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!) – The New York Permaculture Meetup Group (New York, NY) – Meetup.com
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eyebeam, NYC : In 24 hours and 11 new social websites. Get ready for Great Urban Hack 2011. Bring your ideas for next year! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-berkowitz/the-great-urban-hack-not-_b_779964.html
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, […]
New Economics Institute Newsletter I speed through this Newsletter blog and found lots of neat stuff. The Economics of Well-being was mentioned. Exactly. Economics based on Good-living and well-being. Take their description: …”continuing the work of shaping an economy designed to support human well-being and restore our common eco-system.” Not so far from “moving our global bottom […]
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 […]
Sign up for FatCOW hosting and MoS collective gets a commission! No cost to you. We are developing MoS educational free events that will make our watersheds healthier. We could use the funding to buy supplies. I have used this service for 10 years and they just keep getting better. Small, friendly and affordable. Great […]
Expedition Gowanus is proud to present Phytoremediation! A workshop on making low tech, floating water remediation gardens out of trash. — Beauteous and helpful.
Did in know it was in dishwashing detergents? I never looked at the ingredients. I know it’s in fertilizers. Removing it will prevent excess algae blooms. It will save taxpayers the money that is used to remove it. Right, don’t add to the water in the first place. Effective micro-organism (EM-1) also clean up algae […]
http://www.riverkeeper.org/get-involved/minimize-your-impact/watershed-pollutants/ According to the EPA, the leading source of pollution in surface drinking water supplies is polluted rainwater runoff. Many pollutants are found in legal, commonly used household products – cleaning chemicals for our homes, oil and gasoline for our vehicles, pesticides and fertilizers for our lawns, and pharmaceuticals for ourselves. Please help protect our […]
SoBi: a new plan for a social bike System> I have lost enough bikes to the “streets”. So I am listening. FYI: one bike on 16th and b’way in 2003. One at 18th/bway in 2008. DO not park your bike on b’way between 14 and 23rd. I spoke to a shop, Fishs Eddy, and they […]
This is my permaculture Design Certificate teacher’s Aug 7th interview on WBAI. I cut the announcers out a bit to make it under 10 mgs. 2010-andrewFaust-BAI_intrview We can not only improve the quality of our resources but also the quality of our life. It’s not separate. We don’t have to give anything up.. we only […]
I bought badger. Very high Rating! Although it has Zinc oxide which is not good to absorb. My nose needs the cover to I took the zinc. It smells good, all natural, great for the ocean reefs. Reefs are sick from sun lotions and body products from human water visitors. It’s more expensive now but […]
http://www.spongepark.org/ This is a solution for sustainable Gowanus- in the works now since 2008 at least. It’s getting better all the time. This plan targets the combined sewage overflow issues as well as the overall biodiversity of the area. People and the environment will all benefit in this plan. And developers — higher rents though– […]
They are pulling up a restoration oyster project b/c FDA is worried people might eat them. Understandable, a long shot worth discussion. (This is not where MoS shells from Water Day activity were placed.) If the chance did occur, that someone fished up some of these cleansing oysters, a solution might be to float a […]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-10881080 I have an Animal Shelter Permaculture Plan. The plan includes a Poo Power Program ideally run out of T-square park’s bathroom building near the dog run. Besides promoting the Poo Power Program with branding and bio bags. Some of the poo in the shelter is used for the thermophilic composting system which breaks down the […]
This hands-on workshop led by Liz Neves, Healthy Home Consultant from Raganella and participant of MoS. • Make your own customized, non-toxic, non-polluting cleaning products : New Yorkers who drink water will thank you! • Identify everyday household products that may be harmful to your health • Learn about plants that filter out toxins in your […]
” We will explore the spiritual, ethical and moral aspects of practicing a deep appreciation for the Earth, and the spiritual relationship between human beings and our ecology. Ecological crisis is interrelated with spiritual crisis and comes from an absence of a sense of the sacred and from a lack of awareness that our own […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Farms-In-The-City Jersey City’s objective is to create an Urban Agriculture/Food Access document and action plan that is realistic, easy to implement and empowers every day citizens to take action toward environmentally beneficial local projects. Educational Recreational Economical: fresh local organic food is the fastest growing segment of the food production industry. We know that our initiative […]
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 […]
Come out to Greenwood Brooklyn this summer for some fun hands-on workshops for kids of all ages! Join the Brooklyn Wigglers Saturday, July 17 to learn more about our friend, the Red Wiggler Worm.
http://www.cityofwaterday.org/ On the Water, For the Water Saturday, July 24, 2010 10am to 4pm Governors Island, NYC Liberty State Park, NJ Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC Atlantic Basin, NYC City of Water Day is a FREE day of entertainment, education & adventure for the whole family celebrating the potential of our waterfront! From the upper Hudson […]
The School of the Future is a free ‘unschool’ where anyone can teach and anyone can learn. Adults and children welcome. And did I mention it was FREE?! Here are some of the classes we’d like to attend: Compost Brigade Pick up compost from McCarren park and bring it to Sgt. Dougherty for some experimental […]