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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

The Story of Stuff

A friend of mine just created an animation called The Story of Stuff. It's a 20-minute encapsulation of how we in the rich countries end up with loads of cheap consumer items that we don't really need (and which we then toss out as ever-larger mounds of trash). Best of all, it offers alternatives.

I highly recommend watching the whole thing. If you don't have a spare 20 minutes in your life, that's something worth pondering in and of itself. But if you really want something shorter, here are a few teasers:

Teaser #1

Teaser #2

Teaser #3

1 Comments:

  • The Story of Stuff has been mentioned to me several times so it's getting around. There's a fellow in Chiengmai, Thailand who showed it to a group of monks during his talk on the footprint of a monk.
    http://joshkearns.blogspot.com/

    By Blogger AK, at 8:33 AM  

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