YOU REALLY WANT TO WATCH THIS

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/

ok so we all know about the garbage and the consuming and all the problems that our present society with its capitalistic focus has brought us. not to mention the economic crisis and maybe you have heard about the occupy wallstreet movement.
yes yes yes... but what can you do? i personally am not a radical politacal activist although i hugely respect them and honour what they do most of the time. and i sometimes feel like a victim of the situation, feeling i cant contribute other than singing this or that petition and informing myself about stuff.
so heres the story about stuff.

and what i take away from this video is: no, human society does not just organise itself this way naturally, there is a huge interest of certain people that we behave this way. and the answer is: we can change this and walk towards sustainability.
the truth is actually that we will have to sooner or later. either everyone of us starts thinking about where stuff comes from and where it goes and take responsibility in their consuming patterns or it will be forced upon them at some point. all those wars and much of poverty and mistey are caused by this system and if you dont notice it now, you will as soon as the resources are exploited. and hell, we are not far from that.

i live in europe and i study at a university focused on sustainability and natural resources management. i am in agriculture, but we need this attitude in every field and most of all IN OUR SYSTEM! it is just so natural, we only need to understand all the implications of our behaviour.

so watch this and if you want tell me what you think of it.

http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-stuff/

uh, maybe move this to "links" ??

this is really interesting..

i think so too.
and the reasons why i think this should come to the mainstream is

a) christmas coming up (i told my relatives and friends to please dont give me stuff- ive got all what i want. i said to my mum i need some good wintershoes that are produced locally and cost a fair amount but that will be what i want for christmas- and we are exchanging presents in my big family so that we dont give eathother all those things that later go in the bin or that you feel bad about because you dont have any use for it)

b) i think there is also some ed-related thing in there. the part where she aks about how we work a lot and have no free time, thus watch a lot of tv, which tells us we suck, and then we go off to buy stuff. this consumption and looking for values is a big part in my ed at least...

well ill shut up now, go watch it!