Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Bamboo Toilet Paper?
From our friends down under:
Bagasse paper a reality
and the interesting clip:
However the use of bagasse to manufacture paper, which would seem to be a logical application for the by-product, has always alluded the industry in Australia.
Its fibres are so short there is no strength in the paper and there is no easily obtained and cheap, [...]
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Your Help Needed Now!
In a brave act of civil disobedience, Tim DeChristopher disrupted the auctioning off of public land, effectively giving it away for a fraction of its true cost to taxpayers and its true value as a natural resource.
This auction was another of The Bush Administration’s parting shots at the American people and another blow to the already under-funded and [...]
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Cool Bamboo Compost Bin.
Check out this cool bamboo compost bin!
You can get all the information here:
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2009/01/06/want-daryl-hannahs-bamboo-compost-bucket/
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Mexico To Build World’s 4th Largest Bamboo Center.
Courtesy of China View:
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — The Mexican government and the United Nations have signed an agreement to boost bamboo planting in the country, its National Forest Commission (Conafor) said Sunday.
Some 715,000 U.S. dollars will be used to establish the Center of Bamboo Technology Development in the east state of Veracruz in [...]
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