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Posted by Jeannie Choe | 2 Jan 2007
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Jouko Karkkainen, best known for his textured plywood products and large-scale installations, has taken a compact turn with a positive eco-impact. Tree Seedlings are containers made of curly birch, pine, alder, spruce or aspen. Each cube is made from the wood of the same tree that the contained seed will grow into. The entire cube is buried, eventually rotting and exposing the seed to the vital elements necessary for growth.
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Catchy design, but I have to say: what's the point? 15 EUR/$20 is a lot to ask for a piece of wood that may or may not grow into a tree after an indeterminate amount of time. Form over function, here.
Nice idea, which I will be very tempted to buy and share with my friends.
But it's not really eco, considering that beautiful wood has to be chopped up first to form these cubes.
Pick up a fallen branch, attached a seed to it. A free and easy method.