Obsolescenza Pianificata e Inceneritori

Annie Leonard, critico americano di commercio internazionale e sostenibilità, spiega che cosa è la L'Obsolescenza Pianificata, ovvero: "Progettare per la Discarica".

Nel modello consumistico, gli oggetti e i beni vengono costruiti con lo scopo di renderli il più presto possibile inutili e incrementare così il ciclo economico e produttivo, ma a discapito di tutto il Pianeta .....

Annie Leonard is an American critic of international trade, development, international sustainability and environmental health issues.^[1] She is most known for her web-based documentary The Story of Stuff about the life-cycle of goods and services.

Leonard has an undergraduate degree from Barnard College and a graduate degree from Cornell University in city and regional planning.^[2] She stars in The Story of Stuff, a web-based documentary about the life-cycle of goods and services. Ralph Nader called the film "a model of clarity and motivation."^[3]

Leonard is coordinator of Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives^[4] and serves on the boards of International Forum for Globalization and the Environmental Health Fund. She previously held positions with Health Care Without Harm, Essential Information and Greenpeace International, and is currently coordinator of the Funders Workgroup for Sustainable Production and Consumption.^[1] In 1992 she testified in front of the US Congress on the topic of international waste trafficking.^[2]

Leonard lives in California with her daughter.