Annie Leonard's incredibly engaging 20-minute short film, "The Story of Stuff," is an alarming (but never alarmist or shrill) look into the way that our consumer society works -- the reason that a radio in Radio Shack can sell for $4.95 is that the majority of the cost of that radio is being borne by laborers in the developing world, by everyone who lives in a degraded environment thanks to inadequate safeguards on manufacturing and disposal processes, and by other "ex....
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