Being a changemaker is about intention AND action.In Part 2 of our special podcast accompanying The Story of Change, Annie talks with leading changemakers about how they do it. Hint: Start close to home, sharpen your citizen skills, and then take on the world… FULL POST »
After we released our latest film, The Story of Change, I heard from some in the Story of Stuff community who questioned my endorsement of voting as “something we all just gotta do.” They felt that their one vote doesn’t make a difference or they were uninspired to vote for “the least bad” option within two increasingly similar parties.
Here’s the deal: Voting is important, really important. It is something we all just gotta do…. FULL POST »
Being a citizen is about acting on our responsibility to stand up for the planet and other people.
I used to think the truth would set us free. Like many who care about the environment, I spent years thinking that information would lead to change. So I wrote reports, gave speeches, even testified before Congress.
Some things changed. Sadly, the big picture didn’t…. FULL POST »
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Please be patient, when downloading. Our movie files are quite large…. FULL POST »
The Changemaker Challenge
Over the next few months, we’re asking you, the members of our community, to share your Action Ideas with us as part of the Changemaker Challenge. These Action Ideas can be things you or your organization are doing right now, or things you’d like to do.
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It’s the Fourth of July, when the United States celebrates our Declaration of Independence from Britain, adopted on this day in 1776. When I was very young, I eagerly looked forward to July 4th for the annual neighborhood picnics and evening fireworks. Then, as a young adult, I eschewed this holiday — I thought the celebrations reeked of a nationalist pride that was incongruent with how I often saw my country showing up at home and in the world…. FULL POST »
In my upcoming movie, The Story of Change, I talk about how deep, lasting social change – the kind of change achieved by the civil rights movement, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and the early environmental movement – always starts with a group of people committed to a Big Idea for how things could be better. Not just a little better for a few people, but a whole lot better for everyone…. FULL POST »
Can shopping save the world? The Story of Change urges viewers to put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world…. FULL POST »
Our team spent last Wednesday in a studio shooting our next movie — The Story of Change.
I’m more excited to share this movie with you than any of the six we’ve made since releasing the original Story of Stuff because it explains how we can make big change together by exercising our citizen muscles…. FULL POST »
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