Archives for March 2008
Bamboo Laptop
Definitely a way forward! ASUS has been experimenting with different materials including leather in the earlier notebook models, and for us nothing is more exciting than a bamboo notebook. We hope that they now will make even the interior components with bamboo. Visit ASUS
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Economic Potential of Bamboo in Nepal
Bamboo has had a very historical and cultural association in Nepal, it is used in almost all aspects of life from construction, marriage, death to livelihood. The use of bamboo however, has been only subsistence, and the modern market for it is not well developed. With the growing bamboo demand in the world, abundant availability of the resources, vast traditional knowledgebase and cultural affinity of this material in Nepal, there is a tremendous potential for it to contribute to the people’s livelihood. This paper focuses on how traditional bamboo users, who amount to around 3.3 in Nepal alone, can be integrated in to the modern market.
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