From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 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.Copyright/Licensing Information From:http://www.storyofstuff.com/The Story of Stuff is available to watch and download free by following the link below. Please feel free to download, duplicate and share the film for …
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Eco Fact
Up to 80% of all car tires are underinflated. Underinflated tires waste approximately 5% of a car’s fuel, which equals out to be around two billion gallons of gasoline wordwide per year
Green Skeletons in Our Closets
What do our closets have to do with saving the planet you might ask? While at first glance what’s in our clothes closets may seem to have a benign influence on our environment, a closer look reveals quite a different picture. Let’s start with the ordinary wire hanger.A famous line from the movie Mommy Dearest is “no wire hangers”! While Joan Crawford might have been justified in her distain of wire hangers for aesthetic reasons, our reckless disposal of them has become a major environmental issue. Steel is 100% recyclable yet most hangers get thrown away, leaving 3.5 billion hangers per year in landfills, weighing in at 195 million pounds, spanning 2.2 million miles if stretched out and wasting enough steel to make 60,000 new …
Thought for the Day
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.— George Carlin
Green on the Airwaves
When I’m not out and about fighting the “green fight”, I’m a couch potato watching and listening to some of the following quality green programming:SATELLITE/CABLE TV: PLANET GREEN (channel 286) has: Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff Network anchor Bob Woodruff hosts this news magazine which deals 100% with environmental and sustainable living issues. Living with EdHumorous eco-reality show with actor, environmentalist, electric car enthusiast Ed Begley Jr. and his glam wife Rachelle in their green (as mandated by Ed) Studio City, Calif home. Their neighbor, Bill Nye, “the science guy” vies with Ed to be “king of green” with Jay Leno making frequent appearances along with other Hollywood stars. Stuff Happens…
Gloom and Doom?….NOT
If it seems like the articles I’ve been posting are filled with gloom and doom, keep in mind these were originally written to educate the public in a blue collar working class neighborhood of the urgency needed in adopting a more sustainable lifestyle. Limited to 750 words, they had to be hard hitting and cut to the chase, shock, in fact. But once the scary education is over, the fun begins! Adopting a new green lifestyle can be quite an adventure as you will see when I begin to offer some of my non-toxic homemade cleaning “recipes”. Oh and let’s not forget about Vermiculture (worm composting)…..red wigglers under the kitchen sink anyone?
Thought for the Day
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”— Albert Einstein
Eco Fact
A vehicle that idles for more than three minutes produces 66% more pollution than one that stops and restarts the engine. An idling school bus can consume a half-gallon of fuel per hour.