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The Story of Stuff: How Our Problem with Overconsumption Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities and Our Health--and What to Do About It
The Story of Stuff How Our Problem with Overconsumption Is Trashing the Planet Our Communities and Our Healthand What to Do About It Author:Annie Leonard Annie Leonard tracks the life of the stuff we use every day, transforming how we think about our patterns of consumption. We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world's population, we're consuming 30 percent of the world's resources and creating 30 percent of the world's waste. If ev... more »eryone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets!
This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 million times by people around the world. In her sweeping, groundbreaking book of the same name, Leonard tracks the life of the Stuff we use every day -- where our cotton T-shirts, laptop computers, and aluminum cans come from, how they are produced, distributed, and consumed, and where they go when we throw them out. The Story of Stuff is a landmark book that will change the way people think--and the way they live.
We, as consumers, are compromising our health and well-being, whether it's through neurotoxins in our pillows or lead leaching into our kids' food from their lunchboxes--and all this Stuff isn't even making us happier! We work hard so we can buy Stuff that we quickly throw out, and then we want new Stuff so we work harder and have no time to enjoy all our Stuff.« less