A student at Columbia asked us after a TEd X Dumbo presentation in 2012, “How many mud balls would it take to clean the Gowanus and how much would that cost?”. The best answer would take careful study with pros who have remediated other large systems. However, Shig took the time to create an answer. […]
Learn to make Beneficial Mud Balls with MoS Collective at this festival. We will make some with you and have some dry to throw which will help nourish and eat the waste in the marina water. We will have a limited quantity of bokashi & EM Activated starter bran for sale for those of you […]
This year the stockpile of mud balls will be located at the same spot — water east side of Castle Williams on Governors Island. The balls of Effective Microorganisms will arrive by cargo bike in the Peace Parade co-hosted by Times-up and The Peace Museum. The mud balls are a diverse mixing of microbes that live in […]
“Mid May to Early June Richard Register will be in Bhutan advising the government on strategy for developing a new ecocity that ties to Bhutan’s cultural identity and priorities for placing people and their happiness over profit and consumerism. Bhutan is a small landlocked country located in South Asia and shares borders with India to […]
Sunday A Bioremediation Participation Celebration!! with raw oysters and local beers, mud balls, seed bombs, the sound/cargo bike and bokashi. 1:30-2:30 The ride: Seed ball throwing music ride. Ride ends at The Mud Ball! Co-hosted by Times-up.org. Meet at Gaia tree Tompkins Square Park. FACEBOOK invite 3 pm – 7 pm The Ball: at El Jardin Del Paraiso […]
Sunday LES Wellness Circle! First of the series! Sunday April 14, 2-5 RSVP incase rain or cancellation. La Plaza Cultural Community Garden 9 St at Ave C Come as an (insured) practitioner or come to receive, to share information & to make plans for more gatherings. No charge. Passing hat for contributions to supplies. Gratuities for […]
Be creative n’ active w MoS. Become a MoStownie! Participate and add your creativity, idea, projects to the town. To get started send an email with what your interests for the cool town of MoS. A virtual everywhere place where the by product of everything we do is good also for the water, air and […]
I was in the woods this week end and discovered that I might crave lichen. (Artistically, I occasionally portray a character from parallel civilization under the ocean. The tribe lives in symbiotic harmony with their ecology – “biocentric” perhaps would fit.) During a sauna here I decided this was a beautiful atmosphere for a photographic […]
Learn more about Effective Microorganisms (EM) from the editor of the EM Journal and about EM in Germany. Pit Mau is the managing director of EM e.V., a nonprofit organization in Germany that publishes the EM Journal for which he is also the editor. He will be visiting New York City, and if you would […]
The day started with a tour around the edges of the Lower East Side with Green Map and Wendy Brawer and Ben Shepard of Times-up! The tour also was a discussion which looked into potential solutions for future flooding. The water marks basically were close to the original edge from this map of the Lower East […]
Inspiring book about Living Systems in Evolution: EarthDance by Elizabet Sahtouris (it has a special thanks to Jim Lovelock and the late Lynn Margulis) Read for Free online: http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Erthdnce/ AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/EarthDance-Systems-Evolution-Elisabet-Sahtouris/dp/0595130674
Rolando Politi (aka: Kappo Kappino on Facebook) has started a women’s co-op in India. Rolando conjured up genius recycled art for the MoS contributions to the MoRUS fashion show and now he is on to DEHLI to start a very small factory as a first step for women rag pickers. The women will be […]
The MoS costumes seek to use materials that benefit the air, water and soil. The event was orchestrated brilliantly by The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. The Masters of Succession Collective designed with a life cycle in mind. We consider from where the garment comes, the function and where it goes after finished. We try to make costumes […]
“Help Ensure Gowanus Cleanup Includes Toxic and Sewage Overflows Riverkeeper and our Brooklyn partners celebrated the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to include sharp reductions in sewage overflows as part of the proposed Superfund cleanup targeting toxic waste in the Gowanus Canal. Tackling combined sewage overflow (CSO) discharges, which typically occur during rain and wash high volumes […]
Great, fun SHOW!!! MoS’s Fashion collaborations descriptions for The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space: The Masters of Succession included collaborations from Kappo Kappino: Taer & Ware pieces for ‘instant reincarnation” (he is in blue face, feed-bag skirt); DD’s MoS Beneficial Mud Ball Beneficial “Mud Ball Ball Gowns” (hulahoop skirts) with Lisa Shaub compostable paper hats […]
WIth Masters Of Succession Costumes… come see. Sat Feb 9 at 7 pm. 155 Ave C between 9th and 10th St. NYC 10009 Post show photos to come.. come back.
Friday, January 11 and continuing with a day-long conference on Saturday, January 12 at the New School. The event is free, but registration is required. Register now. http://mas.org/join-us-next-week-charting-the-road-to-resilience-from-the-ground-up/
The image, made summer 2120 with MoS collaborator DD and Lisa Shafir. The figure here is embodying a character from a parallel society, a tribe living in underwater caves filled with air and light. The cave brightness is from crystals and glowing bioluminescence.
A good introduction to Permaculture by Geoff Lawton for TedX City 2.0. He is a renowned permaculture designer and teacher from Australia.
Announcing EM•1 SANDY Relief: with a Google Group: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/em-nyc Join the group and take a leadership role in this process. Contact us to be a leader. We will train you and teach you everything you need to know. It is not a long learning curve and it is a green business! Heal a disaster zone as […]
The LUNGs Harvest Arts Festival Every Fall! The lower East Side Garden Arts Festival. There were amazing offerings of art making at 25 gardens throughout the lower east side. The Masters of Succession is set-up at La Plaza Cultural. The MoS Collective offers the MoS Laboratory Recipes at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden a whirlwind making a mess […]
The 25 Garden Harvest Arts Festival!! Come to la plaza community garden this Sat/Sun 1-4 as a part of the Harvest Arts Festival to MoS LaborAtOry: make your own — orange blossom serendipity body lotion, — ginger-experiMINT toothpaste — Koala Wash eucalyptus all purpose surface wash Oh and — Beneficial Mud Balls ofcourse that revitalize […]
www.times-up.org just received the 1000 used Dutch bikes in good condition which they are also fixing-up. 160$ each. (includes membership to Times-up for free bike repair workshops!) Don’t rent .. just buy the bike. These bikes are fun and safe to ride.. come try one out and see for yourself. So far it’s unanimous. Open Thursday […]
Update: Monday 9/24: wonderful weekend. If anyone wants to put something together like this I can help you. (mixing site specific dance/contact /biking/ somatic studies/urban sustainability/arts) Next: starting to work on loisida garden’s Harvest Arts Festival’s MoS LabORATory Arts. Oct 5, 6, 7. A few Photos from our roamings: lots from the art faire on […]
This comes thru food+tech. http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2012/08/28/relay-foods-to-scale-local-online-grocery-in-mid-atlantic-us/ DC/Va/Richmond area: RelayFoods.com a new online food buying model connecting good local farm food (and distant farm food) to people yet keeping the people to people connections. Food delivery has failed in the suburbs but here is a model which works in the burbs. My happy observation is that in […]
10/6 & 7: Saturday & Sunday, 12pm until 5pm. The “Harvest Arts Festival in the Gardens” is taking place on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday October 7 from noon until 5pm. The festival is a celebration of life on the Lower East Side in 12 community gardens. It is free and open to all. Each […]
MoS workshop Sponsored by Green Map and Times-Up! MoS workshop at M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden as a part of the Sara D Sustainability Series. Thanks very much for everyone’s support and interest in the symbiotic beneficials and their ability to create healthy succession by working together. Times-up is working on offering free workshop series’ at many new […]
08-09-2012 The MoS Collective taught a bokashi and mud ball workshop for the members of the M’Finda Kalunga Community Garden. It went in to the darkness of the night. The fact that EM•1® microbes co-exist with indigenous microbes is one reason why EM•1® has many varied uses. http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/09/sara-d-sustainability-series/ Press: The Villager http://www.mkgarden.org/2012/08/30/excerpt-from-the-villager/ The Masters of […]
Friday, AUGUST 24, 2012 EM-1 Boakshi food waste into fertilizer and Beneficial Mud balls for waterway cleaning! With Times-Up! & Green Map Workshop Series M’Finda Kalunga Garden, NYC, Lower East Side Garden Susan Greenfield and DD Maucher will be teaching EM, Bokashi and Mud Balls. Time/ INFO TO COME. 6:30pm TIMES-Up.org LOCATION LINK: View Larger Map […]
Sag Harbor Aug 7th 2012: Teach in recap: MoS, Dee Dee and Lisa Shafir, just gave a workshop in Long Island. We did a super fun teach in with WISE : Women’s Initiatives for a Sustainable Earth. DD linked it with the introductory Greek ritual dance we were taught and permaculture grander vision. We introduced the […]