TOPICS OF WORKSHOPS INCLUDE
Social and environmental enterprise models.
Bamboo architecture and design
Economic viability of large scale bamboo production as a building material and regenerative agroforestry.
Applied ecology and environmental history
Sustainable international development.
Political, social, cultural, and economic analysis of post-disaster zones, sociological impacts of natural disasters, and relief aid politics.
University of Virginia program planting bamboo (2022)
Students in bamboo workshop with architect Jorge Loor (2022)
projects include
Building community structures like bus stops and buildings for entrepreneurs and community members
Restoring our watersheds by stabilizing erosion areas with bamboo and vetiver grass
Reforesting previously over-grazed pasture land land with fruit trees, flowers and shrubs for endangered howler monkeys, birds and pollinators
Planting and pruning in our syntropic agroforestry plots (potentially some fruit eating as well)
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