Please make sure that you bring a charged laptop and a headset to class.
The
Story of Stuff
Name_________________________ ID
________________________
(Story
of Stuff, full version on YouTube)
Access
the webpage above and answer the questions below.
1.
The 5 stages of the system of how stuff moves or “the materials economy”
are:
1.
_______________________________________________
2.
_______________________________________________
3.
______________________________________________
4.
_______________________________________________
5.
_______________________________________________
2.
According to Annie Leonard, extraction
is a fancy word for
______________________________________________________________.
3.
How many decades has it taken to use up 1/3 of our natural resource
space? ______________
4.
In this system, if you don’t own or buy a lot of stuff, you don’t have
_______________________.
5.
Why would people, especially women of reproductive age, take jobs
working in factories where they can be pretty sure there are toxic chemicals?
_______________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
6.
What is an “externalized cost”?
________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
7.
What percent of the items that you got for Hanukkah or Christmas will
still be in use in June? ______
8.
President Eisenhower said that the American economy’s ultimate purpose
is to produce more goods. Why is an
economy based on producing more goods a problem? ________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
9.
“Planned Obsolescence” is another word for
_____________________________________________.
10. With “perceived obsolescence”,
we think that something is no longer useful to us because ________
____________________________________________________________________________________.
11.
On average, about how many advertisements do we see in one day? _________________________
12. Consumption mania exploded in
the 1950s. According to the video, what
started to decline at the same time?
__________________________________________________________________
13.
What has happened to the average house size in America since the 1970s?
____________________
14. The average American produces 4
½ pounds of garbage a day! What happens
to this after we put it out on the curb for pick-up?
a.
_________________________________________________________________________
b.
_________________________________________________________________________
15.
Why is incinerating or burning our garbage so bad?
_______________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
16. Why is recycling our waste not
enough?
a.
____________________________________________________________________________
b.
____________________________________________________________________________
17.
What does Annie Leonard suggest is a way that we can solve the problem
of waste? _____________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
Part
2
Use the
information to add a 150 - 250 word report describing The Story of Stuff.
The Story of Stuff is a
short documentary about how ‘the materials economy’ had led to waste and
pollution in the modern world. In her video, the producer links the causes and
consequences of overconsumption. I will now review her most important points.
