30 Jan Incredible bamboo video from China
Saw this incredible video of a girl harvesting bamboo and making a sofa a while ago and then recently this Guardian article about her popped...
13 Nov Thomas Heatherwick in Bali and around the world
I was invited to the Heatherwick studio one afternoon in London and Thomas showed me things that blew my mind. He showed me a process...
08 Jan 5 Most-Read Green Posts in 2017
Welcome to the highlights of 2017! Thank you to everyone who follows this blog- whether you get here by being one of the nearly 20,000 newsletter...
03 Jan Incredible bamboo design in China at the Design Library
I went to China to speak in December. This conference I went to was in the middle of bamboo land in China. It was incredible to...
02 Jan The future of bamboo is happening in China
I've had to create three blog posts just to chronicle all the amazing bamboo innovation and design I saw in China. They really are using this...
15 Feb How to build a tiger proof house
John went to visit the earthen round houses of Yuchang. Amazing houses, closed on the outside with no windows until the 3rd floor because of stories of tigers...
07 Nov Travels in China with the Sustainable Rural Construction Forum
It was a shock to be invited to speak at a conference on rural sustainability in a small village in China, but I was strangely drawn...
02 Mar Clean energy? Some disturbing facts and figures – by The Green Asia Group
Solar panels … A factory in China must burn more than 40kg of coal to produce a solar panel – one metre by 1.5 metres. China’s least...
