Yogesh is an agricultural entrepreneur who started Bamboo India, a company that makes bamboo-based eco-friendly products. The company has engaged farmers from the village Velhe, near Pune in Maharashtra, to manufacture products like toothbrushes, speakers, clothing pegs, desk organizers, utility …
Success Stories
Inspiring Story from Uganda: She Quit Real Estate to Grow Bamboo
Inspired by reading and watching news on climate change, Divine Nabaweesi quit being a real estate agent to start a social enterprise business of Bamboo growing. She says the turning point was after she lost interest and passion of continuing as a real estate agent – a job she held for seve…
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…
Bamboo toothbrushes – servicing hygienic & environmental needs
Every time we visit a dentist, he or she will invariable tell us how essential it is to brush our teeth well. The dentist will also recommend replacing our toothbrushes regularly for a healthy dental care. Now consider this – assuming we replace our toothbrushes once in every three months and if …
8 reasons why Bamboo Charcoal is 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…
Mixing the right technology with local skills – VEDHA driving the future of bamboo furniture
Institute of Village Enterprise Development For Handicraft Artisans – that’s what VEDHA stands for. It was started in 1990 when a select few recognised the attributes of bamboo as being an ecologically friendly resource with great engineering properties. They embarked upon a journey – explo…
Bamboo Floor Tiles made in the state of Tripura in North East India is headed for European market
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…
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…
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 …