Permaculture Tour Israel Sept 2011

Noa Peled is hosting a very important inspirational PC tour in Israel! http://tour.ecodoc.co.il/ (The map is interactive on the web site.)

Permaculture Jordon Conference ’11

Permaculture Jordon Conference 2011 with Bill Mollison, Special Guest. Sept. 2011.

Are we filtering the wrong microbes?

Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?

Permaculture in the NYTimes

Permaculture Movement Grows from Underground 2011/07/28 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/garden/permaculture-emerges-from-the-underground.html?_r=2&emc=eta1 (this is late bc the upload failed on the 29th so I’m redoing the upload)

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 […]

Mini Golf Glutton

Here is the blue shell in action eating balls.  I put a seedling pot in the hole as a temporary fix which worked great until it was removed by a curious George. Photo of before on next page. After Revitalization: What a relief. Much better for us.

Miki’s NYFA Mud Ball Edu: buzzing wonder

MoS Collective: SATURDAY JULY 30th Weeksville Heritage Center hosted the NYFA sponsored project with Laundromat Project and Immigrants Arts event called “Seeding the City”. Miki Katagiri proposed Beneficial Mud Ball bioremediation class.  The MoS Collective went along to help her teach:  Shig, TIm, Naoko, Keat & DD. People came from a far to learn about […]

Healing Arts Festival

Saturday, July 30 2011 11:00-6:30 the Commons Brooklyn 388 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 With hour-long panels to introduce different kinds of medicine. Opening and closing ceremonies on the beautiful rooftop garden. FOOD & NUTRITION Angela Davis-Weston A. Price and Just Food Hannah Springer-Children and Nutrition Jared Koch-Clean Plates (www.cleanplates.com/) Shoshanna Levy-Nutrition Evolution (http://nutritionevolution.net) Jonathan […]

Google Earth Updated Figment Mini Golf!

Google Maps and Earth refreshed the mini-golf area. The street view is still old though. There is Phyllis the snail!  (The yellow square with the upside down snail shape) Google updated “Figment” Terrace. Go by and try the course!  The top hole is broken so I put a pot in it to catch the ball– […]

Urban Beautification Workshops & Potluck

When: Sat., July 30, 2011 | 12.- 5pm Where: Weeksville Heritage Center, 1698 Bergen St, Brooklyn, NY 11213 Cost: Free Making an Apartment Planter with Household Materials How to Solarize A Toy DIY: Tips on how to make your Home Sustainable Double Digging to Grow More in Less Space Learn the Benefits of Permaculture Learn […]

Solar Cells Now Printed on Anything: Paper, Fabric

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/solar-cells-can-now-be-printed-on-anything-even-paper-and-fabric.php  

Gaia Institute: 1 more: Flushing Twin Lakes Restoration

Complete with Olympic rowing course> >> Flushing Meadows Lakes and Watershed Restoration: http://www.gaiainstituteny.org/ There is no direct link==  quoted below. There are more papers attached to this presentation. “The Gaia Institute recently released its ecologically engineered design of the 2,000-meter rowing course to the 2012 Olympic Proposal Committee.  Presently, the Twin Lakes of Flushing Meadows […]

Green Wall filters Heavy Metals

  I lifted this off their web site because the link just goes to the home page. Very exciting work. Green Wall: Hugo Neu, Hunts Point, Bronx, NY The Gaia Institute, along with Young Environmental, LLC, has developed a stormwater treatment system to store, filter, and evaporate runoff from the Hugo Neu metals recycling facility […]

Biogeochemical Cap At El Jardin

ABOUT EL JARDIN del  PARAISO El Jardin plan: GaiaInstituteNY.org We visited El Jardin during permaculture certification with the wetlands expert, Bill Young. Paul Mankeiwicz explains this process at the garden at the annual MoS Mud Ball Ball and Oyster Shuck. This property is believed to be the first biogeochemical cap and storm water capture parkland in the […]

Next Shig Workshops: No Stink composting! El Jardin

Next Bokashi “Fermenting food Scrap” Workshops!! Saturdays in July 2011 Great for apt! Easier than composting. No Smell, no rotting, no flies. at El Jardin del Paraiso community garden on East 5th Street between Ave C & D (the large garden spanning from 4th to 5th Street) July 16, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm July 23, […]

Colorful living!

Kind of like Waterview Cluster in Lake Anne Village.. .  I can see the inspiration… There are more!  http://www.theurbn.com/2011/07/global-snapshots-color-me-bright/ Are they happier people?  Imagine angry domestic disputes and rebellious teenagers– harder than imagining abundant welcoming people. Imagine an oil spill to the left and all the fish are dead. Imagine the large fishing boats casting […]

Undersea Resilient Biomimicratic City Vision

This article post a city vision. Yo.. just as we were all envisioning! but why is it always motivated by fear? Why ferment your food waste because it is taking waste out of the municipal garbage which cost money and creates grnhouse gases which are killing us. How about bc is makes amazing fertilizer and […]

MȯS invited to Water Concert by Pedal Power

MoS Collective was invited to offer workshops at Pedal Power Concert by Shira, one of our Brunch Bokahsi and Mud Ball workshop participants! They needed the whole system to be represented. The bike pedaling energy-food waste-soil building-food producing-spiral. The food eating humans make power for their music with bikes, breathing, microbes and fresh water! The […]

The Yankee Ferry Grows Food

A video tour <  http://youtu.be/CLXwm8_AkkI > of the Yankee Ferry before the chickens — Photo of the corn field on the dock.  

MȯS conducts 1st US Mud Ball Launch: Shakespeare visits!

Video Clip Succession is fun throwing Mud Balls + they clean water. Succession is fun throwing Mud Balls + they clean water + they attract sonnets. Succession is fun throwing Mud Balls + they clean water + which attract sonnets + doing “Thunder Bees” + “Sonneting”. NEXT MISSION: Succession is; Mud Balls + the Thunder […]

Expedition Gowanus

Expedition Gowanus.     Here is a new venture.– a boat — a laboratory and showspace for do-it-yourself sustainability experiments. Moving up and down the Gowanus teaching sustainability. MoS will have to initiate a conversation on EM-1 use and mud balls edu and events. Every boat should use copious amounts of EM-1. Surrounded in a […]

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

Why Permaculture? Symbiosis.

http://vimeo.com/25096579 Words from Andrew Faust from whom several MȯS collaborators received a Permaculture Design Certificate.  

Donate: Figment Mini Golf!

Keep it free for everyone! http://newyork.figmentproject.org/get-involved/donate/ Mention it is for MoS Collective Food Spiral Mini Golf. “The Micro Bug Food Spiral” is in need of repairs due to all the fun on the course and gazziollions of fans. Unprecedented numbers are ravaging the mini-golf this year. The same children from the Willie Wonka were obviously playing […]

Little League Pitches Beneficial Mud Balls w MȯS

The Little League passed by and took some pitches. Watch You Tube Clip. They were playing on Governors Island during Figment Week-end. Impressive form.. we should do an entire workshop with the Little league and clean up the Gowanus. Alas:: it was time for them to play for real when coach walked by and said, […]

Beneficial Mud Balls Blast

More photos later – thanks everyone for coming out on a rainy day! Rain schmain. The little league walked by and pitched! The Shakespeare Anywhere ‘s came by for pitching while spewing sonnets. We created the thunderbee (like the thunderbirds airforce performers turned into be pollinators cleaning the waterways) formation launch sequence. The sonnets joined […]

Thank you Italo! (Wee hours before Figment Sat.)

All ready.. have everything except time to sleep.  Time to thank a silent supporter who makes visions happen. Italo Morelli, the Executive Producer for all things MoS. Thank you Italo for helping with Figment and New Museum! He even did a beautiful job sewing the hem arond the banner. Then provided an amazing feast and […]

Mud Ball Set-Up: Bazooka Droppers

Super Bazooka Mud Ball Droppers made last night by John Eberenz. With little time to make a propelling bazooka he opted for a simple dropper … to be upgraded for the next event. Italo made a mobilization capability.  

US 1st EM-1 Mud balls to Clean Water! Figment 6/11

  Participatory Art Installation “Stockpiles of Beneficial Mud balls” Propel Sat: 6/11 from 10:30-12pm Figment Festival 2011 NYC!  Figment is a participatory arts festival; non-commercial, spreading to other cities quickly.) THis will be the first mud balls for cleaning water event in US. We have hundreds of balls ready to toss. Where:  On Governors Island […]

Amazing FIGMENT Terrace Time Lapse – Construction & Opening Weekend!

MoS Food Spiral Snail is the white square on the Left. (we were not there Sat. This is Friday, Sat Sun Construction and The following Friday opening week end. (it doesn’t include the 4 mid week work days. FIGMENT GO time from Chris Jay on Vimeo.