The virtues of bamboo have been explored at length now: it is sustainable and strong—as strong as maple, some people say. And the weakness of it as a building material in the Western world—that spindly shape—is also evident. Now we have to determine what, if anything can be done with such a thing. The ideal [...]

Technorati Tags: using bamboo,green products We began this with a discussion on conservation, something we tend to think of as a fairly new concept. And if we speak only of America—the country that routinely felled entire forests to make a farm—it actually is something that is new to us. The East, with its teeming populations, [...]

Having completely exhausted myself in my last blog, I found myself simply moving the pencil, writing what must surely have seemed like gibberish. I proposed planting a sustainable forest that could be grown like grass, harvested like grass, and then grown again… like grass. Well, as it turns out, we really can do something like [...]

My first thought was to title this "The Answer," but then it occurred to me that in this, as in so many things, there is no one answer. There are only different ways to the top of the mountain. What we are trying to accomplish here is to come up with something that enables us [...]