News tagged with bamboo stalks
A fabric with green sheen: Fast-growing bamboo offers more eco-friendly cloth
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Anne Kai, of Lacey, Wash., owns a small, hand-dyed fabric business with an environmental slant.
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A boost for bamboo-based blouses and blankets
Apr 07, 2008 |
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Rising interest in “sustainable” fabrics is fostering a bamboo boom, in which bamboo-based fabrics are hitting the market as a leading eco-friendly textile.
A full-sized California-style home made of bamboo
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A new type of eco-friendly residential house made of bamboo now stands in Changsha, Hunan Province, China.
Bleached chopsticks warning issued
Oct 05, 2006 |
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Taiwanese officials say they've found excessive levels of sulfur dioxide in some bamboo products, including disposable chopsticks and skewers.
Bamboo instant houses will soon shelter Sichuan quake victims
Jun 02, 2008 |
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A USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor on sabbatical in China has created a prototype of a sturdy, quick-to-build bamboo house designed to help the vast number of people made homeless by the May 12 ...
Shredding corn silage could produce more ethanol at less cost
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Purdue University researcher has found a way to get more bang for fewer bucks when it comes to processing cellulosic material to make ethanol.
Truck-safe bamboo bridge opens in China
Dec 12, 2007 |
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In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges.
Study explores mysteries of Kilimanjaro
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Sep 12, 2006 |
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Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain with some intriguing mysteries that are just now being solved after more than 100 years of scientific study.
New population of highly threatened greater bamboo lemur found in Madagascar
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Jul 22, 2008 |
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Researchers in Madagascar have confirmed the existence of a population of greater bamboo lemurs more than 400 kilometers (240 miles) from the only other place where the Critically Endangered species is known to live, raising ...
Fuel from fiber -- Pretreatment can put corn stalks, trees in your car's tank
May 04, 2007 |
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"Put a tree in your tank." Fuel companies aren't touting that slogan. At least not yet.
Botanists identify new species of North American bamboo
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Mar 13, 2007 |
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Two Iowa State University botanists and their colleague at the University of North Carolina have discovered a new species of North American bamboo in the hills of Appalachia. It is the third known native species ...
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