The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change Audiobook (Free)

A vintage exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, THE STORYPLOT of Stuff expands on the famous documentary exploring the risk of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, supplying a galvanizing critique and actions for a transformed planet.

THE STORYPLOT of Stuff was received with widespread enthusiasm in hardcover, by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Tavis Smiley to George Stephanopolous on Good Morning America, about The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the earth, Our Neighborhoods, and Our Health-and a Eyesight for Change as well as far-reaching print and blog coverage. Uncovering and interacting a critically important idea-that there can be an intentional program behind our patterns of intake and disposal-Annie Leonard transforms how we consider our lives and our relationship to the earth.

From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to going to textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for mobile phones in the Congo, Leonard, named one of Time magazine’s 100 environmental heroes of 2009, highlights each stage of the components economy and its actual influence on the earth and the people who live near sites like these.

With curiosity, compassion, and humor, Leonard shares concrete steps when planning on taking action at the individual and political level that will lead to sustainability, community health, and economic justice. Embraced by teachers, parents, churches, community centers, activists, and everyday visitors, The Story of Stuff is a long-lived classic.