The Radical Case for Growing Huge Swaths of Bamboo in North America
The grass has a bad rap in the U.S. as an invasive nuisance, but the plant can quickly sequester at least double and maybe even six times the amount of carbon as a similar stand of trees.
By Audrey Gray
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This report was made possible in part by the Fund for Environmental Journalism of the Society of Environmental Journalists.
As a kid, Lauren Lydick would pack up a towel, a
Harry Potter book, and head out alone into the bamboo groves. As a teenager, she took a blanket,
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