On-going costume and puppet workshops until May 22 — the parade. They started in the East Village parading to all the gardens. Each garden had activities for kids and adults. I remember stopping by a few of them. They were magical amongst the garden flowers, ponds and plants. If I were a little kid I […]
As budgets are cut, and professionally run service programs close, it may be appropriate to imagine the emergence of modern day Village Improvement Associations (VIA) and consider what projects they would now inspire. Following the Civil War, VIAs were started all over America. Small in scale, place-based, citizen driven, they were flexible to respond to a specific community. The Associations might organize concerts or put up window boxes on Main Street buildings, but just as easily serve regular meals to those in need or build a wing on the hospital or collect supplies for distribution after a flood swept through the town.
On Saturday May 7th, 11-7p MoS Collective at The StreetFair: MoS Collective will be presenting “Indulge in Abundance” workshops at the New Museum Festival of Ideas for the New City : a Street Fair. Come by so we can map your needs and resources. Also we will have workshops in making mud balls and homemade cleaning […]
As a part of The New Museum’s May 7 Street Fair “Festival Of Ideas” The MoS Collective’s, Liz Nevis of Raganella.com is teaching people how to make natural beauty and home cleaning products. She has great recipes! TODAY: I am making face lotion from my existing at home ingredients. Recipe I googled below as inspiration. […]
Ted talk 5/2010: About needs and resource connecting and what economists call the “coincidence of wants”. Sharing common needs and wants, trading. TED TALK: Rachel Botsman: The Case For Collaborative Consumption Side note: Sharing… many years ago I remember Mac software becoming big in “sharing”. The “export” option wasn’t as clear as I was used to. […]
Artists connecting people to each other and us to them. Exposing the humanity hidden behind the walls and across the boarders. TED TALK: Turn the world Inside Out.
July 22 to 24 Their Mission: The mission for the 2011 Northeast Permaculture Convergence is to stimulate the network by focusing on local and regional connections, sharing resources, and continuing to define the structure, function, and organization of the group. Interactive presentations, roundtable discussion, and skill sharing mixed with healthy local food, music, and social time. […]
A.H. Green, worked with Olmsted on Central Park. He was the major reason we have the Met, the Natural History, the Public Library, the Bronx Zoo and he was behind Riverside Park, Morningside Park, Washington Park. Now those spaces are precious. He preserved the Palisades, Niagara, City Hall… More about Green in the MUG in […]
The MoS Collective should have our succession event clothes made by her. :) TED 2011: Fermented Frocks
March 12, 2011 – Jimmy’s No. 43 – Join us for brunch III, 1-5 pm Jimmy’s No. 43 – 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special, $5 brunch special! (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which […]
Photos from yesterday’s Feb 19,2011. Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Ball workshop at Jimmy’s No. 43 on 7th St. in the East Village, NYC. Our next date there is March 12, 2011. We had the workshop in romantic cozy “bar lighting” which worked out well but not for the camera. We […]
FROM Transit Aletrnative’s newsletter: It’s ridiculous that bicyclists are being summonsed while circling a park. Adults are not required by law to wear a helmet; it is not illegal to occupy a full lane of traffic; exiting a bike lane to avoid an obstruction (like this perhaps – below) is entirely legitimate. Cyclists being summonsed […]
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Skimmed through to the end excerpt by Nate Berg: “Burning Man and the Metropolis” Participation is the organic result of citizens continually taking ownership of their community and their experiences within the community. “It changes their philosophy of how they want to be involved in their cities, how they want to be involved in their […]
Saturday Free Workshop, Feb 19, 2011! 1-5 pm Join us for brunch at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 East 7th St. NY, NY 10003 (backroom) $5 beer special, $5 brunch special! (locally grown & made ingredients) RSVP Space is limited. – Go to www.mudballs.eventbrite.com – email: dd at moscollective dot net Indicate for which PARTS 1, […]
Ask what could you do.. not should. You are revealing what is there not creating something new. Revitalizing public space: “There are always people there. It’s Place making. There is an enormous amount of energy that is already there. Release it a let it grow. You can’t know what is there. It’s magical. There are […]
We need your help! Our goal is to stockpile 2000 water cleaning mud balls by June 10, 2011. If you want to host a mud ball party let us know! Picture above is from an event people did in Penang in 2009. http://www.emrojapan.com/examples/global-cases/asia-and-oceania/malaysia.html To make mud balls : here is the formula on the EMRO web […]
… yet always room for more! Next time we will have more of everything for more people. Great discussions and muddy hands were cleaned and nourished while building the Mud Ball stock pile for June Figment. Exciting discussion on germs, germination, microbes, bacteria and health. Stay tuned for next dates for Brunch, Bokashi & Mud Balls […]
http://twitter.com/MoSCollective Feb 5th 2011: I can feel the excitement in the air. We are just starting! We will be tweeting about “Successivity”. If it something through smart design or nature’s design actually improves the planet for humans then we tweet about it. We will build tweet into a MoS Mud Village of abundance.
PPS Presents: Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper: Lessons from Australia February 8 I didn’t go.. because it was too cold… I know… bbbbut it was streaming live! Watch live streaming video from placemaking at livestream.com In the face of economic hardship, how can cities capitalize on their inherent creative ingenuity and create places in low-cost, immediate and […]
What Is “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” Placemaking? “Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper” is a phrase we borrowed from Eric Reynolds at Urban Space Management we use it to describe interventions that produce immediate results, transforming underused urban spaces into exciting laboratories that reward citizens with authentic places and provide a boost to areas in need. These projects provide […]
MoS will be at the New Museum Street Fair NYC. Sat. May 7: 11am- 7 pm We will have 3 tables next to Green Maps table. Workshops in: Bokashi, waterway cleaning mud balls, natural home cleaning products, beauty products. Also all for sale. We will be making custom neighborhood maps to tuned to your lifestyles! […]
YouTube – Adam Purple and The Garden of Eden. http://www.harveywang.com/podcast.html
Workshop/Brunch: Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Making Bokashi & Water Cleaning Mud Balls!
Part 1. 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Bokashi: making bran for fermenting kitchen scraps for rich soil for growing your own food.
Part 2. 2:30 – 3:00 pm – Role of effective microorganisms in our life: talk.
Part 3. 3:30 – 4:30 pm – Mud ball making for cleaning waterways and Good microbe plans for house and dog run cleaning.
Making BioRemediating Mudballs & Bokashi (brunch & Beer!) – The New York Permaculture Meetup Group (New York, NY) – Meetup.com
MoS Figment Project Soil is a vital element that unites us – without it, none of us could live. We are seeking dancers, artists, and improvisers of every culture to represent this life-giving force by expressing themselves in or around the soil (5 yr old soft healthy leaf compost). Modern dance, contact, butoh, tango, tarantella and all […]
SEND US YOUR SOIL: We are collecting soil samples from around the world in jars to compare with composted soil. A variety is the aim. Sandy, clay, dry powdery, muddy etc. Whatever you can find with a note from where you harvested it. Farm soil samples wanted: GMO, mono crop farm soil samples wanted. We will […]
The MoS Collective & Leave a Better Trace! We’re masters of succession: A team of educators and artists at events supporting the global bottom line of clean water, air and soil. As the second year we have time to be more creative.. so join in soon and bring your ideas! Contact : dd (at) moscollective […]
Eyebeam is an incubator for creative research, open culture, and open source technology. http://eyebeam.org/projects/current-projects . . .