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December 1, 2009 - The Story of Stuff Project launched a brand new short film, The Story of Cap & Trade. It’s a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate change solution on the table in Copenhagen and in the halls of Congress. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you. Please take 10 minutes today to watch The Story of Cap & Trade and then check out the film website for more information and ways to get involved.
Tides Foundation is proud to present The Story of Stuff — a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns that calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.
Narrated and created by activist Annie Leonard, the film tells an engaging story about 'all our stuff' where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.
Tides Foundation and The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption partnered with Free Range Studios to produce the film and the website, www.storyofstuff.com
The website is fully interactive and a rich source to find many excellent and vital nonprofits working on the myriad of issues that intersect with this story along the lines of
There is also a special focus on ‘Another Way’ — groups not only fighting against pollution, unfair and unsafe labor practices, bad policies, etc., but groups promoting positive and long-term solutions to our ‘system in crisis.’ And the site is designed to grow, with new groups being added frequently.
You can watch the film here:
TIDES ECO INITIATIVE
The Story of Stuff was produced with support from the Tides ECO Initiative: working at the intersection of environmental protection, economic opportunity, social justice, and democracy.
