Bamboo and rattan are powerful ‘strategic forest resources’ that can bring jobs and income to millions of people in rural areas, create new income streams for communities and reverse land degradation and deforestation. But today progress toward this widespread growth is slow. It is caused by a la…
Booming Bamboo
Bamboo Star Agro-Forestry – Unlocking Ethiopia’s Bamboo Potential
In Ethiopia about one million hectares of land is occupied by bamboo forests which makes it Africa’s largest reserve of bamboo. Coupled with eager foreign investment, Ethiopia is leading the bamboo industrial revolution in Africa. Bamboo Star Agro-Forestry (BSAF), a company founded by succe…
World’s First Bamboo-Fired Power Plant to Open in Japan
A company based in Tokushima prefecture in western Japan said it will build the world’s first fire-powered electricity plant which will use bamboo as its main source of fuel. Fujisaki Electric Co. said it will be able to generate 15.8 million kilowatts a year at the plant, or enough to provide el…
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…
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…
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…
Amazing green gold architecture: bamboo courtyard tea house by Chinese architects HWCD associates
Situated in the ShiQiao garden in Yangzhou, a city to the northwest of Shanghai, the tea house is organized in asymmetric cubes and floats on a lake. Made of sustainable building materials Bamboo & bricks, the Bamboo Courtyard provides the adequate setting to a tea experience with a very uniq…
Close to nature Sound with Bamboo Speakers
Bamboo has been used as musical instruments since ancient times. In India, Bamboo Flutes are very popular and is a highly respected musical instrument. These are used by the common man in villages to highly revered maestros of classical music. Fast forward to your modern home. Enjoy the close to…
Bamboo Shoots: time to leverage its potential as a Health Food
Are you health conscious? Are you trying to find healthy, organic and tasty new recipes? Then it’s time for you to try Bamboo shoots. Bamboo shoots are free from residual toxicity and they grow without the application of fertilizers. They have a number of health benefits including improving appe…