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...Most eco-friendly bamboo tableware is too drab for festive occasions, but not this Bambu Lacquerware, available at Branchhome.com for $12 each and up depending on size. Made in Vietnam from 100% organically grown bamboo (deemed green because it grows so fast), the bowls are coated in a natural lacquer and painted in six bright colors...
...Tong, a member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Tong, a rock star in China with chart-toping vocals, was also the star of Tuesday’s performance. He stole the show whenever he sang or played his sheng—a mouth organ made of a ring of bamboo pipes, looking, as one audience member said, like “an organ and a church steeple put together.” The rehearsal ended with a composition by the modern Chinese musician Zhou Long, set to some Chinese poems about drinking too much. Here, the HRO joined...
...Mohammed Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist, met a woman in Jobra, Bangladesh who was trying to earn a living by selling bamboo stools. She made only two pennies of profit a week, far from enough to sustain a family, as buying supplies required her to borrow from a local moneylender at extremely high interest rates. Yunus soon discovered that Jobra was filled with others just like her—women whose tiny ventures barely survived but had the potential to thrive if they could borrow money at reasonable rates...
...barley, was one of the first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked ... I told them what I had learned and they listened and then went...
...jury said. Blier’s firm, Landworks Studio, was founded in 1996 and is being recognized for its work on Court Square Press Courtyard, a garden for residents of a South Boston condominium. The design of the garden combines disjointed pathways with lighted benches and three layers of bamboo and fern to create a “collection of fragmented views,” said project designer Letitia Tormay. The view of the garden is entirely different from any window in the six stories of condominiums surrounding the garden. Tormay said the project was particularly challenging both because...