Bamboo flooring is a growing craze worldwide. It is uniquely attractive, strong, resilient, moisture and stain resistant and environmentally friendly. Bamboo is ecologically friendly and has unrivalled capacity to capture carbon. It is a family of grass and not a tree, it matures quickly in as li…
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Numaligarh refinery in North East Indian state of Assam explores possibility of producing bio-fuel from bamboo.
Bamboo is one of the major non-food biomass resources available abundantly in North-East India and is amongst the fastest growing plants. Assam-based Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum, would soon explore the feasibility for production of ethanol from bamboo bioma…
MIT researchers working on ways to engineer the grass to create a more structurally sound building material
While bamboo has many similarities to wood as a building material, it also has very distinct properties. In-depth analysis of the microstructure of bamboo has uncovered its potential for use in composite materials with stronger and denser properties. Various attempts are going on aimed at develop…
Vihiga County in Kenya set to invest Sh10 million in a bamboo research centre
Vihiga County is an administrative region in the former Western Province of Kenya. According to Kenyan News portal Standard Digital, Vihiga County is set to invest Sh10 million in a bamboo research centre to sensitise residents on the importance of the plant and help increase its acreage in Weste…
More and more Bamboo bike projects in Ghana are gaining worldwide recognition
Bamboo does not get much respect in Ghana. Farmers see it as a nuisance to be cleared from their land. Construction workers use it to prop up buildings under construction. But Kwabena Danso thinks bamboo is worth more than that. His company, Booomers International, has been making bicycle frames …
EcoPlanet Bamboo’s Free Trade School to create value added products.
In 2013 EcoPlanet Bamboo launched a trade and training school to teach marginalized communities to create value added products from unprocessed bamboo. The bamboo trade school, located at Central American is freely available to participants and aims at empowering women as well as seasonal workers…
Return of second and third generation young people to help run family businesses is making bamboo boom again in Taiwan
Taipei Bamboo is ubiquitous in Chinese culture. Sturdy and tenacious, it symbolizes virtue. In fact, the plant has had a profound impact on the daily life, culture and spirituality of the Chinese. In the past, a wide variety of products were made from bamboo – from roof tiles and rafts, to …
Affordable Social Housing: Vietnam’s flood-proof bamboo houses is a great case study
Many in South East Asia fall victim to flooding, often losing not only their worldly possessions but also their homes when the waters rise. Vietnamese firm H&P Architects believes it might have solved this problem, by designing a new type of terrestrial dwelling that floats above the flood. T…
Bamboo Plantation & manufacturing project in Pangasinan – an inspiring Public Private Partnership Program
Located on the western area of the island of Luzon along the Lingayen Gulf and South China Sea, Pangasinan is a province of the Philippines. Apparently, some 30,000 hectares of land in different municipalities of Pangasinan are set to be planted with bamboos soon. Bamboo is one of the fastest gro…
Building a successful Bamboo Community: Kerala State Bamboo Corporation
Kerala State Bamboo Corporation Ltd is a fully owned State Government undertaking under Industries Department -Government of Kerala that was established in the year 1971. Its mission is to support and uplift the bamboo weaving and reed cutter community and today it has over 100,000 individuals en…