Southampton NY. August 8th 2012 After swimming in bioluminesence in a bay near my friend’s house, visiting the ponds and lakes around South Hampton with Gary Glanz and receiving an email about the Mill River Pond that is full of phosphorus I decided to do some catching up on phosphorus in Wikipeadia. The lakes I visited […]
August 11th, 2012 | Tags: bioluminescence, Eastern Long Island, Mud Balls, phosphorus, Southampton | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything | Comments Off on Phosphorus: Eastern Long Island
(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 […]
August 11th, 2012 | Tags: Ag & Ecology, Belgium, Beneficial Microbes, bioremediation, EMRO, microbes, MODDBALLEN, Mud Balls, natural cleaning, water | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on MODDERBALLEN!
DD Maucher in Sag Harbor talking about the MoS Collective and water healing mud balls.
August 7th, 2012 | Tags: 4. Everything, bioremediation, East Long island, EM-1 Mud balls, Hamptons, living systems design, Montauk, Permaculture, sag harbor, women | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Resources, 4. Everything, Workshops | Comments Off on Teach-in Picnic
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
July 31st, 2012 | Tags: food justice, Grow, oxfam, wealthy consumers | Category: 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on Oxfam Launches “GROW”
FALL 2012 October 6 and 7: the weekend Harvest Arts Festival! Lower East Side Community Gardens — free Produced by LUNGS NYC.org (lower East Side Community Gardens) (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) At La Plaza Garden (9th St / Ave B-C) MoS’S LaboRAtory of Arts: We will be teaching and making Beneficial Mud Balls body lotion all […]
July 31st, 2012 | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on Oct. WORKSHOPS & PARTIES
July 7 2012 Gowanus is doable? [meaning it can be cleaned-up partly with EM-1] PSM in a quick email… “Yes, compared to the biological capacity of the Gowanus edges low water volume because it is shallow relatively rapid diffusion rate because the volume is relatively small, and large comparative volume of tidal input and comported […]
July 20th, 2012 | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on [MoS Arch-Duke Mankiewicz] Is Gowanus Doable?
Okay, but it is still good maybe? YES! depends on your nose. It is the Pediococcus that has gotten inside somehow. A naturally occuring bacteria. It is considered a contaminant when making beer and Activated EM. Here’s what Susan Greenfield wrote, an EM-1 seller, family farmer, and large scale bokashi composter at El SOl Brilliante Garden […]
July 18th, 2012 | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 2. Food & Recipes (new), 4. Everything | Comments Off on My Activated EM-1 Smells like Vomit
Food + Tech is one of my favorite meet ups with Danielle. I biked to filthy mid town for this in 100 degree heat. Natural heat I don’t mind but the heat from cars /trucks and energy hog buildings is nasty. Vents were spewing out more heat. I have a sore throat from talking so […]
July 18th, 2012 | Tags: FOOD+TECH, meet-up, New York City, online food distribution platforms | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 7/17 Food + Tech Meet Up: Food Distribution
Jersey City Sustainable Green Drinks + Art + Beneficial Mud Ball teaching with Shig, DD and friends. Thursday 19th > http://www.meetup.com/Sustainable-Jersey-City/events/67470672/ Thursday, July 19, 2012, 6:00 PM To 9:00 PM. Culinary Conference Center @ Hudson County Community College. 161 Newkirk St. Building E , Jersey City , NJ (map) a short walk from the Journal Square PATH Station It’s all about fun […]
July 16th, 2012 | Tags: Beneficial Microbes, EM Mud Balls, Jersey Sustainable green drinks | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 7/19 Green Drinks + Art + Mud Balls
Help test treat the Gowanus Canal with beneficial microorganisms! The microbial solution eats the waste, breaks down toxins and binds the metals so they can not be absorbed by living things. Double your money on IOBY this month! https://ioby.org/project/beneficial-mud-balls-gowanus Helping at the root of the problem for long-term benefits. The program includes: workshops and fun interactive […]
June 28th, 2012 | Tags: biology, bioremediation, clean rivers, Cleaning polluted waterways, Crowd Source Participation (new), educational activities, Effective micro-organisms, effective microbes, Gowanus Canal, In our Backyard, IOBY, MoS Collective | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments (4)
Claudia Keel, nutritionist herbalist, is the chapter head for the Westen A Price Foundation — NYC Chapter. She coordinates opportunities to buy on line and pick up traditional foods in NYC. They have a facebook page with a web site to come. facebook.com/WAPF.NYC It was at El Jardin Garden in the East Village, NYC. I […]
June 28th, 2012 | Tags: cheese cake, fermentation, NY City, NYC, pasture raised meat and poultry, Pot Luck, raw milk pick up, traditional foods, Weston A Price Foundation | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 2. Food & Recipes (new), 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 6/24: The Spread! at the Traditional Food Pot Luck
Haiti Post Earthquake Reconstruction and Cultural Preservation Tour February 2013, Date: TBD Workshops | Composting | Aquaponics | Beekeeping | Entrepreneurship Reposting, download PDF. Please share. My NYC Permaculture friend, Ki Ki, is hosting this workshop in his country of Haiti. He has been working on this for several years and this will be a wonderful opportunity for learning, helping and understanding. […]
June 28th, 2012 | Tags: August, beekeeping, Composting, contribution, Cultural, Donations, Earthquake, entrepreneurship, Environmental Vacation, Green, Haiti, Permaculture, reconstruction, tour, Volunteer, workshops | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Workshops | Comments Off on February 2013: Help Green Haiti Tour
June 17, 2012: MoS Chief Instigator, Dee Dee, went to visit the for the final presentations of Andrew Faust and Adriana Magaña’s Permacutlure Design Course. A big milestone because this is the first course they are presenting at their new center in Ellenville, their homestead. I was fortunate to be invited to watch the presentations, meet […]
June 28th, 2012 | Tags: andrew faust, Biodynamic, Center for bioregional Living, Ellenville, New York, PDC, Permaculture, Permaculture Certificate course, Training | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Workshops | Comments Off on A Visit to The Center for Bioregional Living
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
June 14th, 2012 | Tags: Beneficial Microbes, bioremediation, bokashi, Ecological, microbes, Mud Balls, natural cleaning, Succession | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on NYT: Human Microbiome Project Decodes our 100 Trillion Good Bacteria
By JAY LINDSAY, Associated Press http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgFGzyoPMhDX-6vrhR4mgCypVcEg?docId=981a2a956b5c4078a8eacc63d80aaa56
June 14th, 2012 | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on Japanese composting may be new food waste solution
FIGMENT NYC 2012: The Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls! Thank you Keat, Shig, Michael, Naoko, TIm and all the others that helped out at the MoS Stockpile Saturday at FIGMENT Project! Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/MoSCollective?feature=watch Click for IOBY Campaign for the Gowanus Canal: Tax Deduction and swag and more fund events >>> SUPPORT ACCELERATED WATER CLEANING with microbes that eat […]
June 13th, 2012 | Tags: beneficial, bioremediation, clean water, EMRO Japan, environment, environmentalism, Figment, Michael Van Patten, microbes, MoS Collective, Mud Balls, pollution, Shig Matsukawa | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Video: Figment Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls
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 […]
June 11th, 2012 | Tags: Bard College, conference, New Economics Institute | Category: 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on 6/16 “Strategies for a New Economy”
Hi world, New Successive Hat!! Buy an authentic Miki Katagiri Super Sun Shade Hat. It IS GOOD FOR YOU: This wide brim hat you will protect your eyes as well as your face and back of the neck from sun damage. Also use to a natural SPF 4 is the highest natural sunscreen. White Zinc […]
June 7th, 2012 | Tags: beneficial hats to clean the Gowanus., Crowd Source Participation (new), fashion, fund raising, Hats, local, made in Brooklyn | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Products, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on A Hat to Help You & Our Waterways!
Yes, Mud Balls have been proven to do clean polluted waterways, ocean bays. lakes and rivers around the world. Large bays like Panang Bay was cleaned up in 3 years. Help us do a patch test in the Gowanus. With this we aim to substantiate a city wide clean up of our waterways using EM-1 […]
June 5th, 2012 | Tags: bioremediation, Crowd Source Participation (new), donate. IOBY, EM-1 Mud balls, Gowanus Canal | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Can Beneficial Mud Balls Clean the Gowanus Canal?
Early this season I took a bucket of finagled bokashi fermented Food waste to sandwich in the terrace planters. Then I put in the seeds. I have never grown parsley from seed very well. Piece a cake. Look at how tall this grass is behind this wild tiger. It is twice as high as usual […]
June 5th, 2012 | Tags: bokashi, kale., parsley, planters, pots, seeds | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Seedlings Thrive with Bokashi Layer in Pots
In pursuit of being on the water more often and supporting the use of its’ convenient and beautiful means of transport. Yes, MoS is all about quality of life and sustainable solutions and the river is a wonderful place for us. Our friends on the Fireboat went up to Kingston for educational purposes for a […]
June 4th, 2012 | Tags: boat trip, hudson Rover, River transport | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on MoS Exploratory River Trip
Come put to Governors Island for Figment Project!! Participatory arts festival! Sat and Sunday! June 9 and 10. The stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls will be set up and ready for throwing. Thursday we deliver the, now hard crusty fermented, mud balls to the island. The MoS archy will be there to answer questions and […]
June 4th, 2012 | Tags: bioremediation, Figment installation, Mud Balls | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 6/9 Sat Figment NY Stockpile throw!
Thank-you everyone who made it to the Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Ball. Photos below! I didn’t get the photo ops until Keat Reminded me. More photos maybe to come from other. Check Facebook.com/moscollective also The event started with champagne and strawberries courtesy of Greg Sherman. Then Shig stated with an explanation of beneficial microbes and […]
June 4th, 2012 | Tags: 3. Figment Project, Bob White Counter, bokashi, Burning Down the House, Crowd Source Participation (new), El Jardin Del Paraiso, Force n Flow Movement, green Haiti, Harvest Radio Network, IOBY, JImmy's No. 43, MoS Collective Beneficial Mud Balls, OWS Sustainability Group, Shig, Sixth Street Center, The Gaia Institute NY, Time-up!, Vokashi | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 2. The Mud Ball Ball, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Photos Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Ball
Yes Folks, Scene 2: Sunday 5/27 “The Official” Beneficial Mud Ball Benefit Ball: 3pm – 8pm again at El Jardin del Paraiso NY NY 10009. Between 4th and 5th St and Ave C /D. Come in your Mud ball gowns and play clothes to make 700 mud balls and dance with your dirty friends to […]
May 21st, 2012 | Tags: beneficial mudballs, bioremediation, Crowd Source Participation (new), Figment | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 2. The Mud Ball Ball, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 5/27 Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial Ball Scene 2
MoS set up It’s concept of Abundance for The Great Reskiling put on by Ecophilia. MoSCollective’s Summer Decadence offerings for care of ourselves, each-other and inturn the environment. • Sewing old T-shirts in to very cool bikinis. We upcycled a great t from Food Democracy Now! with a quote in the back of the bottom […]
May 20th, 2012 | Tags: botanical products, f, Grow food at home, inheritable abundance, Permaculture, town planning, transition towns | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on The Great ReSkilling
; Yes Folks This Sunday (and next Sunday). Watershed Stewardship with The Beneficial Mud Ball Benefit Ball: “The Rehersal” Come in your big ball gowns, or summer play clothes to make mud balls (50 balls each) and dance with your dirty friends to Harry Connick Jr and New Orleans Jazz. Eat oysters and flaming brandy […]
May 19th, 2012 | Tags: 3. Figment Project, beneficial mud balls, benefit, bioremediation, Crowd Source Participation (new) | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 2. The Mud Ball Ball, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on 5/20 Mud Ball Ball Scene 1
Check out whose in the parade: Parade order : http://danceparade.org/wp/parade-order-final/
May 18th, 2012 | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, New York City, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on NYC 6th Annual Dance Parade order
From the seed exchange circle at the OWS Farmers Solidarity celebration event and march I was given hand picked black bean seeds from the Trail of Tears in Asheville, NC. I have planted the seeds and have several growing very well in the La Plaza Garden and on a Bushwick Terrace.
May 8th, 2012 | Tags: collecting, community garden, food, seeds | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 2. Food & Recipes (new), 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on The Trail of Tears Black Bean Seeds
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, […]
May 6th, 2012 | Tags: competition, cooperation, Grow food, non competition, philosophy | Category: 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on Last Page Except from Bill Mollison’s Book
Figment 2012, June 9 & 10! Figment Project 2012 SATURDAY 6/9 (SUN if there are any left) ON THE FIGMENT MAP C9 : that is along the waterfront before Castle William as your are coming off the ferry. http://newyork.figmentproject.org/figment-nyc-2012/figment-nyc-2012-artists-projects/ scroll to the S’s. At Figment: The second official throw event in the USA! (That is […]
April 10th, 2012 | Tags: 3. Figment Project, Beneficial Microbes, bioremediation, Governors' Island, microbes, Mud Balls, Permaculture, Succession, sustainability | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on June 9: FIGMENT: Stockpile of Beneficial Mud Balls!