In 1995, we built the first bamboo houses in the United States for Kutira and Raphael at the Maui Eco Retreat, pictured below. Today, 28 years later, those incredible bamboo homes are still standing strong and have welcomed thousands of visitors throughout the years, enchanting guests with the beauty and longevity of our bamboo homes. 28-year-old lanai at the Maui Eco Retreat. We formed Bamboo Living in 2003 to meet the growing demand for bamboo homes. It was tough at first to convince people that bamboo homes could handle Hawaii's challenging conditions, so we offered a 20-year warranty to p ..read more

Dear Friends, I started Bamboo Living to provide a beautiful alternative to cutting down trees to build homes. I started a second company called RIZOME to address the climate crisis. RIZOME is planting giant clumping bamboo to rapidly drawdown CO2 and then locking that CO2 up in dimensional building materials. We recently signed our first carbon credit contract to drawdown millions of tons over the next decade. For the sake of future generations and life on earth, we need to expand that drawdown to billions of tons of CO2 as quickly as possible. A conversion of 12.8% of global construction to ..read more

Our sister company RIZOME is leading a new bamboo movement! RIZOME is on the path to make engineered bamboo lumber the go-to construction material around the globe. RIZOME is currently planting thousands of acres of bamboo in one of the largest carbon sequestration projects on the planet. This monumental effort will make history for climate change, and they need your help to make it happen! You can view the crowdfunding campaign here! RIZOME’s mission is to sequester 10 gigatons of CO2 by 2050 by making bamboo engineered lumber a major climate-positive global construction material. Your invest ..read more

Dear Bamboo Enthusiasts, I am excited to let you know about an important project I have been working on for some time. As you know, I have a long-term commitment to protecting the environment, and 25 years ago, those green-focused ideals led us to create Bamboo Living. Today we’re announcing Bamboo Living’s sister company, RIZOME. RIZOME is implementing one of the most powerful strategies for addressing the climate crisis by developing engineered bamboo products as replacements for wood, concrete, and steel. As Bill Gates notably said: “The number of buildings in the world is going to d ..read more