Jan 23, 2026 | Bambu Batu, Green Living
My love affair with bamboo started quite innocently. To be honest, I can’t tell you exactly when it all began. Perhaps it was a quiet stroll through the Japanese Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, or it could have been during a visit to the Huntington...
May 31, 2024 | Green Living, Natural Healing
Ask me why I love bamboo, and I’ll ask you to find a comfortable place to sit. Because this could take a while. But somewhere, high on the list of appealing attributes, I would mention bamboo’s superior ability to generate oxygen. And if you’re...
Apr 15, 2024 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Featured Posts, Green Living
In the last decade or two, bamboo has gone from novelty to global commodity. It’s now used in everything from flooring and textiles to construction and carbon sequestration. With the U.S. importing billions in bamboo products each year, many farmers and...
Sep 19, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Green Living
Looking for the optimal species of bamboo to save the planet? With more than a thousand species to choose from, it’s hard to know the best bamboo for capturing carbon, generating oxygen, or producing a robust building material. To select the best bamboo, you...
Aug 18, 2023 | Alternative Lifestyle, Green Living
The story of zero is a long and baffling one. The Mayans dabbled with it, the Ancient Greeks resisted it, and not until the 13th century did Europe fully embrace it. You might argue that it’s good for nothing. You might even say it’ll never amount to...
Jan 27, 2023 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Bambu Batu, Green Living
By now you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the many virtues of bamboo: its versatility, its sustainability, and its indispensability. And you’ve no doubt admired its beauty, as it flourishes among pagodas in Japanese gardens, on the patios of Thai...
