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 […]
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 […]
By The Sustainability Practices Network listserve. A discussion focusing on consumption services. Today people are reassessing the value of our consumer culture and scaling back on purchases. In response, many people are turning to collaborative consumption to save money and build community. Collaborative consumption is an economic model of sharing, swapping, bartering, renting or borrowing […]
Good questions on mind and behavior: This is an upcoming symposium presented by the Garrison Institute to discuss insights from the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences and their application to pro-environmental programs, policies, and technologies. This was forwarded to us from a friend. —– Call for Abstracts and Proposals: 3rd Annual CMB Symposium, February 15 – 17, 2012 […]
“Guerrilla gardening is the occupation of ill-used land to support the communities and ecosystems.” guerrillagardening.org. Vimeo: Students from Sterling College in Vermont came down to Occupy Wall Street and showed us how to plant and sow seeds anywhere where there is soil. Grow winter greens and beets right in the parks flower beds. They spoke […]
MoS represented last year at Eco Cities 2011, in Montreal. MoS represented at the Montreal EcoCity World Summit. We went to the conference – viewed panels, shared time and poignant conversation with the founder Richard Register. Previously we had met him for an interview and tour of the East Village Gardens with Wendy Brawer of […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Can dirty coal be less dirty? Moreover, could we stop blowing up mountain tops? This film hears from the people in coal country. This film production company has also made a coal-mining game in Second Life. http://deepdownfilm.org/ Deep in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, where coal is king, Beverly May and Terry Ratliff find […]
WHOLE SYSTEMS EXPERIENCES SOIL ENCOUNTERS We will bring a party of soilful people to get you into dirt. Send us your soil!. We’d like to get to know diverse soils to display and interact with during our events. COMPOSTING Home systems Worm bins Effective microorganism (EM) fermentation process Thermophilic (hot) bins and piles Cold bins […]