Note: Thursday 9:30-12 at EPA News: NYC The recently enacted Intro 1162-A, which bans the land-filling of food scraps from generators such as large restaurants, food retailers, caterers, sports arenas, and other establishments. The collected scraps are scheduled to be used as feedstock for composting and bio-gas facilities in the New York area Thursday, to […]
3/22 Sat EM-1 Beneficial Mud Ball Workshop. (Free) For World Water Day 2014 an EM-1 Mud Ball workshop and bioremediation test. Come get dirty soft hands while rolling up mud balls that contain beneficial microorganisms. Long Island City Library (upstairs) 37-44 21st St, New York, NY 11101 http://goo.gl/maps/iiyE7 Sign up on the permaculture nyc Meet-up. […]
4/3 Thursday at 6:30 MoS Town Hall Location: meet at Rebuild By Design Presentations at 250 Vesey St 29th Floor 5-7 (sold OUt). the people who want to still meet us after can email me and I will send you our location afterwards.. near there! If you did we will look at the work mingle, […]
Today at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, where I was answering questions and showing design plans, I picked up goji berry, kiwi (M&F), and grape from Baldwin Farm and seeds galore! I also learned that worms are not good for all soil. Old growth forests do not have to have worms since they use […]
I was visiting the garden to bury my fermented food waste into the new soil beds. This will add lots of goodness to the new soil for growing this Spring. As I walked in I was in-awe with this scene — the configuration in which the candy colored furniture was left in this beautiful array […]
Wow yourself! People, take a bike ride or walk through this neighborhood in Astoria. Winding through the angled streets there are murals scattered around. Also a community garden growing in a triangular space. One after another, look around a pick a direction to walk. Some artists redo them every year. Plus there is a new […]
We have had 3 meetings: There are now many projects and skills on the table so we will start shuffling stitching them into a bigger networked picture by using index cards on the table Thursday. To be involved just (you might be that missing piece) . . Send us : Name Location : neighborhood Projects […]
MoS Town Hall Meeting: #3 in a meeting series: Bioremedation + Public Space. Thursday, Feb 6, 2014, 6:15 pm
Jimmy’s No 43 East 7th St Back-room. Find supportive links for your projects and visions in ’14. (Stay for hobnobbing at the bar after 9). Day to day we interact with bioremediaton more and more to survive. We have gotten to the point where we need to filter or clean our air, water and soil in our daily doings otherwise it may make us sick. Even ancient civilizations practiced some kind of beneficial succession of their water, air and soil to sustain their people. Now that we are scientifically much more advanced at polluting our natural resources we have also become disconnected from these processes that meet our needs. We must learn to be similarly as innovative at designing scientific systems that will have the by-product of beneficial succession. We can tie the 2 desires if we make bioremediation part of the intention. Public Space and the commons is a good place to tie in this bioremediation.
“How do I use my fermented food waste around trees?” Shig replies: For trees, bury at least 3 feet away, and likely you’ll have to dig pits instead of a trench because of the tree roots (for some trees, the roots may go out as far as 3 times its height). Make sure to keep […]
Buckminster Fuller Challenge Sponsor, 2013 Finalist, Waterbank Schools The Buckminster Fuller Institute Waterbank Scnools: http://challenge.bfi.org/2013finalist_waterbanks Waterbank Schools, a collection of unique building types developed by PITCH Africa, are working demonstrations of the remarkable power of water catchment as a socially integrated resource awareness and community engagement tool. Also read about their “commitment to unconventional partnerships […]
> All Ebows IN < Thursday Dec 5, 2013, MoS Elbow (3 yr) MEETING!! Support for your projects visions for '14. To Rsvp for address go to contact page. AFTER PARTY! 8:30 pm at Jimmy's no 43. Jimmy knows we are coming. (Back-up if jam packed and we are not there go to Tile bar, 1st/7th corner. BTW: Tile bar has no name outside.)
Google image search: To find photo information Search “mushroom street art”. I’m looking for real live moss and mushrooms. Can we use the live matter in a system to create more beneficial succession? What are the benefits of moss and mushrooms? What are patterns of waste or excess we can address to use the most […]
http://licpost.com/2013/11/09/guerilla-farmers-legally-allowed-to-put-down-roots-in-lic/ http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1514689
After having to move and reassemble compost bins a few times gardeners at Smiling Hogshead Ranch had the idea of using belts that would easily untie. (A bag of belts at Goodwill cost around $10.) Making Compost Bin Signs Planting fruit trees on either side of the railroad track Gorgeous original SHR Tenant grandfathered in. […]
Sunday once a month at Dixon Place, Lower East Side. NYC The Secret City celebrates creative life and community. Part Salon, Part cabaret, super fun and social. (with free child care). Program below. What great Sunday morning music! Playing Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. You tube Secret City and I’m sure something will come […]
This is a good overall resource for using the beneficial bacteria EM-1. This was sent out as a response for settlement use at Occupy 2011. Also mentioned for the pooping potential solutions discussed but never materialized. Not sure what they did when McD’s was closed. EM-1 bacteria solution loves waste. Shig brings it on straight. […]
Vimeo video: Link to video Permaculture at OWS There is now an OSW Permaculture group. For those of you who want to participate the second meeting is Thursday 13, 5:30 at the red cube which is a private space where sit down meetings can not occur for very long. If it moves look for postings […]
Churches, Banks, nail salons, hair dressers, bodegas. Does a complete healthy food store have no place in a town center? Since this building was for sale — over a year or 2 — no one magically stepped up to start a food co-op on Lake Anne Plaza in Reston, VA however, it is perfect for that […]
The East Side Manhattan waste water goes to The New Town Creek Treatment Plant. Then the cleaned products goes to the river and farms. Ahh, I hope they don’t grow food but they do. The pellets feed cattle, grow corn and wheat. It is processed with beneficial bacteria in the “digester eggs” […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have never heard of Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, who is known for her (guessing Neva is female identified person) shareholder action at ExxonMobil that intended to help the company anticipate and take leadership in ushering in a post-carbon economy. Dr. Goodwin’s remarks on Oct 28th.2010 to an All-party Parliamentary Group were based on a paper, […]