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Our latest
Solving
Plastic release featured
RePack, a company imagining a future free of
excess single-use packaging. With tens of
billions of packages shipped every year in the
U.S. alone, services like RePack – which lease
reusable bags to online retailers – can save up
to 80% of CO2 emissions from shipping and reduce
packaging waste by a whopping 99%. Before the
holidays, we’ll drop another video featuring the
Buy Nothing Project – an innovative gift economy
that allows us to share more, and buy
less.
We’ll also
create a suite of wraparound tools to go with
the series, including a study guide, additional
information on our website about the profiled
solutions, and webinars – open to all Community
members – with the profiled companies or
organizations.
Our
solutions-oriented storytelling continues in
early 2023 with the release of Burning
Injustice (working title), our
short documentary profiling the
multi-generational fight to close one of
California’s two remaining solid waste
incinerators – Covanta Stanislaus – and return
Modesto, CA and surrounding communities to their
zero waste roots.
Through vivid,
human-centered storytelling we’ll paint a
striking picture of environmental racism and
injustice and make the moral argument for the
incinerator’s closure. We’ll also highlight our
Grassroots Grantee and partner Valley
Improvement Project’s efforts to return Modesto
to environmental trailblazer status, enabling us
to meet a critical goal in our plastic solutions
storytelling: ensuring that we
center solutions that most benefit communities
that have borne the brunt of the plastic
pollution itself.
We’ll also be
producing a five-minute video explainer on the
Global Plastics
Treaty
negotiations that got underway this past summer,
drawing back the veil for
viewers by helping them understand what the
proposed treaty is all about, why it matters and
how folks can encourage our governments to adopt
the strongest possible terms.
Storytelling
has always been one of our most important tools
in the fight against too much Stuff. And ever since that
first Story of
Stuff
video premiered 15 years ago, you have helped us
tell those stories, bringing the vision of a
better world – one that values sustainability
and justice as much as we value our Stuff –
closer to reality. Make
a contribution today to support our work in
2023.
From all of us
at Story of Stuff, thank you. We wouldn’t be
here without you.
With
gratitude,
Miguel and The
Story of Stuff
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