Do you wonder what you do about climate change? Or the Corona Virus? Or any problem? Ask how can I live a lifestyles of beneficial succession of air, water, soil & selves. If you are a MoBSter, a Master of Beneficial Succession, you start from scratch.. as best you can. 90% of dolphins (over fished) and […]
Pleased to announce for The LUNGS HARVEST ARTS FESTIVAL Artists Make, Talk & Walk Sunday 9/24 5pm – 6pm at El Jardin Del Paraiso 311 East 4th St. NY NY 10009 The MoS Collective: Masters of Beneficial Succession present: Artists: Make, Talk & Walk 1. ARTISTS MAKE The Art of Beneficial Mud Balls with artists. […]
“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 […]
October 2013, Tues-Friday at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY. Some women, as myself, stayed after the women’s gathering for The 2nd Northeast Permaculture Open Space. At this event also initiated and organized by Laura Welland at Omega. A separate mens gathering has been requested for next year along side the women’s. Last year was where […]
(9/26) The former gardener at Earthdance, Sean, started making his own EM-1 at the same time I met him Spring of 2013. He learned about it in Hawaii from a farmer. I offered my EM-1 so he didn’t need to take the time to make it himself now, which is a long task of experimentation. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
4 architects designing museums in the desert based on cultural traditions to make sustainable desirable spaces. Creating cool with underling principles — working with nature. They reflect ancient cultivated discoveries in historic construction. A great synthesis, interconnectivity and cosmopolitanism inspire their aesthetic choices that also create sustainable spaces that are […]
he says. “If I wanted to live in a car-dependent area with a great big house, those would be quite affordable.” —
that makes me hurt inside. We tried to bring more walkable areas but were beaten down.
Mr. Simon didn’t say that but If he did I would quote him.
I didn’t know to try because I lived in Reston and didn’t know people were looking for it. It was designed with big roads for cars and it had walking paths. It was a balance.
If you research the original plans from 1964 you will see what wasn’t supported by Golf Development Corporation after 1967. Granted Mr. Simon didn’t sell enough homes to make his town successful in the beginning. Golf people knew what to do to change that negative spiral of sales. They gave the mass market what they wanted–what advertising was selling them. Reston grew and prospered in this balance of what people thought they want and what they didn’t know they liked. This new plan of mixing global traditions and new ideas slowly faded in order to sell more single family tradition doll houses with pitched roofs and small windows. Golf then sold it to Mobil for a profit. Mobil sold the remaining land for a huge profit and Terrabrook who sold their remaining land. Last I checked, in ’07 there were 5 acres left for a million and acre. The descendent developers changed things but they didn’t touch the Lake Anne area. There was no reason to tear that apart because it was planned too well. Simon in the 60’s was selling against what advertising was selling. Mr Simon had a different kind of living in mind being from NYC and having lived in Europe. Sprawl, isolation and segregation were not on his agenda.
The DOcumentary: “Designing Healthy Communities,” AIRS this now or soon: in New York, WLIW, 101 and 102, Thursday, February 2 at 4am; 103 and 104 Friday, February 3 at 4am.
— 4 am! that is insane maybe bc NYers don’t live in sprawl– everywhere else though it is airing when people are awake. Sorry DC/VA/MD you don’t see it at all. The land of sprawl. I’ll find in it on line and post the link — if I think it is good.)
DONATE to the film about Reston/MR SImon and the Early Kids of Reston. Email MoS collective info for details to participate in anyway. Production has started and stopped.
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/
Valerie Green/Dance Entropy Jan. 20-22, 2012: Baruch Performing Arts Center, NYC Rise and Fall choreographic dance work is based on the cycle of a civilization running the following cycle: a new beginning, tracing footprints and remnants of the past, developing population, agriculture, industrialization, modernization, gross consumption, awareness, terror, population dissipation and knowledge to begin again. […]
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 […]
Thursday early 10/27 all the generators were removed from OWS. An urgent call went out for more bike power by sundown. There was not enough time to receive the ones on order. Boston Occupy offered 5 bikes. At 2pm there was a van on it’s way. Bike power is the right kind of thinking. Some […]
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. […]
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 […]
Map your abundant selves on the Local Abundance map. Grow our new economy and communities by learning about each other and then connecting to each other. Go to: Local Abundance NYC Map Please volunteer to help with this map. We have these cards filled out and many to input. We are a bit back-logged. Please […]