November 5th, 2009, posted by Annie Leonard
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November 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Thank you. It’s always inspiring.
November 8th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Thanks Annie for the straight talk! I have been preaching your philosophy for years!
People who collect stuff are missing so much in their lives.
I encourage all my friends and family to give away or throw away(recycle) extras- at least if they hear me they can think about changing behaviors!
I am a professional organizer also- and I feel so strongly about your point of view!
Thanks for caring and talking and influencing the world to change!
Will you be coming to Chicago to talk? We can use your influence here!
November 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Hi, Can I get a transcript of the speech to translate/subtitle it to Spanish?. So it can reach new audiences.
I personally showed The History of Stuff here in a class last year and it was a total success.
Cheers from Argentina
Luciano
November 11th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Looks like Annie spoke to supportive crowd of people about what they already knew, and the talk is rather summarizing the views.
I wish it was more direct and pushed people to specific actions. And I wish this talk was in front of people who do not support Annie’s views so she had chance to change their minds.
November 13th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
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!
November 14th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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.
November 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
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!!
November 20th, 2009 at 12:05 am
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