Rake – a professor of Industrial Design at the University of Kansas – first got the idea when he was on a Fulbright educational exchange trip to India, where he was working with local bamboo craftspeople to help them create more lucrative products … products such as bicycles. In order for the des…
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Riding towards sustainable development: Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative create & generates employment
Although Ghana is rich in physical, cultural and intellectual resources, it is also a country with traffic congestion, environmental degradation, a stark urban-rural divide, low-employment and poverty. The Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative (GBBI) is a socio ecological green initiative that addresses …