Invitation: BE HOPE

HOPE is often externalized and trivialized, made conditional and transactional. A birthright as much as is LOVE…this is an invitation as 2021 comes to a close to find your foundations…and, BE HOPE.

Mary OlsonNovember 21, 2021

My Six Mentors [corrected]

I was born in 1958—full-on Cold War… my family lived upwind of the Nevada nuclear weapons test site in California and even there air quality was the reason my parents gave when they moved our family back to the Midwest… I was in kindergarten in a tiny town in Illinois during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when a bomb drill caused me to become aware of nuclear annihilation at that age. I opted out: that very night I got sick and stayed chronically ill dropping out of kindergarten and was mostly homeschooled for the next 12 years.

Mary OlsonDecember 31, 2020

David Lochbaum: My Pleasure Serving on GRIP's Board of Directors

Dave Lochbaum pictured in 2005 at a US NRC meeting on nuclear emergency preparedness shares his pleasure to serve on the GRIP Board of Directors, and why that service is worth his time…

Gender + Radiation Impact ProjectDecember 6, 2020

Girl Power and Atomic Radiation: Re-Setting the Definition of Protection

The global community has moved the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons forward and GRIP, which has been part of this process dedicates a new proposal to the milestone.

Mary OlsonNovember 2, 2020

Answering a Call from Global First Responders

Mary OlsonApril 3, 2020

Chattanooga Catfish Warning

Per the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, women and children should refrain from consuming any catfish caught near the Chickamauga Dam, in Chattanooga, TN.

Gender + Radiation Impact ProjectOctober 21, 2019radiation, gender, men, women, children