The Story of Stuff is a little snippet of digital mastery from Free Range Studios that succeeds in succinctly capturing the environmental and social down sides of the consumer society that many of us are both victims and perpetrators of at the same time. It explores many of the hidden costs of the consumer chain from extraction of resources, through to production, distribution, consumption and disposal.
The Story of StuffThe Story of Stuff is a little snippet of digital mastery from Free Range Studios that succeeds in succinctly capturing the environmental and social down sides of the consumer society that many of us are both victims and perpetrators of at the same time. It explores many of the hidden costs of the consumer chain from extraction of resources, through to production, distribution, consumption and disposal.
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Every dog has its day and in February 2008, I had my date with the small screen where I, along with my neighbours at Lynedoch EcoVillage, the Mabeba family, unleashed ourselves on the South African TV-viewing youth in a programme called Keeping it Real on SABC 2 to talk about global warming in a dedicated episode on that topic. In a flagrant act of rampant self promotion, I cut and spliced some excerpts from the programme into a short 6 minute clip... 
Paul Yeboah has informed me that Greg Knibbs, a certified and experienced permaculture practitioner from Australia, will be offering a Permaculture Certificate Course in Ghana from 23 April to 6 May at a cost of 500 000 cedis (about 395 ZAR or 54 USD). The cost does not include food and accommodation. 
The Cognition site enters the realm of Web 2.0 (well, as much of Web 2.0 as our 
I am impressed with myself I thought earlier. Four months after acquiring Crude Oil Price
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Ecological Footprint
According to my ecological footprint calculation at Earthday.Net, if everyone on this planet were to to live the equivalent lifestyle to me, we would need 2.4 planet Earths to sustain us all.
My personal footprint takes up 4.3 hectares which coincides with that of the average South African. It should be noted however that South Africa is one the most unequal societies in the world (along with Brazil) with a disproportionately large disparity between the haves and have nots.
To live a supposedly sustainable and ethical lifestyle, my footprint size would have to decrease to 1.8 hectares as that is how many globally productive hectares are available per person at current population levels.
My footprint is made up as such (in hectares):
Food 1.2
Mobility 0.9
Shelter 0.5
Goods and services 1.7
Total footprint: 4.3
My ecological footprint before moving into my ecologically built home at Lynedoch was 6.7 hectares...some improvement, but still a long way to go to one planet living.
What is your personal ecological footprint? To find out, click here.
