Meaningful Volunteer's Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a fascinating thought provoking video made by Annie Leonard.

It offers very interesting insights into the true costs of the stuff we consume everyday.  Not only costs to us the consumer, but costs to the planet, costs to the environment, and costs to the industrial workers who make the stuff.

She advocates not only reducing our waste, but eliminating it all together.  

Meaningful Volunteer aims to be as green as we can with initiatives like:

• Project Mangrove
  
  
• Mama Pamba
  We trying to include zero plastics in our production cycle.  The packaging for the fashion - for example - will be tote bags which can be reused as shopping bags for the supermarket.
  
  
• Our upcoming solar powered school in Uganda
  Renewable energy has some obvious pluses.

But is all this enough?  Could Meaningful Volunteer be doing more?  How can our activities actually benefit the planet as opposed to just being neutral?