The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard torrent

Category: Adults, Misc. Non-fiction, Science
Language: English
Keywords: Environment sustainability

Written by Annie Leonard
Read by Annie Leonard
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, Americans are consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 million times by people around the world.

In her sweeping, groundbreaking book of the same name published in 2010, Leonard tracks the life of the Stuff we use every day—where our cotton T-shirts, laptop computers, and aluminum cans come from, how they are produced, distributed, and consumed, and where they go when we throw them out. Like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff is a landmark book that will change the way people think—and the way they live.