When we founded Safecast we were very aware that Radiation wasn’t the only invisible environmental factor around us that people should have more data about. It was the most pressing and the spark that set this in motion, but we wanted to keep the doors open and use the platform we’ve built to expand the…
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Information Disbursement
We publish our readings online, and now offline as well. 私たちは測定結果を オンラインで公表しているだけでなく、現在はオフラインでも公表しています。
Safecast events in Tokyo March 24 + 25
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…
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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