Litterbug World

'Gone Tomorrow' examines the realities of planned-in obsolescence and waste-by-design in our market economy.

April 1, 2005 |

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Ariane Conrad is a writer and editor based in Oakland, CA. She collaborated with Van Jones on the New York Times bestselling The Green Collar Economy (Harper One, 2008), and with Christabel Zamor on HOOPING! (forthcoming from Workman Publishing in June 2009).

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Posted by: anicca on Apr 1, 2005 12:48 PM
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I haven't actually seen the film, but it sounds like a perfect addition to school science curriculums. I just sent the article to colleagues I used to teach with in a high school in Colorado asking them to buy it for use in the freshman geophysical science program. There's a natural resources unit that included a 'Life Cycle of a Product' lesson where we would take apart a telephone, figure out what materials were used to make it, where they came from, how they were processed, where it would go when it broke, etc. It would fit in perfectly. Teachers are terribly busy people; if I were still teaching, I probably wouldn't have had the time to read about this so I'd encourage everyone to pass this along to their local schools and maybe even buy the film and donate it to schools if they don't have the funding.

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Posted by: anicca on Apr 1, 2005 12:48 PM
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I haven't actually seen the film, but it sounds like a perfect addition to school science curriculums. I just sent the article to colleagues I used to teach with in a high school in Colorado asking them to buy it for use in the freshman geophysical science program. There's a natural resources unit that included a 'Life Cycle of a Product' lesson where we would take apart a telephone, figure out what materials were used to make it, where they came from, how they were processed, where it would go when it broke, etc. It would fit in perfectly. Teachers are terribly busy people; if I were still teaching, I probably wouldn't have had the time to read about this so I'd encourage everyone to pass this along to their local schools and maybe even buy the film and donate it to schools if they don't have the funding.

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