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A Muddy Saturday! Packed house!

… yet always room for more! Next time we will have more of everything for more people. Great discussions and muddy hands were cleaned and nourished while building the Mud Ball stock pile for June Figment. Exciting discussion on germs, germination, microbes, bacteria and health. Stay tuned for next dates for Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls […]

Video! Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Renew Australia

PPS Presents: Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Lessons from Australia February 8 I didn’t go.. because it was too cold… I know… bbbbut it was streaming live! Watch live streaming video from placemaking at livestream.com In the face of economic hardship, how can cities capitalize on their inherent creative ingenuity and create places in low-cost, immediate and […]

MoS at New Museum: Street Fair May 7, 2011

MoS will be at the New Museum Street Fair NYC. Sat. May 7: 11am- 7 pm We will have 3 tables next to Green Maps table. Workshops in: Bokashi, waterway cleaning mud balls, natural home cleaning products, beauty products. Also all for sale. We will be making custom neighborhood maps to tuned to your lifestyles! […]

Brunch: Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls! Feb 5, 2011

Workshop/Brunch: Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Part 1. 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Bokashi: making bran for fermenting kitchen scraps for rich soil for growing your own food.
Part 2. 2:30 – 3:00 pm – Role of effective microorganisms in our life: talk.
Part 3. 3:30 – 4:30 pm – Mud ball making for cleaning waterways and Good microbe plans for house and dog run cleaning.

Making BioRemediating Mudballs & Bokashi (brunch & Beer)

Making BioRemediating Mudballs & Bokashi (brunch & Beer!) – The New York Permaculture Meetup Group (New York, NY) – Meetup.com

Call for Soil Dancing at Figment

MoS Figment Project Soil is a vital element that unites us – without it, none of us could live. We are seeking dancers, artists, and improvisers of every culture to represent this life-giving force by expressing themselves in or around the soil (5 yr old soft healthy leaf compost). Modern dance, contact, butoh, tango, tarantella and all […]

Send us your Soil

SEND US YOUR SOIL: We are collecting soil samples from around the world in jars to compare with composted soil.  A variety is the aim. Sandy, clay, dry powdery, muddy etc. Whatever you can find with a note from where you harvested it. Farm soil samples wanted: GMO, mono crop farm soil samples wanted. We will […]

Figment Project 2011

The MoS Collective  & Leave a Better Trace! We’re masters of succession: A team of educators and artists at events supporting the global bottom line of clean water, air and soil. As the second year we have time to be more creative.. so join in soon and bring your ideas! Contact : dd (at) moscollective […]

MoS WHOLE SYSTEMS EXPERIENCES

WHOLE SYSTEMS EXPERIENCES SOIL ENCOUNTERS We will bring a party of soilful people to get you into dirt. Send us your soil!.  We’d like to get to know diverse soils to display and interact with during our events. COMPOSTING Home systems Worm bins Effective microorganism (EM) fermentation process Thermophilic (hot) bins and piles Cold bins […]

New Economics, ExxonMobil, Design Ecology

I have never heard of Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, who is known for her (guessing Neva is female identified person) shareholder action at ExxonMobil that intended to help the company anticipate and take leadership in ushering in a post-carbon economy. Dr. Goodwin’s remarks on Oct 28th.2010 to an All-party Parliamentary Group were based on a paper, […]

Em-1 Mud Ball Test NYC

EM-1 Mudball Test Dog-Run Waste Experiment was started on 8/27/10. Waste from a dog run including, sand with urine and feces. “0” = no EM mudball (control) “1” = one EM mudball “2” = two EM mudballs Test by Shig Matsukawa (NYC EM-1), Barbara and Susan at El Sol Brilliante Garden, NYC. The latest observations […]

Breath Made Visible screening/Wrksp Portland Oregon, 9-18

I have seen the film twice and taken her workshop. I would like to go out to interview her for the Reston Film. Her Husband and collaborator was Lawrence Halprin, architect and landscape designer. “There may be a future where more of us will call ourselves artists and work together to make art concerned with […]

R.U.S.T. Oct 2nd to 3rd.

Another Succession winner. Training Workshop in October. Very exciting opportunity. http://radixcenter.org/workshops/rust/ Check out their Sustainable systems. – Low cost and effective.  Imagine a high cost designed systems for beauty and function. http://radixcenter.org/virtual-tours-of-sustainable-systems/ Building cleaner water, air and soil.

Phytoremediation Class 9/11

Expedition Gowanus is proud to present Phytoremediation! A workshop on making low tech, floating water remediation gardens out of trash. — Beauteous and helpful.

MoS at City of Water Day! NYC

We are not teaching Sustainability. We are teaching Succession. OFFERINGS at CITY OF WATER DAY: Kids helped us make Mud balls with activated beneficial microbes: They clean the water! We need to make 8 million mud balls!  Visitors signed up on the mailing list to be a part of the “1 million Apologies to Mother Earth” […]

CITY OF WATER DAY 2010 Collective

CITY OF WATER DAY, Governors Island JULY 24, 2010 * Barbara Augsburger * E. Shig. Matsukawa: fermented bran, Effective Microorganism (EM) Composting:www.recyclefoodwaste.org * Dee Dee Maucher: Eco Product/Business Development, Branding and Creative Media. Whole Systems/Creative Habitats Master Planner. Organizer of the MoS Collective.  Permaculture Design Certified. * Marga Snyder: Firefly Concierge: ecologically minded concierge services. Permaculture Design Certified * Carol Crump: Permaculture […]

Sat. July 24: Be Successive with the MoS!

City of Water Day Coming up! TESTING MUDBALLS at El Sol with Shig COME by us July 24th in the Noland Park Area to: Make EM mudballs to succeed dirty water Make an inscription on an oyster shells.  We will hang all the shells for people to read your prayers and wishes. Shells will at the […]

MoS at FIGMENT Project 2010

MoS ROAMING Educators at Figment: 2011 we will be planning more fun. Please contact us to offer your eco-talents! Entrance off the Ferry IMAGES FROM 2010! – MoS collectors located people with waste in hand. – We offered worm compost bin disposal for their apple core or any raw food intercepted. Seeing the worms was a hit with […]

Figment 2010 Collective

The MoS Collective is a collective of citizens supporting our global bottom line: clean water, air and soil. MoS Collaborators: FIGMENT FESTIVAL, Governors Island JUNE 11-13, 2010 * Dee Dee Maucher:  Eco-Product/Business Development, Branding and Creative Media. Whole Systems/Creative Habitats Master Planner. Organizer of the MoS Collective. Permaculture Design Certified. * E. Shig. Matsukawa: fermented bran, Effective Microorganism […]

Figmented

Thanks everyone for eating apples, sowing seeds, playing in soil and composting at Figment! Check the MoS Collective page and the MoS Resources page for continued interest.

MoS @ Figment

June 11-13, 2010 Figment Festival http://figmentproject.org/2010/ Governors Island , NYC Focusing on Soil Succession: LOOK FOR US IN 3 FORMS: 1. as roaming collectors For the Master Collectors bring in your picnic a fresh fruit and veg to create some raw waste for our bins: apples, bananas, oranges, watermelons, strawberries, carrots, whole avocados. Friday look […]

Figment Fesitval: almost there

FIGMENT In 2 weeks! Thanks everyone for joining the mob! we now have the basics plus plus but to complete the full vision we are looking for a collaborators with – red wagons or bike trailers – interest in inventing a cool way to hold two compost bins to a bike or on body. – […]

Compost and Garden Links

A list of links!