Comments for Story of Stuff

Comment on LA TIMES: “It’s a cartoon, but she’s serious” by foster

foster — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:14:50 +0000

I do not dispute that we are a very wasteful society, however I take umbrage at her solution; government. Government is cross contaminated with and corrupted by corporate hacks, and government is not protecting private property rights, as they’re supposed to. They now do the bidding of the corporations, much as the Nazis did in Germany.

Comment on Why We Made the Story of Cosmetics by C. M. Samala

C. M. Samala — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:44:50 +0000

Armin, you can download a copy of the script from the downloads page at storyofcosmetics.org.

Comment on Why We Made the Story of Cosmetics by Armin Weber

Armin Weber — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:14:28 +0000

Could you please send us a transcript of the text of the story of cosmetics. The important aspects of the story go by too fast to mark things down and learn. Please email me a transcript. Thank you, Armin

Comment on Why We Made the Story of Cosmetics by Denise

Denise — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:07:51 +0000

My grandmother used flowers from her
garden for makeup…the tiny rose buds
she would rub between her hand and
rub her cheeks and that was her blush
then she would soak rose petals for
perfume…I dont know all the details
as she passed before I was born but
my dad said all her makeup came from
a flower garden.

Comment on ATTN: NYC, TOXIC TOYS R US? by Randy

Randy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:23:00 +0000

The death of my grandchild. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnbikiHQqRM

Comment on Story of Stuff in German by Nihigh Refficency Doboilers

Nihigh Refficency Doboilers — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:59:18 +0000

I heard about the Queens conference, were you able to attend it Lester? Love the pun at the end!

Comment on Talk about externalized costs! by Coach

Coach — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:02:43 +0000

The question is: What is more important?

1. The profit today or
2. The future tomorrow

Comment on KCTS9, PBS-Seattle, does a piece about Annie Leonard and Seattle’s trash by Mitesh Dave

Mitesh Dave — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:20:54 +0000

You are doing really great effort, would try to give this a echo as much as i can.

Comment on Get Your State Off the Bottle by Arlynn Bottomley

Arlynn Bottomley — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:40:29 +0000

Ah…cool clear water…It’s practically up there with air in importance. I have questions and would love to hear some answers. I did indeed install a filter on my faucet. Prior to that water coming out of my tap has sometimes been gray or brown…drink it? No Way! Yeah we get a water quality report every year that says our water is just fine…but they’re not testing it outta my tap..godonlyknows how many pipes it travels (not to mention what the pipes are made of and their condition) before squirting out here in my home. And I don’t think the water quality report can test esoterics like pharmaceuticals and their ilk. Years ago, as a kid, I went to camp and had my trusty aluminum canteen…yuck…the water tasted metallic and strange, and I swear developed some kind of sludge in it. Bad me, I now have been buying Arrowhead in their horrible little plastic bottles. I don’t know if the plastics will leach into it. I do recycle all the bottles. Yeah, its flippin expensive. I could buy my own little plastic container and refill it daily from my filtered tap water…some of those containters now say they’re BP whatever free…but what else may they contain? Are they really any better than the little plastic Arrowhead ones? When my kids were in sports I saw a lotta of those personal plastic resusable bottles get really nasty…moldy, smelly…they probably need to be washed daily, with hot, soapy or boiling water. The stainless steel ones are heavy and cumbersome…the aluminum ones…well, look at my camp experience…and some people say aluminum can contribute to Alzheimers. It’s good to have questions…can anyone provide some answers?

Comment on Climate & Consumption by Flavian

Flavian — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:22:55 +0000

First things first. Carbon is not a problem. Connecting it to the SOLAR SYSTEM warming is not demonstrated. Really demonstrated. Warming produces more CO2 not the other way around. The so-called Global Warming should be treated differently from the Human Made Global Warming and from Solar System Warming.

Second, it is not yet demonstrated that a warmer climate would be bad. Yes, a few penguins and polar bears will die, some islands will go below water. But imagine a more humid and tropical climate, with more vegetation and moisture on most of the earth surface and you get the picture. Lots of areas from Rusian or Canadian tundra or deserted areas that will become green. You get the picture.

Third. POLLUTION. This is the real problem. Like the cap&trade bullshit, this carbon non-problem is also a bullshit. We should not be concerned about carbon, we should be concerned about pollution. And for this, like you said, we already have laws. We should only enforce them.

Fourth. Solutions. Do you have any ideea what “clean energy means”. Do you have any ideea what EROEI means ? Do you know that most solar panels or wind turbine farms do not even get back the energy consumed with building them at the end of the lifetime ? Basically you spend lots of energy training engineers, designing energy farms, burning coal for steel, burning petrol for transporting electronics from China, consuming energy on infrastructures, cabling, maintenance and so on. At the end you barely get back the energy you invest, after 20 or more years of “free energy” from the wind or sun.

DIVERSION. Our biggest enemy. We should be more careful about our real problems and our real solutions. We should invest in research and development. To find better solutions. Solar panels that require less energy to produce. Batteries for electric cars that are not thrown away so easy and cost at least 10 times less in order to be really “green”. As you say, we should not be distracted with false ideas.