Sustainable Systems: Lab Journal (use weedy plants to make water colors)

Lab Journal (use weedy plants to make water colors)

A guest speaker called Ellie Irons came to show us how to make watercolors from weedy plants in this class. These plants are ‘useless’ because they are not edible as some of them are poisonous, they don’t make the environment look very aesthetically pleasing and they are taking up so much space. Instead of burning theses plants down (producing carbon dioxide), the artist found out that we could make watercolors from these plants as they have the same effects as the real watercolors. This is very sustainable as there are no more harmful chemicals produced that causes water pollution.

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Colors that could be made from these plants:

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In my opinion, I think that this new way of making colors could be used in the fashion industry as well, designers could possibly dye their fabrics with these colors. I think that this will provide more job opportunities as well because more labour is needed for harvesting these weedy plants and producing colors.

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