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.
Help us help our waterways Riverkeepers’ Fishermens’ Ball April 26, Chelsea Piers, NYC. Click for info and tickets. Make a commitment to safe water.
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 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 South Queens Greenway Image by Jennifer Cromie, Newtownards,UK More design ideas on the link.
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 .. […]
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. […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?
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 […]
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
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.
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.
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 […]
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Goodbye-to-a-Waterfront-Leader.html?soid=1102224464492&aid=pFeSC9jeykI.
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 […]
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? “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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]