Bamboo Fool http://bamboofool.com Bamboo in the news Bamboo Fool http://bamboofool.com/img/fool-logo-sm.png http://bamboofool.com Bamboo in the news http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803317.html Bamboo: Green, With an Asterisk 2008-09-21T12:00:00Z bamboo Eviana Hartman 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. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080201.BAMBOOFILL01/TPStory/Environment Eco-friendly bamboo, 'vegetal steel,' gains ground 2008-02-01T12:00:00Z bamboo Joshua Goodman Forget steel and concrete. The building material of choice for the 21st century might just be bamboo. http://www.salon.com/mwt/good_life/2007/11/05/bamboo/ Bamboo shoots and trees 2007-11-05T12:00:00Z bamboo Rebecca Clarren Bamboo is a wise alternative to wood products. But there are still a few toxic snakes in the grass. http://news.rednet.cn/c/2007/11/01/1361179.htm 'Bamboo City' builds its bamboo bridge 2007-11-01T12:00:00Z bamboo Sharon Lee The world's first bamboo bridge solid enough for 8-ton lorries to cross will open next month in Laiyang, Hunan Province. http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/features/story.php?story_id=116060813817733900 Big on Bamboo 2006-10-11T12:00:00Z bamboo Nicole DeCosta 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. http://70.47.124.114/node/219 Suddenly Everything's Made Of Bamboo 2006-09-26T12:00:00Z bamboo Andrea L. Gawrylewski People who think of bamboo as merely the stuff of kitschy island souvenirs or those brittle, cheap window shades are in for a surprise. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5110236.stm Cambodians ride 'bamboo railway' 2006-07-04T12:00:00Z bamboo Guy De Launey People in the north west of Cambodia have created their own rail service using little more than pieces of bamboo... http://www1.redding.com/redd/nw_local/article/0,2232,REDD_17533_4212734,00.html Bamboo Queen 2005-11-04T12:00:00Z bamboo Laura Christman, Record Searchlight Marjorie Lewis takes an interest in plants and runs with it http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1271867.cms String, bamboo keep houses safe 2005-10-23T00:15:13Z bamboo Saira Kurup String, bamboo and wire that's all it takes, apparently, to make mud-brick houses relatively safe during an earthquake. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-28-2005/0004133781&EDATE= A Novel Functional Textile from Bamboo-Charcoal Yarn 2005-09-28T12:00:00Z bamboo Industrial Technology Research Institute The emergence of functional textiles as mainstream materials is sparking a revolution in the fashion industry.