News & Events

PARQUEBAMBU in the Amazon rainforest of Peru

The goal of this project is to implement a playground with bamboo, natural, and recycled materials in the Primary School of Jerusalén de Miñaro, that will benefit over 200 children of the community. The project also aims to promote the potentialities and uses of bamboo in architecture and construction. The playground will be the result of a construction and architecture workshop involving local and international students, architects, carpenters, and artisans. Professional bamboo workers will give lectures

Interested in hosting the 13th WBC?

Interested in hosting the 13th World Bamboo Congress in 2023? The World Bamboo Organization invites Expressions of Interest (EOI) for hosting the 12th World Bamboo Congress from institutions, bamboo societies, NGOs and universities based in any of the following locations:

Celebrating International Women's Day with World Bamboo Ambassadors

World Bamboo Ambassadors celebrate International Women's Day

Bamboo Women Unite! ¡Mujeres de bambú se unen!

In Mexico, we aim to motivate the local women, who live in one of the regions with the highest gender inequality in the country, by showing successful examples of bamboo cultivation and utilization, to give them hope, a new opportunity and to raise their standard of living = to give these women tools for their personal and economic growth. ¡Mujeres de bambú se unen!

WBO Partner Spotlight: MOSO Bamboo Products

Our Corporate Partner MOSO is a bamboo company based in the Netherlands. With 20 years of experience in the relatively young bamboo industry, MOSO is a pioneer in innovative bamboo solutions for indoors and outdoors. MOSO is recognized as a global "A Brand" because of its focus on sustainable product quality and innovation.

Linda Garland, World Bamboo Pioneer

Linda Garland receives World Bamboo Pioneer Award, and honored by the American Bamboo Society for her lifetime commitment to bamboo science, utilization and promotion. Photo by Rio Helmi. Thanks to American designer Paulina Hermansen of Oceanika Living.

WBO Partner Spotlight: WooBamboo Eco-awesome Oral Care

Our Corporate Partner, WooBamboo Eco-awesome Oral Care, is based in the state of Florida, U.S.A., and was launched on Earth Day in 2013. In just over 5 years, their line of natural bamboo toothbrushes, biodegradable silk floss, and natural toothpaste has become available in almost 17,000 stores in more than 30 countries. So far, well over two million plastic toothbrushes have been replaced with those made of bamboo. Read the interview and learn more.

WBO Partner Spotlight: DICMA Trade

Our Corporate Partner DICMA Trade is an architectural firm focusing on bamboo, based in Mexico. Their services range from industrial maintenance, construction, design, with attention to both the public and private sector, employing professional and specialized personnel. We asked DICMA to share their thoughts on their successful bamboo business.

Introducing BamBook - The Global Bamboo Resources Directory

BamBook is a joint-venture project sponsored by the World Bamboo Organization and INBAR. This Global Bamboo Resources Directory of bamboo & rattan professionals will promote the many benefits of these versatile plants. We envision this a very useful directory of bamboo people – a list of practitioners who are leading in their fields, a guide to who is working in specific sectors of the bamboo world, and to whom both organizations can “endorse” as being some of the very best in bamboo.

WBO Partner Spotlight: Resource Fiber

Each of our Corporate Partners has a story to tell about their bamboo business that we believe will serve to enlighten, educate, and inspire those already in - or embarking on their own bamboo business journey! This week Ann Knight, Co-Founder, CCO and Executive Vice President of Resource Fiber, answers (7) questions for the bamboo business.

11th World Bamboo Congress to be held in Mexico, 2018

Every three years, the World Bamboo Organization (WBO) organizes the World Bamboo Congress for the public dissemination of the most current scientific and field research information available worldwide. The 11th WBC will be in the city of Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, hosted by Bambues y Forestales de Mexico, A.C. in August 2018.

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.

World Bamboo Ambassador from Haiti Appointed

Jane Wynne of Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve joins the team of WBO Ambassadors. Over decades we have tried to help the people of Haiti with disaster relief housing and encouraging the planting of bamboo. Now, with Jane on our team, we feel we can do this more successfully. She has a long family history of caring for the earth.

How we get things done....

WBO Intern Maddie Cassidy-She is our current intern and she is a huge help. This is her last year studying Global Environmental Studies and Philosophy at Clark University (located in Worcester, Massachusetts), and she will be graduating in the Spring 2017. She loves the environment, traveling and writing.

World Bamboo Day 2016 celebrated around the world!

Constructions, workshops, music, lectures, picnics, outreach and more! Keeping Bamboo Strong and expanding our voices! Go to World Bamboo Day group page on Facebook for more info https://www.facebook.com/groups/worldbambooday/

World Bamboo Day 2016

How will you celebrate? We welcome you to share a few hours with us in Washington, D.C. at the Smithsonian's National Zoo! As part of Hispanic Heritage Month in D.C., the Zoo is hosting Zoo Fiesta on Sunday, September 18. Want more info about World Bamboo Day? Watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUP9MAW6rU0

2016 Bamboo in the Urban Environment Symposium

The University of Pittsburgh hosted an important symposium which addressed the global challenges of urbanization and resilience in the face of natural hazards and climate change through facilitating the use of a bamboo. View the presentations from this link: http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/2016Bamboo/

RIZOMA PROJECT, By BAMBAS

While attending the 3CMB in Huatusco, I met a passionate young team, led by Daniel, Carmen and Jessica. Called BAMBAS, their bamboo bike community workshops create collaborative networks of diverse groups of people and communities. They see the bicycle as a vehicle of transformation in the relation between humans, nature and society. Read more...

EcoPlanet Bamboo video premiers at Sundance Festival

EcoPlanet Bamboo has had the opportunity to feature a short documentary entitled "Conscious Capitalism: Transforming Landscapes, Communities and Global Markets" on our West African operations at the Sundance Film Festival. The event was attended by a range of movie stars, prominent environmentalists and a large audience.

http://www.ecoplanetbamboo.com/ghana_video

United Nations Global Compact and the SDGs

The WBO is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact. With the motto, Making Global Goals Local Business, this is a good fit for the WBO. As a trade association, we are committed to promoting bamboo globally as a sustainability tool. We believe that the 17 Sustainability Development Goals are our "moral compass".