Going Green With Bamboo

Bamboo has been a central part of many cultures throughtout history. This is especially true in Asian countries. Chinese farmers may have lived in bamboo houses, sat in bamboo chairs, and eaten food stored and prepared in bamboo containers. They would have used bamboo mats for flooring, beds, and covers. Sandals would have been made from bamboo and hats woven from split bamboo. The farmer's livestock would have been in bamboo cages and pens and other bamboo enclosures Bamboo shoots make up part of the farmets diet and meals weere eaten with bamboo chopsticks. A fisherman might use a raft made from bamboo with bamboo ropes and sails of bamboo mats. Tools would have been made from bamboo or used bamboo as handles.
Today things have changed but bamboo is still used in the same way in many cultures. Hundreds of new uses have been found for bamboo and no other plant has impacted so many cultures in so many ways over such a long period of time.
All kinds of constructon is done with bamboo. Domes, tea houses, roof tiles, gutters, chopping boares ladder, concrete reinforcement, scaffolding, pergolas, temples, gazebos, shade pavilions, garden trellises, baskets, scaffolding, towers, churches, barns, pig pens, fish traps, piers, retaining walls, chicken pens, play structures, ladders, shelves, etc. We could go on for a long time. But today something new is happening. Bamboo is being seen as an important part of the "green" solution to climate change as well as being a quickly renewable resource. In the last several years bamboo flooring has literally flooded the hardwood floor market. It is advertised everywhere and there are many different types and looks. I've hsd many inquiries about bamboo as a raw material for flooring. Bamboo cloth is being used to make shirts, socks, yarn, towels - even diapers. The cloth has a feel of silky cotton. It is a type of rayon made from the raw material of the bamboo canes. Bamboo has been used in the construction of furniture for centuries. New materials such as bamboo laminates and bamboo plywood allow new designs that depend of the inherent strength of bamboo wood. Bamboo has always been used for building construction but inspired architects are designing beautiful homes, pavilions, and outdoor displays that play on the versatility of bamboo as a building material. New ways of attaching bamboo poles together have improved the strengths of loadbearing joinst and made it possible for people to assemble then without special skills. Who knows where the next bamboo revolution will happen.

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