Apr 13, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products
These days, you can find bamboo almost anywhere. Not just bamboo plants at the botanical garden or bamboo flooring at the hardware store. You can also shop for all manner of bamboo kitchenwares, sleep sweetly on bamboo sheets and luxuriate with bamboo bath towels....
Apr 11, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Bambu Batu
Don’t be fooled by imitations. While there are several hundred (if not thousands) of species of bamboo, there are also a handful of lookalikes to be aware of, and perhaps avoided. Previously, we told you about that friendly desktop pot of Lucky Bamboo that you...
Apr 6, 2022 | Bamboo Industry
The bamboo industry is a world of gardeners, horticulturalists, architects, environmentalists and fanatics. I can check more than one of those boxes myself, as I’ve been promoting bamboo and other renewable resources for nearly 30 years. Even more fascinating...
Apr 4, 2022 | Alternative Lifestyle, Bamboo Products, Green Living
Bamboo feeds, houses, decorates, and it can even save lives. Growing up in Afghanistan, inventor Massoud Hassani used to play in raging war zones and fields studded with landmines. He and his brother would construct small spheres from scrap metal that would roll along...
Mar 30, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products, Green Living
In observation of Women’s History Month, March 2022, we feel obliged to shine a light on a few of the notable women in the bamboo world today. Of course, there are hundreds if not thousands of women working in the bamboo industry, and we are grateful to all of...
