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Showing posts with label bamboo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bamboo. Show all posts

Friday, July 24, 2009

The Bamboo Bike Studio. Brooklyn.









Two-Day Bamboo Bike Building Course.

The Bamboo Bike Studio started with an appreciation for bicycling-the best solution to simple, self-propelled, affordable (and enjoyable) transportation, meeting the needs of a world burdened with dwindling resources and an ongoing climate+energy crisis. They teach people how to build their own bamboo bicycles from scratch out of their Brooklyn studio. Bamboo is a renewable, fast-growing resource and a performance-positive material. All energy from their US bamboo bike workshop is directed into establishing self-sustaining bamboo bicycle factories in developing countries. "As part of our working collaboration with the Columbia University Earth Institute-based Bamboo Bike Project and the Millennium Cities Initiative for development, we provide testing and prototype construction at no cost. Together with our partners, we aim to establish scalable bamboo bike factories in Millennium Cities, starting with Kumasi, Ghana, Kisumu, Kenya, and Quito, Ecuador. This initiative addresses two key international development goals: 1) Improved Access to Transportation, and 2) Sustainable Light-Industrial Development."
bamboobikestudio.com
See previous post on Bamboo bikes here.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Ross Lovegrove. The Bamboo Bicycle.



Made for the Danish bike manufacturer Biomega. Milan design week 2009. Industrial designer Ross Lovegrove + brazillian bamboo specialist Flavio Deslandes created this design. Handmade in Denmark.
Bamboo is stronger than steel.
rosslovegrove.com

Ross Lovegrove. The Bamboo Bicycle.



Made for the Danish bike manufacturer Biomega. Milan design week 2009. Industrial designer Ross Lovegrove + brazillian bamboo specialist Flavio Deslandes created this design. Handmade in Denmark.
Bamboo is stronger than steel.
rosslovegrove.com

Thursday, February 12, 2009

iamhuman. Design company. Seattle.


Cork.

Bamboo.

Zebrawood.

Teak+figured grain.

Walnut deep grain wood.

Custom-made, hand-crafted laptop covers.
iamhumannow.com

iamhuman. Design company. Seattle.


Cork.

Bamboo.

Zebrawood.

Teak+figured grain.

Walnut deep grain wood.

Custom-made, hand-crafted laptop covers.
iamhumannow.com

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Vans 106 Surf.




Cotton canvas + hemp uppers. Antimicrobial insole with bamboo lining. Padded collar. Vulcanized "waffle" gum rubber outsole. What's not to like.

Vans 106 Surf.




Cotton canvas + hemp uppers. Antimicrobial insole with bamboo lining. Padded collar. Vulcanized "waffle" gum rubber outsole. What's not to like.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

BambooSK8. California.




BambooSK=Ron Stebenne+Geoff Koboldt. Started by Wyatt and Mark Gregson. 100% bamboo skateboards+veneers.
Farmed bamboo stabilizes the earth with its roots preventing erosion (unlike in tree farming). Bamboo sucks in greenhouse gasses+produces oxygen (more so than trees). It also filters heavy metals from groundwater and removes even more carbon dioxide than trees. I heart Bamboo.
bamboosk8.com