WiserEarth Governance
Rights, Obligations, and Relationships of All WiserEarthlings
This group emerged out of the WiserEarth Partners meeting held on December 13. Our intention is to open this group up to all that join and participate in WiserEarth.
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Created: Dec 17, 2007
Updated: Sep 17, 2009
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The Story of Stuff is an online video and resource center that focuses on the inherent problems of our present materials economy. Since this economy is based on exploitation and perpetual growth, we find ourselves in a system of crisis "because you can't run a linear system on a finite planet." (A. Leonard)
Story of Stuff cuts to the heart of the problem in a way that is both entertaining and informative. Utilizing a straight forward narrative, and simple animated sketches, Story of Stuff allows the viewer to make connections between broad themes such as 'resource extraction', 'production', 'distribution', 'consumption', and 'disposal'. Annie's delivery eases the audience into the devastating truth about our present circumstances regarding our consumption patterns and the rapid decline of the natural systems on which we depend.
Since the website's launch in December we have recieved an overwhelming response from the public. The film has been seen by more than 3 million people in all but 2 countries worldwide, and we have gotten over 30,000 emails from concerned people wondering what to do next. This is a good sign, and we are working very hard to build an ifrastructure that encourages citizen participation in the many interconnected non-profits, and NGO's who are already active in these fields.
So come and visit us online at www.storyofstuff.org, view the fillm, host a screening, use it to encourage dialogue within your community. We have many resouces available for you to download. We hope you enjoy, let's get this world back on track!
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Comments (1 - 6 of 6)
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SOS brilliantly shows the problem at whole system level, giving the public the inspiration that Kenneth Boulding tried to give economists 43 years ago. The film also points towards helpful solutions of the variety 'what can we do locally'. This is half of the story about solutions and it would be great to see a future film present the other half with the same clarity and sense of fun. As well as helping the 'players' to run around more usefully we also need to change the 'rules of the game' in order to switch paradigms to work for people and planet. This might not be particularly complicated to do nor need it take much time to make the switch. Don't you think it would be good to try, since we don't have much time?
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Love the video, highly recommend it. Great Job! |
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It shows in a funny&simple way how things are done today and gives lust for change...
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Highly recommended 20 minutes on how the world works.
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A great way to approach the subject of American consumerism.
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SOS is incredibliy succinate and successfully describes the problems of earth.
I'm living in Korea and I introduced the video to my friends.
My friends and I decieded to translate SOS into Korean and
the link under is our first manuscript.
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2n9hmk_1522fk6zghj
If there is any Korean here, please contact me and give me any kind of feed back.
친구들이랑 같이 SOS 비디오를 번역하는 프로젝트를 시작했습니다.
위에 링크가 초안 나온겁니다.
한국어 가능하신 분들은 한번 훑어보고 같이 도와주시면 감사하겠습니다. :)