History of the EBPP - EBF partnership.

from THE JAKARTA POST -- THURSDAY, JULY 14, 2011 -- PAGE 21 Hope for the future: Seedlings are carefully planted on the barren slopes of Mount Agung in the hopes that they will later provide shade, block the wind and encourage precipitation. JP/Devin E. BramhallThe Environmental Bamboo Foundation (EBF) was founded in 1993 by well known British interior designer Linda Garland, with the mission of protecting tropical forests by promoting and demonstrating the conservation and development opportunities that bamboo offers.

The East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) was founded in 1998 by David Booth, a civil engineer from England who identified Desa Ban and its 19 sub-villages as one of …