Archive for Non-MoS news

Fishermens’ Ball

Help us help our waterways Riverkeepers’ Fishermens’ Ball April 26, Chelsea Piers, NYC. Click for info and tickets. Make a commitment to safe water.

Climate, Mind and Behavior 2/17/2012 Symposium

Good questions on mind and behavior: This is an upcoming symposium presented by the Garrison Institute to discuss insights from the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences and their application to pro-environmental programs, policies, and technologies. This was forwarded to us from a friend. —– Call for Abstracts and Proposals: 3rd Annual CMB Symposium, February 15 – 17, 2012 […]

Guerrilla Gardening at OWS

“Guerrilla gardening is the occupation of ill-used land to support the communities and ecosystems.” guerrillagardening.org. Vimeo:  Students from Sterling College in Vermont came down to Occupy Wall Street and showed us how to plant and sow seeds anywhere where there is soil. Grow winter greens and beets right in the parks flower beds. They spoke […]

Envisioning the Queens Highline

Envisioning the Queens Highline South Queens Greenway Image by Jennifer Cromie, Newtownards,UK More design ideas on the link.

Emailed from A friend

  I am not sure where this is or from. It’s not permaculture but it’s the ground work of what could become more efficient and less work with more serendipitous treats. Though the trick would be to make it a whole system while retaining the look. If there were plants hanging all over it .. […]

Clean Water in US No Guarantee

Here is an article “Clean Water in US is No Guarantee” by Susan F. 2010 YaleGlobal Online via EpochTimes. I was searching through the site called Epoch Times because they are asking to interview the MoS Collective. So I read this: How do we make an active link with The iPhone WP app? — urr. […]

Sonic Fabric from old Cassettes

10/1/11: New New York St Fair Wythe/11th Willamsburg

  Click on image for video of last years event. I’d like to meet this boat. A Green Street Fair put on by GreenHOME NYC.org  

9/15: Andrew Faust Speaking

Andrew Faust who introduced a few of MoS Collectives to Permaculture is speaking FOR FREE tomorrow: La Plaza Cultural Garden Thursday, at 6:30pm- 7:30pm. Between B and C on 9th St.  NYC Faust, NYC’s long time Permaculture scholar, brings together Permaculture and Bioregionalism: two elegant design models that show us how to heal ourselves while […]

Loisida Film Fedtival ’11

La Plaza Cultural is the location for the annual Loisida Latin Film Festival. My first attendance. Really nice short films. High quality, well done and interesting. Serendipity: I ran into two old friend from college days. Earlier I helped Ross clear the entwined morning glories from the back fence.they are blocking the sun from the […]

9/17: Films: Dancing with Animals

Beautiful: Dancing with Dolphins And Dancing with Horses Showing CRS nyc Sept 17, 2011 http://www.crsny.org/110801/filmvideo-show-tell-dancing-animals?utm_source=CRS&utm_campaign=110917+Dancing+with+Animals&utm_medium=email

Swimming in the Hudson? Check your water here.

We have pretty good water..  just make sure  you do NOT go in after a rain event! HUGE difference! Check it out inside pdf below.  Great Charts. BTW: Albany’s Hudson River water is worse than NYC. RIverkeeper is doing a great job testing local NYC waterways. Look at this PDF:  RvK_How-Is-the-Water_2006-10 to see charts on […]

Sept 17: NYC’s 1st Honey Fest!

HONEY FEST WEB SITE on the Rockaway boardwalk! MoS Collective’s mascots is a formation of 3 flying bees ” The Thunderbees”.  Bees are important to succession. Firefly Concierge will be there representing our like minded attributes. I’m looking forward to bee keeping at La Plaza eventually. If you want to try beekeeping drop us a […]

Are we filtering the wrong microbes?

Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?

Effective Microorganisms Reduce Radiation

Note from Shig Matsukawa: ” I think this is important since radioactive materials (fallout) are being detected throughout the world. this is Higa’s monthly message at EMROJapan.com: “The Damage Done by Radiation is Not Just Due to Radiation…” http://emrojapan.com/monthly-message/content/423.html After reading the above, you can click on “Previous” in the linked webpage above or click […]

Kids plan the future

Combine The Microtopia vision at Figment, the pop up adventure Play, Marco’s 4th grader art class which (he is doing urban planning design projects) and this pop-up book and we have a pretty cool future ahead. http://www.fastcompany.com/1759885/visualzing-childrens-plans-for-the-city-of-the-future-in-pop-up-book-form

Mushrooms & Water Restoration

Watch a clip of the documentary and read Luz Grace Terranova’s writing on The Amazon Mycorenewal Project (AMP) in Ecuador which is cleaning up the Chevron Oil Spills that have polluted local drinking water.

Connectivity, Art, Faces, Common Ground

Artists connecting people to each other and us to them. Exposing the humanity hidden behind the walls and across the boarders. TED TALK: Turn the world Inside Out.

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 […]

Underground City

 

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 […]

Revitalizing Public Space

Ask what could you do.. not should. You are revealing what is there not creating something new. Revitalizing public space: “There are always people there. It’s Place making. There is an enormous amount of energy that is already there. Release it a let it grow. You can’t know what is there. It’s magical. There are […]

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 […]

City of Dreams – Curibita, Brazil

It’s not a dream. It’s a necessity. Watch the video!   City of Dreams – Brazil Jaime Lerner : Brazilian urban planning guru. – He has a commitment to simplicity, no fear of simplicity. – Cities should have 3 main principles: mobility, sustainability, identity _transportation _extensive networks of parks: used flooding to his benefit, no mowing […]

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.

EM’s antidote to PUs

NY takes Phosphorus out of dishwashing detergents

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 […]