Archive for New York City

Saturday: MȯS at Festival of Ideas!

The MȯS Collective: Supporting the succession of healthy water, air and soil Indulge in Local Abundance Sat. May 7: 11am- 7 pm The MȯS Collective will be on-site mapping people to themselves, others and the environment. We are curating healthy D.I.Y. workshops, as well as mapping neighbors to local goods, services, and environmental stewardships. We will […]

Eric Lancaster on EM-1

  Eric is the distributor for EM-1 in North America. He has produced many products with EM — even a delicious beer! He talks of a wider vision of EM-1. http://youtu.be/_WRBTKc3CYQ

Annie’s Food Stories at Festival of Ideas

.MAPPING to EACH OTHER and the EARTH NYC, SAT. MAY 7:  Annie Hauck-Lawson at the Masters of Succession table with us! Offering her Brooklyn Mompost! Come by and ask composting questions. She has the magic touch. She will have samples of her compost for your household plants. Your plants will thank you with their beauty. Annie Hauck-Lawson, […]

4/24 BB&M update

4/2: we had a fun group. Everyone was very excited ofcourse. We made a lot of mud balls — around 200. 4/23:  More new stories! Really it is just never the same. This time we talked a lot about pets, animals and EM due to the recent NY Post write up. Shig shared some interesting stories about […]

Miyazaki Visionary Animations

  Some of these animations by Hayao Miyazaki are from the 80’s and are very on target for today’s themes. I just saw NausicaA, of the Valley of the Winds, KiKi’s Delivery Service, Ponyo and Castle in the Sky, Howl’s Castle… Still many more to see.    

“Eco-blocks” Make ur own Eco-village!

Make your own mini eco-village right on your block or in your building FIRST STEP: 1. Collect neighbors’ needs and resources Please email us (dd at mos collective dot net ) with your data so we can Map it and add more people to your “village”. If you email us with the data (w aliases) we […]

CALLING for FIGMENT PARTY-PANTS PEOPLE & Mud Ball Propelling

Calling For PARY PANTS People! Figment:  JUNE 10-12. 1.  Roving Gang of MICRO BUG FOOD SPIRAL People AKA: ROVING COMPOST APPREHENDERS 2. MICRO BUG FOOD SPIRAL Mini Golf 3. Mud Ball Stockpiles ————————————————————————-     1. CALLING Food Spiralers: Gang of Roving Compost Collectors Usurping Compostables from People Want something fun to do at Figment this year?     […]

MȯS’s Figment Mini Golf Hole: Course Donations

The Compost Microbe Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf Hole http://www.indiegogo.com/FIGMENT-2011-Minigolf-Course Donations For MINI GOLF! Please donate! Each mini golf hole budget is $1000 in materials. They all have to be on raised platforms ($500). I suggested a $5 donation. #7 The Composting Micro Bug Food Spiral by Dee Dee Maucher of The MoS Collective http://newyork.figmentproject.org/long-term-exhibitions/2011figment-minigolf/ The multitudinous […]

Reduce “Heat Islands” Project Montreal

La Ville en Vert, by the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre, has  a project where renters together plan, design, and renovate their neighborhoods to reduce urban heat islands — white roofs, trees, plants. This is a fun project for MoS to start partner maybe with ecological architects and landscapers and  (one at least) composting programs in the […]

4/23 Brunch, Bokashi & Mudballs for water cleaning

Saturday April 23, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com NEXT bioremediating mud ball  will be in the evening happy hours Next Bokashi fermented food waste […]

Richard Register talks Comfort: Video

          VIDEO: The day before I went to the pillow fight I interviewed RR. As I was logging and digitizing I noticed these pillows would be good b-roll. Newmindspace presents: Pillow Fight NYC Sixth annual massive pillow fight in New York City. Teddies fly and pillows soar as we gather for […]

3/12 Brunch, Bokashi & Healing Mud Balls III Photos

Great fun! Great turn out and feedback! – 25 more people took home the fermented bran for their food scraps. – 200 mudballs for the fling. More later.. packing up. Mud balls are made with DIRT and activated beneficial microbes.

4/2 Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls IV: Sat.

Saturday April 2, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com (next BB&M:  Sat. April 23, 2011) Part 1. 1:00 PM   Pickle Kitchen […]

Figment Mini Golf 2011 Accepted!

We have designed a golf hole for the Figment Govenors Island Mini Golf for 2011. The theme is Bugs and Features. We were invited to make a composting mini-golf to go along with our roaming gang of master composters at the Figment Festival this year. MoS’s Micro Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf hole: Volunteer artisans, […]

Hudson River Fantastical Earth Parade

On-going costume and puppet workshops until May 22 — the parade. They started in the East Village parading to all the gardens. Each garden had activities for kids and adults. I remember stopping by a few of them. They were magical amongst the garden flowers, ponds and plants.  If I were a little kid I […]

New Museum: Festival of Ideas May 7!

On Saturday May 7th, 11-7p MoS Collective at The StreetFair: MoS Collective will be presenting “Indulge in Abundance” workshops at the New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City : a Street Fair. Come by so we can map your needs and resources. Also we will have workshops in making mud balls and homemade cleaning […]

Mr. Green Greened NYC

A.H. Green, worked with Olmsted on Central Park.  He was the major reason we have the Met, the Natural History, the Public Library, the Bronx Zoo and he was behind Riverside Park, Morningside Park, Washington Park. Now those spaces are precious. He preserved the Palisades, Niagara, City Hall…  More about Green in the MUG in […]

Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls III: Sat. 3/12

March 12, 2011 – Jimmy’s No. 43 – Join us for brunch III, 1-5 pm Jimmy’s No. 43 – 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special,  $5 brunch special!  (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which […]

Underground City

 

Brunch, Bokashi & Mudballs II: Photos

Photos from yesterday’s Feb 19,2011. Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Ball workshop at Jimmy’s No. 43 on 7th St. in the East Village, NYC.  Our next date there is March 12, 2011. We had the workshop in romantic cozy “bar lighting” which worked out well but not for the camera.           We […]

NYC: Report a Bike Ticket

FROM Transit Aletrnative’s newsletter: It’s ridiculous that bicyclists are being summonsed while circling a park. Adults are not required by law to wear a helmet; it is not illegal to occupy a full lane of traffic; exiting a bike lane to avoid an obstruction (like this perhaps – below) is entirely legitimate. Cyclists being summonsed […]

NCY Bids Goodbye to a Waterfront Visionary

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Goodbye-to-a-Waterfront-Leader.html?soid=1102224464492&aid=pFeSC9jeykI.

Participation at Pier 63

Skimmed through to the end excerpt by Nate Berg: “Burning Man and the Metropolis” Participation is the organic result of citizens continually taking ownership of their community and their experiences within the community.   “It changes their philosophy of how they want to be involved in their cities, how they want to be involved in their […]

Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls at Jimmy’s No. 43

Saturday Free Workshop, Feb 19, 2011! 1-5 pm Join us for brunch at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special,  $5 brunch special!  (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which PARTS 1, […]

2000 Mud Balls by June!

We need your help! Our goal is to stockpile 2000 water cleaning mud balls by June 10, 2011. If you want to host a mud ball party let us know! Picture above is from an event people did in Penang in 2009. http://www.emrojapan.com/examples/global-cases/asia-and-oceania/malaysia.html To make mud balls : here is the formula on the EMRO web […]

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 […]

What Is “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” Placemaking?

What Is “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” Placemaking? “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” is a phrase we borrowed from Eric Reynolds at Urban Space Management we use it to describe interventions that produce immediate results, transforming underused urban spaces into exciting laboratories that reward citizens with authentic places and provide a boost to areas in need. These projects provide […]

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! […]

Adam Purple: A Garden over Rubble

YouTube – Adam Purple and The Garden of Eden. http://www.harveywang.com/podcast.html