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In brief, MôS (‘moss’), MôS stands for “Masters of Succession.

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Not the succession
of Kings & Queens
but of frogs & bees.

In the land of beneficial succession, in the world you want to see, what do you want to be?

One caveat:
your by-product is of
beneficial succession
to air, water, soil & selves.

Our work, to design for beneficial succession, is based in whole systems thinking.

As MoS Participants artistically redesign systems in relationship to all that is, we practice and educate as a mere by-product of making our stuff. Ultimately, the goal is to care for others and the earth while we are doing what we do. To do that MoS collaborates to create interconnected mini economies or village centers. These mini experimental economies are in-turn stewards of the bio-region & the whole.

MôS Collective is a like-minded community of individuals working together toward the beneficial succession of air, water, soil & selves as a by-product of our lifestyles.

We implement the concepts of Permaculture, Biomimicry, symbiosis, embodiment, restoration, regeneration to focus on local quality of life.

Join the village collectivity.
Do what you want. Work on a creative passion project alone, or with others. Create connections to:
• Receive supplies you need
• Give your excess/waste as a resource

The MoS Collective only works in relationship to each other. The more participants involved the more productive our chosen lifestyle & our village plaza.

This society as a well designed biome spills forth freely with a healthy flow for all. We have to organize ourselves less with a good foundation connected to earth systems rather than systems separate and working against nature.

MoS Collective acts in relationship to the system whole — everything is connected and complex. There’s no escaping it.  In society we are in sync with nature, rooted, symbiotic as a fact…  so we might as well work with it.

When we have do this Living LoBS lifestyleS the serendipities spill forth, all day, everyday. The ripples are uncountable.

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Microbes to Metropolis

The Name “Masters of Succession”

“Masters of Succession” is a spin-off of the term “Master of Composting,” a certification program. We thought, why not have the Masters of Air, Water & Soil .. and People? “Why not be Masters of the Universe?”, we laughed.  Super heroes, scholars and the empire…  royalty.  Since MôS is both creatively ridiculous and seriously serious—this title is fitting. So we had a name for an offering for Figment Festival 2010.  Our first collective activity was a weekend of arts celebration on Governors Island, NYC, which we collaborated with Earth Matter, compost education facility on the island, to pick up compost and teach about different types of soil production in serious and ridiculous ways.

We are also inspired by all the comic book readers and fantasy lives out there. .. more on that to come.

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Masters of Beneficial Succession

(MoBS)

MoS’ MoBSters work in affinity groups to become mini MoBS which then become Master MoBS.

Lifestyles of Bioremediation & Symbiosis

(LoBS)

MoS mini MoBS live LoBS.  #LivingLoBS.

Succession Verses Succession

Example: TERRA PRETA

Terra Preta is a method of stockpiling soil found on the grounds of a passed  Amazon culture. The culture was gone but the soil survived. They made the most noteworthy soil.  It just got better and better.  Soil succession.

MôS is not in pursuit of the succession of Monarchs, Queens and figureheads, but of soil, Monarch butterflies, frogs & bees. Everyone in The Archy designs their lives toward healthier air, water and soil to create a spiral of beneficial succession. Food waste makes soil better, which grows better crops, which makes more food waste for better soil plus add more goodness, wow! (Terra Preta soil Wiki definition).

The Archy

We are not a hierarchy but an archy.  There are several leaders, 3 or 5 or dozens depending on the day.  In the chance there is only one leader activity goes dormant until someone else participates.  Sometimes there’s a long lull in activity and other times we are quite active.

To be an official Archy just submit your name and creative title of choice.  Show up at an event.

Symbiosis

When one thing thrives off the other in mutual benefit. Masters of Succession live with the understanding that we are a connected web; and freedom comes with collaboration. It’s a responsibility to design with symbiosis in mind. Autonomous individuals find matches in a village that support each other because we are all working toward better water, air and soil.

The Mud Ball Ball

#mbb: The Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Mud Ball Ball. This is a yearly celebration of lifestyles of symbiosis and bioremediation. It is also an Ephemeral Piazza. We come together to be who we want to be in the place we want to see.  We can live in the future together.  We eat oysters to save the shells to rebuild oyster reefs. We have a procession and ceremony at the waterfront grateful for our water protectors and the MoS Action Jacksons. the very present active participants.

Stories continue to unfold.

The Ephemeral Piazza

(No not pizza though pizza is good in piazzas)

Participate in the weaving our ephemeral village center, plaza, (or piazza).  Invite us to make a piazza (or pizza) program at an ecologically mindful event. MôS Town piazza is a collaborative experimental regenerative, restorative social village center public space where everyone can be. A destination. It is the inspiration of the MoS Founder’s hometown village center that was in-turn inspired by European plazas. The Ephemeral Plaza is ephemeral because the piazza can be anywhere. Often there is no piazza. But It can be anywhere and it can go away when we aren’t there.  Ideally we use the same space often enough it becomes a piazza.

If not, which is most often,  the participants can returns to on line Ephemeral Piazza on Gather platform.

The piazza is not a town square that often ignores terrain, hydrology and contours. It’s not a strip mall or the main drag in a town as we head West. A line on a road doesn’t hold people in a cocoon of comfort, trust and safety away from cars.
A plaza is a protected space with shops for daily errands with often an open paved area, maybe a fountain in which to play. In an Ephemeral Piazza nature is our inspiration and our catalyst with which we work together instead of against nature.  And it is so many other things.

MôS Town

An on/off line residents who come together MôS Town often calls Mud Village as well. We come together to experience this symbiotic connectivity of each other as succession-makers in serendipitous relationships.  There are no such place as an eco city so here’s the best we can do. It is an experiment, like a game maybe but it’s real, and get together, we make and sell things. It is a network in which to not only survive, but to thrive. In the real world we hit supply web blocks in our regenerative efforts  and be connected to what is possible. As a part of MôS Town we can close gaps better, see our efforts go a little further. With the help of other people’s services and products we can continue to become more interconnected and effective.  Our passionate work becomes more resilient, more affordable, effortless and less toxic.

MoS Town is a place where we can give fully our gifts. What benefit do we offer the community? How do we want to plug in?

In MôS Town, our individual offerings work in concert, in connection with other individuals. We are an inherently a great big organism of purposeful moving organisms affecting one another.

We focus on a heightened quality of living today by taking care of our place and a regenerative abundant future. A place where we can see the rippling effect of our actions or lifestyle patterns. The unfortunate and the fortunate.

To help build the platform for MoS Town & Ephemeral Piazza contact us. We have it started and it can also be a shop of products and services.

A Mycelial Network

(wiki definition) The body of the fruiting mushroom. It is single cell white thread lace just below the surface of the soil, breathing oxygen, sentient, empathic maybe and an underground health coordinator of the ecosystem through roots and rhizomes.

Participants

What we call guests, partners, collaborators, members, team, crew, residents, leaders and so on. We are all participants of the collective while we are participating. When we aren’t participating we are not participating. Keeps it simple for writing purposes — seems to work best.

It’s possible to have people joining us who are bewildered or assume it is what it isn’t. That’s always fun. Are they participants? They are more like museum “visitors” for which we have pamphlets, 3D glasses and audio tours.  Not really… but ideally.

The Harbor Phyto Micro, Mycro, Moss, Mollusk & Me Series. Phmmmmm (the p is silent)

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