The Story Of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a polemical animated documentary about the life-cycle of material goods. Activist Annie Leonard wrote and narrated the film. Tides Foundation, The Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption, Free Range Studios and other foundations funded the film. Free Range Studios produced it. It was first launched online on December 4, 2007. The documentary is being used in elementary schools, arts programs, and post-graduate economics classes as well as places of worship and corporate sustainability trainings. By February 2009, it had been seen in 228 countries and territories. According to the hosting site as of September 2009, it already had more than 7 million views. Libertarian and politically conservative critics have described the documentary as misleading and politically liberal; one Montana school board opposed the screening of the film in a biology classroom in a partisan 4–3 vote. The subsequent public outcry against this decision led to a rewrite...