There are lots of new ideas out there that put people’s consumption trends to the test. The Uniform project saw one girl wearing the same dress for a year; New dress a day is about reusing and redesigning dresses ad materials found to make a new item for 365 days; 6 items or less saw over 100 people wearing the same 6 items of clothing or less for a month.
Here’s a new one: less 365. One man’s journey in getting rid of the stuff he’s got lying around his house. To do this he will donate, discard, re-gift or recycle some of the stuff he owns.
The idea was born on a hike, when Randy Redding and pal, TJ wanted to apply the same philiosophy of minimalism in the outdoors to everyday life.
Aside from it being an wonderful, fabulous idea it’s also a practical yet obvious alternative way of consuming. If you look at most of the stuff you own, how much of it do you actually need? Judging by the comments on Less 365, a lot of people who have stuff they’d like to get rid of and would like to start that same experience of purging their possessions. Follow and join the movement on twitter with the tag #less365.
Katherine Hui is currently the Social site editor at Green Thing, a web-based public service in London that inspires people to lead greener lives through creative content.
Before this, she worked as the Development Manager at Social Innovation Camp, an organization that encourages people to use web and mobile-based technology to mobilise social change. She oversaw 300 ideas submission and helped build 20 prototypes – five of which have gone on to get further funding or investment.
Katherine’s came over to the UK form Canada in 2007 for an MSc program at the London School of Economics. Before arriving in London, she managed a small environmental start-up in Vancouver called the Canadian Climate Change Alliance.
Katherine is football mad. She is a loyal supporter of Arsenal FC, plays for Islington Borough Ladies FC and coaches for Gunners in Islington in her spare time. Her second favourite hobby is kite surfing and she can sometimes be found chasing the wind.
