It’s Darkest Just Before the Dawn!

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By The Fairewinds Crew

Let’s face it. 2020 was a pretty awful year! Political turmoil and COVID-19 seemed to dominate the news. As we enter December, days are still getting shorter, and they will not lengthen again until after Dec 21st. It’s darkest just before the dawn!

Using this metaphor, Fairewinds’ friends Steve Leeper (PEAC Institute) and Mary Olson (Gender + Radiation Impact Project) are presenting: 

GOOD NEWS in the DARK of the YEAR

Tuesday, December 1st at 7:30PM EST

Yes! Mary and Steve are sharing and focusing on the Good Things that happened during 2020 in their work. This is an important good news event. Please join us all for Good News in the Dark of the Year!

During February and March of 2016, Steve Leeper hosted Arnie Gundersen and Mary Olson for an incredible month of speaking with people and organizations throughout Japan. That is when Arnie met with scientists for discussions about Fukushima and worked with community volunteer citizens scientists to establish a larger citizen science sampling group in Japan. It is also when he was given the opportunity to travel to Hiroshima, tour the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, and meet Hibakusha; the survivors of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan at the end of World War II and even now is a term applicable to the survivors of Fukushima Dai-ichi in 2011.

This collaborative group effort resulted in a strong friendship among all the participants and new directions in scientific research programs for Mary and Arnie.

In September 2017, Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN) published Fairewinds Energy Education’s first paper coauthored by Dr. Marco Kaltofen of RPI, entitled Radioactively-hot Particles Detected in Dusts and Soils from Northern Japan. This peer-reviewed journal article was based upon Arnie’s research in Japan and work with community volunteer citizen scientists.

Steve Leeper has spent half of his 72 years living in Japan, and, throughout his lifetime, has lobbied for nuclear disarmament. Mary Olson’s career and her passion have been the study of the effects of radiation on women and on children.

We are sure that GOOD NEWS in the DARK of the YEAR will be an inspiring event that is well worth your time. There is no fee or attendance limitations, but you must request access via email which is available at the event link.

We will be listening to GOOD NEWS in the DARK of the YEAR! Will you join us and our colleagues to move forward with good news in our minds and hope in our hearts. 

 

Giving Tuesday is Tomorrow!

Look at the science: Radiation Knows No Borders!

  • When radioactivity leaks or is released, you cannot see it, smell it, or taste it (unless it is a huge release, and then that tastes metallic).

  • Once that toxic radioactivity leaves a nuclear reactor, a bomb or fuel manufacturing site, an atomic bomb or nuclear power fuel waste dump, or unmonitored and leaking uranium mines, those microparticles of radioactive dust and dirt contaminate everything they touch.

  • It takes centuries to thousands of years for most forms of poisonous radiation to dissipate, and there still is no viable method to clean up its toxic residue.

  • Those deadly atoms poison the air you breath, the water you drink, and the food you eat.

Citizens and community groups are calling us for help, but our financial tank is dry.

We can’t move forward without your support.

Please donate!

Fairewinds will keep you informed with rigorous evidence-based science that we make sure is publicly available. 

You could really help us continue this work if you sent us a donation that is equal to the price of one handcrafted coffee drink per week! If that is too steep, please consider donating just the equivalent of one handcrafted coffee drink per month, which you can do with a recurring donation. 

Regards,

Maggie and Arnie