Why the new website?

Since 2007, the online face of our project hasn’t changed that much. The bulk of our energy has been focused on delivering interesting and informative media—movies that raise the profile of important issues, resources for educators and communities of faith—and maintaining communication with our growing community.

Now, four years after the first movie, we’re really excited and happy to share our brand new website with you! We built this site with your recommendations, questions and comments in mind, so we hope that it meets your needs. Please bear with us as we continue to build out the site so that it really supports this amazing community. Read more about it here.

Download and Viewing Troubleshooting

Thank you so much for wanting to share our movie with your friends and family!

If you’re having trouble watching our movies on this site, you can try watching them on our YouTube Channel.

If you are having trouble trying to download our movies, please follow the directions below. Please be patient. Our movies are very big files and can take a long time to download, depending on internet strength and connectivity.

DIRECTIONS

1. We suggest connecting to the Internet with an ethernet port, not via wireless. The files are rather large and any interruption in your internet signal will cancel the download and you’ll have to start all over again.
2. Click on the movie you want to download on our Movie Files page. (You will be taken to another page for download.)
3. Hover your mouse over the movie you want listed below. (If you’re in the right spot, your cursor will turn into a hand.)
4. If you’re on a PC, right-click. If you’re on a Mac, press “control” on your keyboard and click with your mouse at the same time.
5. From the menu that pops up, select and click “Save Target As” on PCs or on “Save Link As…” on a Mac.
6. Select the destination folder for your file and click “Save”.
7. Last, but most importantly, please wait patiently as you download our movie. To pass the time, please consider donating to the Story of Stuff Project and help keep these (and most all other resources) free! Just be sure to do that in a new browser window or tab so you don’t interrupt your download.
8. THANK YOU!

Requests For Annie

I’d love to do an interview with Annie or I want Annie to speak at my school/community group/graduation/birthday party. How do I get in touch?

All media and interview requests can be directed to Bill Walker. Annie’s speaking engagements are handled through her speaking agent, Jodi Solomon Speakers.

I heard Annie wrote a book. How can I find out more about it?

Annie Leonard’s book, The Story of Stuff, was released in March 2010 in the US by the Free Press (an imprint of Simon & Schuster). You can find out more information about the book, including international releases, translations and where to purchase here.

Can I donate via PayPal?

Not right now. As much as we’d like to, we cannot accept PayPal donations.

You can make a secure, tax-deductible contribution to The Story of Stuff Project and find information on how to donate via check here. Thank you so much for your support!

Can I show one or more of your movies at my event?

YES! Our Creative Commons License permits you to download and share our films for free, as long as you promise us three things: that the screening is non-commercial, that The Story of Stuff Project is credited, and that the movie is shown in its entirety (ie, we’d rather you didn’t edit it!).

Visit our movie files page to download the movies. And please tell us about it by putting your party on the map!

Finally, while sharing our films in full for non-commercial use is free, the production costs and hosting fees are not (for us, at least!). Donations in any amount are always appreciated. You can make a secure, tax-deductible online contribution and help keep this information available to all who want it. Thanks!

Where do the facts in your movies come from?

We here at the Story of Stuff Project take facts very seriously. Facts, in fact, are why we started making movies in the first place. We wanted to know the answers to burning questions like, ‘where does all of our garbage go?’ So we do research and speak with experts in the field to find answers to those questions.

For our hearing-impaired and international audience, we offer all of our films captioned in multiple languages. To view the captions, click the “CC” button on the top right-hand side of the movie player.

If your language is not available and you would like to volunteer to translate, click here. Thanks for helping!

The translated versions are unfortunately not yet available for download, but we’re working on it.