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Move Your Money Resources
In early March, over 40 members of the Story of Stuff community gathered online to talk with a dynamic group of movers and shakers about getting their money out of nasty mega banks and holding them to a higher standard. With folks on the line from The New Bottom Line, Green America, New York Communities for Change, the Responsible Endowment Coalition, and PACT, we chatted with representatives from schools, churches, community organizations who have made the switch and are investing their money in a better future and healthier planet…. FULL POST »
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Monica Wilson: More Jobs, Less Pollution
Post written by Monica Wilson at GAIA, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 650 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
The U.S. could create 1.5 million jobs through recycling. Right now, public funds for expensive, dirty “waste-to-energy” incinerators hold back job growth – and Congress is about to make it worse.
The U.S. could add nearly 1.5 million jobs if it adopted a 75% national recycling rate. Wow, that’s a lot of jobs! Instead of propping up the dinosaur economy highlighted in The Story of Broke, we can be investing in more jobs and a healthier future by keeping the stuff we use in our economy, instead of dumping or burning it…. FULL POST »
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Rosa González: WATER WORKS
Post written by Rosa González from Green For All Every year, enough untreated sewage escapes into our waterways to completely cover the state of Pennsylvania in sludge an inch thick. Yuck.
So what if there were a way to fix that – while putting over 1.8 million people to work and adding more than a quarter of a trillion dollars to the economy? As you’ve guessed: there is.
Green for All, in partnership with Economic Policy Institute, American Rivers, and Pacific Institute, recently released a new report: “Water Works: Rebuilding Infrastructure, Creating Jobs, Greening the Environment.” The report looks at what would happen if we invested in America’s water infrastructure – and finds that an investment of $188.4 billion spread equally over the next five years would generate $265.6 billion in economic activity and create close to 1.9 million jobs.
With the side benefit of keeping sewage out of our streams…. FULL POST »
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Stand up for a Better Future, Wherever You Live
Here at the Story of Stuff Project, we celebrate the fact that our movies have inspired millions around the world—from Brazil and South Africa to the UK and India and everywhere in between. But while many members of the Story of Stuff community don’t live in the United States, we’ve chosen to focus our advocacy efforts here in our home country.
Here are just a couple of the reasons why:… FULL POST »
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Doug Koplow: Communicating Arcane Subsidies to a General Audience
Originally Posted at EarthTrack, which works to make government subsidies that harm the environment easier to see, value, and eliminate.
Like implant dentists or utility accountants, subsidy wonks go to trade meetings (yes, meetings on natural resource subsidies do exist) to find people who talk our language. In that “safe” space, we can be met with a knowing nod as we wax poetic on the difference between revenue loss and outlay equivalents, or what is missing from a price gap estimate…. FULL POST »
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Kevin Danaher: Follow the Capital
Originally posted at Global Exchange, an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.The Occupy demonstrations have raised a central issue that we must confront: how does capital get invested and who is controlling the process?… FULL POST »
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Movie File for the Story of Broke
Our Creative Commons License permits you to download and share our films for free so long as you play it in its entirety for non-commercial use. And while sharing our films in full for non-commercial use is free, the production cost and hosting fees are not! Donations in any amount are always appreciated. You can make a secure, tax-deductible on-line contribution via our donation page and help keep this information free. Thanks!
Please be patient, when downloading. Our movie files are quite large…. FULL POST »
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Prioritizing People, Not Polluters
The Story of Broke couldn’t come at a more relevant time. Before Thanksgiving, the Congressional Supercommittee will propose a plan on how to bridge a $1.2 trillion budget gap – and if they don’t, the country will face a series of draconian, across-the-board budget cuts.
With sky-high unemployment and our social safety net in tatters, it’s no wonder many of us feel a collective sense of desperation. But as Annie points out, we aren’t broke… FULL POST »
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We’re Not Broke
“They got bailed out; we got sold out!”
The chant rang in my ears as I marched with my 12-year-old daughter and thousands of my fellow citizens through the streets of Oakland last week…. FULL POST »
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Images from the Story of Broke
Help us spread the word! Feel free to use these images on your site or blog. We just please ask that you link back to us. Simply right-click on your PC or ctrl-click on your Mac to download a zip file of images from each film. This file is 3.5 MB.
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Frequently Asked Questions for Story of Broke
If you’re using Chrome or Safari,click the image below to view the annotated script in your browser. Otherwise, you can right-click the image to download it and open with the PDF-viewer of your choice…. FULL POST »
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Press Release for Story of Broke
If you’re using Chrome or Safari,click the image below to view the annotated script in your browser. Otherwise, you can right-click the image to download it and open with the PDF-viewer of your choice…. FULL POST »
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Annotated Script for the Story of Broke
If you’re using Chrome or Safari,click the image below to view the annotated script in your browser. Otherwise, you can right-click the image to download it and open with the PDF-viewer of your choice…. FULL POST »
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“We’re Not Broke” Images
Our friends at Free Range Studios have created a great “We’re Not Broke!” graphic that we’ll be using in the outreach for the new movie. It’s a poster; it’s a stencil; it’s a sign!… FULL POST »
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Frustrated…and Inspired.
On November 8th, we’ll be releasing the new Story of Stuff Project movie: The Story of Broke: Why There’s Still Plenty of Money to Build a Better Future.
The concept for this new movie was born, quite frankly, of frustration…. FULL POST »
Want more articles, books and media? Want to learn more about how we can still invest in a better future? Check out the annotated script and see our sources ...MOREYou, our awesome community, have screened our movies all over the world in all types of places! Check out the map to see where community screening have already happened. Click on the pins to read a little about each event. If you haven't added your screening to the map yet, you can do so by filling out this form. Thanks!
