Showing posts with label Pacific Ocean Gyre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pacific Ocean Gyre. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2011

The Fukushima nuclear disaster today (video)

RT.com, Greenpeace, 60 Minutes Australia. Dr. Michio Kaku, Wisdom Quarterly

The consequences of the Fukushima disaster will be emerging for at least several decades. According to the Japanese government, it will take up to 30 years for the complete clean up of the radiation released from the reactors.

Japan aims to reduce radiation by half over the next two years. To do so it may have to remove and dispose of massive amounts of radioactive soil, possibly enough to fill 23 baseball stadiums, reports Reuters.


() Exposing the "unspeakable" that will impact "all of humanity."

Experts say the areas inside the evacuation zone will have to remain uninhabited throughout the years of contamination. All collected soil and other waste will be stored in the Fukushima Prefecture, in an “interim facility” with an estimated capacity of up to 28 million cubic meters.

Despite official information, some reports suggest the Japanese government is seriously downplaying the real amount of radioactive substances that leaked from Fukushima.... More


The Japanese government is starting radiation checkups for more than two million people living near the crippled Fukushima plant. But many citizens of the country fear those in charge prefer face-saving public ignorance to life-saving knowledge.

Fukushima nuclear disaster
Photo from http://www.ctbto.org
‘Nuclear-test monitoring works like anti-burglar system"


Will UFOs from the heavens clean up the radiation?

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Coastal Cleanup Day (Los Angeles)

Text by Ashley Bailey (KPCC, scpr.org); Wisdom Quarterly


Thousands of volunteers plan to pick up trash on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon during Coastal Cleanup Day. It’s the largest single-day volunteer event in the world. Los Angeles County’s coastlines, rivers and creeks will contain 66 designated cleanup sites. This year, scuba divers and kayakers will join volunteers who collect trash on foot. More

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Labor Day: 20 foot waves hit California (video)

(CLICK FOR CBS VIDEO) The Wedge (surfline.com)



Great white sharks, LA County Fair (Pomona), wildfires (El Cajon Hills), monster waves, smog, Thich Nhat Hanh, traffic, sunburn -- all on the same day! As summer ends, the waves call us to meditate on California surf and sand.



Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen [dhyana] on the Sea



Forget about surfing these meatgrinders


Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Next Counterculture Music Fest

Wisdom Quarterly
Beavis and Butthead couch rocking (metalsucks.com)

Los Angeles is an amazing place to be, especially if you're from the Midwest. Standing facing north on this cloudy/foggy Earth Day weekend, there is a choice to be made. To the left, towards the Pacific sea, an enormous hippie fest is going on (Topanga) in the lush hills above Malibu.

To the right, towards the desert wastes, a much larger heavy metal haven is convening (The Big Four) on the flattened lawn of the Empire Polo Club field, the site of last week's Coachella festival.

Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, and some hokey opening act will whip the crowds into a slamming (moshing) frenzy, united by Hang Ten horns, and self-destructive drug abuse.


Big 4 Festival (OCweekly's Heard Mentality)

Maybe we're alone, but as American Buddhists we like both. Why? Both are counterculture. Both go against the stream, one in a angry way, another in a sustainable way. Yet both seem to say: The world is wrong. Religion is wrong. Consumer capitalism is wrong. Modern hippies are no hipper to these truths than death rockers -- if they stay sober and think it through.


Acoustic folk and tribal rhythms will pacify the pods of peaceniks discussing dolphin adventures and butterfly metaphors, united by Peace Sign pokers, and healing drug abuse.

The coast is closer than the desert and far less expensive, although with traffic being what it is in the City of Angels, it might take the same time behind the wheel to get to either from ground zero, the Bonaventure skyscraper of Los Angeles.

There's more chance that outdoor Buddhist meditation is going on in honor of the Mother Goddess, the divine feminine (Kwan Yin, Tara, God's wife Asherah, Inana, Diana, Mother Mariam, Esther or Easter's namesake). So west we go, laughing along the way to here NPR advertising a death metal fest and making no mention of the annual Earth consciousness-raising that is Topanga.



Stagecoach 2011: Pop, rock, then country -- Empire Polo Club