num_pages: 352
description: A classic expos in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment economy and our health. Leonard examines the stuff we use everyday offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet.The Story of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Tavis Smiley to George Stephanopolous on Good Morning America as well as far-reaching print and blog coverage. Uncovering and communicating a critically important ideathat there is an intentional system behind our patterns of consumption and disposalAnnie Leonard transforms how we think about our lives and our relationship to the planet.From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to visiting textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for cell phones in the Congo Leonard named one of Time magazines 100 environmental heroes of 2009 highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these.With curiosity compassion and humor Leonard shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level that will bring about sustainability community health and economic justice. Embraced by teachers parents churches community centers activists and everyday readers The Story of Stuff will be a long-lived classic.
language: English
title: The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
publisher: Free Press