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Environmental Bamboo Foundation
Third Edition: October 2005 The Environmental Bamboo Foundation (EBF) is an Indonesian non-profit organization started in 1993 by designer and environmentalist, LINDA GARLAND. The EBF strives to protect tropical forests by promoting and demonstrating the many conservation and development opportunities that bamboo offers. The mission of the Environmental Bamboo Foundation is to encourage, through research and education, the sustainable planting and utilization of bamboo in an effort to promote its many environmental benefits and protect the world’s remaining tropical forests and mangroves. Based in Bali, Indonesia, the EBF has affiliate non-profit organizations in the United States and in Holland.

Acknowledgements Table of Contents Preface and Introduction Managing Tropical Bamboo Harvesting Tropical Bamboo Planning a Treatment Center List of Tools and Materials Mixing the Solution Treatment Procedure

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Acknowledgements
Initial research on modified Boucherie Teatment was done by Prof. Dr. W. Liese, Universität Hamburg, Germany, and later adapted by the Environmental Bamboo Foundation with Don Longuevan under a grant from IESC International Executives Service Corp. Laboratory testing was performed by Koppers-Hickson in New Zealand. We thank Ben Brown of Mangrove Action Project for providing valuable help and insight during the testing period and providing translation services for the Indonesian edition. We appreciate the advise/comments made by Prof.Liese along the development of the VSD treatment. Many thanks to Emerald Starr of Sacred Mountain Sanctuary in Sideman, Bali, who used a high percentage of experimental VSD treated bamboo timbers when building his resort. Seven years later, the bamboo he used is still in excellent condition. Research & Development: