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Miskitu Stories: ‘Crazy Sickness’ and the Duendes of the Wild
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in Santa Barbara Literary Journal
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Miskitu Legend: The Mangoes of the Dead
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Wild Sonoma’s ‘Valley of the Moon’ – Living with the Land
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The Pagan Spring Fertility Origins of May Day
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ this June, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
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Fukushima Meltdown: Flush the Radiated Mess into the Pacific
Posted on August 15, 2013 | 4 CommentsAlmost two and a half years after the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the head of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) raised concern on August 5 about the continued flow of radioactive water from the plant going into the Pacific Ocean, telling Reuters, "Right now we have a state of emergency." Hmm, yes, sounds about right.
San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: 8.4 Million Rejoice – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on June 6, 2013 | 1 Comment8.4 million people, put at risk for radioactive disaster from a meltdown at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, now rejoice as Southern California Edison announces its closure.
Edison’s Reef: A Not So Glowing Report — By Jerry Collamer
Posted on April 27, 2013 | 3 CommentsWhile large fish fail to thrive at Southern California Edison's artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente, California, mitigation mandated by the California Coastal Commission to repair destroyed kelp beds at their San Onofre Nuclear Plant (called SONGS), a wider marine mammal crisis is ongoing. Could radiation released from SONGS be the culprit in both cases?
Dr. Helen Caldicott: Human Scientific Hubris Caused Fukushima Nuclear Meltdowns
Posted on July 6, 2012 | No CommentsIn March, 2012, physician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott spoke in Los Angeles on energy, environmental health, and the effects of the Fukushima meltdowns on the Japanese people. Meanwhile, a parliamentary panel confirms insititutional negligence and human scientific hubris caused the disaster.
Fukushima Radiation Hitting the Streets of LA and Beyond – Dr. Mark Sircus
Posted on June 7, 2012 | No CommentsRight after Chernobyl blew its top, Edward Teller said on the ABC Evening News in late April 1986, “The chances of a real calamity at a nuclear power station are infinitesimally small. But should it happen, the consequences are impossible to imagine.” Now after Japan's Fukushima disaster, radiation continues to spread across the Pacific to North America with unimaginable consequences.
Fukushima Update: Hot Japanese Bluefin Tuna, Served Glowing
Posted on May 30, 2012 | 2 Comments"Yes, Madam, the tuna is marinated at sea during its long migration from Japan to here in both Cesium-134 and Cesium-137. It's so good, it glows."
San Onofre Shake Rattle and Leak: A Life Epicentric
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 1 CommentEdison estimates a $65 million cost to replace the failed steam generators, with an overall $100 million associated losses. Edison has already backed off assertions of a June opening, due to lingering safety concerns. Meanwhile, an earthquake study moves forward, albeit with less outside oversight than that of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.
Nuclear Nano-Gnat Infestation
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhen we see a giant plume, shooting out the top of a failed reactor in full meltdown, those clouds are full of nuclear fleas, mixing with the air we breathe.
Impending Nuclear Storm: News Beyond Fukushima – 6 April 2011
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThreats: Mounting stresses on the containment structures filled with radioactive cooling water made vulnerable to rupture; explosions from the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater, and fuel rods continuing to melt.
