Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, govenment regulators or even professional environmental activists. Annie looks at two communities, half a world apart, where citizens showed that people on the front lines of pollution have the power to fight back against being poisoned.
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Over 25% of our household waste in the US is green waste from kitchens and yards. Food scraps are full of nutrients that are valuable if returned to the soil, but dangerous if dumped in a landfill, where they rot and release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In order to reduce waste, build soil health and prevent climate change, there is a growing effort to keep green waste out of landfills and compost it instead. Composting can be done at the backyard, community or city-wide level. In each case, green waste (also called Organic Waste) must be kept separate from other trash and then broken down through a process called composting….
posted by On The Revolution, Annie showed Ty a package of household cleanser that was super concentrated. Super concentrated means less packaging. When we buy regular cleaners or detergents, the jug is mostly full of water. Instead, we can buy super concentrated, add our own water at home and just keep re-using the same bottle over and over….
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In January, Pennsylvania resident Karla Trotman spent a day in her home with our very own Annie Leonard for a taping of ABC daytime show The Revolution….
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What do Northern California and Brownsville, Texas have in common? A lot more than you might think!
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I use my radio as an alarm clock and since I don’t exactly bound out of bed in the morning, it often results in a bizarre half-dreams about Apple’s supply chains, the state of the Dow Jones and assorted sounds bites from the circus that is the GOP primary. This morning I awoke to an FM rallying cry to Occupy Congress….
posted by When Annie created and launched The Story of Stuff in December of 2007, that was supposed to be it. One movie, one web page. But when that movie went viral, the response was undeniable. A chord was struck, a community was galvanized and The Story of Stuff Project was born!
Now, four years, five staff, and seven movies later, we’re still going. But unlike the Energizer Bunny, we’re powered by you, not alkaline and mercury!…
An awesome video from the good folks over at the Post Carbon Institute about the history of fossil fuels and what could, and hopefully will be, our future!
posted by We created the Story of Stuff Project for you – the members of this community – and you are its heart and soul, something you’ve proven with your generous contributions to our work.
Here at the Story of Stuff Project we’ve been working hard to pay back your generosity by bringing you more of what you want….
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by Allison Cook and Renée Shade
At the end of November, I immediately–and frantically–started making to-do lists of presents to buy, searching blogs for holiday meal and craft ideas, looking for cheap flights, and trying to remember where I put my glue gun. The overwhelming feeling of holiday craziness began to wash over me, and I’m not the only one freaking out; eight out of ten Americans experience increased stress during the holiday season.
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