Screenshot of the Video
Part of understanding sustainability is to have an awareness of how we are not being sustainable. This twenty minute video is one of the best explanations targeted squarely at the American consumer, but it can be useful to communicate some of the problems that we can start to address by looking at the systems that we use to accomplish our mission.
For those of us that want to know where she gets her facts, you can download her annotated narrative here.
From their website:
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.
