The Story of Bottled Water

The Story of Bottled Water, releasing March 22, 2010 on storyofbottledwater.org, employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over seven minutes, the film explores the bottled water industry’s attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to ‘take back the tap,’ not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all.

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The Robinhood Tax – The Banker

Hillariously funny and brilliant at the same time. This three minute campaign video by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy, explains the idea of the Robin Hood Tax – a tiny tax on the financial sector that could raise hundreds of billions for public services and to tackle poverty and climate change in Britain and around the world – “Not complicated. Just brilliant”.

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