This is Woolfiller, one of the contestants in the running for the title of Sustainability’s Next Top Model.
Woolfiller is a clever little kit that repairs holes and hides stains in woollen jumpers, cardigans, jackets and carpets, for example. The kit comes with the special filler material, a probe for adhering the filler to the garment and a block to place under the garment while its being mended. Woolfiller is the invention of Heleen Klopper, a product-designer based in the Netherlands.
To vote and find out more about the other ‘models’, visit Sustainability’s Next Top Model.
(Green Thing kicked off An All-Consuming summer, by holding a competition for Sustainability’s Next Top model. The Facebook competition features 4 inventive, creative and new sustainable start-ups, who all have a chance at wining at £50,000 marketing campaign. This week Green Thing will feature each product before the voting closes on 31st August 2010 at 1800.)
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.
