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The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
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What is 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.
For a higher quality version and more information, go to www.storyofstuff.org. To meet and converse with other WiserEarth members who liked the story of stuff, visit the WiserEarth group for The Story of Stuff Project.
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Flag comment for removal KatHaber 15 days ago
200 students of Marywood Palm Valley created a 350 photo out of students and stuff.
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Annie,
Awesome job! I found you through your post on www.wiserearth.org and have forwarded the link to many. You capture the problem in a straight forward manner and then present it with just the right mix of video content.
Now that we have seen the almost total collapse of our financial institutions, I am seeing a huge pull pack in consumption by many out of necessity. Perhaps this is just what was needed to jolt the system and bring to the foreground of people's attention an awareness of just why they buy the "stuff" they buy.
I'm interested in the real estate crisis and reuse and reconfiguration of property.I am going to be working on a project to help people understand what is possible by bringing examples to the table.
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Linear economics cannot work beyond the point when it has undermined itself - that's now I reckon. Stuff needs to go in cycles, resource-to-resource rather than resource-to-waste. Circular economics wouldn't be capitalism as we know it but it could fix the problem of markets running amok. Other aspects of capitalism would still need fixing such as privatised money supply, surplus concentrations of wealth and ownership without guardianship. Or would you prefer we try to do without capitalism entirely and focus on what we can touch and see around us instead? If so I genuinely sympathise with wanting to discard something that has failed us so stupendously. I'm just interested in looking through all the options.
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Thank you for your time and commitment. I just came across this.There are some sweeping statements that i'd like to take issue with but the concept of "stuff" is a worth while one to tell; not many folk are aware of it. Maybe, just maybe, that the underlying system of capitalism is the major reason that your linear system does not seem to work and that it cannot be made work currently. This system is all about profit, and not humans. Working together, we can change this. Peace, Dunk http://www.realityinfo.org http://www.wiserearth.org/group/realityinfo |
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The video can really awaken the people as it tells us that we need to do something on the present problems that we have today. The Story of Stuff is starting to make the rounds on the Internet. The Story of Stuff is a documentary short by Annie Leonard, an international trade critic and environmental causes advocate. The video is short – 20 minutes – and it explains the cycle of goods and services, and the staggering amount of waste that's produced in our quest to have stuff. She also points out that our consumer model of society has created many of the problems we face, and some people would give a cash advance to make the film go away. Still, The Story of Stuff could mean a need for credit repair on the guiding philosophy of life these days.
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smart video. I enjoyed it a lot, but i feel it's more helpful to tell what can be improved about it. I don't really like that it is so basic and the voice feels like it talking to a 5th grade classroom (so it might have trouble trying to convince some adults). It would be cool to add that recycling isn't even a solution at all because the ways these things have been designed. Products need to be designed to be reused. And that the solutions before recycle are reduce your foot print and also reuse. But in 20 min this video accomplishes a lot. I think it's awesome. Don't take this as hate I'm just throwing out my thoughts.
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Interesting presentation style, I like the lo-fi graphics! I'd love to see an annotated version with sources for all the facts and figures.
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Short informative videos to encourage people to think of the big picture.
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Great resource recommend it to your friends
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Very illustrative video that shows the relationship bewteen many of the problematic issues we are facing today and that are also related with most of the 1st world life style: migrations, destruction of green habitats, pollution, infinite consumption, recycling, media& ads manipulation, distribution channel, working conditions.. that gives the BIG picture as it says.
Also I like the message with which it ends : "Some say it's unrealistic, too idealistic that it can't happen, but I say that the ones who are unrealistic are those who want to continue with the old path.. that's dreaming"
I think it could be of great help to make more aware the people who are not interested in these areas... in fact, we all live in the same world, so to keep it working we all need to sum efforts! So show it to everyone you know!
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Highly recommended
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Great resource. This video tells a concise story that is easy to grasp and understand the situation we are in as a planet and humanity. I've read quite a few books on the subject, but none them do as good a job of conveying the whole concept in an easy to digest way.
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This video was very informative. I am taking an environmental science class at my school, and we have been considering things that we do nowadays that affect the world that our ancestors didn't do when they were around. It is amazing the figures that you presented are so high without some MAJOR outcome occurring from them. I know that they affect us on a small scale right now and if we don't do something to stop the cycle soon there will be bigger retributions that we will have to pay for.
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Highly recommended 20 minutes on how the world works!
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