Web Gem
Posted by eschettler on November 6, 2008
What we’re into this week:
The Story of Stuff
Did you know that in the past three decades alone, one-third of the planet’s natural resources have been consumed? The United States alone has 5 percent of the world’s population, but uses 30 percent of the world’s resources. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we’d need three to five planets!
Have you ever wondered where all the stuff you buy comes from and where it goes when you throw it out?
Annie Leonard has the answer. In fact, Leonard spent 10 years traveling the world and studying how everything we buy gets from extraction to production to distribution to consumption to disposal. Whoa! She gives the whole story in The Story of Stuff!
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