Jan 13, 2023 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products, Green Living
The battle against COVID-19 was brutal. But according to Bill Gates, the struggle to defeat Climate Change could be much worse. And he’s right, of course. Within a year of the viral outbreak, we’d already developed a vaccine. But after decades of knowing...
Nov 23, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry
Fred Hornaday (that’s me) has been active in the bamboo industry since 2006 when he opened the first all-bamboo boutique in San Luis Obispo, California. Since 2020, he has been committed to expanding his impact and influence on a global scale. Today, I work as a...
Nov 19, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Green Living
Special thanks to Emme Kearns of the World Bamboo Organization who contributed this scintillating article. It is no surprise that governments will leave COP27 without making any significant way forward in the challenge to reign in the largest contributors to the...
Nov 16, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products, Bambu Batu, Green Living
NOTE: The following story was written by me, Fred Hornaday, in May 2007, as a publicity piece for Bambu Batu. At that time it appeared in a number of local publications. We re-published the article in November 2022 for nostalgic purposes. Suddenly it seems like...
Oct 26, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Bamboo Products
With 20 years in the industry, it’s plain to see that the demand for bamboo has never been greater. And that’s good news for those of us who are keen to see non-toxic renewables replacing synthetics and disposables. But at the same time, it’s created...
Oct 15, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Green Living, Worldwide
As the fifth-largest nation in the world by area, and the only country to straddle both the equator and the tropic of Capricorn, Brazil is ideally situated to grow great quantities of high-quality bamboo. And after decades of habitat loss in the Amazon Rainforest,...
