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The Story of Stuff
The Tides Foundation ^ | Unknown | Anne Leonard

Posted on 03/31/2008 6:57:06 PM PDT by Shirerwasright

What is the Story of Stuff?

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 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

(Excerpt) Read more at storyofstuff.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: sustainability; tidesfoundation
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To: Shirerwasright

Resistance to this crap is the “stuff” of patriots.


21 posted on 03/31/2008 7:33:56 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: luckymom
Isn't the Tides Foundation something of Tah-Ray-Zah Heinz’?

I guess this means she and gigolo-boy have unloaded all their stuff. Or is that only for the little people?

22 posted on 03/31/2008 7:34:40 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Shirerwasright
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.

Can someone define what the word sustainable means? Does it mean that once something is made, it never needs to be taken care of, or is that self sustaining? If its not self sustaining, does that mean it needs to be sustained by someone? If its sustained by someone, doesn't that mean its not sustainable, but just needs maintenance like everything else?

Or does it have something to do with the amount of effort or resources it takes to maintain or produce something. If so, does that mean it should be something that takes less work to create and maintain? If thats the case, then what they mean is that we just need to have robots that build other robots that produce and maintain everything so we can all sit on our butt and do nothing while something else sustains us.

If so, would that be the definition of liberalism?

23 posted on 03/31/2008 7:49:30 PM PDT by Lowcountry (RIP: Peterdanbrokaw)
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To: Lowcountry

Liberalsim is not “sustainable.” That’s one reason they like to call themselves “progressive” now....


24 posted on 03/31/2008 7:58:52 PM PDT by clintonh8r (An Obamanation would be an abomination...."A typical white person.")
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To: BigCinBigD

He who dies, is stuffed. Period.

Called taxidermy!

Or, as they say in the mortuary trade, “Stuff it!”


25 posted on 03/31/2008 8:38:28 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Shirerwasright

Tides Foundation is all I needed to read to know the insidious nature of the content.


26 posted on 03/31/2008 9:44:11 PM PDT by prov1813man (While the one you despise and ridicule works to protect you, those you embrace work to destroy you)
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To: Lowcountry

“Sustainable” means making stuff out of the kind of stuff that you will never, ever run out of, and which then can be given to poor people when you are finished using it. Oil is not sustainable because we will run out of it eventually and only you can use it after you buy it, but hemp shirts are, because we will never run out of hemp in a perfect world, and you can give your used hemp shirts to homeless people when you’ve had enough fun with them, and you can even teach people in lesser-developed nations to make their own hemp shirts using just the sticks and stones and hemp they already have around them, so they won’t be dependent on exploitative corporate technologies, and then.....


27 posted on 03/31/2008 9:57:10 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: Shirerwasright

That is the business model as I understand it. Rich Lefty wanting to donate to a far out wacko cause. He simply makes his donation out to the Tides Foundation with secret instructions whom to pass it on to. The Tides Foundation takes their cut then makes the donation. Officially, Lefty Moneybags has donated to the Tides Foundation. Officially the Tides Foundation has donated to the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-a-likes. Officially, nothing links Rich Lefty to NAMBLA. He just gave to the Tides Foundation. That’s all.


28 posted on 03/31/2008 9:59:11 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: Shirerwasright
Lots of cheap stuff...


29 posted on 02/18/2010 7:32:15 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: Lowcountry
Sustainable is a intellectual hippie term for products and food stuffs of crappy quality...

Simply put:

Sustainable = POS product or food that tastes like cow poop.

30 posted on 02/18/2010 7:36:36 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: ejonesie22

Not always.


31 posted on 02/18/2010 7:41:34 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski
Nothing I have seen yet would indicate that. I am sure there maybe some organic food that isn't tree bark and pine twigs. But the sustainable products I have seen are made from inferior materials.

However you may have a point, meat is sustainable there for good for us...

(That will send the PETA hippies over the edge...)

32 posted on 02/18/2010 7:45:40 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: Shirerwasright
...calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

*yawn*

Another day; another hippie.

33 posted on 02/18/2010 7:47:20 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: ejonesie22

How about a bamboo hardwood floor, made from a tree that matures in 3-5 years, with a Janka hardness rating a touch better than white oak?

Is that inferior?


34 posted on 02/18/2010 7:48:19 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: ejonesie22; woofie
Big stuff...


35 posted on 02/18/2010 7:48:54 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Petronski
As long as I am not eating it I guess not.

But a lot of things I have seen put out as enviro-friendly or “made from sustainable” materials” or recycled materials is not up to snuff.

We'll split the difference. Some of it's fine and some of it sucks, but none of it is worth destroying the economy over in search of feeling good about ourselves or stopping “globull warming”.

36 posted on 02/18/2010 7:53:45 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: ejonesie22

Here’s another sustainability product: water filters.

If your tap water is unpleasant, you can pay to have a gallon of water shipped to you (eight pounds each) or you can pay to have water filters shipped (under a pound, filtering hundreds of gallons each) and filter that tap water to get the good stuff.

Get a bpA-free bottle to carry it with you on the go.


37 posted on 02/18/2010 7:57:20 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: TChris; ejonesie22; woofie


38 posted on 02/18/2010 7:57:45 AM PST by grjr21
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To: Petronski

But isn’t the filter ultimatly disposable?

Besides, water without industrial polution just doesn’t taste the same.


39 posted on 02/18/2010 7:59:02 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Palin bashers on freerepublic, like a fart in Church...)
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To: grjr21; ejonesie22; woofie
Sparkly stuff...


40 posted on 02/18/2010 8:01:24 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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