Figment Sat 6/11 Roving Food Spiral Usurpers

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 – […]

Mini Golf for the Masses! (35 thou 1st w-end!)

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 […]

Figment Mini Golf Opening !

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 […]

Shopping for Micro Bug Food Spiral Mini Golf hole

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

MȯS’s FACEBOOK STREAM

Click the NEW MosCollective on Facebook to go to Facebook MoS Collective page if it does not appear in this window.  

Abundance Cards & Map!

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 […]

50,000 visitors at NuMu Festival of Ideas

http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/blog More photos of our festive day to come.  

NYC Local Abundance Map

Curator:  Marga Snyder, of Firefly Conceirge. View Local Abundance NYC Map

Fest of Ideas: Mapping Local NYC Abundance

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 […]

Fest of Ideas: Shig’s Microbe Workshops!

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 […]

Shig’s Gd Microbe Wkshps Sats at El Jardin!

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 […]

Fest of Ideas! Raganella Homemade Lotions & Potions

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 […]

Saturday: MȯS at Festival of Ideas!

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 […]

Eric Lancaster on EM-1

  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

Annie’s Food Stories at Festival of Ideas

.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, […]

4/24 BB&M update

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 […]

Miyazaki Visionary Animations

  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.    

“Eco-blocks” Make ur own Eco-village!

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 […]

CALLING for FIGMENT PARTY-PANTS PEOPLE & Mud Ball Propelling

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?     […]

MȯS’s Figment Mini Golf Hole: Course Donations

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 […]

Daily News Article EM-1 and Pets

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  

Reduce “Heat Islands” Project Montreal

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 […]

4/23 Brunch, Bokashi & Mudballs for water cleaning

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 […]

Take These Broken Things

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 […]

Permaculture Cert! Brooklyn: 4/30

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 […]

Richard Register talks Comfort: Video

          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 […]

3/12 Brunch, Bokashi & Healing Mud Balls III Photos

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.

4/2 Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls IV: Sat.

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 […]

Figment Mini Golf 2011 Accepted!

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, […]

Mushrooms & Water Restoration

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.