TIME AGAIN for the fun and frivolous participatory arts project FIGMENT On Governors Island June 10-12! “What are you bringing?” Come Rove with Food Spirals Usurping! JOIN The Masters of Succession Leave a Better Trace cargo trike Food Spiral Usurpers. Lead by MoS Collective! June 11, Sat 10-6! on the Isle of Gov Meet 10:30 – […]
June 6th, 2011 | Tags: compost, Figment, leave No Trace, Mini gold, Mud ballls, Soil building, Usurpers | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Figment Sat 6/11 Roving Food Spiral Usurpers
There were 35,000 people on the island the first week end. Estimating at least 10,000 played the minigolf. That was a lot of wear and tear. So we are enduring the toxic resin to bulletproof as much as possible. Our first 2 patches were with fiberglass and that worked well so we will aim to […]
June 4th, 2011 | Tags: Figment Project 2011, irrigation, Italo, Mini golf | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Mini Golf for the Masses! (35 thou 1st w-end!)
Figment Mini Golf has opened! The the MoS Collective’s Composting Micro Bug Food Spiral! Mini Golf will be in progress changing and refining. Come play! We will be visiting the island and making additions and adjustments. The shell trail is not smoothed out yet. So like the Google logo the course will change everyday. I was […]
May 28th, 2011 | Tags: arts, Composting, food growing, Governors' Island, installation, Mini golf, water harvesting, whole systems thinking | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Figment Mini Golf Opening !
It’s on Facebook.. so much faster and easier to use than WordPress theme. https://www.facebook.com/pages/MoS-Collective-The-Masters-Of-Succession/147802135283324
May 12th, 2011 | Category: 4. Everything | Comments Off on Shopping for Micro Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf hole
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May 10th, 2011 | Category: 4. Everything | Comments Off on MȯS’s FACEBOOK STREAM
Map your abundant selves on the Local Abundance map. Grow our new economy and communities by learning about each other and then connecting to each other. Go to: Local Abundance NYC Map Please volunteer to help with this map. We have these cards filled out and many to input. We are a bit back-logged. Please […]
May 10th, 2011 | Tags: activities, favorite spots, home made, locally owned, mapping local artisans, parks, sustainability | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Resources, 4. Everything | Comments Off on Abundance Cards & Map!
http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/blog More photos of our festive day to come.
May 10th, 2011 | Tags: beneficial mud balls, Brooklyn mompost, Firefly concierge, mapping, microbes, New Museum, Raganella home and body, watershed | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on 50,000 visitors at NuMu Festival of Ideas
Curator: Marga Snyder, of Firefly Conceirge. View Local Abundance NYC Map
May 5th, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, activities, compost, concierge, Ecological, food, gardens, local, map, natural, NYC, parks, Permaculture, shops | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on NYC Local Abundance Map
Mapping to others for abundance New Museum Festival of Ideas for a New City: Saturday, May 7 Taking care of ourselves, others and as a bi-product we are taking care of the environment. Connecting to Self: Liz of Raganella botanicals will be demonstrating how to make your own body products. Connecting to Others: At the […]
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: activities, entertainment, festival of ideas, Fire Fly Concierge, food, local, mapping, Marga Snyder, neigborhood, New Museum, NYC, parks, Permaculture, restaurants, services, shopping | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on Fest of Ideas: Mapping Local NYC Abundance
Mapping the watersheds for abundance at the New Museum Festival of Ideas for a New City! Shig Matsukawa will be offering effective microbe workshops at the MoS Collective Tent! ( In the park just below Houston betwn Chrystie and Forsythe) Come by the Masters of Succession: MoS tent to map out where you live in […]
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: bokashi, community garden, El Jardin, event, fermentation, festival of ideas, Get involved, microbes, New Museum, NYC, Shig, soil, workshops | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on Fest of Ideas: Shig’s Microbe Workshops!
Connecting to the Earth for Abundance Summer Saturdays w Shig ! All Summer! RSVP to make sure it is happening. Recycle Food Waste Workshop For fermenting food into soil WHEN: Saturdays: 2-4pm WHERE: at El Jardin 5th St Between Ave B and Ave C, NY NY RSVP: www.recyclefoodwaste.org to make reservation FREE: donations appreciated but not necessary […]
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: bokashi, community garden, compost, El Jardin, event, fermentation, Get involved, microbes, New Museum Festival of Ideas, NYC, Shig, soil, workshops | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on Shig’s Gd Microbe Wkshps Sats at El Jardin!
Connecting to self for abundance Liz of Raganella will be mapping our insides with healthy products that heal ourselves instead of harm. She will be teaching workshops on making your own beauty products and cleaning products. Come by and make some to take home. MoS table Location She has hand-made a really […]
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, beauty, brooklyn, health, home, liz Neves, natural cleaning products, natural homemade beauty products, New Museum Festival of Ideas, NY, watershed | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on Fest of Ideas! Raganella Homemade Lotions & Potions
The MȯS Collective: Supporting the succession of healthy water, air and soil Indulge in Local Abundance Sat. May 7: 11am- 7 pm The MȯS Collective will be on-site mapping people to themselves, others and the environment. We are curating healthy D.I.Y. workshops, as well as mapping neighbors to local goods, services, and environmental stewardships. We will […]
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: beauty, Composting, festival of ideas, food, Green Map, home, home made, microbes, New Museum, NYC, Permaculture, Street fair | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on Saturday: MȯS at Festival of Ideas!
Eric is the distributor for EM-1 in North America. He has produced many products with EM — even a delicious beer! He talks of a wider vision of EM-1. http://youtu.be/_WRBTKc3CYQ
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, Eric lancaster, microbes, urban planning | Category: 1. Beneficial Microbes/Mud Balls, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Eric Lancaster on EM-1
.MAPPING to EACH OTHER and the EARTH NYC, SAT. MAY 7: Annie Hauck-Lawson at the Masters of Succession table with us! Offering her Brooklyn Mompost! Come by and ask composting questions. She has the magic touch. She will have samples of her compost for your household plants. Your plants will thank you with their beauty. Annie Hauck-Lawson, […]
May 1st, 2011 | Tags: Annie Hauck-Lawson, festival of ideas, food, Gastropolis, mapping, May 7th, Mompost, MoS Collective, NYC, Permaculture, stories | Category: 4. Everything, 4. Festival of Ideas!, New York City | Comments Off on Annie’s Food Stories at Festival of Ideas
4/2: we had a fun group. Everyone was very excited ofcourse. We made a lot of mud balls — around 200. 4/23: More new stories! Really it is just never the same. This time we talked a lot about pets, animals and EM due to the recent NY Post write up. Shig shared some interesting stories about […]
April 24th, 2011 | Tags: Ag & Ecology, bioremediation, bokashi, Figment, JImmy's No. 43, Mud Balls | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on 4/24 BB&M update
Some of these animations by Hayao Miyazaki are from the 80’s and are very on target for today’s themes. I just saw NausicaA, of the Valley of the Winds, KiKi’s Delivery Service, Ponyo and Castle in the Sky, Howl’s Castle… Still many more to see.
April 24th, 2011 | Tags: animations, Miyazaki, movies, NausicaA, Ponyo | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Miyazaki Visionary Animations
Make your own mini eco-village right on your block or in your building FIRST STEP: 1. Collect neighbors’ needs and resources Please email us (dd at mos collective dot net ) with your data so we can Map it and add more people to your “village”. If you email us with the data (w aliases) we […]
April 24th, 2011 | Tags: Ag & Ecology, eco-village, Economy, local, mapping, participatory, Performance, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on “Eco-blocks” Make ur own Eco-village!
Calling For PARY PANTS People! Figment: JUNE 10-12. 1. Roving Gang of MICRO BUG FOOD SPIRAL People AKA: ROVING COMPOST APPREHENDERS 2. MICRO BUG FOOD SPIRAL Mini Golf 3. Mud Ball Stockpiles ————————————————————————- 1. CALLING Food Spiralers: Gang of Roving Compost Collectors Usurping Compostables from People Want something fun to do at Figment this year? […]
April 18th, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, Beneficial Microbes, Culture & Art, figment project NYC 2011, fun, New York City, participatory, Performance, Permaculture, project help and collaborators | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on CALLING for FIGMENT PARTY-PANTS PEOPLE & Mud Ball Propelling
The Compost Microbe Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf Hole http://www.indiegogo.com/FIGMENT-2011-Minigolf-Course Donations For MINI GOLF! Please donate! Each mini golf hole budget is $1000 in materials. They all have to be on raised platforms ($500). I suggested a $5 donation. #7 The Composting Micro Bug Food Spiral by Dee Dee Maucher of The MoS Collective http://newyork.figmentproject.org/long-term-exhibitions/2011figment-minigolf/ The multitudinous […]
April 17th, 2011 | Tags: 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, compost, Culture & Art, Dee Dee Maucher, fun, govenor's island, Mini golf, MoS Collective, New York City, NYC, participatory, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on MȯS’s Figment Mini Golf Hole: Course Donations
Susan and Shig quoted in DAILY NEWS article on EM and pet stain cleaning. http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/pets/2011/04/16/2011-04-16_when_its_time_for_spring_cleaning_dont_forget_to_keep_your_pets_in_mind.html
April 17th, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything | Category: 4. Everything | Comments Off on Daily News Article EM-1 and Pets
La Ville en Vert, by the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre, has a project where renters together plan, design, and renovate their neighborhoods to reduce urban heat islands — white roofs, trees, plants. This is a fun project for MoS to start partner maybe with ecological architects and landscapers and (one at least) composting programs in the […]
April 6th, 2011 | Tags: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, community projects, heat islands, New York City, Permaculture, Ville en vert | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Reduce “Heat Islands” Project Montreal
Saturday April 23, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com NEXT bioremediating mud ball will be in the evening happy hours Next Bokashi fermented food waste […]
April 5th, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, Beneficial Microbes, Bio-remediation, bokashi, Mud Balls, participatory | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on 4/23 Brunch, Bokashi & Mudballs for water cleaning
Think Geek is considering enabling this project if people are interested. Sign up below and we’ll see where this goes! Whether it’s in a school’s technology lab, or a FIRST Robotics team, or your neighborhood hackerspace, we’re betting somebody out there would enjoy getting a box of broken stuff from us every couple of months–and then use the […]
April 5th, 2011 | Tags: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Culture & Art, electronics recycling, fun, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything | Comments Off on Take These Broken Things
Permaculture Design Certification is one of those mandatory courses for all humans. – dd __ Permaculture Certificate Programs The New York Permaculture-Exchange Urban Permaculture Accelerated Training begins April 30 To register contact: oldstonehouse@verizon.net Urban Permaculture Accelerated Training & Urban Permaculture Design Certificate Saturdays 9am – 5pm April 30, May 14 & 21, June 4 & 11 […]
April 2nd, 2011 | Tags: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, fun, New York City, Permaculture, Uncategorized | Category: 4. Everything | Comments Off on Permaculture Cert! Brooklyn: 4/30
VIDEO: The day before I went to the pillow fight I interviewed RR. As I was logging and digitizing I noticed these pillows would be good b-roll. Newmindspace presents: Pillow Fight NYC Sixth annual massive pillow fight in New York City. Teddies fly and pillows soar as we gather for […]
April 2nd, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, Commons, Culture & Art, fun, New York City, participatory, pillow fight | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Richard Register talks Comfort: Video
Great fun! Great turn out and feedback! – 25 more people took home the fermented bran for their food scraps. – 200 mudballs for the fling. More later.. packing up. Mud balls are made with DIRT and activated beneficial microbes.
March 31st, 2011 | Tags: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, Culture & Art, Economy, fun, Mud Balls, New York City, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on 3/12 Brunch, Bokashi & Healing Mud Balls III Photos
Saturday April 2, 2011 1-5 pm At Jimmy’s No. 43 : 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) RSVP Space is limited: Indicate for which PARTS : 1. food scraps or 2. cleaning with beneficial microbes or both. Register at www.mudballs.eventbrite.com (next BB&M: Sat. April 23, 2011) Part 1. 1:00 PM Pickle Kitchen […]
March 24th, 2011 | Tags: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, fun, New York City, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 4. Everything, New York City, Workshops | Comments Off on 4/2 Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls IV: Sat.
We have designed a golf hole for the Figment Govenors Island Mini Golf for 2011. The theme is Bugs and Features. We were invited to make a composting mini-golf to go along with our roaming gang of master composters at the Figment Festival this year. MoS’s Micro Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf hole: Volunteer artisans, […]
March 24th, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, Compost experiential, Culture & Art, Figment Project 2011, fun, Governors' Island, Mini golf, New York City, participatory, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Figment Project, 4. Everything, New York City | Comments Off on Figment Mini Golf 2011 Accepted!
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.
March 24th, 2011 | Tags: 4. Everything, Ag & Ecology, Beneficial Microbes, bioremediation, Chevron, Culture & Art, Economy, ecuador, Luz Grace Terranova, mushroons, Oil Spill, participatory, Permaculture | Category: 1. MoS Participatory, 3. Resources, 4. Everything, Non-MoS news | Comments Off on Mushrooms & Water Restoration