Recyclable
This product contains recyclable materials. It may be recyclable with curbside recycling collections, but might need to be sent to a special recycling facility. Contact your local waste-hauler or recycling facility for details. Appropriate facilities may not exist in your area.
Sustainable Lifestyle
This product helps promote a more sustainable lifestyle. Whether it encourages re-use and the movement away from disposable products, or it promotes sustainable actions like recycling and composting, this product can help you lower your environmental footprint.
Low Impact Ink
Companies can adopt multiple practices to print clothing, books, and catalogs in a more environmentally safe way. Low impact inks can include vegetable, soy, or water based alternatives, and generally do not contain harmful toxins like heavy metals or phthalates.
Recycled Paper
Recycled paper can contain both pre- and post-consumer recycled content. Once paper is sent to a recycling facility, it’s washed to remove any inks and converted to a watery slush called “slurry.” This slurry is spread and rolled to create different types of paper. This process keeps paper out of the landfill, prevents trees from being cut down, and saves the energy and resources needed to create virgin paper products.
FSC Certified Wood
Products with the Forest Stewardship Council certification are made from or with wood sourced from FSC managed forests. FSC standards ensure the respect and wellbeing of indigenous peoples, forest workers, and local communities. Harvesting in certified forests maintains the ecological functions of each habitat. FSC prohibits the use of pesticides, GMOs, and the conversion of forests to plantations. As a third party, not-for-profit agency, FSC provides nonbiased audits of forest management.
Fun Fact: This is the book that inspired EarthHero Founder, Ryan Lewis, to create EarthHero!
Annie Leonard, documentarian and environmentalist, follows up her famous film with an expanded book: The Story of Stuff. An exposé that dives into overconsumption and its effects on our health, economy, and the planet, The Story of Stuff offers steps to change the planet's current environmental trajectory. Follow Annie as she sneaks into factories and dumps, interviews textile workers in Haiti, and vRead Moreisits children mining for coltan for cell phones in the Congo. You'll learn about the perils of our supply chain and how the way we create and consume products is affecting humans and our planet. She'll leave you with actionable steps to to take sustainability into your own hands, and help transform the planet into a healthier system–economically and ecologically.
maggielee34 (verified owner) –
Very informational book, I really enjoyed it
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nicole.a.crane95 (verified owner) –
This is an amazing book. My husband probably hated it because of how much I would ramble on and on about topics from it. It is definitely a dense read, however, so consider reading a little at a time in order to be able to digest it all. This book provides a ton of science behind climate change, and relates it back to social justice quite a bit as well. It also provides action steps, as well as good news.
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