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Free workshops on resilient homes using Philippine bamboo technology are being offered both online and onsite to building contractors, architects, and engineers at the Base Bamboo Academy.
HOUSING INITIATIVE. Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson speaks during the Coalition Meeting of the Negros Occidental Impact 2025, a shelter program of the Habitat for Humanity Philippines and Hilti Foundation in partnership with local government units, at the Seda Hotel in Bacolod City on Monday night (July 11, 2022). The NOI2025 aims to build 10,000 houses in the province using disaster-resilient cement bamboo frame technology.(Photo courtesy of PIO Negros Occidental) BACOLOD CITY - The Negros Occidental provincial government has implemented various initiatives to promote the use of bamboo technolog...
How can a tribe protect its 100-hectare ancestral domain? It’s a dream too big to reach for a tribe whose members are small farmers, each struggling to provide daily sustenance to their families, with a few of them on the way to leaving the land to seek jobs in the big cities. But hope – and a diff
The iconic ‘Bahay Kubo’ is more than just shelter and being the subject of a children’s song: Experts now report how bamboo, with its capacity for carbon sequestration, can help fight climate change.
The production of engineered bamboo as substitute for good lumber to help fight deforestation and climate change, among others, was envisioned by Environment Secretary Roy A. Cimatu. “Bamboo reduces the need for timber resources, and helps greatly in carbon sequestration, in biodiversity conservation and in low-cost rehabilitation of degraded lands,”…