Silica in bamboo for calcium uptake as we age, and for younger skin (aids in production of collagen)

Looking forward to the future of business

Found in bamboo tea and bamboo shoots.   Found in leaves and above the ground parts of bamboo.  (That is why diet of panda and elephants)

Bamboo growing can save this Planet - Pablo van der Lugt at TED Ex presentation

Looking forward to the future of business

This Norwegian scientist with PhD sees great hope in saving planet earth from the dangers it faces now like climate change and global warming and depletion of natural resources

1.  Bamboos grow incredibly fast up to 40 cm per day;

2.  It needs little care

3.  It matures and is usable only after 3 years, (unlike timber that takes 50 up to 100 years before it can replenish used wood resources

4.  It is very versatile and can be used as 1.   tea     2.  food -  young bamboo shoots    3.  for paper pulp

for textile and 4 for variety of construction uses:    floors, as veneer, structural beams, scaffoldings, etc.

Thus it will create plenty of jobs and wealth for those:

     1.  Who grow bamboo;

     2.  Harvest and transport the bamboo to factories for processing

     3.  Those who work in factories

     4.   Those who sell bamboo products

5.  It is carbon negative and can soak up 40 tons of CO2 in a year.  What can 1M hectares of idle land planted with bamboo do to global warming   

The worldwide bamboo market is worth $70 billion  China controls 50% of that.  Thus we see plastic spoon fork and knives serrved at HK fastfood   

Developments in the Philippines

1.  Passage of Bamboo Industry Development  Act of 19th Congress.  (although no budget yet)

2.  Bamboo growers association in Mindanao c/o Manny Pinol former DA Secretary

3.  Former mayor Cesar Quiambao having 5,000 hectares planted to Bamboo in Pangasinan;  the province's goal is to have 30,000 hectares planted to bamboo