Sorghum and Coconut Building Products for Your Home

Allen Lyle of dannylipford.com examines materials made from sorghum and coconut for use as eco-friendly building products in your home.

Allen Lyle: One of the green buzzwords is sustainability. It's used to describe quite often materials and there are plenty of those to choose from. But I wanted to show you something that we actually looked at last year here at Kirei. It's a sorghum product; really cool looking. But we've got more even this year. I want you to meet John Stein. Hey John! Where are you? There they are. John Stein: How you're doing? Allen Lyle: How you've been doing? John Stein: Good to see you. Thanks. Allen Lyle: You got something new this year. Show it to me, what is it? John Stein: Yes, we do. This year we have introduced coconut tiles. So coconut is harvested for milk and meat around the world. What are left over are tons and tons of our coconut shells which usually just sit in piles and piles which rot. We've taken those shells; we cut them into small pieces and make mosaic tiles out of them bringing new jobs to areas that could use them and taking trash and making it into the treasure. Allen Lyle: That's great. I mean you've got artwork, you've got cabinetry work and this indeed is beautiful. John Stein: These are cabinet inserts. Allen Lyle: Wow!