Aug 24, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Bamboo Species, Health & Nutrition
The uses for bamboo seem to go on forever. From bamboo socks for your feet to bamboo hair brushes for your head, bamboo can do it all. You can even build houses with bamboo and provide them with energy from bamboo. For thousands of years, farmers have understood the...
Aug 22, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products
Growing bamboo can be fun and fascinating. One day in spring, the new shoots will reveal themselves, and within weeks, they become towering, majestic poles. Soon, these young culms will produce a profusion of leaves. And suddenly, you have a flourishing grove of...
Aug 8, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products, Green Living
Based on the history of bamboo construction on Gilligan’s Island and in rural villages of the developing world, bamboo has earned a reputation as the “poor man’s lumber”. But as traditional forestry resources are shrinking, and the need for...
Aug 3, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Green Living
As the struggle to stop climate change intensifies, the world must find more sustainable alternatives, and bamboo is one of the best. Centuries of deforestation and fossil fuel dependency have depleted some of the planet’s most precious resources, and it’s...
Jul 25, 2022 | Bamboo Products, Green Living
The world of bamboo research is a lot like a balloon, where the air inside is what we know, and the outer surface is what we don’t know. The more I read and write about this epic grass, and the more my knowledge expands, the more questions just keep increasing...
Jul 20, 2022 | Bamboo Products, Renewable Energy
In an age of fossil fuel dependency and rampant deforestation, bamboo is something of a miracle crop. We use it as an alternative to single-use plastics and pesticide-rich cotton. It even makes a superior building material for everything from furniture to houses. But...