Annie Leonard is the Executive Director of Greenpeace U.S.A. and creator and board member of the Story of Stuff Project. Annie calls on citizens to become actively involved, exercise our citizen muscle, and to be passionate about our work. She was interviewed at the 2014 Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in Portland, Oregon on September 28, 2014. Produced by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv with Barry Heidt of GeoSpirit.tv.
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Berkeley, CA (October 1, 2013) – Story of Stuff Project founder Annie Leonard will release the ninth web film in her groundbreaking series on Tuesday, October 1st. The eight-minute Story of Solutions is an innovative look at the paradigmatic and practical shifts needed to move our economy toward greater sustainability and equity. 
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What's in your shampoo, anyway? Annie Leonard explores the toxins in our bathrooms, and what to do about them. (The Story of Cosmetics by Annie Leonard — YES!
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Annie Leonard’s groundbreaking video, The Story of Stuff, awakened millions of people to the repercussions of our consumer culture. Now she’s taking on an even bigger campaign—transforming our flawed economic system and calling for a new conversation about how we can create meaningful change. The Story of Solutions, the newest video from Leonard and her Story of Stuff project, encourages viewers to push for solutions that change the economy’s goal from “more” to “better.”
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Starting with her 2007 classic video, The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard used her informative, but digestible format of storytelling to create videos that tackled problems such as bottled water, electronic waste, toxic cosmetics, cap and trade,US debt, and the Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs FEC.
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The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal.
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Annie Leonard's seminal online video about consumption was a viral hit, spawning a series of videos. This is the final piece in that series, which shows how to do something about all the useless stuff we're making.
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The way we make and use stuff is harming the world—and ourselves. To create a system that works, we can't just use our purchasing power. We must turn it into citizen power.
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For nearly thirty years UB has been practicing its three “R’s” of Reducing, Reusing and of course Recycling with good success. While we have been a leader in the SUNY system we have also witnessed new innovations beyond our campus in both infrastructure and culture chaining activities. The three R’s have been enhanced to a more sustainable “Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle.
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What better way to close our month's theme than to talk to Annie Leonard, creator of the 'Story of Stuff' series of videos, who has done more than anyone to popularise the idea of "stuff"? She now runs the Story of Stuff project, "a community of problem solvers - parents, community leaders, teachers and students, people of faith, entrepreneurs, scientists and more - working to create a healthy and just world". Here she talks to us about citizen muscle, Glen Beck and what she's giving for Christmas this year. But before we begin, in case you might not have seen it before, here's The Story of Stuff:
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When I heard that Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff team and Free Range Studios were working on the Story of Solutions, I couldn’t wait to see what they’d come up with. After 10 years campaigning to get toxic chemicals out of the environment, I’m sick of talking about the problems. I want to be part of the solutions.
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From the people who brought you such hits as The Story of Stuff andThe Story of Change comes a new video in which well-informed stick figures contemplate some of the troubles facing our planet. This time, Annie Leonard and her merry band of sketchers turn our attention to the ways in which the solutions to our dauntingly huge environmental and economic problems might be approached.
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Annie Leonard from The Story of Stuff Project talks to supporters about how we are building the movement to change the way we make, use and throw away Stuff: autumn 2013.
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The Story of Stuff Project founder talks about her new video on the biggest obstacles to change and how we overcome them.
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The full Story of Solutions is coming October 1st! http://bit.ly/solveforbetter ;
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Need some inspiration? Annie Leonard has a new article in her Solutions Series on the Patagonia weblog. “Solutions in Our Communities” shows how getting involved at the community level is a fantastic start in making big changes in the world. Check it out here!
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