Annie Leonard is interested in international sustainability and environmental health issues. Annie has visited many countries and has studied these issues for more than twenty years. Annie did her undergraduate work at Barnard College and Columbia University, and did her graduate studies in city and regional planning at Cornell University. Annie most recently made a short film called Story of Stuff in which she talks of the global materials economy and how that effects our environment, health, and economy. “You can’t run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely!” - Annie Leonard