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Fantastic! the first world wide interactive map, listing the distribution of plant and animal species has come into being on the internet. This is www.mappinglife.org/ . If you want to know the distribution of any bamboo in the world just fill in the species you are looking for in the search field. If you type the word bamboo, the database will offer assistance with the various species available from the database. This database has so far four sources of information, but ultimately its value addition will help to unite an increasingly number of statistics, from local or international sources. The map also allows to manage layers and manipulate them as filters, very convenient for a cartographic visualization.

map of bamboo distribution in the world

 

The natural anti-microbial properties of bamboo is here put forward by the company that distributes these kitchen furnitures. The company uses 100% organic and food-safe adhesives. Their website : corebamboo.com

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Finally a designer / engineer who is capitalizing on the optimization of the construction and manufacturing process of bamboo bicycle. The prototype-based plywood bamboo reduces the number of junctions and uses the ability of bamboo to be transformed, especially in laminated form. See detailed article of YankoDesign.

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Panda-02c-500Researchers at the State University of Missipi have studied the digestive process of the Panda. The idea is to extract enzimes in digestive bacteria and used them to develop improved methods for the production of bio fuel from bamboo.

The Panda eats bamboo almost exclusively and its digestive system allows him to absorb this plant difficult to digest. These high performance enzimes would achieve the objective of setting up bioreactors in which cellulose is converted to hydrogen, and, or methane.

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Triennal of International Design of Beijing

Many artistshave have worked on the theme "Rethinking Bamboo", with works inspired by bamboo or the variety of material derived from bamboo.

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Young architects have created a project in Taiwan; a curved bamboo pavilion designed to raise awareness of the danger facing the forest in Taiwan.

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bambousportA new sport of balance and gliding was born: Wu Yueming, 17, is perched gracefully on a trunk of 7.5 m long bamboo, on water, finding his balance by using a long and thin bamboo cane.

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A company in Zambia now sells bikes with a frame made of bamboo.

Site : zambikes.com

 

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Reconstitution of the prototype of a light bulb made by Thomas Edison, using Bamboo fiber. (read more)

 

A bamboo bike made through a new concept : shape design driven during the growth of the plant;

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View National Bamboo Project of Costa Rica and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki.

 

 

View Bamboo lemur and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki.

 

 

Video about the Bamboo Park of Prafrance in Europe

View Bambouseraie de Prafrance and over 3,000,000 other topics on Qwiki.

 

 

Video about craft making of Kadomatsu a pair of New Year decorations placed in front of homes in Japan. This art is being lost.

 

Another Video about Tanaka Kyokusho: a bamboo artist, a serie of 4 videos showing the work of this Japon artist

 

 

BigBambu1“You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop”. Huge structure made of Bamboo canes, built in the park of MET museum in New York. This structure symbolises the constant evolution and autonomy pf life. http://www.starnstudio.com/

 

Charcoal_bamboo Located in Thailand, promoting sustainable development, proposing bamboo derived products from the charcoal to plywood without VOC.

http://chalet-bamboo.over-blog.org/

 

Origami_BambooElegant design inspired by japonese Origami, noticed at the Re:Construct concourse sponsored by Urban Re:Vision in 2008.

http://www.urbanrevision.com/

 

Structure_Habitat_Bamboo_2This structure designed by accident with originally the intention to create a dome, reveals an original form - Iran.

http://www.archdaily.com/93922/bamboo-structure-project-pouya-khazaeli-parsa/

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