{"id":173,"date":"2008-07-14T22:12:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/07\/online-video-about-consumption-the-story-of-stuff.html"},"modified":"2008-07-14T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:12:44","slug":"online-video-about-consumption-the-story-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/07\/online-video-about-consumption-the-story-of-stuff.html","title":{"rendered":"online video about consumption: The Story of Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a 20-minute video today called The Story of Stuff <\/a>about American consumption habits and how they affect our lives and the world. It\u2019s fast paced, designed to be amusing and easy to digest, and packs a lot of content into a relatively short period of time. Annie Leonard drops a lot of statistics, and there is a fact sheet on the website where she cites her sources.
\nI learned about The Story of Stuff from the summer newsletter for the School of Sanskrit Studies<\/a> in New York. I took a workshop with the school\u2019s director, Manorama<\/a>, when she visited Portland for the first time a few months ago. It was amazing. If I lived in New York I\u2019d be studying with her regularly. By the way, her cd Sarva-Bhuteshu ‘In All Beings’ is addictive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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