May 9, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Green Living, Worldwide
It’s something of a foregone conclusion among treehuggers and environmentalists that bamboo can save the planet. We wax rhapsodically over this woody grass’s capacity to stop deforestation and replace fossil fuels. We speak in glowing hyperbole about...
May 4, 2022 | Alternative Lifestyle, Bamboo Products, Worldwide
Have you ever gotten wasted away in Margaritaville and woken up somewhere in a bamboo paradise? If you’ve ever partied in Mexico, you probably know what I’m talking about. Famous for cactus and Tequila, Mexico is replete with warm beaches and tropical...
Apr 25, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species, Worldwide
It’s natural to associate the Pacific Northwest with rainy winters, beavers, and redwood trees. When you survey the landscapes of Oregon and Washington, you’ll find they are more than 50 percent forest. And some extremely diverse forestry at that,...
Mar 21, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Worldwide
We know that bamboo has a vast range of uses and applications, in industry, reforestry, and beyond. And we can debate whether there are 1,200 or 1,400 or 1,600 distinct species and varieties of bamboo. People have been growing, eating and building with bamboo for...
Feb 23, 2022 | Bamboo Industry, Worldwide
When it comes to promoting bamboo, our small team does all it can to provide the highest-quality and most informative content on the interweb. We’ve been working in the bamboo world since 2006, but we obviously weren’t the first people to have the idea of...
Jan 28, 2022 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Industry, Green Living, Worldwide
When you go looking for answers to questions about bamboo, a lot of people come to Bambu Batu, one of the internet’s leading educational platforms for bamboo. Indeed, our hundreds of articles cover a vast range of topics pertaining to all things bamboo. But...