The Bamboo City Project
This ambitious project is do-able and timely and hopes to become a model for other cities to incorporate bamboo into their Climate Action Plans. The project was launched on 3 December during COP28 in Dubai, led by Architect Neelam Manjunath and attended by an extensive audience, as well as the members of the project’s Advisory Action Committee.
Read more...Reduce single-use plastic with bamboo products
WBO sends a SHOUT OUT to Lè Xuän Hà of Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam. He and his family grow, harvest and manufacture bamboo products as a substitute for single-use plastic. Their company, Vibabo, is doing their part in helping the planet, while improving their rural livelihood and maintaining biodiversity on their family farm.
Read more...Why We Need Buildings Framed With Timber Bamboo
If bio-based solutions are essential to our future built environment, with an unlimited demand for limited resources, the faster we move toward growing and using more timber bamboo, the better.
Read more...Our Green Down-Payment
Hal Hinkle, CEO of BamCore and Founder of World Bamboo Foundation, says, "Timber Bamboo Can Make an Immediate “Green Down Payment” to Decarbonize Buildings in the Decisive Decade.
Read more...How much bamboo exists on our planet?
Putting bamboo on the map: There are likely to be far more than 35 million hectares of bamboo around the world. Bamboo is a ubiquitous sight across many parts of the tropics and subtropics – but until now, it has been difficult to assess exactly how much of it there is.
Read more...The Kew Declaration to protect and restore forests
The WBO is a member of Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Bamboo plantations in Europe?
Click the link to listen to a recent podcast about bamboo plantation potential in southern Europe, featuring World Bamboo Ambassador Hans Friederich, hosted by Orin Hardy of Bamboo-U. https://bamboo-u.simplecast.com/episodes/farming-bamboo-in-europe
Damyang, Korea recognized by FAO UN
We here at WBO are very pleased to see the recognition by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations of Damyang, Korea, as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS). Damyang, led by Governor Choi Hyungsik, hosted the 10th World Bamboo Congress in 2015.
Booming Bamboo
You can weave it, laminate it, spin it into fabric, even 3D print it. Bamboo is one of the most versatile materials in the world, yet it is still relatively unknown in world of design. The first book of its kind, Booming Bamboo, written by Dr Pablo van der Lugt and published by Materia, explores the most innovative applications for this material.
Bamboo promises 'win-win' after decades of tropical forest loss
As tropical forest timbers rapidly run out in Indonesia, bamboo plantations are being promoted as a sustainable solution for local communities. Bravo to Arief Rabik and his team at Indobamboo for pushing, for innovating, and for pulling in the government of Indonesia in this progressive project.
Read more...Growing Bamboo: A Private Sector Approach to REDD+
Bamboo has traditionally been an enigma for policy makers, foresters and environmentalists. Ecologically speaking, the 1,200 plus species of bamboo are part of the grass family but the biomass the plant produces is a wood like fiber, with properties that mirror image those of many traditional wood species, from hardwoods to softwoods.
Read more...Rebranding Bamboo for Bonn: The 5 Million Hectare Restoration Pledge
Last month, 40 nations agreed to restore 5 million hectares (12.4 million acres) of degraded lands and areas of low-quality bamboo production into productive, healthy bamboo forests at the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan’s (INBAR) Ninth Council Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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