Environment

Many are content to point fingers at someone else and shout: "Do something about this!" We were not. There is a big job to be done and there is no one to do it save you and me. We asked our mayor in light of our detection of micro-hotspots in our neighborhood to approach the population in an address and ask everyone living in our ward to clean the dirt in water collection spots in front of their own houses to reduce the risk of redistribution and potential internal exposure to kids. We have been monitoring our own neighborhood and other areas of Tokyo for more than six months and we are still seeing the rises in counts per minute or μSv/h or peaks in a spectrum associated with the contamination situation resulting from the meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear power plant. Many parents are concerned for their kids to participate in outdoor play or festivals. Many fear what may be in the air, what is in the swimming pool, what is in the fallen leaves in the park, the sandbox, the streets where the kids skin their knees, the playgrounds... we made it our mission since May 2011 to investigate this and determine the real risk relative to average situations and apply common sense to find pragmatic solutions in decontamination when levels exceeded reasonable expectations. This is a documentary and continuing thread of these events as they relate to our environment and ecology. New home-lab postings will be made available upon receipt of samples. We are accepting and will continue to accept soil, leaf, and other organic samples for isotopic identification and quantification and will publish all data to ensure that all may benefit who want to remain informed.