PROJECT BEAM (Bamboo for Ecological Architecture and Materials), the country’s first commercial-scale bamboo structure, will ...

Built in 2015, homes built with CBTF in San Isidro, Jaro, Iloilo City, today houses 47 families, keeping them safe through countless typhoons and natural disasters. The Balay Kawayan Housing Community ...

LONDON, Oct 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mark Sultan Gersava grew up in poverty, one of 12 children of a slash-and-burn subsistence farmer in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat. Today he ...

As well as being cheap, bamboo appears to have remarkable qualities of seismic resistance. Now it's being used to try to protect people from earthquakes. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador ...