Build4People is very proud to announce the 3rd video clip of its online exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers”, introducing Chansopheak Hem, creator of the Pteah Chas Community and founder of the Phnom Penh Houseplant Festival 💡🪴💚🌸🇰🇭.
Promoting environmentally friendly behavior and sustainable entrepreneurship must be regarded as key challenges of Cambodia. The vivid economic development of this emerging country has led to increasing incomes among its urban population but was also responsible for dramatic effects on the environment and urban quality of life. To name just a few the continuous loss of green spaces and water bodies, increasing air pollution, abundant traffic jams and enormous waste problems.
Against this backdrop, Build4People aims to raise awareness of these problems among the urban citizens, which serves as an important prerequisite for behavior change. By providing visibility and public acknowledgement to pioneers of pro-environmental behaviour, they can function as role models, inspiring the people to act in a more environmentally friendly way.
The Build4People Online Exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers” is therefore considered as an important participatory intervention to support a change of mindset among Cambodia’s population. The aim is to use role models to strengthen social norms, enhance people’s self-efficacy, and encourage more environmentally friendly everyday behaviors. By featuring a diverse set of sustainability pioneers, we aim to inspire the urban population to replicate their sustainable lifestyles.
The 3rd video clip of the Build4People Online Exhibition “Cambodia’s Green Pioneers” introduces Chansopheak Hem, founder of the Pteah Chas Community and founder of the Phnom Penh Houseplant Festival. Through his initiative, a heritage shophouse in the centre of Phnom Penh got preserved and converted into a green community and co-working space dedicated for creative entrepreneurs as well into a vibrant exhibition and lecture space attracting Cambodia’s young generation💡💚🇰🇭.
Furthermore, Chansopheak Hem initiated the first Phnom Penh Houseplant Festival in 2021. In spring 2025, already the fourth Phnom Penh Plant and Garden Fair took place at the Connexion building of Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, which got sponsored by the property development company OCIC Group. 🪴💚🇰🇭.
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Visit Chansopheak Hem Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/chansopheak_hem/
Visit Instagram account of Pteah Chas Community: https://www.instagram.com/pteahchas
Visit Instagram account of Jungle à Domicile (Chansopheak Hem’s business): https://www.instagram.com/jungledomicile/