Beyond Radiation

Blogging in Finnish to Wake Up Finland - Perhaps?

Proud to Finn? I am not so sure about it.

Now I am blogging in the The Land of Inborn Censorship and Awkward Silence.

My stories will be in Finnish: http://mikkoahonen.puheenvuoro.uusisuomi.fi/

Language may be as cryptic as Chinese, but links and pictures may reveal the topic.

Lobby work? European Perspectives on Environmental Burden of Disease EBoDE

There is a new environment report out in the EU:

European Perspectives on Environmental Burden of Disease

-  Estimates for Nine Stressors in Six European Countries

Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are not even mentioned in it! Amazing,  one of the biggest environmental risk factors is totally missing.

 I can only ask:

- How effective is The Lobby Machine (aka the Spin Machine)?

Thank You for Smoking - One of My Favourite Movies

 

Don't miss the last 2 minutes of this video clip ;-)

Earth Hour: Turning off your mobile phone and focusing on base stations

Have you ever thought about the huge power consumption of mobile phone base stations?

Example from Denmark: Power consumption, basestations and phone battery-chargers 2008-2009:

- 7.500 basestations in Denmark running 24/7 use 2500 Kwh per month, giving a total of 234.000.000 Kwh per year.

- 5.000.000 phone battery-chargers in Denmark (= no. of subscribers) use 0,3225 Kwh per month giving a total of 19.350.000 Kwh per year.

- With a 253.350.000 Kwh total power consumption in Denmark, it amounts to a yearly personal power usage of 51 Kwh for every mobile-phone subscriber.

Extrapolated to a global scale of 4 billion mobile-phone subscribers, it gives a estimated total of 202.680.000.000 Kwh which corresponds to C02-emissions of 101.363.845 tons every year! (one Kilowatt/hour of conventionally produced electricity corresponds to approx. 500 grams of C02) . Sources for calculation: 1, 2, 3.

Several nuclear plants (like the unfortunate Fukushima in the picture) are currently needed in the world  to provide electricity for base stations and mobile phone chargers. (An "average" nuclear power plant generates about 12.3 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in a year).

Hey! It's peanuts to switch off especially healthy lights compared to the switching of mobile phones and base stations.

There has been some great initiatives like Cell Out. I hope their next round will take place during Earth hour !! Please, join their Facebook group!

 

My Wish to You: During the Earth Hour do not switch off any lights.  

Just keep your mobile phone switched off and this way also the nearest base station uses less energy and causes less health damage. Not to mention effects on nature.

You are free to circulate these ideas! Hopefully in the next Earth Hour also some base stations will be voluntarily shut down by counties and cities.

My Favourite Books and a Video - EMF & Health

Good books keep you warm, interested and excited while you read them. And make you check back afterwards.

 

I Hope you like them as much as I do!

 

Environmental Polluter of the Year 2010 Award

The winners for these questionable prizes are:

Worst Service: Foursquare

Worst Gadget: Teddyfone

Worst Technology: 4G (LTE)

Please, keep on reading to find out why.

I will also present more sustainable and healthier alternatives.

 

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Thank you for reading and commenting this blog.  Many of you have chosen to send me e-mail or to call me, that has been great as well.

Year 2010 was exciting: EMF & Health finally became 'mainstream' in the news and public discussion.  My personal risk-taking and pioneer role was awarded (professionally, not financially :-)  But ... being aware of these risks and meeting more and more sick people is occasionally hard :-\ 

Most of the year 2010 I spent...finalising my PhD and starting new companies/iniatitives. So, that is why here have not been many blog postings.

Now I will share with you a Christmas Story...

 

... because it rhymes :-)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Please, return to the Beyond Creativity -blog in 2011.

A tip: You will find me in Facebook (many updates) or follow me in Twitter (occasional updates) or get connected through LindedIn.  Let's continue discussion!

Have You Met a Weasel? + History of Disconnectedness

Oh no, I almost daily meet these weasels! They exist beyond cartoons! Only difference is that they don't look exactly like this drawn character in this Dilbert cartoon ;-) And some of those real-life weasels don't even understand that they are weasels!? Especially in Brussels and Washington you meet plenty of them.

 

Anecdote of The Day:

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."

- Dresdin James

 

My recommendation - History of Disconnectedness:

The PhD Thesis of Don Maisch: "The Procrustean Approach, Setting Exposure Standards for Telecommunications Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation".

It is an examination of the manipulation of telecommunications standards by political, military, and industrial vested interests at the expense of public health protection. 

Have You met a weasel?

 

Child's Right to Healthy Childhood - UNICEF Special Day

Every year, on 20th November there is the UNICEF Universal Children's Day. Every child should have a right for safe and healthy childhood, according to the UNICEF convention.

This day in mind, my hometown Tampere arranged a week full of program. Together with the Member of the European Parliament, Mrs. Satu Hassi and Child Ombudsman Mrs. Tiia Heinäsuo we had a subtheme called "Children and Health Risks of Mobile Phones" and a related panel.

Children and teenagers have become the target group for the marketing of mobile communications. These risky 'microwave toys' are now in hands of little children and they heavily play with them, sometimes many hours a day, sending and receiving videos & music with unlimited 3G account + talking to their friends The Thing glued to their heads for hours. With children this head&stomach -exposure is much more riskier (see the picture) than with adults.

Tips for Concerned Consumers + Zorach Glaser's Archive

My sense of humour is ... dark:

:) Well, it might be your blood-brain barrier or cell membranes which may "pop" :-\

 

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Seriously speaking, please, look at the following fascinating historical review of biological effects. From PhD, medical officer Zorach Glaser from the Naval Medical Research Institute.

Thanks to Dr Madga Havas for digging this up and reviewing all these valuable documents!