In the rugged terrain of rural Colombia, some of the toughest jobs still rely on the raw power of nature. This handcrafted Guadua bamboo tripod is a perfect example of that.
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Bamboo is a sustainable energy source that produces 1 kWh of electricity from 1,2 kg of bamboo. This is similar to the biomass requirements for wood products, but outperforms other types of biomass sources such as hemp, bagasse or rice husk. Bamboo can produce an enormous amount of biomass in a relatively short period of
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In recent years different technologies have been developed that allow bamboo fiber to be used for a wide range of textile, fabrics, yarn, cloth, clothing and fashion applications such as T-shirts, pants, underwear, socks, towels, bedsheets, pillow covers, blankets, mattresses, and even bulletproof vests. In truth, bamboo has always been a useful plant, as people
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In Latin America, farmers often use bamboo as beehives. Bamboo internodes (the part between 2 nodes) of larger diameter bamboo species such as Guadua angustifolia or Dendrocalamus asper are very well suited to make a bamboo beehive. A closed piece of bamboo is suspended horizontally under the roof of a house or shed, and a small hole made in
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Bamboo is used to make musical instruments for thousands of years, probably as a percussion instrument at first, but later also for wind instruments and stringed instruments. Its natural hollow form makes bamboo an obvious choice for many traditional instruments such as a wide variety of flutes, but because of the excellent sound properties of solid
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An Untapped Opportunity for Latin America Imagine if all Central and South American homes, offices and sheds would use corrugated roofs made from bamboo instead of metal or plastic, and imagine if all these roofs were produced from locally available native bamboo forests and plantations… Anybody who is familiar with Latin America knows that almost
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Marco Polo was the first to reveal the domestic value and importance of bamboo to the Western World trough his historic travels in Asia. Among many other discoveries, he described how the Chinese used and manufactured bamboo cables for towing boats. In fact, engineers experimenting for the Whangpoo Conservancy Board found out that these twisted and plaited bamboo cables
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