While creating another set of plants for a colleague at work, I was thinking about how true beauty is CO₂ negative and how sustainability is an easy practice if one uses, reuses, transforms, and shares what one has.
For the container, I reused the bottom part of a household disinfectant, giving it a second life instead of discarding it and buying a new container made from fossil fuels (i.e., plastic). Then, I looked around my small garden for available candidate plants that could thrive in that container and, hopefully, cooperate to lead a good life under the new conditions. After finding the trio, I placed them in their new container using my simple gardening tools powered by human energy. The soil was in short supply (as worms in the vermicompost regulate their work according to the heat). Used about 3 liters of commercial potting soil, which comes with an undisclosed carbon footprint.
Creating with what is available around us is not only a good sustainability practice but also a way of multiplying beauty that goes on living and capturing carbon dioxide. Hence, real beauty is CO₂ negative.
