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New Book Brings Traditional Asian Style to Contemporary Living and Shows How to Bring Bamboo Creatively Home

By Anonymous





Bamboo Style (Gibbs Smith, Publisher; $39.95 hardcover; ISBN 1-58685-092-X; 8 ½ x 10 in; 176 pp; 150 Color Photographs; July 2002) creatively shows how every room of the house can be designed, decorated or accented with sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material and accessories.

Bamboo is flexible, strong, beautiful, simple, elegant, renewable, sustainable, and best of all affordable. It is highly versatile, requiring little care yet having an appeal that can change an ordinary setting into an exotic oasis. Bamboo is sacred,” explains author Gale Beth Goldberg, it embodies the interconnectedness of all life on this planet.”

While this book provides a basic introduction to the extensive and deeply rooted role that bamboo plays for more than half of the globe population, and outlines traditional and historical uses of bamboo in Asian cultures and other Pacific Rim populations, its main thrust is on bamboo in contemporary environments, both indoors and outdoors.

For do-it-yourselfers, the bamboo projects in this book – from a simple ladle to a more complex pergola for the garden – will inspire you to create more designs of your own. In addition, the sourcebook facilitates connections to designers, manufacturers, artists, suppliers, and organizations that present bamboo as a cosmopolitan material for our time.

Gale Beth Goldberg received her master degree in architecture from MIT and her undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has been a practicing architect for twenty years. Because of her commitment to educate and teach people about bamboo and its many uses, a percentage of the sales from Bamboo Style will be contributed to support bamboo initiatives and organizations throughout the world.

Founded in 1969, Gibbs Smith, Publisher specializes in books on design and architecture and also features titles from categories including children (featuring the celebrated Sierra Club Books for Children series), inspirational, nature, gardening, western, holiday and cookbooks. In addition, Gibbs Smith, Publisher offers an impressive array of many other design titles, such as The Japanese Bath by Yoshiko Yamamoto and Bruce Smith, and Wabi Sabi Style by James and Sandra Crowley.


Feel Bamboo Activewear for Mind and Body

By Anonymous





September 27, 2004 -- Zeneration, LLC, a new kind of women's activewear company for mind and body, announced today the launch of the Bamboo Collection, made with breathable, hypoallergenic, and eco-friendly bamboo fiber.

Zeneration is the first North American company designing activewear with bamboo fiber. It is a company committed to sourcing and introducing to the North American market, unique, natural fibers and fabrics designed for balance, well being, and comfort for the lives and needs of today's active women.

The Bamboo Collection consists of modern, feminine pieces made with bamboo fiber blended with cotton and comfort stretch. Bamboo fiber's unparalleled microstructures provide a high level of comfort due to their air conditioning properties, which deodorize, absorb and evaporate sweat during long and hot activities or workouts. A natural cellulose fiber, bamboo is 100 percent biodegradable. Zeneration's Bamboo Collection has a remarkably soft and soothing feel.

Zeneration takes a novel approach in developing its collections. Its singular focus is women who love the world, mind and body. These women realize that by taking care of mind and body first, they can impact the world in more positive ways.

From the beginning, Zeneration has been a community of these women and the activewear lines are a natural fit for them. Zeneration women are baby boomers who embrace every aspect of their lives and whose lifestyles are greatly varied. What they have in common is a stage in life that is calming and accepting of past experiences, current and future situations as well as an ongoing interest in the wellness of mind and body.

We’re excited to develop collections for a generation of women who are, more than any other generation of women before them, empowered and who celebrate this stage in their lives, says Amy Lee, founder and president. Baby boomer women have an incredible determination to maintain a wellness of mind and body, and Zeneration's collections are designed with these values in mind. Whether they are for a housewife or a National Security Advisor, Zeneration's collections suit women of varying lifestyles, who partake in all kinds of activities, from gardening and walking, to running and intense workouts.

The Bamboo Collection is Zeneration's Spring 2005 line of activewear. It will be available for limited retail purchase on the company's website at www.zeneration.com in October 2004. The company is currently taking wholesale orders and sales inquiries can be made at 212 868-5177.

About Zeneration LLC
Zeneration is a new kind of women's activewear company for mind and body. Our focus is women whose daily lives speak a love of the world a love we believe derives from their focus on wellness of mind and body.

From this focus, activewear has been created for the lives and needs of today's women, designed for balance, well being and comfort.

Zeneration is committed to sourcing and introducing unique, natural fibers to the North American market. The Bamboo Collection introduces an activewear line made of bamboo fiber, a remarkable fiber that is breathable, hypoallergenic and eco-friendly.

EC FUNDED BAMBOO NETWORK IS LAUNCHED: Kickoff Meeting to be held from 16-19 April 2002 in Antwerp, Belgium

By Anonymous





4 April 2002 -- Bamboo experts from China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Germany, France, Belgium, Portugal, and the United Kingdom will be meeting in Antwerp from April 16-19 for the inception meeting of the EC funded Bamboo Thematic Network (BTN) project. The meetings will be hosted by Oprins Plant NV (OPRINS) of Rijkevorsel (Antwerp Province), Belgium.

BTN is a three year (2002-2004) project approved and funded by the European Commission within the 5th Framework programme "Confirming the International Role of Community Research". The project is coordinated by OPRINS and involves 15 partners from private companies and academic institutions.

Jan Oprins, CEO of OPRINS, stated, "as a Belgian SME we are truly honored and privileged to lead such a prestigious international group." The BTN participants include the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, Ghent University, Institute for Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries, Agricultural Research Centre of Gembloux, University of Hamburg, University of Wales, Imperial College of London, University of the Philippines Los Baños, University Sains Malaysia, German Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forestry Products, CAB International, Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, Technical Centre for Wood and Furniture in Bordeaux, and Cobelgal of Portugal." According to Jan Oprins, "what binds OPRINS to these world-class institutions is a firm vision of bamboo's potential and the resoluteness to realize agronomic and industrial developments with a positive economic, social, and ecological impact. I am grateful to the European Commission for its support in allowing OPRINS to take the lead in this project."

OPRINS is a progressive horticultural nursery specialized in bamboo cultivation. During the last 15 years the company developed its proprietary technology for the micropropagation of bamboos and is the European market leader for ornamental bamboos. The company's pioneering research, which is headed by Ir. Johan Gielis, has resulted in an innovative and efficient production system suitable both for temperate garden bamboos and tropical bamboos for agroforestry. According to Dr. Victor Brias, project development manager of OPRINS, "bamboo has provided a livelihood for millions of poor people around the world for thousands of years. OPRINS is however taking the lead in a paradigm shift towards thinking of bamboo as the timber resource of the third millennium instead of merely as the poor man's timber. Bamboo is the fastest growing wood resource on earth; by maximizing its utility we can help spare valuable rainforests. The BTN project is an important opportunity for European industries to make use of a resource with many value added applications, including biocomposite materials, medium density fiberboard, and pulp and paper."

The BTN project aims to valorize ongoing research on bamboo forestry and technological applications in order to promote the use of bamboo in industry. It aims to enhance international cooperation among bamboo researchers and industries through a clear focus on new technologies and the global market coupled with a policy of open information exchange. Research on silviculture, biotechnology and industrial processing of bamboo has not yet been integrated fully into the realms of the economy and ecology. The participants of the BTN project will foster added value by optimizing scientific networking towards the coordination, exploitation and dissemination of bamboo research in four areas, namely: biology; silviculture; industrial processing; and technology transfer.

BTN seeks to facilitate the transfer of knowledge of bamboo and to enhance cooperation between researchers and users. It endeavors to guide researchers towards market and consumer needs and to inform industry about scientific and technical advances related to bamboo. It will create a knowledge infrastructure to redirect research towards high value-added industrial applications of bamboo and will pursue an open policy for exchanging knowledge and information in order to increase the economic possibilities of bamboo. Information about bamboo will be freely available at http://www.bamboonetwork.org, the BTN web site.