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One Community Welcomes Jeson Hu to the Engineering Team!

Posted on April 26, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Jeson Hu to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jeson is a certified Engineer-In-Training who graduated from UCLA with a Master degree in Aerospace Engineering. Currently he’s a Project Engineering Advisor in a small company that analyzes and advises on company’s technology investments. He has designed aircraft/UAV models with attention to detail, demonstrated capability of delivering challenging engineering projects under set time-frames, and has extensive knowledge of building light-weight and durable components according to customer/client requirements. Jeson believes that collaboration is the key to business success and commits on a daily basis to building positive relationships with colleagues and senior management. It is through these bonds that organizations build success. As a member of the One Community team, Jeson is helping with research for One Community’s solar microgrid sizing, cost analysis, and rollout details that are part of the Highest Good Energy component.

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One Community Welcomes Sunitha Paraselli to the Engineering Team!

Posted on April 25, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Sunitha Paraselli to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Sunitha is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering program at the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), and former mechanical engineer in Ecoboard Industries Ltd. She loves working on Eco-friendly projects, which is one reason she chose to volunteer with One Community. Sunitha has extensive experience providing technical designs for equipment in Bio-gas Plants, is proficient at creating detailed mechanical drawings and running simulation for parts and assemblies using AutoCAD, Solidworks and Catia, and is well versed in creating, reading, and interpreting drawings and P&I diagrams. She also has advanced skills in CAD/CAE/CAM tools, SAP ERP systems, and Estimation of materials required for the project. As a member of the One Community team, Sunitha is helping with the engineering needed to identify the optimal open source and replicable designs for the hub connector hardware that will be used for the Duplicable City Center wooden frame.

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Sustainable Social Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Posted on April 25, 2021 by One Community

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Sustainable social models are models of living that merge society with ecology to create a richer and more enjoyable living experience. Models like this recognize supporting and regenerating the planet is essential to the health and happiness of the people who depend on it.

One Community is supporting the creation of models like this through what we call “Highest Good” and comprehensively sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 25th, 2021 edition (#422) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Social Models
One Community Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models - One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

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SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social 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 edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week’s focus was edits and further clarifying existing information throughout the doc. New paragraphs were included, going into further detail and polishing the narrative and tying it in with the existing work. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc.

The core team also continued what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions, assembling the bed in 3D to test them. This week we created a list of updates and suggestions for the Table and Benches assembly section. Updates included measurements for some parts and shifting of location of affected parts/items. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Murphy bed instructions, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Updates and Suggestions for the Table and Benches Assembly Section

The core team additionally confirmed all of Zachary’s updates from last week to the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book and created a new list of requests covering pages 12 to 31. Pictures below show some of this work.

Tree House Village, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Tree House Village Online Book and Created a New List of Requests

And the core team additionally began double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. This week’s focus was working on compiling the list of energy consuming components within the Earthbag Village.

We had 2 meetings regarding energy consumption, began cleaning up the brainstorm list and added a ‘Data Source’ column, so the source of the information could be traced to its origin. We also began the list for the Dome Homes (residence) and added Greywater, Earthbag Village General, and Overall Property to the area category.

We also corrected some equations within the Water Use Calculations spreadsheet and updated the Hydropower Spreadsheet based on that information. Pictures below are related to this work.

Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” List of Energy Consuming Components Within the Earthbag Village

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #219 of Dean’s work and the focus was finishing precise placement of the furniture in all of the domes. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Placement of the Furniture in All of the Domes – Click for Earthbag Village

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 39th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom to coincide with the Solidworks rendering, and reorganized the format to simplify the order of construction and installation.

The updates included adding flash to the interior roof diagrams to illustrate that the installation comes after the exterior flash installation. The elevation view of the roof was also updated to include the drip edge flash. Jose Luis then began working on a section explaining the construction and installation of the roof support frame.

The support frame consists of a series of beams that support the load of the panels that rest on top of them. The introduction and material list for the roof support frames was added. The Solidworks rendering was then updated to help illustrate the location and orientation of the supports used to hold them to the structure and to each other.

The updated renderings will be added to the roof support frame section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 36th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she tried to clear up a few issues mentioned in earlier comments. The measurements listed for wood sizes needed to be updated to show depth of wood first.

The page arrangement was also updated and all corresponding page numbers needed to be updated if they are referenced in several other places. She started to work on cutting instructions for a couple boards and found this can be simplified and probably quite easy to follow by the user.

She also continued to work on the renders and front booklet pages for tools and components, still brainstorming for a table of contents page and what that might look like. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Sustainable Social Models ” Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 33rd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by continuing work on the Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial.

She revised the tutorial to include further explanation on specific topics, such as placement of the welded wire fabric in the concrete slab floor, the placement of the vapor barrier around the foundation, and the need for additional rebar through the footer and into the ground. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 14th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Vicente focused on reviewing and updating the schedule plan and attending to the questions and needs of his team.

He looked into comparing two possible options of electric service (Garkane Energy that supplies energy to our county, and Rocky Mountain Power, another utility that operates in our state but doesn’t supply energy to our county).

Both options have several pros & cons with different aspects (technical, economic, mobility) and the decision is still unclear and requires more research. He also collaborated on the writing of two ads for new team members. Pictures below are related to this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics ” Click for Page

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 11th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to conduct and compile research for the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet.

Much of the research for this week was focused on sustainability, which he has broken down into the following scoring categories: sustainability of the materials, sustainability of production and transportation, the direct environmental impacts, and other sustainability considerations. He also spent time locating, providing links, and reviewing the Health and Safety Data Sheets for each product.

Additionally, the aesthetics of this document have been improved, so Aidan also spent time transferring content and adding product images to the newly constructed Comparison Table. Lastly, Aidan reviewed the Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info to provide edits, comments, questions, and suggestions.

Check out the pictures below as examples of this work.

Insulation Comparison spreadsheet, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Research for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 8th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson gathered inverter spec data, contacted the RMP electricity power provider for solar incentive program and rate, and left a voicemail to the solar department, but no answer back.

He also organized and input important email communication and files to the dropbox folders using Vicente’s suggested order. In addition, Jeson constructed an inverter quote request email and sent ~10 quote emails and company website requests.

Then he linked the company web address and product spec web address to the google sheet for future easy access, finalized the best solar harvesting product research, and added web addresses into the solar tech and company comparison google sheet for future easy access. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Social Models ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics ” Click for Page

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week as a member of the team. This week Yufan started on WBS #: 2.1.1.2: Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions.

For this task, she worked on the PSD file, researched sources of royalty free images including people and plants, changed the size and color of sources in photoshop, placed them into appropriate places, and added shades and rendered the landscape of the original picture. Based on the comments, she modified the PSD file twice.

Yufan also reviewed the information of the transition kitchen for next week. Pictures below show some of this work. Pictures below show some of this work.

Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Started on WBS #: 2.1.1.2: Earthbag Village Photoshop Additions

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social 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 created the initial review and outline for what will become the Duplicable City Center connector tutorial covering the engineering that went into identifying the best designs for the hub connectors for the dome frames.

Duplicable City Center connector, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Outline for Future Duplicable City Center Connector Tutorial

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 29th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng combined the herb garden model with the landscape model she has been working on. In the combined file, Qiuheng was able to fix the road system to the herb garden and entryways, and placed several seating areas. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Herb Garden Model With the Landscape Model – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 17th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian processed/revised the operation schedule. This operation schedule is the frequency/occurrence of occupancy, process load, artificial lighting, air ventilation, heating and cooling demand on an hourly basis.

Ian also processed the simulation requirements of domestic hot water particularly in the Living Dome that is currently using a heat pump. He also researched how the hydronic system works and how this technology will be modeled in the simulation software. Below are some images related to this work.

energy analysis calculations, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models, Operation Profile ” Click for Duplicable City Center Heating & Cooling Page

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 8th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha focused on editing the final report in Google Docs, adding more details and appropriate references , explaining what exactly the Hub Connector Analysis is and why we perform them.

She also explained what is included in the analysis, what the safety factor is, and how much safety factor we should look for. In addition to this, Sunitha updated the load calculations of the LVL beam. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center connectors, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis began to verify and summarize his calculations for the hot tub heat transfer analysis. He began the week by double checking his work on his early calculations regarding the convective and evaporative heat transfer of the tub during operation.

Luis found all of his links and numbers to be in order and proceeded on to the idle state analysis. Simultaneously, he began drafting the engineering justification for his documents. Verifying while documenting is an effective strategy for organizing and validating findings. Moving forward, Luis will continue his report and prepare his findings to be published to the City Center Natural Pool and Spa web page.

The pictures below are related to this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Calculations for the Hot Tub Heat Transfer Analysis – Click for Page

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 3rd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela worked on editing and rewriting. She analyzed paragraphs and ensured that the material was easy to comprehend for both engineers, clients, and the general public.

Daniela also researched more information about grading ordinances in our specific planned location for the Duplicable City Center. As this information was not easy to come by, she also obtained material focusing on the general grading ordinances for Los Angeles. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

Rushabh Bhavsar (Mechanical Design Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week helping with the City Center Eco-spa designs. Rushabh started with the design and development of the hot tub model. This week’s process included recording the parameters and modeling the initial structure of the tub, and making adjustments based on feedback. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

City Center Eco-spa designs, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” City Center Eco-spa Designs – Click for Page

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol added the all-caps titles, subtitles, and organized the “Roadways, Walkways, Gutters, and Parking Lot” report sections so they appear in the order of the table of contents.

She created the bookmarks in the table of contents to link the headers to their respective sections below. In addition, Carol also worked on summarizing, paraphrasing, and revising the report. The sections focused on this week included Flexible Pavements, Rigid Pavements, Composite Pavements, Process Overview, Preparing a Pavement Recommendation, and Project Specific Conditions to Consider.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping Tutorial

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social 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 open source â€œEthical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” tutorial, this time adding the meta data to the images, formatting them correctly, and correctly hyperlinking all the timestamps of the YouTube videos referenced within the text. We’d say the tutorial is now about 80% complete.

Chicken Stewardship, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” “Ethical, Humane, & Conscientious Chicken Stewardship” Tutorial

The core team also conducted a detailed review of the initial climate battery design overview.

climate battery, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Review of the Initial Climate Battery Design Overview on the Google Doc.

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 28th and final week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week’s focus was reviewing and integrating feedback on the “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Google Document.

Once published, this tutorial will serve as a guide to anyone interested in building their own climate battery. He also helped organize all the relevant information so it will be easier for anyone who works on the project next to jump in and start helping. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Google Doc – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social 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.

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

SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating sustainable social 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 29 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.

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 27th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #473, #474, #475, #476 and #477. You can see all these new images below.

Updates Blogs Images, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #473 to #477

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 26th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week, Chris fixed some remaining errors and finished the technical documentation for WBS item #4.5: Fix Blue Square and Auto-email Functionality. You can see some pictures related to this below.

Highest Good Network software, Sustainable Social Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #422

Sustainable Social Models ” “Fix Blue Square and Auto-email Functionality” – Click for HGN

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru added the estimated hours column in the task table for the people reporting page so that the estimated hours for each task are showing.

She also worked on the resources filter so, based on the specific resource that the user chooses, the tasks table will render dynamically and show the right results. She also spent time on the input range field and will be working on the estimated hours field next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Social Models ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abderrahmane focused on editing the team member tasks table. He added a mouseover popup for all the headers items (titles and icons) under Team Member Tasks.

He created a fork from the main repository, and pushed his branch that contains the changes of what he did during these three weeks (changes in TeamMemberTasks.jsx and style.css files). Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Social Models ” Editing the Team Member Tasks Table – Click for Highest Good Network

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One Community Welcomes Luis Manuel Dominguez to the Engineering Team!

Posted on April 23, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Luis Manuel Dominguez to the Engineering Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Luis received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University. He has experience working in clean energy with regards to cryogenic hydrogen generation. His past projects ranged from designing a hydrogen detection and ventilation system, to creating a vibration damping structure for a mobile hydrogen generation unit. Luis has a passion for tackling challenging and novel engineering problems and hopes to continue his work in sustainable energy to accelerate the path towards a cleaner planet. As a part of One Community team, he is helping with the PV Solar energy designs to create a solar microgrid that provides clean reliable energy as part of the Highest Good Energy component. Contributing to this, Luis is currently finishing up the designs for maximizing the energy efficiency of the City Center Eco-spa.

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Sustainable Eco-cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Posted on April 18, 2021 by One Community

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Do-it-yourself-replicable sustainable eco-cooperatives are one path to a sustainable future that will benefit every person and living thing on our planet. One Community is creating open source and free-shared plans for building them.

These plans include sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more. They also include how to combine all of these to create a network of teacher/demonstration hubs to help people with implementation, evolution, and adaptation globally.

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 April 18th, 2021 edition (#421) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives - One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

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SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-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 edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc focusing on Section 5 “Foundation Construction” through page 56.

This included Foundation Marking, Set Gravel Layers, Secure Layers with Rebar, Exterior Waterproofing Membrane, Vertical Interior Insulation, & Top and Interior Waterproofing Membrane. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring Development Doc.

The core team also continued what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions, assembling the bed in 3D to test them. We started on the Wall Section assembly and framing of the bed. Detailed suggestions with corresponding images were added to the list for Stacey to address. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Murphy bed instructions, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page

The core team additionally began double checking the Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis. This week’s focus was making a list of energy consuming components within the Earthbag Village. We did the first round of brainstorming for the Tropical Atrium, Net Zero Bathrooms, Communal Showers, and Vermiculture Bathroom.

Earthbag Village energy specifics for the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Earthbag Village Energy Specifics for the Solar Microgrid Design

And the core team helped to improve the design of the Most Healthy, Sustainable, and Practical Insulation Comparison Table and the scoring criteria table related to that. This one was built using a previous template but it has more complexity added to the layout due to the score cell being next to the cell description cell.

The same team member also continued editing the Chickens article, focusing mainly on adding more images throughout the page.

Insulation Comparison Table, chickens, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Most Healthy, Sustainable, and Practical Insulation Comparison Table

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 38th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis finished updating the AutoCAD roof plan for the Net-Zero Bathroom to coincide with the Solidworks rendering and reorganized the format to simplify the order of construction and installation and also in the correct order.

The updated renderings will be added to the roof support frame section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 35th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week Stacey focused on looking over all the components and links. There are still many parts that need to indicate where they are used and how many of them are used total.

Since the wall section is more complete, Stacey started counting up the screws used and other components. She also started integrating the final-review feedback from the team. Screenshots below are related to this latest progress.

Murphy Bed Furniture, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” All the Components and Links of the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 13th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. Vicente continued the analysis of the long term economic balance considering the option of off-grid batteries, an option that was discarded due to the high investment cost.

He confirmed with the support of Jeson the selling kWh rate delivered to grid (0.026 USD) for the case of Garkane Energy. He also identified successful experiences in our planned state and concluded the high dependence on the utility kWh rates from/to the grid to reach a feasible option.

Vicente has prepared a micro tool to estimate the required area to locate the PV field depending on the sloping down degree of the location. He then began a discussion with Jae to find the best options for the optimal economic balance. Pictures below are related to this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 10th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week Aidan continued to work on the Insulation Comparison spreadsheet. He researched the flame spread index, LEED credits, other certifications, and miscellaneous pros and cons for each of the products.

Aidan continued to develop a weighted scoring system that will incorporate the 5 priorities for considering the best insulation option: Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. The pictures below relate to this work.

Insulation Comparison spreadsheet, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet – Click for Page

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 7th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This Week, Jeson researched for the project site electricity provider and their rates and possible solar energy compensation rate.

He got most of what’s needed, and only requires a call to Rocky Mountain Power to confirm the most updated solar incentive program rate. Jeson also composed a short summary regarding this research in the collaboration docs. In addition, he finally formatted the best solar harvesting tech report.

He then followed up with First Solar and Arzon Solar for additional questions and added the updated company quotes in the report conclusion section. Finally, Jeson started the conclusion of the best type of solar inverter report, and listed a few companies and products for future reference.

Although string inverters are on the expensive side, he thinks One Community’s choice should be string inverters because of their significantly easier installation and maintenance. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 32nd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week she reviewed comments and questions to the existing document and made changes to clarify points or marked items for discussion, such as the necessity of rebar embedded through the footer and clarification of gravel sizes within the footer. You can see some pictures of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Page

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-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, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 28th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng adjusted the road details based on feedback. She also added the updated herb garden with the overpass and modified it to fit with the rest of the model.

The road connected to the laundry is now 8′-9′ wide and connected to the outside road system. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design ” Click for Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 28th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia made new hot water calculations for the kitchen. Evan checked it and gave some notes all of which she hasn’t integrated yet.

She put the water pipeline for the kitchen above the kitchen’s ceiling, put the sewer pipeline from the kitchen above the basement’s ceiling, and made the vent system for the kitchen. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 16th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center.

This week, Ian polished the operation profile. This operation profile covers the occupancy percentage, process load percentage, artificial lighting percentage, mechanical ventilation on and off schedule, heating demand and cooling demand. This schedule of operation corresponds to the hourly interval for weekdays and weekends that the simulation software considers for the whole year.

Ian also provided a heating and cooling load summary of calculation results and inputs from excel in IP units. Below are some images related to this work.

energy analysis calculations, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Polished the Operation Profile – Click for Heating and Cooling Page

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 10th 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 holding a meeting with his team to assign action items.

Throughout the week he reviewed his team’s work and answered any questions that they may have regarding the tutorials and design. With Samson, David is trying to create a combined master site plan that will include both City Center, Earthbag Village, the greywater processing pond, as well as the roadway layouts in order to begin roadway plan details and quantity estimations.

David is also working with a new team member, Daniela, to create and design the grading plans and quantities for City Center. He has also created a grading calculations template and color coordinated the cells so that his team and future teams will be able to understand and make use of it without the need for guidance.

David has additionally begun preliminary drainage planning for the Earthbag Village so that he can have action items ready for his team when they are ready to begin the designs for this area. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable eco-cooperatives ” Parking lot & sustainable roadways Tutorial, & water catchment designs

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 7th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on correlating all the documents and making a final conclusion document comparing all the simulation results.

She determined the safety factor and stress resistance for the angle brackets of different sizes and materials and produced the first draft of the Conclusion Document, some of which is shown below. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center connectors, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Duplicable City Center Connectors We’ll Use to Build the Domes

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) also completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Luis wrapped up his assessment of the different cover methods to understand what solution would be most effective for the eco hot tub.

He found that the use of an air gap significantly increases the efficiency of using a pool cover as opposed to having the water touch the cover. When used in conjunction with a thermal blanket, the evaporative and convective heat losses will be reduced substantially. This will be useful information when the final designs for the spa are being made.

The final step of calculations was understanding the energy and time required to heat up the hot tub after being filled with water for a cleaning, as this will have a high energy demand. With a majority of the calculations complete, designing the hot tub and finding energy efficient parts will be in the near future.

The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Solar Microgrid Design, Sizing, and Cost Analysis Specifics

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Daniela was working towards finalizing the access road turnaround for the Earthbag Village project.

A 120′ Hammerhead had been designed the previous week, but to ensure symmetry, the Hammerhead design was extended East to West. Daniela also attended two meetings this week. The first was with David’s team to continue discussing our action plans for this week and the next two weeks.

The second meeting with David clarified questions concerning the Earthbag Village, as the AutoCAD would not properly offset the main street to 20′. This meeting also covered a deeper explanation concerning the grading design of the Earthbag Village. Later on in the week Daniela focused on rewriting sections for the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Parking Lot report.

This also included writing a new section on ADA requirements for the parking lot. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Finalizing the Access Road Turnaround for the Earthbag Village Project

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week, Evan reviewed the kitchen plumbing design and water heater calculations. He also reviewed the load calculations and made comments on both. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center open source HVAC designs, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Reviewed the Kitchen Plumbing Design and Water Heater Calculations

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-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 made more changes to the Herbal Garden behind the Duplicable City Center. On the North side of the Dining Dome, by the kitchen entrance, we added a cross-over bridge for easy access of the herb garden from that entrance. We also removed fencing from the side connected to the dome.

Herbal Garden behind the Duplicable City Center, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Herbal Garden Behind the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 27th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry worked on the “Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” document which details the specifics of a climate battery, making recommendations on designing your own and sharing the specifics for One Community’s design.

Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Final Draft of Climate Battery Website Info” Document – Click for Page

Yufan Jiang (Volunteer Architectural Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week as a member of the team. This week Yufan completed the orientation and initial set up procedures and then started on WBS #: 1.4.1: Aquapini/Walipini AutoCAD file creation using the Revit files.

For this task, she worked on the Revit file, imported the DWG file to Revit, and edited the plan layout and elevation levels in Revit. Yufan also set up a PDF printer for the export task. Pictures below show some of this work.

Aquapini:Walipini AutoCAD file, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable eco-cooperatives, Orientation and initial set up procedures – Click for Aquapini:Walipini

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-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.

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 for the open source hub

SUSTAINABLE ECO-COOPERATIVES – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is designing sustainable eco-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 30 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.

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 41st week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team worked on the documentation and related suggestions for the user management area. These focused mostly on visibility updates and editing permissions for volunteers vs Admins.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Highest Good Network software, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Documentation & Related Suggestions for the User Management Area

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 26th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #468, #469, #470, #471 and #472. You can see all these new images below.

created images for weekly progress updates, Sustainable Eco-cooperatives, One Community Weekly Progress Update #421

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Created Images for Weekly Progress Updates #468 to #472

Vy Dao (Software Developer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. For this week, Vy reviewed and approved 3 more Pull Requests. These included bug fixes and changes for the User Profile, corrections and a message to remind the user to save their changes inside the User Profile, and updating a dependency.

Then he made some updates and changes in the UserProfileEdit unit-test file, improving coverage from 36.36% to 43.32%. Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Reviewed and Approved 3 More Pull Requests

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru added the resources column in the task table in the people reporting page so the people who are involved in certain tasks are showing. She also added the following filters: assignment status, active status, priority level, status, classifications and users.

The task table will now render dynamically based on these and the other filters that the users choose. Next week Yueru will continue working on the users filter and estimation hours filter. Pictures below are related to this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abdel focused on editing the team member tasks table. He changed what he did last week. The first change was to remove the unnecessary arrow icons from the table’s rows of the members who have no tasks or only one task.

The second change was to remove the scroll bar from the member’s row that has no more than four tasks. And in the last change, Abdel added an expand-all icon for Administrators and Managers to see at glance what everyone is working on. He is now focusing on fixing a bug with this last functionality where a person can’t individually close the tasks if they’re opened with this new button/function.

Pictures below show some of this work.

Sustainable Eco-cooperatives ” Focused on Editing the Team Member Tasks Table

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Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Posted on April 11, 2021 by One Community

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Let’s talk about addressing climate change with holistic living models. Through ultra-sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs that provide more enriching and enjoyable environments, we can demonstrate a better way of living that is also carbon neutral or even carbon negative.

The teacher/demonstration hubs One Community is designing will also teach others how to live this way too, making it easy enough, affordable enough, and demonstrating it as attractive enough to spread on its own. A self-replicating model like this, spreading globally, is capable of launching the massive socio-economic and mindset changes that could address and even solve our current climate crisis.

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

OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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

One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of addressing climate change with holistic living models as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the April 11th, 2021 edition (#420) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Addressing Climate Change
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One Community Progress Update #420

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ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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 edits on the Earthbag Village Footer, Foundation and Flooring development Doc. This week’s focus was verifying calculations, making general edits, finalizing research of past contributions, wrapping up the video & resource reviews, etc. through page 47.

We think this is most likely the next-to-the-last review of this doc. See pictures below for some screenshots related to this.

`Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Footer, Foundation and Flooring Dev Doc.

The core team also began what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final check of the Murphy bed instructions. We checked “Material Components”, “Material Boards”, “Material Lumber”, “Tools”, “Pre-made Components”, and started checking “Wall” sections. We also created a list of comments and suggestions to improve readability of the instructions. The screenshots below show some of this work.

Murphy bed instructions, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Final Review of the murphy bed instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #218 of Dean’s work and the focus was more creating and testing the Murphy Bed furniture textures and texture combinations. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Murphy Bed Furniture Textures

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 37th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the heating elements effectiveness calculations. The calculations were done in order to quantitatively determine how many heating elements should be used depending on the climate.

The calculations determined how long the water or rain water storage room would take to reach freezing temperatures. Knowing the time was crucial to maximize the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the type and quantity of heating elements necessary to keep the room and rainwater at above freezing temperatures.

The section added covered the heat loss associated with the structure such as the walls and the roof and the heat loss of the water stored in the top center barrel. The findings help determine where to install the heating elements to further maximize their effectiveness. Illustrations were added to the section to help visualize the placement of the heating elements.

Jose Luis then began updating the roof plan to coincide with the latest additions to the SolidWorks rendering such as drip edge flash on the edge of the exterior roof panels. He also began rearranging the AutoCAD models to follow the order of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial/instructions. The pictures below show some of this work.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Heating Elements Effectiveness Calculations

Mark Wambua (Civil Engineer) completed his 13th and final week working on the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides. This week Mark’s work was primarily focused on making written revisions to the Roadway Design and Roadway Drainage tutorials. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping guides, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Written revisions to Design & Drainage Tutorials

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed his 12th week working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week Vicente added new tabs to the sizing tool: a specific one for the Earthbag Village energy demand and another for the feasibility analysis and economic balance vision on the long term.

This tool allows having a vision of the evolution of the annual energy & economic balances, and how the economic rates affect the net balance. Vicente also continued the follow-up of the collaboration team. He has repeated the simulations with SAM to find the best match with the outcome from a potential PV supplier. Pictures below are related to this work.

solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Working on solar microgrid design & analysis

Aidan Geissler (Sustainability Researcher) completed his 9th week helping with 2nd-to-final review, feedback, and content editing. This week, Aidan’s work for the week was devoted to compiling information for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet.

He researched and assigned point values to features pertaining to sustainability, safety, and effectiveness for various insulation products made with wool, straw, hemp, keraf, and magnesium oxide from seawater.

In order to compare the costs of these products while taking into consideration differences in R-values, Aidan calculated the average price per square foot per R-rating for each product. The pictures below relate to this work.

Review of Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Info for the Insulation Comparison Spreadsheet

Jeson Hu (Mechanical Engineer Assistant) completed his 6th week helping with research related to the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week, Jeson researched the best solar inverters and studied the related specs. He also finalized the best solar harvesting technology research.

The answer to the best technology or company or product is not clear without the cost input, which he is struggling to find. Almost all the companies contacted did not have much interest in this 2MW project. However, Jeson provided their product specs and contact info for future reference.

He also determined that, if One Community wants to have a battery bank, a battery based inverter would probably be the choice. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Best Solar Inverters and Related Specs

Indiana Mann (Atmospheric Scientist) also completed her 5th and final week doing research for One Community. Her focus this week was finishing researching a new addition to the Most Sustainable Toilets tutorial. Pictures below show some of this work and content.

Most Sustainable Toilets tutorial, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Addition to the Most Sustainable Toilets Tutorial

Gabrielle Williams (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 4th week helping research natural greywater processing pond design for the Earthbag Village and Duplicable City Center. This week Gabrielle started taking notes on Wheaton’s Permaculture podcast titled “Wheaton Permaculture – 076 Create an Oasis With Greywater”.

She also found a copy of the reference book online and began taking notes on that too. The pictures below relate to this research.

Natural greywater processing pond design, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Natural Greywater Processing Pond Design

Zachary Melin (Graphic Designer) also returned to the team and completed his 1st week helping complete the editing of the Tree House Village (Pod 7) online book. Shown below are this week’s edits that were addressed.

Tree House Village online book, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Tree House Village Online Book

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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, Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 27th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design. This week Qiuheng adjusted the road system access to the domes and the herb gardens, and replaced some of the plants with 3D options from the Lumion plant library. Pictures below show some of these changes.

Duplicable City Center landscaping design, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 27th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia focused on making changes to the plans according to Evan’s review and notes. She added floor traps in all bathrooms, put a sink in the boiler room, and changed pipelines in bathrooms 13, 15, and 16. Pictures below are related to this work.

Duplicable City Center plumbing designs, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models – Duplicable City Center Plumbing Design Plans

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 15th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week Ian processed the target illuminance level per space zone. He checked all inputs are correct, considering also the ASHRAE standard.

Ian also checked the lighting control from the electrical consultant and the mech vent per area requirements. He arranged the Lux Level according to space type/uses, processed the percent openability of each glazing on the dome, and changed the material of the dome entrance. Ian also finalized the heating and cooling load calculation of the project.

Please see below progress photos for reference.

Energy analysis calculations to achieve LEED Platinum status, Duplicable City Center, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Target Illuminance Level Per Space Zone

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 9th 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 holding a meeting with his team to assign action items.

David was responsible for the review of Samson and Mark’s technical writing work as well as overseeing their CAD design work, which includes the new driveway, landing, basement door and garage roll-up door. David also put time into the grading calculation excel worksheet/template for his design team and future design teams to use for grading quantities.

Lastly, he has also begun creating a tutorial/checks and balances sheet for the hydrology report he is preparing for the City Center. Pictures below are related to this work.

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways Tutorial, and City Center Water Catchment Designs

Sunitha Paraselli (Mechanical Design Engineer) completed her 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Sunitha worked on the comparison of the small bracket and the big bracket (increasing the length).

She also compared the bracket with less number of holes to a bracket which has more holes. The bracket which has more holes has more stress resistance. Then she ran the simulation for the safety factor; galvanized gauge steel has more factor of safety when compared to aluminum. The pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center connectors, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Comparison of small bracket & big bracket

Daniela Andrea Parada (Volunteer/Consultant Civil Engineering Student) completed her 2nd week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela joined the weekly meeting with David’s team concerning the Earthbag Village project.

For this team, she adjusted the widths of the streets to 20 feet and added an access road turnaround to one end of the site, this is all for fire truck access. She then updated this design and ensured that both the north and south ends of the site had proper access road turnarounds. She also continued last week’s work on the Aquapini/Walipini design documentation.

Measurements were taken from AutoCAD designs and more information on the project was brought to light. Many descriptions were further detailed and a new table was created to clarify watering information. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial, Aquapini:Walipini design, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, Sustainable Roadways, Landscaping Tutorial

Minseok (Evan) Kim (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week leading the final design process for the City Center open source HVAC designs. This week, Evan reviewed and provided comments on the plumbing drawing. The plumbing design lacked detailed information in terms of piping system clarification, pipe size and piping route.

Also, each dome will have their own hot water heater systems. This design approach will minimize piping work and cut down unnecessary hot water loops. Evan also completed his preliminary HVAC design markup for a designer to use as a reference. Pictures of some of this work are below.

City Center open source HVAC designs, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Comments on the Plumbing Drawing

And long-term collaborator Bahy Ahmed (Architect) continued with his 3rd week helping with Duplicable City Center architectural details. Bahy’s focus this week was a roof proposal for the Living Dome. Pictures below relate to this work.

Duplicable City Center architectural details, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Roof Proposal for the Living Dome

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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 open source Chickens tutorial, moving text from the research Google Doc to the One Community WordPress site and formatting it. We also found and added an infogram to better explain chicken combs terminology for farming beginners. Pictures below are related to this work.

Chickens tutorial, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Open Source Chickens Tutorial

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 26th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. Henry continued his work on digging into the HVAC handbooks in order to find relevant information relating to the climate battery design.

Working with the existing recommendation for greenhouses and incorporating specific climate battery recommendations he put together a first draft of a climate battery design guide. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models – Climate batteries for the Aquapini/walipini

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING MODELS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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.

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

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Highest Good Education

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH HOLISTIC LIVING – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is addressing climate change with holistic 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 22 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 core team additionally completed our 17th week working on improving the content for all our Values Pages. This week we finished the behind-the-scenes editing of the value of Open Source.

We re-read the content and made final edits for clarity, transformed/fixed additional passive voice issues, added web-links to the mind map, and passed it along to Jae for final review and integration into the live page. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Improving the content for all our Values Pages, Open Source, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” BTS Editing of the Value of Open Source

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 40th week helping with the Highest Good Network software.

This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team made links in the Profile Links section open in a new window/tab so the person doesn’t automatically leave the app, so the Create New User role is “volunteer” by default, added a size limitation of 50 kb for profile pics and a popup that tells them how to compress their image, updated the top of the Profile page to say “Favorite badges section coming…”, and added a new user role section to the Profile page that is visible to all but editable only by an Admin. They also fixed a bug where editing Skype, Zoom, etc. preference did not save. Pictures below show some of this work.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Profile Links Section Open in a New tab

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 25th week helping, returning to creating images for the One Community Updates Blogs like this one. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #463, #464, #465, #466 and #467. You can see all these new images below.

Images for the Updates Blogs, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Addressing climate change with holistic living models, Images for weekly progress updates #463 – #467

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru planned to work on the estimation hours, classification, and resources filter in the tasks reporting page but she was not able to pull data from the tasks table. She spent time on debugging the issue but still was not able to get the tasks data.

The other tasks filter functionality is blocked until the task data issue is resolved. Yueru also spent time working on modifying the people report page UI. Now the blue square data is showing in a table format. Next week, she will continue the estimation hours, classification, and resources filter if she can pull the data. Pictures below are related to this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Highest Good Network Software

Abderrahmane “Abdel” Boulahdour (Full Stack Web Developer) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Abderrahmane focused on editing the team member tasks table. He changed the view of the lines in the table by adding the collapse feature and an arrow icon to open it.

For the users who have more than one task, the collapse will be opened with fixed size and a scroll bar will appear to display the rest. Abdel also made this table responsive like the leaderboard table. He’s now focused on fixing problems finding data for the progress bar of each user’s task and making the eye icon work as requested. Pictures below show some of this work.

Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models ” Highest Good Network Software

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped update our site to the latest Google Analytics code, addressed an indexing error we were getting, created an ad campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials tutorial and Pictures below are related to this work.

Ad campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials tutorial, Addressing Climate Change With Holistic Living Models, One Community Weekly Progress Update #420

Created an Ad Campaign for the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials Tutorial – Click for Page

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One Community Welcomes Yueru Zhao to the Software Design Team!

Posted on April 6, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Yueru Zhao to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Yueru received her B.S in Management Information Systems from University of Delaware and M.S in Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining One Community, she worked as a full-time software engineer at SAP. Besides work, Yueru likes hiking and photography. As a member of the Highest Good Network software development team at One Community, Yueru is helping develop the reports functionality.

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One Community Working with the Jooble Job Search Engine

Posted on April 6, 2021 by One Community

One Community and Jooble are working together to promote each other’s volunteer job opportunities. We’re sharing their services with this post and they are helping us share our volunteer positions using keywords related to sustainability.

Jooble, volunteer jobs, part time jobs, full time jobs

If you aren’t familiar with Jooble, they are a job search engine created for a single purpose: To help any person find a job, regardless of his or her place of residence, language, religion, skin color or beliefs.

Jooble holds a core believe that labor is one of the leading components of human life, it is a matter of self-actualization, the pursuit of a complete identification and development of personal abilities, which are indispensable conditions for happiness. Jooble believes that there is a suitable job for each individual that can complement his or her life with meaning and joy to be useful to society. We think this is a pretty noble reason to help people find fulfilling positions!

When you perform a search with Jooble, you’ll get links to job postings from more than 20,000 (and growing) different job sites throughout the USA that are the most relevant to your search terms. Jooble’s goal is to save people time and energy, enabling a person to find their desired job from a single query.

In speaking with them, they say that, compared to perusing the newspaper or using a regular job board, job-hunting with Jooble may seem unusual, initially, but once a person fully learns how to master it, they are guaranteed to find the job of their dreams. The only condition is the existence of your dream job.

To make their system easier and easier to use, their team is constantly working in order to make a job search as simple as possible. Jooble is constantly being fine-tuned, as they add new services and features. But, as the saying goes, “A picture paints a thousand words”, so don’t take our word for it, give Jooble a try for yourself: Jooble.org

One Community Welcomes Aidan Geissler to the Research Team!

Posted on April 4, 2021 by One Community

One Community welcomes Aidan Geissler to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Aidan studied Biology, Anthropology, and Neuroscience at Indiana University. Since then he has had a diversity of experiences: Education, Research, Project Coordination, and Field-Based Natural Resources Work. What unites this wide array of expertise and experiences is his passion for social and ecological justice. As a member of the One Community team, Aidan is contributing research, written content, and revisions for various tutorials, resources, and pages. Pages contributed to include Glass Recycling, Styrofoam Recycling, Plastic Recycling, Most Sustainable Flooring, and Most Sustainable Insulation.

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