Here’s a list published by the “Story of Stuff Project” that provides advocates of sustainable living several ways to cut down on their robotic consumption of resources. My favorite: “buy second hand.” I love to support the “used” economy, mostly …
Story of Stuff Project Offers “Anti-Shopping List” — Which Is Your Favorite Item? Read More »
We tend to think of the concept of a “developed” country as one with a robust economy where poverty is scarce and most consumers can afford, at a minimum, the basics that make life safe and reasonably comfortable: healthcare, education, …
Last night I had the pleasure of coming face to face with one of my true heroes: Annie Leonard (of “The Story of Stuff” fame) at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Annie commanded the riveted attention of a …
Here’s another must-see video from Annie Leonard at The Story of Stuff, this one called “The Story of Broke.” I hope everyone will invest five minutes and check this out. Note how much of what she’s saying sounds like what …
Have you ever had difficulty getting the people in your life to share your passion on a subject? This happens to me all the time. I’ll try to get a friend, or my wife and kids to watch a certain …
“The Story of Stuff” Speaks to Sustainability – Won’t You Please Check It Out? Read More »
Thanks so much to Marc Vendetti for recommending the website The Story of Stuff. That is truly brilliant stuff. I hope everyone will do as he suggests, take 20 minutes, and check it out.
I love the sentiment here, but this is not an accurate depiction of the situation in which humankind finds itself. In particular, there never was a time at which we considered ourselves brothers and sisters, etc. Recently, the theory of …
What Precisely IS the Story of Human Civilization? Read More »
An old friend writes: Robespierre in the waning days of the French Revolution had a convention in Paris of his supporters; this , after his 44,000 citizen councils had each beheaded from one to five people. At the convention he …
Here’s an article in The New Yorker that looked like it must have certainly been a joke; it’s one that describes how Andrew Hacker, who claims that algebra should be cut from the core curriculum in U.S. schools, defended his …
What happens as the Earth warms? Well, farmland turns to desert, storms worsen, the sea level rises (as 24 cubic miles of ice melts every year in the Antarctic alone), and the oceans lose their capacity to support most animal …
Lots of Stuff Happens As Ice Melts on Earth–And None of It Is Good Read More »
