UN Global Compact Communication on Engagement
The World Bamboo Organization continues its support of the United Nations Global Compact.
Read more...World Bamboo Updates
The WBO has been a network of bamboo people for nearly 3 decades, when a small group of people met in Japan for an international event and determined the need to connect and organize around the subject of bamboo. We needed to cross the bamboo bridge! The result has been a growing global network of people committed to promoting bamboo.
Read more...World Bamboo News October 2020
Despite the global pandemic, bamboo people around the world continue to work hard to elevate bamboo as a vital community resource, a sustainable alternative as fuel, fiber, and building material, and an important natural resource to alleviate climate change challenges. Thousands of people are taking part in virtual webinars, and thousands of people are working via hands-on bamboo projects around the globe.
Bamboo is Growing.
To coincide with the upcoming 11th World Bamboo Congress in Xalapa, Mexico, World Bamboo is proud to announce it's "Bamboo is Growing" campaign. Special thanks to Oscar Heju for his beautiful footage taken at The World Bamboo Workshop last year and putting together this video.
World Bamboo Ambassador from Haiti Appointed
Jane Wynne of Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve joins the team of WBO Ambassadors. Over decades we have tried to help the people of Haiti with disaster relief housing and encouraging the planting of bamboo. Now, with Jane on our team, we feel we can do this more successfully. She has a long family history of caring for the earth.
Read more...How we get things done....
WBO Intern Maddie Cassidy-She is our current intern and she is a huge help. This is her last year studying Global Environmental Studies and Philosophy at Clark University (located in Worcester, Massachusetts), and she will be graduating in the Spring 2017. She loves the environment, traveling and writing.
Read more...United Nations Global Compact and the SDGs
The WBO is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact. With the motto, Making Global Goals Local Business, this is a good fit for the WBO. As a trade association, we are committed to promoting bamboo globally as a sustainability tool. We believe that the 17 Sustainability Development Goals are our "moral compass".
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Our commitment: to provide the realities, the truth, and the potentials of bamboo
At World Bamboo, we strive to provide the realities, the truth and the potentials of bamboo. We understand the complexities of bamboo as a renewable resource. While promoting the potential sustainability of bamboo, we also acknowledge “inconvenient truths” such as the challenge of certification, best management practices, and workers safety.
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