"Green" Beauty

Kauai's albizia trees are pretty amazing.

A few years ago, a large albizia log was turned into a canoe by a master carver in Waimea.
A decade ago, Hawaiian Mahogany planted a million trees to not only remove carbon dioxide out of our air and produce oxygen, but also to provide biomass for an upcoming alternative energy project, fertilize nearby hardwood trees with its nitrogen fixing qualities, be incorporated into livestock feed and to be turned into usable lumber.

This evening, my friend Bill Cowern and his friend Bill, made my wish for a new dining table and benches a reality.

I didn't know what to expect. Earpod? Monkeypod? Mango? Norfolk Island Pine?

WOW- the first experimental pieces of furniture created by Hawaiian Mahogany out of albizia! This is a totally "green" product- treated in mineral baths that make the wood bug and termite proof and suitable for indoor or outdoor use! Bill says that it is also compostable at the end of its practical life.


Kauai's ultimate recyclable, self-sustainable, power-generating, self-fertilizing, carbon fixing albizia is also a thing of practical beauty,

Mahalo nui loa, Bill!