Carbon sequestration,
I don't quite recall where, but have read a story of a Japanese study of trees
carbon sequestration calculation copied into bamboo in Cambodia or Myamar
(Burma) carbon sequestration calculation trying to fiqure out whether
calculation to include to the bamboo roots and whole biomass or just above soil.

Interesting conversation, but ain't it feasible-Total mass and total carbon
fixed? Forestry Biochemist please? And bamboo can do it faster than trees. But
If I am not mistaken, unless fixed carbon is held up more longer or permanent,
then sequestration would be futile. Tress or bamboo would be just relatively
short term sequestration except uselfull in economic exhange to feed the
greed  less so for global atmospheric improvement.

However combining, fast growth biomass accumilation combine with sustainable
livelihood living off the biomass with fixed carbon embbeded like soil
improvement (anti acid rain, biochar, Activated carbon environmental treatment,
water filtration, building, etc) where the fixed carbon are held up usefully for
long term, at the same time improving the application users livelihood. It may
be possible to balance growth with actually possitive carbon credit locally.
More so bamboo, has vast range of other environmental benifits far outweigh its
carbon seqestration usefullness particularly in soil rehabitation, land
reclamation and disaster prevention beside food and medicine. Infact bamboo can
replace and substitute many other materials in technology and livelihood
applications to further reduce carbon and energy usage comparing to had those
materials been use instead of bamboo. It believe bamboo still has a long way to
go.

Its is a very bold and brave move. But bamboo has indeed show the way to
sustainable living for centuries, only now we are slowly discovering its hidden
potentials as we advance our technology, But I believe it will never be wrong to
leave it to the future generation to spell out then how right we were now and
they would do it better and faster as the technology then would be better. So
the able bodied and rich can collectively help the poor by starting now, taking
stock at the natural stand bamboo, adapt, nurture and expand them to span the
spoilt, mined and spoilt soil, restore or even recapture the land, preventing
calamities and arresting further disaster. The delima perharps, Like most
scientist facts inform well but only arts convince. 

I like the coversation, due respect to you all.





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From: a.c. lakshmana <aclakshmana@...>
To: bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
Cc: a.c. lakshmana <aclakshmana@...>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:37:34
Subject: Re: [bamboo-plantations] Bamboo and Wood


 
 
                         Dear Mr.Jeffree,
 
                                        \
       It was a great pleasure talking to you.The following points
 require further review.
presumption of 70 year rotation.
Presumption of 20%annual productivityfrom thinnings.
 
Except for the South American bamboo no studies are carried out for carbon
sequestration.
Based on its value,we can assume 45% to be the carbon sequestration potential of
other bamboos.
 
Initially it may be better to explore the potential of existing natural bamboo
resources and improve the productivity and claim the funds.
I liked your conversation.
 
Yours sincerely,
a.c.lakshmana.

 
A.C.Lakshmana, I.F.S, (Retd)
Former Secratary to Govt. of Karnataka,
House No 1, 7th main, 1 st cross
Gokulam IIIrd stage
Mysore 570 020
India
Cell : (+91) 98453 22422
 

--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Richard Joynes <rjoynes@interbam. com> wrote:

From: Richard Joynes <rjoynes@interbam. com>
Subject: Re: [bamboo-plantations ] Bamboo and Wood
To: bamboo-plantations@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 3:09 AM

Good luck Jeff! (and Happy New Year)

Some of us have been looking for these studies for years.

Richard

At 03:55 PM 1/2/2009, you wrote:

>Dear Bamboo Friends:
> We at Bamboo Technologies are looking for scientific
>studies that document or address the benefits of bamboo.
> We are currently negotiating with a Clean Development
>Mechanism for funding to develop a bamboo nursery, a bamboo
>plantation, and a bamboo farmers' cooperative. Our potential
>investors have asked for a comparison between bamboo and trees. We
>want to compare the biomass and carbon sequestration of bamboo forests
>to tree forests, in particular clumping (sympodial) bamboos to
>tropical tree forests. But any comparisons will be helpful at this
>point.
> We are also trying to determine how to calculate the
>total biomass of bamboo that can be harvested over the 70 year life
>cycle of a bamboo crop. According to INBAR, 20% can be harvest per
>year. Multiple 20% of the biomass/hectare times 62 years of harvests
>plus the final harvest and this would be the total biomass harvested.
>Is this correct? Are there any studies that show how to calculate the
>total biomass harvested over 70 years?
> We are also looking for any studies that address the
>benefits to the local farmers and villages. And we are looking for
>studies that demonstrate bamboo's ability to restore degraded land and
>purify the ground water.
> Please let us know of any studies that address these
>issues. If you can let us know where we can find these studies that
>would be even better. And the best of all would be if you can email or
>fax a copy of the study to us at: jeffree@bambootechn ologies.com or
>fax to 808-573-4855.
>Happy New Year
>~Jeffree~
>
>"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
>
>Jeffree Trudeau~
>Founder~Chairman of the Board~
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>Bamboo Living Homes and Resorts
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