Archive for 1. MoS Participatory

5/26 The Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Ball!

Sunday A Bioremediation Participation Celebration!! with raw oysters and local beers, mud balls, seed bombs, the sound/cargo bike and bokashi. 1:30-2:30 The ride: Seed ball throwing music ride. Ride ends at The Mud Ball! Co-hosted by Times-up.org. Meet at Gaia tree Tompkins Square Park. FACEBOOK invite 3 pm – 7 pm The Ball:  at El Jardin Del Paraiso […]

4/14 2pm 1st Lower East Side Wellness Circle

Sunday LES Wellness Circle! First of the series! Sunday April 14, 2-5 RSVP incase rain or cancellation. La Plaza Cultural Community Garden 9 St at Ave C Come as an (insured) practitioner or come to receive, to share information & to make plans for more gatherings. No charge. Passing hat for contributions to supplies. Gratuities for […]

Be a MoSTownian!

Be creative n’ active w MoS. Become a MoStownie! Participate and add your creativity, idea, projects to the town. To get started send an email with what your interests for the cool town of MoS. A virtual everywhere place where the by product of everything we do is good also for the water, air and […]

Sunday with Green Map, Times-up! and Siempre Verde Garden

The day started with a tour around the edges of the Lower East Side with Green Map and Wendy Brawer and Ben Shepard of Times-up! The tour also was a discussion which looked into potential solutions for future flooding. The water marks basically were close to the original edge from this map of the Lower East […]

New Co-op for Women Rag Pickers in Dehli!

  Rolando Politi (aka: Kappo Kappino on Facebook) has started a women’s co-op in India. Rolando conjured up genius recycled art for the MoS contributions to the MoRUS fashion show and now he is on to DEHLI to start a very small factory as a first step for women rag pickers. The women will be […]

About MoS Direct Action Fashion

The MoS costumes seek to use materials that benefit the air, water and soil. The event was orchestrated brilliantly by The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. The Masters of Succession Collective designed with a life cycle in mind. We consider from where the garment comes, the function and where it goes after finished. We try to make costumes […]

MoS’s Contributions to MoRUS Direct Action Fashion

Great, fun SHOW!!! MoS’s Fashion collaborations descriptions for The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space: The Masters of Succession included collaborations from Kappo Kappino: Taer & Ware pieces for ‘instant reincarnation” (he is in blue face, feed-bag skirt); DD’s MoS Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial “Mud Ball Ball Gowns” (hulahoop skirts) with Lisa Shaub compostable paper hats […]

2/9 MORUS DIRECT ACTION FASHION SHOW

WIth Masters Of Succession Costumes… come see. Sat Feb 9 at 7 pm.  155 Ave C between 9th and 10th St. NYC 10009 Post show photos to come.. come back.  

1/11: Charting the Road to Resilience–From the Ground Up

Friday, January 11 and continuing with a day-long conference on Saturday, January 12 at the New School. The event is free, but registration is required. Register now. http://mas.org/join-us-next-week-charting-the-road-to-resilience-from-the-ground-up/

Happy New Era! 2012

The image, made summer 2120 with MoS collaborator DD and Lisa Shafir. The figure here is embodying a character from a parallel society, a tribe living in underwater caves filled with air and light. The cave brightness is from crystals and glowing bioluminescence.

We need your help: Join us in Sandy Relief with EM-1.

Announcing EM•1 SANDY Relief: with a Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/em-nyc Join the group and take a leadership role in this process. Contact us to be a leader. We will train you and teach you everything you need to know. It is not a long learning curve and it is a green business! Heal a disaster zone as […]

Lower East Side Gardens Harvest Festival! The MoS LaborAtoRy Arts!

The LUNGs Harvest Arts Festival Every Fall! The lower East Side Garden Arts Festival. There were amazing offerings of art making at 25 gardens throughout the lower east side. The Masters of Succession is set-up at La Plaza Cultural. The MoS Collective offers the MoS Laboratory Recipes at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden a whirlwind making a mess […]

9/5 & 6 & 7: MoS @ Harvest Arts Fest! NYC EV

The 25 Garden Harvest Arts Festival!! Come to la plaza community garden this Sat/Sun 1-4 as a part of the Harvest Arts Festival to MoS LaborAtOry: make your own — orange blossom serendipity body lotion, — ginger-experiMINT toothpaste — Koala Wash eucalyptus all purpose surface wash Oh and — Beneficial Mud Balls ofcourse that revitalize […]

S21-22-23: Side-Shift à la carte NYC-update

Update: Monday 9/24: wonderful weekend. If anyone wants to put something together like this I can help you. (mixing site specific dance/contact /biking/ somatic studies/urban sustainability/arts) Next: starting to work on loisida garden’s Harvest Arts Festival’s MoS LabORATory Arts. Oct 5, 6, 7. A few Photos from our roamings: lots from the art faire on […]

Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens

10/6 & 7: Saturday & Sunday, 12pm until 5pm. The “Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens” is taking place on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday October 7 from noon until 5pm. The festival is a celebration of life on the Lower East Side in 12 community gardens. It is free and open to all. Each […]

Workshop Pics: Microbes at M’Finda Kalunga Garden LES NYC

MoS workshop Sponsored by Green Map and Times-Up! MoS workshop at M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden as a part of the Sara D Sustainability Series. Thanks very much for everyone’s support and interest in the symbiotic beneficials and their ability to create healthy succession by working together. Times-up is working on offering free workshop series’ at many new […]

EM-1 At Sara D Sustainability Series

08-09-2012 The MoS Collective taught a bokashi and mud ball workshop for the members of the M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden.  It went in to the darkness of the night. The fact that EM•1® microbes co-exist with indigenous microbes is one reason why EM•1® has many varied uses. http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/09/sara-d-sustainability-series/ Press:  The Villager http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/30/excerpt-from-the-villager/ The Masters of […]

8/24 EM-1 Workshop

Friday, AUGUST 24, 2012 EM-1 Boakshi food waste into fertilizer and Beneficial Mud balls for waterway cleaning! With Times-Up! & Green Map Workshop Series M’Finda Kalunga Garden, NYC,  Lower East Side Garden Susan Greenfield and DD Maucher will be teaching EM, Bokashi and Mud Balls. Time/ INFO TO COME. 6:30pm TIMES-Up.org LOCATION LINK: View Larger Map […]

Sag Harbor Workshop Glowed

Sag Harbor Aug 7th 2012: Teach in recap: MoS, Dee Dee and Lisa Shafir,  just gave a workshop in Long Island. We did a super fun teach in with WISE : Women’s Initiatives for a Sustainable Earth. DD linked it with the introductory Greek ritual dance we were taught and permaculture grander vision. We introduced the […]

Phosphorus: Eastern Long Island

Southampton NY. August 8th 2012 After swimming in bioluminesence in a bay near my friend’s house, visiting the ponds and lakes around South Hampton with Gary Glanz and receiving an email about the Mill River Pond that is full of phosphorus I decided to do some catching up on phosphorus in Wikipeadia. The lakes I visited […]

Teach-in Picnic

DD Maucher in Sag Harbor talking about the MoS Collective and water healing mud balls.

Oct. WORKSHOPS & PARTIES

FALL 2012 October 6 and 7: the weekend Harvest Arts Festival! Lower East Side Community Gardens — free Produced by LUNGS NYC.org (lower East Side Community Gardens) (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) At La Plaza Garden (9th St / Ave B-C) MoS’S LaboRAtory of Arts: We will be teaching and making Beneficial Mud Balls body lotion all […]

7/17 Food + Tech Meet Up: Food Distribution

Food + Tech is one of my favorite meet ups with Danielle. I biked to filthy mid town for this in 100 degree heat. Natural heat I don’t mind but the heat from cars /trucks and energy hog buildings is nasty. Vents were spewing out more heat. I have a sore throat from talking so […]

7/19 Green Drinks + Art + Mud Balls

Jersey City Sustainable Green Drinks + Art + Beneficial Mud Ball teaching with Shig, DD and friends. Thursday 19th > http://www.meetup.com/Sustainable-Jersey-City/events/67470672/ Thursday, July 19, 2012, 6:00 PM To 9:00 PM.  Culinary Conference Center @ Hudson County Community College.  161 Newkirk St. Building E , Jersey City , NJ (map) a short walk from the Journal Square PATH Station It’s all about fun […]

MoS: Raising Funds to Clean Gowanus w/EM-1 Mud Balls!

Help test treat the Gowanus Canal with beneficial microorganisms! The microbial solution eats the waste, breaks down toxins and binds the metals so they can not be absorbed by living things. Double your money on IOBY this month! https://ioby.org/project/beneficial-mud-balls-gowanus Helping at the root of the problem for long-term benefits. The program includes: workshops and fun interactive […]

6/24: The Spread! at the Traditional Food Pot Luck

Claudia Keel, nutritionist herbalist, is the chapter head for the Westen A Price Foundation — NYC Chapter. She coordinates opportunities to buy on line and pick up traditional foods in NYC. They have a facebook page with a web site to come.   facebook.com/WAPF.NYC It was at El Jardin Garden in the East Village, NYC. I […]

February 2013: Help Green Haiti Tour

Haiti Post Earthquake Reconstruction and Cultural Preservation Tour February 2013, Date: TBD Workshops | Composting | Aquaponics | Beekeeping | Entrepreneurship Reposting, download PDF. Please share. My NYC Permaculture friend, Ki Ki, is hosting this workshop in his country of Haiti. He has been working on this for several years and this will be a wonderful opportunity for learning, helping and understanding. […]

A Visit to The Center for Bioregional Living

June 17, 2012: MoS Chief Instigator, Dee Dee, went to visit the for the final presentations of Andrew Faust and Adriana Magaña’s Permacutlure Design Course. A big milestone because this is the first course they are presenting at their new center in Ellenville, their homestead.  I was fortunate to be invited to watch the presentations, meet […]

Video: Figment Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls

FIGMENT NYC 2012: The Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls! Thank you Keat, Shig, Michael, Naoko, TIm and all the others that helped out at the MoS Stockpile Saturday at FIGMENT Project! Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoSCollective?feature=watch Click for IOBY Campaign for the Gowanus Canal: Tax Deduction and swag and more fund events >>> SUPPORT ACCELERATED WATER CLEANING with microbes that eat […]

A Hat to Help You & Our Waterways!

Hi world, New Successive Hat!! Buy an authentic Miki Katagiri Super Sun Shade Hat. It IS GOOD FOR YOU: This wide brim hat you will protect your eyes as well as your face and back of the neck from sun damage. Also use to a natural SPF 4 is the highest natural sunscreen. White Zinc […]