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Isn't the whole bamboo thing just a sort of greenwashing? Sure, it grows fast, but it doesn't really grow more efficiently in terms of a resource consumption to

Isn't the whole bamboo thing just a sort of greenwashing? Sure, it grows fast, but it doesn't really grow more efficiently in terms of a resource consumption to output ratio than most other trees. Might have been here that I heard this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-bad-environmentalism-is-such-an-easy-sell-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-2/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-bad-environmentalism-is-... Unfortunately, some of the links out from there on the topic now appear broken.

specialist 8y ago
EcoPlanet Bamboo claims to address the prior criticisms of using bamboo. Pretty cool if true. http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoplanet_Bamboo_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecoplanet_Bamboo_Group http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/fsc-certification http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/fsc-certification