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 Why Bamboo?
Bamboo has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years in China. It
has been used in everyday life in Asia for centuries. Bamboo is a
food, a “paper like” medium for messaging, for art works,
utensils, furniture, vessels, decoration and more recently as building
materials including, flooring, veneer and paneling, decoration as
in moldings and wall coverings and pallets and shipping crates.
According to David Farrelly in his book, “The Book of Bamboo”:
- A typical bamboo has a tensile strength of 28,000 per square
inch compared to 23,000 for steel.
- In late 19th Century Europe, bicycle frames typically were
made of bamboo.
- Bamboo survived the Hiroshima atomic blast closer to ground
zero than any other life form.
- In 1882, Thomas Edison used bamboo filaments in the world’s
first light bulb manufacturing.
- The needle in Alexander Graham Bell’s first phonograph
was made of bamboo.
China has more than 1.6 million square miles of bamboo under cultivation
and is considered a great natural resource. This grass grows to 40
feet and it is a major carbon dioxide converter with has no known enemies.
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