Hpmmmmm Estuary Series

Beneficial EM-1 Mud Balls that help start to restore waterways.

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Clearing Phragmites for the new Victory Farm, raised food farm beds in Rockaway.

Oyster cages at LESEC

Kd tossing baseball mud balls at Figment

Kid tossing baseball mud balls at Figment

EV School Earth Day Mudballs 2018

Parsons Sustainable Systems Teachers Watershed Class making mud balls

Dyeing fabric with plants and flowers at El Jardin Del Paraso Community Garden

Dyeing fabric with plants and flowers at El Jardin Del Paraiso Community Garden

Hair waste in Hemp tube installed with Oyster mushrooms to remediate oil from surface. Paul Stamets

Hair waste in Hemp tube installed with Oyster mushrooms to remediate oil from surface by Paul Stamets

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EM-1 activated for 60 kid mud ball class

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Oyster Cage making Oysters at SI maker Space Billion Oyster Program.

Hells Kitchen seed balls with Ted Hall

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MoS Collective's Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls

The Hpmmmmm Series (p is silent)

Feb 2015/ updated 2/2020

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The MoS Harbor Phyto Micro Myco Moss Mollusk & Me Estuary Series (Hpmmmmm: p is silent)

MoS constantly researches, develops, practices and refines as we grow.

We offer The Hpmmmm as a positive inspiring connection to our environment. There’s deep embodied understanding through this practice and for kids there’s no need to actually make a huge river clean up project but that sure would be nice.

We can heal our local streams, estuaries and denuded landscapes. One need not wait for private businesses to clean up their part of the mess in common land or water. These technologies are affordable. Definitely work with experts and local entities. MoS can put you in touch with them.

MoS works with biologists, ecologists, hydrologists and engineers to continuously learn more about the NYC watershed, CSO’s, storms, droughts and toxic inputs to our waterways. MoS works with bioremediating materials. We build creative client projects, catalyze citizen scientists. Participants feel more connected & in service of themselves and the ecosystem instead of being further perpetrators of a depleted ecosystem that we have grown to accept.

For healing the ecosystem we use the food systems that are good for us too. For example not pickle bacteria but the similar microorganisms fermented in … dirt as one system technology: (dominant food based LactoBacillus, yeast, phototrophic microorganisms). They restore our bodies and restore the soil, water and sediment. EM-1 as the active ingredient to Mud Balls. The EM-1 is a microbial inoculate, fertilizer that starts the process of restoring and remediating toxins in waterway sediment & water. EMROjapan.com

MoS’s instigator, DD, has taught this in many places including at Parsons, NYU, New Museum, Figment annually, Swale, City of Water Day .. dozens of locations.

MoS’s teacher is Shig Matsukawa. Other MoS participants teach too.

More About the Series

MoS Collective artists, scientists, educators use and teach the MoS series of Bioremediating Biospheres.

We offer tactile interactive course for citizen participation.

Kids and adults measure the on-going results with the scientist consultants.

We teach how to make a variety of spheres made of materials, like beneficial microbes solution, mycelium, moss.

Empowering & effective.

Culmination is the participants design a remediation plan for a section their estuary.

Research, design and prepare a project presentation.

We service

– School or after school
– Site specific or inside
– Groups and business
– Kits as event give-aways
– Eco tourists, Eco travelers
– As rite of passage events: celebrations throw balls and make a wish. Place/throw a ball with an intention, wish, or as a memorial.

Whatever you can image we will entertain.

Our Mission

Offer an experience of natural systems at work. Participants learn to think systems and relationships. Nature inspires our design and helps us clean up our toxic damaged ecosystem we have inherited. In the future we will protect our commons and restore the estuaries with a combination of engineering, science, lifestyles, citizen action, schools, cultural organizations, public private support.

We partner with institutions to measure our results. Moreover, we teach people about their connection to the natural systems of our body and earth’s body. The future designers will embody whole systems thinking in everything they do. Earth care, people care & share: distribute the excess.

The Goals

Educate, learn, design, speed up the healing of the polluted ecosystem around us.

– Learn ways to mitigate the causes.
– Offer embodied activities.
– Share knowledge.
– Make our places beautiful.
– We can heal it like we would ourselves.
– Make and distribute biospheres, remediators.
– Connect to the watershed, a vibrant estuary.
– Experience together, inspire collaboration.
– Ripple the information.
– The organic hand-made spheres are fun citizen science initiatives.
– Move beyond our backyards and neighborhood gardens into heating the polluted commons.
– Protect and revitalize our commons.

Checkout the Bio Design Challenge at the Parsons/New School.

Products & Services

Bioremediating Biospheres

• Purchase Workshop series, any part of it, in any order. (coming)
• Purchase loads of homemade MoS biospheres (coming)
• Purchase Activity Kits (coming)

These biospheres leave better trace: they leave behind a variety of moss, seeds, spores, and beneficial microbes that clean the stink and toxins as well as activate the space and beautify our landscapes. The residue washes goodness into the ground, sewers and out to the watershed.

Go to Bioremediating BioSpheres

Support

We are in contact with many parks, organizations, schools and waterfront directors. There is much interest in educational workshops with these bio technologies. Please support this work.

Support & Memberships