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

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

WELCOME TO THE TEAM TIFFANY!

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #443

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WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 11th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

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

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

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” non recyclable waste management research

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

Pictures of some of this work are below.

World-changing Cooperatives ” management and review

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

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

Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” City Center Eco-spa designs

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Dormer window designs

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

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

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

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center connectors

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” City Center HVAC Designs

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

The pictures below relate to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center connectors

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

And Brian Storz (Culinary Project Manager) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping lead the completion of the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Transition Kitchen designs, Food Procurement and Storage plan, and related menu and meal plans. Brain started the week off with a virtual meeting with Jae.

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

WORLD-CHANGING COOPERATIVES HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Managing One Community volunteer-work

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

Pictures below are related to this work.

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

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

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

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

World-changing Cooperatives ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the September 12th, 2021 edition (#442) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Creating Regenerative Living Models
One Community Progress Update #442

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CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Murphy bed assembly instructions

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing team

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Murphy bed instructions

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

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Earthbag Village

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Most Sustainable Insulation tutorial

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pictures below are related to this work.

Solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 10th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

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

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center Electrical designs

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center designs

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

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

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

 

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center connectors

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Chicken Coop Assembly document

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

CREATING REGENERATIVE LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Managing One Community

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

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

The pictures below are related to this work.

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Open source social media strategy

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

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

Creating Regenerative Living Models ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

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

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

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

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BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Murphy bed assembly instructions

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” solar microgrid design

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

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

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

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

The pictures below show some of this work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Reviewing research and testing progress

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Earthbag Village energy specifics

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Solar microgrid design specifics

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 9th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Aircrete and earthbag compression testing

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

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

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Researching cost effective solutions

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center roof designs

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

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center Electrical designs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” City Center HVAC Designs

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center connectors

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Duplicable City Center architectural review

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

BLUEPRINT FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL COLLABORATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 32 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. We also completed extensive additional testing and bug identification and correction confirmations. The pictures below relates to this.

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Managing One Community

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

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

Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration ” Highest Good Network software

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

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

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One Community welcomes Shreyas Dayanand to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shreyas is an engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. He is passionate about working with battery technology in the electric mobility industry. He believes electric vehicle technology is the key to sustainable transportation. Shreyas is skilled in CAD, thermal and structural simulations, and research related to electric vehicle battery pack applications. He is passionate and dedicated to solving engineering problems to overcome the hurdles of the EV industry. As a member of the One Community team, Shreyas is helping to implement the concept of Vehicle-to-Grid technology and is working on a techno-economical analysis to optimize EV charging. He is also looking into battery storage options and the economics of battery storage as a 100% off-grid storage option for our solar farm.

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One Community is forwarding a global cooperative of teacher/demonstration hubs that will open source 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. We are doing this as part 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 August 29th, 2021 edition (#440) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Forwarding a Global Cooperative
One Community Progress Update #440

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FORWARDING A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page. We addressed past comments and identified additional areas for improvement, covering from section 4.3 to 6. We also separated the flooring section into its own page and started formatting that. The pictures below share some of this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring review

Another core team member reviewed and assigned 18 responses to another volunteer engineer to validate and/or correct, covering dome work boundary outer area, utilities, areas of excavation, 3-dome cluster footer, foundation heights, flooring, tamping/compaction, using water to determine grade differences, and centerpoint re-establishment. These covered pages up through page 49.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring

And the core team continued what we hope will be the final review of the Murphy bed assembly instructions. We completed the assembly of the benches and table with hardware installation.

We then started working on assembly of the bed framing, wall framing, side shelving and ceiling with the light cut outs. As we did this we provided comments with suggestions and related images to help with the corrections and updates that were found to be needed. Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Murphy bed assembly instructions

The core team also finished the initial power estimations needed for the solar microgrid design. These included daily values for each area and total, graphs, updating formulas, creating a new tab with a summary of energy needs, including monthly demands and max winter plot.

We additionally addressed and organized comments from the aircrete team and double checked and improved the aircrete team’s spreadsheet of calculations.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Initial power estimations needed for the solar microgrid design

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 47th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Stacey processed some of the comments received on the most recent version of the Murphy bed instructions.

She is reading through the notes posted to the shared PDF document and making the changes directly into the instruction Illustrator files. Many of the comments are already improving the look and legibility of the document. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Murphy bed instructions

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 58th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished adjusting the flash rendering to align with the roof access frame of the net-zero bathroom.

The roof saddle was redimensioned to coincide with the roof access size changes. To complete the flash rendering, he added fasteners to the appropriate locations along the saddle. The following changes were made to reduce material use and simplify the process.

This coming week Jose Luis will make an action list on all the steps needed to finalize the plans. The pictures below show some of this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson followed up with the diesel generator companies regarding the quotes for 100kw and 150kw generators including email and phone call communications.

After receiving the quote or response, he input the product spec and the quotes into the spreadsheet comparison table. Finally, Jeson saved the email communication thread to PDFs and saved them into the dropbox folder along with the diesel generator specs sheets.

Lastly, he addressed the comments that Vicente had on the spreadsheet, including calculation and format adjustments. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 17th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to provide management and guidance to the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing team.

He reviewed their trial testing progress and updates to their plan, helped review their calculations to ensure precision and accuracy, and provided additional comments and suggestions to guide the development of this team’s work.

Aiden also returned to the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet that he created a few months ago and began the final research process needed to incorporate it into the website. Pictures below are related to this work.

Management and guidance to the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing team

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week helping with the Earthbag Village energy specifics. This week Frank worked on the energy consumption summaries of the HVAC systems for the Atrium, and the Aquapini and Walipini designs.

He also created some plots to examine the monthly average energy consumption of both buildings. The energy consumption of the infiltrations needs further research and will be added in the final report. The pictures below relate to this.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” Earthbag Village energy specifics

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing. This week Shreyas continued to work on the techno-economical analysis of EV charging using the HOMER GRID application.

He analyzed the level 5 DC Ultra-Fast Charging scenario for an EV with a 100 kWh battery pack and documented the findings of the analysis for the same. Shreyas also worked on drawing conclusions for the analysis that was previously done by plotting graphs for comparison for EV charging times, commercials for charging, and levels of EV charging (i.e. charging rate).

Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative ” solar microgrid design specifics

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 8th week helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week they worked to finish the docs and address the comments to begin the final cylinders that will be curing for the next few weeks.

They also created excel sheets that will be used to capture the data of each individual cylinder, solidified calculations regarding their stabilized earth and aircrete mixes on their google sheets document, and practiced more mixes and prepping for the upcoming weeks to be as efficient as possible.

Aircrete and earthbag compression testing, Forwarding a Global Cooperative

Tiffany Gao (Sustainability/Plastics Researcher) completed her 6th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer. This week Tiffany focused her efforts on further improving the Plastic Recycling page.

After receiving about 4 pages of edit feedback, she added “Titles” to her links, fixed spelling errors to reflect “Title Case”, fixed headings and the table of content bullets, replaced missing/broken images and resized images, fixed spacing errors seen in preview mode, and forced center code on other images.

Tiffany finished up by completing a bit more grammar review. The pictures below share some of this work.

Plastic Recycling, Forwarding a Global Cooperative

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation. The focus this week was Project Specifications Chapter 5 for Architectural and Chapter 9 for Plumbing, 1st Floor Occupancy Calculation ” Number of required restroom fixtures per CBC Chapter 29, and the AutoCAD 3D solid model. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 31st week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center.

This week Ian continued the development of energy modeling narrative document for LEED Building Certification. He specifically updated the occupancy schedule and included it to narrative document for checking.

Ian also processed the thermal zone of the building in DesignBuilder Software, and attended to the team queries particularly the ASHRAE 90.1 needed tables as reference. Please see below related screenshots of activity for reference.

energy analysis calculations, Forwarding a Global Cooperative

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs.

This week David spent the majority of his hours looking through the google doc for Roadways, Landscaping, and Walkways to resolve remaining comments from Nicholas, Bear, and Jae.

Due to the changes to the amount of square footage that will be associated with porous pavement and decomposed granite, David needs to meet with Carol to discuss the changes. With that, the final costs and calculations for our roadways and walkways will be complete. Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 18th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol worked on updating the Excel calculations with new data for length and area of roadway.

She also fixed the mistakes in the spreadsheet from last week. Carol created 2 tables in 2 separate sheets on Google Drive for Roadway Unlimited Expense Option and Roadway Minimized Expense Option. Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 18th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis continued his work on the electrical budget for the City Center Spa.

He was able to pick up where his teammates left off in order to create an understandable table that communicates the power requirements of each component in the Spa system. It covers systems such as the pump, heater, controllers, and valves.

The table also structures any potential design constraints that may impact each component’s power consumption. Once the numbers are finalized, they can be incorporated into the City Center Spa solar budget for design.

In the coming weeks Luis aims to research the remaining components to see on average how much electricity they draw and what will work best with our system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – City Center Eco-spa designs

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 11th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela focused on the site roadways.

An unlimited expense plan was created last week and this week a minimized expense plan was made. Daniela worked on AutoCAD to create these designs and incorporated fire access paths, bikeways, and pedestrian paths. In the last design Daniela edited she included the unimproved bike/foot paths.

Daniela included some additional information to an excerpt she wrote last week to help explain the rationale behind the pathways. She also continued making small edits to the Earthbag Village. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 7th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center roof designs. This week Venus completed the dormer wall and roof design. For detailing the dormer, she is using Revit to create 3D details.

She created the 3D isometric section of the dormer wall, changed different layer materials in the wall and dormer window position in order to meet the International Building Code fire code/egress, and researched on attaching openings to the main dome structure.

From this Venus created two options for the dormer frame. Next she will complete the 3D SketchUp file and add both windows and downspouts on the dome based on the new position of the dormer windows. See pictures below.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Duplicable City Center roof designs

John Aquino (Electrical Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week, John set up the plotting tools that shall be used to print out drawings for issuance/QA/QC.

In addition, a drawing file has been created containing typical electrical details that may be potentially used for this project and/or future ones. All of these items will be located inside the Electrical folder for the DCC project. Pictures below show some of this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – helping lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) also completed his 7th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week Carlos sent 3/4 of the furniture renders for review so he can produce the final renders, he also began working on the wardrobe by importing brackets and screws with animations.

At first it seemed like the wardrobe was going to take longer because of the size, but given that the animations were the core and most of them were produced in previous renders it seems this is going to be the easiest one. Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms

Dipanshi Batra (Mechanical Engineer) completed her 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Dipanshi focused on the StarPlate form of connector and started CAD work on making the same based on angles from the pre-designed geodesic dome.

FMEA and testing requirements for StarPlate were also explored. These gazebo-applied connectors can be applied to a larger frequency Geodesic Dome. Discussion around direction of design intent also culminated. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Duplicable City Center connectors

Ibukun Shogbamu (Junior Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the City Center HVAC Designs. This week Ibukun edited and formatted the “Most Viable HVAC system comparison” spreadsheet and summarized the written report.

He also began the cost estimation for the Minisplit system, considering the costs of all indoor and outdoor units as well as all the installation accessories. To get an accurate value he measured the refrigerant piping lengths from the AutoCAD drawings and obtained the total cost of refrigerant piping based on these values. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – City Center HVAC Designs

Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 5th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. Andrew spent most of his hours exploring the V-connector bracket design on SolidWorks Finite Element Analysis and continuing the Hub Connector Analysis report.

Several thickness of metal plates were tested by FEA with a combination of holes. Price and material availability were also explored for the cost consideration. Pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Duplicable City Center connectors

And Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) joined the team and completed her 1st week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code.

She finished her onboarding process, had a meeting about her tasks, listed the occupancy classification of the rooms according to the California Building Code Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, and reviewed the window designs and added the comments. The pictures below relate to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Duplicable City Center architectural review

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 47th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng clarified the design revision details with Jae. She updated both roads on the North and South based on comments.

The 3D model of the roads as well as the surrounding topography were modified in SketchUp too, so the file can be ready for further development in Lumion later.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping

Qisheng Rong (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week helping with the development of the climate battery designs for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.

This week Qisheng created a computational fluid dynamics simulation model on SolidWorks to simulate the behavior of climate battery design and analyzed the performance.

Based on the simulation results, the climate battery design was capable to cool the air temperature of 38 degree celsius down to 15 degree celsius where the pipe wall temperature was assumed to be same as deep soil temperature, however, some pipes were observed to have very limited flow. See pictures below.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Climate battery designs for the Aquapini:Walipini structures

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

FORWARDING A GLOBAL COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 34 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

We also moved the final 7 volunteers over to the new Highest Good Network software, converted the “Beta” into the “Main” software, activated the Dev environment for testing, and did extensive testing and bug identification and correction confirmations. The picture below relates to this.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – managing One Community

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek finished updating the UI summary bar component. He made the component fully responsive on different screen sizes and easily readable.

Narek continued with a new task of updating the timer component to be responsive on different screen sizes and positioned in the center of the navigation bar. He also finished by fixing multiple bugs and completed code reviews. The pictures below are related to this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Highest Good Network software

Cameron White (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Cameron added his first new feature: the ability to record, view, and edit the occasions on which a volunteer has modified their time entries. Accompanying this change, volunteers can edit their own time entries and blue squares are now automatically issued for excessive edits.

Additionally, Cameron finished work on the weekly summaries report feature and added the ability to see if a person met their weekly commitment from within the report. He also continued working on minor bug fixes and UI improvements. See the related pictures below of this work.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – Highest Good Network software

Aleksandra Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on images for our open source social media strategy. During this week, Alex created 62 environmental posters.

The taglines were about ocean pollution, air pollution, city pollution, and the wildfires in California. Her next week will be more about good and bad business practices, how some companies pollute the planet and others are protecting it. You can see some samples of these below.

Forwarding a Global Cooperative – open source social media strategy

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One Community welcomes Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Frank graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University. He is a creative and highly motivated Engineer-in-Training who knows how to work independently and with a team. Frank is passionate about clean energy and the development of new designs that are green. As a member of the One Community team, he’s applying his background knowledge on mechanical systems and thermodynamics for the calculation of energy systems and HVAC.

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If we’re not creating sustainable global progress, what kind of progress are we creating? One Community is an all-volunteer global think tank creating open source DIY-replicable “sustainable global progress” components. They include food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. We see the creation of a sustainable world within our lifetime through self-replicating teacher/demonstration hubs that share how to build and evolve these solutions 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 by creating sustainable global progress. This is the August 22nd, 2021 edition (#439) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Global Progress
One Community Progress Update #439

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SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued working for creating sustainable global progress and on the “Earthbag Construction Footers, Foundation, and Flooring” review for finalizing the live page.

The focus this week was continued proofreading and commenting on the final version of the Earthbag Dome Footer Foundation and Flooring document, adding comments and suggestions for improvement and organization that better matches the flow of the actual construction of the Domes. The pictures below share some of this work.

Here’s work from another team member working on this too.

And the core team continued what we hope will be the final review of the Murphy bed assembly instructions for sustainable global progress. We continued to recreate the Murphy bed in SketchUp 3D, assembling it using the latest version of the instructions. This week we focused on assembly of the bed support wall and framing of the bed and hardware installation. Pictures below are related to this work.

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 57th week creating sustainable global progress and finishing the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village.

This week Jose Luis began updating the dimensions of the roof access flash to coincide with the dimensional changes of the roof. The dimensional changes included the cross-section of the roof access and the orientation of it.

He began by adjusting the dimensions of the flash that run parallel to the slope of the inner roof. Jose Luis then adjusted the roof saddle dimensions and the corresponding flash on it.

The same basic idea was maintained, but the reference orientations of the flash changed making the resizing a bit tedious. The pictures below show some of this work.

Jeson Hu (Aerospace Engineer) completed his 24th week helping with sustainable global progress and research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson researched a 150kW diesel generator in addition to the 100kW diesel generator spreadsheet that he already made.

He finished inputting all the specs of 150kW diesel generators into the spreadsheet, including output, voltage, runtime, fuel consumption, warranty, and weight. Jeson also inserted the product specs links in the spreadsheet, converted them to PDFs, and saved in dropbox.

He began contacting the diesel generator companies about the price, and got many responses asking about what options we want the generator to be. He asked Vicente about the options, and since Vicente is also not sure about which option suits us, Jeson asked the companies for quotes for both options.

They have not replied yet, so we’re following up again. In addition to all this, Jeson did a final review on the solar hardware research and solar incentive research, and addressed comments to both. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 16th week  creating sustainable global progress and helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to provide management and guidance to the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing team.

He reviewed their research, reporting, videos, calculations, and trial results. Aidan also provided questions, comments, suggestions, and concerns to guide the development of the mixing and testing plan, documentation of the process, and results of the trials. Pictures below are related to this work.

Frank Roland Vilcapaza Diaz (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 9th week creating sustainable global progress helping with the Earthbag Village energy specifics.

This week Frank worked on reading though the needed information to calculate and analyze energy consumptions on an open system (meaning the effects of different losses that are not fixed, such as an open window or people walking in and out) to compare it to the system that is being developed by One Community. The pictures below relate to this.

Shreyas Dayanand (Battery Research Engineer) also completed his 8th week creating sustainable global progress and helping with the solar microgrid design specifics related to electric vehicles and battery sizing.

This week Shreyas worked on obtaining the commercials for different levels of charging of a generic Electric Vehicle with a 100 kWh battery pack.

He also performed techno-commercial analysis on the HOMER GRID application using different cases by varying the EV charger size but keeping the “ON-DEMAND” profile constant (as this would most likely resemble real-life and day-to-day scenarios).

Having understood the results from the analysis, Shreyas drew a few conclusions that help to understand the factors on which the commercials for EV charging vary upon. These results are further illustrated as shown in the pictures below.

The Compression Team consisting of Dominick Banuelos (Civil Engineering Intern), Jarot Tamba (Civil Engineering Intern), John Paul D. Matining (Civil Engineer Intern), and Marcus Nguyen (Civil Engineering Intern) completed their 7th week creating sustainable global progress and helping with the Aircrete and earthbag compression testing.

This week the team worked together to finish what can be done such as adding information, answering comments, and formatting. They also worked with the team to get the stabilized earth ready. This included working on calculations and editing the excel sheet for the stabilized earth calculations.

All of the cylinder mixtures have been determined and successful cylinders were made. The group then spent time organizing their plan and collaborating on having a solid schedule, mixing plan and documents before the week’s end.

A standard aircrete video was also created to show how they have made aircrete in the cylinder. Overall, the group feels they are very close to being ready to make the actual batch of cylinders to compression test.

Tiffany Gao (Sustainability/Plastics Researcher) completed her 5th week as a researcher, reviewer, and web developer creating sustainable global progress. This week Tiffany conducted a lot more research into non-recyclable recycling and began writing out the options on the overall non-recyclables recycling web page.

Finding numerous resources, she found a lot of incineration and gasification options that are being used worldwide and assessed by the EPA. Some of these include rotary kiln incineration, moving grate incineration, fluidized bed incineration, and plasma gasification.

Tiffany learned that very few effective waste technologies can manage waste without producing adverse effects, making her search for good small-scale community options more difficult. She is hopeful however, and will continue to write up her research.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PROGRESS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued work on the Duplicable City Center Project Specification and Design Basis documentation for creating sustainable global progress. The focus this week was on collecting more data about the possible construction locations (Zip Codes) and collecting related design criteria such as Wind, Snow, Tornado, and Seismic criteria. Pictures below share some of this work-in-progress.

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 46th week volunteering, now helping with the Aquapini & Walipini external landscaping details. This week Qiuheng put together the whole model in Lumion and then she rendered a plan view based on last week’s comments. Qiuheng revised the model and exported the updated walkthrough too.

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

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

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

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

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

SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PROGRESS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 27 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. The picture below relates to this. We also did more testing and bug identification within the Beta version of the Highest Good Network software.

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 25th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru continued working on UI enhancement.

She added a search bar in the main reporting page so the users can type a name to filter the people, projects, and teams table. She also removed the blue square heat map and still kept the detailed blue square tables. Additionally, Yueru spent time looking into a start date issue. The pictures below are related to this work.

Narek Tsaturyan (Software Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Narek worked on the header summary bar. He fixed issues with spacing and improved code readability.

He also fixed spacing problems and improved centering in mobile view screen size. In addition to the dashboard header, Narek worked on the timelog component, and added the ability for users to submit weekly summary reports through the header summary bar.

He also completed code reviews. Next week Narek will continue working on the header component and refactoring code. The pictures below are related to this work.

Cameron White (Software Engineer) completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Cameron continued fixing bugs, making UI adjustments, and implementing minor feature requests.

He also finished refactoring the time entry form, and began work on back-end changes required to implement outstanding feature requests and bug fixes. The most significant of these changes is that blue squares are now automatically issued for excessive edits and edits to time entries are recorded differently. See the related pictures below of this work.

Aleksandra Gorkovenkø (Graphic Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on images for our open source social media strategy. During this past week, Aleksandra worked on eco-graphics, on design, layouts, and colors.

Beside this, Aleksandra researched ecosystems, environmental changes and climate changes. She incorporated that information into the infographics and posters. Aleksandra created 14 versions of infographics and 8 additional posters that are about climate change. You can see some of these below.

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