Video: The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff was produced by Free Range Studios. Writer and host Annie Leonard is an environmental activist who has spent two decades touring dumps and factories around the world. The Sustainability Funders and Tides Foundation provided funding. Visit http://www.storyofstuff.com/ for more info.

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Thanks so much for posting this, Sasha! I saw this for the first time a few months back as I was involved in helping our local library host a Young Adult Author, Brandi Burnett. The library hosted a "slumber party" for young girls which also offered several "stations of activities" with relevance to the story line of Brandi's book. Conservation being one of the related topics, we used this Video to help these young girls better understand the realities of just what it takes (and takes away) for consumers to have the products available to us that we are so accustomed to, and think so little about the process which brings them to our store shelves. Simple, easily understood, very relevant to the visual learner, and (hopefully) thought provoking, I wish that every consumer would take the time to examine the important and essential information that Annie Leonard and Free Range Studios have gifted us with.
01.02.2008
Amanda Coggin
I'm happy to see this here, FreeRange does great work. Jared Diamond writing an OpEd in the Times, Arlene Blume using her next book as a platform to attack the fire retardant issue, and many of us who spend more time talking about these issues with friends and family than anything else...the word is getting out finally. I thought about this a lot as I watched Thais while living in Bangkok trying so hard to become westernized. A great film to watch is The Corporation, which explains when/how this all happened. I'm one of those consumerists that don't matter since I shop so little, but they keep trying to get me, the little game I like to play is to not participate.
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