Not in time for the holidays! We’ve had a few shirts made one at a time here and there and keep getting requests for them so we decided it was time to finally have some available for everyone else. Since this is our first merchandise offering we’re keeping it simple with a 2 color logo…
Berliner Gazette: Learning From Fukushima Report
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be invited by The Berliner Gazette to participate in a symposium called “Learning from Fukushima” that they were producing in Berlin. Krystian Woznicki and his team organized a fantastic collection of speakers and many thought provoking discussions were had. In follow up they have produced a report…
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Safecasting Seabrook
Earlier this year this we had the pleasure of meeting some of the folks at C-10, which is one of the oldest citizen radiation monitoring groups in the world. Established in 1986, they work to address the health and safety issues related to the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in New Hampshire and small sensor…
PBS story on Safecast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdOkKAeROg Earlier this year Miles O’Brien and Xeni Jardin joined us in Japan to learn a bit about Safecast and joined us on a trip through Fukushima – I blogged about the day when it happened. They were working on a piece for PBS which aired in the US tonight. The full segment is viewable…
bGeigie Hackerspace World Tour!
If you’ve checked out our maps recently you know that we have covered a lot of ground in Japan, but only scattered readings around the rest of the world. We think these global measurements are really important both to provide some context for the readings we’re taking in Japan and to build a baseline so…
Safecast at Ars Electronica
Last month we were lucky enough to be invited to Linz, Austria to participate in the annual Ars Electronica festival. We were invited to talk about Safecast and show off some of the devices we’ve been using. Joi Ito, Pieter Franken and I attended and we displayed an iGeigie prototype and a working bGeigie. We…
Over 1,000,000
As of 3:27 PST today, there are 1,037,746 individual data points in the Safecast database. That’s over one million radiation readings we’ve taken with our bGeigie system since we started using it in April. This is an amazing milestone and the tireless volunteers who have been driving around with these devices deserve a world of…
Safecast + Knight Foundation
We’re very excited to announce that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have made a contribution that will greatly help our development over the coming months. The Knight Foundation which believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged is the perfect fit our group up approach and we’re delighted…
Safecasting Oshima Island
This weekend Safecast volunteer Eiji Nishikawa spent some time on Oshima Island. This area was heavily devastated by the quake and tsunami impacting tourism which has been very difficult for the residents. On top of that, there were no available radiation readings for the island and locals were very concerned and assumed the worst. We’re…
Safecasting Daiichi
Earlier this month we received our first measurements from inside the evacuation zone and talked about how they illustrated the point that “closer to the plant” doesn’t automatically mean higher readings. To illustrate that point even furthers, Safecast volunteers Akira Sugiyama and Tatsuhiko Kodama were able to take a bGeigie all the way across the…