Bamboo In The News

• Bamboo: Green, With an Asterisk
  Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:00:00 -0700
  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
  Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:00:00 -0800
  Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo.
• Bamboo shoots and trees
  Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:00:00 -0800
  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
  Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:00 -0700
  The world's first bamboo bridge solid enough for 8-ton lorries to cross will open next month in Laiyang, Hunan Province.
• Big on Bamboo
  Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:00:00 -0700
  With just one turn off Borland Road in West Linn, motorists may find themselves in the midst of a bamboo jungle. On an eight acre parcel butting up to the Tualatin River, the Bamboo Home and Garden business shot up out of nowhere a decade ago and has been growing ever since.
• Suddenly Everything's Made Of Bamboo
  Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:00:00 -0700
  People who think of bamboo as merely the stuff of kitschy island souvenirs or those brittle, cheap window shades are in for a surprise.
• Cambodians ride 'bamboo railway'
  Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:00:00 -0700
  People in the north west of Cambodia have created their own rail service using little more than pieces of bamboo...
• Bamboo Queen
  Fri, 04 Nov 2005 04:00:00 -0800
  Marjorie Lewis takes an interest in plants and runs with it
• String, bamboo keep houses safe
  Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:15:00 -0700
  String, bamboo and wire that's all it takes, apparently, to make mud-brick houses relatively safe during an earthquake.
• A Novel Functional Textile from Bamboo-Charcoal Yarn
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:00:00 -0700
  The emergence of functional textiles as mainstream materials is sparking a revolution in the fashion industry.
• The Advantages of Bamboo Charcoal
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:00:00 -0700
  Bamboo charcoal is produced by heating bamboo that is at least four years old to over 800 degrees Celsius.
• Bicycles making the move to bamboo
  Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:52:00 -0700
  Through the years, bicycle frames have progressed from steel to aluminum to titanium to carbon and now to bamboo.
• Bamboo, a good substitute for wood timber - Expert
  Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:58:00 -0700
  Ghanaians should embrace bamboo and rattan as substitutes to timber as the nation's forest resources continue to deplete at an alarming rate.
• Bamboo flute concert set in Holland
  Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 -0700
  The arts of combat and music seem strange bedfellows, but in Japan the practices draw in part from the same source, Zen Buddhism.
• Exotic, eco-friendly flooring finds its way home
  Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:00:00 -0700
  Today, the hottest trend in hardwood flooring is not made from wood at all. Instead, bamboo - the invasive grass grown in Asia - has become the most exotic thing to hit the hardwood scene...
• Bamboo: The 'up-and-coming' fiber
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:45:00 -0700
  Environmentally friendly products have sprouted everywhere, and the trend is unlikely to wilt anytime soon...
• Bamboo is branching out
  Sat, 14 May 2005 17:53:00 -0700
  Tell someone that you're planning to decorate with bamboo, and they may wonder if you are taking your design cues from Ricardo Montalban and "Fantasy Island," with its Tiki bars and oversize chairs...
• Bamboo proposed as an aesthetic alternative to steel fences
  Wed, 11 May 2005 20:15:00 -0700
  Fences made out of bamboo around construction sites can greatly enhance the beauty of the metropolitan area, suggested the National Taiwan Craft Research Institute (NTCRI)...
• Boards and bamboo
  Sun, 24 Apr 2005 01:13:00 -0700
  Standing behind the Angklung, you couldn't see anything but Don Smith's eyes and his rapidly moving hands here and there as he played a fast-paced tune on the queer-looking musical instrument...
• Business and beauty in bamboo
  Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:00:00 -0700
  On Jim Grandy's five-acre property near Hockinson stands an exquisite Japanese teahouse crafted of cedar, mahogany, walnut and pine. The teahouse incorporates two cultures so subtly that they fuse as one. He calls his business The Bamboo Man...
• India, China and their contrasting bamboo stories
  Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:14:00 -0700
  From toothpicks to baskets, furniture to lacquer ware, mats to musical instruments, from toys to walking sticks, bamboo can make it all...
• Woman Transforms Bamboo Into Artwork
  Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:12:00 -0700
  Charissa Brock's sculptures are chameleons, sometimes resembling tall, slightly misshapen houses made of small sticks, or Anasazi dwellings rising from the earth. Shaped like seed pods, boats and lotus flowers, her pieces are constructed of fastidiously stacked chunks of bamboo and glass, bound together with waxed linen thread and displayed on steel stands. The fastest growing plant on earth, bamboo is also one of the most versatile...
• Click-clack habitat
  Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:45:00 -0800
  The smooth green culms, thick as forearms and soaring above rooftops, creak as a spring breeze fingers its way into a dense clump of giant timber bamboo. As the wind picks up, the enormous shoots clack against one another, and their mystical percussion performance finishes with a rustling flourish of leaves.
• Bamboo Boom
  Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:43:00 -0800
  While carbon fiber and titanium are today's much-hyped materials of choice for everything from sunglasses to F1 race cars, bamboo is emerging as nature's own sustainable performance material.
• Carving a niche in bamboo shoots
  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:42:00 -0800
  THE growing demand for easy-to-prepare foods has given north Queensland former cane growers Susan and Viv Stephens a chance to share their passion for bamboo.
• Strong as steel and environmentally sound, bamboo is branching out
  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:42:00 -0800
  Tell someone you're planning to decorate with bamboo and they may wonder if you are taking your design cues from Ricardo Montalban and ''Fantasy Island," with its Tiki bars and oversized chairs.
• The Bamboo Organ in its biggest music festival
  Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:40:00 -0800
  A world-renowned Swiss concert organist; an acclaimed Belgian organ and trumpet duo; a Austrian choir that specializes in 18th- and 20th-century music; and an American conductor and music festival connoisseur. From February 3 to 11, this acclaimed roster of musicians is set to perform here in the Philippines, in the countrys longest-running classical music event: the 30th International Bamboo Organ Festival. (http://bamboo.diegocera.com/home.htm)
• Fisherman survives 35 hours at sea on bamboo pole
  Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:37:00 -0800
  A fisherman survived 35 hours at sea by drifting on a bamboo pole through shark-infested waters for 100 kilometres until he was rescued off the Gold Coast yesterday.
• Bamboo clears building hurdle
  Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:30:00 -0800
  A Maui firm hopes the material will catch on for home construction across the country.
• Ask a gardner: Clump-type bamboo not as invasive
  Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:28:00 -0800
  Question: We need to plant a screen on one side of our lot and are thinking of bamboo, but friends say that's not the thing to use. What's your feeling?
• Mexican Bamboo Pioneers
  Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:27:00 -0800
  Mexico dreams of challenging China in bamboo market.
• Bamboom!
  Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:26:00 -0700
  It's long, strong and pleasing to the eye. So -- who needs wood?
• Bamboo puts India on famine alert
  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:25:00 -0700
  The Indian state of Mizoram is preparing itself for a mass flowering of bamboo - which has the potential to devastate the area.
• Bend it like bamboo
  Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:24:00 -0700
  With sophisticated designs and the use of improved composite technologies, bamboo is going places in the world of design, fashion and fabrication.