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From one grand green idea an entire movement has sprung forth on the island of Bali. First it was a bamboo green school followed by an eco-friendly luxury resort comprised of bamboo villas and now the crowning achievement in this trend is the “bamboo cathedral,” the world’s largest bamboo commercial structure. Though it’s located by [...]
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The U.K. newspaper, The Telegraph, ran an opinion piece earlier this week alleging that the entire bamboo textile industry is guilty of greenwashing its products and making false claims of eco-friendliness. I’ll be the first to acknowledge that greenwashing is a very real phenomenon that many companies from many industries engage in as a way [...]
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Growing Bamboo? It’s certainly not a foreign concept for a domestic crop. Beyond the beauty of a bamboo garden, there are plenty of reasons to grow bamboo on a larger scale, be it for research of commercial use. Jackie Heinricher of Booshoots Garden LLC continues her work in the Delta to integrate bamboo as the [...]
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For anyone growing bamboo and using it to cook some delicious bamboo recipes, welcome to a small niche of the increasingly popular local food movement. The local food movement is a “collaborative effort to build more locally-based, self-reliant economies – one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the [...]
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With the effects of Hurricane Katrina still ravaging the Gulf Coast and the blow of the BP oil spill now to be dealt with, it’s high time that a sustainable and long-term path to recovery start for the US Delta region. And that path may well be paved with bamboo stalks. Once a small niche [...]
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“From bamboo section to thin bamboo strips, it all depends on the knife in the hand of a craftsman.” And one such craftsman has taken the art of bamboo weaving to a whole new level. Danish architect Soren Korsgaard designed a bamboo house to promote bamboo as a sustainable building material. And while many have [...]
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In a country where AIDS/HIV rates are soaring and most young women have no alternative but prostitution, there is one mother trying to fight that trend. Pauline Samata, called the “Mother of Bamboo,” has made it her mission in life to raise awareness of the marvels of bamboo and to train women to make bamboo [...]
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Named the “World’s Greatest Treehouse” by the Travel Channel, these bamboo tree-houses (or “hooches”) stand among the beautiful rainforests of Rincon, Puerto Rico just miles from exotic beaches and are a perfect example of the booming eco-tourism trend. According to its website, the hooch is “an evolutionary, revolutionary building system that turns architectural conventions on [...]
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Is it possible to protect the environment and develop buildings at the same time? Many modern-day architects believe so and have embraced the movement of sustainable architecture. Focused on environmentally-conscious design techniques, the movement seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by enhancing efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and [...]
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The word tourist often evokes a negative image – the Hawaiian shirt, Clark Griswold and his inept world travels, the bulging camera around the neck and map in hand. But many modern tourists defy that stereotype as they seek out more authentic travel experiences, preferring to go off the beaten path and interact with the [...]
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If you’re living an eco-conscious lifestyle these days, you put out your recycling each week, dispose of any chemical wastes from your house properly, and you seek out organic options when you shop for groceries. But if you’re doing all of these earth-friendly activities wearing a cotton t-shirt, you could be hurting the environment more [...]
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“King Cotton” – For generations that slogan personified the Southeastern United States reliance on cotton as the predominant cash producing crop. Well, the “King is Dead; Long Live the King” – Bamboo. Actually, before the coronation, a few things need to be put into place to ensure bamboo’s ascendancy to cotton’s throne. Rest assured, King [...]
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Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant on earth, period. Back in 2005, it was estimated that there were approximately 37 million hectares of bamboo resources on our planet. As coincidence would have it—when I went to Google to convert the hectares to acres, I ran across this—“Over the last five years, the world suffered [...]
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