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Bamboo is an expression of the Asian culture. But bamboo is much more. It is the raw material of the present and the future. Its resilience and stability and its pressure and impact resistance are comparable to those of steel and make it a versatile, multi-purpose material.
The plant Bamboo is well-known for its rapid growth of up to 1 metre each day which makes it the quickest growing plant known. Its thin-bladed, grass-like leaves, which can reach a height of up to 38 metres, bind more CO2 than any other plant.
Ecology Cultivation of the bamboo forests and plantations is extremely sustainable. Bamboo is grown without use of chemicals or pesticides and thanks to its root system, no irrigation is necessary. The plant is not destroyed when the leaves are cut and it grows back immediately which means that bamboo plantations are never deforested.
The applications of bamboo are so many that it might be faster to make a list of things bamboo can not be used for. Bamboo can be a provide food and shelter, it can also be distilled and made into bamboo beer and bamboo spirits. Bamboo has been used in construction since ancient times. Even today in modern cities across Asia bamboo scaffolding can be found at building-sites.

Bamboo has also been used in aviation. Some of the first airplanes used bamboo as construction material. It provided the best strength/weight ratio. The Grad 2 flying-machine invented by the German Hans Grade in 1907 was built from Bamboo, steel and wood.