What Can Bamboo Do About CO2?

Source: ecology.com Published: May 15, 2013 Efforts to thoroughly study the role that plants play in climate change mitigation are increasing. Most researchers focus on the promise of large, leafy forest trees to help remove carbon from the atmosphere; for example Lal...

How Is This Bamboo Bike Bringing Change to An Entire Community?

Source: one.org Published: August 22, 2016 Meet Bernice Dapaah – a young entrepreneur from Ghana who decided to build eco-friendly bikes to not only help the environment, but to improve the lives of those living in her community! Bernice (on the left), the founder of...

Could Bamboo Replace Steel in Concrete Structures?

Source: govtech.com Published: March 9, 2016 Flickr/aotaro The fast-growing and prolific bamboo plant has some in the construction industry wondering if its high-tensile strength and resilient nature make it a perfect fit for more sustainable building, Sourceable...

Sustainable Afforestation in Togo

Source: goldstandard.org Published: February 2, 2017 PROJECT TOGO is an afforestation project that captures CO2 emissions while engaging communities to provide long-term co-benefits in the areas of energy, water supply, health, education and social affairs . The...

Project Helps Farmers Adapt to Climate Change in China

Source: worldbank.org Published: July 13, 2016 Click here to watch “Helping Farmers Adapt to Climate Change in China”: https://youtu.be/37V_hjaOXyE About 380,000 rural households in six Chinese provinces are benefiting from a project that helps build sustainable and...

Our Forests Aren’t Fuel

Source: nrdc.org Published: February 2, 2017 A clearcut site located near the Meherrin River in North Carolina which devastated an area of mature wetland forest, as well as nearly 100 acres of surrounding natural forest. Investigators tracked whole trees from the cut...