, the api call should be free. Total coding time should be 60-80 hours, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week David spent his time watching old videos and reading weekly summaries from the previous developer Jerry Zhang to get an idea of the project and understand the codebase and how to move forward. David also implemented the values for the progress bar in the team members tasks, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. See pictures below for some of this work.

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us with updates to our website PHP version that were necessary before May to keep our site from breaking, helping in contributing to one community’s motive of developing a blueprint for regenerative living. See pics below related to this.

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

Adam has been part of the food industry for 20+ years. He has had many roles: chef, pastry chef, chocolatier, international restaurant launcher, operations manager, kitchen designer, and private chef to some notable people, including his wife and kids. He currently is in the Bay Area doing multi-unit kitchens, grocery, and operations work for an international kitchen and technologies company. As a One Community volunteer Adam is helping complete the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans.

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One Community welcomes Miguel Fernandes to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Miguel is a Portuguese web developer based in New York state. He came to the United States in 2019 to go to college and play tennis. He graduated in December of 2021 with a degree in Computer Science. Miguel is passionate about contributing with his knowledge and learning from/with others. As a member of the One Community team, Miguel is helping develop the Highest Good Network software, mostly with code refactoring, fixing bugs, and creating new features, both on the frontend and on the backend.

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One Community is advancing open source sustainability with open source tutorials covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We are doing this to establish a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs that will work together to create even more open source plans and options.

• 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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 24th, 2022 edition (#474) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Advancing Open Source Sustainability
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ADVANCING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

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

• • • Learn about: 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 held weekly meetings with the Compression Testing Team working on aircrete, City Center Hub Connector team, the volunteer working on double checking energy estimates for the solar designs, and a new volunteer. We also created a tutorial for inserting photos in the compression testing table of results and reviewed and commented on Yuran’s work to get the Walipini, Aquapini and Zenapini content finished on the website. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #245 of Dean’s work as he is finishing up the actual renders. The picture below shows lighting updates in the two top images that will be merged to create a final. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Also a final image as the bottom one.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 91st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the cost analysis spreadsheet of the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom to include the correct material, the amount needed and the weight based on the rendering. He then began constructing a spreadsheet for the maximum dimensions of the structure in the event the user wants to add more barrels for additional rain water storage. Jose Luis first began constructing a free body diagram with dimensions to facilitate the type of analysis needed for the structure. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 71st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued her updates focused on screw sizes and numbers. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 30th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team continued their work on the final report for the compression testing project. The team reviewed the comments that were given to them and discussed ways to improve the report. They added details of their specific experience and results from their time on the project. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 28th week, now focused mostly on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela responded to various comments on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking lot report. For several of them, Daniela had to double check online or complete some research to ensure that the information was correct. She then added in the charts from the Google Sheet onto the report and wrote a narrative for each table to ensure the reader understood what the information regarded.

Daniela also added to a part of the narrative regarding the parking lot because she believed the information she had previously written did not explain enough of what the design entailed. Lastly, she researched the costs per square foot for the parking lot materials table and included a quote for One Community’s parking lot design. As the information she gathered changed other variables, Daniela adjusted the table accordingly. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 22nd week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on making changes to the table formats, changed and added more information on the conclusions and in the charging power required equation.

He has also worked on formulating tables to calculate power requirements to charge EVs and the distance available based on user input data, added information regarding the integration of solar panels for EV charging, and followed up with Tesla regarding the costs for solar panel integration. He also addressed comments and provided the necessary information within the document. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 15th and final week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and editing of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Maya continued her task of proofreading and editing the webpage. She made small corrections directly on the webpage, and for more complex edits she made comments on the respective google document to receive feedback from others working on the webpage content. When she received feedback, the necessary corrections were made on the live page and the comments were resolved. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. The pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 5th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Ming mainly did two things. 1. Ming focused on seeking prospective engineering companies providing waste-to-energy systems. Gasifiers are still the primary focus since it has minimized by-product generation from complete waste treatments.

Pyrolysis systems have been the secondary target though it takes more time to find one for small-scale applications. 2. Ming did further communication with manufacturers for cost inquiry. An email template was generated to ensure appropriate articulation, meanwhile his communication skill has been improved. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week of work. This week Dave finished carefully double checking data on the energy demand of the Earthbag Village, and completed a report about comparing and validating data using online sources. With the guidance of Sangam and Jae, he also got a chance to start getting used to the design of the natural pool and spa for the City Center. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week, Yushi completed more research to identify the most sustainable light bulb companies and products, organized data, ranked the companies based on their sustainability goals, initiatives, partners, rewards, and their sustainability reports, and then ranked bulbs by their efficiency. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ADVANCING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 45th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. Luis focused on validating his previous findings for his heat transfer and head loss calculations for the City Center Spa design. This has been conducted through peer review where Diwei and Luis each cross examined their findings to ensure the accuracy of their results. This provides more strength to the designs credibility as the design approaches its completion. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 33rd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week Venus started section H”_H”. She added new furniture, new walls and new columns, and changed the position of some columns and walls to match the most current floor plan. Venus then uploaded the section PDFs to dropbox to get feedback from her supervisor. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 30h week working on Duplicable City Center updates. This week she reviewed the section drawings Venus created and built the roof model in the sketchUp. This included the structure. The top chord is 2″ x 6″ and the bottom chord is 2″ x 4″ with 3.5/12 pitch. For the roof of stairs, we use 2″ x 4″ for both chords with 2/12 pitch. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she fixed the location of Window 4 on the first floor in the SketchUp model and finished double checking all the rest of the windows on all the other floors. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 25th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team to go over the SketchUp overview and update the action items, including columns clashing with walls and coordination with Huiya on the pantry special corner door/window and problems with circulation that need us to shift some shelves around. She also started the door schedule and elevation updates in CAD, mainly to doors D1 and D2. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik worked on the construction of the dome in STAAD Pro for analysis of the distribution of the self-weight and the wind load. He designed a dome with a rectangular frame instead of a triangle, he was aiming to find out the point on the dome where the load would be maximum in both the lateral and longitudinal direction of the dome. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. This week Diwei updated the cost analysis of the hot tub and waterfall, uploaded all the reference PDF files about the cost and official manuals of the components applied in the construction of the hot tub and waterfall, and discussed the design of the 3-opening option hot tub blanket which needs to be made with the aluminum tubes and conventional hot tub blanket.

He also read through the official website page about the net-zero Bathroom design, eco shower design, and the net-zero design and assembly instructions. Diwei then checked all the 3D modeling of the net-zero bathroom and created a list of questions for his supervisor. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ADVANCING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week the core team continued with revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. We reviewed multiple standing seam videos and realized the quality doesn’t exist for us to write up a step-by-step start to finish standing seam roof installation tutorial. Once we are on the property we will have an experienced roofer working with us and can then properly document the process. We then continued to go through the Chick Coop doc making additions to the chicken coop door assembly process with the framing and sheathing assembly. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below. 

A different core team member also continued working on updates for Chicken Coop Assembly Instruction images. She updated all images throughout the document with the new roofing design and updated the entry door. We also updated the section for assembling the nesting boxes on the south wall. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. See pictures below.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 22nd week helping with web design. This week Yuran worked on adding content to the live page for the Climate Battery with content from the design Google Doc. She created the table of contents and the headings, added anchors to them, and linked them to the table of contents. Yuran also added the content from the Design Elements/Considerations section to the page. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below are related to this work.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 10th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Adam commented on all of Marilyn’s outstanding recipes that needed comments. He also worked more from Anna Cheal’s recipes and the one-week menu outline. Adam made recipe cards of those recipes from the menu outline so we can create a one-week shopping list. He was able to add 5 more recipe cards into the re-size conversion calculator. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 3rd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn developed recipes by researching food to fit the kitchen plan according to the approved ingredients list, dietary requirements and kitchen equipment for the 2-month menu plan. She also scaled her recipes and menu around using up vegetables that are perishable in the kitchen. In addition, she spent the end of the week adjusting recipes that were reviewed and required corrections, substituting ingredients, adding links to recipe pages, adding protein to some recipes, etc. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ADVANCING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

One Community is advancing open source sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph continued refining the truss structure. In consideration of the design requirements, he modified the truss structure and increased the attic space. Adolph went further and came across a book containing important design principles. He also researched and obtained tekla structures software and used it in the preparation of 3D structural drawings. Adolph realized that tekla was more customized to modeling the behavior of timber since it contained reference standards and material properties. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ADVANCING OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

This week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel started helping other Devs with their own bugs, having a couple of meetings in the beginning of the week. He then started working on something new, implementing a new and better way of giving each user permissions.

Also creating a new function with the goal of giving permissions or not to a user based on his or her role and on whether that role can perform a certain action. Miguel also worked closely with Nicky to communicate problems both on the dashboard and on the user profile pages. Miguel ended this week, testing and approving the PRs #393 and #394. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Elyse worked on a feature in the UserProfileAdd component. When the admin creates a new user, the required inputs should be in red and once the user types in values, it turns black. She will also remove the messages underneath saying “X is required” to remove the clutter. The Toast alerts will still be there. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu continued working on Task 4.4.1.4. He imported tasks data from WBS and successfully rendered them out to the Task Contributed Table. Phu communicated with Jae about the Resource reference and used the employee name and pictures to create the visualization for these human Resources references. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer)  completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun focused on solving the bug “replace window.confirm() simple popup with reactstrap Modal which works the same functionally”. She spent a couple hours getting the background knowledge (like React Hooks, reactstrap Modal, etc) and understanding the leaderboard part of the code, then she tried to rewrite the window.confirm() part. After multiple attempts, Yuyun finally got the piece of code working and created the PR. She then started working on the other bug “create a functionality to allow the current user see other’s time zone difference”. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky helped Miguel with his PR on changing user stories, helping him plan out how to design his components and functions, as well as helped him with a bug that was found where clicking on user profiles from a non-admin account resulted in an error. He also worked on the bug where location wasn’t being saved and related problems that result from the Get Time Zone function not working. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Ron continued on his learning track to understand the basics of Redux in React. Support was provided in managing and reviewing pull requests and testing to determine if the changes made were functional. Towards the end of the week, he also reported a bug that is currently affecting all users. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

Jipeng Chen (Software Development Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Jipeng completed all the items on the onboarding checklist, finished setting up his frontend and backend, and investigated several bugs on the beta bug lists and picked one to contribute to for the following weeks. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. The pictures below relate to this work.

David Okeke (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, David completed his orientation and set up his local environment, which included setting the front end React app and the back end server. He also attempted to start the progress bar task of the management dashboard. David ran into problems though because the app kept breaking from what appears to be a bug in the backend. He then reached out to the other members of the software team to solve this. Contributing in advancing open source sustainability. See pictures below for some of this work.

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Thinking beyond climate change, how can we create solution-models that address this existential threat and create a more enjoyable and abundant life for those who participate? One Community’s answer is evolving sustainability beyond just food, energy, and housing. We can create a lifestyle most would consider luxurious and immensely fulling by including fulfilled living models, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, global stewardship practices, and other key elements that address the six foundational human needs.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 17th, 2022 edition (#473) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Thinking Beyond Climate Change
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – THINKING BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team reviewed the report that the first group of students wrote on all the work they did around compression testing and efforts towards solving the aircrete collapsing issue. We provided significant comments to improve the content. We also had meetings with the Compression Testing team and the City Center Center Hub team, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this.

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #244 of Dean’s work and he is finishing up the actual renders, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. The picture below shows a series of lighting updates leading the the almost-final render at the bottom.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 90th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the design of the rain barrel support structure of the net-zero bathroom. He added additional support columns composed of 3 sided unistruts to the other end of the outer part of the structure. The additional supports were necessary as the earthbags were not capable of supporting the weight of a filled rain barrel. To assure the orientation of the columns were sufficient he conducted a static and buckling FEA.

The von mises stresses were well below the yield strength of the structure and the maximum deflection was estimated to be 0.8mm, much lower than the 3mm maximum beam deflection allowed. The buckling factor was found to be 41 indicating that buckling is not predicted to occur. The next steps will involve the design flexibility of the structure, which would allow the user to know the limitations of structure modifications. The designs and analysis will be the main focus and the rendering can now be passed to an additional team member, allocating time to the external water catchment and storage details, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 70th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to make updates mostly focused on screw sizes and numbers, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 29th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team completed the rough draft of the Compression Testing Team’s Final Report. The team started by dividing the work to address all topics needed in the report, then held meetings to recall all that they did during this project, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 27th week, now focused mostly on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela worked on reviewing and responding to comments and double checking information and doing additional research as needed. She also made a list of action items that needed to be completed based on what she had been working on the previous weeks.

She completed writing the answers to the FAQs, made final edits to the cover sheet of the Roadways and Parking lot excel sheet, and began inputting images of various cost analysis roadways excel sheets into the report and started writing the narrative that explains the new images, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 21st week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on new tables and added more content by creating a case study regarding the EV v/s Gasoline costs. He found reliable sources for all the parameters in the cost analysis for the fuel v/s battery comparison.

Shreyas also converted all the tables in the document to standard and more visually appealing formats, researched Tesla solar panels and the type of charging infrastructure that is required to charge EVs using solar panels, and made a case study for solar panel sizing for EV charging for a 500 kWh configuration. He additionally added more information to the conclusions paragraph and addressed comments in the document, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 21st week helping with web design. This week Yuran continued updating and adding content to the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. She fixed the problems in the feedback notes of the page and revised the lists, tables and images in the page. Yuran also fixed the code of the page according to the code of Jae’s backup edition, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 14th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and editing of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial. This week, Maya began a new task which entails proofreading and editing the Roadways, Walkways, and Parking Lot webpage. She began from the beginning of the webpage and changed any minor grammar and punctuation issues.

For more complex issues she made comments on the respective google document for additional clarification and feedback from others working on the webpage. Finally, Maya checked the hyperlinks and hover text of the webpage site map to make sure they were consistent and opened in the correct tabs, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. The pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 4th week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming tried to resolve three things. First, additional information from Cogent Energy System was requested. However, details regarding HelioStorm Gasifier (primarily costs) are commercial and confidential, so he tried several ways of getting in touch with a representative. Their email address has been acquired (not on their website), so the next step is to clarify the purpose to continue the communication. Second, Ming read Jae’s comments on Week 2 and 3, and reviewed the existing non-recyclables document for applicable materials.

Ming worked on organizing all these materials, addressing the feedback, and adding additional sources to connect information. Third, Ming is looking for alternative gasifier systems provided by other companies, focusing on solutions for small communities. Multiple sources show gasification as a better system for small-scale waste-to-energy plan, though their costs of operation and maintenance are considerable. Some companies did not mention whether they are suitable for small scales, and some did not mention their daily capacity. Therefore, more consultations have to be made before making comparisons, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Yushi (Zoey) Cai (Electrical Engineer Researcher) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with research focused on Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies. This week Yushi completed her orientation and initial setup. She also started her research on the most sustainable light bulbs. She searched many kinds of LED lighting bulbs and compared the energy efficiency, lifetime, application, pollution, and customer reviews. Yushi also searched for several lighting bulb companies to compare and evaluate their commitment to sustainability, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. See below for some pictures related to this.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – THINKING BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE

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

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

This week Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 32nd week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed section H’_H’ and started section H”_H”. She added new furniture, new walls and columns, and changed the position of some columns and walls to match the new floor plans, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. See pictures below.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 29th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. She updated the section of the North vehicle entrance to the basement space and the floor plan of this area on the landscape drawings. Xuanji also continued making the roof model, including some structure in the sketchUp model, and reviewed the section drawings Venus created, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya finished modeling the new SketchUp model for Window 5 and Window 6. She also accomplished the work of finishing updating all the windows on the first floor in the SketchUp model, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 24th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi met with the team to discuss her progress for the past 2 weeks. Doors other than D11 and D15 have been finalized after discussion and approval. D15 door selection is reconsidered due to wanting color coordination with exterior walls of the central atrium area. Options for D11 were explored further due to its need for high thermal performance. Options were presented for review, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj simulated the difference in stresses if we filled epoxy in the hubs, it did show lower stresses as seen in the pictures, but it would also add 6 lbs of weight to every hub, which isn’t ideal. After consulting with the team we came to a conclusion that the shape of the dome will distribute most of the loads in the front of the beams instead of the sides, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik tried different design methods to create the complete model of the dome in SolidWorks with all the center hubs to perform the stress analysis and check the stability of the dome, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week of work on the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. Diwei checked the calculation of the hot tub design including the heat convective evaporation, the water head loss of the plumbing, the water mass diffusion, and the covered and uncovered hot tub heat losses. He created an excel sheet for the calculation of the waterfall. Diwei also created bills of materials to analyze the cost of the hot tub and the waterfall, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below show some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – THINKING BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE

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

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

This week the core team worked on revising, edits, and answering and making more comments on the Chicken Coop Building Instruction document. After reviewing the section on standing seam roofing, then reviewing multiple standing seam videos, we were unable to find a proper instructive video that thoroughly explains the initial application of the first panel.

If we don’t have a better option by the time we build this, we will hire a qualified standing seam roofer and document the step-by-step approach by video, and then create text that is very detailed to assure our viewers that the proper installation steps can be successfully carried out, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A different core team member also continued working on updates for Chicken Coop Assembly Instruction images. After discussion with another team member options for the edge of the roofing we decided to have bending edges on the east and west ends of the coop. Changes were also made to the diagonal bracing of the entry door, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. All images related to changes were updated.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 9th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on putting together more recipe cards. These are taken from Anna’s recipes and week-long menu sheet. A test week is needed. These will be used in conjunction with the master items list to make a cost out for the week as well as a shopping list. These recipe cards will be scalable, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. The pictures below relate to this work.

Marilyn Nzegwu (Culinary Volunteer) completed her 2nd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Marilyn continued recipe development and menu plans and researched recipes that would work with food ingredients for the two month meal plan, adding into consideration the perishable by substituting vegetables from the original recipe with vegetables that are available in the kitchen. She also developed recipes without too many dietary restrictions that will also serve vegetarians, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. The pictures below relate to this work.

Lam (Dave) T. Nguyen (Mechanical Engineer)  also completed his 2nd week of work, this week focused on the Climate Battery designs. He studied and reviewed all the provided sources and our extensive research on the subject to have a better understanding of the project, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below are related to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – THINKING BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE

One Community is thinking beyond climate change through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager & Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 5th week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. Adolph executed the following tasks: He collected technical data on ROCKWOOL Comfortbatt® insulation material and used it to estimate additional structural loads, replacing polystyrene insulation material. This was preceded by computation of top and bottom cord loads on the roof structure respectively. A FINK_type truss structure was selected and AutoCAD drawings prepared.

He idealized the plan and identified the most critical truss (the one with the longest span) for detailed analysis. Adolph came up with an FEM model of the truss system, applied ABAQUS® software and modeled the structural response of the roof under varying prescribed loading scenarios, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – THINKING BEYOND CLIMATE CHANGE

One Community is thinking beyond climate change through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

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

This week the core team completed 28 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Miguel worked on solving errors on the build of PR #384, the added logout modal. After that, Miguel started to refactor other components. Miguel refactored the Timelog component, and pushed the code to GitHub, raising the PR #387, making that component loading much faster on the dashboard. He also started refactoring the Login component (and the Form component). Contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Elyse worked on a bug related to creating a new user. It should be indicated ahead of time what fields are required. We’d like to make those fields outlined in red and then have them turn black once they are filled. Then we wouldn’t need to clutter the area up with additional words, and we’d still have the (already working) popups we have that tell people what to do if they left a field blank, which they’d only do once and then they’d have learned what the red outlines mean.

Elyse thinks there is a built-in solution with Reactstrap that can display the red border around those missing fields. Currently the UserProfileAdd component is displaying the error message with formErrors. She will continue trying, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu contacted Chris to get help fixing bugs in the Report’s Component. Chris suggested adding optional chaining (“?.”) for undefined or null objects and told Phu to check his Dev version versus other developers. Phu also fixed Rachit’s bug in the Report Component by researching jest and d3, and  continued working on 4.4.1.4, planning to get it done in a few more days, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Yiyun Tan (Software Engineer)  completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Yiyun spent most of her time researching previous work done on the Management Dashboard Component. She went through all the code changes, images, videos and weekly reports from Jerry, understanding the logic and priority of implementing this component. She then documented all her learning and understanding to make all the information more understandable and ready for another team member to lead development with her on it. Yuyun also spent a bit of time helping the team review a PR, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Nicky Chen (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Nicky started with onboarding and reading through all the Google Doc action items. He also picked up a bug to start on, with adding Location to the basic information portion of the profile page. He additionally helped out various team members with code review, solving build issues and familiarizing himself and them with the repos more, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. The pictures below relate to this work.

Ron Magpantay (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Ron worked on supporting the team by reviewing pull requests. Changes that were made to the front end had resulted in some errors and they had been looked at. More instructions were also added to the React Local App setup document to clarify how to access API endpoints for the HGN application. In addition, the duplicate user bug required further review of Redux so time was spent conducting research on Redux and how it affects the front end application, contributing in One Community’s motives by thinking beyond climate change. See pictures below for some of this work.

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Zero-waste living models are good for people and the planet. They save resources, money, and eliminate waste buildup. One Community is developing models like this for the complete living experience. They include open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ZERO-WASTE LIVING MODELS

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

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

This week the core team corresponded with Aircrete Harry multiple times and became clear on what to test next in an effort to make aircrete more reliably. We also decided to hold off on testing cylinders with stucco and instead to focus on writing up the results and lessons learned to date. Then we began resizing the compression testing photos and inserted them into a table that will be a part of the webpage related to aircrete. We also had our regular weekly meetings with the Compression Testing Team and the Center Hub Team, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 88th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued designing the rain barrel support structure for the Net-Zero Bathroom. He completed the rendering of the outer part of the structure and ran an FEA to determine the stresses and deflection of the support beams.

The support beams were modeled to be supported by the wall made of earthbags and the unistrut support columns. The beams are to support 500lbs of weight and were tested with 750lbs of applied load to them. The maximum deflection was estimated at about 0.55mm more than 6 times smaller than the maximum allowable deflection of 3.6mm. There were some stress concentrations around the connection between the supporting beams and the main beam connecting the support columns. The stresses were well below the yield strength so the possibility of failure is highly unlikely, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. The pictures below show some of this work.

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 68th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued to work on the revisions to the lumber pages and also revising the screw images to the different sizes. Some of the pages needed to be rearranged because the lumber pieces did not fit on 1 piece of plywood and after adding the measurements to each piece the layout had to be revised. The small graphic details that needed to be updated are almost complete, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 38th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela started off by reviewing the newest comments and responding to various questions. She went through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot report and ensured that all the images were added correctly on the website. For this document she also went through the “strikethroughs” and checked the formatting and narratives on the website.

Daniela then started to work on the FAQs section for the report by brainstorming and researching some questions. She answered the majority of the questions she came up with but still plans to add more to each response and brainstorm more questions. She also completed writing descriptions of the sheets within the roadways excel sheet. These still need to be further edited, but the general narrative is shown. Lastly, Daniela created an outline for the summary she plans to write for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot report, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 27th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team tested 30 cylinders that had cured for 3 weeks. They documented all the results by noting them in the data collection sheet, as well as taking pictures. They made tutorial videos to share with others who want to understand how the cylinders are made, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 19th week helping with web design. This week Yuran checked the latest round of comments and needed corrections for the “Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping” page. This was mainly checking the images and rotating and cropping them to the proper size. She also made the images in the Landscape section the same height and added a 3px space between them. Then Yuran focused on updating this Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Hub staging page with updated content from the Google Doc, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering) completed his 2nd week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week, Ming researched common non-recyclable waste and the importance of classifying and separately collecting individual types of waste for waste treatment procedures. A waste transfer station was researched and the cost for garbage transport was considered. Non-recyclable waste is looking like it can best be processed with the Ionic Gasification System developed by Cogent Energy System.

This technology seems to be the optimal alternative to incineration since it avoids by-product generation. Especially if environmental engineers working on the problem can develop strategies to minimize toxin production, like dioxin, from incineration in a cost-effective way, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ZERO-WASTE LIVING MODELS

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

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

This week Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 44th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized the head loss calculations. The head loss of the piping system was awaiting the modeling finalization in order to determine the estimated number of elbow fittings and valves. A more accurate number has been reached for the head loss of the system and progress will continue forward with the documentation of the updated system model and finalized heat loss simulations, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 30th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos continued updating the Duplicable City Center AutoCAD files and finished them all this week. The CAD now contains all the items that appeared in the render videos, making it a lot more complete and informative regarding the previous versions. He also added dimensions for several items such as the gap between pieces and color, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 27th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week Xuanji updated the roads close to the North vehicle entrance of the building in the landscape floor plan drawing again. She also updated the north vehicle entrance to the basement and drew a section view for it. Then she started the roof model in SketchUp, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 15th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on developing a piece that will bolt on to the LVL beam and the V brackets which will reduce the overall stress taken by the V brackets and act as extra reinforcement. He did the FEA analysis of this piece and got the results the team was hoping for!. Contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 12th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and content creation for the Permaculture Design case study section. This week, Maya continued her task of integrating information from the Final Design Exercise document into the Permaculture Page Content google document. This consisted of proofreading and reformatting the content before transferring it onto the permaculture document so that the structure and wording of each section flowed well.

She also continued her work on the Solar Farm Battery Analysis page and backed up all of the external sources from the page in a dropbox folder. Maya then added some more details on that page while organizing outside resources with regards to each section, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. The pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik continued to learn the Staad Pro software. He modeled the complete dome with the dimension as per the design and started the dome design with the actual structural factors like entrance, windows, and other structural additions. He also went through different open sources to learn how to perform structural load analysis of the dome in Staad pro to understand the load distribution on the dome which would be used in studying the stability of the center hub, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. Diwei finished the modeling of the hot tub with SolidWorks. The model includes the plumbing of the inlet and drainage pipes. The skimmer, pump, filter, heater, and blower models are added to the plumbing system. The base station in the mech room for supporting facilities has been modeled. The mechanical room, wall, and ground are now modeled to show the layout. Work on the design of a waterfall is assigned, and verifying of calculation is required to start, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below show some of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ZERO-WASTE LIVING MODELS

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

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

This week the core team continued addressing comments on Chicken Coop Assembly Doc, updating text, and graphics. We created a sketch for the final structural design of the door, determined sizes and screws for the hinges, latch, handle, and those necessary for securing the door frame to the vertical tongue and groove 1x’s that make up the door, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures of some of this work are below. 

A different core team member continued updating images, text and replying to comments on the same Chicken Coop Building Instruction document by generating needed graphics. She updated the 3D SketchUp model for th entry door that will be assembled using an outside siding panel and 2×3 lumber for the frame, also the ledge and brace boards. Other updates were made related to images for the roof felt placement to show plastic cap nailing placement with dimensions for inside nailing and perimeter nailing, and redesigned roofing panels for standing seam roofing. Additionally, she generated an Aquapini render of the section view of the outside terraces with marked dimensions, contributing in developing zero-waste living models.

Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 21st week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. This week Brian interviewed Marilyn Nzegwu and decided to hire her. Brian spent the rest of his volunteer hours researching the book called “A Year in an Off-grid Kitchen” (click for Amazon affiliate link) by Kate Downham.

Some examples from this book are shown below. There were some interesting techniques in the book, and a lot of the recipes have all the basics, so he thinks we could give them a little extra seasoning and work on the execution for large group preparations, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Below are some images related to this.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 7th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on mostly converting recipes into the format that can be used with the rate increase/conversion calculator. He also did some critical thinking around kitchen layout. Adam drew up a revised edition and sent that via email. Then he researched other solutions for making recipe ‘cards’. Contributing in developing zero-waste living models. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ZERO-WASTE LIVING MODELS

One Community is developing zero-waste living models through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:

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

This week, Adolph Karubanga (Certified Project Manager and Civil/Structural Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering. This week, Adolph Karubanga, PMP and Civil/Structural Engineer, completed his 3rd week helping to finalize Ultimate DIY Classroom Structural Engineering. In line with the project implementation proposal and the task objectives, Adolph started detailed structural analysis of the roof structure assisted by reference design standards.

He specifically looked at snow and wind loads and the results were presented in the shared google doc. Using ASCE 7, Adolph computed the Main Wind Force Resisting System, MWFRS of the roof structure. Results indicated that considering the wind velocity of 100-mph obtained from the wind hazard map, the structure must be designed to resist a wind pressure of 9.0 psf.

Further, Adolph sought structural clarification via the location coordinates, ground reference elevation of California above sea level and different engineering standards and codes of practice. Responses were swiftly provided and additional document links added to Adolph’s Google Doc that were very helpful in the confirmation of a number of parameters including wind directionality factor, ground elevation factor and velocity pressure. Adolph planned to have a thorough review and understanding of the shared docs in the week-5 and accordingly refine his calculations, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ZERO-WASTE LIVING MODELS

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

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

This week the core team completed 22 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures below show some of this.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel started by solving a problem he was having connecting with MongoDB Atlas. After that, he talked with other team members in order to fully understand how to refactor both the calls to the API and to MongoDB on the dashboard. Miguel refactored 2 endpoints reducing the calls to the API from more than 200 to around 80, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu contacted Irene to clear the confusion on Task Table Detail. In particular, Irene only added sample task detail. He would need to get tasks information from the database (wbs) and add it to the table. Phu was able to call the tasks in detail, but he had problems with rendering to the table. Phu also encountered a problem on Reports.jsx even though he has not changed anything on that file. He will continue working on this, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures of some of this work are below.

And, Elyse Lam (Software Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse requested to refactor the front end code to hide the WeeklySummary component after the user has pressed the Save button. This can help prevent users from submitting twice for a week. She confirmed that WeeklySummaryModal actually is not being used for this functionality. Instead, the timelog component is checking for “isOwner” and it might not be checking for a successful Save operation at all. Elyse also started working on printing a value from Timelog via ‘props’ down to WeeklySummary by a ComponentDidMount function, contributing in developing zero-waste living models. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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