The Buddha Tree

On April 11th, accomplished art historian Gregory Levine visited campus to deliver his lecture “Silenced by Aesthetics”? A Tentative Poetics of Art History and Ecology.” Levine is a very active member of his field, currently serving as associate professor of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures in the Department of the History of Art at U.C. Berkeley. He has published a wide variety of writing with a focus on Zen Buddhism, visual Buddhist modernism, art and architecture in Japan, forgery and authenticity, as well as Japanese painting culture and calligraphy. Read more...
http://elm.washcoll.edu/index.php/2013/04/art-history-meets-ecology-the-buddha-tree-story/

Into Eternity-Saving Our Planet

INTO ETERNITY is a multi award-winning documentary film about long-term safety issues in nuclear energy production by Michael Madsen, Director of Into Eternity. The film is set at ’Onkalo’ the world’s first permanent storage site for nuclear waste, which is under construction in Finland. However, all countries with nuclear energy facilities have to deal with nuclear waste for at least 100 000 years.
With the Fukushima disaster, Japan now has additional nuclear waste. Onkalo is an underground facility, but Fukushima is above ground, vulnerable to natural disasters, war, and economic crisis. The reactors, that suffered full or partial meltdown, will have to be permanently controlled and maintained for millenia on end.
http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/

Buy the Film and inform the world about this great documentary about the long-term safety issues in nuclear energy production.
http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/buy-the-film/

Japanese authorities issue warning over water

The water in Japan is at risk of getting contaminated due to the increasing radiation levels. We can only hope that the nuclear radiation threat is resolved soon, before more damage is done to the people of Japan.

Japanese authorities issue warning over water - Yahoo! News UK