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Bamboo in Chinese Medicine
The history of bamboo and its relationship with humans traces back many thousands of years. And the majority of bamboo species are endemic to Asia and the Far East. It comes as no surprise then to find bamboo playing an important role in traditional Chinese Medicine....
How to support bamboo research
Bamboo is an amazing resource with tremendous promise. But in order for it to remain competitive in the global marketplace, we need to continue supporting bamboo research. Sure, bamboo has been around for a zillion years. (OK, maybe only 40,000 or so.) But in this...
Bamboo for ecology: Planting for a greener planet
Bamboo is widely touted as a superior resource for its versatility and renewability. And rightly so. Unlike trees that can take decades to mature, bamboo can be suitable for harvest within just four or five years. And from there it can become a building material, a...
Do not panic. You’re still a Sagittarius.
"I'm telling you, THIS is why astrology is a bunch of BS! You're telling me that all of a sudden, I'm just magically a different sign, all because some yahoo from the mid-west finally realizes that the earth has shifted? I don't buy...." Man, he wouldn't stop. My...
Gandhi on the Economy of Cotton
There's a lot of talk these days about wealth distribution and Social Justice Warriors. For many, these phrases are charged with deep and divisive political connotations. I guess you'd know which side I'm on if I told you I wrote my University application essay on...
Bamboo Wisdom: Transcendence and the Collective Self
When we grapple to understand life's most puzzling mysteries, we can often look to nature to find the basic patterns that illustrate the most complex aspects of human behavior and psychological development. As we've demonstrated elsewhere in this blog, bamboo provides...