5 Ways To Use A Green Coconut
Channel: Tom Mills
Date: 2016-04-16

As my assignment continued in Cambodia, I encountered an excellent example of green living...we'd call it a life hack. The coconut palm is plentiful in tropical Cambodia. It is utilized in many ways, this video illustrates 5 ways that pointed me to culture of practical sustainability. The tree is used for wood and shade. Often the woody lower ends of the palms are used for firewood. While the leafy palms are used as a building material...crafted into roofs and walls. 

Moving onto food..the green coconut, not yet matured, is used first as a drink, the top hacked open for a straw and the sweet coconut water inside. Then the husk was chopped in half and the mildly sweet, gelatinous interior spooned out for a dessert treat. Finally the spent husk is further chopped up and deposited at the foot of a young coconut palm, returning its nutrients to the growing tree and acting as a mulch...thus completing the cycle. 

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