Green Stuff and Awesomeness

Found on the web tonight (um, yes, where else) is this website called Foldschool

a collection of free downloadable patterns so that you can make kids play furniture out of your own cardboard. That’s awesome. Their mission statement is also refreshing:

“Mass culture is run by superficiality and ecological absurdity. Foldschool supports craftsmanship as a face-to-face approach to design and brings together product and user the closest possible.

The mindset of foldschool is to restore design to one of its original missions: to provide a product at an affordable price through a smart manufacturing process.”

Found this thanks to the ecolect blog, which I just discovered via Springwise, which I discovered via something posted on a foodblog.

The wonderful wide internet.

(By the way, Springwise’s sustainability section has a whole range of interesting ideas listed, from charging mobile phones by dancing to a program in vancouver where a banner company is recycling its own ads into bags, and then selling them to make money to put into green programs. Not bad, Vancouver. Hello U.S.A.?)