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One Community Welcomes Siddharth Gore to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Siddharth Gore to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Siddharth completed his Masters from San Jose State University in Software Engineering. He has more than 5 years of work experience including companies like Nexient, N3N, Food Corporation Of India, and Accenture. In his free time, Siddharth enjoys playing Fifa, Call of Duty, chess, table tennis, and hiking. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network software team, Siddharth is helping revamp our Highest Good Network Web Portal and creating the iOS and Android versions of the software.
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One Community Welcomes Henry Nguyen to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Henry Nguyen to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Having earned his BS in Computer Sciences and minored in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Washington, Henry is both a software developer and an artist. He also loves to work with communities, connecting and bringing people together. Born in Vietnam, Henry came to the US in 2013 and helped build a Vietnamese community in Seattle that grew to one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US. As a community builder he has also been a video maker, administrator, and a web developer. Henry feels software programming is the art of connecting people, so he has a passion for making software that can help people connect to each other. Henry joined the Highest Good Network team to be a part of a project that supports and connects people globally.
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Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics – One Community Weekly Progress Update #367
Let’s talk about eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics. In this week’s video we discuss how we expect people living in environments like One Community would be happier, healthier, and safer than most of the rest of the world right now. The discussion includes what pandemic preparation, mitigation, containment, and recovery would look like in a “Highest Good of All” living environment like One Community.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING : ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important and showcase what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that answers why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that explains why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the question of why issues related to eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics are important, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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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 April 5th, 2020 edition (#367) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and other potential pandemics:
Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics
One Community Progress Update #367
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS
Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models 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 continued developing the open source permaculture design content with a focus on completing the Energy, Housing, and Education Infrastructure details of the Phased Rollout Table shown below.
Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics – Click for Housing Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #184 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was texturing another dome, texturing the door for the main entry, and the door access to the hot tub area. You can see pictures of these updates below.
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Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village walkthrough and completed week 21 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was closing all the village doors, changing the video timing, adding more interior details to the Tropical Atrium, and adding textures, people, and other details to the furnished interior views of the living structures. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.
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DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS
Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models 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 the core team finished adding all the best water-saving faucet accessories we could find to the Most Sustainable Faucets and Faucet Accessories page. We also added Amazon links for all the products they sell, allowing easy access for reading reviews and purchasing. This completes this tutorial.
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Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 7th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka started benchmarking the types of flooring to better assign ranks to them. She researched into the manufacturing process and installation process to evaluate the carbon footprint for each and also added important updates to the descriptions as well. She did this for Cork, Linoleum, Bamboo, Tiles, Concrete, and Carpet, and slightly updated the introduction as well. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
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HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS
Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models 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 began researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching rabbit food options, hutches and runs. We will construct our own hutches and runs. Most runs available for purchase are not very sturdy. We will build to the quality of our other fencing with regards to the rabbit exercise area.
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The core team also continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was more work on the door assembly instructions. Specifically, finishing pages 50-55: “Step 13. Installing a Door Handle and Door Latch” and finishing fixing the hinge problem we identified last week and included in 42 though 49 of the instructions. We’d say we’re now about 91% done with these plans.
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This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 19th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details and now working on the structural engineering details. This week he finished editing the architectural model, finished editing the site plan to align with the modified architectural drawings, edited the plumping model to match the modified architectural model, added access to the structures, added steel columns and isolated footing to the structures, researched roof structural systems, and steel columns prices. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below showing completion of the civil engineering details and we’d say we’re now about 65% complete with the structural details also.
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Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 17th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued the transient 2D simulations of the aquapinis and walipinis in Utah considering the effect of climate batteries based on the previously evaluated transient boundary conditions for more months of the year. He also worked on developing a simple-to-use thermal model to capture the temperature variations of the inside air under different weather conditions and different used materials. You can see some of this work below.
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HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS
Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models 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.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 71st week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and various empowering character traits. What you see here is Dan’s 6th round additions focused on finding and adding more learning aids and books to the shelving, plus the plant on the right. This brings this room to about 90% complete.
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HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PANDEMICS
Thinking about Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics, One Community is developing comprehensive community models 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 Henry Ng (React Developer) completed his 9th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry returned to building the API for adding tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure by using the WBS ID. This is so the tasks will load to the interface and be sorted by IDs. The data is displayed as icons, and buttons are used to send quick information to the users. New mouseover text shows what each button represents also. You can see some of this work below.
Returned to Building the API for Adding Tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure by Using the WBS ID – Click for Highest Good Network
Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also completed his 9th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Modal component of react native mobile app. Now one Modal can be reused across the app changing message texts and button values for tasks which require user confirmation. He also looked into Google Sheets API for using data (alerts) that can be read from a spreadsheet and displayed on the website and time tracking tool portal and mobile application. You can see some of this work below.
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Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 3rd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen helped finalize the HGN Functionality Documentation. She also completed the 2nd-to-final drafts of the HGN React Design Doc, Workflow and Github Doc, and Codebase Rules & Conventions Doc.
Eco-communities, COVID-19 and Other Potential Pandemics ” Click for Highest Good Network
And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 2nd week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Alvaro made his first pull request to fix a small error, started to work on a unit test for the leaderboard, started a new doc to document code and command formatting, and another one to explore a style template for documentation. He also helped with feedback on all the other Documentation docs. You can see some of this work below.
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SUMMARY – ECO-COMMUNITIES, COVID-19 AND OTHER POTENTIAL PROBLEMS
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – One Community Weekly Progress Update #366
One Community is creating an open source blueprint for global cooperatives. This includes the tools, tutorials, data, and costs needed for global replication. These sustainable and self-sufficient eco-communities will function as teacher/demonstration hubs to help others replicate them even easier.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why blueprint for global cooperatives are important. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of why blueprint for global cooperatives are important and showcase what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that answers why open blueprint for global cooperatives are important. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that explains why blueprint for global cooperatives are important. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the question of why blueprint for global cooperatives are important, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 29th, 2020 edition (#366) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining why blueprint for global cooperatives are important:
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives
One Community Progress Update #366
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES
One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished the review by completing the rest of cut sheets plan. Parts added to the plan this week included the rest needed for the Benches & Table, Nightstands, and Storage. You can see pictures of the finished cut sheets below and we’re now onto final integration of all the needed edits to the actual assembly instructions.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Murphy Bed Review – Rest of Cut Sheets Plan – Click for Page
Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #183 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was continuing to texture the domes, texturing the main stairway entry, and testing out different stairway options for access to the rooftop patio. You can see pictures of these updates below.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page
And Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 2o as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding furniture to the top of the Tropical Atrium, furniture to the living structures, and fixing broken or incomplete building elements. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Tropical Atrium and Living Structures – Click for Tropical Atrium
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES
One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 6th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week, Radhieka researched further into other types of sustainable flooring and integrated what she found to benchmarked them based on Health & Safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. She considered the full lifecycle of these products to have a well-rounded perspective on each flooring type. This was done for bamboo, linoleum, tiles, concrete and carpet. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Most Sustainable Building Materials ” Click for Most Sustainable Building Materials Page
Isha Chadalavada (Volunteer Researcher) also completed her 1st week developing the content for the Food Waste Recycling section of the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options page. This week she completed the open source section, overview of food waste section, and preliminary research of various types of small-scale recycling options like worm composting, hot composting, and in-vessel composting. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress below.
Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options Page – Click to Visit
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES
One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team began researching rabbits and compiling our findings on the behind-the-scenes research Google Doc. This week’s focus was researching the best breeds for meat rabbits.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Best Breeds for Meat Rabbits – Click for Rabbits Page
The core team also returned to working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week’s focus was working on the door assembly instructions and fixing a hinge problem we identified and fixed across pages 42 though 49 of the instructions. We’d say we’re now about 90% done with these.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Chicken Coop Building Instructions – Click for Chickens Page
And the core team began transferring our research on chickens from the Google Doc the open source webpage. This week we created the “Why Chickens” section, added all the related resources to the Resources section, and backed them all up to our DropBox archive. You can see some of this work here.
Research on Chickens From the Google Doc the Open Source Webpage – Click for Page
In addition to this, the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was solidifying the Food Infrastructure rollout details using the new Phased Rollout Table and aligning it with our text in the Permaculture Design Case Study section. We also worked on doing this for the Energy Infrastructure section. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.
Continued Developing the Open Source Permaculture Design Content ” Click for Page
This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 18th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he modified the water supply main pipe to be below the frost line at a minimum of 32″ underground, modified the architectural model to match the SketchUp model instead of the 2D plans provided, finished the water supply network for all the structures and fixed interference with the drainage network, created annotated plumbing 2D construction drawings for all structures, and added bell siphon to the water beds.
You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 95% complete.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES
One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 70th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room is about the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 5th round additions focused on finding and adding toys and books to the shelving and floor. This brings this room to about 85% complete.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES
One Community is creating a blueprint for global cooperatives through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 11th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented a new version of the progress bar on the Time Log page. Now the color changes to match the Leaderboard and the length is determined by the absolute value instead of percentage. Stripes are added to the bar when a volunteer hasn’t completed his or her weekly committed hours.
New Version of the Progress Bar on the Time Log Page ” Click for Highest Good Network Page
Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 8th and final week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he worked on finishing as much as he could of the HGN Unit Test and HGN Documentation with the other members of the team. This included clarifying concepts on documents, making and integrating suggestions for improvement, and outlining the remaining tasks for completion. Screenshots of some of this work are below.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Network Software ” Click for Page
Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 8th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry used the backend to work with the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). He created a function to add the WBS to a project. He also created a new interface for the WBS based on the WBS converted to excel files. This was a challenge in UX Design (User Experience) because he had to design something new but based on the current interface with the Excel files. To accomplish this he did research on WBS design using MS Project Software. You can see some of this work below.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) ” Click for Page
Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 8th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the Add Project Member and Remove Project Member functionality for the mobile app. He also refactored some code to make it better. You can see some of the results of this work below.
Add Project Member and Remove Project Member Functionality ” Click for Highest Good Network
Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 2nd week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen continued adding content to the Unit Testing Doc, and followed up with comments & suggestions. Wen answered questions raised by other team members, helped with the error messages, finalized the Unit Testing Doc, and created an improved strategy to address vulnerabilities of the Github repo by adding protection rules for the master branch and development branch. In addition to this, Wen continued working on the draft of HGN App Design Doc and Workflow & Github Doc, based on the outlines she completed last week.
Continued Adding Content to the Unit Testing Doc ” Click for Highest Good Network
And Alvaro Hernandez (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) joined the Highest Good Network software team and completed his first week as a volunteer. This week his main tasks were helping with the new documentation guidelines we are creating. He gave reviewed, tested, and gave feedback to Unit Testing documentation, HGN Documentation, and Instructions for Running the HGN React App Locally by providing clarifying links and a newcomer perspective. He also set up his local development environment for further Unit Testing development. You can see some of this work below.
Blueprint for Global Cooperatives – Highest Good Network Software Team – Click for Page
SUMMARY – BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL COOPERATIVES
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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Why Open Source Eco-villages – One Community Weekly Progress Update #365
Why open source eco-villages? Well, for starters, because we could create a sustainable world through a global cooperative of villages and communities working together as teacher/demonstration hubs. Creating sustainability think tanks collaborating for the Highest Good of all people and life on this planet. Never has this been needed more and One Community is doing our part by developing the open source and free-shared resources and tutorials for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship components necessary to launch these.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, concurrently explaining why open source eco-villages are important. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of why open source eco-villages are important and showcase what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that answers why open source eco-villages are important. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that explains why open source eco-villages are important. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the question of why open source eco-villages are important, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 22nd, 2020 edition (#365) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, explaining why open source eco-villages are important:
Why Open Source Eco-Villages
One Community Progress Update #365
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS – WHY OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES
One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished the review of the bench and table assembly and started work on the final cut sheets plan where we finished the wall-parts section. You can see some of this work in progress below.
Continued Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 19 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was adding plants and trees to the Tropical Atrium walkthrough. You can see some of the screenshots from the updated walkthrough here.
Added Plants and Trees to the Tropical Atrium Walkthrough – Click for Tropical Atrium
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #182 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was continuing to test textures and fix errors found during this process. You can see pictures of these updates below.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Continuing to Test Textures and Fix Errors ” Click for Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS – WHY OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES
One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” 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 Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) finished her research for all the City Center lighting. What you see below are all the bulbs researched with links and updated quantities. With this, we’d say we are now about 95% complete with the lighting selection details.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Finished Research for All the City Center Lighting – Click for Page
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also helped this week with the City Center. This week he created the AutoCAD occupancy zonal layout shown below.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Created the AutoCAD Occupancy for the City Center – Click for Page
Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 5th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka worked on integrating core team feedback and editing the introduction of the companies to provide a better explanation for their ranking, research into the nitty-gritties of each company to find out about their sustainable impact throughout their whole life-cycle, not just products, and beginning the deep-dive into the life cycle of specific products based on Health & safety, Sustainability, Cost, Practicality/do-it-yourself application, and Durability. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Sustainable Building Materials ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS – WHY OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES
One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was creating tables that summarize how each infrastructure component addresses each permaculture ethics and principles and each component’s phase of implementation. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page
This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 17th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he modified the architectural layout to match the Sketchup model. This included the aquaponics layout, piping, and wall heights shown below. He also added the gravity-fed pipe to supply the North-side aquaponics, balancing pipes to maintain water levels in all containers and to connect all water containers to the interior pond, and an interior recycling pump to cycle the water from the water containers back to the interior pond.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit
He also updated the AutoCAD so the water supply network branches include two supply valves on each wall in addition to one supply valve for the interior pond, added a backup water pump to the water supply network, and added an overflow pipe connected to the stormwater drainage network. You can see some of this work work-in-progress below and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 94% complete.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Updated the AutoCAD – Click for the Aquapini/Walipini Page
In addition to this, he completed several versions of updating the property model terrain topo. The final version has lines at 5′ increments. He then used this to reproduce the sun study and export to .dwg format.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Versions of the Property Model Terrain Topo – Click for Page
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 16th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in Utah.
After evaluation of the boundary conditions and considering the effects of underground insulations, extended soil geometry, wind and outside temperature variations, and daily solar irradiations, the effect of implementing a climate battery was investigated as it pulls the air inside the greenhouse to flow through the pipes placed in the deep soil. July, which is the warmest month in Utah, was considered and the results were compared with the case where no climate battery is used. You can see some of this work below.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Climate Batteries for the Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS – WHY OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES
One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 69th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room, a room focused on the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 4th round of object and people additions. This week he added toys and books to the shelving and floor and made more adjustments to the wall posters. This brings this room to about 80% complete.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS – WHY OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES
One Community is answering the question, “why open source eco-villages” 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 Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon continued writing the Final Draft for HGN Unit Test Best Practice. Based on feedback from teammates some changes will have to be made before a final submission. At the same time, a living document approach is being used for the updates and changes that are common in software development.
In addition to this, the Final Draft for HGN Documentation Best Practice was also started. There were errors with getting our app configured properly to work with this React Style Guide and it will further be investigated and fixed for week 8. Screenshots of some of this work are below.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 8th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he worked on the back-end for the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) import. He did a research to learn how to work with NodeJS and ExpressJS to build a database and successfully created 4 APIs to get WBSs, create a WBS, delete a WBS, and add Tasks to WBS. You can see some of this work below.
Worked on the Back-end for the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) – Click for Highest Good Network
Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 8th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the styling of screens in the Mobile App with feedback received from the core team. You can see some of this work here.
Worked on the Styling of Screens in the Mobile App – Click for Highest Good Network
And last but not least, Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed her 1st week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen successfully set up the app to run locally, began reviewing and helping with the Unit Testing tutorial and the Guide for React Components Documentation, and led the creation of 1) Design Doc, 2) Codebase Rules & Conventions, and 3) Workflow and Github, to better support collaboration of the team, and to help new team members ramp up quickly.
Why Open Source Eco-villages – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
SUMMARY – WHY OPEN SOURCE ECO-VILLAGES ARE IMPORTANT
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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Replicable Sustainable Community Models – One Community Weekly Progress Update #364
Replicable sustainable community models can address sustainability, health, food insecurity, homelessness, and more. Here’s One Community’s update marking 7 years of weekly progress reports covering our process of creating all the necessary open source and free-shared components to build them. These open source components include sustainable and DIY-replicable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, supporting replicable sustainable community models. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of how replicable sustainable community models are created and showcase what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that supports replicable sustainable community models. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that supports replicable sustainable community models. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to replicable sustainable community models, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
Click on each icon to be taken to the corresponding Highest Good hub page.
One Community’s physical location will forward this movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the March 15th, 2020 edition (#364) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments in replicable sustainable community models:
Replicable Sustainable Community Models
One Community Progress Update #364
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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is is designing replicable sustainable community models through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we finished test assembly and review of the storage unit instructions, night stand instructions, and started work on the benches and table review. You can see some of this work in progress below.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter), also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 18 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Earthbag Village walkthrough, adding stairs to the Net Zero bathrooms, additional plan details, more people, and producing the first actual video walkthrough. You can see some of the screenshots from the new walkthrough here.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Earthbag Village Walkthrough ” Click for Page
Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 80th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was further integration of parts updates and working on various measurement updates and the addition of an opening to access the switches and plugins from the bed. We’d say these assembly instructions are still about 94% complete.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Murphy Bed Instructions – Click for Page
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #181 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the cutout for the ground that will surround the structure, adding irregularity to it to make it look more natural, and beginning to test our first textures. You can see pictures of these updates below.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs ” Click for Page
DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is is designing replicable sustainable community models through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 4th week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka worked on the final drafting of the list of 5 flooring companies. This included grammatical updates and edits to try and make the process flow of information uniform across all 5 companies. Based on the benchmarking, a new company was added as a replacement. She worked on researching that company to write about its key features, pros, and cons. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Worked on the Final Drafting of the List of 5 Flooring Companies – Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is is designing replicable sustainable community models through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. This week we continued review and reformatting of the complete document, did further research to confirm all the details, and rewrote the Why Chickens section to reflect the updates to the rest of the doc and included the latest details researched. You can see some of this work here.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Behind-the-scenes Chicken Google Doc – Click for Page
And the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was completing the first draft of the Energy Infrastructure and beginning composition of the Housing Infrastructure. Both of these are within Step 2 (Assess Site through observation and research) of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Open Source Permaculture Design ” Click for Page
This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 16th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he finalized the topo model in multiple formats including SketchUp format, DXF, and DWG, reflected the satellite imagery onto the topography for realistic visualization, started designing and modeling water supply network, and finished the piping layout for the Aquapini structure. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 93% complete.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering ” Click to Visit
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 15th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali worked on 2D transient simulations of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in a climate like ours.
Based on the evaluated base conditions, air flow simulations have been started to obtain the average temperature of the greenhouse for July for both with and without climate pipe cases, to investigate the design of the pipes. The effect of using soil between the pipes is modeled by creating the geometry of the pipes inside the soil and adding the extended soil geometry along with the inserted insulations.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is is designing replicable sustainable community models through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 68th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room, a room focused on the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 3rd round of object and people additions, adding posters and additional details to the people to bring to room to about 50% complete.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom ” Click for Page
HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is is designing replicable sustainable community models through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week the core team updated the One Community Agreement and our 2nd interview structure to improve the flow and remove redundancy. We also reviewed and updated the Satellite Member Invitation page and several other pages related to the application process. All of the changes are to simplify the application process and our message.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Updated the One Community Agreement – Click for Page
Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao added more elements to the timelog page. He added a progress bar which would change color as the total effort grows. He also added an effort statistics bar (tangible / intangible / total effort) and a project filter. And he implemented the “search by date range” tab which enables a more flexible search on time entries. You can see some of this work below.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
Henry Ng (React Developer) also completed his 7th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry wrapped up some source code, fixed bugs in the Projects functionality to make sure, designed pages to go to the WBS for each project, and designed WBS objects for the MongoDB based on the WBS.xlxs files. He also added a feature to load <file>.csv instead of <file>.xlxs to the web because .xlxs has style data which destroys the structure of the data. You can see some of this work below.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 6th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon was able to discuss with teammates and resolved concerns on changes made for unit testing the Login component. The Final Draft for HGN Unit Testing Best Practice was started and research on how to document a web application and best practices was conducted. The React Styleguidist methodology was chosen and a style guide example was begun. Screenshots of some of this work are below.
Replicable Sustainable Community Models – Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page
SUMMARY – REPLICABLE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY MODELS
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of biohacking our future, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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Architects of Sustainability’s Future – One Community Weekly Progress Update #363
We are the architects of sustainability’s future. Whether we are active or passive in the process, we are still creating it ” together. One Community chooses to be active in the process and we’re creating open source and free-shared plans, tools, and tutorials for others who want to be active too. These resources cover sustainable approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, supporting the architects of sustainability’s future. 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. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of how we can support architects of sustainability’s future.
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, supporting the creation of a blueprint for a world that works for everyone. 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, supporting the architects of sustainability’s future. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS – ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that supports the architects of sustainability’s future. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to the architects of sustainability’s future, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS – ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, thus supporting the architects of sustainability’s future. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
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 March 8th, 2020 edition (#363) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, supporting the architects of sustainability’s future:
Architects of Sustainability’s Future
One Community Progress Update #363
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ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we created the SketchUp parts for storage, built the side shelving, built the back step shelving, built the loft steps shelving, built the shelf drawers, and made suggestions about corrections to the drawer misalignments. You can see some of this work in progress below.
Continued Review of the Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter), also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 17 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Earthbag Village walkthrough by removing elements requested through feedback and adding in plants. You can see some of the initial screenshots of this work here.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future ” Click for Page
Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) also completed his 79th week developing the Murphy bed instructions. This week he focused on suggested updates to the parts lists and drawing the related pictures. We’d say these assembly instructions are now about 94% complete.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future – Murphy Bed Parts Lists – Click for Page
And Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #180 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was finishing the sectional door entry from the spa area, fixing window details for the bedroom domes, and starting to add the ground that will surround the structure. You can see pictures of these updates below.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future – Earthbag Village 4-dome Cluster Designs – Click for Page
ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:
- Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub
This week the core team worked with the updated topo maps and shadow studies to identify the best location for our 500,000 square foot solar farm. The top-left image below shows 20,000 sq. ft squares of solar panels and the shadows at both 8:30 AM and 5 PM on 12-21. No shadows are on the solar farm placement area at these times, which is the morning and evening on the shortest day of the year.
Worked With the Updated Topo Maps and Shadow Studies – Click for City Center
And Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research for all the City Center lighting. What you see below is all the bulbs researched and some added to the new format. With this, we’d say we are now about 89% complete with the lighting selection details.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future – All the City Center Lighting – Click for Page
ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team continued developing the open source permaculture design content. This week’s focus was completing the Food Infrastructure component within Step 2 (Assess Site through observation and research) of the Permaculture Design Case Study. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work below.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future – Open Source Permaculture Design Content – Click for Page
This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 15th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he obtained water rights maps, info, and reports for our property, identified water flow to the ponds based on the topography, remodeled property topo to include existing structures and water rights, updated existing pond locations, and relocated the aquapini and walipini structures based on these new details and sun studies for the property. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 92% complete.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering Details ” Click to Visit
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 14th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali completed the remaining months’ 2D transient simulations for evaluation of the boundary conditions in aquapinis and walipinis in West Jordan Utah. Results for June, August, September, November, and December were obtained using the underground insulation and the extended soil geometry. Results are put side-by-side for better comparison.
Architects of Sustainability’s Future – Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page
ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week the core team finished updating the Ultimate Classroom open source hub. We created imagery and added links to the open source files, added outlines of the videos we’ll be adding later, did a final editing review, and added a new FAQ section. This page is now 100% complete.
Finished Updating the Ultimate Classroom Open Source Hub ” Click for Page
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 67th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued work on the yellow room. This room focuses on the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s 2nd round of object and people additions and we’d say the room is about 30% complete.
Continued Work on the Yellow Room in the Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page
ARCHITECTS OF SUSTAINABILITY’S FUTURE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is helping the architects of sustainability’s future through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:
- Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
- Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
- Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
- Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network
This week the core team finished a final review and editing update of all the existing business plan pages. You can see some of this work here and the business plan is now complete other than updates to the financial details.
Finished a Final Review and Editing Update of All the Existing Business Plan Pages – Click to Visit
This week the core team working with Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) also chose and tested the color schemes for the mobile version of the Highest Good Network software.
Chose and Tested the Color Schemes for the Mobile Version of the Highest Good Network Software
Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) reviewed all our ad campaign data and found a couple that hadn’t been launched yet, launched those, ran reports showing a 20% increase in our monthly page views, and completed more keyword research that he used to add to the donation campaign related to the new donations campaign page.
Reviewed All Our Ad Campaign Data – Click for Donations Page
Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao implemented different edit/delete/add permission settings for administrators/volunteers on same-day/other-day tangible/intangible entries. He also implemented edit and delete entry functions, during which he created Redux actions for them and refactored the code. All the Redux actions for time entries are finished. He also fixed the issues with Header name display and Timelog page update. You can see some of this work below.
Implemented Edit/delete/add Permission Settings for Administrators/volunteers ” Click for Page
And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 5th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon was able to set up a unit test for the Login component. The primary challenge was determining how to disconnect the component from the Redux store. As mentioned in last week’s summary, our testing will be focused on the individual component and not how it is connected to the app. Screenshots of notes related to all of this are below.
Set Up a Unit Test for the Login Component – Click for Highest Good Network Page
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Blueprint for a World That Works for Everyone – One Community Weekly Progress Update #362
Let’s create a blueprint for a world that works for everyone. Let’s make it open source and free-shared, have it include sustainable approaches for food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, and global stewardship practices, and let’s demonstrate it as easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough to spread on it’s own. Doing this, we can create a sustainable world within our lifetime.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone. 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. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of how we can we can create a blueprint for a world that works for everyone and showcase what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs, supporting the creation of a blueprint for a world that works for everyone. 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, supporting the blueprint for a world that works for everyone. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS – BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that supports creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS – BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, thus creating a blueprint for a word that works for everyone. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world.
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 March 1st, 2020 edition (#362) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, supporting a blueprint for a world that works for everyone:
Blueprint for a World That Works for Everyone
One Community Progress Update #362
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BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was updating the Blue electrical circuit lines to match the dome structure and generating new render images for that circuit, updating dimensions for parts W28, W31, W22, W13, W32, W27, W30, and W24 and placing an access opening from the bed side to the outlets, identifying images with dimensions for bolts placements in the floor to mount the wall on, and researching and providing links for the hinges and magnets. You can see some of this work in progress below.
Blueprint For a World That Works For Everyone – Murphy Bed Instructions ” Click for Page
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter), also continued working on the Earthbag Village and completed week 16 as a volunteer designer with our team. This week’s focus was continuing work on the Earthbag Village walkthrough. You can see some of the initial screenshots of this work here.
Blueprint For a World That Works For Everyone – Earthbag Village Walkthrough – Click for Page
BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone 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 Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 3rd week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka cross checked claims by companies, on products, restructured text, and began a new section on the types of sustainable flooring. She also established a benchmarking system using color coding for the companies researched so far and ranked 5 of them. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
blueprint for a world that works for everyone – Most Sustainable Building Materials ” Click for Page
And Anvita Kumari Pandey (Civil Engineer) continued research for all the City Center lighting. This week she researched all the lights shown on the left below. Next she’ll add pictures and convert them to match the formatting on the right below. With this, we’d say we are now about 87% complete with the lighting selection details.
Blueprint for a world that works for everyone – City Center Lighting – Click for Duplicable City Center
BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 14th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he projected existing water sources and aquapini and walipini models into the property model, created the initial solar farm model for the sun study and rainwater harvesting purposes, conducted the sun study and created an animated clip based on actual date and location, and created a simple guideline for using free QGIS software for topo map creation. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 91% complete.
Blueprint for a world that works for everyone – Aquapini/Walipini Civil Engineering “ Click to Visit
Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 13th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued to add results for more months throughout the year for the 2D transient model of the aquapini and walipinis. The results for February, March, and May were obtained using the underground insulation and extended soil geometry. Also, more work was done on the climate battery model considering the underground insulation and obtained boundary conditions.
Analysis shown below include steady state results for each month, temperature variations for the 15th day of each month, wind variations on the 15th day of each month, solar Energy variations in 15th day of each month, the result for temperature variations of the inside and outside air for three days of each month, and the temperature contours of the greenhouse during different times of the day.
Blueprint for a world that works for everyone – Aquapini/walipini Structures ” Click for Page
BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished.
With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week the core team began updating the Ultimate Classroom open source hub. We created new social media imagery, added missing imagery, and updated all the text and formatting so the new designs are at the top and the old designs are featured at the bottom. You can see some of this work here and we’d say we are 90% complete with the update and redesign of this page.
Blueprint for a world that works for everyone – Open Source Hub – Click for Page
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 66th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished revisions and additions to the red room representing health, mindfulness, and music. You can see the final render here and on the website.
Red Room Representing Health, Mindfulness, and Music – Click for Ultimate Classroom
Dan also began work on the Ultimate Classroom yellow room. This room focuses on the subject of Math and the character traits of peaceful leadership, sharing, self esteem, respect for others, self-control, self-discipline, calmness, and initiative. What you see here is Dan’s first round of object and people additions and we’d say the room is about 15% complete.
Began Adding People and Objects to Ultimate Classroom Yellow Room – Click for Page
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also completed his 16th week as a member of the team and working on the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian created the final AutoCAD section shown here.
Blueprint For a World That Works For Everyone – Final AutoCAD Section of the Ultimate Classroom
BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone 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 Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao completed several visual design sketches for the TimeEntry component using Sketch App. He implemented one of them with code using Reactstrap and CSS. He also resolved a critical issue regarding expired token handling. You can see some of this work below.
Blueprint for a world that works for everyone: TimeEntry Component Using Sketch App – Click for Page
Siddharth Gore  Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 7th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the add a user to a project and remove user from a project functionality. He also worked on setting up jest and enzyme so that writing snapshot and events simulation tests could be written easily and produced an initial color test for the app. You can see some of this work here.
Add a User to a Project and Remove User From a Project Functionality ” Click for Page
And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 4th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon attempted to get a better understanding of why current test cases for Login functionality were failing. The first approach was to download and reference Create React App. Unfortunately running the test command for Create React App resulted in some errors. It was not worth looking further into because it did not relate to the errors in the HGN app.
After researching and reading several articles on testing components connected to a Redux store, it was suggested that the redux-mock-store strategy was a viable option. This methodology however complicates the testing process, in turn making it an integration test. To stay in alignment with unit testing, it was suggested that we disconnect the component from the store to test individually. Screenshots of notes related to all of this are below.
Blueprint For a World That Works For Everyone – Continued Work on the Highest Good Network
SUMMARY – BLUEPRINT FOR A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE
One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, and support the process of creating a blueprint for a world that works for everyone, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models.
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One Community Welcomes Tengxiao Wang to the Software Development Team!
One Community welcomes Tengxiao Wang to the Software Development Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!
Tengxiao Wang received his B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University, Beijing, China and his M.S. in Data Informatics from University of Southern California. He is enthusiastic about web development and big data technologies and has hands-on experience with React, Redux, Node.js, Apache Spark, SQL and NoSQL databases. Before joining One Community, he worked as a contractor at EMCORE Corp., developing machine learning systems and maintaining a project management web app. Tengxiao has been concerned about sustainability issues since childhood. As a volunteer at One Community, he is helping develop the React.js version of the Highest Good Network software. Apart from work, Tengxiao is a music lover and a cat lover and interested in diverse topics ranging from politics to traveling.
WELCOME TO THE TEAM TENGXIAO!
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Practical Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #361
We think practical sustainability means sustainability that creates a better world for all people and life that share it. We think it should also contribute to happier and healthier people living within these environments. A living model like this will spread on its own if demonstrated to be easy enough, affordable enough, and attractive enough. One Community calls living models like this living for “The Highest Good of All” and we’re designing, open sourcing and free sharing everything needed to construct and replicate them.
- Here’s our project overview
- Here’s our world-change methodology
- Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
- Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs
WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING
One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together, supporting Practical Sustainability. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.
Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example of practical sustainability and showcase what is possible.
Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs that supports practical sustainability. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.
BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY
One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living.
WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS
The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent that supports practical sustainability. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.
The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive.
Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will contribute to practical sustainability, positively affecting millions while inspiring millions more. For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.
OUR MAIN OPEN SOURCE HUBS
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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 February 23rd, 2020 edition (#361) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments, supporting practical sustainability:
Practical Sustainability
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PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating practical sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:
- Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
- Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
- Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub
This week the core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was updating the position of the light openings so they don’t conflict with the roof beams, combining the dome, furniture, and electrical to do renders, finding and adding a kneeling worker person, updating the Green electrical circuit to match dome structure, and starting to update the Blue circuit to match the Dome and Murphy Bed structure. You can see some of this work in progress below.
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The core team also created the initial formatting, table of contents, and social media and header imagery for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options open source hub. You can see this below.
Practical Sustainability – Initial Formatting, Table of Contents, and Social Media and Header Imagery
Oluyomi “Yomi” Sanyaolu (Technical Writer and Researcher) completing his 18th week with the team and continued research for the Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options tutorial. This week Oluyomi worked on the paper and styrofoam recycling methodologies. His research indicated that used paper can be re-used in multiple ways that include compost and packaging; the benefits of recycling/re-using include reduced energy and water usage.
The recycling process summarized is washing the shredded waste paper with warm water and then filtering it with a handmade mesh; the final step is to dry it on a towel for a day and the whole process should cost less than $100. For styrofoam, there is a supplier of a styrofoam shredder and size separators which will cost $6,000 and $1,500 respectively. The styrofoam is shredded into pellet-shaped parts and can be used for insulation and cement mixing. See below for some of this behind-the-scenes work in progress.
Practical Sustainability – Best Small and Large-scale Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options
PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating practical sustainability 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 Radhieka Nagpal (Volunteer Researcher) completed her 2nd week researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials: Carpet, Flooring, Wood, Etc. This week Radhieka continued research and formalized information about the 4 most sustainable flooring companies she has found. She also began an outline on some of the types of sustainable flooring options available with key features and merits about each option. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.
Practical Sustainability – Researching the Most Sustainable Building Materials
PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating practical sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:
- Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
- See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA
This week the core team continued working on our behind-the-scenes chicken Google Doc. This week we researched and wrote content for the “Chickens and Permaculture” section. This included details for chicken tractors. You can see some of this work here.
Researched and Wrote Content for the “Chickens and Permaculture” Section – Click for Chickens Page
This week Mohammad Almuzaial (Civil and Construction Engineer) continued with his 13th week helping with the Aquapini/Walipini civil engineering details. This week he updated the water storage calculation spreadsheet to include a multiple-design-options calculation table for the on-site supply pond, calculation table for any additional cylindrical pond, an existing pond expansion requirement calculation table, and a general calculation spreadsheet for cylindrical shape water storage.
He also resized the supply pond to 50′ diameter and 9′ deep with 15,904 CF storage capacity, remodeled the topography 3D model and added multiple map layers to identify damming possibilities for 53,000 Sf, projected natural water sources on the 3D topography model, and calculated the potential expansion for the existing pond. You can see some of this work work-in-progress here and we’d say this brings this part of this component to 90% complete.
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Ali Ghahremannezhad (Mechanical Engineer) additionally continued with his 12th week as a member of the team and working on the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Ali continued working on a 2D transient simulation of the aquapini and walipinis to account for the daily air temperature and solar heat variations for a greenhouse in West Jordan ” Utah. Results for the April and October are added using the underground insulation and the extended ground geometry. Also, Ali worked on the climate battery model considering the underground insulation and current boundary conditions. You can see some of this behind-the-scenes work here.
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PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating practical sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students. This component of One Community is about 95% complete with only the Open Source School Licensing and Ultimate Classroom construction and assembly details remaining to be finished. With over 8 years of work invested in the process, the sections below are all complete until we move onto the property and continue the development and open sourcing process with teachers and students – a development process that is built directly into the structure of the education program and everything else we’re creating too:
- Program Overview: Education Open Source Hub
- How the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
- Lesson Plans for Life – Lesson Plans How-to
- Foundations of Outstanding Leaders, Teachers, and Communicators
- Curriculum for Life
- Teaching Strategies for Life
- Learning Tools and Toys for Life
- Evaluation and Evolution
This week the core team added audio and visual effects to the Ultimate Classroom video below and added it to the webpage.
Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 65th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he continued with his revisions and additions to the red room representing health, mindfulness, and music. What you see here is his second round of revisions and additions that included adding people, more instruments, and various objects like the flooring, Swiss balls, etc.
Added People, More Instruments, and Various Objects to the Red Room – Click for Ultimate Classroom
Ziqian Zheng (Architectural Designer and Drafter) also completed his 15th week as a member of the team and working on the Ultimate Classroom. This week Ziqian created the AutoCAD sections, roof plan and floor plan for this structure. One more section is still needed and then the plans will be ready for an engineer to take over on them.
Created the AutoCAD Sections, Roof Plan and Floor Plan For Ultimate Classroom – Click for Page
PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS
One Community is demonstrating practical sustainability 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 continued updating pages related to the One Community Pioneer Member Invitation page. This week we added an FAQ and updated the process overview page and progress page. You can see some of this below.
Added an FAQ and Updated the Process Overview Page and Progress Page – Click for Page
The core team also finished the Managing Stakeholders enclosure of our business plan. The business plan is linked to from our Executive Summary page and the Managing Stakeholders enclosure explains who will be responsible for interactions with and management of each of the stakeholders related to our project. You can see some of these new business plan details below.
Finished the Managing Stakeholders Enclosure of Our Business Plan – Click for Executive Summary
Yusuf Sulayman (Lawyer and member of the Nigerian Bar Association) helped us create our open source Joint Venture Agreement template. You can see some of this work below.
Helped Create Our Open Source Joint Venture Agreement Template – Click for Google Doc
Tengxiao Wang (Software Engineer) completed his 7th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Tengxiao continued to work on the Timelog Page. He extracted the time entry form and created a separate component. He also made it into a modal. He additionally created the TimeEntry component to display the time entry data. You can see some of the results of this work below and the visual design will be improved next week.
Practical Sustainability – Click for Highest Good Network Page
Siddharth Gore (Senior Software Engineer I) completed his 6th week as a member of the volunteer team also working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Siddharth worked on the View Project Members Functionality. Now a user can tap on a project and view a list of project members. A user can also tap on a project member to see their profile. Siddharth also added the Logout functionality and button on all the pages. He additionally updated the project dependencies to use the new react navigation APIs. You can see some of this work here.
Practical Sustainability – View Project Members Functionality – Click for Highest Good Network Page
And last but not least, Simon Xiong (Programmer) completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Simon worked on unit testing of the log-in functionality for the application. Since unit testing is done on a single component in isolation, it was determined that Login.jsx will be the component for unit testing with test cases with email, password and submit. There was a bug which was causing syntax issues with jsx files. It was determined that the Language mode in VSCode needed to be configured to JavaScript React and not Javascript(Babel) to fix this problem. You can see Simon’s updates to the HGN Unit Testing Best Practice tutorial below.
Practical Sustainability – Unit Testing of Log-in Functionality for the Application – Click for Page
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