Resources for using Stuff

If you're interested in using Stuff --Sightline's best-seller about the environmental impact of everyday things--in your classroom or workplace, here's a list of resources.

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Since Stuff was published in 1997, thousands of educators and public information specialists have used the book to teach about the "secret lives of everyday things." Check out this community forum to leave comments and share ideas on activities, resources, and curriculums for Stuff.

Teaching guides on consumption issues

• Stuff curriculum guide (pdf)

• Worldwatch Good Stuff website

• "Living in a Material World" curriculum

• Sustainability education handbook

• Classroom activities for teaching about global issues and solutions

• Eco Encore
• The Center for a New American Dream
• The New Road Map Foundation
• Northwest Earth Institute
• Simple Living Network

• Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures
• Adbusters Magazine

Books and videos

• The Story of Stuff
  
• Bill Rees' Ecological Footprint
• Juliet Schor's The Overworked American
• The New Road Map Foundation's Your Money or Your Life
• Peter Menzel's Material World
• The video Affluenza
• Videos created by high school students on Stuff: Think Twice and Food for Thought. (You can order them here.)