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For Immediate Release:

September 18, 2022

NO DUMP! Fukushima Working Group Proposes Coalition for Safe Nuclear Storage, Admin Visits Finland for Insider Look at Dump Alternatives

Call them millennials, dreamers, activists, regenerators, or water protectors. Call them whatever you want. They care a whole lot about your dinner table, your business, your health, and your kids. They’re the independent agents of the Fukushima Working Group (FWG) made up of citizen scientists, technology and legal strategists, journalists, NGOs, business leaders and volunteers.

It all started when two volunteers of the Ocean Health Cooperative found out that Japanese company TEPCO plans to dump 1 mil + tons of radioactive wastewater into the Pacific as early as next year. Though some FWG members lean vegan, they’re not aloof to the cascading impacts of uncleared and/or poorly tested radioactive isotopes on the total health of the food chain and direct dishonor to the fisheries of Japan, the Pacific Islands. If that seems far away to you, the California coast is not immune. There is no vaccine for the health of our one shared Ocean. The contaminants are predicted to reach the West Coast shoreline as soon as 5 months after the dump begins with total contamination of the East and West Coast within 10 years. As one Japanese fisherman put it, who wants to eat poisoned fish? Nobody. 

Our answer is no and our campaign is simple. When #MotherEarthSpeaks, she says #sayno2TEPCO.

A resounding echo within the FWG of how utterly masochistic this decision is for humanity led them to drop almost all other priorities to focus on a single shared objective - stop the Japanese government from authorizing TEPCO to execute the dump. They are determined to invite TEPCO to see rationally that there is no lens from which it makes sense to set the entire globe on an irreversible pathway to civilian and ecosystem destruction, not even an economic one, and definitely not a scientific one.

The decentralized Fukushima working group (FWG) emerged to solve 3 problems:

  1. Get the “no dump!” plan to the mainstream media w/ public awareness campaign
  2. Build a consortium of experts to maximize scientific collaboration for alternatives
  3. Stop the dump for good and channel all resources into alternatives and solutions

Their dedication and commitment to the science, and to radical collaboration between stakeholders caught the attention of leading experts in nuclear waste, nuclear politics, marine biology, human health, environmental science, law, and even some celebrities. It has since sparked an interdisciplinary conversation about “The Case for Consideration,” a nod to foresight offered by Zak Stein of The Consilience Project. This approach refers to the unique intersection of technological, bioremediation, and safe storage solutions.

So far, the FWG has accomplished the following:

By including both pro and anti-nuclear figureheads, third-party verifiers, youth artists, Japanese decision-makers and law students, the FWG, spearheaded by Jon Connors, Founder of Blockchain 4 Ecology, has been able to create an enriched socio-ecological conversation that is not limited to what we already know about the problem.

We mustn't be limited to what we already know about the problem because according to what we knew from Greenpeace as of 2018, there were no safe nuclear storage options.

So they entrusted mindful media expert and CEO of We Are Mother Earth Jenny Carrington to get the low-down on the situation in 2022. Carrington is best known for completing a 3,000 mile walk across America in 2020 to raise awareness about solutions for climate change and was a contributing author to Greenpeace in 2019 regarding her Earth WALK. Armed with guidance from leading nuclear scientist Shaun Burnie of Greenpeace International, with the network and expert support of ocean scientist at University of Hawaii Bob Richmond, Jenny set out to Finland to uncover details about their nuclear tomb storage system.

On the 3 day journey on public transit from Helsinki to Olkiluoto in Eurajoki, Finland, she prepared by thinking about the FWG collaborative recommendations and meditated on the advice of her Mother Earth advisory team:

Their proposed next steps are:

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For media inquiries or Mother Earth Initiative contact: motherearthbrand@gmail.com 

For Ocean Health Co-Op contact: danaghngo@gmail.com 

For Blockchain4Ecology contact: jonathan.connors@gmail.com