*[Enwl-eng] The heart of who we are

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Ever since the first Story of Stuff video premiered 15 years ago, you have 
helped us tell stories that imagine a better world.




                                It all started with an animated film that 
explored where our Stuff comes from, and where it goes when we throw it 
away. This month marks 15 years since the original Story of Stuff was 
released on YouTube!

                                Storytelling is still the heart of who we 
are: it’s how we frame the challenges we face, drive support toward the 
solutions we love and inspire our Community members to flex their citizen 
muscles.

                                Your support over the years is why we 
continue to tell the stories that matter. And to celebrate our 15th 
anniversary, we’re excited to share with you what our media team has planned 
for the future. Will you make a contribution to support our work today?

                                This year, our award-winning storytelling on 
the plastics crisis shifted focus to solutions. Solving Plastic, a 
miniseries profiling meaningful solutions to runaway single-use plastic 
consumption, has been a big success, drawing more than a million views 
across our social media channels and, more importantly, giving us the 
opportunity to introduce you to the organizations, companies and individuals 
pioneering a plastic-free future.







                                Our latest Solving Plastic release featured 
RePack, a company imagining a future free of excess single-use packaging. 
With tens of billions of packages shipped every year in the U.S. alone, 
services like RePack – which lease reusable bags to online retailers – can 
save up to 80% of CO2 emissions from shipping and reduce packaging waste by 
a whopping 99%. Before the holidays, we’ll drop another video featuring the 
Buy Nothing Project – an innovative gift economy that allows us to share 
more, and buy less.

                                We’ll also create a suite of wraparound 
tools to go with the series, including a study guide, additional information 
on our website about the profiled solutions, and webinars – open to all 
Community members – with the profiled companies or organizations.

                                Our solutions-oriented storytelling 
continues in early 2023 with the release of Burning Injustice (working 
title), our short documentary profiling the multi-generational fight to 
close one of California’s two remaining solid waste incinerators – Covanta 
Stanislaus – and return Modesto, CA and surrounding communities to their 
zero waste roots.

                                Through vivid, human-centered storytelling 
we’ll paint a striking picture of environmental racism and injustice and 
make the moral argument for the incinerator’s closure. We’ll also highlight 
our Grassroots Grantee and partner Valley Improvement Project’s efforts to 
return Modesto to environmental trailblazer status, enabling us to meet a 
critical goal in our plastic solutions storytelling: ensuring that we center 
solutions that most benefit communities that have borne the brunt of the 
plastic pollution itself.

                                We’ll also be producing a five-minute video 
explainer on the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations that got underway this 
past summer, drawing back the veil for viewers by helping them understand 
what the proposed treaty is all about, why it matters and how folks can 
encourage our governments to adopt the strongest possible terms.

                                Storytelling has always been one of our most 
important tools in the fight against too much Stuff. And ever since that 
first Story of Stuff video premiered 15 years ago, you have helped us tell 
those stories, bringing the vision of a better world – one that values 
sustainability and justice as much as we value our Stuff – closer to 
reality. Make a contribution today to support our work in 2023.

                                From all of us at Story of Stuff, thank you. 
We wouldn’t be here without you.

                                With gratitude,

                                Miguel and The Story of Stuff Team



































                                The Story of Stuff Project runs on donations 
from people like you. Please make a one-time contribution, or better yet, 
sustain our work by signing up to be a monthly donor. Any amount makes a 
difference!







                                The Story of Stuff Project is a 501(c)(3) 
nonprofit.
                                Donations to The Story of Stuff Project are 
tax-deductible to the
                                extent allowed by law in the United States.

                                visit storyofstuff.org




                              From: Miguel Astudillo, Story of Stuff
                              Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 12:00 PM
                              Subject: The heart of who we are








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