The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
www.storyofstuff.com
This animation film is not the kind of tame, boring info film or aggressive anti-documentary we've all come across many times. No, it's that special kind of ingenous style typical of Free Range Studios - who are the absolute champs in Flash Movie Activism @ www.freerangestudios.com!
Not only are the animations fun, but the film addresses the full scope of production, consumption and waste, incl. fundamental political! flaws in the system, illustrated with graphic facts without being one-sided, and very straightforward - not trying to euphemise the effects of industrial resource extraction behind artificial words.
“We’ll start with extraction, which is a fancy word for natural resource exploitation, which is a fancy word for trashing the planet. What this looks like is we chop down the trees, we blow up mountains to get the metals inside, we use up all the water and we wipe out the animals.”
The high quality informational and entertaining quality has made it a major success on the internet AND in schools.
This movie is the BEST TOOL around on the topic to be used in education! - and that's the kind of multiplying effect we need! So, please join in spreading this tool left and right, up and down!
Since The Story of Stuff was launched online on December 4, 2007, the site has been visited by people in over 224 countries and territories around the world, and been translated to many languages. More than six million people have seen it on the website, 'and millions more have seen it on YouTube. More than 7,000 schools, churches and others have ordered a DVD version, and hundreds of teachers have written Ms. Leonard to say they have assigned students to view it on the Web.
It has also won support from independent groups that advise teachers on curriculum choices. Facing the Future, a curriculum developer for schools in all 50 states, is drafting lesson plans based on the video' says the New York Times on their frontpage on May 10, 2009 @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/education/11stuff.html.
Based on the gained international attention and support, Annie is now working with educational organisation Facing the Future on developing a two-week middle and high school level educational module with the film at its core.
But don't wait for it - use Story of Stuff in SCHOOLS right now.
The website offers all the tools you need.
EACH-ONE-DO-ONE:
Use the online film, or download it, distribute it, use posters in school and banners on your websites. Add an article in your blogs, NGO's newspages, newsletters, teaching tools and links.
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