The Story of Stuff

By mudlark • July 25th, 2008

There’s a new banner on my left sidebar, down towards the bottom. It looks like this. Click on it and you’ll find yourself at a website with a really supercool video. Sure, it’s about 20 minutes long, but it’s well worth the time. Think about it. What else would you have done with those 20 minutes? Read a few more blogs? Watched 2/3 of a sitcom? (or the whole thing if you’ve Tivo’ed it and can skip commercials) Cleaned something?

Well, this is better than all that. You’ll laugh. You’ll learn something you didn’t know. And you just might be challenged to change the way you think about some things. It’s good viewing. I promise. In fact, I’ll guarantee it. If you watch it and you walk away not having laughed or learned something, I’ll give you 20 minutes back. (Wait! You’re not taking me seriously on that are you?)

But seriously. It’s good. It touches on dioxins (which are present in an alarming number of cleaning products), goes into where our stuff comes from, where it ends up, and – more importantly – why we’re so attached to it.

Comments(1) Lifestyle, Shopping

Comments

By Faith on July 26th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

I saw this awhile back – it is so good and so important! It has definitely encouraged me to think a lot more about myself as a consumer and attempt to refine how my family negatively impacts the environment. I’m glad you’re helping to get this out there.