Click to view the gallery of card postings from the OWS Food Solidarity Map. This interactive map was started at the Farmers’ March at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden, NYC, 12/4/2011. Send your additions: Location | Problem | Solution | Contact info Indicate if you want the contact listed online or not Gallery: http://moscollective.net/11-12-04-Farmers-March-FooD-Solidarity-Map/
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy Jan. 20-22, 2012: Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC Rise and Fall choreographic dance work is based on the cycle of a civilization running the following cycle: a new beginning, tracing footprints and remnants of the past, developing population, agriculture, industrialization, modernization, gross consumption, awareness, terror, population dissipation and knowledge to begin again. […]
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 […]
Food+Tech Connect and Gojee are bringing together journalists, technologists, designers, policy makers, and food data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that help the public better understand how the Farm Bill impacts our lives. The hackathon will take place as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. The Farm Bill effects us all – influencing […]
“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 […]
“Legos are expensive” donation box. Apparently some Occupy activists are having good results by requesting donations for needs. This one, very nice person, was not interested in free Legos from Lego. He is independent. The Occupy Arts offered him something but he said no, he is independent. We showed him the bottle cap collection as […]
Envisioning the Queens Highline South Queens Greenway Image by Jennifer Cromie, Newtownards,UK More design ideas on the link.
Thursday early 10/27 all the generators were removed from OWS. An urgent call went out for more bike power by sundown. There was not enough time to receive the ones on order. Boston Occupy offered 5 bikes. At 2pm there was a van on it’s way. Bike power is the right kind of thinking. Some […]
This is a good overall resource for using the beneficial bacteria EM-1. This was sent out as a response for settlement use at Occupy 2011. Also mentioned for the pooping potential solutions discussed but never materialized. Not sure what they did when McD’s was closed. EM-1 bacteria solution loves waste. Shig brings it on straight. […]
Vimeo video: Link to video Permaculture at OWS There is now an OSW Permaculture group. For those of you who want to participate the second meeting is Thursday 13, 5:30 at the red cube which is a private space where sit down meetings can not occur for very long. If it moves look for postings […]
Churches, Banks, nail salons, hair dressers, bodegas. Does a complete healthy food store have no place in a town center? Since this building was for sale — over a year or 2 — no one magically stepped up to start a food co-op on Lake Anne Plaza in Reston, VA however, it is perfect for that […]
As we ramp up for a presentation to start Mud Balls in NYC Schools… this article by Dr.Teruo Higa is sent to me by Shig. Read about the results of “A million Apologies to Mother Earth” project in Panang where over a million beneficial mud balls were thrown into the sea . Dr. Teruo Higa talks of […]
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 .. […]
MoS represented last year at Eco Cities 2011, in Montreal. MoS represented at the Montreal EcoCity World Summit. We went to the conference – viewed panels, shared time and poignant conversation with the founder Richard Register. Previously we had met him for an interview and tour of the East Village Gardens with Wendy Brawer of […]
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 […]
Great fun outside today Sunday 9-11-11: canning– jarring. We learned the basics in canning food. A nice way to commemorate 9-11. The jars we made are visually beautiful. We also tasted delicious dilly beans previously made by Molly. Amazingly delicious! Yum! I don’t know if I can wait until winter to eat mine. My grandmother […]
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
The 10th International Ecocity Conference Nantes, France, September 23-27, 2013 http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/what-we-do/intl-conference-series/ The Deputy Mayor of the City was sitting next to the MoS Collective table. I overheard amongst the french words “Americans” twice. So I had to interrupt. They were wondering how many Americans would come. They asked me if Americans would come. “Well, I […]
Here is our friend Michelle this summer making a cob oven on her vacation at Metta Earth in Vermont. Why not have your own cob oven? It doesn’t last as long as a masonry oven but who needs it to last that long? By the time the cob one wears out you’ll want to “redecorate” […]
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 […]
http://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com/events/ Neat class Sept 10th at the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm. I have had success with a mushroom chunk “patch” from fungi Perfecti which grows shiitake. It is dormant right now. I lost the plastic that went cover it so I made my own. Then it turned green bc of not enough circulation. Apparently, I […]
The East Side Manhattan waste water goes to The New Town Creek Treatment Plant. Then the cleaned products goes to the river and farms. Ahh, I hope they don’t grow food but they do. The pellets feed cattle, grow corn and wheat. It is processed with beneficial bacteria in the “digester eggs” […]
I didn’t think this was going to be such a big deal so I didn’t take a before photo. A large paint brush I used to put the cement on to the Snail Shell of the Mini Golf.. it hardened full of cement. So I tried my best.. then gave up.. threw it in […]
It’s ready! Make a donation and receive The MoS Fermented Starter. We made bokashi for workshop participants requesting it. Click “read more” to get some bokashi, organize your building, arrange pick up schedule, read pros/cons list & find next free workshop. We offer: • workshops at your home, building and office, contact us • set up […]
I saved up 2 1/2 containers of food waste before I had time to trench it. With compost I would have had to put it in the freezer. I brought the 2 containers of pickled-ness to my plot in the East Village and trenched it. I took out the arugula section for one container and […]