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The Good Stuff — Episode 1: Take THAT, plastic bags!
What do Northern California and Brownsville, Texas have in common? A lot more than you might think! Did you know that if everyone in the United States tied their annual consumption of plastic bags...
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Concentrated Packaging
On The Revolution, Annie showed Ty a package of household cleanser that was super concentrated. Super concentrated means less packaging. When we buy regular cleaners or detergents, the jug is mostly...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 2: One Cool Kid
What can one person do? A lot! Just ask Cole! At just 8-years old, he organized his schoolmates to take on KFC. We hear it every day from people who are concerned about what’s happening to the...
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Move Your Money Resources
In early March, over 40 members of the Story of Stuff community gathered online to talk with a dynamic group of movers and shakers about getting their money out of nasty mega banks and holding them to...
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Make Every Week More ‘Screen Free’
Last week was National Screen Free Week, an opportunity for children and their families, schools, and communities to turn off screens . . . and turn on life. Sponsored by The Campaign for a...
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Doing away with throwaway culture. One repair at a time!
Here at the Story of Stuff Project, we believe in more than just three “R’s”. Reduce, Reuse, REPAIR, then recycle! Check out this awesome article from the New York Times about repair cafes in...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 4: Fix it, don’t nix it!
“If you can’t fix it, you don’t really own it.” That’s the manifesto of the growing movement to make our Stuff repairable rather than disposable. And some people are going beyond repairing their Stuff...
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Rules and Guidelines for the Changemaker Challenge
The Changemaker Challenge Over the next few months, we’re asking you, the members of our community, to share your Action Ideas with us as part of the Changemaker Challenge. These Action Ideas can be...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 6: Don’t Just “Be the Change”- Make Change!
Being a changemaker is about intention AND action. In Part 2 of our special podcast accompanying The Story of Change, Annie talks with leading changemakers about how they do it. Hint: Start close to...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 9: Kids Who Care challenge Crayola
If you laid all the Crayola plastic markers made each year end to end, they’d circle the earth three times – and they’re not recyclable. Some California kids are campaigning to change that – and in...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 10: The People Have the Power
Protecting our health from toxic pollution is too important a job to be left to scientists, govenment regulators or even professional environmental activists. Annie looks at two communities, half a...
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The Good Stuff — Episode 11: Girl Scout Cookies, Orangutans and Palm Oil
In 2007, two kids in Michigan set out to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award by raising awareness about the endangered orangutan. They learned that the orangutans’ habitat is being destroyed to plant...
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