Lab4


 * CCT333 Week 4: 'The Story of Stuff'**

'The Story of Stuff' with Annie Leonard at http://www.storyofstuff.com/ index.html is a cultural and educational phenomenon, and has had over 5 million viewers.

Download her annotated script version of 'The Story of Stuff' from http://www.storyofstuff.org/ downloads.php and read it carefully.

Write three paragraphs on how Annie Leonard defines the system of the 'materials economy' and describes its interactions.

Define extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal. (One paragraph for each term)

How does her Flash presentation effectively organize the categories comprising 'the materials economy' in its interface design? (2 paragraphs)

If you would like to read the article upon which 'The Story of Stuff ' is excerpted from, read the “Economies for Life” by David Korten in YES!Magazine, Living Economies Issue. Fall 2002 at http://peoplenotprofit.org/ livingeconomies.htm