inconvenient by design Have you ever wondered why electronics are expensive and a hassle to repair? Because they’re designed to be. Today’s gadgets are easy to break, impractical to repair, and quick to be obsolete. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We’re advocating for “Right to Repair” policy that makes repairing our Stuff…
join the movement The Story of Stuff Project is a firm believer in safeguarding the water commons for public good. With our Unbottle Water campaign, we’re fighting to protect public water resources from the aggressive privatization efforts of companies like Nestlé Waters as they push to secure new sources of water for bottling. We promote efforts…
we are in a plastic crisis Plastic pollution is everywhere: from city streets to Arctic ice to microplastics in our air, water, food, and bodies. Only 9% of plastic ever made has been recycled. The rest is burned, buried, or is left to pollute our environment. And yet, the plastics industry plans to ramp up…
How Cascade Locks beat Nestlé In 2016, dedicated community members in the small town of Cascade Locks championed a successful ballot measure to ban commercial water bottling in their county. We partnered with Local Water Alliance to tell the David and Goliath story of small town organizing that took on a multinational corporation and won.…
What are microbeads? Microplastics may be small, but they cause big problems for our environment and our health. Microbeads are tiny pieces of plastic that were commonly used in personal care products like face washes, beauty creams, even toothpaste! When used as designed, microbeads were going down the drain and into our lakes, rivers, and oceans by…
Why This Fight Matters The citizens from two very different Michigan communities—small town Evart and industrial Flint—have found their futures inextricably linked by a threat to the one thing that all life requires: water. How you can take action Join our campaigns Help us fight to Unbottle Water in San Bernardino, the Great Lakes, and…
Why This Fight Matters The Story of Stuff Project launched a campaign against Nestlé Waters in 2015 after learning that the world’s largest water bottling company had been taking water for years from public land in Southern California, without paying anything for it and without any monitoring or regulation. This case is an alarming example…
