We are very sad to read that, on May 9th, “2,700 becquerels of radioactive cesium …. was detected in processed tea that was made from leaves that elementary school children picked in Tokyo as part of their school curriculum.” They received health-damaging doses: the “
In today’s NYT’s article about Japan’s welfare-program for nukes, we learn industrial capitalism is a form of heroin: With no substantial reserves of oil or coal, Japan relies on nuclear power for the energy needed to drive its economic machine. But critics contend that the largess has also made communities dependent on central government spending [...]
April Fool’s!! ________ What’s interesting, I mean really interesting, about money is that it has no value, except that which we project onto it. No creature or element arrives to our view with a price tag; we apply it. Printed words on paper: there’s no big differences between the dollar and monopoly money, except those [...]
In fact, nobody has seen much recently of [Masataka Shimizu] the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, owner of a haywire nuclear power plant just 150 miles from the Japanese capital. He is the most invisible — and also most reviled — chief executive in Japan. What should we think about Shimizu’s vanishing [...]
If the news has not yet reached you: the Vermont Yankee has the same brandname (GE) and model # (MK1) as the Fukushima reactors that are melting down. Exactly a year ago, I visited Japan with my family to learn about the culture of the Japanese: my wife focusing on the ceramic arts, my daughters [...]
When we hear the phrase “endangered species,” images of gorillas and tigers come to mind. And for good reason. But look at this map; we here in Nonotuck live near “endangered species”—their communities are outlined in yellow: We don’t have to travel to Africa or Siberia to witness precious lives that cling precariously to earth. [...]
The prompt was “explain this place to your mother—what it was, how it got this way, what to look for and do while you’re here.”
How we think of time is how we think of nature. Erland Scriviner No doubt we behold the many doomsday scenarios—today it’s the the mass extinction of flowers—with a strong sense of moral outrage. Lately, though, so many things are going wrong that we ought to be amazed. Our species has the ability to understand [...]
