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Pacific Bamboo Resources (PBR) brings together an international community of citizens, students and professionals, and leaders in government, business and academics to pursue new ideas for resilient food and resource systems, and related sustainable community and economic development.
Not solely a bamboo venture, PBR programs reflect
creative social work for effective social change:
- we reach rural communities and with them design robust agroforestry guilds to restore landscapes, produce foods and valuable perennial resources, and create new employment paths;
- we spot urban "greyfields" (or abandoned properties) and collaboratively redesign them in support of community food systems, cottage industries, and simply fun places to meet and re-connect; and
- we engage un/under-employed citizens in educational programs to connect their skills, interests and aspirations to emerging "green job" fields and opportunities;
- we support interdisciplinary academics and student learning via our Sustainability Internship program, which provides a forum for collaborative projects and research inquiries across social, economic and ecological fields of study.
- we share ideas and design systems for creating innovative products and services to support local sustainable community development.
Since 2004, PBR has been active in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and internationally. Join our interdisciplinary team -- and help us connect your community with our practical programs!
We enjoy our exciting work and would enjoy working with you!
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Why bamboo as a "catalyst" for sustainable development?
- 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$10 billion and growing.
- Bamboo agroforestry generates renewable crops, jobs and income -- and so helps 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 bamboo agroforestry, value-added manufacturing and marketing processes with local and regional economic development plans can be rewarding -- existing farming, logging and rural / urban manufacturing sectors (and their communities) could benefit from new NTFP resources, jobs and products.
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Reflections on a Growing Local Food Movement
World Bamboo Day 2010
