Most people have no idea what it takes to make the kind of ultra-soft toilet paper we use in our homes every day. The fact is that most of it comes from virgin, old-growth forests. And we think that’s a treasure too precious to be flushing down the toilet. Thankfully, we now have the option of using bamboo toilet tissue, equally soft but infinitely more sustainable.
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Genus Yushania: Open clumping bamboo of the highlands
Yushania is a genus of temperate bamboo with dozens of medium-sized, thornless species found in the highlands of Central Asia and Africa. The most widely accepted systems of taxonomy place about 70 species in this genus, but not all authors agree. Many of these bamboo...
The Bamboo Institute of Timor-Leste
The Bamboo Institute of Timor-Leste is at the forefront of a movement that merges environmental sustainability with community empowerment. In a country where rural communities face significant economic challenges and environmental degradation is a pressing issue, the...
Dendrocalamus hamiltonii or Hamilton’s bamboo
Dendrocalamus hamiltonii is a large clumping bamboo native to southern Asia, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, southern China, and Southeast Asia. Culms are thick and strong, but not perfectly straight, so they may have industrial applications, but are not ideal...