The Story of Stuff

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. http://storyofstuff.org

And, for all you fact checkers out there, http://www.storyofstuff.org/2011/03/14/story-of-stuff/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• story of stuff annie leonard
• production
• consumption
• waste
• sustainability
• materials economy

[Anivair]

In all fairness, that bit about computers is not true. The processor changes fast, sure, but so does ram, operating system capabilities, and graphics needs as well as required hard drive space. There's a lot of products that are built to be obsolete, but computers are actually built to be as solid as they can be, they just can't keep up.

[jesuisbenjamin]

@MascisMan1 take Espon printers, in some of which a chip was set to prevent printing beyond a certain number of copies. The producer purposely create a product that would stop working so you would buy a new one. Take iphone 1, the battery of which did not last more than a 18 months and which Apple refused to replace, so you buy a new model. Don't take her word, don't take mine either, but looking around and see how people (or even nature) tries to eat you up, is part of your survival

[TheBeeblebrox]

We are not running the planet, the planet is running us. If we mess up, WE stop running, not the planet :)

[levistef]

A luttle chip that slows down every year? what the fuck is this bitch talking about?

[Zooportian]

@Anivair You're Wrong, and will probably never know.

[shawkawful]

damn hippies...

[arjunj1988]

err ..i thought we wanted a resource based economy (zeitgeist)

[jull23]

recycling will earn value into the future

[TheHeidelbergKid]

5:54 Proud to be insomniac.

[Ivankaaustraliana]

Hope is not lost because this lady is very passionate and there are plenty of us that are already thinking like this....we are all seeking our higher purposes and wanting to evolve is perfectly natural all we need is to want it bad enough to really see things as they are... Humanity is pretty brilliant so I think we can save the Earth together =)

[Kanga41]

practice Buddhism, you'll stop WANTING so much.