Children’s workshops beat the drum for more sustainability

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Cotton as a fibre plant for clothing: In the workshop programme ’Very attr
Cotton as a fibre plant for clothing: In the workshop programme ’Very attractive - what fibre plants can do!’, organized by the Münster University Botanical Garden, children of primary school age learn what biodiversity and sustainability mean. © WWU - Botanical Garden
Flowers and plants not only look beautiful - they can also carry a message. The project entitled “The Political Plant’, in which has Münster University’s Botanical Garden is involved as a project partner, aims to promote biodiversity and sustainability by means of educational and transfer activities. The workshop programme “Very attractive - what fibre plants can do!’ is designed to enable children of primary school age to get to know various fibre plants such as cotton, hemp, linen, jute and nettles.

“The idea of our programme is to raise children’s awareness of the range of different plant fibres that exist, and where their clothes come from,’ explains Dr. ...
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