SeeingGreen ™

I recently drafted a post railing about all the items we accumulate to fill up our lives and don’t really need. I think my foul mood was triggered by the aisle of Christmas paraphernalia I saw at a local drug store when the calendar barely read September. I’ll save you the whiny details, but I’ll admit I used the term “crap” several times in one sentence. I decided to not publish that entry.

A much better treatment of why we should buy less can be found in a short film, The Story of Stuff. After spending 10 years traveling to factories and landfills around the world (now that’s my type of job), host Annie Leonard makes a compelling case about what decades of blind consumption is doing to our planet and its people. The Story of Stuff is easy to watch with it’s low-fi animated style and clear message. I hope that you’ll take 20 minutes to watch the movie, pass the link on to a friend and then take at least one action - such as not buying a bunch of crap, er, I mean, stuff to celebrate an otherwise lovely holiday season.