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One Community Welcomes Shuwei Liu to the Design Team!
One Community welcomes Shuwei Liu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Shuwei earned her master’s degree in landscape architecture and Urbanism from University of Southern California and B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. She also had a full-year internship experience with a multidisciplinary firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts working on a wide range of projects including a school campus, commercial plaza and residential garden. Through all her professional learning and internship experience, Shuwei has become passionate about changing the environment and “user” experience through landscape design. She likes to learn new things and meet new people to continue expanding her professional skill and life experience. As a member of the One Community team, Shuwei is helping with developing the external learning area and playground for the Ultimate Classroom project.
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One Community Welcomes Xiaolu Song to the Design Team!
One Community welcomes Xiaolu Song to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Xiaolu earned her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from USC in May 2020 and has 3 months of internship experience covering residential and commercial projects in Austin, Texas. She is a dynamic and motivated professional with the skills to work cooperatively as well as individually. She believes excellent landscape design projects will find the real value, meaning, and possibility in the places people encounter and occupy. As a member of the One Community team, Xiaolu is helping develop the Ultimate Classroom landscaping.
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Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386
Has the time come for creating a new global eco-cooperative? Are we ready to work together globally to help humanity become a sustainable civilization? One Community thinks the answer to both these questions is a resounding ‘YES!’ and we are creating the open source and free-shared plans necessary to achieve 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 the movement of creating a new global eco-cooperative as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 16th, 2020 edition (#386) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative
One Community Progress Update #386
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CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative 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 finished our detailed review and content additions for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added the final case study exams, formatted the Google Doc so it is ready for publication, and began the process of constructing the page.
Finished Detailed Review and Content Additions for Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Page
The core team also reviewed and integrated into our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content a diversity of untitled resources from previous site selection research and, after consulting MEGA, Missoula P.E., restructured the steps for Site Prep and began rewriting that as a more comprehensive approach. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below.
Reviewed and Integrated a Diversity of Untitled Resources Into Our Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content
Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 19th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial.
He continued adding content to the page and also worked on writing software tools for replacing rules to identify small but time-consuming website code addition tasks like adding a line break before every header. This was done with “visual studio code” and a find-and-replace plugin that uses regex code to write down each replacement rule.
“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial
Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the first draft of the AutoCAD floor plan of the Net-Zero Bathroom and started working on elevation views of the front of the structure in AutoCAD and using the Solidworks model and AutoCAD floor plan in conjunction to accurately scale the bathroom.
Section views A, B, and C on the floor plan were drawn on AutoCAD using the same method used to construct the elevation plan. Pictures are below for this work-in-progress.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Continued Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component
Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was on the nightstands. She integrated all the notes that were requested, made layout improvements, further identified missing steps and renders, and submitted the Nightstands Working File 8-5-20.pdf for review.
She also updated the component Tally Sheet screw count for this group and started working on the Clothing & Storage group by applying the global changes to that layout and simplifying the instructions as needed. Pictures of some of this work are below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed
Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah completed a thorough review to finalize the Earthbag Engineering Page, reviewed and made revisions to the related Earthbag Engineering loading spreadsheets, and reviewed the dome calculation spreadsheets for alterations and improvements.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Joined the Team & Began Helping Complete All the Tutorials
CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 10th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian finished a draft of products ranked with companies and began ranking best products overall. He also made other edits, most notably altering the product list for Ply Gem.
You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors
Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on more code and product research to choose the correct Exit Lighting. You can see some of the results of this work below.
Focused on More Code & Product Research to Choose the Correct Exit Lighting
CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for removable trays and started working on roosting bars, these changes are on pages 101-106 and you can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Finished the Instructions for Removable Trays and Started Working on Roosting Bars
Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 9th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.
This week Jessica and Aly created vegan recipes for Savory Biscuits, Morracan Style Soup, Simple Curry, and Dilly Cabbage. You can see these here.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan
Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the updated/final designs of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week she focused on calculating the thermal requirements the climate batteries would have to provide for the Walipini 3.
She also started calculating the desired airflow characteristics and making the analysis for the fan selection. You can see some of this work below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Working on the Climate Battery Design for Aquapini
CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.
This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu further developed the SketchUp model for the amphitheater, trolley path and small town play area, music wall and play structure, and fruit garden and farm land areas. You can see some of this work below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Developed the Model of the Amphitheater & other Areas
Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei further developed the SketchUp model for the farm and outdoor areas, material identity and animal farm area, swing and slide, and other play structures. You can see some of these contributions below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Working on the Model of the Farm & Outdoor Areas
CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is creating a new global eco-cooperative 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 28th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he updated the “adding links” feature, so users can add, edit, and remove links for a task. He also designed a “project users” feature to “add all” members to a project. You can see some of this work below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Updated the “Adding Links” Feature, Users Can Modify Links
Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 17th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists.
You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.
Promoting Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Media Outlets and Philanthropists
TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team worked on the Team page, eslint correction and ember app migration to Azure – which is still giving us challenges.
The teams list page is now done and lists all teams and status. A search box also has been added to search teams based on name. You can see some of this work below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Worked on Team Page, Correction & Ember App Migration
Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam reviewed the majority of Andon’s summary submission feature and submitted comments for peer review before approving the pull request.
He then shifted his attention back to developing his own module, working on privacy toggling, displaying teams & projects, and overall refactoring. Adam ended the week collaborating with Andon to wrap up his code review and submitted his pull request. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Reviewed the Majority of Andon’s Summary Submission
Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 6th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi checked the recognition when people just paste a link into notes. She fixed a bug where the time entry form was cleared after first time edit. Also, she added timer editing-tracking functionality to count and save edit times in MongoDB.
Additionally, she implemented different notification popups when people edit their timer the first 3 times, fourth time, and fifth time. After people edit the time entry form and close the notification, data time-edit changes are now saved. You can see some of this work below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Continued Working on the HGN Software
Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry made tangible progress with his task of WBS 2.2.1: Create the ability to easily see each Team Member’s weekly hours committed and hours completed for the week. We are now able to fetch all of the teams the current user is managing as well as the members of each team.
Additionally, we fetch the time entries of each user. In the next week, Jerry will create basic components to display this information and will integrate with other necessary components from other development members. Pictures of some of this are below.
Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Made Tangible Progress with the WBS 2.2.1 Task
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
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One Community Welcomes Ian Coletti to the Research Team!
One Community welcomes Ian Coletti to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Ian is an Environmental Studies undergrad at the College of the Holy Cross, volunteering in the Eco Action club for sustainability on campus. Over the summer of 2020 he also took part in working groups which have helped to draft a climate action plan for the college. Ian hopes to find work in positions that positively impact the environment. He is currently conducting research on sustainable window and door products for One Community.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM IAN!
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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #385
Global collaboration for The Highest Good of All can create a sustainable world. Working together, we can simultaneously address the greatest challenges of this generation and the next while improving global happiness and living standards.
One Community is supporting this through Highest Good tools, tutorials, and resources covering sustainable 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 the movement of global collaboration for the highest good of all as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 9th, 2020 edition (#385) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All
One Community Progress Update #385
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GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL = HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good of all housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we reformatted and further added to the hydropower details. We also added example scenarios for sites without natural streams or rivers. Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 90% complete.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Review of Research Completed on Hydropower
The core team also updated the formatting of the Loft Engineering page in preparation for a new engineer who will be double checking all those details.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Updated Formatting of the Loft Engineering Page
The core team also finished formatting and addition of the content to the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide. This completes addition of all the research we’ve done so far for this page.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Formatting & Adding Content to the Open Source
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #195 of Dean’s work and the focus continues to be the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic. The most recent pictures are below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Adding Trees and Made the Textures Look Realistic
Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 18th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro focused on the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial, focusing on the formatting, text editing, images and table parts of the article. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s work below.
“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options”
Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 13th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini worked on Polished Concrete Flooring research, editing the Google Doc for site selection, and she completed adding all the Materials in the Google Doc as per the Master Google Sheet.
She also started the process of adding tools. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis
Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 8th and final week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi formatted her research and integrated requested edits after a detailed review by the core team.
This is in preparation to pass this research along to a new researcher and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 80% complete.
Formatted Her Research and Integrated Requested Edits After a Detailed Review by the Core Team
And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis checked the water flow in the water storage system for the Net-Zero Bathroom, being sure that every tank would be in sync and checked the fail safe system. He designed and installed windows in the Solidworks file of the bathroom, meeting the design criteria that included natural lighting and ventilation. He also added urinals and the majority of the water barrel support structure to the AutoCAD floor plan. Pictures are below for this work.
Checked the Water Flow in the Water Storage System for the Net-zero Bathroom
Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions.
This week Stacey corrected all updates listed in our corrections document for B&T (pages 67-76). Pending 2 issues remain for B&T assembly: point 9 on latching to wall & just a final confirm on hinge type used on this project with link for component page. She also updated all sketches to show correct hinge location, board placement and assembly.
She simplified the instructions and submitted for review all pages except B&T0&1 (cutting page) as those need additional renders and information. Stacey also reworked layout to be more understandable and clean. We plan to implement this layout on all projects throughout instructions. Pictures of some of this work are below.
Joined the Team and Began Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions
GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is leading global collaboration for the highest good of all 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 of the Duplicable City Center video walkthrough and corrected a diversity of errors we found. You can see below this list of errors and the screen grabs associated with them.
Completed a Detailed Review of the Video Walkthrough and Corrected a Diversity of Errors
And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 9th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued work on ranking window and door products and made minor changes and additions to the company sustainability benchmarking. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Research for Sustainable Windows and Doors
Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 4th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on Researching Exit Lighting datasheets and comparing with other brands. This is to understand which brand suits best. He also worked on identifying the best exit sign locations for various areas. You can see some of this work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Researched Exit Lighting Datasheets
GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good for all 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 created all the imagery needed for the open source permaculture design page.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Created All the Imagery for the Permaculture Page
We also added two case studies, new construction content, and new FAQs to the DIY Dam Design and Construction open source hub.
Added Two Case Studies, New Construction Content, and New Faqs to the DIY Dam Design Page
Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 8th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.
This week Jessica and Aly created recipes for Chick’n & Rice Soup, Hummus Dressed Kale & Whitebean Salad, Fresh Salsa on Rice & Beans, Banana Bread, Lentil Meatballs on Pasta, Super Nut & Fruit Loaf, and Peanut Tofu Surprise, all for the vegan recipe pages, as you see here.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Food Plan
Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the design of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. She started her work studying the existing research on the subject developed by other members and creating a design plan to be followed for the successful completion of each one of the climate batteries.
She also worked on the selection of the ideal burial depth for the Walipini 3 climate battery. You can see some of this work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of all, Joined the Team & Worked on Climate Battery Design
GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good of all education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.
This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu built the SketchUp model for half of the complete plan. You can see some of her work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Model for the First Half of the Playground Plan
Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei built the SketchUp model for the other half of the complete plan. You can see some of her contributions below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Model for the Second Half of the Playground Plan
GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is leading global collaboration for the Highest Good of all 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 Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 27th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated functions to make the app more user-friendly. The functions added included Collapse and Expand all the tasks, Go back button, Delete WBS items (also deletes all children tasks ), and Tool-tips displaying converted working hours.
He also tested again the basic functions and did more debugging. You can see some of this work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of all, Updated functions to make the app more User friendly
Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 16th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.
This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists, setting a new outreach record. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Promoting Our Project to Media Outlets
Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software.
This week Andon completed all work related to the WeeklySummary and WeeklySummariesReport components in the frontend (HGNApp) and backend (HGNRest). Some of the refinements he did this week were to make the weekly summaries tabs display either “Last Week” or “Week Before Last” or the actual dates if the weeks the summaries are older than the 3 week period.
The summaries reports page however will only have to display the reports based on “This Week”, “Last Week” or “Week Before Last”, any older summaries outside that range will not be considered. Andon also completed the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component with over 90% code coverage.
He also prepared the weekly summaries (WBS1.6) git branches to a state free of conflicts with “development” branch where they can be submitted for review (pull request) so they can easily be merged with the “development” branch. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Completed All Work Related to the Weekly summary
TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team were continuing with the eslint and unit test correction tasks. Also doing the task to migrate the application from surge to azure.
The Azure resources have been created and the pipeline build, but it is not completed yet as we are getting some errors. You can see some of this work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Continued Working on the HGN Software
Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 5th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi completed the feature in 1.5.8 and uploaded the code under feature/timer branch.
She designed an attach-link notification popup page and avoided the conflicts between two notifications when input is less than 10 words and lacks a link. As a result, users can complete their inputs with enough words and link attachment following the step-by-step reminders. You can see some of this work below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Completed the Feature and Uploaded the Code
Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry setup his local dev environment so he can now sign into the frontend locally, access API routes with Postman, and connect to the production MongoDB cluster with MongoDB Compass. Pictures of some of this are below.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Joined the Team and Worked on HGN Software
Last but not least, Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) joined the team and began helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began researching the Medical Provider Network and doing research on the different types of healthcare options available.
She is working through Action Task Items 1 and 2, which includes understanding what a Medical Provider Network is and what are the steps a business must take to establish a Medical Provider Network (MPN) in California. Furthermore, she began research on different insurance options that One Community may be interested in, which includes individual and group insurance options.
Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Joined the Team and Researched Insurance Options
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One Community Welcomes Adam Capdeville to the Software Design Team!
One Community welcomes Adam Capdeville to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Adam is currently attending California State University Channel Islands and will graduate December 2020 with his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, minoring in mathematics, statistics and data analytics. He is especially passionate about creating complex and compelling user interfaces. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Adam is applying this passion to help develop a seamless user interface for the new user profile page.
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One Community Welcomes Aly Shannon to the Highest Good Food Team!
One Community welcomes Aly Shannon to the Highest Good Food Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Aly is a student in Antioch University Bachelor’s Leadership for Service and Change program, creative director & co-owner of Roots of Medicine, and kitchen co-manager and secretary on the board of directors at The Artisan Wheelhouse. She is also independently studying herbalism and holistic medicine, and plant-based nutrition and sustainability. Her additional interests include multicultural studies, sculpture, writing and photography. Aly’s main goals for joining the One Community Highest Good Food team involve designing sustainable meal plans with ingredients sourced from local farms and small businesses with hopes to share the model with small groups and communities in need.
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One Community Welcomes TEKtalent to the Software Design Team!
One Community welcomes TEKtalent Inc. to the software design team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
TEKtalent Inc. is one of the leading staffing and consulting companies in Silicon Valley, California, providing quality staffing and custom programming solutions. TEKtalent has proved to be reliable in the provision of employment to those who are actively looking for work. With years of experience in the staffing industry, TEKtalent provides career opportunities and new ventures, permanent and temporary, so that the job seeker could find the job that is right for him or her. In order to meet the specific needs of employers and job seekers, they build a customized and creative staffing strategy. As a member of the One Community team, TEKtalent is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.
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Ethical Cooperative Replication – One Community Weekly Progress Update #384
Ethical cooperative replication is about open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed to build a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for The Highest Good of All. One Community will be the first of these hubs and will include open source plans and demonstrations of sustainable 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
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One Community’s physical location will forward the ethical cooperative replication movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 2nd, 2020 edition (#384) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Ethical Cooperative Replication
One Community Progress Update #384
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ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added functionality to the hydropower potential calculator in Google Sheets to include springs and earth dams without streams feeding into them, a pipe diameter component, as well as head loss.
In the end, we found an excel sheet online that does exactly what was being created. We also continued to refine the hydropower writeup by sorting out turbine selection criteria. Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 80% complete.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #194 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Added More Trees and Made the Textures Look More Realistic
Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 12th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to research Utility Excavation and Geotextile Fabrics, updating the status and Google Docs and sheets on the material pages with related details. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Tutorials
Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 11th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished compiling a list of lightbulb products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is preparing to organize the information in a spreadsheet next week.
She also worked on editing the written section of her light bulb tutorial. In addition to this, she finished another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. The pictures below show some of this work.
Compiling a List of Lightbulb Products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs Tutorial
Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 7th week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi filled in some gaps in research and completed the FAQs and Why Open Source content.
She has added a DIY for recycling disposable diapers. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 70% complete.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Research for the Best Options for Sustainable Processing
And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis converted the list of materials for the Net-Zero Bathroom into the Dome 1 format. While formatting the collected data he also researched prices and available dimensions of the needed materials.
He gathered and recorded the dimensions and positions of the bathroom furnishing such as the toilet, sink, and urinal from the Solidworks model. After collecting the needed measurements he added the furnishing to the AutoCAD floor plan. You can see pictures of some of this work below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component
ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.
This week we created the initial basement wall and door strategy, adjusted sizing of radiant floors, applied the electrical equipment loads in the kitchen, and did another overview and integration of all the schedules. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis
The core team also continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team adjusted the number of columns connecting the fourth level to the second and third level. We also continued performing load combination analysis to the updated integrated model.
The addition of columns reduces some of the stress and deflection of the overall structure, but the core team discovered that the third level exhibits unusual deflection in the load combo of snow, dead and live loads. Further investigation is required to fix this deflection issue and other overloaded columns between the fourth and third floor, and to test larger columns as a substitute for more columns.
You can see some of this work below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Details
Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 8th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed an initial draft of all spreadsheets and an initial draft of the company sustainability rankings. He also began work on describing and ranking products. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors
And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish adapted more drawings to the title block. You can see some of this work below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting
ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team finished our research on rabbits by completing a final round of review and edits and team Q&A sessions covering the specifics of how we’ll be presenting our research on the website. This behind-the-scenes work is now complete and ready for publication.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Completed a Final Round of Review and Edits of the Rabbit Doc
The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the steps for shutter installation to cover all the ventilation openings, updated all the images that showed the old ventilation shutters, and started the instructions for the manure collection trays.
You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Working on the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions
Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 7th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.
This week they made recipes for Apple Cinnamon Muffins, Curry Lentil Soup, Carrot Cake Muffins, Almond Milk, and Blueberry Lemon Muffins, as you see here and all for the vegan recipe pages.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan
ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 84th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on both the renders for the central area that will be used for theater and other events.
Final additions included more people, cords and other additions to the lighting guy on the right, boxes at the top of the pull-down security walls, and shadows. This picture is now on the Ultimate Classroom page also.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Finished Work on Render of Central Area for Theater & Other Events
Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished two detailed plans, the basketball court and vernal. She also researched paving materials and companies. You can see some of this work below.
Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom
Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei drew two sections, the micro-topo area and amphitheater area. She also researched playground equipment. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Drew the Micro-topo and Amphitheater Area, and Researched Playground Equipment
ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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 Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) created responsive ad text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign and launched it, added account-wide structured snippet to the ads, reviewed & implemented multiple suggestions to expand responsive ads (97.3% optimization score), and created responsive ads for our wind energy page.
He also compared last week’s automated bidding vs without. If you look at the totals, clicks have increased by 25%, a very good sign! This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.
Created Responsive Ad Text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign & Launched
Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 26th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed the total hours bug with a function to test all the logics and fix all of them every time the user presses the refresh button or F5.
He also added a reset button for the task entry popup and made it so clicking names will open a person’s profile. And he updated the function to assign users for the tasks, so now we can add, remove and search for the users faster than before. You can see some of this work below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Fixed the Total Hours Bug With a Function to Test All the Logics
Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 15th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.
This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Promoting Our Project & the One Community Page to Media Outlets
Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software.
This week Andon did some refactoring and code improvements in the WeeklySummaries component, added things like prop-types validation for the WeeklySummary, WeeklySummariesReport and related components and a new tooltip for the weekly summaries tabs explaining what “Last Week” and “Week Before Last” mean in terms of calendar week vs last time a summary was submitted.
He also did the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component and redux related functions. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Refactoring & Code Improvements in the Weekly Summaries
TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the changes suggested for the reset password validations and messages. They also started the cleaning up activities of the react code base by correcting the lint errors.
The lint configuration has been completed and the existing error corrections are in progress. The completed lint corrections so far are all js files and started the same for jsx files. You can see some of this work below.
Completed the Changes Suggested for the Reset Password Validations and Messages
Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam focused on researching methods of implementing user projects, teams and total worked hours.
After Adam had a video conference call with Nithesh, he pivoted from working on the users projects, teams and hours to further developing the users profile responsive design. Adam’s pivot was due to a few variables that are currently relying on Nithesh’s module. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.
Researched Methods of Implementing User Projects, Teams and Total Worked Hours
And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 4th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi refactored the timer component. She added modals for the not-enough-words notification popup and designed the popup page. She completed the function in 1.5.9 under both Add and Edit mode.
She also began work on the attach-link notification popup. You can see some of this work below.
Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Refactored the Timer Component of the HGN Software
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Making Sustainability More Accessible – One Community Weekly Progress Update #383
One Community is making sustainability more accessible through open source and free-shared sustainable solutions covering food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. These resources are being designed to construction replicable teacher/demonstration hubs that will produce even more sustainable tools, tutorials, and resources.
- 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 the movement of making sustainability more accessible as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the July 26th, 2020 edition (#383) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:
Making Sustainability More Accessible
One Community Progress Update #383
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MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability more accessible through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page.
This week we watched a 3-part series on the potential of generating power using rainwater collected on a roof, continued to integrate our notes into the hydropower section, and gained a better understanding of potential, kinetic, mechanical, and electrical energies, as well as kW versus kWh. You can see some pictures of this research below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Detailed Review of Research Completed on Hydropower
Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 10th week as a member of the team. This week Angela continued work on the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies by completing collection of her information on each of the 6 companies she selected.
She has been researching specific light bulbs from each of the companies to see which are the best. She also completed another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Work on the Most Sustainable Light bulbs and Companies
Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 6th week researching how to sustainably manage and process non-recyclable waste. This week Pallavi compared different recycling options and estimated them to arrive at her initial conclusion. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 60% complete.
Making Sustainability More Accessible, Researching How to Sustainably Manage Non-recyclable waste
And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began and completed the list of materials needed for the Net-Zero Bathroom. His research involved thoroughly studying the Net-Zero Bathroom final design and interior interface to determine what to record on the list.
He also reviewed the material listed for the water barrel support beams and concurred the best material was structural wood. He dissected the Solidworks final design to gather the dimensions and the quantity of material used to build the structure, roof, water storage system, and plumbing.
After finishing the list, he began converting the floor plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom structure from Solidworks to AutoCAD. You can see pictures of some of this work below.
Joined the Team and Began Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.
This week we updated the dome wall construction values, updated and fixed windows to be triple panels, adjusted the indoor pool temperature based on our operation plans (58°F in winter, 78°F in summer, 75°F for the rest of year), adjusted the hot tub schedule and temperature based on our operation plans, and conducted research on the best basement door for drive-up access.
You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis
And the core team continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week we assigned area loads to the integrated SAP model and conducted analysis for the entire model, including different load combinations. The analysis results show very high axial loads for the tentative locations of the fourth level columns.
Therefore there is need to increase the number of columns connecting the second and fourth level. Further analysis can be done after the update of column locations and the integrated seismic analysis can be performed as well. You can see some of this work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Details
Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 7th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed most of the corporation sustainability spreadsheet and began the process of adding minor final details to all three data sheets. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors
And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on detailing the sprinkler system and adapting it to the One Community title block. You can see some of this work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Detailing the Sprinkler System and Adapting It
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability more accessible through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the under-roof siding and fan installation instructions for the East and West wall and started the installation instructions for the shutters over the ventilation openings.
You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Finished the Under-roof Siding & Fan Installation Instructions for East & West Wall of Chicken Coop
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 23rd week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the info and drawings of the newest design. In this design, a North/South mixed intake/outtake is implemented to improve efficiency.
Layers 1 and 3 are used for cooling with the intakes at the north of the structure closer to the ceiling. Layer 2 is used for heating with the intake at the south of the structure closer to the floor.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Completed the Info and Drawings of the Newest Design
Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of The Roots of Medicine) continued with their 6th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.
This week they cooked and took pictures of Lentil Veggie Soup, Herbed Potatoes, Mac n Cheese, Bean Chili, Chili-Cheese Nacho Potatoes, Caramelized Onions, Chili Ketchup, Peanut Sauce, Chili Ginger Burger Lettuce Wraps, Black Bean Brownies, and Vanilla Banana Ice ‘Cream’. You can see these below and they are all for the vegan recipe pages.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan
And Moti Scotti (Permaculturalist) completed her 2nd week on the team and her help reviewing the Permaculture Doc the core team has been developing for the past year. She finished her review and general edits and additions to the core 80 pages, in addition to comments and questions towards overall presentation and design for better understanding.
The image below shows a couple of the areas where she made significant edits.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Finished Detailed Review of the Permaculture Doc
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) completed her 14th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao made final adjustments to the schematic drawings, structural elements design, and construction details. Pictures of this work are below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 95% complete.
Made Final Adjustments to Schematic Drawings, Structural Elements Design, and Construction Details
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 83rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the 2nd render for the central area that will be used for theater and other events.
Development this week included updating the lighting, adding people, stage lights, a table and lighting guy on the right, and minor changes to the background.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Work on Render of Central Area for Theater & Other Events
Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu used AutoCAD and Photoshop to make a colored plan and detailed plans including the amphitheater and micro topos.
You can see some of this work below.
Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom
Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei continued to update the SketchUp model for the building and drew two sections for two detailed plans. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Updating Model of the Building and Drew Two Sections
MAKING SUSTAINABILITY MORE ACCESSIBLE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is making sustainability more accessible 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 edited the content from several of our other videos and provided it so Moneyless Society could include it in the video they produced and can be seen below.
Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) also reviewed & implemented appropriate Google Ad recommendations, updated all campaigns to automated bidding strategies to maximize clicks, reviewed and created (from Recommendations) Responsive Ads for 3 Ad Groups.
He also added responsive ads for the “Paper Recycling” ad group and launched it, reviewed the performance of our most recent bidding strategy change and found a strong increase, started the Water-Saving Faucet Ad Campaign, and added 16,038 keywords.
Jin has been a member of our team for almost 10 years and you can see some of this work from him below. This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.
Working on our Marketing Team by Implementing Appropriate Google Ad Recommendations, etc. –
This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 25th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed more bugs in the import and table totaling functionalities. He also remade the colors for tasks so when you collapse them you can see tasks easier.
He’s also identified another bug where importing large files causes the calculation not to work in some cases. If he can’t fix it next week, he will add a ‘fix’ button to refresh the calculations when a user sees they are incorrect. You can see some of this work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Fixed More Bugs in the Import and Table Totaling Functions
Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 14th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software too. Wen is now using React Overlay to display the badge description on hover. With this, the description box covers the badge itself when the mouse hovers over the badge.
If we would like to see both the image of the badge and its description at the same time, then the description might cover other badges, assuming the description box shows on the right of the image on hover. Mockups are coming to help us decide.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Continued Working on the HGN Software
Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 14th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.
This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Promoting Our Project and the Page to Media Outlets
Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software.
This week Andon updated the implementation and some of the behavior of the Weekly Summary component to incorporate some changes like allowing the user to edit all three weeks’ summaries (current, last and before last) rather than how it was originally designed to just be able to edit the current week’s summary.
He also updated and improved the component’s state management. Additionally this week Andon helped with code review, testing and approval of PRs. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software
TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team completed the suggested review changes in reset password option and started the infringement (blue square) related functionalities.
The blue squares have been displayed in a user profile and added the option for the administrator to add a new infringement, edit the already added one and delete an existing infringement. You can see some of this work below.
Completed the Suggested Changes in Reset Password Option and Started the Infringement Functions
Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. Links are now grouped in one edit window, where the user/admin can add, edit & delete as they chose. Adam then began reworking the layout of the user’s profile to be more streamlined.
He separated edit functionality into a secondary view of the user profile. This way the default view of the user profile is no longer cluttered with edit fields, and instead info is presented in a more concise way. Next week Adam will add in Projects & Team view and edit components. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software
And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 3rd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi ran backend and frontend code successfully and fixed the bug about yarn install error. Also, she found a solution for finding the yarn path.
In addition to this, she modified the MongoDB connection condition code under HGNRest file. She used post_file post actions in Postman to create a login account. You can see some of this work below.
Making Sustainability More Accessible ” Ran Backend & Frontend Code Successfully and Fixed the Bug
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