Living Sustainably
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Our lives need a better goal than

Story of Stuff
Extraction
Production
Distribution
Consumption
Disposal
http://storyofstuff.org

Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to
15mins of Energizer battery production.

Depicts 38,000 shipping containers, the number of
containers processed through major shipping ports every
12 hours.

Depicts 1.14 Million brown paper supermarket bags, the
number consumed in the US in an hour.

Depicts 1 Million plastic cups, the number used on airline
flights in the US every 6 hours.

Depicts 2 Million plastic beverage bottles, the number
used in the US every five minutes.

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell
phones retired in the US every day.

Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the
US every 30 seconds.

Planned Obsolescence

Perceived Obsolescence

What is my share?
myFootPrint.org

We are using a lot more
than our share.

What are the challenges
we face?

What have you done to
act on them?
What can we learn from
each other’s efforts?

Set a goal and measure
your progress.
MORE.
LESS is

References:
http://storyofstuff.org
http://chrisjordan.com