Bamboo In The News

• Bamboo: Green, With an Asterisk
  09-21-2008
  Bamboo seems like an environmentalist's dream come true. It's a self-regenerating plant that grows so fast (without pesticides and with little water) that it's considered a weed, and it can be used to make products from furniture to coffee filters.
• Eco-friendly bamboo, 'vegetal steel,' gains ground
  02-01-2008
  Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo.
• Bamboo shoots and trees
  11-05-2007
  Bamboo is a wise alternative to wood products. But there are still a few toxic snakes in the grass.
• 'Bamboo City' builds its bamboo bridge
  11-01-2007
  The world's first bamboo bridge solid enough for 8-ton lorries to cross will open next month in Laiyang, Hunan Province.