Figment 2012, June 9 & 10! Figment Project 2012 SATURDAY 6/9 (SUN if there are any left) ON THE FIGMENT MAP C9 : that is along the waterfront before Castle William as your are coming off the ferry. http://newyork.figmentproject.org/figment-nyc-2012/figment-nyc-2012-artists-projects/ scroll to the S’s. At Figment: The second official throw event in the USA! (That is […]
This Is My Home from Mark on Vimeo. (click link if not embedding well on blog) Listening to elders. What is their role in community? Are we herding elders off to gated zones .. separating them form people because it s easier and more cost efficient? Can planners integrate them and can neighbors step up […]
Click to view the gallery of card postings from the OWS Food Solidarity Map. This interactive map was started at the Farmers’ March at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden, NYC, 12/4/2011. Send your additions: Location | Problem | Solution | Contact info Indicate if you want the contact listed online or not Gallery: http://moscollective.net/11-12-04-Farmers-March-FooD-Solidarity-Map/
Food+Tech Connect and Gojee are bringing together journalists, technologists, designers, policy makers, and food data specialists to develop tools and visualizations that help the public better understand how the Farm Bill impacts our lives. The hackathon will take place as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. The Farm Bill effects us all – influencing […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Andrew Faust who introduced a few of MoS Collectives to Permaculture is speaking FOR FREE tomorrow: La Plaza Cultural Garden Thursday, at 6:30pm- 7:30pm. Between B and C on 9th St. NYC Faust, NYC’s long time Permaculture scholar, brings together Permaculture and Bioregionalism: two elegant design models that show us how to heal ourselves while […]
It’s ready! Make a donation and receive The MoS Fermented Starter. We made bokashi for workshop participants requesting it. Click “read more” to get some bokashi, organize your building, arrange pick up schedule, read pros/cons list & find next free workshop. We offer: • workshops at your home, building and office, contact us • set up […]
Permaculture Jordon Conference 2011 with Bill Mollison, Special Guest. Sept. 2011.
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 […]
Curator: Marga Snyder, of Firefly Conceirge. View Local Abundance NYC Map
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 […]
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 […]
.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, […]
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 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? […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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.