'The Story of Stuff' Goes Tangible

Activist Annie Leonard's 20-minute film The Story of Stuff, an examination of "the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal of consumer goods" has been expanded into a 300-page book (released Tuesday) which answers in greater detail questions raised from the internet lecture seen by more than 10 million viewers. Leonard also gives more hope for solutions to what she describes as "the consumption mania" in the book version of Stuff. 

The potential irony of making a film about rampant consumer good production into a material consumer good has been mostly avoided by Leonard as well, because the book is "printed on 100% Post-Consumer Waste paper, uses soy inks, solvent-free glues, and even used electronic editing."