Posted by Pixelhead
Paul from Newhomessection.com just sent me a link to The Story of Stuff. If you go to the site, you can see a 20 minute video about the life cycle of stuff. The video below is just 1 little video that is several minutes long. I would suggest going to the site to view it in its entirety.
Be sure to stop in and read the Story Of Stuff Blog as well.
Written by Pixelhead on June 24th, 2008 with
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Nicole Price
#2.
June 24th, 2008, at 3:14 PM.
The videos, both the short version and the longer one, as well as the blog are all worth following regularly by people concerned about our earth and its future.
spostareduro
#3.
June 24th, 2008, at 4:01 PM.
That brief video was enough to get my engines cranked up. Thanks for sharing it. I’m headed over to see it in full. 
Pixelhead
#4.
June 24th, 2008, at 4:47 PM.
Kim, I just left you a message on Facebook. I was on the blog yesterday, and was on the post about NXT a shaving gel that uses 3 AAA batteries to light up the package to make it look pretty. Annie, who is in the video, mentions at the bottom of the post that the NXT has a blog, and she links to it. The company, however, must have made the link redirect to the home page. She really ought to remove it or at the very least make it a “No Follow”. I tried leaving a comment, and emailing them but I had no luck.
spostareduro
#5.
June 24th, 2008, at 4:59 PM.
It’s funny that you should find this today. I was reading a blog post earlier that sells handbags.
Don’t get me wrong, the article made good points. The theme for the post used an ‘ethical overtone’ in order to optimize their branding / marketing strategy, which is UNETHICAL at best. (how celebs spend gazillions on handbags, yet claim to be environmental activists in their various charitable activities)
http://bagbunch.com/poverty-fighting-celebs-and-handbags/#comment-516
Thanks for the warning!
Paul
#6.
June 24th, 2008, at 5:16 PM.
This eye opening video really got me thinking. I thought that you and your readers would enjoy it.
Pixelhead
#7.
June 24th, 2008, at 5:18 PM.
Thanks Paul, I am sure those who see the video in addition to myself will appreciate it.
Pixelhead
#9.
June 24th, 2008, at 5:34 PM.
Do you have the Digg link? I Stumbled it as well. I am sure it has made the rounds in all the social communities. It has gotten a ton of traffic.
Davin
#11.
June 25th, 2008, at 11:03 AM.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing it with us. Someone has to keep reminding us about taking care our eath.
Airsoft
#12.
June 25th, 2008, at 11:19 AM.
This kind of reminds me of a routine Jerry Seinfeld did, but it has its own unique points.
website design
#13.
June 26th, 2008, at 2:46 PM.
the video was really mind boggling.I thoroughly enjoyed.The stuff about AAA batteries was really awesome.
GPS
#14.
July 1st, 2008, at 8:50 PM.
Loved the video. George Carlin (rest in peace) also has a funny riff on people’s stuff.
John Walters
#15.
July 5th, 2008, at 11:47 AM.
I watched 5 minutes but it seemed to crash on me! What I watched was interesting though.
Great find again mate
seo blog
#16.
July 6th, 2008, at 2:31 PM.
I must say I don’t often enjoy videos people post on their blogs but this one was different.
Calla
#17.
July 9th, 2008, at 4:16 PM.
The video is great and of interesting indeed!!! Big appreciation for the tip!!!
Goran
#19.
July 12th, 2008, at 3:27 PM.
I did not realise that the top companies are sizeable compared to governments, considering taxes come from these corporates. There is so much more that goes into making stuff, then its what happens to the stuff when it is thrown away. How much stuff is there actually as we continue to make it and there is only so much stuff before we started making new stuff.
Wayne
#20.
July 13th, 2008, at 7:40 PM.
Beautiful post Pixelhead! I like that with this post, more people will perhaps become aware of how our own consumerism is starting to really bite us in the behind. We need to educate ourselves on these matters, unless we want to really destroy our world for our kids.
I would highly recommend to anyone that they continue on and listen to the remainder of the videos.
Thank you Pixelhead for posting this!
Pixelhead
#21.
July 14th, 2008, at 2:44 AM.
Wayne, Thank Paul for sending it to me. I already had two of my kids watch it.
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#1. June 24th, 2008, at 5:38 AM.
Cool, thanks for the tip! I finally got embedded videos working in Firefox again, so I’m free to check things like this out again.