La historia de las cosas : De cómo nuestra obsesión por las cosas está destruyendo el planeta, nuestras comunidades y nuestra salud. Y una visión del cambio

Con el video The Story of Stuff, trasmitido por Internet y visto por millones de personas, Annie Leonard rastreó la vida de las cosas que utilizamos cada día, lo que le ha permitido hacer un análisis amplio lleno de sorprendentes revelaciones sobre la economía, el medio ambiente y las culturas, que permitirán a los lectores acomprometerse con un cambio en el sistema de producción. A classic expos in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring , The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the stuff we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique and steps for a changed planet. The Story of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover, by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Tavis Smiley to George Stephanopolous on Good Morning America, as well as far-reaching print and blog coverage. Uncovering and communicating a critically important ideathat there is an intentional system behind our patterns of consumption and disposalAnnie Leonard transforms how we think about our lives and our relationship to the planet. From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to visiting textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for cell phones in the Congo, Leonard, named one of Time magazines 100 environmental heroes of 2009, highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these. With curiosity, compassion, and humor, Leonard shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level that will bring about sustainability, community health, and economic justice. Embraced by teachers, parents, churches, community centers, activists, and everyday readers, The Story of Stuff will be a long-lived classic. The director of The Story of Stuff Project tracks the life of the "stuff" we use every day, transforming how we think about our patterns of consumption. This book is based on the author's 2007 internet film, "The Story of stuff." "With just 5 percent of the world's population, [the U.S.] is consuming 30 percent of the world's resources and creating 30 percent of the world's waste." -- Dust jacket. A word about words Extraction Production Distribution Consumption Disposal Writing the new story Examples of promising policies, reforms, and laws Recommended individual actions Sample letter to PVC retailers, manufacturers, and lobbyists How we made this book.