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Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions – One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

What if we were globally addressing climate change with local solutions? Would this be a better approach than the government-led approaches currently being used and promoted? One Community supports doing both and we’re leveraging our open sourcing and free sharing philosophy to help through carbon-neutral and carbon-negative approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

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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 August 23rd, 2020 edition (#387) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week the core team continued review and development of our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content. This week’s focus was organizing headings, reviewing articles and adding info to the soils testing section. We also researched, created the narrative, and added photos to a new section called Compaction of Construction Project Site and added more resources.

Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Focused on Organizing Headings, Reviewing Articles and Adding Info to the Soils Testing Section

he core team continued with what we hope will be the 2nd-to-final review of the Murphy bed instructions. This week we addressed a diversity of comments and questions with Stacey and researched different latches for securing table/benches, designed the right angle lock, and tested all the possible latches on the 3D model as shown below.

Murphy Bed, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” 2nd-to-final Review of Murphy Bed Instructions

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #196 of Dean’s work and the focus was trying to fix issues with some trees showing up with black backgrounds or boxes around them.

This has been a multi-hour process that has yet to be successful. Now Dean is trying other workarounds, seeking to identify and remove the trees creating this problem rather than trying to fix them.

Earthbag Village 4-dome cluster designs, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Designs

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 20th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial.

This week’s focus was on editing the images of the article, finding the same image as the researchers at the best possible quality, resizing them to the standardized size of 640px wide, renaming them to onecommunity image name conventions, adding the 2 pixel black borders, caption text where needed, SEO alternative text, and making some of them click to enlarge.

Also some other web edition details and replacing rules to make things easier to complete in the visual studio code. Here are some related images of this work.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

“Best Small & Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 12th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela completed the final round of plastic recycling tutorial edits and additions.

She also made good progress making edits to her Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is also finishing compiling the lists of lightbulb products. She hopes to be completing her lightbulb tutorial this week. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Completed the Final Round of Plastic Recycling

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 4th week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis updated the Net-Zero Bathroom floor plan by rearranging the bathroom fixtures for the purpose of meeting public and ADA bathroom regulations.

He added information to the cost analysis document by researching the availability and prices of the items listed out in the materials document. He also began educating himself on the standards for our title blocks in preparation for the completion and approval of future plans. Pictures are below for this work-in-progress.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 3rd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week she addressed many comments on the development doc and really focused on seeing this part of the project more as a whole, rather than a series of separate files.

She double checked we are using the correct measurements and components, cleared up issues regarding the hinges being used on the benches and table, and focused mostly on the clothing and storage area, which she has almost completed. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Murphy bed instructions, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Final Edits and Revisions

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also completed her 2nd week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials.

This week Hannah made alterations and improvements to the dome calculations spreadsheet, read and prepared suggestions for the behind-the-scenes Dome-home Site Selection, Planning, Preparation and Maintenance, and reviewing the current behind-the-scenes Footer, Foundation and Flooring tutorial.

She also began taking notes on the Bioveda earthbag and aircrete construction videos. You can see some screenshots of this work below.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Helping Complete All Earthbag Village Tutorials

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 11th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued work on the window and door report by adding product images, refining the formatting, and reading the work over to make various edits. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Continued Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors Open Source Guide

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 6th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on research and design details for emergency lighting, related power supplies, optimum lumen levels, etc. You can see some of the results of this research below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Sprinkler & Emergency Lighting

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we continued with the building instructions for the roosting ladder, developing pages 105-111 of the complete instructions, and you can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Building Instructions for the Roosting Ladder

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 9th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week Jessica and Aly created the meals and recipes for Carrot Cabbage Slaw, Cheezy Biscuits, Simple Mashed Potatoes, Split Pea Soup, and Shepherd’s Pie, all for the vegan recipe pages. Pictures of this work are below.

Vegan recipes, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Food Plan

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 3rd week working on the updated/final designs of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week Alanis focused on two main goals.

The first one was to correct the volume, surface area and heat loss calculations to match updated geometries of the structures. The second one was to start the selection of the climate batteries optimum duct sizes using the friction loss method. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Climate Battery Design

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 9th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu modified the amphitheater to a more natural design and made an axion section cut to show the effect of the design. You can see some of this work below.

the Ultimate Classroom, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Playground and Other Details

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei combined the Ultimate Classroom’s SketchUp model and rendered an axion view to show the other half of the external design. You can see some of these contributions below.

Ultimate Classroom, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Combined the Ultimate Classroom’s Model & Rendered an Axion View

ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week the core team began updating the Consensus and Groups of 200+ content to better explain the specifics of how the process will work to be efficient and inclusive of all people with groups so large. This week we developed a mindmap showing how ideas are implemented using the large group consensus model.

We also developed a mindmap of the general explanation of the different groups within the large group consensus model. We added to the FAQs and made a simple excel sheet that calculates the number of each group that you need for this model based on the population size, then we developed a table summarizing the Who, What, Why of each group, as well as a pictorial of the model.

Lastly we brainstormed different names for the groups, to better differentiate between the Discussion Groups and Decision Groups.

Consensus and Groups of 200+, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Updating the Consensus & Groups of 200+ Content

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 29th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he was working on the final feature for the WBS: moving tasks (or drag and drop). The “drag and drop” which he developed last month has some bugs and he tried to change it to a feature that lets the user select the position of the task instead of “drag and drop”.

For each task, there is a dropdown to select the position the user wants to change. However, he couldn’t make it work this week, so he’ll continue development next week. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Worked on the Final Feature for the WBS

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 18th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to newspaper and TV outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

One Community helping page, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Promoting Our Project to Media Outlets

Wen Zhang (Software Engineer) completed her 15th week as a volunteer working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Wen has been working on the React Overlay. She did some coding experiments of different implementations, mainly for her learning experience and to satisfy her curiosity. In addition, Wen attempted to import batch data and finished a related tutorial.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 14th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Andon started off investigating an issue with the Development Environment where it didn’t run some cron jobs as the week transitioned to the next week.

He also updated the weekly summaries reports page to generate PDFs with custom names as well as improved the Weekly Summary page responsive display for better views on mobile devices. Additionally he updated the documentation for the HGN Unit Testing Guide to now include testing with React Testing Library (RTL) and Mock Service Worker (MSW).

Finally, as Andon completed the Weekly Summaries (WBS 1.6), he now turned his attention to the Leaderboard component (WBS 1.2) which has been assigned to him as the next task. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Working on the Highest Good Network Software

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 12th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEK talent team continued working on the team page functionalities.

The confirmation popup to status change and delete has been created and completed the option for adding a new team. Default sorting has been implemented in the descending order of created date, also the total team count and active team count has been added. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Continued Working on the Team Page Functions

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 10th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam began researching unit testing done in a React environment. He also completed privacy settings and the toggle switches for the user profile, as well as fixed a bug dealing with viewing user profiles without privacy settings instantiated.

Adam also began working on the user profile, teams and projects component. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Researching Unit Testing in a React Environment

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 7th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi added blue square functionality in the time entry page. If users edit a time entry more than 5 times (5 is the total time that users can edit the form even when they refresh the website), a blue square will be issued. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Added Blue Square Function in Time Entry Page

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 3rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry continued work on task WBS 2.2.1. This week, Jerry was able to fetch all necessary data from the backend.

Currently, the component is able to display all teams the user is managing, the members belonging to each team, as well as each member’s total hours. Jerry will spend further effort on the visual design of the component and having current week’s hours displayed for all members. Pictures of some of this are below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Continued Work on Task Wbs 2.2.1.

Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) completed her 2nd week helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began working on organizing the different plans and insurance companies available to choose from. She has chosen ten insurance companies to pick from and has gathered information on their contact info, reviews, and the types of plans offered.

For each company, she has listed several different plans to choose from, what those plans offer, and how they are different from each other. You can see some of this work below.

One Community's insurance options, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Began Working on Organizing the Different Plans and Insurance Companies Available to Choose From

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Chris looked into the Unit Testing being done on the HGN project.

After splitting up the work with Jun and Jaspal he got the Login.page.test.js file to work, added a test for a snapshot of Dashboard, and created a mock state file with code that can render a Redux app via React Testing Library. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Unit Testing Being Done on the HGN Project

Jaspal Bainiwal (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jaspal set up the unit testing environment on his local machine. He then began unit testing his first component, the Memberships.

As his first week there were struggles to getting familiar with the frameworks and the codebase of HGN. As a result Jaspal completed one component unit testing in full coverage. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Set Up the Unit Testing Environment

Jun Hao (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Jun spent some time setting up the development environment, playing with the HGN web app, and understanding the behavior of each component.

Chris, Jaspal, and Jun had a meeting to divide the unit testing work, and Jun decided to take charge of Reports, Timelog, UpdatePassword, UserManagement, UserProfile, WeeklySummaries, and WeeklySummary components. This week, Jun mainly worked on understanding the detailed logic of the Timelog component and its sub-components.

He finished the unit tests for DeleteModal, TimeEntry, and TimelogNavbar. He also finished some reusable helper functions for helping render components that require react-router and redux-store. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions, One Community Weekly Progress Update #387

Addressing Climate Change With Local Solutions ” Joined the Team and Worked on the HGN Software

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One Community Welcomes Shuwei Liu to the Design Team!

One Community welcomes Shuwei Liu to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Shuwei earned her master’s degree in landscape architecture and Urbanism from University of Southern California and B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. She also had a full-year internship experience with a multidisciplinary firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts working on a wide range of projects including a school campus, commercial plaza and residential garden. Through all her professional learning and internship experience, Shuwei has become passionate about changing the environment and “user” experience through landscape design. She likes to learn new things and meet new people to continue expanding her professional skill and life experience. As a member of the One Community team, Shuwei is helping with developing the external learning area and playground for the Ultimate Classroom project.

 

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One Community Welcomes Xiaolu Song to the Design Team!

One Community welcomes Xiaolu Song to the Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!


Xiaolu earned her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from USC in May 2020 and has 3 months of internship experience covering residential and commercial projects in Austin, Texas. She is a dynamic and motivated professional with the skills to work cooperatively as well as individually. She believes excellent landscape design projects will find the real value, meaning, and possibility in the places people encounter and occupy. As a member of the One Community team, Xiaolu is helping develop the Ultimate Classroom landscaping.

 

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Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative – One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Has the time come for creating a new global eco-cooperative? Are we ready to work together globally to help humanity become a sustainable civilization? One Community thinks the answer to both these questions is a resounding ‘YES!’ and we are creating the open source and free-shared plans necessary to achieve this.

Creating a New Global Eco Cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of creating a new global eco-cooperative as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 16th, 2020 edition (#386) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week the core team finished our detailed review and content additions for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added the final case study exams, formatted the Google Doc so it is ready for publication, and began the process of constructing the page.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

Finished Detailed Review and Content Additions for Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance Page

The core team also reviewed and integrated into our behind-the-scenes Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation content a diversity of untitled resources from previous site selection research and, after consulting MEGA, Missoula P.E., restructured the steps for Site Prep and began rewriting that as a more comprehensive approach. You can see some screenshots of this work-in-progress below.

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Reviewed and Integrated a Diversity of Untitled Resources Into Our Sustainable Site Selection, Planning, and Preparation Content

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 19th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro continued developing the “Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial.

He continued adding content to the page and also worked on writing software tools for replacing rules to identify small but time-consuming website code addition tasks like adding a line break before every header. This was done with “visual studio code” and a find-and-replace plugin that uses regex code to write down each replacement rule.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” Tutorial

Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 3rd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis completed the first draft of the AutoCAD floor plan of the Net-Zero Bathroom and started working on elevation views of the front of the structure in AutoCAD and using the Solidworks model and AutoCAD floor plan in conjunction to accurately scale the bathroom.

Section views A, B, and C on the floor plan were drawn on AutoCAD using the same method used to construct the elevation plan. Pictures are below for this work-in-progress.

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Continued Working on the Net-zero Bathroom Component

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also completed her 2nd week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions. This week’s focus was on the nightstands. She integrated all the notes that were requested, made layout improvements, further identified missing steps and renders, and submitted the Nightstands Working File 8-5-20.pdf for review.

She also updated the component Tally Sheet screw count for this group and started working on the Clothing & Storage group by applying the global changes to that layout and simplifying the instructions as needed. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed

Hannah Copeman (Structural Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week helping complete all the Earthbag Village tutorials. This week Hannah completed a thorough review to finalize the Earthbag Engineering Page, reviewed and made revisions to the related Earthbag Engineering loading spreadsheets, and reviewed the dome calculation spreadsheets for alterations and improvements.

Earthbag Village tutorials, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Joined the Team & Began Helping Complete All the Tutorials

CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major, Researcher) completed his 10th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian finished a draft of products ranked with companies and began ranking best products overall. He also made other edits, most notably altering the product list for Ply Gem.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) also completed his 5th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on more code and product research to choose the correct Exit Lighting. You can see some of the results of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

Focused on More Code & Product Research to Choose the Correct Exit Lighting

CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week the core team continued working on the open source chicken coop step-by-step building instructions on our behind-the-scenes google doc. This week we finished the instructions for removable trays and started working on roosting bars,  these changes are on pages 101-106 and you can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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Finished the Instructions for Removable Trays and Started Working on Roosting Bars

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 9th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week Jessica and Aly created vegan recipes for Savory Biscuits, Morracan Style Soup, Simple Curry, and Dilly Cabbage. You can see these here.

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Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the updated/final designs of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. This week she focused on calculating the thermal requirements the climate batteries would have to provide for the Walipini 3.

She also started calculating the desired airflow characteristics and making the analysis for the fan selection. You can see some of this work below.

climate batteries for the Aquapini:Walipini structures, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Working on the Climate Battery Design for Aquapini

CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 8th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu further developed the SketchUp model for the amphitheater, trolley path and small town play area, music wall and play structure, and fruit garden and farm land areas. You can see some of this work below.

Ultimate Classroom, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Developed the Model of the Amphitheater & other Areas

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei further developed the SketchUp model for the farm and outdoor areas, material identity and animal farm area, swing and slide, and other play structures. You can see some of these contributions below.

The Ultimate Classroom, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Working on the Model of the Farm & Outdoor Areas

CREATING A NEW GLOBAL ECO-COOPERATIVE – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 28th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week he updated the “adding links” feature, so users can add, edit, and remove links for a task. He also designed a “project users” feature to “add all” members to a project. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative, One Community Weekly Progress Update #386

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Updated the “Adding Links” Feature, Users Can Modify Links

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 17th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing. This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists.

You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

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Promoting Our Project and the One Community Helping Page to Media Outlets and Philanthropists

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 11th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team worked on the Team page, eslint correction and ember app migration to Azure – which is still giving us challenges.

The teams list page is now done and lists all teams and status. A search box also has been added to search teams based on name. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Worked on Team Page, Correction & Ember App Migration

Adam Capdevill (Software Engineer) completed his 9th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam reviewed the majority of Andon’s summary submission feature and submitted comments for peer review before approving the pull request.

He then shifted his attention back to developing his own module, working on privacy toggling, displaying teams & projects, and overall refactoring. Adam ended the week collaborating with Andon to wrap up his code review and submitted his pull request. You can see pictures of some of this behind-the-scenes work below.

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Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Reviewed the Majority of Andon’s Summary Submission

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 6th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi checked the recognition when people just paste a link into notes. She fixed a bug where the time entry form was cleared after first time edit. Also, she added timer editing-tracking functionality to count and save edit times in MongoDB.

Additionally, she implemented different notification popups when people edit their timer the first 3 times, fourth time, and fifth time. After people edit the time entry form and close the notification, data time-edit changes are now saved. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Continued Working on the HGN Software

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) also completed his 2nd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry made tangible progress with his task of WBS 2.2.1: Create the ability to easily see each Team Member’s weekly hours committed and hours completed for the week. We are now able to fetch all of the teams the current user is managing as well as the members of each team.

Additionally, we fetch the time entries of each user. In the next week, Jerry will create basic components to display this information and will integrate with other necessary components from other development members. Pictures of some of this are below.

Highest Good Network software, Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative

Creating a New Global Eco-cooperative ” Made Tangible Progress with the WBS 2.2.1 Task

WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

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

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

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

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All – One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global collaboration for The Highest Good of All can create a sustainable world. Working together, we can simultaneously address the greatest challenges of this generation and the next while improving global happiness and living standards.

One Community is supporting this through Highest Good tools, tutorials, and resources covering sustainable food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economic design, social architecture, fulfilled living, global stewardship practices, and more.

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

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One Community’s physical location will forward the movement of global collaboration for the highest good of all as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 9th, 2020 edition (#385) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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One Community Progress Update #385

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GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL = HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

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This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we reformatted and further added to the hydropower details. We also added example scenarios for sites without natural streams or rivers.  Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 90% complete.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Review of Research Completed on Hydropower

The core team also updated the formatting of the Loft Engineering page in preparation for a new engineer who will be double checking all those details.

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Updated Formatting of the Loft Engineering Page

The core team also finished formatting and addition of the content to the Open Source Sustainable Parking Lot guide. This completes addition of all the research we’ve done so far for this page. 

Parking Lot Guide, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Formatting & Adding Content to the Open Source

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #195 of Dean’s work and the focus continues to be the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic. The most recent pictures are below.

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Adding Trees and Made the Textures Look Realistic

Alvaro Hernández (Open Source Tech Consultant, Developer) completed his 18th week as a member of the team. This week Alvaro focused on the â€œBest Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options” tutorial, focusing on the formatting, text editing, images and table parts of the article. You can see some screenshots of Alvaro’s work below. 

Best Small and Large scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

“Best Small and Large-scale Community Clothing Recycling, Reuse, and Repurposing Options”

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 13th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini worked on Polished Concrete Flooring research, editing the Google Doc for site selection, and she completed adding all the Materials in the Google Doc as per the Master Google Sheet.

She also started the process of adding tools. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 8th and final week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi formatted her research and integrated requested edits after a detailed review by the core team.

This is in preparation to pass this research along to a new researcher and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 80% complete.

Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Formatted Her Research and Integrated Requested Edits After a Detailed Review by the Core Team

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis checked the water flow in the water storage system for the Net-Zero Bathroom, being sure that every tank would be in sync and checked the fail safe system. He designed and installed windows in the Solidworks file of the bathroom, meeting the design criteria that included natural lighting and ventilation. He also added urinals and the majority of the water barrel support structure to the AutoCAD floor plan. Pictures are below for this work. 

Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Checked the Water Flow in the Water Storage System for the Net-zero Bathroom

Stacey Maillet (Graphic Designer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the final edits and revisions to the Murphy bed instructions.

This week Stacey corrected all updates listed in our corrections document for B&T (pages 67-76). Pending 2 issues remain for B&T assembly: point 9 on latching to wall & just a final confirm on hinge type used on this project with link for component page. She also updated all sketches to show correct hinge location, board placement and assembly.

She simplified the instructions and submitted for review all pages except B&T0&1 (cutting page) as those need additional renders and information. Stacey also reworked layout to be more understandable and clean. We plan to implement this layout on all projects throughout instructions. Pictures of some of this work are below.

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Joined the Team and Began Working on the Final Edits and Revisions to the Murphy Bed Instructions

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week the core team completed a detailed review of the Duplicable City Center video walkthrough and corrected a diversity of errors we found. You can see below this list of errors and the screen grabs associated with them.

City Center, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Completed a Detailed Review of the Video Walkthrough and Corrected a Diversity of Errors

And Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 9th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian continued work on ranking window and door products and made minor changes and additions to the company sustainability benchmarking. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Most Sustainable Windows and Doors, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Research for Sustainable Windows and Doors

Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer)  also completed his 4th week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish focused on Researching Exit Lighting datasheets and comparing with other brands. This is to understand which brand suits best. He also worked on identifying the best exit sign locations for various areas. You can see some of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Researched Exit Lighting Datasheets

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD FOR ALL – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week the core team created all the imagery needed for the open source permaculture design page.

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Created All the Imagery for the Permaculture Page

We also added two case studies, new construction content, and new FAQs to the DIY Dam Design and Construction open source hub.

DIY Dam Design and Construction, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Progress Update #385

Added Two Case Studies, New Construction Content, and New Faqs to the DIY Dam Design Page

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 8th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week Jessica and Aly created recipes for Chick’n & Rice Soup, Hummus Dressed Kale & Whitebean Salad, Fresh Salsa on Rice & Beans, Banana Bread, Lentil Meatballs on Pasta, Super Nut & Fruit Loaf, and Peanut Tofu Surprise, all for the vegan recipe pages, as you see here.

Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Food Plan

Alanis Peguero (Mechanical Engineer) also joined the team and completed her 1st week working on the design of the climate batteries for the Aquapini/Walipini structures. She started her work studying the existing research on the subject developed by other members and creating a design plan to be followed for the successful completion of each one of the climate batteries.

She also worked on the selection of the ideal burial depth for the Walipini 3 climate battery. You can see some of this work below.

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of all, Joined the Team & Worked on Climate Battery Design

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

This week Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 7th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu built the SketchUp model for half of the complete plan. You can see some of her work below.

Ultimate Classroom, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Model for the First Half of the Playground Plan

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei built the SketchUp model for the other half of the complete plan. You can see some of her contributions below.

The Ultimate Classroom, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Model for the Second Half of the Playground Plan

GLOBAL COLLABORATION FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF ALL – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 27th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry updated functions to make the app more user-friendly. The functions added included Collapse and Expand all the tasks, Go back button, Delete WBS items (also deletes all children tasks ), and Tool-tips displaying converted working hours.

He also tested again the basic functions and did more debugging. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of all, Updated functions to make the app more User friendly

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 16th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists, setting a new outreach record. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

Promoting One Community, One Community Helping Page, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Promoting Our Project to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 13th week working on the Highest Good Network software.

This week Andon completed all work related to the WeeklySummary and WeeklySummariesReport components in the frontend (HGNApp) and backend (HGNRest). Some of the refinements he did this week were to make the weekly summaries tabs display either “Last Week” or “Week Before Last” or the actual dates if the weeks the summaries are older than the 3 week period.

The summaries reports page however will only have to display the reports based on “This Week”, “Last Week” or “Week Before Last”, any older summaries outside that range will not be considered. Andon also completed the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component with over 90% code coverage.

He also prepared the weekly summaries (WBS1.6) git branches to a state free of conflicts with “development” branch where they can be submitted for review (pull request) so they can easily be merged with the “development” branch. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Completed All Work Related to the Weekly summary

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 10th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and TEK talent team were continuing with the eslint and unit test correction tasks. Also doing the task to migrate the application from surge to azure.

The Azure resources have been created and the pipeline build, but it is not completed yet as we are getting some errors. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Continued Working on the HGN Software

Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 5th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi completed the feature in 1.5.8 and uploaded the code under feature/timer branch.

She designed an attach-link notification popup page and avoided the conflicts between two notifications when input is less than 10 words and lacks a link. As a result, users can complete their inputs with enough words and link attachment following the step-by-step reminders. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Completed the Feature and Uploaded the Code

Jerry Zhang (Software Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Highest Good Network software. Jerry setup his local dev environment so he can now sign into the frontend locally, access API routes with Postman, and connect to the production MongoDB cluster with MongoDB Compass. Pictures of some of this are below.

Highest Good Network software, Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All, One Community Weekly Progress Update #385

Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Joined the Team and Worked on HGN Software

Last but not least, Noor Qureshi (Insurance Researcher) joined the team and began helping research One Community’s insurance options. This week Noor began researching the Medical Provider Network and doing research on the different types of healthcare options available.

She is working through Action Task Items 1 and 2, which includes understanding what a Medical Provider Network is and what are the steps a business must take to establish a Medical Provider Network (MPN) in California. Furthermore, she began research on different insurance options that One Community may be interested in, which includes individual and group insurance options.

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Global Collaboration for the Highest Good of All ” Joined the Team and Researched Insurance Options

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One Community Welcomes Adam Capdeville to the Software Design Team!

One Community welcomes Adam Capdeville to the Software Design Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Adam is currently attending California State University Channel Islands and will graduate December 2020 with his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, minoring in mathematics, statistics and data analytics. He is especially passionate about creating complex and compelling user interfaces. As a member of the One Community Highest Good Network team, Adam is applying this passion to help develop a seamless user interface for the new user profile page.

 

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One Community Welcomes Aly Shannon to the Highest Good Food Team!

One Community welcomes Aly Shannon to the Highest Good Food Team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

Aly is a student in Antioch University Bachelor’s Leadership for Service and Change program, creative director & co-owner of Roots of Medicine, and kitchen co-manager and secretary on the board of directors at The Artisan Wheelhouse. She is also independently studying herbalism and holistic medicine, and plant-based nutrition and sustainability. Her additional interests include multicultural studies, sculpture, writing and photography. Aly’s main goals for joining the One Community Highest Good Food team involve designing sustainable meal plans with ingredients sourced from local farms and small businesses with hopes to share the model with small groups and communities in need.

 

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One Community welcomes TEKtalent Inc. to the software design team as our newest Volunteer/Consultant!

TEKtalent Inc. is one of the leading staffing and consulting companies in Silicon Valley, California, providing quality staffing and custom programming solutions. TEKtalent has proved to be reliable in the provision of employment to those who are actively looking for work. With years of experience in the staffing industry, TEKtalent provides career opportunities and new ventures, permanent and temporary, so that the job seeker could find the job that is right for him or her. In order to meet the specific needs of employers and job seekers, they build a customized and creative staffing strategy. As a member of the One Community team, TEKtalent is helping develop the Highest Good Network software.

 

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Ethical Cooperative Replication – One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical cooperative replication is about open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed to build a global collaborative of teacher/demonstration hubs working together for The Highest Good of All. One Community will be the first of these hubs and will include open source plans and demonstrations of sustainable foodenergyhousingeducationfor-profit and non-profit economic designsocial architecturefulfilled livingglobal stewardship practices, and more.

Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

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One Community’s physical location will forward the ethical cooperative replication movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the August 2nd, 2020 edition (#384) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

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One Community Progress Update #384

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ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

Highest Good housing, cob construction, earthbag construction, straw bale construction, earthship construction, subterranean construction, sustainable homes, eco-homesOne Community is forwarding ethical cooperative replication 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:

This week the core team continued our detail review of work and research completed to date on hydropower for the open source Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance page. This week we added functionality to the hydropower potential calculator in Google Sheets to include springs and earth dams without streams feeding into them, a pipe diameter component, as well as head loss.

In the end, we found an excel sheet online that does exactly what was being created. We also continued to refine the hydropower writeup by sorting out turbine selection criteria. Pictures of some of this work are below and we’d say this research and the behind-the-scenes tutorial is now about 80% complete.

Hydro Energy Setup and Maintenance, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Review of Work and Research Completed to Date on Hydropower

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued helping with the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) 4-dome cluster designs. This week was week #194 of Dean’s work and the focus this week was the addition of more trees and plants and working with the related textures to make them look more realistic.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Added More Trees and Made the Textures Look More Realistic

Ashwini Ramesh (Civil Engineer and Project Manager) continued with her 12th week helping with the Earthbag Village cost analysis and open source tutorials. This week Ashwini continued to research Utility Excavation and Geotextile Fabrics, updating the status and Google Docs and sheets on the material pages with related details. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Helping With the Earthbag Village Cost Analysis and Tutorials

Angela Mao (Sustainability Researcher) also completed her 11th week as a member of the team. This week, Angela finished compiling a list of lightbulb products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs and Light Bulb Companies tutorial and is preparing to organize the information in a spreadsheet next week.

She also worked on editing the written section of her light bulb tutorial. In addition to this, she finished another round or edits and requested additions for her plastic recycling tutorial. The pictures below show some of this work.

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Compiling a List of Lightbulb Products for the Most Sustainable Lightbulbs Tutorial

Pallavi Samaiya (Business Technology Analyst) also continued with her 7th week conducing research for the Best Small and Large-scale Community Options for Sustainable Processing & Reuse of Non-recyclables tutorial. This week Pallavi filled in some gaps in research and completed the FAQs and Why Open Source content.

She has added a DIY for recycling disposable diapers. Below are some pictures and we’d say this brings this tutorial to about 70% complete.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Research for the Best Options for Sustainable Processing

And Jose Luis Flores (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 2nd week helping finish the Net-zero Bathroom component of the Earthbag Village. This week Jose Luis converted the list of materials for the Net-Zero Bathroom into the Dome 1 format. While formatting the collected data he also researched prices and available dimensions of the needed materials.

He gathered and recorded the dimensions and positions of the bathroom furnishing such as the toilet, sink, and urinal from the Solidworks model. After collecting the needed measurements he added the furnishing to the AutoCAD floor plan. You can see pictures of some of this work below.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Helping Finish the Net-zero Bathroom Component

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

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This week the core team continued our detailed review of the Duplicable City Center energy analysis needed for LEED Platinum certification and completion of the City Center open source HVAC design tutorial.

This week we created the initial basement wall and door strategy, adjusted sizing of radiant floors, applied the electrical equipment loads in the kitchen, and did another overview and integration of all the schedules. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Duplicable City Center energy analysis, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Detailed Review of the Duplicable City Center Energy Analysis

The core team also continued working on the Duplicable City Center structural engineering details. This week the core team adjusted the number of columns connecting the fourth level to the second and third level. We also continued performing load combination analysis to the updated integrated model.

The addition of columns reduces some of the stress and deflection of the overall structure, but the core team discovered that the third level exhibits unusual deflection in the load combo of snow, dead and live loads. Further investigation is required to fix this deflection issue and other overloaded columns between the fourth and third floor, and to test larger columns as a substitute for more columns.

You can see some of this work below.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Working on the Duplicable City Center Structural Details

Ian Coletti (Environmental Studies Major Researcher) completed his 8th week researching for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors open source guide. This week Ian completed an initial draft of all spreadsheets and an initial draft of the company sustainability rankings. He also began work on describing and ranking products. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Research for the Most Sustainable Windows and Doors

And Ashish Hirani (Fire Protection Engineer) completed his 3rd week working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design. This week Ashish adapted more drawings to the title block. You can see some of this work below.

City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting Design, Ethical Cooperative Replication

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Working on the City Center Sprinkler and Emergency Lighting

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

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This week the core team finished our research on rabbits by completing a final round of review and edits and team Q&A sessions covering the specifics of how we’ll be presenting our research on the website. This behind-the-scenes work is now complete and ready for publication.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Completed a Final Round of Review and Edits of the Rabbit Doc

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 we finished the steps for shutter installation to cover all the ventilation openings, updated all the images that showed the old ventilation shutters, and started the instructions for the manure collection trays.

You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

Chicken Coop, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Working on the Chicken Coop Step-by-step Building Instructions

Jessica Wienke (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and CEO & Co-Owner of The Artisan Wheelhouse & The Roots of Medicine) and Aly Shannon (Food & Nutrition Project Consultant and Creative Director & Co-Owner of Roots of Medicine) continued with their 7th week working on the Transition Food Self-sufficiency Plan.

This week they made recipes for Apple Cinnamon Muffins, Curry Lentil Soup, Carrot Cake Muffins, Almond Milk, and Blueberry Lemon Muffins, as you see here and all for the vegan recipe pages.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Creating Vegan Recipes for the Transition Food Plan

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

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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:

This week Dan Alleck (Designer and Illustrator) completed his 84th week helping with render additions and finishing work for the rooms in the Ultimate Classroom. This week he finished work on both the renders for the central area that will be used for theater and other events.

Final additions included more people, cords and other additions to the lighting guy on the right, boxes at the top of the pull-down security walls, and shadows. This picture is now on the Ultimate Classroom page also.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Finished Work on Render of Central Area for Theater & Other Events

Xiaolu Song (Landscape Designer) also completed her 6th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Xiaolu finished two detailed plans, the basketball court and vernal. She also researched paving materials and companies. You can see some of this work below.

The Ultimate Classroom, Ethical Cooperative Replication

Continued Working on the Playground and Other External Details of the Ultimate Classroom

Shuwei Liu (Landscape Designer) also completed her 5th week working on the playground and other external details of the Ultimate Classroom. This week Shuwei drew two sections, the micro-topo area and amphitheater area. She also researched playground equipment. You can see some of this work-in-progress below.

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Drew the Micro-topo and Amphitheater Area, and Researched Playground Equipment

ETHICAL COOPERATIVE REPLICATION – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

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This week Jin Hua (Web Marketer and Graphic Designer) created responsive ad text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign and launched it, added account-wide structured snippet to the ads, reviewed & implemented multiple suggestions to expand responsive ads (97.3% optimization score), and created responsive ads for our wind energy page.

He also compared last week’s automated bidding vs without. If you look at the totals, clicks have increased by 25%, a very good sign! This marketing is part of a grant our nonprofit has received.

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Created Responsive Ad Text for the Water Saving Faucets Campaign & Launched

Henry Nguyen (React Developer) completed his 26th week with the team and working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Henry fixed the total hours bug with a function to test all the logics and fix all of them every time the user presses the refresh button or F5.

He also added a reset button for the task entry popup and made it so clicking names will open a person’s profile. And he updated the function to assign users for the tasks, so now we can add, remove and search for the users faster than before. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Fixed the Total Hours Bug With a Function to Test All the Logics

Ross Edwards (Chief Imagination Officer, G3) completed his 15th week helping promote One Community. Ross is someone who found our project, loved what we are doing, and offered to just help contact people he (and we) thought might be interested in what we’re doing.

This week he continued to promote our project and the One Community helping page to media outlets and philanthropists. You can see below this last week’s list of who he contacted and the press release he is sharing.

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Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Promoting Our Project & the One Community Page to Media Outlets

Andon Ignatov (Full-stack Developer) completed his 12th week working on the Highest Good Network software.

This week Andon did some refactoring and code improvements in the WeeklySummaries component, added things like prop-types validation for the WeeklySummary, WeeklySummariesReport and related components and a new tooltip for the weekly summaries tabs explaining what “Last Week” and “Week Before Last” mean in terms of calendar week vs last time a summary was submitted.

He also did the testing suites for the WeeklySummary component and redux related functions. You can see screenshots of some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Refactoring & Code Improvements in the Weekly Summaries

TEKtalent Inc. (a custom programming solutions company) also continued with their 9th week helping with the Highest Good Network software. This week Nithesh and the TEKtalent team completed the changes suggested for the reset password validations and messages. They also started the cleaning up activities of the react code base by correcting the lint errors.

The lint configuration has been completed and the existing error corrections are in progress. The completed lint corrections so far are all js files and started the same for jsx files. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Completed the Changes Suggested for the Reset Password Validations and Messages

Adam Capdeville (Software Engineer) completed his 8th week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Adam focused on researching methods of implementing user projects, teams and total worked hours.

After Adam had a video conference call with Nithesh, he pivoted from working on the users projects, teams and hours to further developing the users profile responsive design. Adam’s pivot was due to a few variables that are currently relying on Nithesh’s module. You can see some of Adam’s behind-the-scenes work below.

Highest Good Network software, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Researched Methods of Implementing User Projects, Teams and Total Worked Hours

And Yiqi Feng (Software Engineer) continued with her 4th week as a member of the Highest Good Network software team. This week Yiqi refactored the timer component. She added modals for the not-enough-words notification popup and designed the popup page. She completed the function in 1.5.9 under both Add and Edit mode.

She also began work on the attach-link notification popup. You can see some of this work below.

Highest Good Network software, Ethical Cooperative Replication, One Community Weekly Progress Update #384

Ethical Cooperative Replication ” Refactored the Timer Component of the HGN Software

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