Bayambang is a first class town located in the province of Pangasinan. As we all know, Pangasinan is popular with tourist attractions such as the Hundred Islands and Bolinao. Never heard of Bayambang, like ever! Ever!!!!!! Everrrrrr!! Arte ba? Lol. But that’s about to...

Modified natural materials will be an essential component of a sustainable future, but first a detailed understanding of their properties is needed. The way heat flows across bamboo cell walls has been mapped using advanced scanning thermal microscopy, providing a new...

Why is Bamboo Different? Forestry is a great investment that beats inflation while granting access to get hard money, has a green halo and is supported by the worlds growing demand for timber. The problem is that by its very nature, forestry is just about the most...

How can China’s bamboo plantations increase production sustainably? Will growing global demand for alternative fibres deliver benefits for farmers and communities? And do carbon markets have a role to play?This June 15-19, WWF-China together with the China Green...

What are the pros of planting bamboo in the garden, and are there any reasons not to grow bamboo? That is what’s at question here, and we hope to provide some insight into both sides of this common debate. Read on for information about bamboo benefits vs. bamboo...

In this posting we address another common misconception when it comes to bamboo farming and the development of commercial bamboo plantations, and that is bamboo’s need for regular fertilization. Under a context of regular harvesting, this statement is simply...

Bamboo Matures in 3 Years. An extremely misleading statement we come across again and again, and yet, when you talk to anyone with experience in actually growing bamboo, they'll be far more likely to confirm that under the best of conditions the time frame to maturity...

Despite the tribe of bamboo - included within the Poaceae family - having upwards of 1,600 individual species, and being split between two extremely distinct growth patterns (monopodial and sympodial bamboo), this widely diverse group of woody perennial grasses ends...

China's bamboo industry is predominantly built around a single species of temperate monopodial bamboo - Moso, or Phyllostachys edulis. Products, companies and others have been named after this iconic species, which covers more than 3 million hectares in Eastern China...

Blessed with BambooNo calamity can destroy our resiliency as Filipinos. A famous line from the speech choir entitled “The Resiliency of a Filipino” states that we are survivors “for we are as pliant as a bamboo.”   Bamboo BasicsBamboo can thrive in almost any type of...