You’ve all probably been Blogging, Google Reading, Tweeting & Emailing about this, but I thought I’d throw it up on here as a short post.
The short 20 minute video is well done and called “The Story of Stuff” by Annie Leonard and is an interesting look into our stuff. Where it comes from & where it goes.
Check it out!
Just a girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver.
I cleared $60,000 in 18 months earning $65,000 gross/year.
Now I am self-employed, and you can read more about my story here, or visit my other blog: The Everyday Minimalist.
This is more of a lifestyle blog with hint of money talk, like a moneythropologist.
You can read more about me here in The FB Story, check out my favourite posts or you can send me a note if you have questions (please be nice).
Come and visit my other blog The Everyday Minimalist which is all about achievable everyday minimalism, simplifying my life, living like a modern nomad.
I posted about this a while back – isn’t it amazing? Long, but totally worth the watch.
One more note… I also liked one of the blog posts on the storyofstuff.com blog relating our environmental consumption to finance:
“As viewers of The Story of Stuff already know, we currently consume 1.4 planets’ worth of global resources each year. From September 23rd on, we’re eating into the natural capital, undermining its ability to produce for the future. We’re consuming on credit and accumulating ecological debt that we have no way to repay.” – http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=20
We all know this one too well.
If you’re more interested in this kind of information (particularly, our consumerism culture, how it relates to agriculture, and how we got here), I highly recommend Daniel Quinn’s books. Ishmael and The Story of B are both fantastic.
Wikipedia has a concise summary that is better than what I could say, “Quinn uses the phrase ‘cultural collapse’ to describe the point of history that we are living through today. He believes that circumstances have rendered the cultural mythology of the Takers [what he calls our world culture] meaningless to its people. When this happens to a culture, Quinn states, things fall apart. ‘Order and purpose are replaced by chaos and bewilderment. People lose the will to live, become listless, become violent, become suicidal, and take to drink, drugs, and crime… laws, customs and institutions fall into disuse and disrespect, especially among the young, who see that even their elders can no longer make sense of them.'”
The book isn’t all doom and gloom, though. Quinn says that we’re now at a new era of creating a new culture, because we’ve already reached cultural collapse.
Anyway, the books really blew my mind. Let me know if you decide to pick them up!
This was very EYE OPENING…THANKS for sharing 🙂