Comments for Story of Stuff http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Bioneers 2009 Speech by Satish More http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44&cpage=1#comment-13234 Satish More Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:39 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44#comment-13234 Dear Annie, I completely believe in your science and I realized it about 7 years ago in my heart. I was looking for a way to save the world and this is what came to me. I know that it may sound a little unscientific or unusual, but meh! I have been telling/preaching! this aspect of life to a bunch of people with little or no results so far, and I understood about 4 years ago that media was the way to go. So I picked myself from the slums of Mumbai and put myself after grueling efforts in a film school in Athens, Ohio. I believe that innocent people were cheated into this fake theory of consumption and social malice through media programming and I thought I had to cheat them out of it by creating conscious media and eventually a big media empire for the same. Relationships are the best investments/insurance for us and it makes us happy. I love how you are on the same lines. I keep making films about the uselessness of stuff and the usefulness of relationships/reconnection. Coming from a very poor background, I scarcely buy stuff, I do buy a lot of food though and I eat it all! :) I am so happy to see 'The Story of Stuff' and I want to offer my services and friendship if it is in anyway helpful to you in the future. Check out my films if you get some time. http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/film/pages/screening-room/films/Satish%20More-Baggage%20Hill-player.htm http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/film/pages/screening-room/films/Satish%20More-The%20Car-player.htm http://www.needthefilm.com http://www.openthefilm.com Best, Satish More Dear Annie,

I completely believe in your science and I realized it about 7 years ago in my heart. I was looking for a way to save the world and this is what came to me.

I know that it may sound a little unscientific or unusual, but meh!

I have been telling/preaching! this aspect of life to a bunch of people with little or no results so far, and I understood about 4 years ago that media was the way to go. So I picked myself from the slums of Mumbai and put myself after grueling efforts in a film school in Athens, Ohio.

I believe that innocent people were cheated into this fake theory of consumption and social malice through media programming and I thought I had to cheat them out of it by creating conscious media and eventually a big media empire for the same.

Relationships are the best investments/insurance for us and it makes us happy. I love how you are on the same lines. I keep making films about the uselessness of stuff and the usefulness of relationships/reconnection.

Coming from a very poor background, I scarcely buy stuff, I do buy a lot of food though and I eat it all! :)

I am so happy to see ‘The Story of Stuff’ and I want to offer my services and friendship if it is in anyway helpful to you in the future.

Check out my films if you get some time.

http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/film/pages/screening-room/films/Satish%20More-Baggage%20Hill-player.htm

http://www.finearts.ohio.edu/film/pages/screening-room/films/Satish%20More-The%20Car-player.htm

http://www.needthefilm.com

http://www.openthefilm.com

Best,
Satish More

]]> Comment on Blog Post from Opportunity Green by ONE* http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-13226 ONE* Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:20:32 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=58#comment-13226 Tina, our country was actually founded on secular principles, not biblical ones, as you incorrectly claim. Sadly however, the "separation between church and state" is fast disappearing and the bible is existing in areas of the public and political arena where it should not. Furthermore, Tina, you do not help further the conversation, let alone help find solutions to important issues, by continuing to polarize our country and dividing it up in to simple classifications of the political Left and Right. What's worse is the connotation that Socialism is this evil idea. I challenge you to learn about other political theories, including socialism, and realize that some of the most prosperous nations in the modern world have a political structure or party in power that is some derivation of socialism. Spain, for example, identifies as a socialist democracy and they almost unarguable exceed the the USA in quality of living, GDP, provision of health care, and political stability. Read about Finland. How about Sweden? Politics are ingrained in the current era but heaven forbid we put those affiliations aside, along with the religious ones, to acknowledge the fact that civilization as we know it is being threatened by civilization itself and that we need to, as ONE race of people, address this and solve this. Tina, our country was actually founded on secular principles, not biblical ones, as you incorrectly claim. Sadly however, the “separation between church and state” is fast disappearing and the bible is existing in areas of the public and political arena where it should not.

Furthermore, Tina, you do not help further the conversation, let alone help find solutions to important issues, by continuing to polarize our country and dividing it up in to simple classifications of the political Left and Right. What’s worse is the connotation that Socialism is this evil idea. I challenge you to learn about other political theories, including socialism, and realize that some of the most prosperous nations in the modern world have a political structure or party in power that is some derivation of socialism. Spain, for example, identifies as a socialist democracy and they almost unarguable exceed the the USA in quality of living, GDP, provision of health care, and political stability. Read about Finland. How about Sweden?

Politics are ingrained in the current era but heaven forbid we put those affiliations aside, along with the religious ones, to acknowledge the fact that civilization as we know it is being threatened by civilization itself and that we need to, as ONE race of people, address this and solve this.

]]> Comment on Blog Post from Opportunity Green by Greg Foote http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-13225 Greg Foote Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:35:49 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=58#comment-13225 What another devastating blow to the section on extraction and limited supply. Namely, Peak Oil! 1) Government and Corporate Influence have largely suppressed (throttled) knowlege of the "Peaking of World Petroleum Production." 2) In the main, the COMMON reaction to the facts of Peak Oil is DENIAL! 3) How I wish I could speak with someone connected with the magnificent production of this presentation. I have seen nothing even comparableanyhwere for honest, clear, pictures of the major problems with our very culture. Furthermore, this presents a comprehensive environmentalism EXCEPTING THE FINITE NATURE OF FOSSIL FUELS, petroleum and NG being the chief. Thank you, GF What another devastating blow to the section on
extraction and limited supply. Namely, Peak Oil!
1) Government and Corporate Influence have largely suppressed (throttled) knowlege of the “Peaking of World Petroleum Production.”
2) In the main, the COMMON reaction to the facts of Peak Oil is DENIAL!
3) How I wish I could speak with someone connected with the magnificent production of this presentation. I have seen nothing even comparableanyhwere for honest, clear, pictures of the major problems with our very culture. Furthermore, this presents a comprehensive environmentalism EXCEPTING THE FINITE NATURE OF FOSSIL FUELS, petroleum and NG being the chief.
Thank you, GF

]]> Comment on Bioneers 2009 Speech by Barbara http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44&cpage=1#comment-13224 Barbara Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:07:00 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44#comment-13224 I have such a hard time with the "stuff" issues... The Raised-a-Yankee-Puritan part of me wants to live the life of a monk, nothing extra that doesn't serve a specific real purpose to keep me alive, but, god it is exhausting. I too go into convulsions! For example, watching the video, I thought, "does she really need a pair of earings? That gold chain took an immense amount of cyanide to leach mine if it was bought any time in the last 50 years...How can she lecture on stuff while wearing fashionable glasses??!." See, it's an illness, really. :) How do you find a balance between what you really need and what brings some joy and what really is just a big fat waste? It's a daily challenge for me, I don't know about you. Thanks for making folks think!! I have such a hard time with the “stuff” issues… The Raised-a-Yankee-Puritan part of me wants to live the life of a monk, nothing extra that doesn’t serve a specific real purpose to keep me alive, but, god it is exhausting. I too go into convulsions! For example, watching the video, I thought, “does she really need a pair of earings? That gold chain took an immense amount of cyanide to leach mine if it was bought any time in the last 50 years…How can she lecture on stuff while wearing fashionable glasses??!.” See, it’s an illness, really. :)

How do you find a balance between what you really need and what brings some joy and what really is just a big fat waste? It’s a daily challenge for me, I don’t know about you. Thanks for making folks think!!

]]> Comment on Glenn Beck’s Latest Target: Us! by Supporter of Responsible/Sustainable Production & Consumption http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=29&cpage=6#comment-13219 Supporter of Responsible/Sustainable Production & Consumption Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:39:58 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=29#comment-13219 To all those “criticizing” the Story of Stuff on the merits of its facts, I’m sure all you did your own research. Oh, but wait, it’s easier to simply scream bloody murder, eat the crap that Glenn Beck feeds you, then jump on your soapboxes that truly have have no factual merits. The hypocrisy is astounding. Glenn Beck does not comment based on facts. He sensationalizes issues and is nothing more than a firestarter. What HE does is dangerous and truly Un-American. Beck choose to polarize this country rather than unify it. Beck undermines the opportunity America has and the efforts Americans make to become a world leader in clean energy, green economies, and blaze trails for a prosperous future for humanity. Beck symbolizes and furthers America’s regression to an undereducated, ignorant, irrational, racist country that revels in having the wool pulled over its eyes. The Story of Stuff gives me hope that I might retain what little is left of my pride in being an American. I hope the message of this film spreads and that our country can rally, support, and implement its ideas and ideals. And for those attacking the facts of the film, did any of you even bother to looks at the cited documents at http://www.storyofstuff.com/resources.html ? I’m going to go with a no. And to Rose Johnson, comment #299, you missed the point of the film entirely. Yes, you benefit from capitalism today (emphasis being on TODAY). But please, try to think past your own nose. In order to produce frivolous consumer goods that most people use for a year or less, the Earth potentially took hundreds or thousands of years to produce the initial, natural resource. And when that consumer good is put in the trash, it does not magically return to the Earth in a way that replenishes the original resource. Rose, I do agree with you though that ignorance is bliss. And yes, you are in fact correct, one cannot see if they do not open their eyes. However, I think you are the one ranting about things you do not understand. To all those “criticizing” the Story of Stuff on the merits of its facts, I’m sure all you did your own research. Oh, but wait, it’s easier to simply scream bloody murder, eat the crap that Glenn Beck feeds you, then jump on your soapboxes that truly have have no factual merits.
The hypocrisy is astounding. Glenn Beck does not comment based on facts. He sensationalizes issues and is nothing more than a firestarter. What HE does is dangerous and truly Un-American. Beck choose to polarize this country rather than unify it. Beck undermines the opportunity America has and the efforts Americans make to become a world leader in clean energy, green economies, and blaze trails for a prosperous future for humanity. Beck symbolizes and furthers America’s regression to an undereducated, ignorant, irrational, racist country that revels in having the wool pulled over its eyes.
The Story of Stuff gives me hope that I might retain what little is left of my pride in being an American. I hope the message of this film spreads and that our country can rally, support, and implement its ideas and ideals.
And for those attacking the facts of the film, did any of you even bother to looks at the cited documents at http://www.storyofstuff.com/resources.html ? I’m going to go with a no.
And to Rose Johnson, comment #299, you missed the point of the film entirely. Yes, you benefit from capitalism today (emphasis being on TODAY). But please, try to think past your own nose. In order to produce frivolous consumer goods that most people use for a year or less, the Earth potentially took hundreds or thousands of years to produce the initial, natural resource. And when that consumer good is put in the trash, it does not magically return to the Earth in a way that replenishes the original resource. Rose, I do agree with you though that ignorance is bliss. And yes, you are in fact correct, one cannot see if they do not open their eyes. However, I think you are the one ranting about things you do not understand.

]]> Comment on Bioneers 2009 Speech by Felicia Crunk http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44&cpage=1#comment-13218 Felicia Crunk Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:15:02 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44#comment-13218 I've always been interested in cleaning up our act, starting with my own. I'm 15 years old, and after watching your videos and reading your blog, I know exactly how I'm going to live my life from now on. Thank you. :] ~Felicia P.S: I totally agree with you. Fox is a butthead. But they seem to be like that about almost anything. I’ve always been interested in cleaning up our act, starting with my own. I’m 15 years old, and after watching your videos and reading your blog, I know exactly how I’m going to live my life from now on. Thank you. :]

~Felicia

P.S: I totally agree with you. Fox is a butthead. But they seem to be like that about almost anything.

]]> Comment on Maybe Next Time, Glenn… by Anonymous http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=30&cpage=4#comment-13216 Anonymous Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:56:33 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=30#comment-13216 I'd like to point out to Jon H. that most "thinking mistakes" are what led us to where we are today. Without the free will to go against "conventional wisdom" we wouldn't have many inventions, like electricity and teflon. I’d like to point out to Jon H. that most “thinking mistakes” are what led us to where we are today. Without the free will to go against “conventional wisdom” we wouldn’t have many inventions, like electricity and teflon.

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]]> Comment on Bioneers 2009 Speech by Chris Brade http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44&cpage=1#comment-13212 Chris Brade Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:02 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=44#comment-13212 Great speech! I can't believe it took me almost two years to find out about your movie cuz I'm really interested in environmental "stuff" ;-) Would like to promote the movie in Germany...interested in a German version? Keep up the great work! Great speech! I can’t believe it took me almost two years to find out about your movie cuz I’m really interested in environmental “stuff” ;-) Would like to promote the movie in Germany…interested in a German version?

Keep up the great work!

]]> Comment on Glenn Beck’s Latest Target: Us! by Rose Johnson http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=29&cpage=6#comment-13206 Rose Johnson Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:11:40 +0000 http://www.storyofstuff.com/blog/?p=29#comment-13206 I can not understand the logic of you people who criticize capitolism. Do you realize that you benefit from it everyday of your life? My only hope is to pray for your eyes to be opened! You can't see if you close your eyes! I guess ignorance is bliss and this is why you continue your happy ranting about things you do not understand! Try expressing yourself under a communist government and see how far you get. I can not understand the logic of you people who criticize capitolism. Do you realize that you benefit from it everyday of your life? My only hope is to pray for your eyes to be opened! You can’t see if you close your eyes! I guess ignorance is bliss and this is why you continue your happy ranting about things you do not understand! Try expressing yourself under a communist government and see how far you get.

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