Green Grass Bamboo

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Bamboo is the green material of the future, or is it? Bamboo is the largest member of the grass family. It is one of the fastest growing “woody” plants in the world. There are different types of bamboo, but on of the most used is called the giant bamboo plant. It can grow in most places in the world excluding those areas of extreme cold or extreme dryness (Bamboo Grove). It is a very useful material for many different animals such as building for humans, or eating for the pandas. It is the main food source for the pandas that live in areas of the world such as Chengdu China. Bamboo is very helpful for humans too.
Currently bamboo has a variety of uses in the world which vary massively based on location. In Asia it is used as scaffolding, and almost everything else such as food. In the United States and many European countries it is used more for a clothing material, flooring and bikes. In the bamboo bike industry the company Calfee is known for their extremely high end bikes. They claim that there bamboo frames are equally still to frames made out of carbon fiber, while still retaining the vibration dampening effect (Calfee). While Calfee makes multi thousand dollar bamboo bikes, they have a sub brand that makes cheaper bikes for third world countries. The sub brand that makes the cheaper bikes also will go into third world countries and teach the people how to make the bikes themselves. Bamboo is probably used to its full potential most in Asia. In China the large scale building projects all use bamboo for scaffolding rather than metal. This is done because of the abundance of bamboo in most regions of China (Bess). The bamboo is also eaten by the wildlife in China, such as the Pandas, and certain types of bamboo rats. Other are...

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