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Making a sustainable livelihood from bamboo shoots

Vietnam News 23 Jan 2026
From the forested hills of Sơn La, ethnic minority women are turning bamboo shoots into a stable livelihood ... Overexploitation of forests has made wild bamboo shoots increasingly scarce, leaving household incomes precarious.
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Schools, airports, high-rise towers: architects urged to get ‘bamboo-ready’

The Guardian 22 Jan 2026
An airport made of bamboo? A tower reaching 20 metres high? For many years, bamboo has been mostly known as the favourite food ...
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Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready'

Slashdot 22 Jan 2026
An airport made of bamboo? A tower reaching 20 metres high? For many years, bamboo has been mostly known as the favourite food of giant pandas, but a group of engineers say it's time we took it seriously as a building material, too.
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The New Miami Restaurants Reshaping the City’s Culinary Scene

New York Observer 22 Jan 2026
When it comes to America’s leading food cities, Miami hasn’t always been part of the conversation ... Japanese culture is evident throughout the space and cuisine, from the art on the walls, to the bonsai and bamboo trees and the minimalist furniture ... .
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2,000-Year-Old Bamboo Texts Reveal Earliest Chinese Writings on Horses

Greek Reporter 21 Jan 2026
Bamboo slips scroll in Han Dynasty ... Newly analyzed bamboo texts dating back over 2,000 years have uncovered what researchers call the earliest known Chinese writings focused on horse care and management.
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Beyond bamboo diplomacy: Vietnam’s era of national rise in a volatile world

The Jakarta Post 21 Jan 2026
V. ietnam’s contemporary political development is best understood as a sequence of distinct phases, with the strategic imperative of each determined by historical circumstances ... .
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Bamboo: beloved backyard feature or Auckland’s quiet green invader (City of Auckland)

Public Technologies 20 Jan 2026
Bamboo has a reputation problem ... Originally from South America and Asia, bamboo is one of the most extraordinary plants on earth, with more than 1,400 species ... Running bamboo - a pest plant in Auckland ... Bamboo doesn't spread by birds or wind.
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Bamboo Bioproducts Ltd test plots show resilience in the face of Hurricane Melissa - Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer 20 Jan 2026
In test plots across western Jamaica, bamboo clumps bent under ferocious winds, absorbed torrential rain, and then within weeks began to recover ... bamboo pulp mill planned for Friendship, Westmoreland.
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Bamboo school furniture program to improve learning spaces for students, teachers

The Philadelphia Inquirer 19 Jan 2026
... and chairs, as the Department of Education (DepEd) rolls out bamboo-made school furniture as part of its regular classroom support.
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DepEd to roll out bamboo desks in schools for sustainable furniture

The Manila Times 19 Jan 2026
THE Department of Education (DepEd) will start distributing bamboo desks in selected schools next month. Executive Order 879, Series of 2010, mandated "a 20 percent bamboo allocation for school furniture."
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World’s first bamboo structural guide aims to unlock low-carbon buildings worldwide

Interesting Engineering 19 Jan 2026
Engineers from the University of Warwick have led the creation of the world’s first structural engineering manual for bamboo, a milestone aimed at accelerating low-carbon construction globally.
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Researchers publish first comprehensive structural engineering manual for bamboo (The University of Warwick)

Public Technologies 19 Jan 2026
University of Warwick engineers have led the creation of a significant milestone manual for bamboo engineering, which will drive the low-carbon construction sector ... It is the first structural engineering manual for bamboo in the world.
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