March, 2020 - Bamboo Bootcamp - Page 7

Sustainability: Bamboo – Really the Sustainable Timber Choice?

Bamboo has much vaunted sustainability credentials – most notably it’s rapidly renewable status. Depending on climate and soil bamboo can grow 3-10cm per day! Hard and moderately durable, Bamboo flooring has exploded in supply over the last ten years. Bamboo homeware...
Bamboo: Philippines’ Next Alternative to Lumber

Bamboo: Philippines’ Next Alternative to Lumber

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Bamboo’s many vital economic and ecologic uses may yet propel it as the country’s next alternative material for lumber and as an effective greening agent to increase the country’s forest cover. Department of Environment...
Benefits of Giant Bamboo

Benefits of Giant Bamboo

LEARN A THING OR TWO ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF GROWING GIANT BAMBOO AND HOW IT HAS BEEN AN ALTERNATIVE CROP.  By Julio Yap, Jr. Aside from being a source of raw materials for the construction of houses, the production of handicrafts and furniture, and a basis for...
Growing Bamboo for Money and Healthy Environment

Growing Bamboo for Money and Healthy Environment

A.  Why Choose Bamboo? Not many people know that bamboo is a  giant grass. It is a perennial , woody-stemmed grass known for its rapid growth  and variety of uses.  It has woody  and usually hollow culms  with distinct nodes and internodes , rhizomes  and branches....
The Economic Value of Bamboo

The Economic Value of Bamboo

THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BAMBOO Not being just sustainable and eco-friendly material, bamboo also brings a lot of values to national economy. Bamboo is slim but the benefits are enormous. Thanks to planting bamboo, many life has changed, many families have grown up...