Bamboo has arrived. American consumers have embraced the veritable grass with a passion not seen since the first hippie rolled a joint. In the past five years, bamboo products have become a ...

Bamboo is no longer just a delicacy for pandas or a collectible for sinophiles. The environmental movement is embracing bamboo — it's actually a type of gigantic grass with hollow, jointed, woody ...

Philip Karoki, a worker at a bamboo farm. Bamboo has plenty of uses such as construction, making charcoal, pulp, utensils, furniture, toothpicks and crafts. [PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD] The bamboo ...