Archive for Non-MoS news

Could Dekota Standing Rock become a “MôS Town”?

It’s interesting to me to compare the growing encampment of Standing Rock to other pop up camping like Burning Man, with over 50k ppl for a short time. Standing Rock is an action by the water stewards to protect the earth. Emergency Earth Medicine Towns, EMT’S, or Ephemeral MoS Towns.

I envision a new movement of pop up earth care sites. The protectors build villages that are then abandoned yet they leave behind betterment. So they are also Ephemeral MoS Towns.

In the future, the EMT’s are historic sites, like Stonehenge, but will be lush cornucopias since there were set up with the plan of beneficial succession, like Terra Preta. The abandoned emergency earth habitat medicine villages will be future zones for abandoned people (ZAPs) to thrive. The abandoned, independent people become the important caretakers of these historic EMT’s that saved the “PlasticScene Era” from extinction.

Unleash the Rain

Buckminster Fuller Challenge Sponsor, 2013 Finalist, Waterbank Schools The Buckminster Fuller Institute Waterbank Scnools: http://challenge.bfi.org/2013finalist_waterbanks Waterbank Schools, a collection of unique building types developed by PITCH Africa, are working demonstrations of the remarkable power of water catchment as a socially integrated resource awareness and community engagement tool. Also read about their “commitment to unconventional partnerships […]

Moss & Mushroom St. Art reSearch

Google image search: To find photo information Search “mushroom street art”. I’m looking for real live moss and mushrooms. Can we use the live matter in a system to create more beneficial succession? What are the benefits of moss and mushrooms? What are patterns of waste or excess we can address to use the most […]

Indigogo bike carting biz!

Supporting this women’s bike carting business is also spreading what makes sense. Cars kill, bikes do not. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/featherstone-two-wheels-green-delivery-equipment-upgrades-for-bike-business

Gowanus EPA Clean-Up + EM-1

In the Gowanus clean up EM-1 potentially could help everywhere in the plan. It may be in the details of the plan or it may not be. To add EM-1 to all phases over 8 yrs would add how much to the estimate? – The current estimate for the clean up is: $506 million dollars […]

EcoCity advises Bhutan

“Mid May to Early June Richard Register will be in Bhutan advising the government on strategy for developing a new ecocity that ties to Bhutan’s cultural identity and priorities for placing people and their happiness over profit and consumerism. Bhutan is a small landlocked country located in South Asia and shares borders with India to […]

EarthDance Book

Inspiring book about Living Systems in Evolution: EarthDance by Elizabet Sahtouris (it has a special thanks to Jim Lovelock and the late Lynn Margulis) Read for Free online: http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Erthdnce/ AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/EarthDance-Systems-Evolution-Elisabet-Sahtouris/dp/0595130674

Riverkeeper: Help Ensure Gowanus Cleanup Includes Toxic and Sewage Overflows

“Help Ensure Gowanus Cleanup Includes Toxic and Sewage Overflows Riverkeeper and our Brooklyn partners celebrated the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to include sharp reductions in sewage overflows as part of the proposed Superfund cleanup targeting toxic waste in the Gowanus Canal. Tackling combined sewage overflow (CSO) discharges, which typically occur during rain and wash high volumes […]

Ecological Engineering Modeled on Nature: Geoff Lawton at TEDxMission TheCity2.0

A good introduction to Permaculture by Geoff Lawton for TedX City 2.0. He is a renowned permaculture designer and teacher from Australia.  

They are HERE! Mamma-Chari Dutch Bikes

www.times-up.org just received the 1000 used Dutch bikes in good condition which they are also fixing-up. 160$ each. (includes membership to Times-up for free bike repair workshops!) Don’t rent .. just buy the bike. These  bikes are fun and safe to ride.. come try one out and see for yourself. So far it’s unanimous. Open Thursday […]

Relay Foods Delivery: online and face to face!

This comes thru food+tech. http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2012/08/28/relay-foods-to-scale-local-online-grocery-in-mid-atlantic-us/ DC/Va/Richmond area:  RelayFoods.com a new online food buying model connecting good local farm food (and distant farm food) to people yet keeping the people to people connections. Food delivery has failed in the suburbs but here is a model which works in the burbs. My happy observation is that in […]

MODDERBALLEN!

(Dutch only Click to page for link to activate)  http://www.focus-wtv.tv/video/modderballen-voor-zuiver-water EM Mudballs Movement in Belgium As a part of the EM Mudball Movement, our partner in Belgium organized a pilot project to purify a pond using EM™ mudballs. This is the first time that EM™ Mudballs are applied to treat sludge in Belgium. The Focus WTV […]

Oxfam Launches “GROW”

      The GROW Project aims to change the food system by challenging and supporting wealthy consumers to change behaviors that negatively impact the environment and the ability of others to access safe, healthy food

NYT: Human Microbiome Project Decodes our 100 Trillion Good Bacteria

Human Microbiome Project Decodes our 100 Trillion Good Bacteria http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/health/human-microbiome-project-decodes-our-100-trillion-good-bacteria.html?pagewanted=2

Japanese composting may be new food waste solution

By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgFGzyoPMhDX-6vrhR4mgCypVcEg?docId=981a2a956b5c4078a8eacc63d80aaa56

6/16 “Strategies for a New Economy”

Conference is at capacity but 8pm Friday Bill McKibben is speaking of 359.0rg. Live steam is available all segments will be viewable in July. Email**: “This weekend’s “Strategies for a New Economy” Conference will gather together researchers, media professionals, educators, citizen activists,cbusiness leaders, financial experts, scientists, environmentalists, union workers, cultural leaders, politicians, advocates for the […]

NYC 6th Annual Dance Parade order

Check out whose in the parade: Parade order : http://danceparade.org/wp/parade-order-final/

Last Page Except from Bill Mollison’s Book

The last page excerpt “Introduction to Permaculture” By Bill Mollison: “…. I believe we just change our philosophy before anything else changes. Change the philosophy of competition (which is now pervades our education system) of that of cooperation in free associations, change our material insecurities for a secure humanity, change the individual for the tribe, […]

Submit A Bike Share Location

http://a841-tfpweb.nyc.gov/bikeshare/ But cycle away from using Citibank. Be thankful and appreciative for the bike but use a small bank or Credit Union. Keep small businesses alive.

Largest hydroponic Greenhouse

Next spring on the Brooklyn waterfront will be the first harvest from the largest hydroponic roof top farm in the country. Copy it. Copy copy copy. Local urban produce. We can feed ourselves locally yes we can. Rain harvested from the roof will be 1.8 million gallons. Currently from this one roof, that rain floods […]

What is Terra Preta

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Terra preta (literally “black earth” in Portuguese) is a type of very dark, fertile anthropogenic soil found in the Amazon Basin. Terra preta owes its name to its very high charcoal content, and was indeed made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to the otherwise relatively infertile Amazonian soil over many […]

55 of Congress Call on FDA to Label GE Foods

Passing on!! 55 Members of Congress Call on FDA to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Food Justice OWS Mar 12 11:14PM -0500 *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: *March 12, 2012 **** * * *Contact: *Colin O’Neil, Regulatory Policy Analyst, 202-547-9359**** ** *FIFTY-FIVE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CALL ON FDA TO REQUIRE LABELING OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS *Led by Boxer […]

Video Feed of Passive House Retrofit

Great opportunity to learn while they are doing. A camera will be mounted to record the retrofit of a Park Slope townhouse in Brooklyn NY.  5$ per month to off-set their cost. For more information: http://www.meetup.com/NYPassiveHouse/messages/boards/thread/21163892  

What’s on my FOOD!

Video “This is My Home” An Elder Story

This Is My Home from Mark on Vimeo. (click link if not embedding well on blog) Listening to elders. What is their role in community? Are we herding elders off to gated zones .. separating them form people because it s easier and more cost efficient? Can planners integrate them and can neighbors step up […]

CO-OP Health Care

Freelancers take note: Excerpt from Freelancers Union Newsletter: CO-OPs are nonprofit health insurance plans that are focused on the needs of the insured, not on making a profit – a belief that is core to our work. Widely regarded as one of the most innovative cost-containment solutions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act […]

History of Social Landscapes Reflects Sustainable Architecture

          4 architects designing museums in the desert based on cultural traditions to make sustainable desirable spaces. Creating cool with underling principles — working with nature.  They reflect ancient cultivated discoveries in historic construction.  A great synthesis, interconnectivity and cosmopolitanism inspire their aesthetic choices that also create sustainable spaces that are […]

Robert E Simon Jr. on City Planning

Reston founder Robert E. Simon, Jr. after he celebrated his 97th birthday April 2011. He made remarks at Reston Association’s annual members’ meeting. The most important thing about city planning is to enable community. The association of people between each other . And of course it is best when the aassociations are of people of […]

NYC Permanent E-waste Drop off

Lower East Side Ecology Center has some exciting news: They are opening a permanent drop-off location for electronic waste! Help us fill this warehouse!  Starting January 31st. Dispose of your working and non-working electronics easier than ever before. Bring your unwanted electronics to the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s new permanent e-waste collection center in Gowanus, […]

The Gowanus Conservancy

A friend of the Gowanus Conservancy took me to this hidden spot on the canal. We walked from The Old Stone House educational museum I’n Brooklyn half way between that the 4th Ave R train. This grass roots conservancy has built up a natural ecosystem on the bank of the canal. Surrounded by industry and […]