from what i have heard a lot of commercial bamboo products for interiors ect go through a lot of processing that has a pretty big ecological and social foot print. somthing to think about. but i know a lot of folks with property growing it in large quantities and its a pretty good idea, because it can make a really great low impact local resource for all kinds of purposes. methods for natural building can easily replace prefab green building materials. I have seen bamboo ceilings where they are just placed up there and tied down with bailing string and tacked into pace behind them the ceiling is stuffed with wool.
another thing bamboo can really excel with is in building in wattle and duab. lathing of bamboo can be built into the studs of a building and then they can be mudded in with natural clay. creating a wall more durable then dry wall that will last a long time and is easily repairable.
if the processing could be decreased in the manufacture of bamboo flooring and other bamboo products it might make it even better.
its funny take soy foam insulation. people think ah yeah man what a green alternative thats great, but honestly soy is one of the more destructive monocrops! with monsanto genticly engineering soy beans so that round up can be sprayed all over it with out it dieing. so we have soy on the increase of need because people have been making all kinds of green products out of it, but now those green products are part of the chemical and genetic pollution of todays monocroping.
thats why i allways push the envelope with natural building... any time you have a refined and manufactured product for building it has a big ol foot print. in natural building you can actually see your foot print.
so keeping this in mind finding ways to locally cultivate bamboo and then finding ways to build and work with it your self can create local economies with a really shallow foot print.
I know in asia people will grow patches of it for person use a well as for trade.
its a good idea.
my freind started a hedge row of them as a natural fence a few years back and now it constantly needs to be weeded back. that which is weeded is worked with for all kinds of purposes. a fence with multiple purposes... thats also alive!

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