Archive for March, 2007
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Chinese plan to peddle paper made from panda poop
FROM USA TODAY…
This morning brings us yet another story about people using feces to make paper.
A few years ago, we told you that President Bush received a box of “elephant dung writing paper, envelopes and name cards” from a visiting Sri Lankan dignitary. (This website sells pachyderm paper.) Then we heard that a Thai […]
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Saturday, March 24th, 2007
New species of North American bamboo discovered.
From the Sky Valley Journal
DES MOINES, Iowa - A new species of North American bamboo was recently discovered by Iowa State University and University of North Carolina botanists, making it the third known native species of the hardy grass in the United States. The “hill cane” was discovered in the Appalachian Mountains. It‘s different from […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Eat my plates.
From the Daily Southtown
Will bamboo, sugar cane replace Styrofoam?
March 7, 2007
By Wade Rawlins Scripps Howard News Service
RALEIGH, N.C. — When Annie and Jesse Hill shared a quick lunch of chicken and noodles at Sino Wok in Raleigh, N.C., they noticed the food, not the plates.
But the plates were almost edible, too. Made of bamboo fiber […]
