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Bamboo provides excellent housing for humans worldwide – whether it’s a permanent structure, emergency housing or even a tree house for a weary traveler to escape into.  But who knew that bamboo could provide housing for our underwater population?  It’s not a lost city of Atlantis but “Crappie Condos” constructed with bamboo are dropping into [...]

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If you have to attend a convention on climate change, be thankful that it is in Cancun, Mexico.  The 16th Conference of Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met for one week in the resort city and spent their days enjoying the natural beauty of the area and discussing heavy environmental [...]

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Smart countries face their challenges with innovation – they answer the call for help with a plan to transition and to make the most of their natural resources.  In Kenya, they are combating a housing shortage and the plight of the tobacco farmer with one innovative program called Tobacco to Bamboo.  Using the fast-growing and [...]

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Mother’s Nature Fury raged again last week.  This time it was in the form of a severe tropical storm that hit eastern Indian states as well as neighboring Bangladesh on Tuesday, April 13th.  Striking with little warning as people were sleeping, the storms contained winds gusting at a walloping 100 km/hour with tornadoes developing within [...]

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