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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.
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.
Masters of Succession are teaching teachers how to make Beneficial Mud Balls to bioremediate the waterways. The EM-1 microbial solution is fermented inside them. This is on rainy day hosted by Vandra, of Vokashi Service fame, set us up. She also was able to get some dirt– on the-not-dry-so-dry-side. Lol– so this batch is very […]
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 […]
Here is the Permaculture Design Plan for Lake Anne Village. I 2009 All rights reserved DD Maucher. Republish for education and non for profit only. Background: The county and place of Reston gas been for yard trying to regenerate economy in this village center. Once big box and lots of shopping choices moved the money […]
Burning Down The House Radio program hosted by Curtis B. Wayne. Talk with DD Maucher of the MoS Collective about growing up in Reston Va and on bioremediation with Beneficial Mud Balls with EM-1 microbial inoculate and other natural solutions. (I think this was a first) “Listen in this week on Burning Down the house […]
In this film research we are defrosting 1960’s Reston to see if there is anything there we can learn to help the next generation build places for our new regenerative lifestyles. Raising Reston is the story of trials and tribulations of Mr. Simon’s life and how he managed to build a thriving new town from […]
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 […]
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 […]
6th Annual Spring free SEED CELEBRATION Saturday, April 21, 201211am – 3pm The Old Stone House in Washington Park, Park Slope, BK (btwn 3rd & 4th St and 4th & 5th Ave) – seed art – seed sales – seed trading – seed saving library – seed saving kit raffle – guess that seed! – hands-on learning – […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
March 3, 2012, 11 am SAT It’s at Trilok in Brooklyn, Fort Greene. 143 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205 map Each month Vokashi holds demonstrations on fermenting food waste and other applications of EM-1 in water and soil remediations at Trilok Fusion Center. Vokashi is pleased that the MOS Collective will lead this hands on demonstration of making EM-bokashi […]
NYC: Come with the Masters Of Succession and many other groups as we save and spread and grow seeds. http://events.ran.org/occupyourfoodsupply/events/show/5761 Monday, February 27, 2012 at 11:30am/ 2pm / 3pm Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together the Occupy, sustainable farming, food justice, buy local, slow food, and environmental movements for a global day of action […]
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 […]
Founder’s Day – 2012 Bob Simon’s Birthday 4/12 & Family History Story 4/19. Sat. April 12, in Reston ,Va: Community Celebration of Reston’s 48th & Bob Simon’s 98th Birthday Sat., April 19, 2012 Mr. Simon Talks on his Family History 12:00 – 3:00 pm Lake Anne Village Center FREE Family Fun There will be lots of […]
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 […]
There is such a position: Jonathan Greenblatt, Director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The early years of Reston Mr. Simon had for the town someone in a position like this as well. Very important person this was (restonmuseum.org). Social Innovation Symposium: Innovative Thinking for Social Good. Innovation is at the core […]
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, […]
Some members of MoS went down to Foley Square to support the Farmers as they came out of court on Tuesday am. It was an inspiring day. These family farmers had come along way for this day. (This is just the beginning). They were not happy and very disappointed in the behavior of the judge. […]
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 […]
Help us help our waterways Riverkeepers’ Fishermens’ Ball April 26, Chelsea Piers, NYC. Click for info and tickets. Make a commitment to safe water.
By The Sustainability Practices Network listserve. A discussion focusing on consumption services. Today people are reassessing the value of our consumer culture and scaling back on purchases. In response, many people are turning to collaborative consumption to save money and build community. Collaborative consumption is an economic model of sharing, swapping, bartering, renting or borrowing […]
Some of the Masters Of Succession took a tour of the custom made Greenpeace boat fresh off the press. It was built in Germany for Greenpeace. 25 million or so Euros. First boat of it’s kind with the A frame masts. They are off to the Amazon stopping n nyc for a week. One of […]
Hydro-electric doesn’t have to be done high tech to turn on a business. These delicious pancake mixes are made by this old mill by using the water. Small beautiful business provides a healthy ecosystem for now and preserves it for generations to come. Pancake Mix! from an ol’fashioned mill
he says. “If I wanted to live in a car-dependent area with a great big house, those would be quite affordable.” —
that makes me hurt inside. We tried to bring more walkable areas but were beaten down.
Mr. Simon didn’t say that but If he did I would quote him.
I didn’t know to try because I lived in Reston and didn’t know people were looking for it. It was designed with big roads for cars and it had walking paths. It was a balance.
If you research the original plans from 1964 you will see what wasn’t supported by Golf Development Corporation after 1967. Granted Mr. Simon didn’t sell enough homes to make his town successful in the beginning. Golf people knew what to do to change that negative spiral of sales. They gave the mass market what they wanted–what advertising was selling them. Reston grew and prospered in this balance of what people thought they want and what they didn’t know they liked. This new plan of mixing global traditions and new ideas slowly faded in order to sell more single family tradition doll houses with pitched roofs and small windows. Golf then sold it to Mobil for a profit. Mobil sold the remaining land for a huge profit and Terrabrook who sold their remaining land. Last I checked, in ’07 there were 5 acres left for a million and acre. The descendent developers changed things but they didn’t touch the Lake Anne area. There was no reason to tear that apart because it was planned too well. Simon in the 60’s was selling against what advertising was selling. Mr Simon had a different kind of living in mind being from NYC and having lived in Europe. Sprawl, isolation and segregation were not on his agenda.
The DOcumentary: “Designing Healthy Communities,” AIRS this now or soon: in New York, WLIW, 101 and 102, Thursday, February 2 at 4am; 103 and 104 Friday, February 3 at 4am.
— 4 am! that is insane maybe bc NYers don’t live in sprawl– everywhere else though it is airing when people are awake. Sorry DC/VA/MD you don’t see it at all. The land of sprawl. I’ll find in it on line and post the link — if I think it is good.)
DONATE to the film about Reston/MR SImon and the Early Kids of Reston. Email MoS collective info for details to participate in anyway. Production has started and stopped.
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/farmersmarchv/ Nice video of the OWS Farmers’ March, NYC produced by Food Democracy Now! Looking at problems and solutions. More photos by DD’s phone.
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Farm Bill Hackathon Makes Tools to Visualize Broad Set of Food & Ag issues . Over the weekend the Farm Bill Hackathon brought together (in person and virtually) 120 designers, data scientists, developers, marketing professionals, food policy experts, and USDA employees, to “hack” one of the most important pieces of legislation in the U.S. – the […]