As of this week
The coastal Caribbean community of Punta Brava on the shores of Lake Izabal, Guatemala has been chosen to host the 5th World Bamboo Workshop from 26-29 October this year. This village is a living example of how bamboo can help develop and sustain climate-resilient communities.
Read more...Our beloved mentor, teacher, scholar, gentleman, friend, Dr. Walter Liese, has passed away. To many of us, he was like a father or a grandfather, helping and critiquing us as we searched for knowledge in understanding bamboo. Fortunately he lived a very long life to the age of 97, working until the end, to understand all he could about bamboo, too.
Read more...Just as #bambooisgrowing, our World Bamboo Ambassador corps is growing, too! Staying on top of the newest technologies, opportunities, projects, potentials and research is a daunting task, and the only way it can be accomplished is with dedicated teamwork. WBO is fortunate to have this committed team of people who work independently yet collectively to support our mission to promote the sustainable utilization of bamboo on the planet.
Read more...The ”European Bamboo Expo” is the first bamboo trade exposition in Europe and aims to be Europe’s leading fair, open to the general public, and a meeting platform for professionals, stakeholders, and decision-makers from the bamboo sector in Europe and around the world.
Read more...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...The Taiwan Forestry Bureau is to host the 2024 World Bamboo Congress in Taoyuan, after the event was postponed and then canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Forestry Bureau said yesterday. The nation’s bid to host the conference is part of the bureau’s bamboo industry revival program that is being implemented from this year to 2025.
Read more...A short film made by Santosh Oinam featuring the 4th World Bamboo Workshop held 16-21 September in Phu An Bamboo Village, Vietnam, 2022.
Read more...The focus of this workshop was to reveal the potentials of bamboo as a sustainable resource, a biomaterial that can - while providing us with healthier buildings - also heals the planet’s wounds. It can rehabilitate the environment that we humans have harmed and provide a nutritious food to feed our expanding population on this planet.
Read more...The Bamboo Pioneer Award: This initiative was started in 2009 at the 8th WBC in Bangkok. It is rooted in gratitude and in giving recognition. The Bamboo Pioneer Award is a small gesture by the World Bamboo Organization, yet very important to me
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...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...Together, we motivated farmers to plant bamboo and assisted communities to establish community bamboo plantations to contribute to mitigating the excesses of climate change in the transitional zone of the country. We established a 10-hectare bamboo agroforestry demonstration farm and a bamboo nursery where farmers could easily get assess to bamboo seedlings to plant. Our ambition was to gradually turn slash and burn farmers to “Bamboo Agroforesters.”
Read more...The World Bamboo Organization is pleased to be part of Imagine Bamboo, a brand new, ambitious public art project produced by Imagineer Productions, as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival. Imagine Bamboo has been labeled a World Bamboo Landmark event.
Read more...I was selected as one of eight fellows of the World Bamboo Foundation’s Fellowship 2021/22. The Fellowship supported me to explore the implication of silviculture management of bamboo on timber development in developing counties.
Read more...A few of the world's experts in building with bamboo came together to share their knowledge earlier this month in the Engineered Bamboo for Sustainable Construction Conference sponsored by The University of British Columbia, Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University, and the World Bamboo Organization.
Read more...Bamboo is known for its amazing growth. Some species manage growth spurts of 35 to 40 inches in a day and others reach heights of 80 to 100 feet when fully grown. But its fastest and most impressive growth is currently happening in every corner of the world as it finds its innumerable are being discovered and employed in myriad ways.
Read more...April 22, 2022 Earth Day #Invest in our Planet
Read more...We are pleased to announce an international conference on Engineered Bamboo for Sustainable Construction 2022, organized jointly by the University of British Columbia, the World Bamboo Organization and Zhejiang Agricultural and Forestry University. May 17-19, 2022
Read more...WORKSHOP REGISTRATION OPENS 1 APRIL... Please go to the website for all details regarding pricing, inclusions, etc. Speakers and program details coming soon! Post-workshop tours, accommodation options and more exciting news will be posted 15 June.
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