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Annie Louise Leonard (born 1964) is an American proponent of sustainability and a critic of consumerism. She created the animated film The Story of Stuff (2007), which describes the life cycle of material goods. In 2014, she became the Executive Director of Greenpeace USA.

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We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.

Figuring, Home, Priority, Running, Support Systems, System

Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil fuel industry thinks that they have just absolute free rein to go for it. The one thing in the way is public opposition. It's civil society. It's activism.

Government, Human Rights, Kind, Protection, Right, Thinking

We've got to rescue our democracy by using it.

Democracy, Rescue, Using

Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

Campaigns, Lasting Change, Make, Real, Shop

Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.

Feelings, Overworked, People, Political, Suffer, Vote

I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they are connected. The best tool we have for advancing environmental solutions is our democracy, and we can't currently access it because it has been so thoroughly hijacked by big corporate interests.

Afraid, Big, Connected, Political, Reality, Thinking

Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone.

Heart, Life, People, Treadmill, Writing, Years

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

Thinking, Impact, Stories, Think, Current

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?

Bottled, Cost, Imagine, Sandwiches, Times, Water

I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.

Children, Real, College, Scientist, Discredited, Know

There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.

Away, Thing, Throw

Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

Needs, Reuse, Stuff, Product, Share

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

Credibility, Facts, Loose, Needs, Power, Sides

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff-what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model-the economy as it is will kill the planet.

Economy, Production, Simply, Stuff, Waste, Way

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

History, Knowing, Shapes, Stories, Told, Written