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The fast-paced growth of bamboo industries worldwide brings myriad opportunities and adaptive leadership responsibilities for sustainable businesses and communities.
Pacific Bamboo Resources (PBR) offers new approaches to business and market opportunities, training programs for "green jobs" and portfolio careers, carbon recovery and off-set strategies, innovative agroforestry and "eco-industry" best-practices -- and we have fun doing so!
Our practice of vetting ideas and new projects involves working for and with PBR colleagues and clients. Our methods are inclusive, imaginative and "leaderful" (meaning that effective leadership does not reside with anyone person, but rather lives amid collective talents and experience). We aim to bring out the best of talented teams.
And, our interdisciplinary staff and Pacific Northwest and International Advisory Boards bring experience and creativity to urban / rural sustainable community and economic development in the USA and beyond.
We would be pleased to collaborate with you.
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- Bamboo is a valuable NTFP (non-timber forest product) and supports many current and future needs for sustainable raw material streams.
- As a grass (not a tree), bamboo can grow to maturity in one growing season, yielding many harvests over a typical 25-50 year tree life cycle.
- Each day, hundreds of millions of people worldwide depend on bamboo for their livelihoods -- global market value is estimated at US$7 billion and growing.
- Bamboo generates renewable crops, jobs and income while thriving on carbon and nitrogen -- and so helping to stabilize climates, soils and economies at once.
- Strong, durable, light-weight and with thousands of uses -- as food, fuels, paper & board products, housing & building materials, transportation, etc. -- bamboo offers a cost-effective complement to plastic, metal and wood materials.
- Integrating sustainable bamboo cultivation, manufacturing and marketing processes into local and regional economic development plans can be rewarding -- existing farming, logging and rural / urban manufacturing sectors (and their communities) could enjoy economic stability derived from new NTFP resources, jobs and products.
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