Please visit The Story of Stuff website for brilliant, brief, kid-friendly cartoon videos about our consumer culture. You'll also find terrific curriculum materials like "Buy, Use, Toss" for grades 9-12, which can be downloaded for free.
Next time you feel helpless to save... say, a tiger in the forests of the Russian Far East, refrain from making that trip to your local Bed, Bath and Beyond, Ikea, or Home Depot. Cheap consumer goods at big box stores = destruction of natural resources around the globe = climate change = species extinction rate 1,000 times the natural rate.
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