4th World Bamboo Workshop Vietnam Updates
The opportunity to enter the competition is now closed. We accepted pavilion designs for the competition up until 31 March, after the initial announcement on 16 January. We are overwhelmed by the response, receiving over 175 entries! The Jury has been selected, and the winners will be announced 1 June.
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...4th World Bamboo Workshop Vietnam 2022
September 16-21, 2022 in Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Join us for a building workshop, and much more! Bamboo festival within a 160hectare EcoPark, with demonstrations, exhibitions, lectures, food and music!
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.
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...World Bamboo Day 2021 #PlantBamboo
This year, to honor World Bamboo Day, the WBO is launching a new hashtag: #PlantBamboo. Since 2009, we have been celebrating World Bamboo Day to increase the awareness of bamboo globally.
Bamboo Session hosted by WBO for IUFRO World Day !
Please tune in on September 28 at 23:30 UTC for a 90 minute session coordinated by the 8 World Bamboo Foundation Fellows who will share their current research.
Read more...Welcome New Ambassadors
I'm happy to recognize WBO's two newest Ambassadors: Nguyen Manh Tuan of Hanoi, Vietnam, and Iván Platas of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
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
World Bamboo Updates
The WBO has been a network of bamboo people for nearly 3 decades, when a small group of people met in Japan for an international event and determined the need to connect and organize around the subject of bamboo. We needed to cross the bamboo bridge! The result has been a growing global network of people committed to promoting bamboo.
Read more...Arief Rabik on BBC's 39 Ways to Save the Planet
Fast-growing bamboo has gone in and out of fashion but is now being seen as a possible climate hero. Its capacity to absorb carbon is enhanced by how densely it can be grown, the speed and its regrowth after harvesting - a great advantage over trees.
Read more...World Bamboo Foundation Global Fellowship Award Winners
We are very excited to support the research of these 8 Global Fellows!
Read more...12th WBC Taiwan 2021 is cancelled
Unfortunately we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 12th World Bamboo Congress for 2021.
Read more...Lamentable Noticia: the passing of Jorge Moran Ubidia
With great sadness we learn the news of the passing of our dear friend, our magnificent teacher, our respectful mentor, our great World Bamboo Pioneer = Jorge Moran Ubidia, of Ecuador. He will be so missed.
Read more...Neelam Manjunath - Ambassador, Architect, Advocate
How Bamboo lady of India is going mainstream with bamboo use in the construction industry
Read more...Immediate Opening: Global Fellowship position
We are pleased to introduce the WBF Global Fellowship program, which will be awarded with a stipend for topics relevant to the investigation of timber bamboo and its potential contribution to mitigating global warming.
Read more...Announcing the World Bamboo Foundation
Announcing the creation of the World Bamboo Foundation, December 2020, which will annually award two prizes: the Global Bamboo Climate Prize and the Global Bamboo Community Development Prize, and establish the WBF Global Fellowship program.
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