World Bamboo Organization

We aren't sure whether this piece of news celebrates the ongoing spread of bamboo throughout the world or if it is even worthy of announcement, but the news that the LEGO Group has launched a lucky #bamboo in their "Botanicals" line seemed something we couldn't just ignore. Coming soon to a toy department near you. (Note: Close examination has revealed the product contains no natural bamboo. Indeed, lucky bamboo isn't even bamboo, so there's that little bit of weird, too.) #luckybamboo #lego #toys #marketing https://lnkd.in/gqgbH5ur Fred Hornaday Akash Chandra Swarnendu Sarkar Vine Wang

Well, it's official!! The #Philippines has set a new #GuinnessWorldRecord for simultaneous #bamboo planting! They set the goal, spread the word, shared the joy, and broke the record! A fantastic 2,305 planters showed up at 19 locations across mainland Mindanao and Leyte province responding to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) initiative. The purpose was to highlight bamboo's role in promoting a #circulareconomy, #climateresilience, and #sustainabledevelopment. One of the outcomes, aside from the amazing number of new bamboo plantings, is the call to lawmakers from DOST Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. to create policies supporting a circular economy framework, using bamboo as a key example. "We must love our #environment as much as we love our children, ensuring they live in a healthy, peaceful, and stable place," Solidum said. Susanne Lucas David Sands Bryan Benitez McClelland Guillermo Mortera Santosh Oinam Linh Tran Luis Felipe Lopez Munoz Mauricio Mora Markus Roselieb Ximena Londo?o Bernice Dapaah Edouard SHERWOOD Shibata Shozo Yoshihiro Yamagishi Peter Van Lengen Neelam Manjunath Munir Vahanvati Jennifer Snyders Vinc Math Tuan Nguyen Nirmala Chongtham Jed Long li fang Tania Cerron Guilherme KorteHans Friederich Arief Rabik Iván Platas Martínez Katia Sei Fong Anelizabete Alves Teixeira Avery Chua Delphine Abadie Jean-Luc Kouyoumji Maira Bisquett Chang michel Abadie Olav Bruin Pablo van der Lugt Rebecca Reubens, PhD

A #BambooWorkshop is coming to #Florida in January, 2025, to celebrate the publication of Bamboo Architecture Unboxed, by Jorg Stamm and Munir Vahanvati! Join the authors at the Tropical Bamboo Nursery & Gardens in Loxahatchee, Florida from January 18th through the 25th, 2025, for one of bamboo’s most engaging events and to celebrate their new book. Developed as hands-on construction events, international Bamboo Workshops have inspired hundreds of participants around the world. Eager to learn techniques developed by experts, participants take home not only their enthusiasm for bamboo, but also the skills and knowledge needed to build their ideas into something real. Participants always leave Bamboo Workshops inspired and this one will be extraordinary! Workshop leader and bamboo expert, Jorg Stamm came to bamboo through training in traditional German #carpentry and technology. For the past thirty years, he has lived in Columbia where his carpentry knowledge enhanced his work with the giant timber bamboo, Guadua Angustifolia. While working in Bali with John Hardy and Linda Garland in the early 2000s, Jorg’s South American knowledge met with Balinese practices. The result is a hybrid of knowledge and skills that continues to impact bamboo construction around the world. ? Munir Vahanvati came to work with bamboo through his training as an architect. Following graduation, India’s National Institute of Design offered an opportunity to collaborate with traditional bamboo craftsmen in Northeast India. That experience, exploring traditional techniques while sharing contemporary design principles, set Munir’s career path which has focused on empowering communities to embrace #sustainability by engaging them in hands-on learning, inspiring them with good #design, and building their relationship with the natural materials around them. Munir is a co-founder and Design Director of the Melbourne based Giant Grass design studio. He serves as a World Bamboo Ambassador. To register for the event, https://lnkd.in/gwjnEC28. #architecture #bamboo #skills Avery Chua David Sands Guillermo Mortera Maurice Mora Peter Van Lengen Guilherme Korte Anelizabete Alves Teixeira Katia Sei Fong Maira Bisquett Chang Tania Cerron Luis Felipe Lopez Munoz Ximena Londo?o Hector Archila Jennifer Snyders Jed Long Susanne Lucas

#Climatechange is easy to ignore when its personal impacts are so minimal we still believe reusable shopping bags make a difference. But greater percentages of the world's population are experiencing climate impacts personally as weather events unimaginable ten years ago suddenly impact their homes, families, livelihoods, neighborhoods, and access to health, food, and shelter. Suddenly, #extremeweather events – rain, hurricanes, flooding, extreme snow events, avalanches, wildfires, power outages, or drought, to name some recent ones – while still hard to imagine, must be considered possibilities, even in places they have never previously been experienced by humans. In July 2018, torrential rains and consequent flooding hit #Japan, destroying close to 7,000 homes, killing 237 people and injuring over four hundred others. The most devastation occurred in the Mabi town area of the Kurashiki city region where the deluge connected two adjacent rivers and flooded the entire area. The impact of subsequent earthquakes in the region raised damage costs to US $9.86 billion, a figure that doesn't factor in healthcare costs accrued by those injured in the events. Out of the devastation arose the Mabi recovery project designed to address weaknesses in a system built before extreme climate change required consideration. Improvements have increased flow in existing rivers thereby ensuring adjacent river systems remain separate during extreme weather events, widening #levees, and increasing the speed with which #drainagesystems are able to clear overflow. Each enhancement was designed to improve the area’s ability to manage extreme weather situations at a local level, thereby protecting lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure. One element of the recovery project addresses and honours the reality that the extreme flooding event of 2018 has already changed the community and those whose lives were affected by it. The Mabi Reconstruction Disaster Prevention Park in Kurashiki City is built where a levee fell during the torrential onslaught, an event that exacerbated the extensive trauma faced by the region and its inhabitants as unconstrained storm waters swept through the city. Bamboo Gate, designed by KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES and created with input from the local community, visually links the water of the Oda river with the mountains through a dramatic archway the distinguishing space designed for gathering from space designed for emergency storage. The undulating design exploits the flexibility of #bamboo, laid throughout in cascading waves that seem to lap over one another. It is a reminder of its conceptual birth in the waters that have now receded, the memories of which will outlast a generation. All photos @Kawasumi-Kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office. Ash [Asude] Chandan Clare N. Lukorito David Doria Córdova Ezekiel Olakanmi Eva Samalea Ewe Jin Low Greta Guillermo Jaime Nicole Pablo Ar.Ganesh Rowland Gaurav Wangui

Thomas Kessler Lotte Schou Zibell Graham Clark Guillermo Mortera Guilherme Korte Eufran Amaral michel Abadie Let’s make this happen: #nextgenerationbamboo

Thank you, World Bamboo Ambassador Rebecca Reubens, PhD, for raising understanding about the challenges encountered by designers who work with bamboo when negotiating the sale of their pieces, often pressured to reduce prices because it's "just" bamboo. As you've noted, #bamboo has beauty, resilience, and strength equal to what wood can offer in a variety of applications. Raising the bar by challenging consumers to evaluate an item's #value due to its design and craftsmanship is an important way to draw attention to bamboo and validate its presence on the global stage. That Design Mumbai, India's first international #design show, chose to feature your #furniture pieces on the cover of its brochure is evidence that the world is ready to take notice! Congratulations on that awesome placement! Katiane Fátima de Gouvêa ???????? David Sands Eva Samalea Ewe Jin Low Frederick Murrell Ar.Ganesh P Harimkar Julia Washbourne Juan Pablo Martínez Mansilla Rowland Sauls Yoshihiro Yamagishi Vickey Wang

The US Secretary of State’s twenty-fifth annual Awards for #CorporateExcellence were announced yesterday. The World Bamboo Organization congratulates RIZOME BAMBOO Philippines, one of six recipients, which accepted the award for #Climate #Resilience. We also congratulate David Sands, Rizome’s Founder, and Chief Product Officer. Mr. Sands also serves as a Rizome Director and is a World Bamboo Ambassador. It is Rizome’s pioneering work in the #construction industry that has led to its recognition by the Secretary of State in the field of climate resilience. With innovative technologies, the company, using fast-growing bamboo, has developed engineered alternatives to high-carbon-footprint #construction materials such as concrete and steel. Rizome provides bamboo slats, veneers, panels, laminated veneer lumber and laminated strand lumber to the construction industry.? Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez of #Philippines was at the ceremony and congratulated Mr. Sands for taking the lead in climate resilience. In The Philippines, bamboo’s resilience, durability, and flexibility have made it a national symbol for the Filipino spirit of resilience and thus provides this year’s award a dual significance for the country and the company. (Photo credit: Embassy of The Philippines; David Sands, Center; Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez, to Mr. Sand's left) Susanne Lucas Bryan Benitez McClelland Guillermo Mortera Santosh Oinam Linh Tran Luis Felipe Lopez Munoz Mauricio Mora Markus Roselieb Ximena Londo?o Bernice Dapaah Edouard SHERWOOD Shibata Shozo Yoshihiro Yamagishi Peter Van Lengen Neelam Manjunath MARTIN MORTERA Munir Vahanvati Jennifer Snyders Vinc Math Tuan Nguyen Nirmala Chongtham Jed Long Tania Cerron Guilherme Korte Hans Friederich michel Abadie Arief Rabik Iván Platas Martínez Avery Chua Maira Bisquett Chang Pablo van der Lugt Olav Bruin Katia Sei Fong

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