Bamboo Carbon Credits Info & Links

A long but excellent 2008 article on all aspects of bamboo in India.  From Why to how to on bamboo.

Could the Mississippi Delta become America's bamboo belt, the breadbasket of a new class of homegrown structural building components? Earlier this June in Greenville, Miss., a group of engineers, manufacturers, bureaucrats and farmers gathered to discuss how land formerly cultivated for cotton might be converted to produce bamboo on a massive scale...

This Issue: Estimating Bamboo Biomass and Some Other Good Things Estimating Bamboo Biomass Last month,

Dr. Timothy Gregoire wrote,I need to come up with a way to assess bamboo biomass in Bhutan NFI.

I know next to nothing about the topic! Tim was especially interested in anything that has been done in the past 10 years.

He is also interested in rattan inventory as well. Here are some sites that may be of interest.

Bamboo for Africa, established a little over a year ago, already has more than 80 hectares of bamboo in the ground, thereby opening the door to sustainable living to a considerable number of previously unemployed individuals.

This is a great step forwards in my mind

Bamboo for Africa, established a little over a year ago, already has more than 80 hectares of bamboo in the ground, thereby opening the door to sustainable living to a considerable number of previously unemployed individuals.

This is a great step forwards in my mind

Edible shoots and timber are just two of the most recognised uses of bamboo, a plant of economic, social and cultural significance throughout Asia.


However, this fast-growing perennial member of the grass family also has a wide range of environmental applications, including carbon sequestration, wastewater reuse, and soil and water erosion control.

Australian scientists and environmental engineers are beginning to take another look at this prolific perennial.

A guide to the worlds carbon store and usage..

Tropical forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of carbon — more than 30 years' worth of current emissions from fossil fuels use — in the early 2000s, according to a comprehensive assessment of the world's carbon stocks.

The time to act for the environment is now. We can no longer go on pretending that we aren't personally responsible for the improvement of the planet's conditions. One of the first steps to taking action is to evaluate our carbon footprints. The following calculators enable you to assess your consumption, individually as well as for your household, business, and transportation.