Beneficial Mud Balls for the Gowanus

Mud balls are thrown in to clean the polluted waterways!  

Click here: 1000 Beneficial Mud Balls VIDEO.

This is a biological scientific activity in combination with other organizations and a local college lab to test the effectiveness of Effective Microorganisms in restoring the Gowanus.  We will teach EM-1 microorganisms and make with the community activated fermented mud balls that accelerate the natural restoration of the waterways. The balls hold the microbial liquid in order to sink them to remediate the sediment. The mud balls job will be to process 10 feet of tar and chemical gunk at the bottom of the canal!  

We need a lot of them. Fortunately they are is not expensive. It has been proven beneficial world wide in very polluted waterways, salt and fresh water both. Look at emrojapan for more details. 

INGREDIENTS: The mud balls are made with fermented beneficial microbial inoculate called EM-1. The microbes consume the organic waste and reduce the chemical content of the water. We'll teach you how this works. 

SYMBIOTIC EXCHANGE: In exchange the microbes give protein, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants -- all great things the water life needs to survive.

The EM-1 is safe for human consumption and sold also as a probiotic for humans and animals in hospitals and vet clinics.

LIVE THE LESSON -  humans and our supporting environment both exist on the same bacteria. These microbes keep us healthy and will also keep our water, air and soil healthy. The good bacteria are great healers,  antibacterial fighters as well as being beneficial for us.

Our project will also include:

• A highly publicized throw with a baseball pitcher a bar. 

• Email if your org wans to participate in workshops. 

• We will measure the results and work toward many million mud ball events and helping all NYC waterways! 

• inexpensive relatively to current costs of treatment\

• lots of fun events revolve around the making and throwing of the balls.

• it is a sustainable, on-going public program

Links to more info at MoSCollective.net

• Coordinate with other groups: We propose to harness the power of the people in the community, reaching out to little league and other groups, people of all ages to help make the mud balls and to then throw them. 
• Invite and promote: We will reach out to partners for these events.
• Teach: The environment works in similar ways our bodies do. People will learn about the balance of good bacteria inside our bodies and outside. 
• Science: We propose working with college level teachers and students to do the testing of the water before during and after. 
• Maintenance: The EM-1 can be poured directly in as a liquid each year.
• Follow-up with participants: Via social media and press. 
• Communicate results

Many people do not believe that natural products can heal the self or earth. Our dependence on expensive chemicals is not without damage to the environment. Imagine using a product that doesn't harm the environment and is actually healthy for us. There are no deadly if swallowed warnings. It's food based. We can drink it.  

There are inexpensive solutions available that make no one rich, like this one. Few people are telling us about this product.

We propose to continue to educate and build a database of statistics for people to compare against other systems. We will teach people about microbes and their uses in cleaning, fertilizer and pesticide. This education is entirely scalable. We can make this knowledge and the use of the effective microbes a byproduct of our lifestyles. It can be incorporated in to our daily routines.

Inspiration: The EM-1 mud ball event in Panang, Malaysia 3 years ago now has proven to eradicate alga blooms, red tides and has brought back oysters and mussels as well as a variety of fish. Once an ocean bay that turned in to a lifeless muddy expanse below skyscrapers. Now it is an ocean bay again and the water has been valued as emergency use. Pretty darn impressive!