We can achieve better living through regenerative communities. We can build more affordable, longer-lasting homes that don’t contain toxic materials. We can grow food that is more nutritious and safer because it is fresher and not sprayed with poisons. We can provide ourselves with sustainable energy sources that are more dependable and reduce our cost of living. We can experience more recreation and relaxation options, all free and within walking distance. We can create education programs that leverage a child’s strengths so they are both more fun and more effective.

One Community is developing the open source plans for regenerative-community teacher/demonstration hubs that will demonstrate, share, and evolve all of these areas and more including better living through regenerative communities.

• 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 December 13th, 2020 edition (#403) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards better living through regenerative communities:

Better Living Through Regenerative Communities
One Community Progress Update #403

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team updated the Most Sustainable Toilets open source hub. This reflect the newly completed sustainability benchmarking of the main toilet providers, the and updates this research caused to a couple of the individual toilet rankings. Pictures below show some of this new content towards better living through regenerative communities.

Updated the Most Sustainable Toilets Open Source Hub – Click for Page

The core team also generated more images for the Murphy bed showing details for placement of the latches, brackets, and hooks that secure the table and benches in the up position.

Generated More Images for the Murphy Bed – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #205 of Dean’s work and the focus was final corrections needed to run the final renders of the Southeast and Southwest views shown below.

Final Corrections – Run Final Renders of the Southeast and Southwest Views – Click for Page

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 35th and final week as a member of the volunteer team as he now moves on to become a member of the core team. Alvaro continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options, researching PET reusability as a food container and adding more content to the doc.

He then moved on to a higher priority task, editing the Most Sustainable Flooring Materials, and finished research on the most sustainable flooring. For this article he updated the table’s aesthetics, and started looking for images to create an infographic summarizing the article in one picture. Pictures below show some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Worked on Plastic Reuse and Sustainable Flooring Research – Click for Flooring Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 21st week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis researched products and materials used to prevent water in pipes from freezing. The options found were traditional pipe insulation, barrel insulation, and heating tape. The traditional pipe fitting was the cheapest preventative, but was determined to not be sufficient for frigid environments.

The second option was completely insulating the 55 gallon barrels in an insulated bag designed for them, these could be strategically used on barrels with the most exposure. The last option was heating tape which is wrapped around the pipes to regulate their temperature. The drawback of the heating tape was the cost, but it may be feasible to utilize if placed on inlet and outlet pipes or other strategic places.

He also measured and recorded the ceiling and top barrel clearance in the Solid model. He began updating the Solid model to increase the clearance. The clearance is necessary to have the barrel filter accessible for cleaning and inspections. Diagrams of the fastener positions and separation distances were created on AutoCad. The diagrams were inserted into the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” as visual aids for the fastener installation.

Lastly Jose Luis updated the roof flash used on the roof access in the Solid model. The update was to improve accuracy of the flash installation. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Products and Materials Used to Prevent Water in Pipes From Freezing – Click for Net-Zero Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 18th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week, Stacey focused on finishing the electrical details, adding latches and springs, working on the components page, and cutting pages. She added a page turn icon that will lead a person to the next page but we discussed it and decided it is redundant and would require more ink if someone prints the instructions. She also continued updating text placement and spacing that needed to be updated after reviewing the full layout. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Worked on Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 17th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the structural design of the loft. She redesigned the loft to account for a higher load capacity by re-spacing the beams, altering the size of the nails for end connection-to-wall embedment, redesigning the capacity of the beam-to-plate connections, verifying the strength / deflection adequacy of the OSB loft deck, and determining the nail sizes and spacing for the OSB loft floor and gypsum board ceiling.

The loft is now redesigned to carry 40psf of live load – for reference 30psf load may be exceeded if a whirlpool bathtub, waterbed, etc. was placed; a 40psf capacity would typically be adequate to cover these loads. You can see some screenshots of this work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Worked on the Structural Design of the Loft – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 3rd week working on the Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering. This week Alvin completed the cost analysis section by double checking the links on the spreadsheet, replacing the items that are out of stock and finding other alternatives, and updating the researched hardware (faucets, hand dryers, shower heads, etc.) to match the #1 choices on the website. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Communal Eco-shower Footer, Foundation and Flooring Engineering – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 13th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week she created the isometric layout for the cold and hot water supply of the 101 floor plan. Pictures below show some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Isometric Layout for the Cold and Hot Water Supply of the 101 Floor Plan – Click for City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 10th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Lindy began a more in-depth look at some of the WTE (Waste to Energy) methods and other small-to-medium scale solutions. She replied to correspondences from people she contacted last week, contacted a new company, and began some writing on the tutorial itself. Pictures below are related to this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing, Reuse of Non-recyclables Tutorial – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 10th week helping with the Duplicable City Center updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng finished the City Center walkthrough making modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file. She also started to read natural greywater processing details/research and getting familiar with this as her next area of focus. You can see the latest updated areas below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also continued with his 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center rainwater harvesting component. This week Md continued research on the water catchment system, focusing on resources for the most efficient piping system. Pictures below show some notes related to this and a call Md had with the climate battery team.

Duplicable City Center Rainwater Harvesting Component – Click for City Center

And Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) joined the team and completed his first week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week he focused on modeling the geometry of the Social, Dining, and Living Domes, attached walkways, some internal walls, and the elevator and stairway areas. Some related progress photos are below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Energy Analysis Calculations – LEED Platinum Status for the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team finished the layout for the new Transition Kitchen. We rearranged the kitchen tables to provide enough room for a second serving line, and placed directional arrows on the floor tiles.

Finished the Layout for the New Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we created a new comment section, where needed, for addressing construction issues where we lack sufficient experience. The purpose of this is to emphasize to the reader that these documents continue to be a work-in-progress. We then corrected measurements for studs and joist placements, added missing structural parts, and generated updated images. Pictures below show some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions – Click for Chickens Page

The core team additionally reviewed the Aquapini & Walipini structural engineering report and completed the outline of everything that is needed from Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) to complete it. You can see some pictures below for this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Reviewed the Aquapini & Walipini Structural Engineering Report – Click to Visit Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 11th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week she finished all the materials in the rhino, and she also added the landscape furniture and plants’ material. The rest of plants will be added in Lumion. Picture below show the latest updated models which reflects efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Helping With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 11th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week, Jingwei continued to modify the Photoshop plan and SketchUp model, adding more plants and details. The SketchUp model has gotten too big to be modified, so she only did half of it. The other half though would be exactly the same. Pictures below show the most recent designs reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Continued to Modify the Photoshop Plan and SketchUp Model – Click for Earthbag Village

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 10th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week consisted of working to create a thermal model of Walipini #3 in Matlab. This model will determine the proper inlet air temperature for the 3D climate battery model and the requirements for any external heating system.

The Matlab model is still developing and he hopes to have it finished by mid next week. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Worked to Create a Thermal Model of Walipini #3 in Matlab – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 9th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana analyzed the change in total friction loss in the Walipini design by increasing the diameter of the manifold and the tubes. She chose the cfm at the temperatures of 90F and 10F because these are the potential extreme temperatures the greenhouse may experience. The blue cells indicate the total friction loss of the current design for a manifold diameter = 8in and tube diameter = 4in. The friction loss is as follows: Subsystem 1 (SS1) @90F = 22.72 in wg and SS1@10F = 30.08 in wg.

The yellow cells are the optimal total friction loss where the manifold diameter = 12in and tube diameter = 6 in. The friction loss is as follows: SS1 @90F = 3.28 in wg and SS1@10F = 4.32 in wg. A fan will produce 2 in wg static pressure meaning the design is very close to being balanced. Henry and Diana created new designs with the following dimensions: manifold diameter = 12 in, tube diameter = 6 in and manifold diameter = 12 in, tube diameter = 7 in.

These need to be analyzed through the Solidworks flow simulation to verify that the heat transfer has not diminished with diameter size. There is an error in the Solidworks design that Diana could not find the source of the problem and will be meeting with Henry to fix it. Diana also researched fans in series and in parallel and found that by placing fans in series you theoretically double the static pressure provided into the system. This could be a solution to balance the static pressure in the subsystems, and thus providing optimal flow. The pictures below show some of this work reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Analyzed the Change in Total Friction Loss in the Walipini Design – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes worked more on the Solidworks model trying to figure out the flow simulation and understand the HVAC system. You can see some pictures related to this work below reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Solidworks Model to Figure Out Flow Simulation and Understand the HVAC System – Click for  Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily worked on contacting ADS pipe local providers for price inquiries and is still waiting for the responses. In addition, Lily kept working on cost analysis with known information so far and more research for the other missing cost approximations. You can see some pictures below related to this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating better living through regenerative communities with 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 such as the mission of better living through regenerative communities:

• 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 24 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished the draft content for Consensus with Large Groups. We added anchors and links, and made sure formatting was consistent with other content already on the One Community’s website. We also improved the readability score by making sentences shorter, adding headings so content within a single heading was not too long, rewrote sentences to be in active rather than passive voice, and rewrote the beginning of many sentences to add variety.

You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities and all that remains now is to add the graphics and make replace the live-page content with all this new content.

Finished the Draft Content for Consensus With Large Groups – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 41st week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated all permissions for all the pages of the projects/WBS-import component: Projects, Members, WBS, and Tasks. He added a new feature for an Admin to copy a task, which will really save time whenever new tasks needing to be created are similar to existing tasks. He identified new bugs and made a plan to add a page like “Edit” for the popups, so an administrator can go to that page to modify all the text and labels on the website.

The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

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

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 28th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen began debugging for the new pushes of our MVP. She also did a code review for a pull request of the timer feature. She fixed a loading issue, as she found the deployed site kept sending unwanted web requests and never stopped.

After that was fixed, she found an error of missing source on the deployed dev site – all the badge images were blank, although they were added to the database and everything looked fine both on her and Chris’ local when Chris did the code review and test run before merging. There were several other errors on the deployed dev site too.

Wen checked the Sentry log, and the Heroku logs as well after getting permission to access the Heroku account. She was quite surprised it was not auto deployed on Heroku. The last deployment was in September. So she manually built and deployed the backend on Heroku hgn-rest-dev.

After the successful build and deployment, the badges showed up on the dev site. The 404 error on the wbs api that we had before was gone too, but a 400 error on the timer api and another 404 error were still there. She thought this was the end of the story but she was in the process of testing the new badge images and when she added the 5th, the whole app crashed suddenly, out of nowhere, even though she didn’t change any of the code.

All she was doing was adding images to the database. And then she checked the deployed dev site, and it was down too!! She ended her week there with a plan to fix these newly found errors starting the next week. Pictures of some of this work are below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

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

TEKtalent Inc.(a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 27th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team completed the additional requirements for the userprofile and completed the PR review of remaining comments. Now the admin can add collaboration preference and a Google Doc while creating a user.

Upon opening a user profile the collaboration preference will be displayed and can be edited. You can see pictures below for some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities. 

Additional Requirements for Userprofile and Completed the PR Review of Remaining Comments

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 20th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi changed the background color of different parts in the bar. She added number notifications to the first three badges and an exclamation to the bug report badge. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

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

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 15th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry changed the text editors for Add/Edit Task modals to use TinyMCE for the task info fields. He then created the backend route for querying time entries by specific user plus task. He also pulled in time entries for each user’s tasks in the frontend.

Pictures are below showing some of this work towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

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

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 17th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor continued to compare the different plans by looking at what they cover and the associated costs. She compared the benefits with their associated costs and is working on narrowing down which plan provides the best benefits at an efficient cost that also aligns with the objectives of the original task.

You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Different Plans by Looking at What They Cover and Associated Costs – Click for Insurance Page

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 13th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Jaime kept working on creating new designs for the badges for the badge section on the Dashboard of the HGN.

This week he completed the 40 hours streak badges and also kept working on finding ways to make the thumbnails better defined. Pictures of the updated badges are below towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

New Badges for Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network – Click for HGN Page

Robert Pioch (Graphic Designer) joined the team and completed his first week also helping with the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Robert became acquainted with the team and laid out the Highest Good Bench Mark Badges, completing much of the Highest Good Housing Badges. You can see pictures of these new designs and badges below reflecting efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Joined the Team and Helped With the New Badges for the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

And, last but not least, Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) helped analyze a site performance drop that happened in July, doing several hours of research and then shooting 25 minutes of video to explain it all to us so we can implement some changes and see if we can fix this. The biggest change we’re implementing is restoring our social media share buttons to the website.

Below you can see some of the data he analyzed for us showcasing efforts towards the mission of better living through regenerative communities.

Helped Analyze a Site Performance Drop, Doing Several Hours of Research – Click for Home Page

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BETTER LIVING THROUGH REGENERATIVE COMMUNITIES – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

Throughout our design process of better living through regenerative communities model we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more.

We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH REGENERATIVE COMMUNITIES – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

BETTER LIVING THROUGH REGENERATIVE COMMUNITIES – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model of better living through regenerative communities is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies.

These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

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

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like better living through regenerative communities will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more.

For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating better living through regenerative communities.

How to help humanity help itself: DIY open source sustainability resources that provide a better living experience while also supporting global regeneration and addressing global challenges with food, energy, housing, education, etc. We can create a better world for everyone if we work together as a grassroots movement of people improving their own lives and the lives of others through sustainable living practices.

• 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 December 6th, 2020 edition (#402) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself:

How to Help Humanity Help Itself
One Community Progress Update #402

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

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

This week the core team updated the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page, added all the recycling icons to the Highest Good of All page, and also to each of the different recycling pages. Thus, contributing efforts to the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Page – Click to Visit

The core team also generated the “Night stands” and “table/benches – down position” renders below for the Murphy bed assembly instructions and reflecting the latest updates.

Murphy Bed “Night Stands” and “Table/benches – Down Position” Renders – Click for Furniture Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #204 of Dean’s work and the focus was more plant corrections, lighting and quality corrections, and completing the two side views here that are final renders. The top-down render still needs some plant corrections.

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

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 34th week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. This week Alvaro worked on the “REUSING PLASTIC” section of the plastics article. He found conflicting information related to the refilling of plastic bottles during his research and will dig deeper into this to get better information sources and identify which one is correct. He also studied One Community’s phased rollout to identify when and how plastic waste management should be implemented. Pictures below show some of this work towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Worked on the “Reusing Plastic” Section of the Plastics Article – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 20th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the support material used in the Net-Zero Bathroom to list nails instead of rebar. He updated the spreadsheet used to calculate the number of earthbags needed to construct the structure. The updated calculations were used to calculate the number of nails needed to mesh and secure the earthbags vertically. The calculations only took into account stacked earthbags that were contacting each other. The quantity of nails was then added to the cost analysis spreadsheet, along with a vendor and price.

He continued adding more details and diagrams to the “Roof Panel Installation” section of the Net-Zero Bathroom tutorial draft. The additions included roof paper installation instructions to simplify installation, reduce waste, and maximize sealing for both the exterior and interior roof. A diagram illustrating where to apply butyl tape was added and various images were included to simplify the instructions. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Continued Finishing the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village ” Click for Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 16th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the structural design of the loft. She finalized the updated design, edited the relevant spreadsheets to be user friendly by identifying inputs, and creating drawings to be used for SketchUp replication. You can see some screenshots of this work below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials ” Click for Page

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) completed his 2nd week working on the Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering. This week Alvin continued on the communal eco-shower designs. He added the shower heads and sinks to the design and also labeled the parts of the communal eco-shower. Alvin also started to look into the cost analysis for the communal eco-shower. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Communal Eco-shower Footer, Foundation and Flooring Engineering – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself 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 Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) completed her 19th week as a member of the team and working on content for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies and the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Angela wrote about the effects of certain lightbulbs on the nervous system and added more information about each brand.

She additionally worked on her non-recyclables tutorial, having found 7 different solutions and compiling research on each of those. She also began to compare their cost, labor, and feasibility. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Effects of Certain Lightbulbs on the Nervous System – Click for Lightbulbs Page

Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 12th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia worked on creating pipe lines for cold hot and hot circulation water supply systems for the main floor Social and Living Dome bathrooms. Pictures below show some of this work towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 9th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy continued to read what the other researches had done, organize this information and began making her own edits. She also began more in-depth research on the wast-to-energy (WTE) methods, and reached out to some of the previously researched WTE companies. This week, she was still doing a lot of reading and digesting of information. Pictures below are related to this work towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables ” Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 9th week helping with the Duplicable City Center updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng finished all but two corrections for the City Center walkthrough, making modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file. You can see the latest updated areas below.

Continued Helping With the Duplicable City Center Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

Keerthi Gopalakrishnan (Product Ideation Analyst) completed her 4th week helping with the sustainability benchmarking of various hardware companies. This week she finished the write ups for Benchmarking and ranking all the Toilet, Urinal, Shower Head and Hand Dryer manufacturers and submitted them for review. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Write Ups for Benchmarking and Ranking Toilet, Urinal, Shower Head and Hand Dryer Manufacturers

Md Amanullah Kabir (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed his first week working on the Duplicable City Center rainwater harvesting component. This week Md focused on gathering information about the ground gutter system. In our footprint roof slopes are in all directions. Because of that, a ground gutter system is required to protect the foundation of the structure, prevent erosion, protect landscaping, and prevent basement flooding. Material selection of the piping for this is one of the most important factors. Md researched the different types of materials that are available: Seamless Aluminum, Copper, Steel, Vinyl, Polypropylene, Zinc, etc.

Duplicable City Center Rainwater Harvesting Component – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself 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 with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen. We rearranged placement of the tables to create efficient traffic flow patterns around tables positioned more along the centerline of the building. You can see the arrows on the floor tiles that show the first traffic movement layout and then an updated one on the right that will allow for two lines of people to serve themselves at once and then people with their food to access the seating without crossing the line of people waiting to serve themselves.

Continued With Our New Plan for the Transition Kitchen ” Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we continued our review through page 15 of the chicken coop doc and engaged in discussions and collectively finalizing a solution for addressing the sequential construction features in the coop doc due to our lack of the necessary experience and team resources to make this less-important component of the project as good as it can be.

We resolved this issue by noting the areas in question and reserving those corrections for when we are on site and will be able to build the structure with more people and more experienced people to work out the remaining improvements together as we construct the first coop. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop Doc Step-by-step Instructions – Click for Page

The core team created a bunch of updated measurement imagery too.

Created a Bunch of Updated Measurement Imagery – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 10th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu finished all the models, and began doing the renderings in lumion. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Finished All the Models, and Began Doing Renderings in Lumion – Click for Aquapini & Walipini Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 10th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week, Jingwei Jiang developed more in the center. The layers added include fruit trees, shrubs, and edge plants. The trees will be ornamental and produce some food. Initial selections from SketchUp 3D models match with the planting list. The plants though in the SketchUp model are not the exact plants in the planting list. The shrubs can be selected in the shrub category, while edge plants can be selected from the edge plants category. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry took on calculating an accurate measure for the air inside the greenhouse given no heating. This calculation will be useful in determining the effectiveness of the climate battery and determining what kind of external heater will be needed for backup. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Calculating an Accurate Measure for the Air Inside the Greenhouse Given No Heating – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is demonstrating how to help humanity help itself 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 19 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 also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished transferring the written content to the webeditor development page for the huge Consensus with Large Groups update we’ve been working on. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Transferring the Written Content to the Webeditor Development Page – Click for Consensus Page

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 27th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen fixed a bug she found when trying to optimize the implementation of the badge controller – combining with the user profile to save some data. But when she populated the badge model from the user profile, she got an empty object on Postman – no data returned. She thought it was something related to nested paths, so she read the original mongoose doc to see a few examples showing nested paths.

No, actually that was not the problem, the issue was all about the badge model reference. She also created 2 Pull Requests for our December 1st MVP, one for the front end repo and another one for the back end repo. Pictures of some of this work are below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Fixed a Bug – Optimize the Implementation of the Badge Controller – Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 26th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team focused on working on the code review comments and Azure migration troubleshooting. The issue on login was resolved and we’re now able to login to the dev portal which is hosted in Azure. Thus, contributing towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Code Review Comments and Azure Migration Troubleshooting ” Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 19th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi updated the username and four badge patterns. She added a “Current week” bar to show working hour status. She also implemented the functionality needed so that clicking the first three badges will take users to the related sections. Finally, she CSS coded the check and “!” details, rather than having them as images. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Updated the Username and Four Badge Patterns ” Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry looked through the time entry component and decided we will incorporate TinyMCE and react-html-parser into our task notification component and the add/edit task modal. Small PR for task notifications now expire automatically after 1 month. He then started on task progress functionality of his team-member-tasks component. Beginning with backend model + routes. Pictures are below showing some of this work towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

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

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris got intangible time to be logged as required when entering a manual time log entry and when using the timer functionality from a mobile phone. He also changed the timelog component filter to allow for filtering multiple entries. Chris also reviewed several pull requests. Pictures related to this work are below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

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

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 16th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor worked more on the comparison of the different plans chosen. She compared the plans based off which ones had the ability to create a MPN and whether they were company/private or individual/family. She also began to breakdown the different coverages and what each plan provided for the associated benefit. She arranged them in a way with the plans with highest costs at the top and plans with the lowest costs at the bottom. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Continued Helping Research One Community’s Insurance Options – Click for Health Insurance Page

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 13th and final week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was finished his part of working on the user profile component. He cleaned up the code by removing unnecessary code blocks and simplifying code logics in many subcomponents. He also finished most parts of the unit tests of the component. He wrapped up the code and pushed it to the development branch. You can see some of this work below towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

Finished His Part of Working on the User Profile Component ” Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 12th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing this week working on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week Jaime kept working on improving existing badges. This week he finished all the 30 hours streak badges and started the 40 hours streak ones. Pictures of the updated badges are below. Hence, contributing towards the mission of how to help humanity help itself.

New Badges for the Badges Section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network ” Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

HOW TO HELP HUMANITY HELP ITSELF – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

HOW TO HELP HUMANITY HELP ITSELF – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

One Community welcomes Diana Gomez to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Diana is a mechanical engineer who graduated from UC Berkeley. Her interests lie in autonomous systems. As an undergraduate she participated in the Berkeley Autonomous Race Car Project where she co-produced two PID controllers that implement traction and cruise control on a 1/10 scale vehicle. Diana enjoys the complexity and challenges that come with introducing safety to autonomous systems. She also enjoys teaching and has been a STEM instructor/tutor for 7 years. She is involved in programs aimed at equipping underrepresented minorities with the proper tools to pursue STEM fields, and strives to establish her own program in the future. As a member of the One Community team, Diana is helping develop the general configuration of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures.

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One Community welcomes Henry Vennard to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Henry is a mechanical engineering graduate from University of Colorado, Boulder who believes sustainability is critical to tackle today’s global challenges. He has demonstrated his problem solving, research, and project management skills through his work as a research assistant. As a member of the One Community team, Henry is contributing to the design of the climate battery component of the Aquapini/Walipini structures.

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One Community is helping people create a sustainable world through open source sustainability plans covering all aspects of sustainable living. They include 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
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OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS

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One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the November 29th, 2020 edition (#401) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards helping people create a sustainable world:

Helping People Create a Sustainable World
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #203 of Dean’s work and the focus was lighting levels and attempting to run final renders. Lighting levels were fixed so shadows weren’t so dark as to look black but now the renders are producing jagged lines where they should be straight, even though the pixel quality is higher. You can see some screenshots of this process below that contributes to the mission of helping people create a sustainable world.

Focused on Lighting Levels and Attempting to Run Final Renders – Click for Earthbag Village

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 33rd week as a member of the team and continued working on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options tutorial. For this week Alvaro worked on the “Reducing Your Use of Plastics” section of the plastic article. He started the eco-flowchart for handling bottles at onecommunity and investigated PETG, R-PET filaments and another DIY filament extruder. As an extra, he also did some research on tire recycling due to his participation on an external hackathon.

Lastly he started the “Other Interesting plastic recycling options” section where he added the alternatives to transform plastic into food (yes, food… crazy) or into nanocarbon tubes+hydrogen. Pictures below show some of this work for helping people create a sustainable world.

Community Plastic Recycling, Repurposing, and Reuse Options Tutorial – Click for Page

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 18th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the SolidWorks rendering of the Net-Zero Bathroom to include metal flashing covering the roof access along with the exterior roof support beams. He researched and rendered possible filters and grates to block debris and insects from entering the water supply. The metal flashing used on the roof access provides water sealing and water diversion. The exterior roof beams cannot be completely wrapped in the metal flashing and can be protected by a wood sealer.

The challenge with the insect and small debris filter was finding one large enough to fit the orifice of the roof, along with being easy to maintain and clean. The “Rain Harvesting Guardian” was found to provide the best benefits with minimum trade offs. There were a wide variety of dome grates used for filtering large debris, but the challenge was finding one that needed minimum modifications to fit over the roof orifice. The cylindrical drain dome strainer was found to be the simplest grate to retrofit while having sufficient gaps to allow water to flow through it. The pictures below show examples of some of this work towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Continued Finishing the Net-zero Bathroom Component of the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 17th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she made it on to page WS21, reworking many prior pages as she went. She also went back to the other sections and re-saved the views showing correct perspectives of the wall section. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress.

Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 15th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah created an updated loft design to include timber beams, bridges and bearing plates as well as three connections: joist hangers for the bridges, steel angles to connect the beams to timber plates, and nails to connect the plates to the walls. In doing so, Hannah verified adequate spacing of the nails on each member, checked the relevant failure modes for each member, and created a preliminary materials needed list. You can see some screenshots of this work below for helping people create a sustainable world.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials ” Click for Page

Alvin Anggito (BS Civil Engineering) also joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Communal Eco-shower footer, foundation and flooring engineering. This week Alvin went through the orientation, familiarized himself with the existing research and files, and made a preliminary design in AutoCAD. The pictures below show examples of some of this work for helping people create a sustainable world.

Communal Eco-shower Footer, Foundation and Flooring Engineering – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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

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

This week Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 11th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia created the plan for the water supply and sewage systems in the kitchen. Pictures below show some of this work.

Plan for the Water Supply and Sewage Systems in the Kitchen – Click for Duplicable City Center

Lindy Rzonca (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 8th week helping with sustainability research and now focused on the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week, Lindy focused on combing through papers and online sources, and reading the work that the previous people did on the tutorial. Next week she will begin writing. Pictures below show some of what she reviewed.

Best Community Options for Sustainable Processing and Reuse of Non-recyclables – Click for Page

Qiuheng Xu (Landscape Designer) completed her 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center landscaping design and updated video walkthrough. This week Qiuheng focused on further modifications in both the SketchUp file and Lumion file, checking off last week’s requested changes as she went. You can see some of the updated areas below.

Duplicable City Center Landscaping Design and Updated Video Walkthrough – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team continued with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen. We updated the foldable tables to match the equipment list, placed 24″x12″ portable locking hard floor tiles, added an additional middle row of tables, and checked to confirm all appliances from the equipment list were in the SketchUp model. We also created a new “Materials Price List” spreadsheet.

And we consulted with a representative of Big Floors, confirming the choice of Fast Deck 2.0 flooring for our transition kitchen and is seeking feedback from one of their end users who purchased Fast Deck 2.0. Pictures below show some of this work.

Continued With Our New Plan for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we reviewed and edited the coop doc through page 15, addressing numerous details helping with clarification for the wall construction. Pictures below show some of this behind-the-scenes work-in-progress for helping people create a sustainable world.

Reviewed and Edited the Chicken Coop Doc Through Page 15 – Click for Chickens Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 9th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu continued making the outdoor model in Rhino. She finished the first half of the outdoor model, started researching the plant material on our website, and began making the test walkthrough in Lumion. Some pictures of this work-in-progress for helping people create a sustainable world are below.

Continued Making the Outdoor Model in Rhino – Click for Aquapini & Walipini

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the landscaping specifics of the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei completed the first full SketchUp model for the Earthbag village landscaping and submitted it for review. Pictures of this work-in-progress for helping people create a sustainable world are below.

Completed the First Full SketchUp Model for the Earthbag Village Landscaping – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry got the climate battery simulations working in SolidWorks with simulated soil and began research on accurate inlet and outlet air. Once the air conditions are accurate the simulation should be complete and optimized for the greenhouse specifications. You can see some pictures related to this work for helping people create a sustainable world below.

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 8th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana analyzed 3 climate batteries and compared their specs to our Aquapini/Walipini current design. She realized that increasing the number of subsystems will decrease the friction loss. The “Blue House” climate battery most closely resembled the Aquapini/Walipini design and the following specs: 7 pipes per subsystem = 147′ tubing and manifold + risers = 22′ tubing. Diana made two new configurations of the Aquapini/Walipini current design:

1. 8″ manifold and 7 4″ pipes , -40 ft in manifold length for subsystem 1 and -20ft for subsystem 2.
2. 10″ manifold and 7 4″ pipes , -40 ft in manifold length for subsystem 1 and -20ft for subsystem 2.

The friction loss for these configurations is calculated in the “Aquapini and Walipini Air Flow Rate Calculations” google sheet. The result was a friction loss of 4000 Pa – 5500 Pa but a 8-inch inline duct fan only provides ~350 Pa for a 241 cfm, meaning the fan cannot balance this system. Diana decided to calculate the friction loss in the “Blue House” and found that it was ~28,000 Pa which is significantly higher than the Aquapini/Walipini design. According to the “Blue House” analysis report, the system did not achieve turbulent flow but still provided 242,000 BTU in heating mode and 992,00 BTU in cooling mode. Although it was not an efficient system it still worked.

Diana then analyzed the effects of the diameter of the manifold and tubes on friction loss. This can be found in the “Aquapini and Walipini Air Flow Rate Calculations” google sheet under the “Blue House – friction loss” tab. The friction loss decreased exponentially as the diameter was increased. By increasing the manifold diameter and tube diameter by 1 inch the total friction loss decreased by ~70 in wg or ~1700 Pa. Diana will be creating new configurations of the Aquapini/Walipini climate battery (adjusting the diameter) to analyze the friction loss and provide them to Henry for heat transfer analysis. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below.

Analyzed 3 Climate Batteries and Compared Their Specs to – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 6th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes was able to get access to SolidWorks and is learning how to use flow simulation to apply it to our current design. He also worked on adding conversions into his Matlab code to make it easier to use regardless of the units being used. He additionally spent significant time trying to get the software working properly on his Mac, which requires a special Windows environment to run SolidWorks. You can see some pictures related to this work for helping people create a sustainable world below.

Learning How to Use Flow Simulation to Apply It to Our Current Design – Click for Page

Yiran “Lily” Chen (Sustainability Coordinator) completed her 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Lily finished research on ADS pipe and provided a thorough table of ADS pipe kinds with attributes. In addition, Lily started working on the cost analysis based on previous research and then researching other costs approximations. You can see pictures related to this research for helping people create a sustainable world below.

Research on ADS Pipe and Provided a Thorough Table of ADS Pipe Kinds- Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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

• 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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

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

This week the core team completed 21 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. Thus, contributing meaningful efforts towards helping people create a sustainable world.

The core team also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we finished re-reading the Large-Scale Consensus content and made notes for things to re-check and links/anchors to add. We then began transferring the content to the web editor and this process is now about 2/3rds done. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes work for helping people create a sustainable world below.

Continued Editing the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content ” Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 40th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry made the format for Why/Intent/Endstate so that Add, Edit, and View are now the same. He also added the editor tool set to it, so an Admin can add a table, bullets, text formatting, etc. He moved these to a new location too, then updated the permission for WBS and Task editing to Admins only. He also added a “confirm deletion” popup. The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality catered towards helping people create a sustainable world.

 Format for Why/Intent/Endstate – Add, Edit, and View are the Same – Click for Highest Good Network

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 26th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen is back to work with a new laptop! It took her about 3 hours to set up the dev environment and installed everything the HGN project needs (iTerm2, bash profile, IDE setting & extensions, global git, Node, MongoDB compass, etc.). The Node failed to compile at first. She solved the error and the app is now running successfully on her local. She rewrote some work-in-process code that she didn’t commit to git and lost from her last laptop focused on helping people create a sustainable world.

In the coming week, she will finish reproducing the testing data, wrap up what she has and create a PR, as the planned MVP launch is a few days away. Pictures of some of this work towards helping people create a sustainable world are below.

Continued Working on the Highest Good Network Software with a New Laptop ” Click for Page

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 25th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK Talent team completed the create new user profile functionality and the validations. Now Admins can create a user profile, can see the users and do all other actions in the user management area. Pictures below show some of this new functionality that contributes to the mission of helping people create a sustainable world.

The Create New User Profile Functionality and The Validations – Click for Highest Good Network

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 18th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi moved the bar to the top of the page. She Added space between badges and adjusted the size of words and icons. She found the right size of badges should be 85x85px. Yiqi also implemented the notification function for “Tasks” and “Badge Earned” and finished the initial click function setup for the “Blue Squares” icon. You can see some pictures related to this work towards helping people create a sustainable world below.

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

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry changed the notification modal UI as so the previous and current state of task infos are shown, as well as a third field highlighting their differences. Modal UI for editing tasks was also made slightly larger to accommodate entering task infos. Pictures are below showing some of this work towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Changed the Notification Modal UI – Previous and Current State of Task Infos Are Shown

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on the navigation toggle buttons getting them to work properly when they are clicked both for the header and timelog sections. Chris also worked on having the timelog entry popup be on intangible time by default if on mobile view for the timer or manually adding an entry to the timelog, unless the user is an Admin. Pictures related to this work towards helping people create a sustainable world are below.

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

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) also completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun was mainly working on cleaning up the code for the user profile component, writing unit tests, and fixing bugs. Specifically, Jun split the user profile into sub modules, so the future code maintenance and feature extension can be easier. He finished all the unit tests for the submodules and the only unit tests he left is the integrated test for the whole user profile component. You can see some of this work below catered towards helping people create a sustainable world.

Worked on Cleaning Up the Code for the User Profile Component – Click for Highest Good Network

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 11th week helping with various graphic design work for the project, continuing work on the new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week’s focus was making design and size corrections on the badges he created last week and figuring out ways to compress the files without compromising the definition of the images, making contributions towards helping people create a sustainable world. Pictures of the updated badges are below.

Continued Creating New Badges for the Highest Good Network ” Click for Page

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HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE WORLD –

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

HELPING PEOPLE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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

One Community welcomes Lindy Rzonca to the Research Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Lindy is passionate about our planet and the people on it. As a graduate from UC Berkeley with a B.S in Society & Environment, this passion has propelled her through her educational and professional life. She is currently working on developing sustainable living solutions as a Sustainability Analyst at LIM Living. And as a member of the One Community team, Lindy is helping to educate people globally by conducting research and writing tutorials covering sustainable flooring, sustainable non-recyclable waste processing, and more.

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One Community welcomes Jingwei Jiang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jingwei is from Chengdu, China. She achieved her Bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture (BLA) from University of Washington on June 10, 2018. Soon after graduation Jingwei completed internships in China and received an offer from the Architecture School of University of Virginia. In 2020, she finished her education and graduated with her Master degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) and Urban Design Certificate (UDC). As a member of the One Community team, Jingwei is helping create the complete landscaping plan for the Earthbag Village.

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One Community welcomes Qiuheng Xu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Qiuheng graduated from the University of Virginia Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program. During the past few years, she has participated in several different types and phases of projects through both school and intern experiences. Through these, Qiuheng was able to get hands on with residential projects, civil engineering, urban planning, and habitat design. She also has some web design experience. Qiuheng believes landscape should be part of daily life because what we are building are living environments. As a member of the One Community team, Qiuheng is helping with both internal and external Duplicable City Center visualization walkthrough and landscaping design.

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One Community welcomes Jiayu Liang to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Jiayu has over 8 years of design-professional training across multi-scale and various design types. She earned her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture + Urbanism from the University of Southern California, with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Art Design. Last summer she went to Tbilisi, Georgia, and was responsible for an entrance and parking-lot grading design in the Veli project. Jiayu is self-motivated, strong-minded, and a goal-oriented challenger. She believes that landscape design not only creates beautiful environments balancing people and wild-life habitats, but also digs the deepest cultural roots. As a member of the One Community team, Jiayu is helping with the Aquapini/Walipini greenhouse structures interior and exterior landscape design and visualizations.

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Want to see what a path to a sustainable civilization looks like? Check out One Community’s open source plans for achieving a path to a sustainable civilization through a global cooperative of self-replicating eco-communities and teacher/demonstration hubs.

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 November 22nd, 2020 edition (#400) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments towards a path to a sustainable civilization:

Path to a Sustainable Civilization
One Community Progress Update #400

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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

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

This week Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 17th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” section of the Net-Zero Bathrooms. He added detailed steps, diagrams, measurements, and organized the material list for the “Roof Panel Construction” section. Detailed steps were added to the “Roof Panel Installation” section too. Hence, contributing meaningful efforts towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

The SolidWorks model was also updated to include the drip edge roof flash on the edges of the exterior roof panels. The addition of metal flashing around the roof access was added as well. The images from these updates will be used in the section as a visual reference. Pictures are below for this work towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

Updated the “Roof Panel Construction” and “Roof Panel Installation” Section – Click for Page

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) completed her 16th week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. Stacey is excited to almost be done with the now 26-page wall section. She reworked all groups by making sure all the fonts are the same. Stacey also verified all the call outs and zoomed images are colored in the same way across all groups, and have clear pages marked now from the wall section into the 3 other groups. She also figured out many of the old renders and updated with the correct wall image in all places. Pictures below show some of this work-in-progress for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Worked on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Furniture Page

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) completed her 14th week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah continued the development of the Earthbag Village dome construction by working on the tools required to place nails and cement between each layer, and working on the structural design of the lofts.

For the three tools, she finalized the initial designs of each and prepared the associated master AutoCAD. Hannah also continued the loft design by selecting the joist size and spacing, the bridge size and locations, determining the bridge hanger manufacturer / product, and beginning to work on the bearing calculations for the end supports. You can see some screenshots of this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Continued Helping Complete All the Earthbag Village Tutorials – Click for Earthbag Village

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 Ksenia Akimov (Plumbing Engineer) completed her 10th week working on the Duplicable City Center plumbing designs. This week Ksenia created the plan for the hot and cold water pipelines in the kitchen and main bathroom areas. Pictures below show some of this work for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Continued Working on the Duplicable City Center Plumbing Designs – Click for Page

Lindy Bray (Sustainability Analyst) also completed her 7th week helping confirm and expand the research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc.. This week, Lindy finished the Sustainable flooring research and Google Doc. She finished the section on Vinyl flooring, and she proofread the entire document and made some changes to reflect the new changes. Pictures below show some of this work for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Confirmed and Expanding the Research on the Most Sustainable Building Materials – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 with our new plan for the Transition Kitchen to promote a path to a sustainable civilization. We started working on a new SketchUp design for 30’x50′ Transition Kitchen structure we agreed on as best from last week. We also created three possible layout templates for kitchen/eating/serving areas.

Then we did research on different floor covering for the Transitional Kitchen portable building. Lastly, we created a list of problems that we found during the detailing process with the old Hexayurt design for the Transition Kitchen structure. Here they are and pictures of the other work follow them:

• Challenge to place appliances in Hexagon shaped building.
• Insulation boards are not strong enough to handle multiple assemble/disassemble activities.
• Insulation boards as roof are not strong enough to handle snow loads.
• Leakage and structural problems with the insulation boards because suggested tape doesn’t hold up for more than 2 weeks of sun damage, it gets crusty and peels off. Alternative attachment options would all break down the insulation boards too much or over very short periods of time in inclement weather conditions.
• Insulation board is not sustainable. We could overlook this if it would last being used like this (which we initially thought it would) but it won’t.
• Rising lumber prices and adding in the cost for a solid floor made this structure almost 3x as much as it was originally projected to cost.

Continued With New Plan for the Transition Kitchen – Click for Page

The core team also continued rewriting/finalizing the chicken coop doc step-by-step instructions. This week we reviewed chicken coop drawings and related videos suggesting a more standardized approach to wall layout design for improved efficiency, clarity, and ease of interpretation for the novice builder. We also explored different hinge locations for the nesting boxes, and further revised the initial pages of the coop assembly based on all of the above. Pictures of some of this work are below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Continued Rewriting/finalizing the Chicken Coop – Click for Page

Reyes Mendoza (Mechanical Engineering Student) also completed his 5th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Reyes was able to get access to SolidWorks and is learning how to use flow simulation to apply it to our current design. He also worked on adding conversions into his Matlab code to make it easier to use regardless of the units being used.

He also spend significant time trying to get the software working properly on his Mac, which requires a special Windows environment to run SolidWorks. You can see some pictures related to this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Jiayu Liang (Landscape Designer) completed her 8th week helping with the Aquapini & Walipini internal and external landscaping details. This week Jiayu focused on making the 6 greenhouse models and the model of outdoor landscapes in the Rhino. Some pictures of this work-in-progress are below towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

Continued With the Aquapini & Walipini Internal and External Landscaping Details – Click for Page

Jingwei Jiang (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the landscaping specifics for the Earthbag Village. This week Jingwei focused on finishing the CAD plan according to previous developed SketchUp models. The final planting list was further developed too. Pictures of this work-in-progress are below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Continued Working on the Landscaping Specifics for the Earthbag Village – Click for Page

Henry Vennard (Mechanical Engineer) also completed his 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Henry worked on the climate battery simulations and optimization. He worked with his team to improve the SolidWorks simulations related to the pressure in the pipes. You can see some pictures related to this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Worked on the Climate Battery Simulations and Optimization – Click for Aquapini:Walipini Page

Diana Gomez (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 7th week helping continue the development of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Diana continued her research on friction loss of the system and calculations of the static pressure of the system. She learned to use a Friction Loss chart that will provide the friction loss of the system given two of the following parameters: velocity, duct diameter, or cfm.

According to the chart, our system is recommended to have a duct diameter of 10-12 inches because any lower and the friction loss per 100ft is very high. Using an equation that closely describes this chart, Diana calculated the friction loss per 100ft on the “Air Flow Rate.xslx” and varied the size of the manifold to be 8-12 inches and the velocity from 1000 – 1500 fpm. It was found that 10-inch diameter with a 1100 fpm initial velocity to be 0.54 in wg (inches of water gauge) per 100 feet (this is a reasonable amount of friction).

Then using these parameters the friction loss per 100 ft was calculated for the 4-inch pipes branching off of the main pipes. The small pipe diameter was varied from 3-5 inches but 4 in will be kept because its friction loss is only ~0.05 in wg per 100 ft. Diana met with Henry to discuss the high friction loss and the following steps will be taken to resolve the issue: decrease the number of pipes, decrease the length of the manifold, and increase the diameter of the manifold from 8in to 10 inches.

Diana also researched how to account for pressure when calculating the friction loss because the charts available are accurate for standard conditions and not high elevations. She tabulated the 6000 ft elevation correction factors on the “Air Flow Rate.xslx” under the tab cfm – elevation correction.

This tab takes in the total volume of a building and desired ACH and then calculates the corrected CFM at a 6000 ft elevation for temperatures between -20 F to 100 F. Then it takes in a diameter for the main manifold and the pipes to calculate the total friction loss per 100 ft.

For a specific temperature the total friction loss is calculated. It was found the friction loss is extremely high and a fan cannot create enough static pressure to balance it. By increasing the manifold diameter to 10 in the static friction decreased by half but this value is still too high. Reducing the number of pipes will be the next step. You can see pictures of some of this work-in-progress below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Development of the Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures – Click for Page

Daniela Lazarescu (Chef Adviser) completed her 4th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan. This week Daniela focused on further recipes and researching suitable video instructions for previously chosen dishes. She also double checked that the image she’s supplied so far are not copyright protected. You can see some of this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Focused on Further Recipes and Researching Suitable Video Instructions for Previously Chosen Dishes

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 such as a path to a sustainable civilization:

• 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

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is creating a path to a sustainable civilization 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 also continued working on the large-scale consensus content. This week we refined and edited the large-scale consensus governance content in preparation for putting the content into the web editor. We added links, formatted the write-up (bullets and justified text), made the content more consistent, and re-read the content. You can see some pictures of this behind-the-scenes below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Refined and Edited the Large-scale Consensus Governance Content – Click for Page

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 39th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry added the folder icon for the expanded tasks. The folder icon was used instead of an arrow or other icon because we think it makes the most sense communicating that the parent tasks (folders) are the sum of all children tasks. Henry also worked on the remove function.

Removing a task will affect other tasks, so he worked on debugging this so the other tasks renumber and move up correctly to fill in the newly empty line. He still needs to update the task ID and hours calculation though, which is on his action list for next week. The pictures below show some of this newly completed functionality for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Added the Folder Icon for the Expanded Tasks – Click for Highest Good Network

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 24th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team continued working on creating the user profile by adding the option to assign a team and project while creating a user. An administrator can now click on add a new team / project button and search and find the team/project to assign the user. Pictures below show some of this new functionality for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Added the Option to Assign a Team and Project While Creating a User – Click for Page

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 17th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi established the frame of DashboardNotificationBar. She divided it into four parts. The first part is mainly about username, the second is about work hours, the third is about summary, and the last is about Badges. She finished the text inside these parts and added icons (exclamation, check), which are similar to the patterns in the picture below. Also, she adjusted the size and percentage of these parts in the bar, but they still need further modification. You can see some pictures related to this work below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Established the Frame of DashboardNotificationBar – Click for Highest Good Network

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jerry implemented the requested changes from a number of weeks ago. Color contrast is improved for the table. The text differences for the notifications are now human readable. Next, Jerry will work on having task info updates be condensed if a field is updated multiple times. Pictures are below showing some of this work for a path to a sustainable civilization.

Implemented the Requested Changes From a Number of Weeks Ago – Click for Highest Good Network

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 13th week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began the comparative analysis portion of this project. She went through each of the plans from each company that she thought were relevant to the goals of this organization and chose the ones that were most applicable. She created a final spreadsheet of the few plans that she would like to research and compare further. She also reformatted many of the plans, so that they all followed one set of criteria. You can see some pictures related to this work below towards a path to a sustainable civilization.

Began the Comparative Analysis Portion of Health Insurance Research – Click for Page

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris worked on the timelog component adding it to the dashboard. Chris also edited the formatting for the timelog and timer components to be displayed in mobile views with scrollbars. Pictures related to this work are below for a path to a sustainable civilization.

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

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) also completed his 10th week helping with various graphic design work for the project. This week Jaime started creating new badges for the badges section on the Dashboard of the Highest Good Network. This week he re-created 8 badges for the 30-week streak accomplishment. You can see these newly created images below towards the path to a sustainable civilization.

Started Creating New Badges for the Highest Good Network – Click for Page

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PATH TO A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION –

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

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

PATH TO A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION – WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

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

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

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