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Since the inception of the Bamboo Bike Project, intended to provide sturdy, locally-made bamboo bikes to people in Africa, the idea of the bamboo bike has flourished. Realizing that they had a native, sustainable material with incredible tensile strength like bamboo right at their hands and that the bikes built could provide transport in countries [...]
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On a continent with little access to reliable transportation but ample in bamboo, one entrepreneur has found a way to turn the material into a life-changing resource. The Bamboo Bike Project (BBP) is an initiative that “aims to examine the feasibility of implementing cargo bikes made of bamboo as a sustainable form of transportation in [...]
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For too long Westerners have thought of Africa as “The Dark Continent”. Ethiopia and its capitol, Addis Ababa, remind us of Black Hawk Down, of drug lords and pirates. Take the Hollywood spin away and you’ll find a new Africa and an Africa finding a new path away from it’s colonial past and tribal conflicts. [...]
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