Now 3 towels for the price of 2!

Wipe, polish, dry, and clean up spills with the new, innovative eco-friendly Bamboo Eco-Towel!

Made from 82% VISCOSE FROM BAMBOO and 18% GMO-FREE CORN, this light weight, super absorbent bamboo cleaning cloth and towel is durable, and compostable. Use it wet or dry to clean or dust in the kitchen and bathroom, or any room in the house. It also makes a great baby clean up towel! A great alternative to the wasteful paper towel, it is the natural and reusable way to clean, and best of all, it’s machine washable! Use it over and over and when it’s on it’s last leg, it can safely go in the trash or compost.

An attractive white towel with a green bamboo design, the Eco Towel Bamboo was a named finalist in Green By Design category at the 2008 Gourmet Product Show, but more importantly it replaces landfill-clogging paper towels, throwaway wipes, and microfiber products made from petrochemicals. Made in Germany. Packaged in the U.S.A.

Size: 14″ x 10″

Includes: 3 bamboo cleaning Eco Towels per package.

Make it clean, bamboo clean!

Eco-Tip: Light weight and handy, keep a pack in your car, diaper bag, workout bag, or overnight bag!

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If you’re looking for organic bamboo clothing and bamboo yoga socks for your green comfy lifestyle, you’ve come to the right place, Bambooya! Organic Bamboo Clothing is super soft, thermal regulating, wicks moisture, will not hold odor, is resistant to mold and mildew, and is absorbent and fast drying!

Bamboo Green Facts: Bamboo is grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers, requires no irrigation, and rarely needs replanting. Bamboo grows rapidly, can be harvested in 3-5 years, produces 35% more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees, and helps balance oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere!

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On-the-go, bamboo utensils guilt free!

Great for kids and folks on the go, these Bamboo To-Go Ware RePEaT Bamboo Utensils are a toolkit to help reduce your ecological footprint! Lightweight, durable, and long lasting, this bamboo fork, spoon, knife, and chopsticks set is hand finished with top grade natural, vegan, food-safe wood oil.

With a color-fast, water-resistant holder made from RPET (recycled plastic bottles), RePEaT utensil holders for your to go bamboo utensil set gives plastic bottles a second shot at a useful life, and an opportunity to stay out of our landfills! And with a handy carabiner on the back, you can just clip and carry anywhere you go! Heat and stain-resistant, and safe to use on non-stick surfaces, so stick a set in your pocket or your backpack and get on the move!

Throwaway plastic cutlery are made of petrochemicals that create dioxins and other toxic chemicals harmful to the environment, so enjoy eating with these organic bamboo utensils made of highly durable bamboo, sustainably grown and harvested! Keep a set of these awesome bamboo utensils in your backpack or your car, and have an impromptu picnic!

Size: RePEaT To Go Bamboo Utensil Set is 8 1/2″ high and 1 5/8″ wide.

To Go Bamboo Utensil Set Includes: Bamboo fork, knife, spoon, and chopsticks, a colorful Green RPET utensil holder with caribiner. bamboo utensils with soap and water, but they will sustain the dishwasher. RPET utensil holders can be hand washed with a wet sponge.

Culture Note: The bamboo utensils are sourced and made in China by a small cottage industry factory. The forest the bamboo is sourced from has been personally visited by a third party certifier and their audits assure that the sourcing and harvesting is sustainable and that they employ fair labor practices. All partners are regularly monitored for human rights and environmental abuses by an independent third party monitor.

Eco Note: RPET requires less energy during manufacturing than virgin PET materials. The ingredients in the food-safe sealant used on the utensils include Potassium Permanganate (a water-soluable salt, often used as a disinfectant); Acetic Acid (an organic, relatively weak acid that gives vinegar its sour taste and pungent smell, found universally in food stuffs, water and soil); Heptane (most frequently used an an oil repellant, distilled from the resin of the Jeffery Pine and the fruit of the Petroleum Nut Tree, a tree found in the Philippines); and Ethanol (sugar-based and most commonly used form of alcohol, used as a solvent of substances intended for human contact or consumption, including scents, flavorings, colorings and medicines). Recent lab tests have shown that NO heavy metals were detected in the sealant, including lead, arsenic, mercury or chromium.

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Bambooya “Bamboo Eco-Products for Body, Baby, and Conscience”

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In the European market, Suntory has recently launched, Hibiki 12-year old whiskey, aged in Umeshu (Japanese plum liquer) casks, and filtered through premium bamboo charcoal.

Filtered with Japanese bamboo charcoal, which purifies the water and enhances the flavor, the Hibiki premium-blended whiskey range has received 15 gold medals, as well as the 2007 and 2008 title of “The World’s Best Blended Whisky” for the 30-year-old aged whiskey. Hibiki is scheduled to be launched in the U.S. in October 2009.

Check out FoodBev for the full story!

Bamboo charcoal (activated carbon) also purifies, neutralizes, and deodorizes air in the home, absorbs moisture and humidity, releases negative ions in to the air, cleans and softens water for drinking and laundry, and exfoliates and removes impurities from the skin when used in bodycare and soap products!

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Read the entire article from Oregon Live and see how bamboo makes a wonderful “moveable” privacy screen.  Keep bamboo contained and keep it movin at the same time!

Vern Nelson/Special to the Oregonian

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Throwaway plastic cutlery are made of petrochemicals that create dioxins and other toxic chemicals harmful to the environment, so enjoy eating with these organic utensils made of highly durable bamboo, sustainably grown and harvested! Keep a set of these awesome bamboo utensils in your backpack or your car, and have an impromptu picnic!

On-the-go, guilt free!

Set includes: Fork, Spoon, Knife, and Chopsticks, Cotton Embroidered case.

Size: 10.5 inches long.

Culture Note: The 100% cotton embroidered holder has been produced by WEAVE, a Fair Trade women’s co-operative on the Thai-Burma border, (SEE PICTURE BELOW) so in purchasing this utensil set you help contribute to their advancement and make a positive impact on the global community. The utensils are Responsibly Handcrafted in China.

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My sister Jenny and I had a wonderful time and learned so much about the art of making bamboo screens and fences, and we also met some wonderful “Bamboo Classmates”! (photo below courtesy of Judy and Mike McDade of Jamit! Baskets)

Carol, along with her friend and assistant, Kent Stewart, showed us the necessary techniques to clean, cut, split, saw, knock out nodes, smooth, join, and lash bamboo together, using traditional Japanese black hemp twine!

The bamboo poles we used were of different varieties and all were donated from Carol’s and our classmate’s gardens, and also from the famous Biltmore Estate gardens nearby.

I made a variation on a common Japanese screen called, Kenninji-gaki, which uses vertical poles and horizontal split bamboo.  My sister made a Teppo-gaki gate which turned out great as well!

The next day we went to see the Biltmore Estate and and its amazing gardens known for its historic varieties (more than 20) of bamboos!  The gardens were designed by the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted , known as the Father of  American Landscape Architecture. (photo below right)

Carol is  planning another bamboo class in 2010, so I’ll keep ya posted! If you are looking to add some beautiful bamboo to your house or garden, please check out Carol’s book  (see link above), and if you need tools to work with bamboo, try these wonderful traditional saws and cutters at:  Hida Tool & Hardware Co., Inc.

Thanks Carol, Kent, Jen, and Bamboo Classmates 2009!  Hope to see ya next year!

P.S. I hope all my classmates will send me a photo of their bamboo screens, fences, trellises, and creations so I can post them to the blog in the future!

Have a bamboo day!

Katie Gerdts Schroeder

katie@bambooya.com

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2009 Awesome Bamboo Events

My sister and I are excited to be attending the Bamboo Garden Structures class at the NC Arboretum, taught by the amazing bamboo teacher,  artist and writer Carol Stangler! The other events will be wonderful as well, so for all you bamboo lovers out there, we hope you can attend one of them!

Events and Photos Courtesy of Carol Stangler.

• BAMBOO GARDEN STRUCTURES
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SAT. MARCH 21, 2009 9:30 am – 4:30 pm NC ARBORETUM, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville , NC 28808

Use bamboo to create a beautiful and functional accent for your garden. With an emphasis on function, design, and stability, construct a trellis or simple fence using bamboo-specific techniques of sawing, pegging, and tying. Tools and materials will be provided; bring your own bamboo or instructor will provide.
Suggested browsing: The Craft and Art of Bamboo, 30 Eco-Friendly Projects for Home and Garden. By Carol Stangler.

Registration begins in February.

Saturday April 18, 2009
Atlanta, GA
Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild
Slide Show and Demonstration – The Beauty of Bamboo
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Description and contact information to be announced.
Sunday June 28, 2009
Eugene, OR
KLCC Garden Tour Benefit for Lane Community College
JamesLong Gardens – Book Signing
For description and contact information visit: KLCC – Garden Tour

Saturday & Sunday July 11 & 12, 2009
Asheville, NC
Bamboo Festival – SE Chapter American Bamboo Society
North Carolina Arboretum
Activities and information to be announced.

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