The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard [212]
We All Live Downstream: A Guide to Waste Treatment that Stops Water Pollution (Costner), 11
WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) directive, 234
Weissman, Rob, 132
When Corporations Rule the World (Korten), 109
Whole Foods, 188
Wicks, Judy, 141
Wildlife, 3–4
Williams, Eric, 60
Williams, Ted, 196
Wind power, 34
WiserEarth, 241
Wiwa v. Shell, 33
Women’s Voices for the Earth, 262
Woods, Tiger, 165
Worker health and safety, 47, 49–50, 59, 60, 62, 68, 84–87, 108, 122–124, 134, 160
Working hours, 246–247
World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development), 38, 39, 128–132, 137, 140, 216
World Bank Bonds Boycott (WBBB), 39
World Bank Group, 38–39
World Health Organization, 13, 59, 222, 223
World Trade Organization (WTO), 128–129, 132–136, 140, 255
World War II, 128
World Wildlife Fund, 40
Worldwatch Institute, 67, 149
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, 41
Xylene, 60
Yasuní rainforest, 30–31
Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), 6
Zambia, 130
Zero waste programs, 216, 234–236
Zinc, 59
Zipcar, 43
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Annie Leonard, born in Seattle in 1964, learned to love nature in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. When as a college student in New York City she saw her beloved trees turned to wastepaper and packaging, she followed them to the world’s largest dump, and found her calling. After a stint doing graduate work at Cornell University in upstate New York, she spent nearly two decades tracking international waste trafficking and fighting incineration around the world, first as an employee of Greenpeace International from 1988–1996. She later worked in Ralph Nader’s Washington office for Essential Action, and then for the Global Alliance for Incineration Alternatives (GAIA), Health Care Without Harm and The Sustainability Funders. In 2007 she created The Story of Stuff, a video that summarized her learnings from two decades on the international trail of waste. It has been watched over 7 million times—and counting—and translated into over a dozen languages. In 2008, she was one of TIME magazine’s Heroes of the Environment. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her daughter, in a community committed to sustainability and sharing.
Ariane Conrad, aka the Book Doula, is a writer, editor, and activist. She co-authored the New York Times bestselling The Green Collar Economy by Van Jones (Harper One, 2008) and HOOPING by Christabel Zamor (Workman Publishing, 2009). Visit her at bookdoula.com.
* There are inconsistencies in calculations of the “recycled” sources of the aluminum supply. The U.S. Geological Survey, for example, differentiates between “old,” or postconsumer, scrap, and “new,” or preconsumer, scrap, which consists of leftover shreds from the production process that never leave the factory. The Aluminum Association, an industry trade group, lumps these streams together in its calculations, which gives the impression that a higher percentage (close to a third) of aluminum comes from “recycled” (or “recovered”) sources, when in truth real recycling (postconsumer) accounts for less than one-fifth of the supply. (Jennifer Gitliz, The Role of the Consumer in Reducing Primary Aluminum Demand, a report by the Container Recycling Institute for the International Strategic Roundtable on the Aluminum Industry (São Luís, Brazil, October 16–18, 2003, p.9).
* POPs are so bad that a United Nations Convention was created to target them, outlawing some and severely restricting others. To start with, the Stockholm Convention identified twelve top-priority POPs: eight pesticides (aldrin, chlordane, DDT, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, mirex, and toxaphene); two industrial chemicals (the hexachlorobenzenes (HCBs) and the polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs]); and two groups of industrial by-products (dioxins and furans). In May 2009, additional chemicals were included: HCH/Lindane, HBB, Penta and Octa DBE, Chlordecone, PFOS and pentachlorobenzene. Source: Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants, http://chm.pops.int.
* While Makower