Bills Come Due
One of the disadvantages of nuclear power is the problem of waste disposal, and the enormous costs both of building a plant, and safely dismantling it about thirty years later. From Reuters News Service… IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] Director General Yukiya Amano this week said international safety standards needed to be strengthened but the [...]
Epidemiology Map
Valerie Brown, of Alternet, takes apart the official reassurances that ‘no immediate risk’ of harm from radioactive exposure is the whole story. On a spring day in 1975, the first words I heard as I rose through the fog of anesthetic were “it was malignant.” I was twenty-four years old. A couple of months earlier [...]
Update on Edgewood Community Garden from Steve Sycos
There is progress being made in finding a plot for the community garden, as it detailed below by Steve Stycos: Friends, Community garden plans are progressing. We are focusing on the southeastern corner of the Edgewood Highland parking lot. Annemarie Bruun discussed the project with Rich Pederson, who runs Southside Community Land Trust’s City Farm. [...]
Why it Matters
Because the same re-assurances from experts, the same doubts that were disregarded as alarmism, the same ‘pragmatism’ that allowed reckless policy in the name of science and profit are behind the push to expand nuclear power today. Robert Peabody died almost fifty years ago in a nuclear plant that was sold as state of the [...]
Rhode Island’s Nuclear Fatality–Part I
This is in memory of Robert Peabody, a husband and father working a second job to support his family, assigned to a dangerous task in an unsafe workplace, poisoned by a nuclear reaction. There are lessons to learn, may we not forget them. It’s been almost thirty years since the Three Mile Island disaster put [...]
Community Garden Meeting Tonight!
Cranston residents: If you want to take your mind off politics and the difficult economy, consider joining the Cranston Community Garden! Information below on the meeting tonight. From Democratic City Council Member Steve Stycos: I am working with Mayor Fung to start a community garden in the park at the end of Narragansett Street and [...]
Community Garden Opportunity in Cranston
From Democratic City Council Member Steve Stycos: I am working with Mayor Fung to start a community garden in the park at the end of Narragansett Street and Bay View Avenues. Those participating would receive a small area of land, perhaps 10 by 20 feet, to grown vegetables or flowers. To gauge community interest, I [...]
Dirt! The Movie and Other Community Events in Cranston
From Steve Stycos: DIRT THE MOVIE The Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market and Friends of the Pawtuxet will present the Rhode Island premier of DIRT!The Movie, Wednesday March 2 at 7 PM at the William Hall Free Library, 1825 Broad Street, Cranston. The acclaimed and humorous documentary explores the relationship between man, soil and food around [...]
Cross Quarter Day
Terry Smith at TheTownTalk has some inspiring words for Pagans celebrating Imbolc this February 2nd. The Winter Solstice has passed, the historical lunar eclipse was seen, and now we go forth from darkness into light. It is the center point of the dark half of the year. The holiday of Imbolc or Candlemas is also [...]
Recent Comments