This February marked the one-year anniversary of the Norfolk Southern train derailment disaster in East Palestine, an incident that spurred our Community to action. Through the Grassroots Grants Program (and additional funds raised through the generosity of our Community) we rushed support to frontline groups aiding and mobilizing residents. Recently, we revisited this site in…
Why We Give The Story of Stuff Project established the Grassroots Grants Program in 2017 to support small organizations and groups organizing against water privatization and plastic pollution in the United States. Since we launched, we’ve supported over 100 grassroots groups with $500,000 in grants. We offer these partners financial resources, media infrastructure, and strategic…
FEBRUARY 2022 SAN BERNARDINO NATIONAL FOREST, CALIFORNIA Photo Essay by Michael O’Heaney. Special thanks to Hugh Bialecki for capturing some of these images. John Muir said that “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” After reams of paper evidence, hours of testimony over Zoom, and dozens…
St. James, Lousiana has garnered international attention this year, becoming one of the world’s highest-profile environmental site fights as the small community campaigns against giant corporations’ petrochemical developments. Two weeks ago, we released a new video featuring RISE St. James’ Sharon Lavigne, a tireless fighter for the rights of her community members in Louisiana’s Cancer…
Keep America Beautiful (KAB), a nonprofit organization working on behalf of corporate giants such as Coca-cola, PepsiCo and McDonald’s has released a new report revealing the findings of a decade of litter collection in the US. KAB launched in the 1950s and created the notorious ‘Crying Indian’ PSA, a public relations effort to redirect the…
About This Campaign For decades, Nestlé Waters — the world’s largest water bottler — has bought up access to public water across North America to turn our most precious public resource into a private commodity. Paying next to nothing in royalties, Nestlé makes billions of dollars a year selling our water. Over recent years, The…
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Written by Franklin Frederick, edited by Miranda FoxOriginal blog available here. The Swiss Government and Nestlé have a curiously close relationship. Several new appointments demonstrate the revolving door between the Swiss food and beverage corporation and Swiss public office. Last year, the former CEO of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, was chosen to lead the Geneva Science…
A new study, commissioned by The Story of Stuff Project, has found widespread plastic microfiber contamination in commercial bottled water. In total, 19 different bottled water brands were analyzed for microparticle contamination by Abigail Barrows of Ocean Analytics. According to the study, Boxed Water, Fiji, Ozarka, and Evian had the highest levels of plastic microfiber…
