Alex Reid

This morning, I woke up too early, unable to return to sleep. So I began watching a mediocre documentary about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES).

I found this quote quite apt:

Given that we live in a culture (that) is addicted, that everyone says, to oil where we engage in the pursuit of the amenities and luxuries provided by oil despite the fact that we’re destroying the earth, who are we to tell the addict they shouldn’t be engaging in self-destructive behaviour.

In other words, it’s the scapegoating.

We’re deeply related to the addict. We just don’t want to see the relationship. So we ostracize them and banish them to the social periphery.

~ Dr. Gabor Maté

This is a terrifying video of all the nuclear tests between 1945 (the Manhattan Project and the two bombs in Japan that ended the Second World War) to 1998.

In that time, there was 2053 nuclear tests and explosions.

The video includes a counter for all the countries that have joined the nuclear club, however it doesn’t include Israel which neither admits or denies it has tested nuclear weapons.

This is not for those with anxiety or paranoia.

This video was taken from 18 time-lapse sequences of photos taken from the International Space Station, put together by Michael König.

I may not agree with everything that anyone says.

I like to keep my politics loose and my morals solid.

However I have a weak spot for Jello Biafra, specifically because his “don’t hate the media, become the media” mantra was the source of many of my successes, so I give him my audience.

If you listen to the end, you’ll find me agreeing with him.

Run policy like politics.

Commuters who pass through Stockholm’s Central Station may not know that they are heating a building across the street.

This BBC video shows that Jernhusen, a real estate company in Stockholm, has found a way to channel body heat from people to heat another building. This is done by using heating exchangers to convert the Station’s trapped body heat into hot water and then pump that water to an office building next door, providing an environmentally-friendly and cost effective heating.

The engineers say that this process can reduce a building’s energy costs by up to 25 percent.