Raising planetary sustainability consciousness is necessary if we want to create global sustainability. Showing people how sustainability can improve their lives, health, and happiness while reducing the cost of living is one way to accomplish this. One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans to build and share teacher/demonstration hubs that will do this 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 May 31st, 2020 edition (#375) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Raising Planetary Sustainability Consciousness
One Community Progress Update #375

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 on raising planetary sustainability consciousness: 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 work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was editing the Step-by-step Process section. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 80% complete with the behind-the-scenes editing of this tutorial on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Edited The Step-by-step Process Section – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #189 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was textures and minor edits to the hot tub area and french door. See pictures below on how this relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping With Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Design ” Click for Earthbag Village

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 28th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding a diversity of plants and rocks and redoing the flyover and walkthrough video showing one dome, then a 3-dome cluster, then a 6-dome cluster, and finishing with a fly through and over the complete village. He also created a new video featuring a fly by a single dome, then a 3-dome cluster, a 6-dome cluster, and then a complete village. You can see some screenshots of some of this work below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Earthbag Village Walkthrough; Plants and Rocks and Redoing the Flyover – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 4th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini worked on establishing the center point for a 3-dome cluster, recalculation and checking for accuracy, and working on the quantities as per the drawings. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping with the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials ” Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 4th week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela completed her 1st draft of the clothing recycling tutorial. This included adding various DIY recycling products that one person or a community could duplicate and possibly resell for a profit, edited the tutorial, and adding in videos and graphics. She then began research on paper recycling methods and potential business opportunities for paper. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options; Completing 1st Draft of Tutorial – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. This week we mainly worked on the Dining Dome. Work completed included merging the latest dome structure, basement design, bathroom design, under-stairs storage, appliances, first floor furniture, second floor with all furniture, update color of the window frames, update color of the dome and inside walls, reset the texture of the concrete of the first floor, and adding the tiled columns feature. Pictures of some of this are below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 11th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week she worked on formatting the content to match existing tutorials, editing and polishing it further. The introduction was especially edited to emphasize more on the need for this research, while adding some statistical figures.

Radhieka also added an introduction before the ranking to explain the idea behind the ranking. While formatting the company rankings, she worked on editing the content there as well and worked on some of the pre-existing comments. This included further research into some aspects and rearranging the attributes based on importance for the first 4 companies. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 70% complete. See work below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is raising planetary sustainability consciousness 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 developing the open source permaculture design content on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. All mind maps have been developed and some have been finalized. The phased rollout table was transposed, as well as made for individual components for easier sharing and reading. All tables have been formulated on how each component takes into consideration permaculture ethics and principles. A list has been started for each infrastructure component of observation aspects that serve as a guide to conscientiously observe and learn from once on the property. The Energy Infrastructure section within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study was restructured and improved too. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 27th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he started preparing construction documents and 2D drawings including the site plan, level 1 architectural plan (ground level), level 2 architectural plan (recreation level), roof architectural plan, roof structural framing plan, structural foundation & columns plan, water supply plumbing plan, drainage & ventilation plumbing plan, sections, elevations, and 3D views. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 94% complete with the structural details. See work below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 79th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished view #1 of the central area showing this space before setup for a theater presentation. Final additions included more items on the shelving, new and additional people, shadows, and the outdoor scene through the windows. See picture below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued View of the Central Area That Will Show Area Being Used for Theater ” Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details for raising planetary sustainability consciousness. This week Zebao updated the structure design to remove the skylight and add storage in the attic. The dimensions were updated to match the code requirements per building code in California.

Zebao has designed the structure to avoid columns in the middle of the public space, which would benefit the community to plan flexible events and activities during the school beaks. She did the analysis to design individual structural elements and found out that 4 of the roof rafters, which were designed as beams, cannot resist the loads. This result will require shorter spans or more columns within the space. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 15% complete.

Updated the Structure Design to Remove the Skylight and Add Storage in the Attic – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. : 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 17th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao connected the Timer component with the backend APIs and MongoDB database. He created Redux actions and reducers to manage the state of the timer component. When opening the page, the timer will now load with the exact time at which the timer was paused. You can see some of this work-in-progress below on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Connected the Timer Component With the Backend APIs and MongoDB Database ” Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) also completed his 17th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry developed the ability for the app to renumber tasks after we deleted a task. He also made an algorithm to update hours of the parent tasks and grandparent tasks, so all tasks will be updated every time we add or remove a task. He also implemented a little change in the WBS structure so that the first task will start with 1 instead of zero now. You can see some of this work below relating to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Developed the Ability for the App to Renumber Tasks After We Deleted a Task ” Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 9th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued working on the badges. As badges are a new collection, she needs to play with the database. Her free trial of Studio 3T (GUI for the MongoBD database, where she can add or modify data) just expired, so she started using Compass this week instead. Her focus was working on the backend, adding logic for getting badges, posting a new badge, and assigning badges. For the frontend, some styling was done according to the latest approved mockup. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below relating to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 10th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team and web design team. This week Alvaro did some mock up ideation for the HGN leaderboard, continued working on the checklist to review new One Community web pages, and reviewed the new content added to the open source sustainable parking lots behind-the-scenes Google Doc. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below that works on raising planetary sustainability consciousness. 

Highest Good Network Software Team and Web Design Team – Click for Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 6th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he promoted our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineers, and various supporters of The Venus Project. He also created the first draft of a 12-page One Community overview that he will be sharing with media outlets. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted and some screenshots of the overview below that work on raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page ” Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon moved his work mainly in the backend section (HGNRest). He did more research into the existing HGNRest codebase related to assigning blue squares, sending auto-emails out and cron jobs.

He also worked on implementing the weekly summary tabs content in the backend (HGNRest) so now the tabs content is automatically shifted once the week ends each Saturday at midnight (PST) so the new week starts with a blank summary. Then Andon modified the weekly summary and countdown timer components to now use PST time as initially it was implemented using local time. You can see screenshots of some of this work below that relates to raising planetary sustainability consciousness.

Highest Good Network Software; Mainly in the Backend Section ” Click for Page

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OVERVIEW | LOCATION | FUNDING

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One Community welcomes Wen Zhang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Wen earned her M.S. in Accounting with a specialization in Management Information Systems from University of Delaware, and B.S. in Economics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Before being a Developer, she was a CPA and worked in Public Accounting and Corporate Finance for over 4 years. In 2018, Wen completed the Software Engineering program at Fullstack Academy, and has been working in Software Development since then. She is passionate about Data Analytics, Data Visualization, and FinTech. While not coding, Wen loves yoga and travel. As a member of the Software Development team at One Community, Wen is helping build the badge and awards functionalities for the React version of Highest Good Network software.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM WEN!

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One Community is creating a new sustainability path with open source and sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will teach people DIY-replicable models for eco-living. The plans we are developing cover food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 24th, 2020 edition (#374) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a New Sustainability Path
One Community Progress Update #374

DONATE | COLLABORATE | HELP WITH LARGE-SCALE FUNDING

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 us creating a new sustainability path: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models in creating a new sustainability path: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team wrote and timed the script for the Earthbag Village walkthrough village we’ve been working on in creating a new sustainability path. You can see the script below. We’ve requested more racial diversity in the people in the video and then we’ll finalize the script and add it to the video along with music and other graphics.

Wrote and Timed the Script for the Earthbag Village Walkthrough Village – Click for Page

The core team also resumed work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was editing the What, Why and Factors sections. You can see some of this work below and we’d say we’re about 30% complete with this tutorial.

Resumed Work on the Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #188 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was trim textures.

Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Design Focusing on Trim Textures ” Click for Earthbag Village

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 3rd week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials in creating a new sustainability path. This week Ashwini worked on developing the BOQ further and writing the specification for the same, also evaluating the Material tables and updating the links and prices. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Open Source Tutorials ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 in creating a new sustainability path: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we placed art work on the wall, corrected/removed tree leaves in the ball room walls, designed area rugs for in front of the 2nd-floor windows, set second floor textures, redid the second-floor furniture placement, corrected the placement of pool and all plants, remade the opening in the dome wall for the pool door, rearranged the artistic butterflies, and added seating around the supporting posts that look like trees. Pictures of all of this works in creating a new sustainability path are below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 10th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka worked on writing the FAQs for the research document, referring to existing ones along with adding new questions relevant to the document. This was done in line with the formatting needed for the final output. You can see some of this work-in-progress of creating a new sustainability path below and we’d say this brings this tutorial to 60% complete.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

This last week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week the first round of mind maps were developed for the Energy, Housing, Education, and Economics Infrastructure component which will be included under Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work in creating a new sustainability path below.

Mind Maps for the Energy, Housing, Education, and Economics Infrastructure – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 26th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details in creating a new sustainability path. This week he added circulations pumps to the Zenapini 1 & 2 piping network, modified the back-wall pipe height to be lower than the overflow pipe by 1″, created an exploded 3D model and modified it to include the steel connections and catch basins, exported the updated models to CAD, and started the design criteria report. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 93% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 78th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom that are creating a new sustainability path. This week he continued developing the view of the central area that will show this area being used before and after for theater. What you see here is version 2 of this render with the newest additions being more items on the shelving and the addition of various people.

Continued View of the Central Area That Will Show Area Being Used for Theater ” Click for Page

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week, Zebao updated the floor plan to add windows in individual toilet rooms for natural light and ventilation. Before the analysis of structural elements behaviors, Zebao also did research on the building code to design the structure layout and location . Zebao has reviewed the design requirements for wood structures, nonbearing walls, ceiling frame, and roof frame.

Zebao has additionally reviewed the load combination, live load, dead load, and load factors to design individual structural elements. You can see some of this work of creating a new sustainability path below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 10% complete.

Updated the Floor Plan to Add Windows in Individual Toilet Rooms – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a new sustainability path 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 in creating a new sustainability path: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing in creating a new sustainability path: 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 in creating a new sustainability path: The Highest Good Network

This week Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 16th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao designed the MongoDB schema and implemented the backend APIs for the timer component in creating a new sustainability path. One API can update the timer record or create the record if it doesn’t exist (called when interacting with the timer: start, pause and stop). The other can fetch the timer record from the database (called when loading the timer component). You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Designed the MongoDB Schema and Implemented the Backend APIs – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 8th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen created 3 versions of mockups for the badge section in creating a new sustainability path. Badge controllers are a work in progress and the coding work was mainly at the backend. Some screenshots of Wen’s work-in-progress are below.

Created 3 Versions of Mockups for the Badge Section – Click for Highest Good Network

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 9th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro started to research Design languages like material design that could be applied to HGNapp, he also researched prototyping tools like invision, and learned a little bit more about Progressive Web Pages and how we could benefit from this for creating a new sustainability path. You can see some screenshots of this behind-the-scenes work below. 

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

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 5th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing for creating a new sustainability path. This week he promoted our project and the One Community helping page to philanthropists, educators, and engineering schools. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page ” Click to Visit

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon continued with the frontend Weekly Summary component to add new features and improvements. As part of this he converted the form notifications to now use react-toastify, made the Media Files URL a required field, experimented with implementing the weekly summary section as a modal and shared a screenshot of that on Slack with the team, added a consent checkbox for the Media Files URL, so the user is reminded to provide the required media files upon submission.

He also added tooltips to the form so more info can be provided for each field on the spot, keeping it more informative and transparent, added tabs to the component so the last three weeks of summaries can be accessed, where each week’s content is in its own tab, and implemented a Countdown Timer component to be used in the Due Date/Time box to indicate how much time has left until time is up to submit the weekly summary report. You can see screenshots of some of this work below for creating a new sustainability path.

Add New Features and Improvements – Click for Highest Good Network

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

Open source cooperatives are the think tanks necessary to address the evolving challenges of this generation and generations to come. One Community is creating open source plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and teach people how to create complete living environments dedicated to this. Our plans include sustainable and DIY-replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 17th, 2020 edition (#373) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Open Source Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #373

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source 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: Open Source Cooperatives-Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

This week the core team finished the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options open source guide This week we added the rest of the content, created and added all the missing imagery, added in the remaining videos, and proofread and shared it. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. See some of this work in the collage below.

Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Open Source Guide ” Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off and continued with her 2nd week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini worked on vetting the Area statement for Earthbag village and writing the Project brief and technical specifications. She completed the sustainable site selection page for review, added plumbing and sanitary items to the Materials Table, and further developed the Tools and Equipment, Cost Analysis and Bill of Quantities tables. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Area Statement for Earthbag Village and Project Brief and Technical Specifications – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #187 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was more work integrating the new stairway design and testing textures. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. See below for pictures.

Continued Integrating the New Stairway Design and Testing Textures – Click for Earthbag Village

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 27th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was finishing the Earthbag Village walkthrough and the first draft of a video featuring a single dome, then a 3-dome cluster, a 6-dome cluster, and then a complete village flyover. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. You can see some screenshots of some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough ” Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 3rd week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela finished her textile research and began adding graphics and formatting and revising her content for the website. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source 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: Open Source Cooperatives-Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we changed the size of the 4 panel door and adjusted its position and corrected the dome walls related to those updates, moved two bathroom entry walls and rearranged the related tables, chairs and sofas, relocated the water fountains, set up the bathroom cement floor, updated the color of the bathroom door and stalls, updated the color of the bathroom walls and added 3′ high tile walls, and designed the vanity lights to match the interior designer’s details.

The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. Pictures of all of this are below.

City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) also completed his 24th and final week with the team by finishing some additionally-needed research for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. This research covered maintenance, testing, safety measures, selecting the location, the design process and more. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 9th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week, Radhieka addressed additional research needed on her list of companies, reviewed the whole document for content and grammatical updates, and researched more about laminate flooring, which had not been covered before but showed promise. After thorough research and benchmarking it against given parameters, she added it to the list, ranked it, and wrote a description for it. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for open source cooperatives. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source 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 researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was further research and organization/editing/revising of the content covering rabbit food, water, exercise and other needs. Highest Good Food is an important part of open source cooperatives with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this open source cooperatives below.

Continued Researching and Revising Rabbit Food, Water, and Exercise Content – Click for Rabbits Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week the format and general content of the mind maps was agreed on and produced for the Food and Energy Infrastructures. The Food Infrastructure written section within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study was also restructured and improved. Highest Good Food is an important part of open source cooperatives with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 25th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he finished modeling the structural system for all structures, finished the structural connections for all structures, finished editing the property topo, finished editing the pipe levels based on new wall heights, and completed the drawing annotations. Highest Good Food is an important part of open source cooperatives with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 92% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 77th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he began the view of the central area that will show this area being used for theater. This week’s work was focused though on the storage area on each side, adding books and bags to this area so it doesn’t look so barren. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of the open source cooperatives. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Began the View of the Central Area – Click for Ultimate Classroom

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 4th week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao finalized the floor plan with a separated service area, visible toilet rooms and adequate storage space. Based on previous design consideration and discussion, the ceiling area was expanded to cover most areas to provide storage and hide HVAC duct works. An area for the skylights and an accessible stair were left open.

Zebao also started to design the structural layout with wood elements. For general consideration, the structure includes gravity resistance and adds maximum shear walls, lateral bracing, and beams to resist earthquakes or winds at the future locations. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of the open source cooperatives. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 8% complete.

Continued Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is developing open source 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: Open Source Cooperatives-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 Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 4th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he promoted our project and the One Community helping page to philanthropists, educators, and engineering schools. This work helps One Community’s mission of open source cooperatives. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page ” Click to Visit

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 8th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro worked on Highest Good Network Volunteer Documentation to update the style according to the Software Documentation Design Guide, made changes to Highest Good Network Volunteer Documentation and Development Workflow and Github Google Docs, and interconnected these docs with links to point each other in the right place and make them easier to explore and follow. This work helps One Community’s mission of open source cooperatives. See pictures below

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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 16th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added the function to delete a task. Now, if a task is deleted, all of the children will be gone. He also started exploring re-using the WBS #ID after the task was deleted and began working on the sum of sub tasks. It works but still has some bugs. He also updated the back-end (mongodb) to work with the new features. This work helps One Community’s mission of open source cooperatives. You can see some of this work below.

Added the Function to Delete a Task on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon started the week exploring the backend (HGNRest API) and trying to understand how things work there, what’s in the MongoDB database at this point in time. Then he went to further explore the frontend HGN App, more specifically the Redux store setup, what actions, reducers, etc. were implemented and available.

He then connected the Weekly Summary component with the backend API and database so user input can now be saved. He also implemented form validation with Joi and other smaller tweaks such as the “Save” button would be disabled if there are any form errors. This work helps One Community’s mission of open source cooperatives. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

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

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

One Community welcomes Alvaro Hernández to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Alvaro has over 8 years of Tech Entrepreneurship experience with most of that time in social projects. He has provided consultancy services to a variety of businesses about the selection and implementation of open source technology in their processes. He shares the vision and the values of One Community and is committed to help at least 1 million people to achieve the life of their dreams, until now the best path he has found to attain this is a comprehensive demonstration of a Resource Based Economy. Recreationally, Alvaro enjoys dancing and prides himself in being an exceptional self-learner. As a member of the One Community team, Alvaro is on the path to becoming a One Community Pioneer and helping to develop the Highest Good Network and open source web tutorials.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM ALVARO!

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One Community is building the foundation for conservation collaboratives. These will form a global network of teacher/demonstration hubs designed to help people replicate and evolve sustainable environments integrating ecological and “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. Doing this so they are easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on their own is a path to global sustainability within our lifetime.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 10th, 2020 edition (#372) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Conservation Collaboratives
One Community Progress Update #372

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation collaboratives 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: Conservation collaboratives-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 began creation of the Best Small and Large-scale Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options open source guide. This week we set up the initial formatting, created and tested the table of contents links, and created the header and social media graphics. We’d say this brings this page to about 30% complete. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. See pictures below.

Community Paper Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options – Click for Page

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) returned to the team after almost 3 years off! In her 1st week back she focused on reviewing and adding content to the Sustainable Site Selection page she’d previously worked on, researching various Earthbag constructions all over the world, and working on developing a standard format for a Master Table for the entire Earthbag Village list of Materials, Tools and Equipment, Cost Analysis and Bill of Quantities. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Master Table for the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #186 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the new stairway design. This new design saves materials, allows for better views from the dining room and fixes a head clearance issue. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. See pictures below.

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

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 26th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding more bushes and greenery where requested, putting the Lion King back on the TV in one of the shots, fixing multiple shelving objects, adding more shelving objects, fixing a couple places where the walkthrough went partially through a wall, removing a leftover TV mount, and creating a final flyover video of the complete village.

The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. You can see some screenshots of some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 23rd week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi worked on finishing a 1st proper draft of the paper and styrofoam waste processing tutorials. See below for screenshots of the work he completed.

His research brought the following conclusions to be reached: DIY compost and DIY insulation blocks are the best recycling methodologies for paper and polystyrene respectively. The reasons behind these choices were the low labor, inexpensive, and sustainable aspects of each of these processes. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. See pictures below.

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials ” Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 2nd week as a member of the team and researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. This week Angela started researching textile recycling options for more rural areas, which encounter different obstacles when it comes to implementing an effective recycling program.

Angela also began researching and developing a guide to starting one’s own for-profit textile recycling business. After doing all of that research, Angela has completed most of her tutorial and is now focusing on refining and editing it. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation collaboratives 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: conservation collaboratives-Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued on conservation collaboratives updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details.

This week we continued with elements within the Social Dome. As part of this we designed the triangular tables and leather sitting chairs for the main room, moved the bathroom wall, added the water fountains, added one more urinal, added the frame for the bathroom mirror, added wood area under the bathroom sinks and redesigned the sinks themselves, and updated the window frames. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for conservation collaboratives. Pictures of all of this are below.

Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation collaboratives 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 researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit food, water, and exercise details. Highest Good Food is an important part of conservation collaboratives with One Community’s open source plans. See below for pictures.

Rabbit Food, Water, and Exercise Details, and Added to the Google Doc – Click for Rabbits Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week various iterations were made to produce mind maps to condense and make more visual and organized the text within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study, beginning with the Food infrastructure. Coogle was selected as the mind mapping tool after looking into several open source options. The free version of Coogle was the most straightforward in terms of ease of use and intuitiveness and was able to make hyperlinks in the same format as those on the current website. Highest Good Food is an important part of conservation collaboratives with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content ” Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 24th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details.

This week he researched steel mesh ceiling products and calculated the required quantity, collected references for the structural analysis and started the structural analysis for the structures, finished the structural design for all structures, calculated the proper sheet size for the structures to minimize waste (6′ SolaWrap sheets for the small structures and 5′ SolaWrap sheets for the large structures) and continued editing/updating the property topo. Highest Good Food is an important part of conservation collaboratives with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 90% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 76th week helping with conservation collaboratives render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished this view of the main area looking South by fixing shadows and lighting levels and adding objects and people. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of conservation collaboratives. You can see the final render below and it is now on the website too.

Finished View of the Main Area Looking South ” Click to Visit Ultimate Classroom

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the conservation collaboratives Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao added options for a service area layout, including toilet rooms, sinks, drinking fountains, a storage room, a janitor room, and extra shelves. We tried a symmetric toilet layout but it won’t work for our building length. There is no space for circulation and other service rooms. The adjustable layout has toilets and storage rooms on two sides of the middle hallway, and keeps the back door in the middle of the building. Another consideration is the floor under the sink could be wet, especially children using more frequently.

To keep the floor dry and separate it from the main circulation area, a third option was proposed with toilet rooms and sinks in an enclosed space and the main building space accessible from the back door directly, instead of passing the sink area. Zebao also verified the roof space is enough for having HVAC ducts and storage in the ceiling.

The storage area is 400 square ft. For the shallow roof slope, the roof system will only use straw bales as membrane material, not the structure elements. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of the highest good eco-community solutions. You can see some of work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 5% complete.

Continued Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is promoting conservation collaboratives 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: Conservation Collaboratives-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 Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 3rd week helping promote our project, conservation collaboratives, and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in it. This work helps One Community’s mission of conservation collaboratives. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page ” Click to Visit

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 7th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro documented the leaderboard component on HGN Functional Specification Documentation, made some very basic unit tests to the leaderboard component (WBS 1.2), contributed to the development workflow and github, and updated the style of some of the software documentation docs to match the One Community Software Documentation Design Guide and Template. This work helps One Community’s mission of conservation collaboratives. You can see some of this work below.

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

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 15th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed bugs on the drag and drop function to move tasks on the Work Breakdown Structure. Now users can drag tasks to re-order them and all the children task’s ID will be updated once a task is moved. He also added a function to display a long list of resources by using an expand button to view more people if the task has more than 2 people who are working on it. This work helps One Community’s mission of conservation collaboratives. You can see some of this work below.

Fixed Bugs on the Drag and Drop Function – Click for Highest Good Network Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao continued work on the Timer component. He researched best practice for MongoDB data modeling and came up with two options: (a) embed the timer data in the userProfile collection or (b) create a separate collection for timer data. Reasons for (a): Timer data is always loaded together with user profile data when opening the app.

They are both one-user-to-one-xxx relationship and can be queried by user ID. Embedding makes reads faster. Reasons for (b): Timer data is updated frequently while user profile data isn’t. Separate collection would avoid frequent updates to userprofile collections and makes writes faster. This also wouldn’t make any change to the current user profile data model. He also added auto-linking functionality. This work helps One Community’s mission of conservation collaboratives. You can see some of this work-in-progress below. 

Continued Work on the Timer Component of the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

And Andon Ignatov (Senior Web Developer) joined the team and completed his first week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon began the work on WBS #1.6 by first going over all the documentation, initial local development environment setup, updating the “HGN Functional Specification Documentation”, creating a mockup of the Weekly Summary section (WBS 1.6) and then began coding the UI component based on the mockup. This work helps One Community’s mission of conservation collaboratives. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Completed His First Week Working on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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One Community welcomes Radhieka Nagpal to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Radhieka has over a year of experience working in tech consulting for one of the Big 4 firms and has received several awards during her tenure. While professionally rewarding, her passion for sustainability and its potential to have a positive impact on the environment, economy and human lives led her to exploring career opportunities as a climate change consultant. Radhieka wishes to utilize and promote the existence of sustainable alternatives to help reduce the global carbon footprint, especially by large scale industries. In the future, she wishes to be in a position to advise governments and organizations on the best sustainable practices. As a member of the One Community team, Radhieka is following her passion and desire to help reduce the global carbon footprint by helping develop the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. tutorial, a tutorial with in-depth research on dramatically reducing our carbon footprint.

WELCOME TO THE TEAM RADHIEKA!

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Global regeneration has never been needed more. One Community is creating open source plans to build teacher/demonstration hubs that will share and teach people how to accomplish it. These plans include sustainable and DIY-replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. When combined, they will demonstrate an example of what we call living and creating for “The Highest Good of All.”

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the May 3rd, 2020 edition (#371) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Global Regeneration
One Community Progress Update #371

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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:
    • Global Regeneration-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 Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed his 25th week as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was fixing a glitch where a person vanished and another suddenly appeared, adding more trees, shrubs, and other greenery throughout the village, removing a TV so we can show one room without it, and adding and removing various objects on the shelves within the domes. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for global regeneration. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough ” Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 22nd week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi cleaned up the 4 material processing tutorials formatting and made sure the references were all listed in order.

He also conducted further research to determine the best practices for One Community’s plan to tackle recycling of each of these materials. Lastly, Oluyomi completed a table comparing roadway material options for the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for global regeneration. See pictures below

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials ” Click for Page

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also joined the team and completed her 1st week as a member of the team. This week Angela began the contribution by researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options. First, she researched brands that use recycled textiles and/or incorporated sustainable practices. Then she began exploring options for individual consumers. These included donating to thrift stores and various options offered by large municipalities that recycle clothing. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for global regeneration. See below for pictures.

Began Researching Clothing Recycling/Repurposing Options – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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:
    • Global Regeneration-Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we focused on elements within the Social Dome.

This included updating the floor design by adding the N-E-S-W, designed the four-panel glass door, updated the dome opening for the four-panels door, updated the railing to a bamboo texture, updated pool border to match the stone planters, designed the wall bench between the two doors, designed the entry door dirt catchment track, and created and placed four sofas and 5 sets of 2 chairs and tables. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for global regeneration. Pictures of all of this are below.

Continued Updating the City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design Details – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 6th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro continued with development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. He revised the page layout, proposed improvements to the collaboration process, and continued updating the content and logging the related time measurements. Related to this, Alvaro also got his Highest Good Network software local development environment running.

This is the time and materials tracking software we’re developing and he suggested minor changes to the setup guide and began dashboard unit tests. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for global regeneration. You can see a combination of these two areas of work below.

Continued With Development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page ” Click to Visit

Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 8th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started benchmarking the types of flooring to better assign ranks to them. She researched the manufacturing process and installation processes to evaluate the carbon footprint for each and also added important updates to the descriptions. She did this for Cork, Linoleum, Bamboo, Tile, Concrete, and Carpet. She slightly updated the introduction as well. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for global regeneration. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Continued Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished researching on if we need to be concerned about CO₂ levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures. What we found was some truly fascinating research about how excessive CO2 affects nutritional value of plants, which has been known and suspected within the plant research community for sometime. Highest Good Food is an important part of global regeneration with One Community’s open source plans. A more detailed summary can now be found in the FAQ sections of the Aquapini and Walipini page and the Highest Good food page.

Finished Researching Possible Concern About Co2 Levels in the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

The core team also continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week the Phased Rollout Table was completed. Text was also completed for the Stewardship Infrastructure within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study. Highest Good Food is an important part of global regeneration with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 23rd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he finished the small structure’s roof and exterior shell structural members by choosing 10X49 Wide Flange main beams, 10X49 Wide Flange columns, 5X3X3/16 Hollow Structural Section wall and roof supports, and 6X25 Wide Flange secondary beams.

He also chose loam as the berm soil behind the structures based on angle of repose of 40áµ, finished the topo around the small structures in the south, continued modeling the large structures roof and exterior shell, and continued editing the topo behind the back and side walls. Highest Good Food is an important part of global regeneration with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 88% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 75th week helping with global regeneration and render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on the yellow room by adding the final objects to the shelving. This room is represents the subject of Math and various empowering character traits and the final render can now be found on the website. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of global regeneration. See pictures below.

Finished Render Work on the Yellow Room of the Ultimate Classroom – Click to Visit

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on global regeneration and the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week Zebao checked the critical state building code, 2019 California Building Code for minimum plumbing number and occupancy load. Based on the new requirement and function, she updated the floor plan. The new floor plan kept the furniture layout, maintained adequate storage spaces, utilized natural roof ventilation, skylights, and built operable partitions between classrooms. Interior corners in the classrooms were updated to perpendicular or larger than 90 degrees, which allows for a more flexible furniture layout for different owners. It is also optional to adjust the outline of the floor plan closer to a circular shape.

For the use of community recreation or other events, a potential kitchen was also designed for consideration as part of the floor plan. Zebao additionally analyzed the heating and cooling ventilation in terms of global regeneration within the building on building sections. According to the products research, the operable partitions can use tracks in the ceiling, avoiding tracks on the floor, which would be easier for maintenance.

To operate the roof skylight, the product with solar power and remote control is also built with the rain sensor to close automatically in bad weather. She also updated the structure form to match the new building form. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of the highest good eco-community solutions. You can see some of this work below and we’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 3% complete.

Continued Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is facilitating global regeneration 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: Global Regeneration-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 Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 2nd week helping promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing and global regeneration, and just offered to help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in it. This work helps One Community’s mission of global regeneration. You can see this last week’s list of who he contacted below.

Continued Helping Promote Our Project and the One Community Helping Page – Click to Visit

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 14th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry focused on how to reorder tasks. He changed the move up and down function for reordering the tasks to much more user friendly drag and drop option. This work helps One Community’s mission of global regeneration. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Work on Highest Good Network Software Focusing on How to Reorder Tasks – Click for Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 7th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen designed and improved the Dashboard layout. For the backend, two more fields were added to the badge collection and a boolean type for “featured” was used to avoid duplicate data. For the frontend, time was mostly spent on the Reactstrap library (Card, Layout, etc) and CSS work, plus some component restructuring and reassigning. This work helps One Community’s mission of global regeneration. Some screenshots of Wen’s global regeneration work-in-progress are below.

Designed and Improved the Dashboard Layout on the Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Creating a sustainable world is possible if enough people want it. One Community sees the path to accomplishing this as making sustainability easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on its own. We’re designing and will build the first DIY-replicable teacher/demonstration hub to start the process.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, one of the important step in creating a sustainable world. This is the April 26th, 2020 edition (#370) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating a Sustainable World
One Community Progress Update #370

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CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

• • • Learn about: Creating a Sustainable World-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 modeled a ceiling-mounted TV option for the Earthbag Village domes. This exact setup is already in use by one of our members and will save space for residents interested in a TV up to 65″. The ceiling mounted TV is lowered by remote and has an adjustable angle for optimized viewing from the bed, as shown below. Cost of the hardware is less than $70. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for creating a sustainable world. See some of this work in the collage below.

Modeled a Ceiling-mounted TV Option for the Earthbag Village Domes – Click to Visit

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 24 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding in the TV the core team modeled, creating a new dome view showing use of the fold-down table and benches, adding more objects to the bedrooms, removing the ladder in the student’s/visitor dome option, and updating the walkthrough to focus on additional requested views. The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for creating a sustainable world. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough ” Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 21st week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorials. This week, Oluyomi worked on the glass, plastic and paper waste processing sections. A major discovery during his work is the possibility to transform waste plastic into Fuel through a process known as Pyrolysis, which contributed in creating a sustainable world. The following additional details were added to the tutorials:

• Glass: Shredding glass to add to cement for construction
• Plastic: Shredding to use for construction and other applications
• Paper: Shredding to make papercrete and insulation
• Styrofoam: Melting to form compacted blocks to sell

The Earthbag Village is the first of 7 to be built as the housing component of One Community’s open source model for highest good eco-community solutions. See some of this work in the collage below. Our research continued and you can see some of the related work-in-progress in the picture below.

Continued Research for the Best Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Tutorials – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans and interior design details. This week we remodeled the door and began work on the furniture and polished concreted floor art in the Social Dome, which is one step further in creating a sustainable world. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for creating a sustainable world. You can see some of these updates below.

Continued Updating City Center 3D Model to Match the Updated Floor Plans and Interior Design

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 5th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro continued with development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. Alvaro also finished the reviewing and refining process needed before publishing.

This process included the optimization of images for the web pages, reviewing all the content created by the researcher, formatting updates to match existing web tutorials, initial publishing for feedback, and recording the time it took for each micro task to create data to see where time could be saved during the implementation of the various improvements. The City Center will be built along with the first of the 7 villages as part of One Community’s open source model for creating a sustainable world. You can see some of this work below.

Continued With Development of the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team began researching if we need to be concerned about CO₂ levels in the Aquapini/Walipini structures. The questions we’re trying to answer are whether or not we have a CO₂ deficiency in these closed-loop structures and/or if CO₂ supplementation would be a good idea. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a sustainable world with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of the results of this behind-the-scenes research below.

Began Researching Co2 Levels in the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 22nd week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he went through several redesigns and remodeling of the structure roof and exterior shell, changed columns and wall height, designed and modeled new roof supports and beams, designed and modeled new wall supports, modified the topo based on the new designs, performed a sun study for the new design, and calculated the angle of repose for the property soil type to berm behind structures’ back walls.

Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a sustainable world with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say we’re now about 84% complete with the structural details.

Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 20th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the Preliminary climate battery design and the general layout of the pipe layers.

He also worked on the thermal properties of SolaWrap to replace a double layer SolaWrap in the previous simulations. He additionally continued to work on 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah using SolaWrap as the ceiling material for the greenhouse. Highest Good Food is an important part of creating a sustainable world with One Community’s open source plans. You can see some of this work below.

Continued Working on the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 74th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room that covers the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of creating a sustainable world. What you see here is Dan’s 9th round of additions to this room and the continued focus was adding learning books, tools, toys, and now “math objects” to the shelving on the left and right. With his latest additions, we’d say this room is now 99% complete.

Continued Work on the Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room; Adding Books, Tools, and Toys

Zebao Chen (Structural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the Ultimate Classroom structural engineering details. This week she reviewed the building code of Utah state, checked the minimum design requirements, and reduced the restrooms to 3 toilets. This will reduce construction material, energy consumption, and the budget. She also started to design the roof structure, provided 3 options and developed one of them.

The updated design uses more repeated dimensions and elements to simplify the construction. Zebao then started to build the analysis model in 3D software to decide the critical elements for future design. We’d say this brings the engineering of this building to 1% complete. The One Community model of combining forward-thinking education with sustainably built classrooms like this is an excellent example of creating a sustainable world. See the collage below for his work.

Joined the Team and Began Working on Ultimate Classroom Structural Engineering Details

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Creating a Sustainable World-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 wrote the content for the Phased Rollout sections of the Permaculture Design Case Study section covering Society and Stewardship. This content will be used to complete these sections on the Phased Rollout Table. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating a sustainable world. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Wrote the Content for the Phased Rollout Section Covering Society and Stewardship – Click for Page

The core team also finished comprehensive updates to all three of our pages for funders. This included the Building a Better World page, Location Essentials page, and the Funding Options pages. Updates included simplification, reviewing and editing the information to match the latest Business Plan details, adding links to our Business Plan, and creating new social media images for all three pages. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating a sustainable world. You can see some of these details below.

Finished Comprehensive Updates to All Three of Our Pages for Funders – Click for Funding Page

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) also joined the team and had made great contributions in creating a sustainable world to help promote our project and the One Community helping page to educators, engineering schools, and possible funders. This work helps One Community’s mission of creating a sustainable world. See below for picture.

Joined the Team to Help Promote Our Project – Click for Our Helping Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software, and had made one step further in creating a sustainable world. This week Tengxiao worked on the “Notes” field of the TimeEntryForm. The placeholder and error message was modified and he successfully integrated the TinyMCEEditor as the rich text editor, so users will be able to apply a diversity of formats to the notes.

This was able to be done using the same rich text editor as used in the (current) Ember app by integrating it locally without the API-key and access to TinyCloud. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainable world. Below are pictures of his work

Worked on the “Notes” Field of the TimeEntryForm – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) additionally completed his 13th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry changed the workflow and interface of WBS to be more user-friendly.

He added tag colors to group tasks starting with the same WBS’s ID, drop downs to have a dynamic view of tasks, auto generated WBS’s ID to avoid mistakes, the estimated hours to now be calculated by the times we input in the other fields, and the toolbar will keep track of the task a person is working on. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainable world. You can see some of this work below.

Changed the Workflow and Interface of WBS to Be More User-friendly – Click for Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 12th week as a member of the volunteer team working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Blue Square Functionality on the mobile app. Now the user will see stars in blue color and the number of infringements will determine the number of stars with 5 being the highest.

Siddharth also created an Admin section which would be visible only for an Admin and will let the Admin access all projects and all users. Siddharth also fixed a bug on the Modal which sometimes prevented the user confirmation appearing for tasks like Delete Project and Remove Project Member. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainable world. You can see some of this work below.

Worked on the Blue Square Functionality on the Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 6th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen added the badge model in the database. Problems with the database left from last week were successfully solved this week. Wen did some research on CronJob, which will be used to check the criteria and assign badges.

The Blue Square (vs Badges & Blue Badges) name issue took some time to figure out – digging into Sentry’s log and Shubhra’s legacy code on deleting the Blue Square. Now Wen moves on to improving the UI of the badge section and dashboard layout. See the Highest Good Society and Highest Good Network pages for more on how this relates to creating a sustainable world.  Some screenshots of her work-in-progress are below.

Added the Badge Model in the Database – Click for Highest Good Network Software Page

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Conscious and conscientious global caretaking is possible. This planet is the only one we have to live on, it is our one shared home. One Community is helping to make it a sustainable planet and home through open source and sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

• 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

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why global caretaking is important. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of why global caretaking is important and showcase what is possible.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that answers why global caretaking is important. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS 

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that explains why global caretaking is important. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the question of why global caretaking is important, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

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 April 19th, 2020 edition (#369) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining why global caretaking is important:

Global Caretaking
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

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

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #186 of Dean’s work and the focus was trying to create a circular stairway to the rooftop patio that used minimal resources, had sufficient head clearance, and could be DIY-replicated. You can see pictures of these updates below.

Global Caretaking – Continued Working on Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs ” Click for Page

Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completed his 20th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week, Oluyomi completed the first drafts of the glass, paper and plastic waste processing tutorials. After analyzing the cost, labor and feasibility of the different methodologies for the materials, the following plans are in the lead for recycling those materials:

• Glass: Shredding then mixing with construction materials
• Paper: Making papercrete and forming shredded paper compost
• Plastic: Shredding then selling to plastic manufacturers or forming new products that are useful to our communities using an extrusion machine

Our research continued and you can see some of the related work-in-progress in the picture below.

Global Caretaking – Click for Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Page

Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 23 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding a look into the loft storage during the walkthrough, changing out some of the people, adding more objects to the various views, and updating the side tables in the Couple’s Domes to be the ones we’ll actually build. You can see some screenshots of this below.

Global Caretaking – Continued Working on the Earthbag Village Walkthrough ” Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

One Community is global caretaking 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 updating the Duplicable City Center 3D model to match the updated floor plans. This week we updated the first floor Living Dome’s bathroom walls, door openings, and toilets. We also updated the Living Dome room example to add a sofa, updated closet, and floor, and rebuilt the second floor bathrooms walls to match first floor. You can see some of these updates below.

Global Caretaking – Continued Updating the Duplicable City Center 3D File ” Click for Page

Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) also completed his 4th week as a member of the volunteer team. This week Alvaro switched his focus to working on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping page. As his work on this will be a process that will be repeated several times in the future, he is taking the time to measure the time it takes of every task during the process. The goal is to create a formatting guide for the researchers, look for ways to improve the web page creation process, and define a checklist to use to improve and streamline the complete creation and review process. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Began Working on the Sustainable Roadways, and Landscaping Page – Click to Visit

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

One Community is global caretaking 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 Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 21st week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini engineering details. This week he continued working on the steel structure.

This included: searching the proper roof and cladding support system, selecting the structural system for the gardens in addition to the roof and cladding supporting system, designing two structural models to compare cost and efficiency, continued designing of the steel beams, steel columns, steel connections, and rafters, and replacing the conventional roof and cladding system with SolaWrap. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing about 80% complete with the structural details.

Global Caretaking – Continued Helping With the Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering ” Click for Page

Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 19th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on the thermal properties of SolaWrap to replace the previous heat calculation with Solexx. Now we’re moving forward with a double layered SolaWrap in the ceilings as well as the walls. He also worked on the 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis considering SolaWrap as the material in the ceiling. And he worked on the preliminary climate battery design and the general layout of the pipe layers. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini Structures ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

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

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

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

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 73rd week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room, a room about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 8th round of additions to this room. The continued focus and final needed additions are adding learning books, tools, toys, and aids to the shelving on the left and right. With the latest additions, we’d say this room is now 95% complete.

Global Caretaking – Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room ” Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – GLOBAL CARETAKING

One Community is global caretaking 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 finished the Phased Rollout Table sections covering Economics and started it for Society too. Text was completed for Economics and started for Society within Step 2 of the Permaculture Design Case Study section after reviewing all material available on our website on the topics related to this. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Finished the Phased Rollout Table Sections ” Click for Permaculture Page

Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao modified the form validation for the TimeEntryForm component. The submit button is no longer disabled. Instead, errors are displayed for empty fields. He also refactored the code to make it more concise. The indigo, violet and purple color codes for the progress bar were also updated.

Global Caretaking – Form Validation for the Timeentryform Component – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) additionally completed his 12th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated new functions to add tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in the database. The profile picture will show up on the resources as a dropdown to show all members in the project for the user to select from. A calendar interface will be used to select the start and due date functions.

All information about a task can be stored in our mongoDB. Henry also realized last week’s method is not a good way to add WBS IDs because the dropdown will show a very long list when the WBS has many tasks. The new idea is to directly select a task on the task list, then add child tasks to it. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Updated New Functions to Add Tasks to the WBS – Click for HGN Page

Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 11th week as a member of the volunteer team working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth fixed the bugs that occurred due to refactoring. Now the user can edit their first name, last name, email, phone number and job role. He also completed more refactoring to make the code cleaner. You can see some of this work below.

Global Caretaking – Bugs That Occurred Due to Refactoring ” Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 5th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. Wen’s focus this week was working on the badge section. She created a mongoose collection for the badges and a skeleton of the React component. Code was added to both the frontend and backend. She had some difficulty with the database and will continue resolving the problem next week. Some screenshots of her work-in-progress are below.

Global Caretaking – Created a Mongoose Collection for the Badges – Click for Highest Good Network

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