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Bamboo, perhaps the fastest growing plant on Earth, has an important role to play in restoring balance to the planet’s climate system and eliminating global warming. Currently, the 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide produced by humankind are wreaking havoc on the global environment. Bamboo offers the quickest way to stop global warming and remove the vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Bamboo homes are a carbon capture and storage system, building green homes with bamboo will sequester carbon dioxide for a hundred years. Bamboo plantations and farms will soon become the greatest natural carbon sink and global warming adversaries. What do we mean by that? Each acre of bamboo isolates up to 40 tons of CO2. It eats carbon dioxide! The bamboo plant takes CO2 from the atmosphere and turns it into sugars, through the process of photosynthesis, then transforms these sugars into the compounds that make up bamboo fiber. The CO2 from the atmosphere is thus locked up in the bamboo fiber itself. The bamboo fiber is then used to construct green buildings, leaving the carbon within it sequestered for the entire 100-year lifetime of the building. A 1,000 sq. ft. green home built by Bamboo Living has over 15 tons of carbon dioxide locked up (sequestered) within its fibers. Each and every green home we build contributes in our mission to reverse global warming and restore balance on Earth. Bamboo is only a major global warming solution for long-term carbon sequestration when it is being regularly harvested and turned into durable goods or biochar. Biochar is an agricultural amendment made by heating organic material that is then ground up and added to the soil. All of the bamboo not used for building green homes can be turned into biochar. Scientists James Hansen and James Lovelock study climate change and consider biochar to be the fastest method of sequestering enough carbon dioxide to offset humanity’s production of carbon dioxide. How much bamboo will need to be planted and harvested to help stop global warming completely? To absorb the entire 30 billion ton carbon dioxide output of humankind, without emission reductions, would require an area roughly 5x the size of the state of Texas to be planted in bamboo. To sequester the entire carbon dioxide output of the United States would require a bamboo planted area of 174 million acres, approximately the size of Texas. Imagine the end of global warming. Imagine the earth in balance. It’s a personal decision. |
