Christian Science Monitor
Based in Zambia, Zambikes employs and empowers Africans to manufacture
bicycles locally, including some made from bamboo. By Margo Conner, Global
Envision / October 17, 2011 Zambikes manufactures, assembles, and
distributes high-quality bicycles ...
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New Resources for Edible Bamboo Added to Olericulture Magazine
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The Vegetable Magazine Olericulture.org has newly included 62 resources to
its bamboo category. While mature culms of bamboo are used as timber,
bamboo can also be grown as an olericultural crop for their young and
immature shoots which are consumed as ...
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Wacom Launches New Bamboo Edition Tablets
Moneycontrol.com
Wacom India Pvt. Ltd. has announced the launch of a new line-up of its
Bamboo tablets. The new multi-touch and pen tablets are targeted at those
wanting to create personalised digital content like drawings and other
forms of art. ...
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A tale of two villages heralds a new era
China Daily
But more than anything, bamboo provides Xiangxi's economic support. There
are a dozen processing factories in the village churning out anything from
bamboo chairs to sit on to bamboo shoots on your menu. They register a
combined revenue of 100 million ...
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New store offers bamboo fashions in Pottsville
Republican & Herald
BY STEPHEN J. PYTAK (STAFF WRITERspytak@republicanherald.com) A Pottsville
man has opened a store in the city to sell clothes, sheets and towels made
of bamboo. "I don't want to sell you something that's just a trend or a
fad, something with an 'it ...
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Bamboo - the Car Material of the Future?
Reuters
By Gas 2.0 at Gas 2.0 by Andrew Meggison There has been coverage of bamboo
bicycles and cars that feature hard wood as part of the design plan. These
vehicles are great because they are light weight - a factor that is very
important especially in ...
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Students build canvas, bamboo hut in celebration of Jewish holiday
Red and Black
By SARAH GIARRATANA on October 13, 2011 Put up in the past two days, the
24-by-24, canvas and bamboo structure that sprung up behind the
University's Chabad house is for the eight-day Jewish holiday Sukkot —
which begins tonight at sundown. ...
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Foibles of fine fabrics
Edmonton Journal
By Amanda Ash, Freelance October 15, 2011 Stacey Boruk and Kyla Kazell,
co-owners of The Bamboo Ballroom, say caring for this season'sfabrics
requires morecaution. "If you're like me, it'll drive you mental," exclaims
Bamboo Ballroom co-owner Stacey ...
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Wacom's wireless Bamboo pen tablets
CIOL
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Wacom today introduced a range of Bamboo tablets. These
multi-touch tablets have wireless capabilities and offer intuitive and
versatile user experience. The company, however, predicts to grab 30 per
cent of the pen tablet market by ...
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Child crushed under bamboo pole
Times of India
New Delhi: Twenty-nine-year-old Varsha Gupta is inconsolable as she has
lost the last member of her immediate family. Varsha along with her
daughter, Bhavya, and six others had gone to Ramlila Maidan to see the
Dussehra celebrations, unaware of the ...
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