video reflection- 3 stories.

this is 3 stories about a world obseesed with stuff. and about a system in crisis. we are trashing the plant,we are trashing each other, and we are not even having fun. The good thing is that when we start to understand the system, we start to see lots of places to step in and turn these problems into solutions. and then I whatched 3 videos: the story of cosmetics. the story of electronics. and the story of bottled water.

In story of cosmetics,Annie Leonard told us that she found out lots of cosmetics products contains few chemical linked to cancer.even baby shampoo does. and some products also contain chenicals linked to other problems like learning disabilities, asthma, and even damaged sperm. she said she tried to keep her family safe,but she found out her bathroom is a minefield of toxins. to find out the solution to solve the problems. we have go back to one of the key features of our materials economy: toxics inat , toxices out. taht means at factory, you pour toxic chemicals into a product, then you are going to wiin up with a toxic product. and toxics in workers.the cosmetics which we used everyday each product contains a dozen or more chemicals. there are resources online that we can use to protect ourselves by identifying the best possible choices in the store. but the real action to protect us is with people working to change the system. and the people all over the world ,we can giving the FDA the power to make sure taht our personal care products are safe. actually, many reponsible cosmetics companies are already putting safer products on the market.
green chemists are developing substances that are designed to be safe and non-toxic in the frist place. when cosmetics are refomulated to be dafe and labeled honestly, then we can feel comfortable with the choices available at the store.

In the story of electronics. Annie Leonard told us, designed for the dump means making stuff to be thrown away quickly. today's electronics are hard to upgrade, easy to break, and impractical to repair. and these dump designs are no just causing a pain in our wallets. they are creating a global toxic emergency! and the high tech industry is not as clean as its image. after its toxic trip around the globe, the gadget lands in my hands. and after years time i might be throw it away. and that brings to disposal. all this electronics is just waiting to release all their toxics when throw them away. some of them are slowly releasing this stuff even while we are using them. so almost all this e-waste either goes from my garage to a landfill or it gets shipped overseas to the garage workshop. so let's get our brains working on sending that old design for the dump mentality to the dump where it belongs and instead building an electronics industry and a global society that's designed to last.

In the story of bottled water, Annie told us, in many ways bottled water is less regulated than tap. these bottled water companies say they are just meeting consumer demand but who would demand a less sustainable less tasty, way more expensive product especially one you can get almost free in your kitchen.bottled water costd that two thousand times more than tap water. what the bottled water industry did one of their first marketing tactics was to scare people about tap water. next, you hide the reality of your product behind images of pure fantasy. and acturlly the third of all bottled water is tap water. and the bottled water is trashing the environment all along the product's life cycle. and start with extraction and production where oil is used to make water bottles. and after a long way to our hand. after we drinked it the big problem is disposal. eighty percent end up in landfills, or burned, releasing toxic pollution.and the real solutions is invest in public water infrastructure, prevent pollution, drinking fountans, water bottle boycott. so dont buy bottled water unless the water in your community is truly unhealthy.