{"id":469,"date":"2008-07-31T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T09:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2008-07-31T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T09:34:28","slug":"the-story-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-story-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2008\/storyofstuff.jpg?resize=217%2C188\" align=\"right\" height=\"188\" width=\"217\" \/>A great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/index.html\">video and website<\/a> on our material global society.  It is particularly good for education from children to adults. It is simple in its presentation but covers a lot of ground.  Its focus is on the US, but its very applicable to all rich consumers. An excellent presentation of the problems with our consumer economy and a foundation for finding solutions.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t really have time to present a solution.  But it does suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/anotherway.html\">Another Way<\/a> to live.  And of course the system that replaces our current system of living must evolve according to the decisions of you and me.<\/p>\n<p>Without doubt the new system will mean that we don&#8217;t have the jobs and lifestyle that we do today.  It doesn&#8217;t have to be a bad thing.  In fact, we can have a different lifestyle which doesn&#8217;t cost the earth AND which leaves us happy.<\/p>\n<p>Though the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/index.html\">website\/video<\/a> doesn&#8217;t tell us what the new world will look like, you can be sure that it will be more natural.  And they do offer a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/anotherway.html\">10 things to do another way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To follow up on The Story of Stuff, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/bibliography.html#cradle\">Cradle to Cradle<\/a>, which shows how we can redesign our world from a linear consumption society to natural system without waste.\u00a0 That deals with the physical and intellectual.\u00a0 The spiritual change will come naturally from the good in us all.<\/p>\n<p>You have to watch The Story of Stuff video.\u00a0 It really is good.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2008\/StoryOfStuff.mov\">Download it here<\/a> (54MB .mov file) or see it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/index.html\">The Story of Stuff website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great video and website on our material global society. It is particularly good for education from children to adults. It is simple in its presentation but covers a lot of ground. Its focus is on the US, but its very applicable to all rich consumers. An excellent presentation of the problems with our consumer &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-story-of-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story of Stuff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,5,6,15,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspective","category-worldofmoney","category-environment","category-holonics-and-life","category-mediaandgatherings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}