This document discusses the potential for bamboo to catalyze creative, educational, and economic opportunities in Alabama. It suggests that bamboo agriculture could be developed in the state through collaboration between experts and local communities. Educational programs could teach about bamboo's uses for food, crafts, construction materials and more. Working together sustainably, bamboo may boost awareness, connect people, and benefit the economy and environment of Alabama's Black Belt region one shoot at a time.

1. bamboo in alabama
Bamboo as Catalyst for Creative, Educational and Economic Engagement Opportunities
one shoot at a time Black Belt Bamboost
blackbeltbamboost.org
NOSC 2012: PARTNER . INSPIRE . CHANGE www.nosc2012.ua.edu/

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a possibility for change:
could bamboo be a catalyst for a new type of agricultural development in Alabama...

3. the key could be education...
a co-production of knowledge where experts and local knowledge experts,

4. “To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.”
Proverbs and old sayings, Malaysia
work together in a sustainable manner in their community,
to bring bamboo agricultural development to Alabama.

5. BAMBOO PARK
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Phyllostachys Aurea KOI
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ABOUT
A rare bamboo that is a great
complimentary bamboo to the
Golden Bamboo. This bamboo
gives screen a splash of color.
The culms are yellow with a green
stripe in the sulcus groove. It has a
patterned striping that alternates
sides up and down the cane. It
also has an occasional leaf
variegation. It is a great choice
for a screen because it has low
growing limbs. The culm nodes
are compacted giving this species
a great look on larger canes .
BAMBOO ACRE USES
Edible Shoot s�
Container �
Screen
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Excellent
Hedg e Good
Wood Qualit y� Excellent
Crafts Good
Ornamental � Excellent
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6. vision:
People working together
in order to positively affect
its community’s economy, education,
creativity and environment
one bamboo shoot at a time.
mission: IF WE WORK TOGETHER
We are driven to boost in a co-production and sustainable way, recognizing that the creation of a
bamboo awareness in neutral place, AGORA, where experts and local knowledge experts can
our community through interact as equals, and where knowledge always entails mutual and
educational endeavors and provisional agreements, the Black Belt Bamboost project can catalyze
creative activities. connections with mutual benefits and investments.

7. INSPIRE . PARTNER . CHANGE
the VOICES: FACULTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS
FACULTY
STUDENTS Marcy L. Koontz, Ph.D.
The University of Alabama
Jamie B. Cicatiello
grace aberdean HABITAT ALCHEMY
COMMUNITY
Amanda J. Thompson, Ph.D. J. Evans Fitts, AIA
YOU The University of Alabama Fitts Architects
STUDENTS
Roger Lewis, Jr
Lewis Bamboo, Inc.
Claire Lewis Evans
The University of Alabama
Kathleen K. Nash
Blue Horizon Enterprises
Mo Fiorella
The University of Alabama
Hunter Rayfield
Liberty Recycling
Benjamin Gordon
The University of Alabama
Amy C. LeePard
The University of Alabama
Nicholas Neveu
The University of Alabama
(Undergraduate + Graduate)