Endorsing the Story of Stuff

According to the Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, this past September, the news of the economic crises dominated the headlines, but at the exact same time, another debt crisis was intensifying, yet was barely noticed.

Earth Overshoot Day, also known as Ecological Debt Day, was on September 23. This is the day in 2008 by which humanity had used all the resources that the planet will generate this year.

As viewers of The Story of Stuff already know, we currently consume 1.4 planets' worth of global resources each year. Since September 23 onward, we have been eating into the natural capital, undermining its ability to produce for the future. We are consuming on credit, and are accumulating ecological debt that we have no way to repay.

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. The SOS professes to teach you something that will make you laugh, and just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.