The Story of Stuff Review

Sara Martinez

November 30, 2009

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Review on The Story of Stuff

As we go through our day, using all the commodities that we are used to using we don’t even realize what really goes on behind us using these things. This topic intrigued Annie Leonard and so she spent 10 years traveling the globe and fighting threats to our environment. Annie herself wrote and directed this short video, and it was sponsored by the Tides Foundation, The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, and Free Range Studios, who also produced the Film. It was first launched on December 4, 2007, and taken to classrooms around the country to be used from elementary schools to graduate programs. Annie is trying to get through to the public and bring some awareness to what really goes on in this country and how bad our environment is getting.

As I was watching this video it struck me how much of a cycle we have created. It has become so engrained into us that when shown or offered a new way no one wants to take it because they are so used to the normal grind. Even though these things are causing harm people just do not want to give up what they have or Change their ways. This is God’s created planet and he has asked us to be good stewards of this earth. We need to take care of this earth and it may be hard but we can start by recycling. It is with small baby steps that great things will and can be accomplished. We need to take care of what God has given us as a gift, and we should take care of it with a joyful heart and willing spirit.