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The Story of The Stuff Workshop

The document contains a worksheet with questions about the animated video "The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard. It asks students to summarize key points from the video, including how much of our natural resources have been wasted, how many planets are needed to support current consumption rates in some countries, and examples of terms like "planned obsolescence." It also asks students to describe problems with increasing waste production and burning rubbish, how recycling helps but is not enough, and the "treadmill" of consumption.

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The Story of The Stuff Workshop

The document contains a worksheet with questions about the animated video "The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard. It asks students to summarize key points from the video, including how much of our natural resources have been wasted, how many planets are needed to support current consumption rates in some countries, and examples of terms like "planned obsolescence." It also asks students to describe problems with increasing waste production and burning rubbish, how recycling helps but is not enough, and the "treadmill" of consumption.

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Name: ___________________________ Grade: ____

The Story of Stuff worksheet

Watch the video download “The Story of Stuff” with Annie Leonard and answer the
following questions to check your listening and understanding:

1. Copy the sketches of the 5 stages of the materials economy

Extraction Production Distribution Consumption Disposal

2. How much of our natural resources have been trashed in the last few decades?

3. How many planets are needed to support current rates of consumption in the US
and Australia?

4. How many trees are being lost in the Amazon each minute?

5. What is being added to the production system that is created dangerous waste
products?

6. What food is at the top of the food chain and threatening the health of future
generations?

7. What is meant by “externalising costs of production”?

8 Who is paying for the real cost of cheap electronic equipment (i.e. the $4.99
radio)? List three groups at least.
9a. How much material is still in the system after 6 months? ____________%.
9b. Where have the remaining materials gone?

10. When did the modern consumer economy come into being? Why?

11. According to Annie Leonard, what are some of the social and community
interests being neglected while we are busy consuming “stuff”?

12. What do these terms mean? Give an example of each.

 “planned obsolescence”___________________________________________

For example________________________________________________________

 “perceived obsolescence”__________________________________________

For example________________________________________________________

13a. What is happening to the levels of measured happiness?

13b. What reasons are given?

14. Draw or summarise the steps in the treadmill.


15. One solution which many countries use to deal with increasing waste is to burn
it. What problem is associated with burning rubbish?

16. How does recycling help?

17. Why is recycling not enough? (Clue: How many rubbish bins are needed to
produce one bin of recycled materials?)

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