One Community welcomes Prathik Jain to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Prathik holds a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. He is highly analytical and has a keen interest in fluid dynamics. Pratik has developed good skills in 3D modeling (Solidworks, Creo and AutoCAD) and performing CFD analysis in Python. In his free time, he is passionate about the outdoors and enjoys activities like walking, running, and hiking. As a member of One Community team, Prathik is helping to design and analyze the safest and best hub connector for the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM PRATHIK!

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Radical sustainability made easy can provide a lifestyle most people would consider luxurious by today’s standards. More free time, more things to do with that time, better food, artistic housing, economic freedom and a life of growth and enrichment are possible. One Community is supporting this by open sourcing everything needed to make it DIY replicable and free-sharing it as an adaptable foundation for global sustainability.

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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 March 27th, 2022 edition (#470) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Radical Sustainability Made Easy
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 87th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued working on the outer section of the rain barrel support structure for the net-zero bathroom. After researching brackets and accessories for unistrut channels, he decided on a design that would simplify assembly by using a combination of slotted and circular hole unistruts.

The design was based on the wooden version, but uses two support columns for each 2 barrels. The two individual columns were necessary due to the machinery and skill needed to work metal when compared to woodwork. This was possible because one wooden column had the cross section of 3.5″ by 3.5″ while one unistrut had a cross section of 1.525″ by 1.525″. An FEA will be conducted to determine the number of beams needed to support each barrel in order to reduce costs while maintaining safety. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. The pictures below show some of this work.

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 the week by reviewing all new comments across the diversity of Google Docs she’s been working on. She then skimmed through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot document to ensure that new edits were addressed and that the website corresponded with those changes and separated the Parking Lot Cost Analysis table into two, so that the reader could see the initial and final design costs.

There were some differences in the cost analysis that had previously been done for the parking lot, so Daniela read through the website in order to figure out where the discrepancy was. She compared the differences and determined which values were not matching up. Daniela then adjusted the initial parking lot cost analysis using a parking lot that fit 150 spaces for the calculations. This included calculating the overall square footage and illustrating it.

She left comments based on her new findings, created a tab for “How to Calculate Your Own Property Access Costs” that acts as an intro to the roadways excel sheet, and went through each item on David’s Action Item list to double check what was done and cross off all that had been completed. Comments were left based on what still needed work. Lastly, Daniela started making adjustments to the Parking Lot Materials Options tab and started researching the price per square foot for materials that were provided in the table. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. 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 26th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing team compression tested the 2-weeks-curing cylinders. The team took pictures of each cylinder and recorded the weight and compressive strength that each cylinder had.

Compared to shorter curing times, the 2-week-cured cylinders had slight increased strength. The team still found some moisture within the cylinders after two weeks of curing. Additionally, the team had a meeting to prepare for the following week’s compression testing of 3-week-cured cylinders and calculate the fabric needed for stuccoing. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 18th week helping with web design. This week Yuran checked that all the content had been added, the page was formatted correctly, and added the missing images needed to finish the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. She also created all the remaining images needed to finish the Community Health Insurance page and linked them to the spreadsheet. Yuran then started working on creating the Aquapini and Walipini Open Source Hub page. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ming Weng (MS Geography & Environmental Engineering)) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. Ming spent the majority of his time on resource research. He inquired about a solid waste management course offered at JHU (instructors, textbooks, course materials) and, after the instructor’s approval, gained access to part of the course materials.

Due to copyright issues, the original handouts could not be uploaded to the dropbox, but relevant information about incineration models was summarized with citation of the online sources. The sorted handouts will become Ming’s and One Community’s property (a goal for next week). Most of Ming’s time was devoted to reading over these handouts, retrieving relevant information, and citing sources. Existing One Community Google Doc research was also reviewed so Ming could get familiar with the essence of the research completed so far. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 43rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized the head loss calculations for the City Center Spa Design. Given the current knowledge of the system, the head loss of the piping has been accounted for. Other variables that contribute to the head loss of the system are the number of fittings included such as elbow fittings and three-way valves.

Luis will complete this with the addition of the head loss value per item given by its material. With the finalization of the spa model this value can be updated and finalized, but the hardest math is complete. Luis will now continue working with the new members of the team to complete the remaining documentation. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 29th 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 than the previous versions. He also added dimensions for these and several items. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 26th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week Xuanji updated the roads, revised the bridge across the outdoor portion of the indoor/outdoor natural swimming pool, added missing double fences, revised the vehicle entrance to the basement on the north side, and updated the vehicle driveway and walkways in the rest of the landscape floor plan. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 25th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya did research on Window 6, and chose 4 different types of durable glass, and after she compared these 4 types, she recommended using laminated glass. She also accomplished the work of updating the confirmed windows and doors’ size in the Window and door schedule in CAD and fixing all the window designations on the floor plans. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 14th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj designed 2 brackets that may be good alternatives to the current design. He also created the angled beam assemblies with each of these new brackets and ran studies on both the new designs which showed promising results. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 11th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and edits to Shreyas’ solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and the Permaculture Design case study content. This week, Maya continued her work on the Solar Farm Battery Analysis report by replying to comments, following up on others, and backing up links with product information into a new Dropbox folder. She also began integrating details and information from the updated permaculture design into the Final Detailed Design section of the Permaculture google document.

The goal of this task is to transfer findings from the FDE to the permaculture page and organize and format the information so that it can be added to the live permaculture webpage. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. The pictures below are related to this work.

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik familiarized himself with a new software ” Staad Pro connect. In this software, he modeled the complete dome with the dimension as per the design. He also went through different sources to learn how to perform structural load analysis of the dome in Staad pro to understand the load distribution on the dome, which can be used in studying the stability of the center hub. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Diwei Zhang (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week of work on the the City Center Eco-spa 3D modeling and analysis review. This week Diwei finished reading the entire City Center hot tub design report. He modeled the tub frame and added cinder block insulation plan modeling based on the dimensions and comments in the report. Diwei realized that the 3-way valve and pump located outside the mechanical room may not be an optimal design and decided to move them into the mechanical room. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 completed additional edits on the Chicken Coop Assembly Doc through page 136, addressing comments, re-writing the original text to coincide with the comments and corrections and checking font sizes and accuracy of statements. We also began considering the use of a solar door for the coop based on one of our team’s successful one-year-in-use-and-still-active solar chicken door. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. 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. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy.

The core team also updated the Aquapini SketchUp model and generated images with updated dimensions for the three Aquapini ponds, added overflow pipes for the ponds, and created a waterflow image. We also designed the outside terraces. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy.

And the core team finished preparing the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini content for the web editor and made a list of what still needed to be done, as well as inserted new images and read through the entire document. We also met with the compression testing team to discuss stuccoing details and this week’s plan, then followed up on missing weekly summaries, reported hours, and images. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy.

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 6th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. This week, Adam worked on tweaking some of the formulas in the Recipe Conversion and Re-sizing Calculator, made a separate workbook to start housing all the recipes, and started to test putting recipes into a new format. Now the recipes are entered into the calculator and they can be easily scaled up, and directions are still provided for cooking. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. The pictures below relate to this work.

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. This week, Adolph compiled and profiled data on the following materials: straw bales, timber species, type of cement, earthen plaster, waterproofing membrane, polystyrene roofing material, gypsum and details on foundations.

Adolph referenced a book titled “Practical Straw Bale Building” by Murray Hollis and determined the commonly used dimensions for Straw bale construction technology. Regarding timber species, he referred to the technical specifications and identified a species that is most available and can easily be obtained. He then commenced with detailed structural analysis involving structural idealization and will present the results of analysis next week. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. See the related pictures below as examples of this work.

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing radical sustainability made easy 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 16 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 developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below show some of this.

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 35th formal contribution to the Highest Good Network software. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. In addition to ongoing support for the team answering questions and helping with various emergency bugs, Chris fixed a PDFing problem we’ve had for months.

Figuring out that volunteers were copying in some styled text with different unsupported fonts into their summaries and that errored the process out and made it so that the process worked on the Dev environment and local development environments, but not on the Main/live environment. So he added some code to remove any styles on text and this fixed this bug that had baffled every other developer that had tried to fix it. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures below are related to this work.

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 5th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kevin did research on node-cache, a caching module used on HGNRest, per the suggestion of Gary. After learning about it, he looked into how it’s implemented on HGNRest and found the issue with the badge error. The error is caused by node-cache only updating its data every 10 minutes. This causes the badge system to re-assign previously deleted badges. This caching issue is also causing problems all around the app. Anytime the front end changes data in the database, the change isn’t reflected in HGNRest until it updates. He’s still looking into the issue for possible solutions.

Kevin also helped Elyse work on her bug with the Time Entry Form by suggesting a simple fix that causes the form to only render when a user tries to submit their time. The end result is the form logging the date when the time is submitted as opposed to the date that the page was most recently loaded / reloaded. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel attended several calls with Kevin to try and figure out what can be refactored in the Dashboard page. He started by converting the TeamMemberTasks component to a functional component. Later in the week he talked about creating a new API endpoint with the other team members and he started creating the new route and figuring out the logic. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu helped debug Rachit’s code, reviewed Irene’s work, and started working on his action list. First, he checked out Rachit’s branch, and Rachit mentioned that d3 should be downgraded to 6.7.0 instead of 7.0.0, however, while using d3 v7.3.0, the HGN test app worked.

Therefore, Phu was not sure if d3 was a problem. However, when he ran the npm test, Jest did not parse the ES module in node_modules. Phu researched a few changes and tried Rachit’s suggestion, but it still had the same problem. Second, he reviewed Irene’s work. Irene finished rendering the people’s report page and included Rachit’s version on Infringement visualization.

Phu decided to work on task 4.4 1.4 because Irene mostly finished this part’s front end. He then used a dev account to add a task/team for his account to test. Phu recognized that the Team Member Tasks component might have the same functionality as 4.4 1.4 and plans to continue work on this next week. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Elyse Lam (Software Developer)  also completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse added useEffect() to check when the TimeEntryForm started rendering and confirmed that it renders right when the page was loaded. She made sure it’s rendering when the Stop button is clicked by wrapping it a condition in TimeEntryForm.jsx and confirmed that the fix works by leaving her local environment logged in before midnight and starting the timer after midnight. Elyse then cleaned up the code and removed unnecessary console.log statements and created pull request #377. Helping in developing radical sustainability made easy. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic living that is better than how most people are living now. It includes 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. This is the March 20th, 2022 edition (#469) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments.

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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 March 20th, 2022 edition (#469) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Blueprint for Holistic Living
One Community Progress Update #469

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR HOLISTIC LIVING

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic 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 wrote an email to Aircrete Harry to see if he had any feedback regarding shrinkage of light and standard aircrete mixes and stuccoing details. We then digested Aircrete Harry’s response and summarized our thinking based on his input. We continued to make and populate a more presentable table with aircrete compression testing results and had meetings with the Compression Testing Team and the Center Hub Team. Pictures below are related to this.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Aircrete – Click to visit site

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #243 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective with updated sky dome and finalized door details.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Designs – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 67th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued resizing of information to be larger and more clear and adding lumber sizes and cut dimensions to the closet sections. She also started adding the different screw lengths and replacing old icons. As pages are completed, they are replaced and re-saved to the shared document. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Murphy bed instructions – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 86th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began working on the design of the outer rain barrel support structure. He began by first analyzing the first wooden concept initially thought of for dimensional and orientational purposes. The challenge is to design a structure that optimizes the use of space, while being cost effective, durable, and easy to install.

To optimize the space each outer column was rotated 30 degrees in respect to each adjacent column, until forming a complete circle, omitting one to leave room for access. To connect them together, he looked into using 30 degree unistrut fittings. After rendering the two unistruts connected with brackets, he found the design to be complex in terms of installation when using 3 sided hole punched unistruts, as the tolerances had to be high. Slotted unistruts were looked into, but were found to not be flexible for the design, since the slots are located on one side only.

Jose Luis then rendered the columns connected with unistrut beams running radially outwards and having crosslinked unistrut beams to serve as the base of the rain barrels. The lack of symmetry between the cross linked unistruts would not provide even distribution of loads based on the renderings. He will next begin to continue researching other unistrut accessories or modifying existing ones to weigh out the possible options to effectively accomplish the task. The pictures below show some of this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 37th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela worked on the cost analysis excel sheet for the roadways.

She double checked revisions that were made last week and made sure that the calculations were accurate and properly formatted. She then finished the cost analysis table for the parking lot and added the formatting that explains the chart. Daniela added to the narrative for the minimized and unlimited expense plan based on the changes made to the cost analysis of the parking lot and then used AutoDesk to ensure that the AutoCAD files in the Dropbox for the parking lot were the most updated ones.

Afterwards, she used AutoDesk to measure the length of the original parking lot design and deleted the length from the tables in the excel sheet that originally incorporated the parking lot. Daniela read through and addressed comments making sure that all suggestions she made on the Roadways, Walkways, Parking Lot and Gutters Report were addressed and portrayed on the website. Lastly, she used Jae’s suggestion to measure the percentage runoff for the domes in Earthbag Village. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Sustainable Roadways – Click to visit site

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 25th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the team did compression testing on the cylinders that had cured for 1 week. The team tested a total of 30 cylinders, 5 for each mix. The team also finished recording which aircrete cylinders collapsed from the light and standard batches. All compressive strength data collected to date have been recorded in the data sheet. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Aircrete and Earthbag Compression Testing – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 17th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. This week Yuran checked all content was correctly added and the page was formatted correctly. She crossed off content as she did this and commented on each of those sections. She also addressed all comments made for web designers and checked the quality of all images and for missing images. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Sustainable Roadways – Click to visit site

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR HOLISTIC LIVING

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic 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 Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 42nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on his development and verification of the head loss calculations for the City Center Spa design. These calculations are essential to the performance analysis of the pumps and blowers.

Luis is currently cross examining his findings to ensure they are an accurate estimate of the reduction in performance. He is also focusing on the development of the heat transfer simulations and deriving an analysis for the findings to be included in the website too. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – City Center Eco-Spa Designs – Click for page

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 28th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos added dimensions for all the furniture, correcting unnecessary lines in the views, and creating blocks for the mending plates, screws, nails. He also merged, created and assigned new layers for several items. Because of the existence of many unnecessary lines (especially on the Pallet Bed), more deleting, correcting and selecting lines, along with assigning them to the layers is still needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Duplicable City Center – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 25th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the roads, added the bridge to the herb garden from south side and east side, revised the floor hatch of the West entrance space, added the fence for the animal area, and updated the vehicle driveway in the landscape floor plan. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – City Center Lighting – Click to visit site

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 24th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya continued work on the Duplicable City Center Window Schedule updates. She did research on Window 5 and Window 6, and selected types of R-5 windows. Huiya also accomplished the work of modeling the SketchUp model for Window 5 and Window 6 and finishing the CAD details for Window 5 and Window 6. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Duplicable City Center – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 22nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi discussed feedback with the team related to changes to door selections from last week. The D2 exterior corridor entry required more durability and a weather-proof option.

In finding a product, Anderson Window and Door Company could provide the aesthetic feature that goes with general interior design, while being capable of providing energy savings and waterproofing. Due to consideration of appearance coordination, other doors like D7 and D13 were updated too. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Duplicable City Center – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj changed the multi-layered bracket back to a single thick bracket to see if adding the center gap has now reduced the stress on the brackets. He ran multiple simulations to get the least stress possible on the hub connector. Raj also worked on the geodesic dome paper to add content per the feedback received from Sangam. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Duplicable City Center Hub – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 10th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and edits to Shreyas’ solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles. This week, Maya continued her work editing the Solar Farm Battery Analysis Final Report. This included re-formatting some of the figures and content so that any text referencing a figure or graph was placed above its figure, this makes the page more consistent and easier to follow for the reader.

Maya also added more information on the Ford F-150 Lightning, its new charging station, and sources for additional information on the Tesla Wall Connector. She finished the first full proofread through the analysis and fixed any small errors along the way while commenting on content that requires additional feedback before it is edited. The pictures below are related to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Solar Microgrid Design – Click to visit site

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR HOLISTIC LIVING

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic 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 completed additional edits on the Chicken Coop Assembly Doc through page 126. This included edits to the doc, mathematical recalculations and confirmations, requests for drawing alterations and other related changes. Though this process is occasionally semi-excruciating and painstakingly slow for the editor, in the end the corrections will save time and labor in the field by avoiding reconstruction. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Chicken Coop – Click for page

A different core team member was the editor mentioned above who worked on creating and updating images and text, and replying to the comments on the same Chicken Coop Building instruction document.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Chicken Coop – Click to visit site

The core team also updated the Aquapini SketchUp model and generated images with dimensions for the Aquapini ponds, comparing the heights for all ponds, all inside structural dimensions, a water flow image, and an image with dimensions for the internal terraces.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Aquapini SketchUp Model – Click for page

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 redesigned the layout of the kitchen to encompass one shelter for the kitchen and one for the dining room. Brian also added some equipment to the costing sheet. Then Brian redid the action items for the interns. Brian also worked on recipe testing this week, including Chow mein. Below are some images related to this.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Transition Kitchen Designs – Click for page

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 5th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week, Adam worked on the recipe converter calculator. It is pretty close to working and will be almost ready to present for approval and others to help clean it up. He also continued to help with the layout of the dining area and setting up stations to help diners and decrease the amount of back and forth to the kitchen. The pictures below relate to this work.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Transition Food Self-Sufficiency Plan – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR HOLISTIC LIVING

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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

Adolph Karubanga (Civil Engineer and PMP) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering. This week, Adolph reviewed the drawings, preliminary data for calculations, and made reference to technical specifications and codes of practice.

This included basis of design, use and occupancy structural classification, and exposure conditions (fire*, wind, snow, earthquake loads). This data was very important in the preceding stages of the analysis, design, and detailing of structural elements. Adolph found out that the preliminary data was in line with the specifications and therefore was to be used in the preparation of detailed design calculations during his 3rd week.

Adolph will also obtain data on the materials that were not captured in the preliminary data, i.e. straw bale, timber species, type of cement, earthen plaster, waterproofing membrane, polystyrene roofing material, gypsum and details on foundations. Adolph also researched and obtained a timber construction reference manual and 3 other reference materials for straw bale construction.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Structural Engineering – Click to visit site

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – A BLUEPRINT FOR HOLISTIC LIVING

One Community is developing a blueprint for holistic 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 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. Pictures below show some of this.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Managing One Community – Click to visit site

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also completed his 37th week helping, now focused on the Most Sustainable Urinals, Hand Dryers, and Shower Heads pages. This week Aidan focused on the Hand Dryer page. He continued to work on incorporating content from a spreadsheet, doing minor formatting, and proofreading and editing the content of each page. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Most Sustainable Urinals – Click for page

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin dug into the issue with last week’s badge fix not functioning as expected on the Dev site. Initially, it seemed like the fix wasn’t working, but upon further inspection, the user’s profile on the live backend is taking over 5 minutes to update the user’s info (despite the database being instantly up to date). This is causing any badge assignments done within that timeframe to add not only the desired badge(s), but all of the badges that were previously deleted.

He’s enlisted the help of more senior engineers in hopes of finding a solution, but so far is still in the troubleshooting phase. Kevin also helped HGN’s new engineer, Elyse, get comfortable with React and helped familiarize her with the app. In addition, he worked with her on troubleshooting her bug that deals with a user’s time being logged for the previous date. Although they haven’t yet found a solution, they were able to replicate the bug and isolate the issue. They are poised to resolve the bug next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Highest Good Network Software – Click to visit site

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Miguel finished reformatting the frontend using Prettier and ESLint. He solved some other conflicts and raise PR #374. After that, Miguel spent time analyzing the Dashboard and TeamMemberTasks component to try to figure out what can be refactored in order to make the loading time smaller. During that time he figured out the Dashboard is making 200+ calls to the API, and tracked down what API calls need to be refactored. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

Phu Nguyen (Software Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Phu had his interview and completed the onboarding process. He then set up his local React environment, read the Volunteer Documentation lists, and got familiar with the HGN system. Phu contacted Irene and Rachit to understand the tasks and reviewed Rachit’s pull request, Rachit was waiting for Chris’s reply to fix his code though. After that, Phu continued reviewing other pull requests. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

Elyse Lam (Software Developer) joined the team too and also completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Elyse set up and got familiar with the front end codebase, looked for specific React components associated with the Time Logging bug, and found the timezone was hard coded as “America/Los Angeles”. in the TimeEntryForm.

She tested various changes in “dateOfWork: moment().tz()” by passing in properties of userProfile.timeZone and also tested leaving the app open overnight and starting the timer the next day. She confirmed the issue probably has to do with the time the user logs in as well. Then Elyse worked on the selectedBadge bug and looked for potential errors in the way badgeCollection includes existing badges being selected again [4]. This screenshot shows different array sizes and she will look into debugging this with Chrome dev tools the following week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us identify solutions and an approach for dealing with a PHP update that is coming and may break our website. See pics below related to this.

A Blueprint for Holistic Living – Solutions for PHP update – Click to visit site

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Open-source building DIY sustainable cities is a way to empower people and communities. Giving people the knowledge and blueprints to build their own homes, grow their own food, and live sustainable lives that are better than the way they live now is both possible and needed. One Community is creating designs for this that cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 13th, 2022 edition (#468) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BUILDING DIY SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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 updated the floor plan details on the site for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) from 72 living units to 78. We also updated our related residency and rental-revenue details. Pictures below are related to this.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Earthbag Village – Click to visit site

The core team also added to the Compression Testing Team’s data collection sheet so the necessary details are recorded for each test. We had multiple conversations with this team, including Dr. Bai and reached out to Hajjar again (with Gabriel CCed) for questions about the stucco and fabric they use.

We also started creating a nicer table to summarize findings from the compression testing with embedded pictures using beautiful table templates, discussed results from last week with Marcus, and edited the spreadsheet for the 1-wk cure-time compression testing planned for Sunday. We additionally emailed the compression testing team with the plan for the week and had a meeting with the Hub connector team to discuss issues they are having with SolidWorks. Pictures below are related to this.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Manage Compression Testing Team – Click for page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #242 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective with a work-in-progress attempt at adding a sky dome and updates to the door details.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Earthbag Village 4-Dome Cluster Designs – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 66th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on replacing many of the rendered images in the instructions. The electrical pages were all updated with new 3D renders and details. The graphic elements were replaced with newer ones. The title pages from each group are getting new graphics and she is continuing to update cutting lumber pages with measurements and more details. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Murphy bed instructions – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 85th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued the development of the rain barrel support structure used in the Net-Zero Bathroom. He began by expanding the base of the structure to facilitate the orientation of the barrels.

A static FEA was conducted on the expanded base at an overall force of 750lbs, 150% of the rain barrel weight, applied to the slotted unistrut beams. The maximum von Mises stresses were found to be 30% of the yield strength and the maximum beam deflection was found to be 16.9% of the maximum allowable beam deflection. He then rendered the base of the top barrel and performed a static FEA. The analysis included an additional 750lbs applied on the additional base.

The maximum von Mises stresses were found to be 44% of the yield strength and the maximum beam deflection was found to be 50% of the maximum allowable beam deflection. A buckling FEA was conducted and measured a buckling factor of safety of 67.92. Based on the results there should be no failures due to yielding and buckling. The pictures below show some of this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Click to visit site

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 36th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela started by editing and adding to the narrative of the water catchment off the dome homes.

New calculations were introduced in this section, and she recalculated the overall water catchment for the complete Earthbag Village based on the new values. She reviewed the edits and computed the volume for water catchment storage over the span of a year. The values calculated appeared to be too large so Daniela went over the calculations, attempting to make adjustments where needed. She plans to continue to work on this section since she now has the feedback she needs to continue.

For the Roadways, Walkways, Parking Lot and Gutters Report, Daniela created a cost analysis chart for the parking lot with the updated materials, using Autodesk to obtain measurements and researching the costs of the new materials. Lastly, Daniela reviewed comments and read through an article Tugce suggested for the roadways cost analysis. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Sustainable Roadways – Click for page

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 24th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team completed compression testing on the 48-hours-cured cylinders.

The team worked with Sangam to review and confirm all the necessary data needed for recording. On the day of testing, the team labeled each cylinder, weighed the cylinders, and did compression testing. The team found that the lightest and standard aircrete mixes were too soft for the compression testing apparatus to record failure accurately, but the 3 heavy mixes were successful. The Team reviewed the work plan for Sunday to compression test the 1-week-cured cylinders. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Aircrete and Earthbag Compression Testing – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 16th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page and Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal. This week Yuran properly linked tools, equipment and materials on the Footer/Foundation page.

She also fixed all the resource names for the ones backed up in the Roadways and Walkways shared folder and uploaded the missing resources. Then she finished checking and updating all the content and formatting on the Water Conservation page. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Rainwater Harvesting – Click for page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BUILDING DIY SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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 worked on the Duplicable City Center 3D SketchUp model of the planned dormer windows for the 1st and 2nd floors. We used SketchUp to create an  accurate framing file. You can see this below.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Duplicable City Center 3D SketchUp Model – Click for page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 41st week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the development of the City Center Spa design with regards to the plumbing. He focused on the head loss calculation and ensuring the numbers were correct. This included doing the calculations by hand, through Google Spreadsheets, and MATLAB to verify the results. His analysis is nearly complete and will be ready for future adjustments to the finalized piping length. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – City Center Eco-Spa Designs – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 24th week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the landscape plans by adding a tree legend, fire truck hammerhead turnarounds and other road details, and the natural greywater processing pond. She also revised the hallway on the second floor of the Social Dome to have more seats. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – City Center Lighting – Click to visit site

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 23rd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, Huiya continued working on updating the window schedule. She found the Window type used for W2, W3, and W5 on the Milgard® website and accomplished the work of fixing the wrong size and material of Window 2, Window 3, and Window 5 in the window details section and on the floor plans. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Duplicable City Center Architectural Review – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to select doors and focused on specialty door selection. Freezer or cooler doors and possible modular cooling walls can be more cost efficient than custom made choices.

Custom pool doors and parts, including recycled stainless steel and plexiglass, were chosen based on resistance to corrosion and appearance. Steel doors which can be broken down to varying types such as temperature rise doors, egress characteristic doors, and flush doors were suggested for installation at varying locations throughout the building. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Duplicable City Center Architectural Review – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on increasing the gap between the beam and the center ring to check if it would reduce the stress on the brackets. This reduced the stress drastically which helps the team move forward with this design. He also looked at reducing singularities in the part to mitigate stresses. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Duplicable City Center Hub – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week helping with research and web design, now focused on review and edits to Shreyas’ solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles. This week, she made comments on the google document when content had errors or seemed unclear. Once Maya received feedback from others editing the document, she made the appropriate changes and resolved the comments.

The page had some formatting inconsistencies such as figures being difficult to find and usage of bold. Maya also made sure figures and images were below the content where they are referenced, and rid the page of bold text replacing it with uppercase headers. Finally, she began writing a section regarding updated information on the Ford F-150 Lightning. The pictures below are related to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Solar Micro grid Design – Click to visit site

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik came across a new software ” Tekla Structural Designer, which is used to design and perform analysis of a structure to understand its strength and the stability. He watched a few videos related to how to design a dome and perform structural analysis with the given load factors. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Duplicable City Center Hub – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BUILDING DIY SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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 completed additional edits on the Chicken Coop Assembly Doc pages 117-121. These were regarding the enclosure under the roof sides and the barn door fabrication. As part of this, we found a good video to use as a guide for construction of the chick coop door. The video is meant for construction of a tabletop but it will suffice for our coop door.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Chicken Coop – Click to visit site

A different core team also continued updating the images and text on the Chicken Coop Building instruction document based on the above suggestions and feedback.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Chicken Coop – Click for page

Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 20th 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 came back from maternity leave and spent most of his time getting up to date with what happened for the last three weeks, and working on Anna’s menu plan. Many recipes need to be moved around in the menu plan and some of the recipes need to be modified to accommodate a large-scale kitchen operation like ours, versus a home cooking plan. Below are some images related to this.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for page

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 4th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Adam first worked on the recipe conversion calculator. He added in simple equations to convert US measurements to imperial and vice versa.

He also started to learn how to create drop down menus in google sheets so he could make the calculator more streamlined and easier to use. Adam also reviewed Brian’s drawing of the kitchen layout. This made him think not only of worker use, but diner use, and led to an idea for a beverage station and also a bussing station. The pictures below relate to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Transition Food Self-Sufficiency Plan – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BUILDING DIY SUSTAINABLE CITIES

One Community is building DIY sustainable cities 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

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BUILDING DIY SUSTAINABLE CITIES

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

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

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

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Volunteer Work Review – Click to visit site

The core team also updated all the badges in theHighest Good Network software with all of Alex’s work from the past several weeks. Pictures below are related to this.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network software – Click for page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also completed his 36th week helping, now focused on both the Most Sustainable Urinals page, in addition to finishing the Health Insurance research and page. This week Aidan completed the final minor revisions to the Community Health Insurance Webpage.

He then returned to working on the Urinal, Hand Dryers, and Shower Head pages. Aidan worked on incorporating content from a spreadsheet, doing minor formatting, and proofreading and editing the content of each page. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Most Sustainable Urinals – Click for page

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav finished developing the code for a component that will allow us to input any city in the world for a volunteer and it will tell us their timezone. This is needed to help with coordinating calls and meetings with people around the world. Now we can easily add a person’s timezone to their profile when we set them up as a new team member. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network software – Click for page

Irene Clare (Full Stack Developer) completed her 4th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Irene has continued to work on the people reports page. She pulled the recent changes for the people report page made by Rachit and worked on designing the report page with the user details and task details related to the user’s project. Irene also worked on the task table design and functionality. The pictures below relate to this work.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network software – Click for page

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin found 4 bugs and fixed 3. The first fix regarded the functionality of deleting and assigning badges, in addition to finding and fixing a bug he found while working on this issue. Deleted badges are no longer added when a user tries to add a badge after deleting one or more.

Badges selected and not added are no longer assigned if a user tries to assign another badge. Kevin also fixed a bug in which a new user’s weekly committed hours wouldn’t be saved and the default of 10 hours would be used in its place. Creating a new user now functions as expected. Additionally, Kevin fixed the documentation for running the app locally, and the read.me file for HGNApp that previously referenced using Yarn as a package manager. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit site

Miguel Fernandes (Full-stack Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Miguel started the week setting up the app locally. At first he studied the codebase and had a meeting with teammates to try and understand the workflow. During the week he worked on formatting and testing files on the frontend using Prettier and ESLint (total of 276 files). Miguel pushed those changes into a new branch (miguel-codeformatting). He also tested and approved PR #367. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building DIY Sustainable Cities – Highest Good Network software – Click for page

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One Community welcomes Maya Callahan to the Research and Web Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Maya is completing her final year at Arizona State University and will graduate with a B.S. in Biology and Society and a Studio Art minor. Maya found a passion for sustainability and the environment while progressing through her college career. By changing the focus of her major from neurobiology, physiology, and behavior to biology and society, she was able to learn about bioethics, history and philosophy of science, and science communication, all of which have been applicable to her work with One Community. After completing multiple papers regarding the previously mentioned topics and an undergraduate research project, Maya also acquired excellent writing and research skills that she is now putting to use. As a One Community volunteer, she is assisting in research for finding the most sustainable materials, as well as editing and proofreading web pages that are incomplete and/or under construction. More specifically for the Open Source Permaculture Design webpage, Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies, and the EV Integration Solar Farm Battery Analysis page.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM MAYA!

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We can create better living through cooperative systems. By working together, we have the ability to create a lifestyle with less work, more free time, more to do with our free time, better food and overall health, less stress, etc. One Community is developing and open sourcing detailed DIY plans for how to achieve all this. We’re also adding artistic, sustainable, and healthier housing, renewable energy infrastructure, and what we call “Highest Good” approaches to 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 this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 6th, 2022 edition (#467) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, emphasizing better living through cooperative systems:

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems
One Community Progress Update #467

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

One Community is addressing better living through cooperative systems through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 84th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued the development of a support structure for the rain barrels. He focused on facilitating the installation process, while maintaining structural rigidity and strength. The design focused on using unistrut channels with fastener holes on all three sides as the main supporting columns and beams.

The three sided unistrut channel has the benefit of being more versatile and a wider range of orientations than a traditional one side slotted ones. The one side slotted unistrut channels were used for the secondary beams that form the base for the rain barrel. The advantage they have over the three sided type is the lower price and lower tolerance for fastener hole alignment, facilitating they’re installation. An FEA was performed to analyze the stress distributions and the amount of deflection in the beams.

It was found that the stress was concentrated toward the edges of the main beams supporting the secondary beams, but still under the yield stress of the structure. It was also seen that the maximum amount of deflection occurs toward the center of the secondary beams. The maximum amount of deflection was found to be 0.7mm, well below the maximum allowable deflection of 2.4mm. An additional concept for the structure was also rendered using only slotted unistruts. The use of these struts would reduce costs, but would add many more steps and precision to assemble it. The pictures below show some of this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 35th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela started off the week by reviewing all new comments and emails. She contacted Tugce, answered questions and provided documents and dropbox links that would further help. A new tab was also created so that the Hazen William calculations could be worked on for the pipe sizing of the Earthbag Village.

Daniela then went through the City Center Project Specification and Design Basis report and properly formatted all headings. In doing so Daniela was then able to construct a more accurate table of contents. She came across some issues with the numbering so she downloaded a google docs add on that would allow the table of contents to be numbered as such. Daniela came across other formatting issues and plans to continue working on it in the week to come. Pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Sustainable Roadways – Click to visit site

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 24th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team prepped for Saturday cylinder making day. On Tuesday, the team met with their on-site supervisor to go over the facility use for the week, as well as finish the materials list that was necessary to make 175 total cylinders.

On Thursday, the team had a chance to practice with compression testing the cylinders with and without stucco. They also went to Home Depot to pick up the items such as Portland cement and equipment for the mixes. On Friday, they put together a work plan to make all the cylinders on a single day. On Saturday, the team completed making the 175 cylinders for all mixes. Pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Compression Testing – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 15th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page and Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal. This week Yuran filled in columns B and G from the T&Q Live Page on the Tools/Equipment Master tab and checked tools, equipment and materials lists to confirm that there aren’t items on the wrong list. She also compared the Water Catchment page to the Google Doc, repasting everything and checking the format and the table of contents and adding missing items. Pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Tools and Equipment – Click for page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

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

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

This week the core team finished working with the Duplicable City Center 3D model to create the outer layer of the Living Dome with walls 12 3/8″ thickness. This week we finished modeling the outer-shell in the SketchUp application for the Social Dome and Dining Dome. 

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Duplicable City Center 3D Model – Click to visit site

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 40th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis finalized his calculation of the head loss for the City Center Spa design. The calculation required knowledge of fluid dynamics with an emphasis on friction.

The approximated head loss was assumed for 50 feet of plumbing and a water temperature of 120º which are high estimates to assume a worst case scenario. Luis is still verifying his findings to confirm the units and values, and next week will continue his documentation of the updated design. Pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – City Center Eco-Spa Designs – Click for page

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 35th week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank checked the necessary energy drawn from the lights and energy items that are going to be present in the Ultimate Classroom building. He also worked in the HVAC system by fixing some numbers in the energy balance calculation for the greenhouses designs. This approximation also helps with later HVAC system design. The pictures below relate to this.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Solar Micro grid sizing – Click for page

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 27th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos finished successfully exporting all the furniture into the CAD environment. This included all the technical views with screws, fittings and other items. He noticed that there are a few things missing and some others extra, but he can delete them/add them in no time. Having said that, the blueprints updates are expected to be finished by next week. This means, only adding color and changing line types and dimensions if needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Duplicable City Center Guest Rooms – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 23rd week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the landscape plans and the door and window plan for the Social Dome on the second floor. She also had a meeting with the architectural team, assigned tasks, and discussed the window and door detail and schedule. Pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Duplicable City Center – Click for page

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 22nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. Huiya continued working on updating the window schedule. She did some research about the windows that can meet the need of LEED, and she found that Milgard® offers diverse products that meet or exceed the LEED requirements.

They also have the Milgard Energy Calculator that can provide a quick and easy way to help select windows and doors that can meet local energy codes and project requirements. Besides that, she accomplished the work of fixing the wrong size of Window 1 and Window 4, fixing the related items in the floor plans, and building up the models for window 1 and window 4. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Duplicable City Center Review – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 20th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi had a discussion with the team about changes needed for the Social Dome second-floor door and window designs.

The issue was that windows are not effectively placed to ensure sight into the social space and, at the same time, the building shell curvature is limiting wall heights and options for window placement. The team then went over the occupancy and egress requirements to double check door requirements and a few exterior and interior door products were selected based on previously determined aesthetics and energy performance. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center Review – Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on increasing the thickness of the center ring to see if there was any possible solution to fix the stress concentration problem. He increased the thickness from 0.25in to 0.35in to 0.45in and finally 1in, and found that the issue still persisted. Raj also ran the analysis on the full assembly to see the new stress distribution. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Click for page

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 6th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik conducted research on the analytical load distribution over the dome. He also researched how the load is distributed at each hub in the dome, and the hub at which there is maximum load that would affect the stability of the dome. He looked for open-source software to perform structural analysis of the dome for the various loads. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Click to visit site

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

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

• • • Learn about the 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 Aquapini & Walipini designs. We integrated comments, added questions for clarification, and added a paragraph summarizing the use of berms for internal temperature control and assessed an old heat loss study. We had a meeting with the City Center Hub Connector team and multiple communications with Marcus (the team lead) as the Compression testing team prepared to make all the cylinders needed.

We created unique IDs for each cylinder and helped iron out other compression testing arrangements and researched and began answering questions around stucco application on test aircrete cylinders.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Aquapini & Walipini Designs – Click for page

Another core team member completed additional edits on the Chicken coop details. We worked more on addressing comments on the Google Doc from the start of the doc through page 105. Then we reviewed the text on the same doc though page 115 and researched and reviewed standing seam videos, as this will replace the delta rib metal roofing panels.

Standing seam priority is due to less maintenance and better longevity, though the initial cost is more. Also a decision was made for the following sheathing standards throughout our entire project: 3/4″ floors, 5/8″ roofing and 1/2″ walls. Some of this can vary with joist spacing and snow loads. We also updated images with bigger font size and better view points on specific images.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Chicken Coop – Click for page

The core team also finished the Permaculture Design “case study” for our planned property. This is all part of another of our members getting permaculture certified. This week’s focus was finalizing all the written details for his written certification, updating the fencing plan to be more accurate, efficient, and cost effective, adding fire truck turnaround areas, and adding in our initial food forest area. The collage below shows all the final graphics that we’ll be integrating into the website next.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Permaculture Design – Click for page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 12th and final week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 6 recipes: Chai-Spiced Butternut Squash Smoothie, Tandoori Salmon and Butternut Squash, Spicy Thai Peanut Salad, Spaghetti-Squash Fritter, Spicy Chickpea Wraps, and Vegan Potato Salad.

The last three of these are under “recipes using leftovers” as per Brian’s idea. In addition she’s focused on filling in gaps on rows E and F within her 2-week menu. She was able to complete the first 2-week menu and began a second 2-week menu, using recipes from her archive that were not yet used. She has marked cells red and left recipe suggestions in gaps within her second 2-week menu. The pictures below relate to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Transition Food Self-Sufficiency Plan – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 8th week helping with research and web design, currently focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week Maya continued her work of editing and proofreading the Open Source Permaculture DIY webpage and began a new task, proofreading the Solar Farm Battery Analysis final report. For the permaculture webpage, her primary focus was ensuring that all hover text was consistent, accurate, and uniform.

The new task regarding the Solar Farm Battery Analysis entails proofreading the report and correcting grammar, spelling, and structure errors. For content that was vague or difficult to understand, she made a comment on the google document for additional feedback and clarification. Once Maya received this feedback the necessary changes on the previously mentioned content were made, she then would resolve the comment so that others editing the page were aware of these changes. The pictures below are related to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Permaculture Design – Click for page

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 3rd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam spent the week reviewing recipes submitted by Anna and providing feedback. Anna’s recipes are very good, but every now and then a detail can be pointed out. Adam also spent the time working on the Recipe conversion calculator to help convert recipes to different types of measurements, and also to help scale recipes for more people. The pictures below relate to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

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

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

• Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
• How the components work together: 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

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Highest Good Education – Click image for the hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BETTER LIVING THROUGH COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS

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

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

This week the core team completed 32 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Managing One Community – Click for page

The core team also added a new section about the latest plastic block technology to the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page, updated the SEO information, added it to our Open Source Social Media Strategy and shared it across all our social media networks.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Plastic Recycling – Click for page

Aidan Geissler(Sustainability Researcher) also completed his 35th week helping, now focused on both the Most Sustainable Urinals page, in addition to finishing the Health Insurance research and page. This week Aidan worked on final revisions to the Community Health Insurance Webpage. In addition to minor revisions, he conducted additional analysis in the health insurance spreadsheet to calculate the amount of community members’ Out-of-Pocket Limits that can be covered by the cost-savings generated by our community-based health insurance approach.

Impressively, for ANY community size, it was found that this approach can cover the full Out-of-Pocket limit for 30% of the population. This is a fantastic, straightforward benchmark that can be used to assess whether this approach is cost-effective for a given community. This means that if more than 70% of the population is generally healthy and unlikely to require extensive medical care, then this community-based health insurance approach will likely be cost-effective. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Most Sustainable Urinals – Click to visit site

Irene Clare (Full Stack Developer) completed her 3rd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Irene worked on the People reporting component. She has finished populating basic user details in the UI and started to work on creating tables. Currently Irene is facing a challenge with upgrading the react table version to support the required functionality and checking the possibilities to do with the existing table version. She also reviewed and approved a couple PR’s. The pictures below relate to this work.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week, Kevin fixed the delete badge confirmation dialog (pull #363) to display the requested text. He also changed the dialog from window.confirm(), which has a fixed styling, to a React-strap modal, which can be fully customized.

This required the code to be refactored and new states added. In addition, Kevin changed the ‘can’t select more than 5 badges’ error from window.alert() to a toast.error() so it is consistent with other errors across the app. Lastly, he found two new bugs and added them to the bugs doc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Better Living Through Cooperative Systems – Highest Good Network software – Click for page

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Reinventing our cities as models of sustainability and a more enjoyable living experience is long overdue. It’s possible and can provide a more luxurious lifestyle too. One Community is supporting this through open source and free-shared city designs that integrate sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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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 February 27th, 2022 edition (#466) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Reinventing Our Cities
One Community Progress Update #466

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – REINVENTING OUR CITIES

One Community is reinventing our cities 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 Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #241 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective with added external plant elements and some internal decoration details.

Reinventing Our Cities – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 65th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey continued her focus on updating several of the lumber cutting pages. She added the measurements and made sure all the boards and cutting places are spaced evenly and uniform throughout. She also standardized the font sizing and made sure the colors on the plywood match the coding system. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Reinventing Our Cities – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 83rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued designing the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom. He previously ran a FE Analysis on two different unistruts, one with slotted fastener holes and the other with circular fastener holes on three of its sides. Continuing the comparison process, he connected additional circular hole unistruts, acting as beams, to the main circular hole unistrut columns.

He noticed the design complexity of the circular hole unistruts when trying to connect additional beams, in order for the design to work the holes must be concentric. Jose Luis instead added slotted fastener unistruts as it decreases the tolerance when installing them. After assembling the first level of the rain barrel support structure he ran a new FE Analysis to analyze the structural integrity. A factor of safety of 2.5 was used to run the analysis. This factor of safety was represented by the applied load on the beams, where the selected force was 1500 pounds and the actual load was roughly 600 pounds.

The analysis showed stress concentrations, approaching the yield strength, near the beam to beam connections. The stress was seen to radiate away from the center of the main unistrut beams. An additional beam can be installed in the center to help distribute these stresses. The analysis also showed a maximum beam deflection of 0.9538mm much lower than the maximum allowable beam deflection of 2.5mm based on its length. Next, this design will be compared to a 100% slotted hole unistrut structure to see the differences in strength and costs. The pictures below show some of this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 34th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week, for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report, Daniela transferred all comments she had made onto the document. She reviewed these comments and decided not to incorporate some based on the review of the entire report.

Daniela then made edits to the narrative based on the comments she left, this included expanding/rephrasing the narrative and moving around some sections in order for the report to flow better. Throughout the week she reviewed any new comments and responded as needed. Lastly, Daniela started to work on the development of the pond size for the water catchment report as she waited for document access to her next action item. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Sustainable Roadways – Click to visit site

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 23rd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team finalized the necessary procedures and materials needed for cylinder making day.

The team learned to apply stucco to the aircrete cylinders. With the stucco applied, the team was planning to wait until next week to see if stucco will provide any additional support for the cylinders but the application process was incorrect and missing a component, so this process will need to be redone. The team also discussed the work plan and prepared a materials list. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Aircrete and Earthbag Compression Testing – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 14th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page and Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal. This week Yuran checked the content of the Water Catchment page to confirm everything matched the development Google Doc and updated all the images in the page.

She also filled in columns C, E, and F on this Materials Master tab, using the descriptions from the T&Q Live Page, checked that all the equipment codes include the “#”, and added in the missing alternating colors for the rows. She filled in columns B and G on this Tools/Equipment Master tab too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Tools and Equipment – Click for page

Cheng Lok Yin Leo (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed his first week of work on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables research, report, and tutorial. This week Leo focused on familiarizing himself with the previous research content, identifying the useful material vs non-useful, and understanding the concepts of Waste-to-energy (WTE) solutions, such as gasification, Pyrolysis, Incinerations etc.

He then started to write the item “How It Works”, including examples of cities or towns with sustainable programs already in place. This content was mainly copied from the previous research and adjustment will be made in the following week. See below for some pictures related to this.

Reinventing Our Cities – Sustainable Processing – Click to visit site

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – REINVENTING OUR CITIES

One Community is reinventing our cities 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 started working with the Duplicable City Center 3D model to create the outer layer of the Living Dome with walls 12 3/8″ thickness. This week, we finished modeling the outer shell for the Living Dome and started to model the outer shell for Social Dome. The same team member also finished updates to the Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for the Sheep Barn, Chicken and Rabbits. We added the starting number of livestock with details related to age and gender and maximum number for livestock per structure too. Pictures of some of this work are below. 

Reinventing Our Cities – Duplicable City Center 3D Model – Click for page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 39th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on making updates to the existing documents to incorporate accurate values. Also, progress has been made to develop head loss and heat consumption values to update the operating times and understand the true performance of the system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – City Center Eco-Spa Designs – Click for page

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 34th week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank finished double checking the different items that will be used in the City Center and started checking the energy draws for the items that will be used within the Straw Bale Village (Pod 2). The pictures below relate to this.

Reinventing Our Cities – Solar Microgrid Sizing – Click for page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) also completed his 34th week helping, now focused on both the Most Sustainable Urinals page, in addition to finishing the Health Insurance research and page. This week Aidan begun his work on the Most Sustainable Waterless Urinal page, on which he has added an Introduction section and is proofreading and making minor formatting and content updates. He also continued to work on final revisions to the Community Health Insurance Webpage, such as additions to the Summary and Introduction of the Conclusions section. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Reinventing Our Cities – Most Sustainable Urinals – Click to visit site

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 26th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week was more like a trial for Carlos. This week he succeeded in exporting only the desired views for the drawings, meaning only the top, front and side views. This configuration is a lot easier because it’s in 2D instead of 3D. The last one was only in 3D and caused the program to crash a lot because of the mesh complexity. Now that Carlos can export in only 2D, it should be easy to finish this for the rest of the furniture. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Duplicable City Center – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 22nd week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the floor plans and elevations, checked the door and window details and schedule, updated the door tags and window tags, and then continued working on the light fixture analysis on DiaLux evo. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – City Center Lighting Updates – Click to visit site

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Huiya worked on updating the door and window schedule. She accomplished the work of fixing the wrong size of Door 1 and Door 2, and fixing the related items in the floor plans. She also did some research on Door 14, the bathroom door and decided to pick the width of 32in, then she finished the detailed drawings of Door 14. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Reinventing Our Cities – Duplicable City Center Architectural Review – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi went over items with the team that required attention for the door and window schedule in both CAD and sketchUp. Discussion and work summary include staircase door needs to be changed, several selected doors require size verification in CAD as they were scaled incorrectly during design, and selection of new public restroom door (proposal) and detailing it in CAD. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Reinventing Our Cities – Duplicable City Center Architectural Review – Click to visit site

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj ran simulations on the angled beam with a center ring using the 2-bracket and the 3-bracket configuration. He also ran studies on the center ring by itself to figure out how to reduce the stress concentration by using different methods of reducing these concentrated stress scenarios. Pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Duplicable City Center Hub – Click to visit site

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 5th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik studied the different loading points in the dome to find the level of the dome where the maximum load would act. The structure of the dome is capable of distributing the stress equally throughout the structure. For the structure to be stable, an equivalent thrust should act in the middle third of the structure. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Reinventing Our Cities – Duplicable City Center Hub – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – REINVENTING OUR CITIES

One Community is reinventing our cities 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 clarified how Permaculture factors are ordered in terms of the duration the factor remains unchanged and the energy it would take to change the factor. We also continued to work on the Aquapini & Walipini content, specifically, integrating venting network, and ancillary benefits, as well as a new section on berms, terraces, and swales. We had conversations with Marcus from the Compression Testing Team about stucco, reimbursement, and schedule too.

Reinventing Our Cities – Aquapini & Walipini – Click to visit site

Another core team member completed additional edits on the Chicken coop details through page 105. Research was conducted on standing seam roofing and this will be applied instead of delta rib. Multiple videos were reviewed covering frieze blocks, roofing outriggers, roof sheathing, standing seam roofing as well as relocating drawing paragraph descriptions before the drawings. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Reinventing Our Cities – Chicken Coop – Click to visit site

The core team also worked on the Permaculture Design “case study” for our planned property. This is all part of another of our members getting permaculture certified. This week’s focus was reviewing all the written details for his written certification that will also be added to our website, adding swale-planting understory plants, and other related graphics updates. These will be further updated as we solidify our location and know for sure our climate, topography, hardiness zones, etc.

Reinventing Our Cities – Permaculture Design – Click for page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 11th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 3 recipes: Rosemary Chicken and Vegetable Root Gratin, Hot & Sour Cabbage Stir Fry, Spicy Calabrese-Style Pork Ragu Pasta. All of which have been included in her 2-week menu. In addition, she’s focused on filling in gaps on rows L, M, R, and S of her menu plan along with making some revisions to existing recipes there. She is nearly done with this menu and will continue filling in final gaps. The pictures below relate to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 7th week helping with research and web design, currently focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week, she checked every image on the page to ensure it was properly centered, and opened in the right tab (if applicable). She fixed any issues that were found and then moved on to check hyperlinks and their hover text, making the format of each uniform.

She also began editing the Earthbag Construction webpage based on a feedback PDF, ensuring all comments regarding corrections were in fact made on the live webpage. Maya resolved comments as she reviewed and confirmed that the content looked good, and proceeded to continue editing the hover text on the permaculture webpage. The pictures below are related to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Permaculture Design – Click for page

Adam Weiss (Chef) completed his 2nd week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Adam checked recipes submitted by Anna and provided feedback based on ingredient use and general functionality. He also added to and organized the equipment list, suggested doing away with past copies of the equipment list, and added comments and suggestions to the master equipment list. Adam then checked over the kitchen build plans and will be submitting more comments later. The pictures below relate to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Transition Food Self-Sufficiency Plan – Click to visit site

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – REINVENTING OUR CITIES

One Community is reinventing our cities 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

Reinventing Our Cities – Highest Good Education – Click image for the open source hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – REINVENTING OUR CITIES

One Community is reinventing our cities 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 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

Reinventing Our Cities – Volunteer-Work Review – Click for page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit worked on the final requirements for the time entries and infringements visualization as Jae suggested in the weekly meeting. The visualizations are now decoupled and used across the application. He also integrated new on-click pop up functionality for the data points on both of the visualizations and added labels for each data point, and started working on the pie chart for the time entries visualization. The pictures below relate to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

Irene Clare (Full Stack Developer) completed her 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This Week Irene forked the Rachit development branch to get his People Report component changes into her local development environment, designed a mockup for the People report page, got feedback and integrated it into her implementation, and then started the coding for all of it. The pictures below relate to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

And Gary Almes (Full Stack Developer) completed his 2nd week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Gary continued looking at code and database and back again trying to get comfortable with what’s there. He also started to refactor some code as a way to learn the functionality and help make it a bit more concise and easier to read. The pictures below relate to this work.

Reinventing Our Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

Kevin Begin (Full Stack Web Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Kevin made the following fixes for pull #354: field required’ errors are now only displaying AFTER a user clicks create; formErrors now used if they exist instead of hardcoded errors; ‘phone is required’ error now shows if a user fills in, then deletes the field; conditions moved to separate method; ‘var patt’ is now a const. removed duplicate definitions; and toast error ‘please fill in required fields’ now working if the user doesn’t focus any fields.

He also updated the ESLint and Prettier setup doc, as well as reviewing and approvIng pull request #355. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Reinventing Our Cities – Highest Good Network Software – Click for page

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Creating global cooperatives developing and evolving open source and free-shared sustainability plans for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, etc. is a path to a sustainable planet that will benefit humanity and all life. One Community calls this living and creating for “The Highest Good of All“.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the February 20th, 2022 edition (#465) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Global Cooperatives
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – CREATING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 researched tools and materials items for the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) domes, identifying proper photos without copyrights. We also wrote up an explanation for the WWF jig, a tarp cut to size to utilize as a pattern for creating, with bolt cutters, a circle from a square to fit the dome floors. The same team member also edited pages 63-90 of the chicken coop assembly doc, providing comments to existing SketchUp drawings and relocating all paragraphs within these pages to the tops of the photos instead of the bottoms.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Earthbag Village Domes – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 64th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on updating several of the lumber cutting pages. She is adding the measurements and making sure all the boards and cutting places are spaced evenly and uniform throughout. The colors are also being revised on the plywood to match the coding system. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Murphy bed Instructions – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 33rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. This week Daniela primarily focused on the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report. She continued to read through the narrative currently posted on the website and was able to complete the reading by the end of the week.

She wrote down comments on a separate document in order to ensure the changes suggested were necessary and did not interfere with one another. Daniela made sure that all links provided properly worked and made a small change to the roadways excel sheet. Additionally, Daniela reviewed all new comments posted for the documents she has been working on. Next week she plans to start off by commenting her notes/suggestions on to the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot Report. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Sustainable Roadways – Click to visit site

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 82nd 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 for the Net-zero Bathroom. Based on availability, simplicity and longevity, unistrut channels were selected as the primary component to support the rain barrels. The unistruts were found in two types, one with slots on one face and the other with 9/16″ fastener holes on three sides.

Jose Luis began comparing both types in terms of performance and cost by rendering them and running them through a static load simulation. Both unistruts displayed similar results in terms of strain and principal stresses, but the unistrut with fastener holes displayed more stress concentrations than the slotted unistrut. He then began researching different unistrut fittings to compare the effect they have on the performance and costs. The pictures below show some of this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Net-zero Bathroom Component – Click for page

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 22nd week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week they worked on getting the instructions, materials, additional volunteer guidance, and work plan for the pre-run cylinders.

The team had several meetings to discuss the overall objectives for the week, a meeting with their on-site supervisor to discuss the lab room access for the weekend and the amount of cylinders that will be stored in the lab room, and also a meeting with their One Community core team manager to discuss the plan for the pre-run cylinders. On Saturday the team picked up materials and made pre-run cylinders for concrete and light, standard, and heaviest aircrete. At the end of the pre-run cylinders, it was concluded that all the cylinders looked strong. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Aircrete and Earthbag Compression Testing – Click for page

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 20th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week he worked on the charging economics for electric vehicle installation. Shreyas has extensively researched and consolidated vital information on the different equipment required to set up charging stations, transformers, and the economics for the equipment. He has also continued to edit the document for picture alignment, clarity, and general proofreading. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Solar Micro grid Design Specifics – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 13th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page. This week Yuran added missing tools and updated the page with anchor links too. She also checked all the feedback and requested edits and the SEO at the bottom. Yuran then worked on updating the staging version of the Rainwater Harvesting, Water Catchment, and Swale Building Open Source Hub and Portal with the latest design content and feedback and added both pages to the webpage checking spreadsheet and checked all details there. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Tools and Equipment – Click to visit site

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – CREATING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 started working with the Duplicable City Center 3D model to create the outer layer of the Living Dome with walls 12 3/8″ thickness. The same team member also finished with the Cost Analysis Spreadsheet for the Sheep Barn according to the latest updates. She updated some labels and added the starting number of sheep and provided the maximum sheep capacity for the designed barn size. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center 3D Model – Creating Global Cooperatives – Click for page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 38th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on getting energy budget estimates for the City Center Spa design. The numbers were derived through the voltage and amperage requirements of each component in the system.

Once these values were located, Luis was able to calculate the maximum wattage for the spa system. Through CAD simulations and heat transfer calculations, he will be able to update the energy usage of the spa for maximum and minimum daily requirements. This will all be completed simultaneously with the modification of the website documentation for the design justifications. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – City Center Eco-Spa Designs – Click to visit site

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 33rd week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on the energy demand for the City Center. He reviewed the energy input and checked for differences between the actual numbers and the ones presented in the energy balance spreadsheet. The City Center items are now double-checked, with the exception of the pump and spa. The pictures below relate to this.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Solar Micro grid Sizing – Click for page

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 30th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus completed the section G_G. She added walls, columns and furniture according to the newest floor and basement plans. See pictures below.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center – Click to visit site

Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 25th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week was more like a trial for Carlos. He spent a good amount of time testing and exporting the furniture, all with no problem exporting only the wood objects.

However, when it came to the screws and mending plates the program just crashed over and over. Carlos successfully exported the chair, with all its components. He plans to ask a friend for a tip when exporting complex meshes like screws. The most complex of them all is the bed and wardrobe so once he achieves this goal it will save a lot of time. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center – Click to visit site

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the dormer and walls in the AutoCAD file since the diameter of domes became larger. She also updated the wall and dome sections, looked through the window detail, and worked on the elevations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – City Center Lighting – Click to visit site

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 20th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she focused on fixing the size of the entrance doors on the first floor according to the door and window schedule, modeling the windows on the fourth floor according to the old SketchUp model, and using Rhino to model the railings on the fourth floor to match the interior design plan and then import them back to SketchUp. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Architectural Review – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 18th 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 the open roof area on the Living Dome. It occurred to the team that roofing depth is typically deeper and requires more room on the top floor.

As a result, it was determined that the 3D model required an actual measurement and the information was still missing. Yuxi continued to research the roofing details to determine the actual roof thickness. Based on the master plan and research, a few sketches were developed and will serve as discussion material for next week. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Architectural Review – Click to visit site

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj worked on adding the 2-bracket layered assembly and the 3-bracket layered assembly. He also added the center ring to the angled beams and performed Finite Element Analysis on each of these models to check the maximum stresses on the V brackets. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Duplicable City Center Hub – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – CREATING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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 edited and consolidated the Aquapini & Walipini design document and website, reconciled comments and added new comments to continue improving the writeup, and updated the numbers for rainwater catchment, as well as external pond requirements. They also had their weekly meetings with the Compression Testing Team and the Center Hub Connector Team and reviewed and revised the Compression Testing Team’s experimental plan. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Compression Testing Team – Click for page

And the core team worked on finishing our big Permaculture Design case study for our planned property. This week we added more planting plan details to the swales section, resized and replanned the tree planting plan around the City Center based on their actual average canopy size, and added other graphic details.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Permaculture Design – Click to visit site

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 72nd week volunteering, finishing her work with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng integrated final edit requests and exported all her files for integration into our website. Pictures below show the final files.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Aquapini & Walipini Landscaping – Click to visit page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 10th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 5 recipes: Beef Bolognese, Crispy Feta Tacos with Feta Slaw, Mongolian Beef and Broccoli, Butternut Squash Stew, and Southwest Sweet Potato Skillet. Anna continued creating her 2-week menu, assigned by Brian. So far she’s completed 3/4 of the menu, and is now filling in the gaps by developing new recipes. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Click to visit page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 6th week helping with research and web design, now focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week, Maya continued proofreading the Open Source DIY Permaculture webpage. She added hyperlinks to a few sections where they were not added yet, made sure they had the necessary hover text and opened in the correct tab.

Any outside sources, such as articles, were backed up to a dropbox folder in a PDF format. After proofreading most of the content on this webpage, she went back through to make sure that all of the media on the page was properly justified and had the right spacing. Any errors Maya found were fixed unless additional feedback was needed; in this case, she commented on the Permaculture Page Content Google Document and made changes based on the feedback. The pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Permaculture Design – Click to visit page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – CREATING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

One Community is creating global cooperatives 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

One Community volunteer-work review – Highest Good Education – Click image for the hub

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – CREATING GLOBAL COOPERATIVES

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

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

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

Creating Global Cooperatives – Volunteer-Work Review – Click to visit site

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) completed her 27th week, now working icon images for the Highest Good Network software. This week she focused on working on the last improvements/edits needed for the economics icons. Alex submitted the final version of icons number six and seven, and finalized and submitted for review icons number two, four, and five based on the feedback from the previous week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit worked on integrating suggestions from Jae into the visualizations component. He completed separating visualizations into pure components so that they are reusable across the application. This also made it possible to redraw the graphs without triggering a re-render. Rachit also made onClick functionality for visualizations work with the modal, and these are displaying extended information about the data point for right now. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit page

Irene Clare (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Irene downloaded the studio 3T IDE tool for MongoDB and completed the database setup. She also reviewed and approved a few PR’s and provided comments. Later Irene worked on the timer issue and debugged the functionality, reported her observations, and began working on structuring the reports page. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit site

Gary Almes (Full Stack Developer) joined the team and also completed his 1st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. Most of Gary’s time this week was spent getting up and running and getting familiar with the code. He created an account for himself on the Dev database using the app UI, but it gave him the role of Volunteer, and he didn’t realize that right away, so he wasn’t seeing all the Admin screens as he should.

He also spent time watching Jerry’s (past software engineer) videos and is about halfway through them, and began making a Trello board to help him organize my thoughts on what needs to get done for the Management component. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Network software – Click to visit site

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped us test some new plugins to improve our web loading speeds. See pics below related to this.

Creating Global Cooperatives – Web Loading Speeds – Click to visit page

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One Community welcomes Raj Patel to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Raj is a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. With the knowledge he gained from his degree, Raj seeks to help change the world by making it a better place for everyone to live. In his opinion, this is the best part of engineering and he joined the One Community team because our project resonates with his personal beliefs and desire for making a difference. Raj is working with One Community to solve the challenges of designing and using SolidWorks to test a DIY-replicable solution for connecting all the beams of the Duplicable City Center.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RAJ!

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A working and DIY blueprint for an open source sustainable planet is a path to achieving one sooner. One Community is creating one to begin a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together to further develop, evolve, and diversify the blueprint and implementation process.

• 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 February 13th, 2022 edition (#464) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet
One Community Progress Update #464

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #240 of Dean’s work and he is now working on the actual renders. The picture below shows the newest perspective.

Earthbag Village 4-Dome – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 63rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey worked on touching up the lumber cutting pages for the main wall pages. She is also going back and adding the lengths and cutting placements to all pages and also updating pages as needed to make all text larger, and increasing sizes of icons. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy Bed Instructions – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 32nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Earthbag Village, and the final Aquapini & Walipini website updates. Daniela started off the week by reading through new comments and feedback. Tugce suggested a change for the cost analysis excel sheet and provided an article to review. Daniela collected resources that would help Tugce visualize current projects and continued to read through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report, noting all needed edits. Lastly, Daniela reviewed and responded to more comments in the Aquapini and Walipini report, as well as editing the narrative and creating a new table. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Roadways – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 81st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began updating the rain barrel support structure of the Net-Zero Bathroom to a more cost effective design.

He began by replacing the unistrut channel spring nuts with a standard washer and nut to reduce costs. The price of both the washers and nuts were searched online, being sure to put emphasis on them being hot dipped galvanized for increased durability in a humid environment. With that in place, he began analyzing the connections necessary to build the structure. He first tried common single 90 degree angle brackets, but found the lack of clearance for adjacent brackets to be installed.

To solve this problem, a wing shape fitting was used to support two adjacent unistrut channels simultaneously. After installing them with proper bolts, washers, and nuts, Jose Luis began designing a concept of the support base for the rain barrel. To confirm the reliability of the orientation, he will conduct a static analysis of the unistrut channel beams supporting the barrel. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom Component – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

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 20th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team had several meetings, received a new foam generator and, after doing a foam test between the new generator and the old generator, determined the newer generator results in a slight improvement for 7th Generation Soap foam.

The team decided that 7th Generation still did not perform as well as the Drexel foam and, moving forward, Drexel will be used to make the aircrete. They also tested finding the aircrete foam limit and determined that 85% foam is the highest foam limit that produces aircrete that keeps its integrity. Pictures below are related to this work.

Aircrete and Earthbag Testing – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Yuran Qin (Volunteer Web Editor) completed her 12th week helping with web design, this week focusing on the Tools and Equipment page. This week Yuran checked all of the links from her supervisor that had equipment and/or tools to be added, then adding any that were missing to the Tools and Equipment page. She also fixed a broken table on that page and updated the Footer, Foundation and Flooring page with content from the Google Doc and anchor links from the Tools Page. Yuran checked the spreadsheet, images, and the format of the page too. Pictures below are related to this work.

Tools and Equipment – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit site

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 reviewed Raj’s writeup on the science behind a geodesic dome by providing feedback and editing the document, met with the Duplicable City Center Hub Connector team to discuss the center rod idea, and re-assigned Frank work on double checking the City Center energy estimates. The same team member had a weekly meeting with the Compression Testing Team and put together a new plan, and also continued to edit and merge the Walipini, Aquapini, and Zenapini website and document. 

Duplicable City Center Hub – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 37th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued working on the documentation of the City Center Spa Area. He is working on converting existing documents into a presentable format for the website.

The primary focus for this week was incorporating another section for spa related items. The previous assumption was that the pool and spa would function on the same hardware, but with Luis’s research, it would be beneficial to have slightly different equipment that accomplishes the same task with a smaller volume target. Luis also met with Hyun-Young this week to further the heat transfer analysis simulations.

Lastly, he is working on developing the energy budget with the existing data and will look to transition to work more with the energy team in the near future. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Eco-Spa – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit site

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 32nd week helping, now focused on content related to the Solar Microgrid sizing. This week Frank worked on checking the different equipment and items that are used in the energy balance sheet for the City Center. He read through equipment specifications and compared the energy needs to the information given in the excel sheet. Finally, he made changes to the energy balance. The pictures below relate to this.

Solar Micro grid Sizing – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 29th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus worked on section G_G. She added walls, columns and furniture according to the new plans. See pictures below.

Duplicable City Center – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 21st week working on Duplicable City Center updates, now focused on the City Center Lighting updates. This week she updated the dormer in the AutoCAD file according to the diameter measured in the SketchUp model and detailed the wall section of the Dome and exported a SketchUp file with dome and ground floor only. Pictures below are related to this work.

City Center Lighting – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 19th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she focused on fixing the size of the entrance doors on the first floor, modifying the living dome shell according to the central walls, pushing the roof of the Living Dome to align with the height of the third floor, adding the floor slabs for the third and fourth floors, and modeling the rooms on third and fourth floors. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. George researched the design criteria for a geodesic dome. He collected materials on the analysis models and factors that go into design calculations and load calculations. He also discussed with team members how to calculate maximum loads and how to implement the center hub design with prestress using a metal tube at the center. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center Connectors – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also completed her 17th week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week Yuxi continued to work on the Social Dome second floor updates. These included tapering the slab and openings, railings, furniture, and exterior walls.

The railing was found to have non-matching materials with the selected interior design. Furniture on the second floor needs to have further edits to improve the space layout too. Doors opening up to the atrium needed to be relocated inward to adjust for the concave clearance of the dome shape. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Duplicable City Center – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Raj Patel (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and testing. This week Raj fixed errors in his Solidworks assembly from last week by changing how the beams will be mated with each other. He also ran FEA to see whether the V bracket would still be effective if the beams were angled. He also experimented with different lengths of the bracket in the study. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Prathik Nirmal Jain (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 4th week of work on the Duplicable City Center hub connectors design and analysis. This week Prathik conducted research on the different loads acting on the hubs of the dome. He also calculated the loads that would act on each hub due to the self-weight and also calculated the wind load acting on the hub in the direction of the wind, while considering all the safety factors for a good hub design. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center Hub – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Plane – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 updating the 3D SketchUp model of the Sheep barn. We updated all labels, added one big barn door, and redesigned the separation fence using cattle panels. We also updated the Cost Analysis Spreadsheet and provided DIY reference links for the feeder and lambing pens.

3D SketchUp Model – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

And the core team worked on researching swale plantings of trees, shrubs, grasses, forbs, pollinators, and bioaccumulators as it relates to whatever property we select and our current Permaculture Design tutorial. These will be further updated as we solidify our location and know for sure our climate, topography, hardiness zones, etc.

Permaculture Design – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit site

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 71st week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng worked on finishing up the Aquapini and Walipini project. She edited the sun and shadow study videos to show the time of sunrise and sunset. She also organized all the files she has been working on and uploaded them to a shared folder for the other team members. Pictures below are related to this.

Aquapini & Walipini – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Anna Cheal (Culinary Nutritionist) also completed her 9th week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. This week Anna completed 2 recipes: Simple Chickpea Salad and Pumpkin Chili. Both of these recipes are ready to be reviewed. Anna then started the process of creating her own 2-week menu, as assigned by Brian. This is being completed on her excel sheet by arranging her recipes and coming up with new ones. The pictures below relate to this work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Maya Callahan (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 5th week helping with research and web design, now focused on final review and edits to the DIY Permaculture Design staging page. This week she backed up any additional external sources (that had not been backed up yet) to a Dropbox folder and checked that hyperlinks opened in the proper tab and had the appropriate hover text as she read through everything. She backtracked to a previously edited section (Sun Sector Example) to correct proper noun capitalization that had been missed.

Finally, Maya corrected simple spelling and grammar errors and commented on the Permaculture Page Content and Research Google document for clarifications and recommendations on content that needs additional editing and rephrasing. She also resolved comments as edits were made, and had Grammarly checking the page for errors she may have overlooked as an additional measure. The pictures below are related to this work.

DIY Permaculture Design – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click to visit page

Adam Weiss (Chef) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan and related menu and meal plans. Adam spent the week exploring files and work that has already been done and generally getting orientated.

Adam and Brian also had a Zoom meeting during the week to discuss tasks and priorities so Adam has a better idea of where to plug in and create value. The photos below relate to this work and show screenshots of web pages that have a recipe cost calculator and one that has a conversion component to it. These will be used to help build out the One Community culinary conversion calculator. The pictures below relate to this work.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for image

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SUSTAINABLE PLANET

One Community is developing a blueprint for an open source sustainable planet 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 21 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, web development, new bug identification and bug fix integration for the Highest Good Network software, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Pictures below show some of this.

One Community Volunteer-Work – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenko (Graphic Designer) also completed her 26th week, now working icon images for the Highest Good Network software. This week she was working on the Economics icons based on feedback on the last 5 in this category. She made requested changes focused mostly on the icon with the apple in the middle, adding details, numbers, lines and other elements from the source to make it look more futuristic and spacious. Pictures below are related to this work.

Highest Good Network software – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

Rachit Joshi (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Rachit worked on improvements that were suggested in the Google Doc for his reports function. The y-axis on the Infringements Visualization will not show decimal ticks now.

He also implemented two versions of displaying infringement descriptions in the graph pop ups.  He tried to implement the modal system on the clicking functionality but a lot of issues arose due the complexity in the PeopleReports.jsx component, he then decided to move the visualizations into their own components. This will make it easier for these visualizations to be used in other parts of the application and also reduce conflicts when Irene starts work on improving the UI. The pictures below relate to this work.

Highest Good Network software – Blueprint for an Open Source Sustainable Planet – Click for page

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