Our planet is not replaceable.
As obvious as that statement is, people still treat Earth like there is another one on the back burner. The ocean levels are rising, the ice caps are melting and our ozone layer is disintegrating; we’ve left more of a carbon footprint in the last hundred years than the rest of history combined! The good news, however, is that the word “green” is becoming more ingrained in our social consciousness.
Thanks to environmental activists and supporters, the word “green” has taken on a whole new definition. Any attitude concerning “global environmental protection, bioregionalism, social responsibility” is considered green. The term has become a buzzword of sorts; restaurants, business, and manufacturers brandish the label to appeal to our ever-concerned society.
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In recent times, people have been hearing more and more about products made of bamboo like bamboo rugs, bamboo floor mats, bamboo furniture, bamboo room dividers, flooring, fences, bamboo wind chimes and much more. How has bamboo reached this popularity? The most important factor is that it is one of the most eco-friendly raw materials available to produce these products. Another important reason would be that bamboo is comparitively cheaper, very strong and a more abundantly available option than other raw materials.
What are the reasons for considering bamboo to be ecologically friendly? Experts state these major factors to decide whether a product is eco-friendly or not.
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An ecological resource is anything required by an organism for normal maintenance growth, and reproduction. Examples include habitat, food, water and shelter. And economic resource is anything obtained from the environment (the earth’s life support system) to meet human needs and wants. Examples include food, water, shelter, manufactured goods, transportation’s, communication, and recreation. On our short human time scale, we classify the material resources we get from the environment as renewable, potentially renewable, or nonrenewable.
Some resources, such as solar energy, fresh air, winds, fresh surface water, fertile soil, and wild edible plants, are directly available for use by us and other organisms. Other resources, such a petroleum, iron, groundwater, and modern crops, aren’t directly available. They become useful to us only with some effort and technological ingenuity. Petroleum, for example, was a mysterious fluid until we learned how to find, extract, and convert it into gasoline, heating oil, and other products that could be sold at affordable prices.
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