This coming weekend we’ll have a few events around Tokyo marking the 1 year anniversary of Safecast’s existence. On Saturday evening, March 24th from 2200 – 0030, we’ll participate in the Roppongi Art Night events. We’re presenting here in conjunction with others, we’ll actually only have 15 minutes of this time, but not sure when…
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Safecast Geiger Counter Reference Design
The following is a post by contributing author bunnie, mirrored from the bunniestudios blog. This past weekend marked the anniversary of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake that devastated Japan. I had not felt my blood so cold since I watched the twin towers fall almost a decade earlier. I still vividly remember the twisting knots I felt…
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Safecast seminar in Iwaki
This is a guest post written by Ryuichi Mori, ex vice chairman of Dentsu and Advisor to MIT media lab. On March 1, I was invited by Pieter and Joe of Safecast Japan to convene a radiation seminar in the City of Iwaki, Fukushima. The tsunami all but wiped out Fukushima Prefecture’s fishing industry. The…
WE ARE ALL RADIOACTIVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMM0lOMOdks Safecast friends Lisa Katayama and Jason Wishnow are working on a very cool film project called We Are All Radioactive about a group of surfers working to rebuild their towns in northern Japan after the 3/11 earthquake. They are raising funds on indiegogo right now. Safecast will play a part in some of the…
We are now @Safecast on twitter
Thanks to the help of the great people at twitter, we’ve secured the username @safecast and will no longer be using @safecastdotorgTwitter社の協力により、@safecast のTwitterアカウント名を取得することができました。 従いまして、旧アカウント名の @safecastdotorg は今後使用できません。 @safecast のツイートは主に英語です。 @safecastjapan から日本語の情報を配信したり、情報共有を受けたりしています。
Safecast will be sharing radiation measurements with Minamisoma City
On February 21st we visited Minamisoma City’s Environmental Public Health Section under the Department of Civic Life. As one of the municipalities near the nuclear plants, Minamisoma has been receiving a good amount of media coverage recently. The city has expressed a strong interest in radiation measurements, and individual citizens are demanding that they want…
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Fukushima Geiger Counter
In a post I wrote last year about one of our drives through Fukushima I mentioned toward the end that we met up with Koroyama resident Tadao Munakata when he was driving by and recognized the Safecast logo on someone’s shirt and stopped to talk to us. At that point he was working with some…
Pamphlet Explaining Safecast Mission and Activities (Japanese)
Toshikatsu Watanabe of Inter Market Design created this pamphlet in Japanese to explain the mission and activities of Safecast to the citizens of Fukushima. Please feel free to download and use! Safecastの活動を紹介するパンフレットです。 PDFをダウンロードしてぜひご利用ください。 作成者：福島県 株式会社アイ・エム・ディ社長 渡邉利一 →関連記事
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Update from WKO
Last month we were excited to announce that the World Karate Organization was jumping into the pool of Safecast volunteers and would be mapping out some new territory for us and helping us test our a new version of our bGeigie, that for this specific purpose we’re calling it the “Black Belt bGeigie”. We’re excited…
We need a volunteer to help with our volunteers
Safecast is powered by volunteer efforts, and we’re always open for more help. We’ve got a big task ahead of us and it’s going to take a lot of helping hands to make happen. Luckily a lot of people want to help, so many in fact that we can’t keep up with them – a…
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