Empowerment Bamboo!
Empowerment Bamboo has launched the preliminary website. Please take a look; this is a great opportunity for bamboo practitioners, to be a part of this new movement. WBO is collaborating fully with Ulla and her team. There will be a podcast every Saturday morning and the Online Cooperation Congress will take place from 17-19 November.
Read more...Advances in Bamboo Science Journal
There is a new scientific Journal devoted entirely to bamboo, with Dr. John Innes, former dean of forestry at the University of British Columbia, as it's Editor-in-Chief. This Journal is published by Elsevier, B.V.
Read more...Engineered Bamboo Conference Followup
Thanks to the University of British Columbia's Forestry Department, the WBO co-hosted a three day virtual conference in March, 2022 focused on the subject of Engineered Bamboo in Sustainable Construction. This was very well attended and we received an enormous amount of questions. In an attempt to fulfill our goal of answering all those questions,
Read more...En Espanol : Desarrollo Sostenible del Bamboo EBOOK FREE DOWNLOAD
Now in Spanish: This book is a timely resource with immediate relevance, providing a roadmap for using bamboo for poverty reduction and environmental remediation. Presenting over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 countries, this book shares valuable successes and failures of pioneering endeavors.
Read more...The Role of Bamboo Model Making in the Digital Era E-BOOK
This is a great resource. One eBook, ten years of anecdotes, lessons, and wisdom around bamboo architecture
Read more...IUFRO World Day 2021 World Bamboo Organization Session
On September 28, the WBO coordinated a 90 minute session of presentations by the 8 World Bamboo Foundation Fellows. The session was entitled: Promoting the use of timber bamboo as a major contributor for both global climate change and poverty mitigation. The presentations shared the group's research focused on solutions to advance the commercialization of timber bamboo.