Website review: The Story of Stuff with Annie Leona...
Nesreen discovered this in Activism
•302 reviews since Nov 28, 2007
activism, environment, consumerism
•storyofstuff.com
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Sweetwyne rated 27 hours ago- This is the heavier side of stuff. This is a long video about stuff. But I think it's right on. It maybe a revelation to some, to others a educational experience, and old news to a few. If you have the time check it out.
- Mag-la-surfeuse rated 3 days ago
- Spread this moving documentary about over-consumtion and its effects on nature and people.
- Tord rated 3 days ago
- Good stuff about basic stuff.
- RMonkeyGirl rated 10 days ago
- From the page: "The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. "
- JanineFlynn rated 11 days ago
- Didn't 'scientists' help cause the problems in the first place? I don't know, maybe I'm being naive even to ask. However, Oliver James has studied consumerism extensively and his book Affluenza makes very interesting reading about the psychology that sustains this cycle by consumers. Malcolm Gladwell's website says that his book 'The Tipping Point' presents a way of understanding why change can happen quickly and unexpectedly; some of the examples he cites include consumerism specifically though it is really the 'mechanism' of how something spreads throughout society. Both of these studies support the effects of the only part of this cycle that many of us are aware of. 'Stuff' identifies how the parts fit together more completely.
- WilliamStafford9 rated 2 weeks ago
- I don't like these 'The sky is falling' sorts of things. In the early 1970s or late 1960s, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland (Ohio) caught fire. Since then it's been cleaned up and wildlife has returned. McDonald's used to sell Big Macs etc in styrofoam cartons. They were pressured to stop using styrofoam and they switched to cardboard. I can't believe the spell checker is telling me I misspelled styrofoam. My point is that we need better science and math literacy. What literacy is in these regards isn't certain but it's worth talking about because, to a scientifically illiterate person, Annie Leonard here in this video is spewing propaganda, and a scientifically illiterate person might be easily swayed by emotional arguments. I don't mean to say that scientists aren't vulnerable to emotional arguments, I just think we'd have better communication and understanding when we know we're talking about the same thing. Then we also can be sure we are agreeing on the same thing.
- gavinski rated 3 weeks ago
- There's probably nothing in this 20 minute video that you don't know about consumer society already. BUT, I loved it, and it ties things together in a very clear way. I'd love to see this shown in every school. "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." Thanks a lot Nick
- asclayton rated 3 weeks ago
- Looks rather too much like political propaganda for children. Distasteful Malthusian undertones to boot.
