Jan 5, 2022 | Alternative Lifestyle, Bamboo Industry
The environmental benefits of bamboo are already well-known. This perennial grass grows incredibly fast and renews itself more quickly than any other crop. It produces more oxygen than an equal area of trees, and it has a tensile strength comparable to steel. As a...
Sep 22, 2021 | Agriculture & Gardening, Worldwide
Packed with a wealth of natural resources, Africa remains the world’s poorest continent per capita. And given its position straddling the equator, it deserves to be called the Green Continent. But that name more often goes to South America. Yet many Africans, in...
Sep 9, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Species
Bamboo has so many practical uses, it’s like nothing else in the plant kingdom. Beginning thousands of years ago, people were using bamboo to make paper, spears, and primitive housing structures. More recently we have discovered how to make beautiful flooring...
Jul 24, 2020 | Agriculture & Gardening, Bamboo Products, Green Living
Bamboo proponents the world over have touted the plant as a miracle cure for climate change and global warming. Bamboo’s purported capacity for carbon sequestration is one of the most important factors that makes the plant so important in the effort to save the...
