"How our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, out communities, and our health — and a vision for change."04 December 2007Animated, Factual22 mins
For most of the world, consumption has been the unquestioned duty of every individual. Then garbage activist Annie Leonard brought her two-hour lecture to Free Range who helped her turn it into a 20-minute animated revolution. Shown in thousands of classrooms, endlessly blasted by Fox News, viewed more than 10 million times, The Store of Stuff finally opens the door to a serious cultural dialog about the costs of consumption.
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A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.
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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.
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The Story of Stuff will take you on a provocative tour of our consumer-driven culture — from resource extraction to iPod incineration ...
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