 Our world faces two major problems. By 2060, an equivalent of one New York City will need to be built monthly to keep up with the forecasted population growth. However, our current building industry is contributing 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, making that growth infeasible. While that is the future, today there is a crisis. Over one billion people live in slums and dangerous housing. One family of plants could hold the answer to these problems. Bamboo. A fast growing, strong, inexpensive and renewable resource, bamboo exhibits the properties that rival today's building materials while giving us a bright glimpse to the future. Using only one cubic meter of bamboo as a substitute to concrete and steel, we can capture over three tons of CO2 emissions. In practice, this can remove carbon at the gigaton scale while generating over $4 trillion of economic growth in 30 years. We are C-squared, a team of designers, scientists, engineers and artists. We are currently developing systems and technologies to use bamboo as a useful carbon sink. We are working alongside bamboo farmers creating open-sourced manufacturing methods and collaborative design processes. We dream of a world in which bamboo can bring housing to people, be developed into objects of design, and can rewrite our commerce system into a sustainable model for the future.