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2010 Autumn | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach, Sustainability

Foundations for the Future: Bamboo and NGOs

Student(s):

Lyndsay Gordon

Program or Department(s):

  • Program on the Environment
  • University of Washington

Site supervisor(s):

Rachel Lazar Rhea

Partner(s):

  • Pacific Bamboo Resources

Faculty advisor(s):

Yoram Bauman, Program on the Environment, University of Washington

I researched bamboo as a resource and how it is used in various countries around the world. I created over 20 foundational documents including country profiles, use profiles, and about five other miscellaneous documents.

These one page documents were designed as outreach materials to allow PBR to more readily connect with organizations that may have questions regarding the bamboo resource. During my capstone I also researched strategies used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to be effective, with a focus on NGOs that were working in developing countries.