Q1. Let’s start by hearing your success story… What was your vision behind bamboo based baby products venture BumBoosa? As a mother of two small children and a consumer of natural products, I simply recognized a gap in the marketplace when I unsuccessfully sought out an eco-friendlier baby …
Sustainable Living – The Bambu way!
Inspiring. Entrepreneurial. That’s how one would describe the success story of this husband wife team of Jeffrey Delkin and Rachel Speth, the founders of eco-friendly bamboo housewares venture – Bambu. Bambu designs, produces, and markets handcrafted home products made from bamboo and other…
National Bamboo Mission and Wa Gi Wa join hands to plant 1000 bamboo rhizomes and saplings
Imphal, Manipur, India, May 3, 2015: Source: The Sangai Express. A four-day bamboo plantation initiative jointly organised by the National Bamboo Mission, Manipur Chapter and Wa Gi Wa concluded today at Chirik Loitongkhul, Imphal West. Around 1000 bamboo rhizomes and saplings were planted at a 2…
Kitil Farm in Kenya sowing a future of prosperity with bamboo seedlings
Kitil Farm, founded by Juvenales Njuguna in Kenya is today one of the leading bamboo plantation nursery in Africa. It is indeed an inspirational story of how Njuguna overcame the odds to nurture Bamboo farming. Today, Kitil Farm grows and sells high quality bamboo seedlings to individuals, inves…
8 reasons why Bamboo Charcoal is now being increasingly regarded as the new Black.
(1) ACTIVATED BAMBOO CHARCOAL WORKS VERY EFFECTIVELY TO REGULATE HUMIDITY. Place Bamboo Charcoal in a vase or basket in each high traffic room of your house. During periods of high humidity, excess moisture will be absorbed by the bamboo charcoal. During periods of low humidity, the moisture will…
India’s second largest state, Madhya Pradesh takes the initiative with ‘National Bamboo Expo Mart’
Nicknamed the ‘heart of India’ due to its geographical location in India, Madhya Pradesh is the second largest state in the country by area. In the month of November, 2014, Madhya Pradesh State Bamboo Mission (MPSBM) took a positive step to promote bamboo by organising the ‘National Bamboo Expo M…
Made from Bamboo, (f)route POD by Giant Grass will give camping a whole new glamorous experience
“Promoting the use of bamboo is at the heart of what we do at Giant Grass”, says the company’s website. Its latest offering is the glamourous (f)route POD – a semi-permanent structure which can be used for camping, accommodation, as a studio or meditation space or possibly used as a gazebo in bac…
India celebrated World Bamboo Day 2014
Bamboo is ecologically friendly and bamboo products are trendy, fashionable and its use will only help us live green and build a sustainable tomorrow. World Bamboo Day was declared by the Thai Royal Forest Department on September 18 in Bangkok, during the 8th World Bamboo Congress. Since then on …
Bodoland University in North East India offers Diploma in Bamboo Technology
Students seeking a Diploma in Bamboo Technology can now enroll as an ‘Add on’ course under the aegis of the Department of Biotechnology at Bodoland University. Sponsored by the Agriculture Department, Bodoland Territorial Council Secretariat, Kokrajhar. The primary aim of the course is to motivat…
Chhattisgarh state in central India focuses on Bamboo, undertakes bamboo plantation drive
Under the National Bamboo Mission, a bamboo plantation campaign has taken place in the state of Chhattisgarh – the 10th largest state in India. According to officials, Chhattisgarh will be now in a position to produce 5 million bamboos per annum. Chhattisgarh has major bamboo cultivation in…