http://www.storyofstuff.com/

I just watched it, and yep, it certainly is worth watching; although many of us may think we are already pretty familiar with the minutiae of this subject, it's still important to be reminded...I personally find it's all too easy to forget such things as 'planned' and 'perceived obsolescence.' Thanks - the top o' the mornin' to ya.

true, we know this topic but this is a nice presentation of putting it all together as a preaching tool for new bhaktas, also, i didn't know there was a nerve agent in my pillow

God, no, that was a new one to me too!

I remember seeing this site and video a few months ago and thought then it was an excellent teaching tool due to the great simple visuals that explain the horrors of over consumption. Everything we do has an effect on something and somebody else, its really amazing to see the links firsthand, for it is so easy to take our system of production and consumption for granted, for we have to make a living, eat and survive, but what is the footprint we leave behind? This video illustrates that pretty well.

It amazes me that I can go and buy a T-shirt at a Target store for $6.50, but when buying it, I am really not aware that in order to create it, a worker in China had to move hundreds of miles away from home for 11 months, working 12 hour shifts 7 days a week with only a half hour break for lunch—making the sum of $3.50 a week, living in a crowded unhealthy dormitory and seeing his family only at the Lunar Chinese New Year for two weeks. Not to mention the hidden environmental damage to the Chinese rivers and air for they have very little pollution controls in the industrial parts of China, and the effect of killing decent paying jobs in other countries that have labor and environmental laws.

The price tag of the T-shirt is actually very high indeed, only we all have to pay for it in the end.

The scientists McDonough and Braungart have developed a system called Cradle 2 Cradle in which everything (100%) that is used can be reused again and again and again. Also called "Waste = Food". Ford, Nike and several Dutch cities are already using these new technologies.

Well I think its fine, building jumbo planes.
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Yes, get what you want to if you want, cause you can get anything.

I know weve come a long way,
Were changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough.
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you cant get off.

Oh, I know weve come a long way,
Were changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well youve cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But will you keep on building higher
til theres no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know weve come a long way,
Were changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?