No single building type or material will allow us to build our way out of our climate and decarbonization challenges. We need to reuse and renovate what we already have and when we do build new, we ...

In file photo: Rubison Macalalag, a father of four and a former tricycle driver before working for the Kanya-Kawayan supply facility in Nasugbu, Batangas, works on a huge bamboo pole for treatment and ...

The people of south Louisiana have been utilizing bamboo since the Chitimacha began making baskets with native river cane (Arundinaria gigantea) thousands of years ago. Around the turn of the 20th ...

CITING its many economic and ecological benefits, Sen. Cynthia A. Villar yesterday exhorted the public and all concerned government agencies to continue propagating bamboo. “The Sustainable ...

When producer Lesley Chilcott accepted the Oscar in 2007 for best documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," it was perhaps fitting that she was wearing a dress made from bamboo. Yes, bamboo. "Bamboo is ...

I know, it’s a corny joke, but what would say about a plant that can grow as much as three feet in one day (or one inch every forty minutes)? Or culms (bamboo stalks) that grow a hundred feet tall and ...

Dear EarthTalk: I’ve noticed that bamboo is very trendy right now, apparently—in part—for environmental reasons. Can you enlighten?-- Eric M., via e-mail Bamboo has a long history of economic and ...