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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Founder’s Day – 2012 Bob Simon’s Birthday 4/12 & Family History Story 4/19. Sat. April 12, in Reston ,Va: Community Celebration of Reston’s 48th & Bob Simon’s 98th Birthday Sat., April 19, 2012 Mr. Simon Talks on his Family History 12:00 – 3:00 pm Lake Anne Village Center FREE Family Fun There will be lots of […]
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.
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 […]
Envisioning the Queens Highline South Queens Greenway Image by Jennifer Cromie, Newtownards,UK More design ideas on the link.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kind of like Waterview Cluster in Lake Anne Village.. . I can see the inspiration… There are more! http://www.theurbn.com/2011/07/global-snapshots-color-me-bright/ Are they happier people? Imagine angry domestic disputes and rebellious teenagers– harder than imagining abundant welcoming people. Imagine an oil spill to the left and all the fish are dead. Imagine the large fishing boats casting […]
This article post a city vision. Yo.. just as we were all envisioning! but why is it always motivated by fear? Why ferment your food waste because it is taking waste out of the municipal garbage which cost money and creates grnhouse gases which are killing us. How about bc is makes amazing fertilizer and […]
Eric is the distributor for EM-1 in North America. He has produced many products with EM — even a delicious beer! He talks of a wider vision of EM-1. http://youtu.be/_WRBTKc3CYQ
Plastiki, the Boat Constructed from Plastic Bottles The purpose of this boat is to create awareness of the Gyre. Great Web site> http://www.theplastiki.com/ It has just sailed in to Sydney Harbor. RECYCLED ISLAND http://www.recycledisland.com/index.html The North Pacific Gyre of plastic to be used as building material for an island? This is not a well researched […]