European Bamboo EXPO 2025
The 3rd European Bamboo Expo took place last Friday and Saturday 23 and 24 May 2025. I participated in the event through a short presentation, a discussion about a potential…
The 3rd European Bamboo Expo took place last Friday and Saturday 23 and 24 May 2025. I participated in the event through a short presentation, a discussion about a potential…
This is the text of my presentation to the European Bamboo Expo in Dortmund on 2 June 2023 Bamboo in China When I lived and worked in China, I…
I was recently asked to join the Imagine Bamboo Summit in Birmingham, UK. This bamboo festival is part of the celebrations of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and it was…
Many people in Europe think that bamboos grow in monoculture plantations without any wildlife. Yet, natural bamboo forests form the habitat for a number of iconic mammal flagship species. The…
To celebrate the International Day of Forests in 2022, I want to explain the latest developments regarding Bamboologic in Europe. I am advisor to the company, and help to share…
Introduction Bamboo is a collective name for a group of botanical species that all belong to the grass family, the Graminea. The term applies both to the living plant and…
Introduction I am currently the Registrar of the Climate Friendly Travel (CFT) Registry, and I am advisor to the European Bamboo Programme, an initiative from Bamboologic BV . I have…
A climate resilient society has the capacity to deal with the effects of climate change, while responding to these changes with new approaches. The use of bamboo is one of…
I just attended the first Ibero Bamboo Symposium in Madrid , where I talked about bamboo in Europe. Planning for the symposium started in 2018, when I was the Director-General…
For the past five years, I was the head of the Secretariat of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (www.inbar.int) in Beijing, PR China. I stepped down in April this…
