finalist 4
ENTRY #18

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Sustainability Statement

‘Excited this challenge allows me to reciprocate what Mother Nature has abundantly provided. Her gifts are too precious to simply toss away. I must do my part to protect her for future generations. RECIPROCITY is the better way.

It's easy and convenient to default to using familiar materials that are harmful. Plastics, wires and chemical glues have no place here.

It takes more thoughtfulness to lessen the environmental impact. If I practice this mindfulness more often, this will become second nature. Every choice I make has a consequence, good or bad. I choose good!

Using local, seasonal materials is my plan. Less carbon footprint. I can use cuttings from the vines and shrubs in my garden. The greens and plants I used were purchased from my local grocery store and garden centre. The weekly delivered newspaper I use to line my kitchen compost bin will be the perfect material to create my origami structure to enhance the botanicals.

It's comforting to know that the bouquet is worth more, because the environmental repercussions are less. The echeverias will thrive, producing offspring for future projects. The organic base can be repurposed or be confidently disposed of in the compost bin. RECIPROCITY at its best!’

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Materials List

Supplies:

Bamboo skewers
Hemp string
Newspaper

Botanicals:

Ficus root
Anthurium andraeanum leaf
Echeveria (blue/green)
Echeveria (red/blue green)
Eucalyptus pulverulenta
Euonymus fortunei
Lonicera sempervirens - Honeysuckle vine
Pieris japonica
Ruscus hypophyllum
Skimmia japonica

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