United Nations celebrates the World Environment Day th on 5 of June every year with a theme. Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care”. The well-being of humanity, the environment, and the functioning of the economy, ultimately depend upon the responsible management of the planet's natural resources. Evidence is building that people are consuming far more natural resources than what the planet can sustainably provide. Many of the Earth's ecosystems are nearing critical tipping points of depletion or irreversible change, pushed by high population growth and economic development. By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns remain the same and with a rising population expected to reach 9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain our ways of living and consumption. The WED theme this year is therefore "Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care." Living within planetary boundaries is the most promising strategy for ensuring a healthy future. Human prosperity need not cost the earth. Living sustainably is about doing more and better with less. It is about knowing that rising rates of natural resource use and the environmental impacts that occur are not a necessary by-product of economic growth. This theme aptly describes what bamboo can help our environment. Bamboo has the potential to be an important catalyst for fulfilling dreams of many human beings directly as well as indirectly by helping in consuming the natural resources with care. Bamboo is a versatile wonder grass which helps to be an important alternative for the fast depleting natural resources. Due to its inherent properties it is the most sustainable and renewable natural resource. On this World Environment Day, let us pledge ourselves to support the propagation of bamboo and its varied applications. This year the theme is “
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United Nations celebrates the World Environment Dayth
on 5 of June every year with a theme.
Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet.
Consume with Care”. The well-being of humanity, the
environment, and the functioning of the economy, ultimately
depend upon the responsible management of the planet's
natural resources. Evidence is building that people are
consuming far more natural resources than what the planet can
sustainably provide. Many of the Earth's ecosystems are nearing
critical tipping points of depletion or irreversible change,
pushed by high population growth and economic development.
By 2050, if current consumption and production patterns
remain the same and with a rising population expected to reach
9.6 billion, we will need three planets to sustain our ways of
living and consumption. The WED theme this year is therefore
"Seven Billion Dreams. One Planet. Consume with Care." Living
within planetary boundaries is the most promising strategy for
ensuring a healthy future. Human prosperity need not cost the
earth. Living sustainably is about doing more and better with
less. It is about knowing that rising rates of natural resource use
and the environmental impacts that occur are not a necessary
by-product of economic growth. This theme aptly describes what bamboo can help our
environment. Bamboo has the potential to be an important
catalyst for fulfilling dreams of many human beings directly as
well as indirectly by helping in consuming the natural resources
with care. Bamboo is a versatile wonder grass which helps to be
an important alternative for the fast depleting natural
resources. Due to its inherent properties it is the most
sustainable and renewable natural resource. On this World
Environment Day, let us pledge ourselves to support the
propagation of bamboo and its varied applications.
This year the theme is “
We are proud and happy to present this edition of the e-newsletter, bamboo mitra to celebrate the World th
Environment Day, today on 5 of June 2015. It is because of your patronage and support that we are able to release
this e-newsletter in the ninth year in succession. One of the important tasks of the newsletter is to bring together
bamboo enthusiasts from different backgrounds, geographies and fields of work. We are confident that with your
support and active participation, we can jointly succeed to bring change in the way people look at 'bamboo'. We
are able to bring this edition of bamboo mitra with valuable contribution from South Asia Bamboo Foundation
and KONBAC.
We are pleased to inform you that we are celebrating 11 years of formation of Bamboo Vishwa, a vibrant group of
dedicated bamboo enthusiasts. To celebrate the success and of our organization we invite you to participate in the th
mega event planned during the World Bamboo Day on 18 of September 2015. Various interesting events are
planned on the occasion. The details will be communicated to you shortly.
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The bamboo installation by an unknown creator symbolizes the spirit of bring us all together in this one world of bamboo. It depicts the philosophy of bamboovishwa of bringing all the thinkers, experts, activists, enthusiasts on one platform. Let us start the journey of this edition of bamboomitra on this enthusiastic note . . . .
Bamboo cottage designed and built by Native Konbac for Mr Ranjan Naik, Kudal at Kondura, Tal Vengurla, Dist Sindhudurg, Maharashtra
Bamboo furniture designed and manufactured by Native Konbac
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Support for bamboo from local institutions
The awareness and participation of local institutions - government as well as private in the use of bamboo has definitely increased. This is evident from these examples of structures created by Mr Rajendra Sapkal and team. He is a dynamic entrepreneur and activist who has been successful in convincing the local government authorities, here the Pune Municipal Corporation to use bamboo for structures in its parks for public utility spaces. Mr Sapkal also supports lot of architectural and design institutions to propagate the importance and possibilities of using bamboo for tensile structures. Some examples of his work.
Chitaranjan watika - Pune Corporation park
Tensile structure at a city Architectural college created by its students
Bamboo Toilets for Swatch Bharat : Any takers??
According to recent UN statistics, half of India's population does not have access to toilets, with the condition even more dismal in rural areas where around 60% of the population still defecates in the open. Poor and inadequate sanitation accounts for various health-related issues causing economic and social losses. It is estimated that 1.01 lakh government schools do not have toilets for girls, 1.52 lakh schools do not have toilets for boys and a 1.64 lakh schools have dysfunctional toilets. Poor sanitation facilities lead to drop out from schools, especially among girls in the 5-14 age brackets. Retention of the girl child in schools has increased by 30% in schools with access to proper sanitation facilities.
Therefore, adequate and appropriate sanitation facilities are a pre-requisite for the socio-economic development of the country. Today's school children will be tomorrow's leaders, employers and resources and it is imperative to provide basic amenities to them in order to have a healthy, productive workforce.
Bamboo is rightly called the green gold as it qualifies under many of the categories listed for green building materials. Globally, there is a resurgence of interest in Bamboo in this age of information revolution and environmental consciousness. Bamboo is being currently looked upon as an alternate low cost material for the enormous housing problem faced by several developing countries. Bamboo is has always been popular as a building material, especially in house-building and is now widely regarded as the super material of the 21st century. It is one of the fastest growing and highest yielding renewable natural resource making it a good substitute to wood in mitigating pressure on natural forests. Its usage needs to be promoted leveraging this super material as a sustainable solution to sanitation challenges in areas that still do not have access to proper toilets will not only help in 'Clean India Mission' but also help the cause of leveraging bamboo as an economic tool to drive socio economic development of India, which incidentally also has the second largest bamboo reserves in the world. Bamboo walls & partitions panels, bamboo floors and corrugated bamboo roofing sheets, including Bamboo toilet seats can all be part of such toilets. Bamboo indeed has tremendous potential not only to transform India's rural economy, but also to contribute to the sustainable development efforts.
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The BMPTC has supported IPIRTI; Bangalore which has developed technologies for manufacture of several bamboo composites such as bamboo mat board, bamboo mat corrugated roofing sheets, bamboo mat ridge caps, bamboo floor tiles and laminates. Engineering and material properties were studied exhaustively to utilize the full potential of bamboo as an engineering material in housing. Bamboo housing technology clearly demonstrates the engineering application of bamboo in housing. All load bearing and semi load bearing elements have been made either of round or split bamboo in the form of slivers in combination with bamboo based composites like BMB and BMCS for roofing with minimal use of timber and high energy consuming materials like iron, steel and cement.
Having successfully developed the technology for construction of bamboo based housing system; the challenge was to develop the technology which is equally viable for other structures, community centres and utility products like toilets. Supported by BMPTC and IPRITI the South Asia Bamboo Foundation (SABF) has conducted International and Regional training programs on Building with Bamboo and construction of Bamboo Toilets for community and public in Kochi, Kerala, Haflong and Dimapur in Assam and Nagaland to enhance local capacity and skills. These were done in jointly with Auroville Bamboo Centre, Pondicherry, Kerala State Bamboo Mission (KBSM), Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA), and Forest Department of Dima Haso Autonomous Council, Assam.
This is where bamboo can play a lending itself as a cost effective and eco-friendly material to build toilets and thereby play a very important role in 'Clean India' mission. The abysmal state of sanitation in India is that only 32% of rural households have their own toilets and that less than half of Indian households have a toilet at home. There were more households with a mobile phone than with a toilet. Of the estimated billion people in the world who defecate in the open, more than half reside in India. Poor sanitation impairs the health leading to high rates of malnutrition and productivity losses. India's sanitation deficit leads to losses worth roughly 6% of its gross domestic product (GDP) according to World Bank estimates by raising the disease burden in the country. Children are affected more than adults as the rampant spread of diseases inhibits children's ability to absorb nutrients thereby stunting their growth. A large part of India's malnutrition burden is owing to the unhygienic environment in which children grow up. Poor sanitation and high population density act as a double whammy on Indian children half of whom grow up stunted. The initiatives of Government of India's effort to build toilets under Government funded and CSR funded should be extended to bamboo based toilets for public and community. But issue is “ANY TAKERS”. Ideas are great for bamboo has few takers...in reality.
Mr. Kamesh Salam, Founder and Executive Director, South Asia Bamboo Foundation (SABF)
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Centre for Civil Society, in collaboration with the South Asia Bamboo Foundation (SABF) and Kerala State Bamboo
Mission, with support from Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) organised a workshop on 'Enabling Bamboo
Policy: From Ideas to Action', against the backdrop of the Kerala Bamboo Festival. The workshop, held on 6
December 2014 in Kochi, aimed at putting together key recommendations for Bamboo policy in India.
The highlights and recommendations from the deliberations
1. There is yawning gap between demand and supply of bamboo - a problem of plenty at source and a problem of
scarcity at the consumer level. Remote bamboo-growing areas have no roads. New road construction not
permitted in forest areas. Farmers prefer cash crops over bamboo. To tackle this work needs to be done on
a. Contradiction - different agents, department and ministries
b. Coordination - across objectives of different bodies
c. Convergence - in use of funds, human resource and development and other inputs
2. Under the Forest Rights Act, 2006, (FRA) bamboo is designated as non-timber minor forest produce (MFP) thus
consolidating forest dwellers' ownership right to collect, process, store and transport bamboo. Yet, transit permit
for transportation of bamboo is required. There needs to be a standard National Transit Policy.
3. The National Mission on Bamboo Applications is now converted into a regional body for North East. It was
recommended that this remain a national body. There is inconsistency of federal and state laws and there are many
ministries involved.
4. National Bamboo Development Authority under Ministry of Environment and Forest and State Bamboo
Development Authority can be constituted under Ministry of Agriculture. A committee, comprising selected
participants from the workshop, should be created which will work on drafting the national law on bamboo under
the guidance of Mr C. P. John.
5. Bamboo Development Authority should be created for facilitating bamboo sector instead of board or mission.
The need for this Authority is that it will bring flexibility, less bureaucratic functioning and is more successful model
from administrative perspective. Ministry of Environment and Forest at federal level should create this National
Bamboo Development Authority.
Enabling Bamboo Policy : From Ideas to Action - a policy workshop at Kochi, Kerla-
Call to set up Bamboo Development Board in India
Contributed by Kamesh Salam
National Policy consultation on Bamboo as change agent for a better country.
National Bamboo Mission, Delhi, MP State Planning Commission, MP State Bamboo Mission organized the “National Policy consultation on Bamboo as a change agent for a better country” facilitated by South Asia Bamboo Foundation, Centre for Civil Society and Forest Department on 12th February 2015 at India International center, New Delhi.
The national policy consultation meet was organised to discuss potential of bamboo as change agen and relevant policy concerns. The consultation was attend by honourable ministers of government of India, Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and highways of India, Shri Sudarshan Bhagat, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri Jaul Oram, Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Raha Mohan Singh, Minister of Agriculture, Shri Prakash Jawdekar, Ministry of Environment and Forest. Smrt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Commerce and Industries, Shri Girijaj Sing, Mini ster of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Science & Technology.16 experts made presentation on various segments of bamboo explaining its divers use, benefit to the masses, technological intervention and policy support required. The consultation was also attended by 38 delegates from various organizations working on bamboo and bamboo product development.
The event was a huge success looking at the participation of senior ministers from the central government, officials and bamboo experts from across India. It paved a way to concrete actions for development of the field of bamboo.
The proceedings will be available on www.bamboovishwa.com
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The World Bamboo Congress (WBC) is a unique event that encourages global interaction by providing a platform for direct networking and the sharing of ideas and information.
The 10th World Bamboo Congress will be very unique: it will coincide as part of the World Bamboo Fair 2015, beginning September 17 until October 21, 2015. This exposition will show ways to improve the value of bamboo on an international level under the slogan “Bamboo for a Greener Future”. It will consist of a variety of bamboo exhibition halls featuring ecology, history, science, construction and Green Development, with an anticipated audience of over 90,000 visitors! Special cultural programs, workshops, competitions, music and more will give people of all ages and all backgrounds a reason to truly celebrate all things bamboo.
In the last 20 years, the WBC as a series of Sessions & Demonstrations has grown to attract at least 400 participants from more than 30 countries around the world, including world-renowned experts in bamboo design, construction, and architecture. For any professional that works with this amazing natural resource -- whether a botanist, biologist, horticulturist, architect, artist, designer, businessperson, government representative, non-profit organization, or economist, the WBC has been an ideal opportunity to meet and develop collaborations in research and development, project or business development, while at the same time, advancing the social and environmental goals derived from the various applications of bamboo.
Bamboo trade shows and cultural performances are also a special part of the WBC. Needless to say, this international event has contributed significantly to the evolution of bamboo sectors locally, regionally and internationally, and has, without a doubt, raised the profile of bamboo as not only a unique, beautiful material with a rich cultural heritage, but an alternative and viable natural resource with a myriad of uses for today's world.
World Bamboo Organisation
The mission of the is to promote and support the use of bamboo as a sustainable and alternative natural resource through the development of partnerships and alliances, and the creation of mechanisms for global communication, information exchange, and technology transfer.
Originally founded as the International Bamboo Association (IBA), the idea for an international coordinating body for bamboo practitioners was born out of discussions at the 1991 International Bamboo Workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The IBA was consequently established at the 1992 International Bamboo Congress in Japan. Through 1998, the IBA had been the coordinating platform for bamboo people around the world, with its primary responsibility being the International Bamboo Congress & International Bamboo Workshop. A union of these two distinct gatherings is today called the World Bamboo Congress, and has lead to the re-birth of the IBA into the World Bamboo Organization. The WBO was legally formed as a U.S. tax-exempt trade association in 2005 by CEO Susanne Lucas. She currently holds the position of Executive Director.
World Bamboo Organization
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The Sweet Bamboo
Tanzania ULANZI is the only country in the world which produces wine from bamboo. During its growth the shoot of Oxytenanthera Brauni is punctured to produce sap. The collected sap ferments to produce ULANZI a popular local wine. A large local population is involved in production and distribution of ULANZI .Tanzania produces about 4000 million liters of ULANZI every year. Because of such high volume of production Possibilities to use it as biofuel are being tried. This was possible only because of SWEET BAMBOO
Tapping for collecting bamboo sap for making wine
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