Could living in a bamboo home help solve the climate crisis?
Great article by the mercury news, here’s an excerpt:
Normally when you harvest a tree, you kill the tree, and it’s got to start all over. And with the bamboo, every year it’s sending up new trunks, so you just harvest a percentage of those trunks and it just keeps growing. The plants can live up to 120 years. You know how you just keep mowing the lawn and the grass keep popping back? It’s really like that — it is a grass. It’s the biggest of the grasses.
Utterly. Brilliant! Read the full article here