One Community welcomes Narek Tsaturyan to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Narek is a Software Engineer professional in Southern California specializing in full-stack web development. He’s a founder of “Code n’ Coffee”, a coding meetup group in Glendale, CA and has worked on many projects using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, and NodeJS. Narek has also built websites using server-less technology such as NextJS, Gatsby and graphQL APIs. As a member of One Community, Narek is contributing to the development of the Highest Good Network application.

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One path to making sustainability easier is open source sustainability solutions. With this in mind, One Community is creating open source and DIY sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combining them, One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub designed to share, teach, and evolve each of these ares for “The Highest Good of All“. 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.

• 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 October 10th, 2021 edition (#446) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Making Sustainability Easier
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MAKING SUSTAINABILITY EASIER – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. This week’s focus was pushing to the webpage more changes made on the Google Doc, while also accepting suggestions and adding any still needing to be addressed to the top of the doc for easy access and future resolution.

The same team member also made some corrections to the Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship document. The pictures below share some of this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring

The core team also prepared weekly assignments for the compression testing team, had a separate conversation with Marcus about the previous week and upcoming tasks, and reviewed their work and made plans to move forward with Drexel.

We re-reviewed Frank’s work on energy estimates for the HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, and had a call with him to discuss what infiltration energy means and to apply all of our suggested edits to Walipini and Aquapini HVAC estimates.

We also spoke to George about his findings and his need for someone to look at his work and approach. Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Compression testing team management

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 64th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed and reviewed the calculations for the flow rate and pressure of the net-zero bathroom water storage system. He calculated the reduction in flow rate and pressure in the system.

The flow rate and pressure values were graphed in respect to the locations of the pressure drops in the system. The graphs give an insight on what areas of the water storage system affect the flow rate and pressure. He determined a pump was necessary to provide adequate water pressure to the system.

Jose Luis also began looking at the calculations needed to determine the pump power and where to position it in the system to optimize its effectiveness and select the correct pump. The pictures below show some of this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 29th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused on the Earthbag Village aspects of this. This week David met with Daniela and Jae to go over the remaining action items for the Roadways doc.

After meeting with Daniela, David and Daniela figured out why the quantities for the roadways were off. They also reviewed some of the tasks assigned from Jae. Due to a few questions that needed clarification, David met with Jae to understand what action items were left to be finished. Per Jae’s request, David also sketched rough outlines of the basement and garage door dimensions.

Lastly, he prepared the remaining tasks for Daniela to complete over the next couple of weeks. Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 22nd week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week Aidan finished creating a section for each of the 20 insulation products.

Each section includes an introduction paragraph, pros, cons, key features, and links for additional resources. Aidan also reviewed and provided guidance on the current solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. Below are some images related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 15th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela worked on the expenses of the roadways along with the updates for the Rainwater Harvesting page.

She started off the week by creating tabs for the Parking, Roadways, and Walkways costs. She continued working on these throughout the week and provided charts that indicate the expenses for the roadways and walkways of the site. In addition, Daniela met with David to further discuss action items and any questions that were brought up throughout our communication.

Daniela then made changes to the AutoCAD for the drainage system design that David suggested during the meeting. Once completed she created various pdfs that provide various angle-illustrations of the drainage system plan. Daniela continued making alterations to this AutoCAD to ensure the designs were clearly legible to the viewer.

Lastly she found the pipe lengths and input the values into a chart. Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

And Tiffany Gao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 10th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer now focused on a solution to non recyclables. This week Tiffany examined the cost analysis and potential suppliers for a plasma gasification system, carbon injection system, and possibly a dry sorbent injection system.

Varying suppliers and companies provided different methods of such systems (whether that’d be individual gasifier units or an entire facility) along with the additional needs or components of the system, so extensive notes were taken down exploring each elaborated solution. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Making Sustainability Easier ” solutions to non recyclables

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 12th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing. This week the Compression Testing Team did new jar tests, this time adding clay.

The Team also tested making foam with Drexel, which proved to make more consistent foam than 7th generation dish soap. They also spent time working on documents that needed addressing in order to gain approval, and prepared for pretesting the cylinders. Calculations and materials lists were made for preparations for the pretest.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY EASIER – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability easier 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 23rd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis modified the schematic layout of the system to make it more presentable for the website.

There are still some loose ends with the pump selection that should be wrapped up in the next few weeks so we can have a complete energy budget for the system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 13th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs. This week, Venus made some changes on the final report for the dormers and completed the dormer task. She also started a new task and changed “section A” according to the new updated file and matched the dome sections with the plans. This is still a work in progress. See pictures below.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Duplicable City Center designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 11th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. After many discarded thoughts and ideas, Carlos proposed a creative way to show the animations on the Bed Pallet using see-through parts.

These were needed because most of the parts were difficult to see because they were happening mostly inside the pallets. He also finished the Wardrobe Pallet. What’s left on Carlos’ agenda is to model the Folding Door Hardware because it’s in the cost analysis but not included in the models.

This animation is shown at the end of the render so, so it should take little to no time to accomplish. Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 6th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. She continued the floor plan updates, created the plumbing fixture block and replaced the previous plumbing fixtures. Xuanji also changed the stairs to enclosed fire-rated staircases, and managed the other two architectural team members.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George completed the static analysis to determine the stress, strain, and deflection of the system under a given load. The results were interpreted and a large displacement was noticed.

The brackets were redesigned for 0.1875″ to see the effects of load on this bracket configuration and associated loads were recalculated. George also started the redesign of the brackets for the ease of inserting the bolt and to match specifications. The pictures below relate to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Duplicable City Center connectors

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she helped change the furniture which included the faucets, toilets, urinals, showers, and hand dryers, beds, wardrobes, and table sets from AutoCAD Groups into AutoCAD Blocks.

Huiya also helped Xuanji revise the floor plans, enclosed the staircases on the north and south sides of each floor, and updated the roof plan by using SketchUp to build an initial model. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

Bryan Lee Budiman (Industrial Designer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions. This week, he attended orientation and finished all of the onboarding checklist and action list. He clicked, read, and understood all of the links given on the google docs.

Additionally, he researched online to understand the problem scope. Due to some technical issues, Bryan converted all of the 3D files into SolidWorks files, which is the software he is familiar with. Afterwards, he analyzed the 3D model in AutoCAD and SolidWorks before defining any extra problem / insight / solutions needed. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Duplicable City Center dormer assembly instructions

Yuxi Lu (Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she and Xuanji discussed the existing problem with the egress stairs.

Together, they proposed several possibilities that will resolve the problem, and finalized a design that will impact existing structure and other components the least while also meeting safety requirements.

Yuxi then updated and organized the master sketchup model from Nov 2020 by renaming tags and regrouping the various categories so the components within models are now sorted by discipline, making it more efficient for all teams to locate respective items. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY EASIER – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability easier 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 Chicken Coop Assembly document. We generated updated detailed images for the rafter end cut outs in sequential order and provided explanation text with necessary measurements for all parts.

We also prepared the Aquapini Sketchup file for generating download links using FileDropper and split the Aquapini file into three smaller files that could be accepted by the FileDropper application.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another team member worked more on the chicken coop roofing system too. This week’s focus was further solving the roof design text to match up with the various drawings for both the chicken coop window frames and assembly, as well as explanations of the rafter cuts for the birdsmouth ends, and the notches in two of the rafters to accommodate the outriggers that allow for extended eaves.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Chicken Coop roofing system

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 53rd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng combined and added the internal structure model to her master working SketchUp file and then updated the Lumion model as well.

She also updated the central compass graphic/design to include NE, SE, NW, SW points and letter indicators for N, S, E, and W. Last but not least, Qiuheng adjusted the Lumion video path to include the outside and inside of the structure. Pictures below are related to this.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 13th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on fixing the calculation mistakes that were found earlier in the week.

These errors were due to a faulty conversion of temperatures from Farenheit to Celcius and they are now resolved. He also revised the chart graphs for an easier understanding of the energy consumption details. The pictures below relate to this.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 4th 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 worked on developing entrees that encompass the spirit of the project.

He also tested out a new recipe and developed a sauce for Vegetable Chow Mein. Brian additionally prepared for an interview with a potential culinary student who is interested in the 6 week intern program. Next week he is gearing up for soups that would be very cost effective for this project. Below are some images related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY EASIER – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

MAKING SUSTAINABILITY EASIER – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is making sustainability easier 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 23 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Making Sustainability Easier ” managing One Community volunteer-work review

Guy Grossfeld (Graphic Designer) returned to the team to help with badge design for the Highest Good Network software. This week Guy spent time familiarizing himself with the task and creating and submitting for feedback the first round of badges for the Stewardship category. You can see some of the related conversations and design process below.

You can see some of this work here.

Making Sustainability Easier ” badge design for the Highest Good Network software

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked on testing for badge award functionality. He set up a local environment and edited the Cronjob function to run every minute.

He then changed hours within mock accounts to run tests and find bugs. Narek found multiple bugs and added them to the bugs report docs. The pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 9th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week, Alex worked on improving efficiency creating slogans. She was able to create around 50 additional slogans and found 50 additional images for them. Later she will apply the slogans after approval and feedback.

She also improved posters from week number 8 (around 20 posters), and created new posters for week number 9 with approved slogans (also around 20 posters). What you see below is a sample of some of our  favorites.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Images for our open source social media strategy

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Hannah merged PRs and had her own PRs merged. Additionally, she collaborated with team members to identify alternative solutions to bugs, see if others observed the same behavior she observed, and to find support in debugging code.

In an attempt to prepare herself to help debug the badge bugs, she began going through the userHelper.js document to understand logic behind the badges. Hannah is half way through and will finish next week.

Finally, when diving into an issue with deleting blue squares and saving profile edits, she found a discrepancy between two models and made an edit that solved it. Pictures below are related to this work.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Highest Good Network software

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Pranav worked on solving the email summary issue, and also added a feature to add an ‘Orientation and Initial Setup’ project for all new users created by the Admin.

He then started working on a validation issue present in the same form for creating a new user. Pranav found there were no frontend validations present, the form only checked for valid inputs upon submission. He reviewed the refactor code in the recent PR and attempted resolving the failing tests.

And after his discussion with co-developers, Pranav decided to implement the modifications himself that will beautify the UI as well as solve the validation issue at the same time. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Making Sustainability Easier ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community is focused on building a better world for us all through open source and sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Combined, these will provide the foundations for teacher/demonstration hubs designed to teach and evolve these models 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 October 3rd, 2021 edition (#445) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Building a Better World for Us All
One Community Progress Update #445

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. This week we updated more images to make them more understandable, organized the remaining questions that need to be answered, answered and closed the comments we could, and made further integrations of suggestions and updates to the live page.

The pictures below share some of this work. 

Building a Better World for Us All ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring

The core team also prepared weekly assignments for the compression testing team and responded to communications throughout the week, reviewed the energy calculations for the HVAC system for the Tropical Atrium, and continued to work on further understanding the solar energy sizing energy consumption estimates. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All ” HVAC system, solar

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 63rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued developing the spreadsheet for the flow and pressure calculations of the Net-Zero Bathroom water storage system.

The calculations are to predict what flow rates and pressures the system will have in order to install the correct pump for adequate pressure in the system. In order to gather enough constraints, he modeled a portion of the system as an electric circuit representing the flow rates as current and pressure losses as resistors.

The values inputted into the resistors were based off the ratios of head losses calculated. By doing this Jose Luis was able to determine ratios between flow rates for the synthesis of constraints. Once the flow rates and pressures are calculated he will calculate the pump specifications needed. The pictures below show some of this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 51st and 52nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. These past two weeks Stacey has been finishing up implementing the comments and directions from the murphy bed instructions PDF. She submitted a draft for review in August and there have been a diversity of suggestions that she has resolved.

Specifically, we were able to translate all of the remaining names of the components into the selected languages. There was also a rework of the page numbering system to include dashed/hyphen page numbers instead of using letters, and a new saw blade cutting icon added to cutting pages. There could be more changes needed in that area of the instructions.

Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Building a Better World for Us All – Murphy bed instructions

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 21st week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week he wrote introductory paragraphs for the 20 insulation products he has researched and evaluated in the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet.

Aiden has also been working on adding photos, key points, unique features, and additional resources for each of these products. Below are some images related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 14th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week she worked on the rescaling and calculations for the roadways of the site.

Daniela used values obtained from David in order to start the adjustments to the excel expense sheet for the Unlimited Expense Plan. She rescaled the Roadways Minimized Expense Plan AutoCAD and measured the lengths of the roadways. From there she was able to calculate the square footage of the pathways along with the cubic yards and their overall costs.

Some values for the linear footage seemed large to Daniela so she re-measured the pathways on the Unlimited Expense Plan AutoCAD. After that, she finalized scaling both AutoCAD files and created an expense plan for Earthbag Village, along with finding those measurements. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 13th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas re-ran the techno-economical analysis for three altered cases to understand the effect of commercials based on independent chargers rather than a combination of chargers.

Shreyas concluded that for the given location and input parameters, the variation of cost for charging is independent of the time of charging. He also completed most parts of editing the final report of the EV integration report ” pictures, editing, aligning, labeling. Pictures below are related to this work.

Solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing

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 12th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the compression testing team worked on redoing the jar test but this time adding in detergent to see what the difference is between adding detergent and leaving it out. The team also updated the spreadsheet and answered comments. Additionally, they cleaned the cement room because of the large number of cylinders taking up space.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation. This week, we added wind and seismic design criteria for the state of Utah and added the lateral resisting system for both horizontal directions. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

Building a Better World for Us All – Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 22nd week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the final components of filtration for the City Center Spa design. Finding the proper filter required a better understanding of the spa volume and how often it needs to be recirculated.

The term for this is the “turnover rate”. According to industry standards, every 8 hours of spa usage, every gallon must be run through the filter. This allowed the proper sand filter to be selected for our design and a new defining parameter for the pump was discovered.

Luis realized that the pump should operate at around 35 gallons per minute in order to meet the design requirements of the filter and heating unit. Next week he will be looking at variable speed pumps that can be used to reach this target flow rate. Understanding the pump will allow the blower to be selected simultaneously. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 12th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, now focused on the dormer window designs. This week, Venus made some changes to the final report for the dormers. She added new details, sections and more pictures.

Venus graphically showed how the dormers meet the International Building Code for fire safety and set up a meeting with Xuanji who will be managing her helping match dome sections with the updated plans. See pictures below.

Building a Better World for Us All – Dormer window designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 10th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos continued this week by completing the Wardrobe Render video. He adjusted camera angles and changed colors of the screws so they would be more noticeable.

He also uploaded a preview of the final render. Next week Carlos will finish the wardrobe after re-rendering a small segment (door screws animation) and will entirely focus on the Pallet Bed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 5th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. She updated the restroom in the Social Dome on the first floor, the bedrooms in the Living Dome on the first and second floor, and the restrooms on the third and fourth floors.

Xuanji also added some dimensions in the DWG master file and submitted the complete floor plan for review. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Duplicable City Center architectural review

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week George redesigned the beams and brackets to eliminate GD&T errors due to computational roundoffs. He completed the assembly with all the fasteners, and researched the materials of bolts and nuts.

He also researched the mechanical properties of LVL beams and added the material properties into SolidWorks. George additionally started the simulation process. The pictures below relate to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Duplicable City Center connectors

Huiya Yang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week, she focused on working on the Duplicable City Center architectural updates according to the ADA Standards for Accessible Design.

Huiya redesigned the bathrooms and moved them to the entrance of each bedroom. She also helped Xuanji revise the plans with updates such as adding a door in the first-floor restroom storage room, deleting the door on the first-floor restroom, adding additional storage rooms on the third and fourth floor, etc. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building a Better World for Us All – Duplicable City Center architectural review

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all 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

his week the core team continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We updated all images related to changes affected by corrections of placements of double plates on south side. We also discussed and made decision about two possible placements of OSB sheets on the roof and updated the text for images related to roof framing.

Building a Better World for Us All – Chicken Coop

Another team member worked more on the chicken coop roofing system too. Updates this week included details concerning the rafter sizes, birdsmouth cuts, and including the outriggers for east and west walls with the rafters oriented in a north to south direction.

Building a Better World for Us All – Chicken coop roofing system

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 52nd week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng focused on revising SketchUp and updating the model in Lumion renderings. After changing the details based on previous comments, Qiuheng re-edited the rendered video.

Now the fly over is clockwise without pushing in on specific areas and then pulling out. The video has been updated to a circular path with no changes in direction. Wall issues were fixed and the central area was updated to reflect an artistic compass design also. Pictures below are related to this.

Building a Better World for Us All – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week Frank worked on the summary for the energy consumption by correcting mistakes and adding more visuals for an easier understanding of the process needed for the calculation of such loads.

The pictures below relate to this.

Building a Better World for Us All – Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 3rd 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 worked on developing recipes for the transactional kitchen.

Some of the recipes included rice pilaf, black beans, salad dressings, and sauces. Brian started listing possible marinades for proteins to provide variety when eating different protein, vegetable and starch combinations.

Brian also worked with Escoffier Culinary School to start the culinary student intern program with One Community Global. He is looking forward to working with some of the next generation of the culinary world. Below are some images related to this work.

Building a Better World for Us All – Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR US ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building a better world for us all 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, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members.

Also hours of additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software were completed. Pictures below show some of this.

Building a better World For Us All – managing One Community volunteer-work review

Chris Weilacker (Senior Software Engineer) completed his 34th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris got the Beta environment working after a catastrophic crash. He then did troubleshooting to get the Dev environment working also. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a better World For Us All – Highest Good Network software

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Narek started work on testing the badges. He started with drafting and completing a written set of objectives to be performed for the badges.

He then discussed best approach methods with Hannah and agreed to split testing each item. Narek continued with setting a testing library, but some challenges were met with running the models for each object.

Next week he will continue to work on the badges and mark any issues and bugs met in the codebase. The pictures below are related to this work.

Building a better World For Us All – Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 8th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. She fixed posters from the previous week by changing the contrast for the images and text to make it more readable, repositioning the attribution, and updating images where requested.

Alex also found new images and learned more about One Community’s mission and focus to create new image text. What you see below is a sample of the approved ones.

Building a better World For Us All – images for our open source social media strategy

Cal Vert Wong (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Due to the complexity of the existing codebase, it took Cal more time to triage and locate the required code.

Multiple code at different locations made it confusing and prone to creating more bugs hence he spent more time to track down which code is being called so that no new bugs are introduced when trying to resolve the current ones. Cal also reviewed a few PRs, commented on one of them to suggest a cleaner code, and made a PR himself to resolve a bug.

Currently he is looking at the timer bug which can be quite challenging to be resolved. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a better World For Us All – Highest Good Network software

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Hannah gathered necessary information to manipulate the app cron jobs and begin testing. Once she was able to begin testing, she went through and tested large groups of badges.

Hannah found that most badges within a category demonstrated the same behavior (successes and bugs). Additionally, she was able to address two bugs in the HGN Beta Test Bugs document. Pictures below are related to this work.

Building a better World For Us All – Highest Good Network software

Pranav Borole (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. First he spent time setting up his local environment. During the setup, he faced issues and had to debug the issue and finally solved it by seeking help from the other development team members.

He then started working on High Priority Bug from the Bug Tracking Document. Pranav replicated the issue using the Dev accounts and verified the functionality and reviewed previous PRs. He found the working issue with Hours Logging solved and that the email generating issue was not possible to replicate in the Dev server.

Pranav also found the incorrect due dates causing issues in the dev server and started working on a solution. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Building a better World For Us All – Highest Good Network software

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Is there a better way to thrive? Are we ready to move beyond the competitive structures or capitalism and embrace something more for The Highest Good of All? One Community thinks we are and we’re supporting this by creating open source and sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 26th, 2021 edition (#444) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

A Better Way to Thrive
One Community Progress Update #444

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A BETTER WAY TO THRIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating a better way to thrive through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. We moved changes from the proofread version in the google doc to the webpage, added more images and descriptions for tools and equipment, and added more questions to the Frequently Asked Questions Section.

The pictures below share some of this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring

The core team also worked with the compression testing team and made the decision to try a different foaming agent and purchase more cylinders, had phone calls with the team, and responded to various comments to keep the team moving forward.

The same team member also worked on the energy demand for solar sizing and is in the process of more accurately determining the time usage matrix and percent use and managed comments from City Center Dome Hub connector team to get them on the same page for efficiency.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Energy demand for solar sizing

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 62nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis continued researching and developing a spreadsheet for the net-zero bathroom water storage system.

The spreadsheet’s purpose is to calculate the pressure and flow rate of the system in order to determine the specific pump needed for the system and to add flexibility to the design for open source purposes.

The calculations involved gathering data and graphs from a fluid mechanics documents providing sufficient data to determine losses and gains within the system. The losses include pipe bends, tees, and inlets, while the gains involve height differences. The pictures below show some of this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 28th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village aspects of this.

This week David reviewed the cost analysis table that Carol and Daniela had prepared. Jae noticed that the prices were very inflated and had David check for any discrepancies. David used the kmz file One Community had regarding the project site’s location and measured the square footage and distances of the boundary lines for the location.

He then compared them to the CAD file for the roadway design and noticed that the file was scaled improperly. David went and rescaled the drawing to its approximate size and saved it into dropbox so that Daniela can use the file to accurately recalculate the costs of the roadways for the entire site and for Earthbag Village Ring Road. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 21st week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial. This week’s focus was primarily writing introduction paragraphs for the various products to provide additional background information, and a brief explanation of why the product received its overall rank.

Below are some images related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 12th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas worked on editing and analyzing the final report on Solar Farm Battery Analysis – EV Integration.

He re-ran 3 cases of the techno-economical analysis for AC and DC charging of the EVs to obtain the commercials for individual chargers instead of the previously obtained combination of chargers.

Regarding editing, Shreyas worked on image formatting, text editing, labeling figures, making tables, and adding information where necessary to make the analysis more clear to the readers. He also researched and reviewed a few Solar Farm Battery storage case studies. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Solar microgrid design specifics

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 12th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week, the team created a document to keep tasks for the week organized. They also completed a compression test, foam tests, addressed open comments, and consolidated information for the earthbag mixture. They added data to the spreadsheet from the multiple jar tests that were previously done but deemed unusable, because the clay content wasn’t able to be determined.

They also detailed the steps to do future jar tests. A compression test was completed on one of the test quikrete cylinders. Foam generation was tested, because this may be why previous batches of aircrete collapsed. They made foam using three different soaps to help determine which soap could serve as the best foaming agent in order to make a successful cylinder batch of aircrete.

The team also created a cylinder count log to see how many additional cylinders need to be ordered. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

And Tiffany Gao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 9th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer. This week Tiffany finished up her basic proposal of a potential community-scale solution to non recyclables.

She also discovered co-processing, a process used by cement production that can cleanly utilize mixed plastics as fuel and actually reduce CO2 emissions within cement factories. Tiffany sees potential in this solution and is looking into how to adapt such systems to focus on non recyclable waste management rather than an alternative of cement-making fuel.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” solutions to non recyclables

A BETTER WAY TO THRIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating a better way to thrive 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 50th week by returning to helping with the Duplicable City Center. This week Qiuheng added the planting plan to the “CITY CENTER MASTER” AutoCAD file. The planting plan was adjusted based on the final walk through video. Also, Qiuheng drew 4 planting elevations with the structures this week. Pictures below show some of this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Duplicable City Center

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 21st week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week, after reviewing with the team, it was determined that a sand filtration system would be a more sustainable solution for the spa’s design.

This option produces less waste than the other filtration systems and the sand type can be modified for finer filtration. After selecting the filtration system, the pump can now be selected because each filtration method requires different flow rate and horsepower requirements. Luis is now looking for a power-efficient option suited for a sand system.

The pump also has to be designed for backwashing, a method used to remove clogged debris from the filtration system. The search for the perfect pump continues and will be complete in the coming weeks. It was also discovered that common practice is to use a submersible pump to assist with draining the spa for cleaning.

An updated schematic will also be available soon in order to understand the flow of water and the electrical circuitry. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 11th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, now focused on the dormer window designs. This week, Venus added the dormer details, sections and roof sections for City Center Living Dome and Cupola roof designs to the AutoCAD master files. She then prepared and submitted for review a final report on the dormers.

See pictures below.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Dormer window designs

Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Andrew re-examined the final hole size for the bracket with George. At first, Andrew planned on using screws instead of bolts for connecting the bracket.

However, after discussing things with George, the team chose bolts instead of screws for the connector due to the simplicity that it offers for the final design. Hole sizes of 0.25″ and 0.109″ was the most common hole that was found for joist hangers. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Duplicable City Center connectors

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 4th week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she added an exit to the second floor of the Social Dome, moved the bathrooms into the bedroom suites and added public restrooms to the Living Dome first floor.

She also added an additional staircase to meet the requirement of egress. The pictures below relate to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, George researched the loads that a geodesic dome undergoes, and analyzed each member’s load. He also researched other possible hub options using only V brackets.

George studied various stainless steel properties and their applications. He also 3D modeled the various parts needed for the Finite Element Analysis, and researched the bolts that are best suited for this application and their properties. The pictures below relate to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Duplicable City Center connectors

A BETTER WAY TO THRIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating a better way to thrive 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 Chicken Coop Assembly document. We updated the sequence of steps for assembling of the roof framing, generated images related to this sequence with details for cutting the frame rafters, frieze blocks, outriggers and fascia parts. We also started working on generating images for sheeting for the roof, providing two options for possible placement.

Further discussion is needed.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another team member collaborated via Google Docs and collaborative calls on the Chicken Coop roof assembly details and made additional edits to the instructions through page 65. The same team member also worked on the Soar Hardware report, addressing comments, and resolving those that were rectified.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Chicken Coop roof assembly

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 12th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs. This week, Frank worked on summarizing the energy consumption of traditional HVAC systems for both of these.

He detailed the procedure for finding the correct numbers, as well as the method to calculate energy losses. Frank also concluded the energy analysis for these systems. The pictures below relate to this.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Aquapini & Walipini and Tropical Atrium climate battery designs

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) completed his 2nd 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 finished the final draft for the application and lesson plan outline for the culinary student intern program.

Brian also started the process of pricing all the ingredients with wholesale vendors. This will allow him to determine which products are appropriate for this project. The culinary students will then also have access to current market prices for the products they will be using to design recipes for the menu plan.

Brian also wrote the first draft of the cook’s guide for food safety and job responsibilities. Below are some images related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

A BETTER WAY TO THRIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating a better way to thrive through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

A BETTER WAY TO THRIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 30 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. They also completed hours of additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software. Pictures below show some of this.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Managing One Community volunteer-work review

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 7th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. Alex worked on new posters, created 40 posters for this week, and fixed 5 from the previous week. What you see below is a sample of the approved ones.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Open source social media strategy

Hannah Gardner Hattersley (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Hannah went through onboarding materials, researched technologies that will be used for testing, and attempted to begin testing badges.

However, the document that detailed creating test accounts did not reflect the current code base and she was unable to run any tests. Hannah reached out to two people and is in the process of resolving the bug.

In order to contribute sufficient time, she supplemented with continued learning that would support HGN App’s goals”Functional components with react, modern React implementation, and technologies specific to the badge assignment.

Next week, she will follow up with team members in order to create user test accounts and begin badge testing. Pictures below are related to this work.

A Better Way to Thrive ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Tiffany Gao to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Tiffany is a high school student from New York who has always enjoyed seeking ways to partake in and learn more about environmental solutions. Being fond of the ocean ever since she was a child, she became frustrated with the plastic situation in high school and thus founded Devocean Foundation where she advocates for a reduction in plastic waste and manages a blog as she explores various environmental issues and solutions to such problems. Tiffany is also part of her school’s science, business and environmental club where she gets to explore her various passions and how they intertwine through social entrepreneurship and environmental science. Outside of school she additionally loves being part of the environmental and social efforts in Tzu Chi, Plastic Tides, and The Tomorrow Project. As a One Community member, Tiffany is helping with the current plastic recycling and non recyclable guides due to her specific interest in plastics.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM TIFFANY!

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CONSULTANTS | WAYS ANYONE CAN HELP | MEMBERSHIP

Together we can build world-changing cooperatives, collaborative community models working together for a better world for us all. One Community is creating what we feel is the most effective prototype for these: open source Â teacher/demonstration hubs designed to share and evolve sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 19th, 2021 edition (#443) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

World-changing Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #443

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is building world-changing 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 continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page.

The focus this week was discussing Rockwool insulation placement under the floor of the earthbag dome, correcting some images to better explain alternatives, answering related comments for this and the new Floor Construction document, and continuing proofreading. The pictures below share some of this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring review

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 61st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began working on a flow rate analysis of the water storage system of the Net-Zero Bathroom.

The flow rate analysis is being conducted to ensure that there is sufficient flow rate and pressure in the water storage system for proper use. He began by first measuring the pipes and bends and making flow diagrams.

A spreadsheet was constructed with all the necessary labeling and diagrams to comprehend the flow rate and pressure of the system. The analysis will take into account the losses from the bends and tees attached to ensure a fully functioning water storage system. The pictures below show some of this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 27th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village aspects of this.

This week, David emailed Daniela with the week’s action items and also provided redlines to her drawings for edits to make for the Earthbag Village drainage plan. The redlines made were for a preliminary sketch and pipe network system layout for the village design. He also did some research for gravel roads and their relationship with ADA compliance.

David is thinking if the proposed gravel road doesn’t not meet the requirements set by the city, we will utilize a portion of the road for gravelpave2 (an ADA compliant structural grid system that uses gravel for drainage purposes) in order to achieve ADA compliance. Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 20th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing that is now focused on the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial.

This week Aidan finished the research and wrote and added (on his non-live page that he’s developing) the new introduction paragraph for the top-rated product ROCKWOOL’s Comfort Batt. He also worked on a task in the Society section below.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 14th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week, Daniela continued working on the drainage plan for the Earthbag Village.

She included new aspects to the design such as a subsurface perforated pipe for overflow, also cleanouts and flow arrows. Labels were placed to clearly indicate where catch basins and other features are located. A legend was also included for better visualizations. Daniela then revised the excel sheet calculations for the roadway unlimited expense plan and the roadway minimized expense plan.

Some values were found to be too large, so once adjusted, the overall costs were reasonable. Lastly Daniela transferred her finalized paragraphs on the Earthbag Village roadway to the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot Report. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 11th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas researched Commercial EV Charging Stations.

He found the original equipment manufacturers for EV chargers in the USA, charging solutions, and inputs required for appropriate selection of chargers and EV charging stations.

He also continued with his report editing: rephrasing sentences, picture alignment, tables, figure names, and adding additional explanations to make the content more clear. Shreyas then read more on the previously studied cases for solar farm battery storage options to consolidate information to choose the appropriate battery option for our case. Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles & battery

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 11th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the team coordinated with Sangam to go over the plan for this week and next week. The team has new limited hours of availability, about 5 per week, due to resuming the school year. The team was able to work on organizing the materials and making sure everything was in order.

The team worked on the jar testing to find the amount of clay in the soil and edited the calculations for the Stabilized Earth Sheet. The team also ran some errands to pickup foaming agents such as Dawn and Suave shampoo to test against 7th generation dish detergent. Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

and Tiffany Gao (Sustainability/Plastics Researcher) completed her 8th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer. This week, Tiffany further increased her understanding of waste-to-energy plants, specifically what other countries have been doing in terms of waste management.

After reading up and watching numerous videos of zero-waste communities, additional waste management strategies, gasification plants turning waste into energy, and even one about the potential of biogas as a waste solution, she began drafting up a basic proposal on what One Community could attempt to do in terms of non recyclable waste management.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” non recyclable waste management research

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is building world-changing 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 continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation. This week, the Seismic and Wind Criteria for 200 cities was collected so they could create our desired envelope of criteria for consideration. The Live Load Table was also completed. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis

The core team also reviewed and began restructuring Vicente’s energy analysis tutorial, familiarized ourselves with the SAM software, had a conversation with the compression team to get the team back on track and on the same page, read through and gave feedback on the City Center hub connector report, and had a conversation with them to keep them moving forward.

Pictures of some of this work are below.

World-changing Cooperatives ” management and review

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 20th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the filtration systems compatibility with the pump design and the criteria that has to be consistent in order to have a functioning cycle.

The main variables are the flow rate, pump size and filter type when deciding the components of the system. The team is collaborating on which filter would work the best for our sustainable system and that will allow further progress of the spa’s design. The filter is also a fluid system dependent upon the pump, which is also the reason that the pump needs to be based on the filtration type.

Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” City Center Eco-spa designs

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 10th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, now focused on the dormer window designs. This week Venus completed the first-floor and second floor dormer window designs.

She included window details to the AutoCAD Master file for both the first-floor and second-floor dormer windows and double checked all files met the International Building Code fire code/egress. Venus also created an illustration guide for the final report. See pictures below.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Dormer window designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 9th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos continued generating the Duplicable City Center render videos. So far everything is coming together pretty good.

All the furniture have their animations but the Pallet Bed still needs to be improved with some additional camera angles to help the viewers notice the elements that need their attention. For the Wardrobe new videos were uploaded for review, and all that is left are Bottom Cover Screws and Doors Screws Animation. Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, Andrew re-researched and re-understood the concept of the hub connector for the City Center. He was also part of an introductory meeting for George with Sangam.

During this meeting George was introduced to the project. He participated in several discussions with George regarding the project goals and the results up to this point. Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center connectors

Ibukun Shogbamu (Junior Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the City Center HVAC Designs. This week, Ibukun created an initial task list for the Ultimate Classroom HVAC design and he assigned estimated time durations for the completion of each listed task.

He also began the calculations for the ventilation requirements of the Ultimate Classroom according to ASHRAE standard 62.1 2019 using a spreadsheet/table. The pictures below share some of this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” City Center HVAC Designs

Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 3rd week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. This week she revised the plumbing fixture table and calculated the needed number of exits, doors and stairs on each floor. Xuanji also redesigned the restrooms and exits according to the code.

The pictures below relate to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

And George Koshy (Design Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, George completed his orientation procedures and got familiar with the project goals and his duties.

He took time to understand the geodesic dome design and reviewed work up to this point to get up to speed. George researched FOS and reviewed the FOS used for this particular project. He also spoke with a structural engineer to understand the load analysis and he started analysis of the Geodesic dome loads. The pictures below relate to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center connectors

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is building world-changing 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 continued working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. One team member reviewed two videos regarding rafter design and made decisions on the best approach. They also made changes to the south wall due to placement alterations of the OSB which ultimately add strength to this wall.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

Another updated the south wall sheeting placement in 3D SketchUp and produced and added the related images into the Chicken Coop Assembly document. She also redesigned in SketchUp and started generating images related to assembly of the room frame, updating it to add overhang on east and west walls.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 50th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng continued working on the SketchUp model based on previous weeks’ comments and feedback.

She revised the central area landscape topography and structural details around the doors. Also, the walkthrough video path in Lumion was updated into clockwise circling around and scenes with a pushing in and push out in specific areas were shortened. Pictures below are related to this.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) joined the team and completed his 1st 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. Brain started the week off with a virtual meeting with Jae.

After discussing the goals, he read through the notes, plans and recipes. With the anticipation of Culinary Interns working with Brian, he created an initial draft of the weekly goals that would be expected from each volunteer, and then set out compiling a list of healthy and nutritious options that would be the building blocks of the menu design, while keeping in mind budgetary needs.

Brian then reviewed the plan and came up with and submitted for feedback a revised approach that was more of a buffet style. Below are some images related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is building world-changing 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

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

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is building world-changing 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 28 hours managing One Community volunteer-work review not included above, emails, social media accounts, and interviewing and getting set up new volunteer team members. Also hours of additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software. Pictures below show some of this.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Managing One Community volunteer-work

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 20th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan helped with inputting all 126 Badges into the Dev and Main Highest Good Network software. This entailed entering the Badge name, description, additional details, and link for the icon, then double checking the ranking and category details.

Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Narek worked on the Leader Board component. He adjust the spacing of data showing up in the UI.

Narek then continued on to fixing sizing of the status indictor of users when they view their accounts with the admin account. He also got set up to start testing the Badge achievements functionality with Hannah for next week. The pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

Cameron White (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. The focus of this week was on code cleanup and redesign where needed. Cameron continued fixing bugs and focused on more time consuming problems that required structural changes to the application rather than simple, quick fixes.

While doing this, he discovered some security flaws with the previous authentication implementation and updated it to use established industry standards and security practices. Cameron also fixed one of the more persistent bugs with user profiles sometimes flickering by making significant changes to the UserProfile component.

Finally, he began updating the “Create New User” form by integrating Formik 2 to accommodate some necessary changes. See the related pictures below of this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 6th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week Alex concentrated on quotes instead of images. She took her inspiration from past blog titles of ours and spent more time to develop a single poster with different versions.

She also fixed 3 posters from last week, created seven versions of poster one, 4 versions of poster 2, 9 versions of poster 3, 4 versions of poster 8, and one version of posters 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12. You can see some samples of these below.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Images for our open source social media strategy

Cal Vert Wong (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Calvert fixed the issue where endDate is not supplied when a volunteer’s account is deactivated from the user management page by an admin.

He also discovered a dropdown component is behaving differently in Chrome and Firefox but there is no solution to fix it at the moment. A workaround might be required and he is refactoring the code of the TimeLog page to clean up old and unused code. Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Dominick Banuelos, Jarot Tamba, John Paul D. Matining, and Marcus Nguyen to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultants!

Dominick Banuelos – Civil Engineering Student: Dominick is a student at California Baptist University working on getting his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a minor in Construction Management. Growing up, Dominick enjoyed viewing the different sceneries that surrounded him and wondered how some of those areas could be improved or built on in an eco-friendly way. He worked on multiple projects throughout his studies and has developed new skills in design, teamwork, project management, and communication which he anticipates to use in the construction/transportation field in the near future. As a member of the One Community team, Dominick is working on research as well as compression testing with aircrete and stabilized earth for sustainable construction.

Jarot Tamba – Civil Engineering Student: Jarot is a student at California Baptist University in Riverside studying to obtain his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. Growing up, Jarot spent much of his free time enjoying the outdoors as well as modifying and working on classic cars and motorcycles. He has a strong background in 2D and 3D modeling, drafting, and the mechanical aspect of engineering. This led him to develop his passion for structural and transportation engineering. Jarot is an advocate for sustainable practices as well as the preservation of the outdoors. As a member of the One Community team, Jarot is part of the compression testing team conducting research on materials such as concrete, aircrete and stabilized earth.

John Paul D. Matining – Civil Engineering Student: John Paul is currently studying at California Baptist University and on track to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. John worked on a diversity of engineering projects that have reinforced his engineering, leadership, and teamwork abilities. He is enthusiastic about using different materials to build homes such as earthships and rammed earth, which led him to One Community. As a member of the team, John Paul is currently applying his engineering abilities and experience to help complete the aircrete and stabilized earth compression testing to achieve an open source data resource for One Community and others who want to build eco-friendly and sustainable housing.

Marcus Nguyen – Civil Engineering Student: Marcus is currently studying at California Baptist University in Riverside and is working towards graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering. Growing up, he always enjoyed traveling and working on unique projects. Over the years, Marcus has done many group projects which gave him the opportunity to grow his communication and teamwork abilities. With the skills he’s been developing throughout his learning experiences, Marcus is excited to one day apply his knowledge towards the field of engineering for construction in the world. As a member of One Community team, Marcus is conducting research and lab testing for aircrete and stabilized earth as another building material for sustainable homes.

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One Community is creating regenerative living models for people and our planet. They include open source and sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

One Community will be the first of a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to teach and evolve these models for “The Highest Good of All“.

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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 September 12th, 2021 edition (#442) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued what we hope will be the final review of the Murphy bed assembly instructions. We finished recreating the Murphy bed in SketchUp 3D, assembling it using the latest version of the instructions. This included completing the assembly of panels on the back, front, both sides and the overhead section. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Murphy bed assembly instructions

The core team also reviewed the research the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing team did on aircrete and pulled out key takeaways and what to try next to prevent the aircrete from collapsing.

We made a detailed plan for the week for the students to carry out. We additionally reviewed work being completed by the city center dome connector team in preparation for integrating another team member and continued to work on the solar microgrid energy demand work ” responding to comments and beginning to review the first draft of the open source tutorial we’re creating.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing team

The core team additionally continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. The focus this week was the flooring and the wing insulation.

We researched to make sure the rockwool insulation sheets could bear the weight of the slab and the earth, confirming the manufacturer explicitly says it does. We found that a respirator is needed when working with this material as a safety measure and started considering a simplification on the design to eliminate the need for metal flashing for the dome floor.

Pros and cons of this are still being considered. The pictures below share some of this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring

Another core team member addressed and deleted comments on the FFF doc, Roadways, Walkways, Gutter and Parking Lot doc, and Solar Hardware doc to the extent possible until further work is completed by other team members. He also engaged in two phone calls regarding the open source Chicken Coop designs. See related pics below.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” FFF doc, Roadways, Walkways, Gutter and Parking Lot doc

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 60th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began organizing the part documents of the Net-Zero Bathroom SolidWorks rendering. He did this by isolating the parts into a specific folder and made sure to eliminate any errors in the referencing of SolidWorks.

The process involved opening the assembled document multiple times, every time a part was moved, to be sure the program was referencing the correct parts. This was done to ensure easier access and simplify troubleshooting errors that occur when an assembly has a large number of parts. He double checked the AutoCAD document in DropBox to make sure it was the latest version.

Lastly Jose added some finishing touches to the updated exterior roof by rendering roof flash and fasteners, securing and sealing the design. He also wrote action items for volunteer positions we’d like to fill and that he will be managing. The pictures below show some of this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 50th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Stacey worked this week on integrating more updates and comments from two members of the Core Team. This involves going through them one by one and then circling back repeatedly to consider symbols and labels, etc.

There are also some mistakes that were made early on with regards to exactly what position boards were placed in and how they fit together. Now that we can take an overview, we are catching and fixing those. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Murphy bed instructions

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, now mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village aspects of this. This week David started with incorporating the stairs section into the google doc.

He has decided to go with pressure-treated lumber and crushed stone/gravel for the fill of the stairs for cost effectiveness, aesthetics, and permeability/infiltration reasons. David also met with Daniela over Zoom to discuss the drainage plan and start a conversation on what the best plan of actions are for the Earthbag Village’s drainage plan.

Lastly, David worked with Carol and provided some redlines on the roadways cost analysis table that she created. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Earthbag Village

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 19th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan continued to work on translating his research, analysis, and findings for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet he developed into written content for the Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial.

This week primarily consisted of writing a Pros list and Cons list for each of the 20 products. Aidan also began to research, identify, and write Key Features for each product. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 13th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, mainly focused now on the Earthbag Village components. This week Daniela focused on the roadway and drainage plans.

She started by providing a clear pdf version of the Earthbag Village, altering various features to ensure it was presentable for the website. She then measured the overall area of the village before and after the roadway alterations. Daniela also worked with Jae and David to improve the drainage systems.

Once plans were reviewed, she created various designs for the drainage pipes and implemented them along with David’s design into AutoCAD. Lastly she edited/updated the paragraphs explaining the Earthbag Village roadways.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 10th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing.

This week continued to edit the “Solar Farm Battery Analysis ” EV Integration and 100% Off-grid Needs” report by rephrasing sentences, aligning pictures, including tables where necessary, and adding further descriptions for clearer understanding. Shreyas also continued his research on case studies for solar farm battery storage options and has consolidated his findings.

Pictures below are related to this work.

Solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing

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 10th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the team worked on more testing with the 7th Generation dish soap to see what may be causing the shrinkage with the cylinders. The week brought on some difficulty with obtaining lab time but even with the limited time availability the group was able to conduct some new tests. While doing them, it was noticed that the bubbles shrunk more with the soap by itself.

Some glycerin was then added in to see the difference. With the glycerin added, the bubbles stuck together more and did not really shrink. Tests included: 16oz 7th gen with 5 gallons water, 16oz 7th gen with 2 tablespoons glycerin, 25 ounce 7th gen with 5 gallons water, and 25 oz 7th gen with 2 tablespoons glycerin.

All samples seem to have collapsed in under an hour, but the ones with glycerin seemed to have a slightly better structure to their foam. Understanding this will be helpful and some more testing with other soaps will be conducted the following week. The team also redid and will redo again the jar test. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

And John Aquino (Electrical Engineer) also completed his 9th and final week helping with the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. To wrap up his work in a way that can be passed to another engineer, John created a MEP Production Standards tutorial, listed the work he’d completed and what he saw as remaining, and handed over and organized all his files. Pictures below show some of this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center Electrical designs

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation. This week we worked on the floor and ceiling details and structural framing details, completing level 3 and 4, and solving more code issues. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 20th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol worked on editing and adding other options in the calculations spreadsheet for the roadways unlimited expense plan and minimized expense plan.

Specifically, she calculated the aggregate base option and incorporated the new costs. Carol also fixed the CAD drawings for both options. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

 

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 9th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center designs, now focused on the dormer window designs. This week Venus completed the first-floor dormer window for the City Center Living Dome.

She added the window in 3D SketchUp in order to meet the International Building Code fire code/egress and then joined a new team and started helping with review and checking of codes to complete/finalize the building occupancy table. See pictures below.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 9th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week, Carlos finished the 2nd Lvl Animations (Cameras, Brackets, Screws, Nails, etc) for all 4 Pallet Furnitures.

All that is left now is to produce the renders. According to Carlos’ data, the longest renders would be Pallet Bed and Pallet Wardrobe, due to the amount of parts to animate. These should be finished within the next two weeks, depending on the final changes or modifications the last two renders may require. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” pallet furniture designs of Duplicable City Center guest rooms

 

Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, Andrew spent most of his hours reading and researching on the best bolt for metal sheet to wood connections and how the bolt will perform on the wood beam.

He researched and found the best size of bolt and then redesigned the V-beam connector on SolidWorks. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center connectors

And Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 3rd week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code.  This week she revised the occupant load table in the City Center Project Specification and Design Basis doc., and the number of exits and doorways (egress) on each floor.

Xuanji then started producing a table for the allowable area for the whole building to see if our current design meets the requirements. The pictures below relate to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team returned to working on the Chicken Coop Assembly document. We updated the upper section of the south wall in the SketchUp model and all related images in the assembly document.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 49th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng revised the central pond area and one of the steep slopes around the central terrace area to experiment if it works.

She also fixed material conflicts and updated the model in Lumion with more plants and rendered it. Qiuheng also re-edited the video from :45 to better show the walk around. Pictures below are related to this.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 38 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. Pictures below show some of this.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Managing One Community

We also completed 12+ hours of additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations for the Highest Good Network software. The pictures below relates to this.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked on the functionality of the leaderboard component of the application. There was a bug when loading the component in the Admin view. He also performed code reviews for back end code and front end.

The pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

Cameron White (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Cameron continued fixing the handful of bugs left on the bug list resulting in about a dozen pull requests. As part of the bug fixing process, he started rewriting the UserProfile component due to the technical debt it has accumulated.

He also had discussions with Jae about how to set up the highestgood.com domain and the available security certificate options for the domain. Additionally, Cameron started working on migrating the current Highest Good Network app’s front end from Surge.sh to Azure because of the security certificate limitations of Surge. See the related pictures below of this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 5th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. This week Aleksandra focused on working on business ethics posters. She tried to find good business practices to make it more positive.

She also searched for images that would represent companies and connect them with environmental issues. Alex also fixed posters from the previous week and created additional environmental posters. You can see some samples of these below.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Open source social media strategy

Cal Vert Wong (Software Engineer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. For his 1st week Cal focused on getting familiar with the codebases and looking at the unattended bugs from the bugs list.

He began work on a bug which requires an Admin-editable end date in the volunteering tab. This bug should also auto-supply the end date based on when a person was last made inactive. Pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

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One Community welcomes Carlos Gustavo Lillo Poblete to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Carlos is a Junior Engineering Technician who loves learning through various engineering projects. Having recently graduated, he’s now focused on gaining experience with the latest technologies by volunteering for green projects overseas. Carlos is constantly gathering information on new CAD and 3D Modeling Softwares to develop his drafting and design skills even more. In addition to his strong drafting and design skills, Carlos also specializes in the Lean Management System; continuous improvement and optimization when delivering a solution by eliminating waste and activities that do not add any type of value to the process. As a member of the One Community Team, Carlos is currently generating high quality render videos for the Duplicable City Center pallet furniture designs using Blender.

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One Community is a blueprint for sustainable global collaboration. Our 100% volunteer team is developing DIY and open source and free-shared sustainable solutions for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We’re also developing the necessary software for global collaboration and evolution of it all and the complete plan for implementation and replication.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 5th, 2021 edition (#441) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued what we hope will be the final review of the Murphy bed assembly instructions. We continued to recreate the Murphy bed in SketchUp 3D, assembling it using the latest version of the instructions. This week we focused on assembly of the back storage that includes sets of shelves on different levels with upper shelving drawer units. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Murphy bed assembly instructions

The core team also added more updates to the power estimations needed for the solar microgrid design. We updated the solar sizing energy demand work as we received feedback from Vicente, reviewed the time matrix for usage and added additional columns, such as Max Demand Per Resident, and also identified high draw items.

In addition to this, we led the aircrete team and provided comments on their calculations for stabilized earth. We then started the students on researching aircrete since the aircrete is still collapsing when made in bigger batches than the test cylinders.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” solar microgrid design

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This was week #227 of Dean’s work and the focus was hours of continued lighting placement and testing. Pictures below show some of this.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster design

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 59th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis began creating action lists for the Net-zero bathroom plumbing, rendering, and electrical plans.

He began by researching the necessary knowledge and structure used to construct the plumbing and electrical plans on AutoCAD. With the research he was able to complete the action lists. He also reviewed the current rendering to see what details were missing and what important component additions were needed for an accurate representation.

The pictures below show some of this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Net-zero Bathroom component of Earthbag Village

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 26th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson addressed the final comments on the two reports and the diesel generator spreadsheet. He also did a final review on them.

Then, Jeson adjusted data and formatting of the diesel generator spreadsheet. In addition, he copied the format of the table on One Community’s website and updated most of it. At last, Jeson commented on the One Community website content that he needs to update. The pictures below share some of this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 18th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. Aidan continued to work on translating his research, analysis, and findings for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet he developed into written content for the Sustainable Insulation webpage.

He also continued to support the Aircrete and Earthbag Compression Testing Team by reviewing their research and testing progress, and double-checking their calculations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Reviewing research and testing progress

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 11th week helping with the Earthbag Village energy specifics. This week Frank worked on the infiltration energy calculation for the Tropical Atrium and the Aquapini and Walpanini designs.

He read through the Air Infiltration Calculation Techniques and the HVAC Application Handbook from ASHRAE to better understand the method of calculation. Finally, Frank created plots to visually understand the energy consumption required for each building. The pictures below relate to this.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Earthbag Village energy specifics

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 10th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas researched the types of EV chargers used and which OEMs use what type of chargers in the USA.

He also continued his research on battery storage options for the solar farm. Shreyas additionally started studying previous case studies in the USA from the IRENA source to obtain information on how to proceed further. He also studied case studies for Alaska and Hawaii and consolidated the learnings from the same. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Solar microgrid design specifics

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 9th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week, John created a folder called “_Template” which will standardize the filing convention moving forward for the Duplicable City Center project. In addition, a sample electrical sheet which will show power plans has been drafted to be carried over for subsequent sheets (i.e. floors 1 to roof).

With that said, an xref for the furniture plan (“FP_00 – OCG21001”) has been created and this format is expected for the remaining floors. They shall be derived from the master plan. Finally, an eTransmit filing standard has been developed for the purpose of downloading and sharing files as an organization standard. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

Tiffany Gao (Sustainability/Plastics Researcher) completed her 7th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer. This week Tiffany discovered Community Eco Power, an organization that actually specializes in “cost effective solutions that divert waste from landfills and increase renewable energy generation” for communities.

After reading up on the Pittsfield and Springfield plants, she began conducting research into just how sustainable and effective the methods outlined on the website were. From dry sorbent injections to electrostatic precipitators, she’s been reading and taking down notes – and sees this as a potential collective & effective waste management system.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Researching cost effective solutions

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation. This week we worked on 2D and 3D models for area separation and the associated tables for Occupancy and Occupant loads, completing the initial update for the 3rd and 4th Level.

We also began the design for the floor and ceiling and initiated the structural model based on the architectural drawings. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center Project Specification & Design

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs.

David started the week by providing his team with a final weekly agenda for the Roadways, walkways, and landscaping tutorial. Carol finished with the cost analysis after making changes to the updated CAD that Daniela provided.

David also reviewed and resolved the remaining comments on the google doc and also incorporated the stairs/stairway/stairwell section into the Google Doc. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed 7+ months of working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week he exported the initial SAM file he’s been using to make the simulations of the energy balance. It is not completed though, since the annual demand profile has not been entered yet.

The electricity rates should be reviewed and updated according to the electricity service company offer. Vicente also wrote the draft tutorial to carry forward this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” solar microgrid design, sizing, cost analysis specifics

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 19th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol finished the roadway cost calculations for roadway unlimited expense and minimized expense options. She marked numbers to the drawing and listed length and area for each segment of the unimproved bike/foot path.

She also added several items into the tables and computed the costs corresponding to these items for electric vehicle, improvised bikeway, fire access path, unimproved bike/foot path (minimized) and fire access path, bike path, and pedestrian path (unlimited). Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the filtering mechanism of the City Center Spa to progress through the essential components needed for creating a power budget for the system.

The City Center Spa design has been moving forward allowing for the design specifications of all components to be documented. This week the filtering mechanism was assessed to see what works best with our system. Luis discovered that using a cartridge filtration technique is the most water and energy efficient making it well suited for our application.

Sustainability was a crucial element to the selection of the filter, and all of the components. Looking forward, the most crucial element in terms of energy demand is the pump. This will be crucial to the energy budget and the overall efficiency of the spa’s performance. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” City Center Eco-spa designs

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 12th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued various tasks regarding the roadways of the project site. She edited the arrangement of the roadway images and descriptions to provide better visualization for the reader.

Later she incorporated additional information and cleaned up these paragraphs in order to provide clear explanations. Daniela also went through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Pathways document to ensure that the materials being listed for the section correlated with what was mentioned in the document.

In addition she added the unimproved bike and foot paths to the unlimited expense plan. After cleaning up some details on the CAD, Daniela completed the design of the Earthbag Village roadway and wrote some paragraphs regarding the decision making. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center roof designs. This week Venus completed the second floor dormer window designs. She added both windows, gutters, and downspouts in the 3D SketchUp file based on the new position of the dormer windows.

She created the 3D model of the gutters and downspouts for the City Center Living Dome and Cupola. See pictures below.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center roof designs

John Aquino (Electrical Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week, John created a folder called “_Template” which will standardize the filing convention moving forward for the Duplicable City Center project.

In addition, a sample electrical sheet which will show power plans has been drafted and to be carried over for subsequent sheets (i.e. floors 1 to roof). With that said, an xref for the furniture plan (“FP_00 – OCG21001”) has been created and this format is expected for the remaining floors. They shall be derived from the master plan.

Finally, an eTransmit filing standard has been developed for the purpose of downloading and sharing files as an organization standard. Pictures below show some of this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center Electrical designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 8th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos continued adding final adjustments to the renders, as requested by Jae.

He changed the reflective factor, modeled a new bracket and added bright colors to the screws to highlight them from other components. After correcting other minor animation segments he delivered the full animation for Pallet Table and began the final render of the Pallet Chair.

For the Pallet Bed Carlos worked on correcting some camera issues and for the Pallet Wardrobe his next focus is importing previous animations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Pallet furniture designs of Duplicable City Center

Ibukun Shogbamu (Junior Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the City Center HVAC Designs. This week Ibukun did the cost estimation for the Minisplit Multi-zone and VRF systems, including creation of a spreadsheet to calculate the cost of outdoor and indoor units and all associated hardware.

He finished the research paper comparing the viability of the minisplit multi zone and VRF systems. Ibukun also finished the spreadsheet comparing the viability of both systems. The pictures below share some of this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” City Center HVAC Designs

Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, Andrew generally spent most of his hours reading and researching a star wood connector design and wrapping up the design and FEA test on the V wood connector.

He managed to design several types of star wood connectors in SolidWorks with the thickness reference from the best V connector, which is the 12-gauge metal sheet. Pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center connectors

And Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code.

Her focus this week was revising the occupant loads table in the City Center Project Specification and Design Basis Google Doc and calculating the number of plumbing fixtures needed for each floor. She also started a table for the exits for each space and floor. The pictures below relate to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for sustainable global collaboration 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 Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 48th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng modified the Lumion model and video rendering based on comments from last week. She updated the SketchUp model and revised some of the model materials. The feedback she addressed can be seen in the image below.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for sustainable global collaboration through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students.

This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. We’ll report on the final two elements to be finished as we develop them.

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

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

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

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a blueprint for sustainable global collaboration 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 emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. We also completed extensive additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations. The pictures below relates to this.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Managing One Community

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked on the Navbar. He worked on the timer inside the navbar fixing the position and sizing.

He added different screen collapse sizes with media queries to improve the user experience. He also started doing more code reviews with backend code, and began working on an issue with page loading data when viewing users on an admin account. Next week Narek will continue working on that bug. The pictures below are related to this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Highest Good Network software

Cameron White (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Cameron added his second major feature: the ability for the HGN app to realize that it’s been updated and prompt the user to refresh the page.

This required some fairly substantial changes to the application’s deployment processes and they had to be redesigned as a result. Cameron also began work on deploying the beta version of the HGN app to its new domain, highestgood.com.

This process is roughly halfway done and requires adjusting a few settings to make the new website fully operational. Finally, he continued working on small bug fixes, specifically the handful of persistent bugs that have been difficult to solve so far. See the related pictures below of this work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra “Alex” Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 4th week working on images for our open source social media strategy. Alex fixed her old posters based on the input from the previous weeks, changing quotes and some images as was suggested.

Her new posters display more beautiful images with empty spaces, nature, and quotes that are related to the images. Alex paid attention to the company mission statement where messages are focused on positive calls to action. You can see some samples of these below.

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