I came across The Story of Your Stuff today and I feel everyone should stop in at this site and watch the whole 20 minutes worth of videos.

This is a quote from the Press Release and there is a short “Teaser Video” Below:

Throughout the 20-minute film, activist Annie Leonard, the film’s narrator and an expert on the materials economy, examines the social, environmental and global costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Her illustration of a culture driven by stuff allows her to isolate the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. The “Story of Stuff” examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of consumerism – and how those notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today.