Often Green Thing has looked at the importance of design in tackling sustainability issues. For example, we’ve looked at how design can reduce packaging waste (Yves Behar and Puma) and how a simple product, Sugru, can ‘hack’ virtually anything. We’ve also taken a stab at protoyping the World’s First Biodegradable festival tent, designed to replace the poorly made, cheap, non-biodegradable alternative.
Platform 21 has created this great Repair Manifesto, calling on designers, makers and more to repair things.
These are great principles to live by. Although, last line, “Stop recycling. Start repairing” could perhaps be “Recycling is good. Repairing is better”.
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.
