[Greenbuilding] 99 percent of stuff

[Jane Talkington]

This is a visual of what stuff looks like in perspective, in art.
The numbers are staggering but it is the visual that shocks you.

 http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php
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Jane Talkington

PhD student in "Sustainability"
Oklahoma State University, Environmental Science Program
Stillwater, OK 
GreenQueen at hotmail.com (405) 714-1919 

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> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:59:49 -0800
> From: guy_brad at yahoo.com
> To: prattb at uwstout.edu; GREENBUILDING at listserv.repp.org
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] 99 percent of stuff
> 
> Not sure where they may have gotten this but you
> should look at Alan Durning's book "The Secret Life of
> Everyday Things"
> 
> He has statements such as only 6% of original material
> on average makes it into final products, most stuff
> discarded in 2-3 weeks and so on. Measurement is mass.
> 
> Durning's book identifies these products as "consumer
> products", which I imagine the US government has a
> definition for... i.e. disposable goods of limited
> lifespan or something like that...
> 
> Brad
> 
> --- Benjamin Pratt  wrote:
> 
>> So I watched http://www.storyofstuff.com/, and she
>> gave a statistic:
>> "99 percent of the stuff we use is trash within 6
>> months". But I am
>> wondering, what is included in this "stuff"? Food,
>> water, online
>> movies? And how is it measured? Weight, volume,
>> monetary value?
>> Thanks
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ben Pratt
>> Professor, Design
>> 
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> Brad Guy
> Ph.D. Program
> School of Architecture
> Carnegie Mellon University
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