Do We Need All This Stuff in Our Lives???

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.

Teachers and classrooms

We have had an enthusiastic response from educators around the world about the Story. We’re working with Facing the Future: People and the Planet, a non-profit education organization that provides resources and action opportunities on global issues and sustainability for teachers, students and the public. We’re collaborating right now to figure out how to create a curriculum for use in classrooms. Stay tuned; we’ll have more information on this in upcoming newsletters.

Downloads and DVD’s

If you want a copy of the Story of Stuff, the best way is to download and share from your computer. We can’t help with download problems because there are so many variables in equipment, internet speeds, and software. If you have difficulties downloading, check with your internet provider or your operating system FAQ’s. You may need an updated version of QuickTime.

If you need a better copy or are sharing with a wider audience, we do have DVDs available. We would love to see thousands of uses for one DVD rather than one DVD each for thousands of people, so please feel free to copy and share your DVD.

DVD orders

We got off to a bad start in early 2008 because we didn’t anticipate the demand for the DVD’s. Recently, Hesperian Foundation, a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters for community health around the globe has stepped in to help with the DVD distribution. Hopefully we’re all caught up with DVD orders, but if you ordered and there’s still a problem, please send us an e-mail with your order date and the mailing address you asked us to ship to. We’ll do our best to track and complete your order quickly.

Collaboration

We have received many offers for collaboration with environmental, educational, NGO, and sustainability groups. At this time we don’t have the capacity to collaborate with all the amazing people who have contacted us. We’re working on platforms for collaboration on a broader scale for the future. We hope to keep the lines of communications open via upcoming Wiki and de.li.cious pages and our groups on social networks such as Wiser Earth, Facebook, and MySpace. If you have a project or collaboration in mind with the Story of Stuff team, please send an e-mail with the details of the project and the specific ideas for our involvement or join us on our Facebook, WiserEarth, or MySpace groups.

Speaking engagements for Annie and the staff

Annie’s speaking engagements are coordinated by Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau.

Our link on your site

Yes! Please feel free to put a link on your site. Please see our downloads section for some useful materials.

What can we do?

So many options depending on what you’re able to do. One place to start is on our Another Way page. But, as you know, the nature of the problem is complicated and there is no single easy solution (here’s Annie’s blog about that). We’re looking forward to working with all of you in the Story of Stuff community to engage in the many areas of leverage in the system to create another way. As we learn more about you and develop our future projects, we can organize and share our resources with each other. We hope you’ll find the area that you are the most passionate about, find out how it’s working in your community, and that together we’ll find ways to create the changes we all care about.

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