One hundred years ago, man commercially
planted coconut palms. Coconut became the provider of many products:
oils, cosmetics, medicines, food and building materials. Any
place on earth that was coastal and 25 degrees north or south
of the equator was inundated with row, upon row, upon row of
coconut palms.
That was yesterday!
Today, not only has the demand for coconut products fallen,
but most of the older trees are senile. All over the world
coconut palms must make way for other cash crops or new improved
hybrid palms. "It is ecologically sound and sensible
to recycle all senile palms. Use them as a valuable resource
to replace indigenous forest timbers".
This is the charter of our company - Pacific Green.
"Using palmwood, instead of indigenous timbers, causes
no hurt. It helps preserve nature for our children ...you
don't have to cut another rainforest tree if you use the alternative;
readily available PALMWOOD". Pacific Green is the brainchild
of Australian designer, Bruce Dowse. Bruce saw the devastation
to our fragile environment caused by logging, and introduced
his 'timber substitution theory' of palm technology. His objective
... save the indigenous forest by using PALMWOOD
Today, 12 years on, his theories are successful
... we cut it, dry it, we use it. Out of the unwanted we produce
world-standard furniture and building materials. There is
no waste as by-products go to ultra-inexpensive heating, cooking
and agricultural uses - all of which are particularly supportive
of the local economy. The creation of a commercially viable
palmwood industry has evolved... sustainable in a developing
world environment. An industry that destroys nothing and uses
the unwanted.
Now THAT is an industry!
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