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Why Bamboo?

Bamboo is Versatile
Bamboo truly is a remarkable renewable resource. It is a centuries old material that has been and continues to be used by over half the world’s population for applications as varied as food, shelter, fuel and clothing. These applications make bamboo a vital non-timber, non-petroleum resource. With a tensile strength superior to steel, it is one of the most versatile and durable natural resources in the world.

Bamboo is Sustainable
Bamboo plays an important role in the reduction of timber consumption, environmental and forest protection, poverty alleviation, and sustainable development of rural economies. It is the fastest growing canopy for the re-greening of degraded lands and releases 35% more oxygen than equivalent timber stands.

Bamboo is Renewable
Bamboo is a highly renewable material. It is one of the earth’s fastest growing plants. Bamboo needs no replanting, grows without fertilizers or pesticides and is harvested from controlled stands with an astounding growth cycle of three to five years. Bamboo is not a wood, but a species of grass. There are more than 1200 species of bamboo in the world. Moso (Phyllostachys pubescens) is our preferred species for its versatility, renewability and beauty. Importantly, Moso bamboo is not a species consumed by the panda. Bamboo offers vital economic and ecological benefits to the lives of millions of people worldwide; providing food, fuel, housing, furniture, artisan products, and soil and water conservation.

Bamboo at a Glance

An enduring, fast growing and truly renewable resource, it needs no replanting.
A high-yielding, viable replacement for wood and petroleum based products.
Important economic and ecological benefits including soil and water conservation, jobs, numerous product applications and food- more then 1000 documented uses.
Amazingly short growth cycle, it can be harvested in 3-5 years versus 15-20, typical for many hardwoods.
The fastest growing plant on the planet, some species can grow up to 1 meter or 3 feet per day.
A critical element in the balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
A renewable alternative resource for agro-forestry production.
Bamboo shoots provide a nutritional source of food which can be made into bread, cakes scones and cookies.
Environmentally friendly reduction of pressure on forests through wood substitution.
Products can be made in rural environments, reducing industrial and urbanization impacts.
Bamboo is durable, sturdy and strong - harder than Red Oak and Maple.

Source Bambu.com

Bamboo renaissance design.
The industrialization of oriental cultures has introduced many changes in bamboo use there, yet the total volume of bamboo consumption has not diminished but increased. Many more people are turning to its ample capacity to serve human need, and they have devised new, mechanized extensions of ancient uses. For a number of reasons, bamboo diffusion in the West has not kept pace with the expectations of agronomists and plant explorers who have witnessed its wonders in the East —but increasing human populations make it apparent that this prolific old ally of human purposes will reappear among us.
It will be more renaissance than revolution when bamboo returns because the plant was once so intimate a part of some cultures in regions of the Americas that it was mythologized as the womb of the race. Some species were so useful that wide employment without replanting led to the virtual extinction of the best bamboos over vast areas of their original terrains. A bamboo culture in Central and South America would not be an alien introduction but a resurrection of native tradition, fortified by species and know-how from the East and adjusted to the realities of present times.
To any student of change design, a few main rocks in the road of Western bamboo development are readily apparent. Too few bamboo messengers are versed deeply enough in the cultivation and use to pass on the word to others. No bamboo farm and study center exists to train those with an interest in the plant. A number of important species of oriental bamboos have been planted in this hemisphere by the USDA and a hardy handful of botanists in government experimental stations and private groves. But there have been no skilled gardeners of history, "comprehensive, anticipatory culture design scienlists," coaxing bamboo roots deep into the daily consciousness of Western peoples. So when Sierra Club Books offered to publish a book on the plant, some friends of bamboo asked themselves: What voice would whisper closest in a Western ear? What was the method, where was a wind to shove back the clouds that smothered up the glory of this bamboo morning in the evening land?

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