In The Story of Stuff‚ Annie Leonard discusses the system in which the stuff we buy moves through. This system is called the materials economy. This system is in crisis due to a linear system in a finite planet. This system has limits not in sight. In this system‚ certain people have more say in making decisions than others - like the government and corporations. The job of the government is to watch out for us; however‚ corporations are larger than the government resulting in the government taking
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In “The Story Of Bottled Water” by Annie Leonard disputes the need for bottled water in our everyday life‚ insisting that they hurt us way more than benefit us. Annie Leonard explains in her video that bottled water is less regulated‚ less quality and basically less affordable than tap water (1). She believes that the bottled water industry are those who cause us to believe that tap water is unsafe through their misleading advertising (2). Another important example in the video also explains is the
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Qiyu Zhang SOC 477 - 01 Instructor: L Barbosa Date: December‚ 3‚ 2014 The Story Of Stuff “The Story Of Stuff” written by Annie Leonard mainly talks about a life cycle of stuff. Annie defines the life cycle as material economy and‚ in turn‚ she divides the life cycle into five stages: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. Some environmental theories and neo-Marxist theory can be applied into the five stages to explore the environmental
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The story of Stuff. “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson. The story of stuff is basically about the causes and effects of production‚ distribution and disposal on people and the world as a whole. Annie Leonard‚ an environmental activist clearly states ways companies in the United States misuse our natural resources through deforestation and so many other ways to feed their selfish needs. In the
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Casul‚ Ruselle Anne C. STS40 (TF 7:30-9:00) 11/11/14 The Story of the Stuff by Annie Leonard- Reaction Paper The Story of the Stuff which is made by Annie Leonard was very interesting and enlightening. It made me realize that no matter how small the stuffs we use in our everyday life‚ it should not be taken for granted because the economic system is in crisis and we can’t continue to run on a linear system since we live on a planet of limited resources. People become obsessed with consumerism
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Story of stuff is a video made by Annie Leonard who has been looking up for 10 years about where all the stuff we buy comes from and where it goes when we throw it out. She says that in the planet is set “the materials economy” that is composed by five stages: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption and finally disposal. However‚ this system is in crisis because it’s a lineal system and we live on a finite planet‚ therefore we can’t keep this system indefinitely. We
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In “Story of Stuff” narrated by Annie Leonard generally discusses how materials flow through the economy on how and why. The materials of economy go through a system starting out with extraction which leads to production and after they make the materials it then gets distributed which is called distribution. Consumers then buy these products which is called consumption‚ and after they purchase it and make use of it then it goes to the trash can which is called disposal. These five steps of how materials
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Annie Leonard is the author of Plastic Microbeads: Don’t Use as Directed. She is the executive director of Greenpeace USA and investigates and explains environmental and social impacts of our stuff in words and film. In the article‚ her main arguement is that the manufactures of plastic tend to blame the consumer for not properly disposing or recycling the plastic products that they make but with microbeads they cannot lay that blame on us for the damage that microbeads are doing to the environment
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The Story of stuff is about the cycle of “stuff”. The cycle of “stuff” consists of extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. This is my analysis of the story of stuff. One major theme of this video is to explain how the U.S. is using up all of our natural resources. The first way that we use up our resources is deforestation. This is when we cut down a large number of trees in order to make it into products to sell. The next major theme is production. This is the stage where
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“The Story of Stuff” All our stuff goes through a process in the materials economy: extraction‚ production‚ distribution‚ consumption‚ and disposal. It sounds so simple but there are a lot of loopholes in between each step goes through. The first stage is extraction. Extraction means taking the planet’s resources – wood‚ minerals‚ coal‚ fossil fuel‚ water‚ plants‚ animals‚ and soil out of the earth and starting their journey through the materials economy. The problem here is simple:
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