Woman Quits Job to Build Sustainable Bamboo Homes In Bali
Elora Hardy left
a successful career in the NY fashion scene to build bamboo houses in
Indonesia. The Bali resident and her team have spent the last 5 years
revolutionizing bamboo construction in the belief that it is an
underused but ideal renewable resource. Hardy uses boron, which occurs
naturally in nature, to treat the bamboo and make it indigestible to
insects.
Hardy was inspired by her father, who
“chose bamboo for all of the buildings on campus, because he saw it as a
promise,” she explains in her TED talk. “It’s a promise to the kids.
It’s one sustainable material that they will not run out of. And when I
first saw these structures under construction about six years ago, I
just thought, this makes perfect sense…Why hasn’t this happened sooner,
and what can we do with it next?”
Bamboo has the compressive force of
concrete, the strength-to-weight ratio of steel, and is one of the
fastest growing plants in the world. Damage from insects and moisture
are its primary weaknesses, but if treated, bamboo structures can last a
lifetime.
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