The story of stuff goes more indepth

Annie Leonard is an activist who has spent the past 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats and she has written and directed the short film “The Story of Stuff”, the film was produced by Free Range Studios, the makers of other highly
popular web-based films such as “The Meatrix” and “Grocery Store Wars”. The Story of Stuff examines how economic policies of the post-World War II
era ushered in notions of “planned obsolescence” and “perceived
obsolescence” —and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S.
and global economies today. Now however The Story of Stuff is also a book which has all the information from the film but more detail about materials, economy, production, distribution, consumption and disposal.

But there is more… Since making the Story of Stuff movie and book, now there is the Story of Bottled Water, and the Story of the Cap & Trade, and the upcoming Story of Electronics (due for viewing around May 2010).

The Story of Cap & Trade shows the story of “why you can’t solve a problem with the thinking that created it”. In this movie we learn about the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill.We discover energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme
and the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade
proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction
from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve
heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who
benefits), this is the film is for you. Already this movie has had over 600,000 views.

The Story of Bottled Water is the latest in “the story of” series and shows “how manufactured demand pushes what we don’t need and destroys what we need most”. This edition in the series really highlights everything wrong with today’s consumer driven society, and especially highlights that one third of bottled waters are in fact municipal water we are paying way over the odds for (roughly 2000x the price of tap water). Not only is the water often not cleaner, it’s not regulated and taste tests veer to preferences for the non-bottled water

“The Story of…” series provides great movies that are informative and fun, check out the Story of Stuff website for more information and to view the movies.

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