Hi Annie, my name is Luis and I am a Brazilian journalist, publisher of a website about sustainability. – http://www.biosferatv.com.br

The video in your blog is listed as private, so I think people cannot watch the teaser.s it possible to correct it?

Congratulations for your project and I hope to interview you someday.

Luis

can’t watch! I get “this is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender’s friend request.”…

Hey Everyone!

We’re having some technical difficulties but the teaser should be back up by end of today.

Thanks!
Christina & The Story of Stuff Team

Please use the new URL for The Story of Electronics’ teaser: http://bit.ly/estory. Thank you!

A thought for a future video explaining what is behind the need for a “growth based” economy. Namely, the “debt based economic system” that creates exponential debt due to compounding interest on the creation of a country’s money loaned at interest by privately held banks through Fractional Reserve banking/

Here are a few documentaries to look at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6182802717158469419#
Money as Debt

http://www.ohcanadamovie.com
Oh Canada: Our Bought and Sold Out Land

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYEFuN2v08&hd=1
Canada’s Great Experiment: 1935-1974 (Bill Abram)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1138597812890776821#
Money Masters

I am hoping against hope that this video is not a one-sided depiction of “primitive” operations. Fair Trade organizations, such as WR3A.org, have increasingly seen the best and the brightest overseas reuse and refurbishment factories (most in developing countries, most at the factories which originally MADE the devices as contract manufacturers) attached as “wire burning” operations. The boycott, prohibition, “war on drugs”, “just say no to reuse” campaign is using pictures of kids on junk which are sad, but which contrast jarringly with the optimistic and ethical electronics reuse and recycling programs. See NPR’s coverage of “Las Chicas Bravas”, or some of the other links (PBS, AP, Sacramento Bee) copied here at my own blog. I’m a former Peace Corps volunteer, former environmental regulator, founder of WR3A, and activist for “fair trade” solutions to the export problem. Please take time not to simplify (which you do very well) in a way which is racist or which ignores the Basel Convention Annex IX, B1110 export for repair and refurbishment position. Some activists lobbied against that in the Basel Convention, but the Parties voted to allow it, and now the activists attack USA EPA and others who rightfully cite the “right to repair” which is under attack in a culture which is exporting obsolescence and replacement as “clean” despite the certain environmental advantages of reuse and recycling over mining and refining.

I wish that you include the cell phone companies too in the letter to the ceo’s under the “take action” section.