About Us
Bamboo Sur is a successful enterprise on many levels. From an ecological and social stand point it is directly involved in building and putting into action systems for an environmentally sustainable and socially conscious business. It is a part of the creation and implementation of positive and sustainable changes in the world today.
We believe for a project to be truly sustainable it must be profitable - more energy out than put in. Bamboo Sur meets all these prerequisites.
Our forests will be actively binding carbon from the atmosphere thus helping to reduce global warming. Our plantations are situated on lands that were long ago deforested and stripped of most of their productive value.
By producing Bamboo plantations in these areas we help reduce the pressure, driven by an increasing demand for exotic woods, to continue to cut virgin tropical forests. While capturing a profit from this increasing demand for a shrinking resource we are also restoring the native vegetation to areas of our land that are environmentally sensitive or not suitable for planting with commercial wood products, thus increasing
the bio diversity and protecting environmentally sensitive areas under our management.
Bamboo Sur is committed to further research into bamboo cultivation, bamboo biofuels and other renewable energy technologies. Bamboo Sur exclusively pursues projects with strong "triple bottom lines"; that is, projects with economic, social, and environmental benefits. In economic terms, projects must be profitable in order to become self-sustaining and be able to pay for the resources they consume.
A significant portion of the revenue generated must stay within the community rather than be exported abroad. In social terms, projects must at a minimum provide local employment and generate sales for local suppliers. Ideally they will do much more: depending on the type of project, employees and their families may have opportunities for education and health care that were previously unavailable in their communities.
Those who deal with the project as suppliers may gain access to markets or communications facilities that help them further develop their own businesses independently of Bamboo Sur and the presence of a successful enterprise in an area where none existed before may make the community eligible to receive government-supplied benefits such as roads, electric power, and other services which often bypass rural areas.