This fast-paced, almost* fact-filled, and most importantly, SIMPLE look at the materials economy is a must see for anyone interested in or concerned with the connections between environmental and social issues and creating a more sustainable and just world. Some gentle doom and gloom at the beginning but the end is where it is at – we can fix this thing and many people are working hard to do so.

Watch The Story of STUFF.

Forward this 20-minute gem to everyone you know from students to teachers, CEOs to street sweepers – it may change the way they look at stuff forever.

written by Annie Leonard
produced by Free Range Studios
sponsored by the Tides Foundation and the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption

*the deal about computer processors isn’t necessarily true…