When travelling do you ever think to yourself, why didn’t I bring my own?   So, it’s been three hours now and you have just reached the front of the queue for the portable toilet at your favorite summer festival. Marvelous, you think to yourself as you are one step closer to breaking the seal. […]

Many of you will know that bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant and those that have it in their garden will know how difficult it is to control.  Trees take many years and use lots of fertilisers to grow but this stuff just shoots up, it’s totally rampant! Bamboo is trending, bamboo socks, pillows […]

Bamboo is an extraordinary plant and shouldn’t be underestimated for its outstanding benefits for our everyday lives. The great aspects of bamboo can benefit skin care, digestion, reducing carbon emissions and overall well-being.   Bamboo is used in a range of well-being products and services because of its natural qualities. Different parts of the bamboo […]

1. Solar I’ve never been a fan of the aesthetic look of solar panels but now Tesla has created solar tiles which will be available soon. Also there are solar windows from www.polysolar.co.uk/ which can turn the energy from the sun into powering everything in the house and even making you money back from the grid. […]

Environmental Economics undertakes theoretical or empirical studies of the economic effects of national or local environmental policies around the world. Particular issues include the costs and benefits of alternative environmental policies to deal with air pollution, water quality, toxic substances, solid waste, and global warming. In this world we are dealing with finite resources and […]

Grown up in Indonesia, designer Elora Hardy has brought up by her creative parents and proved herself in a successful career in Fashion in NYC. Met love of her life, she moved back to Indonesia. Elora’s father has created a ‘green school’ made largely from bamboo, inspiring students to think about impact on the environment. Elora felt […]

Vivienne Westwood Talk About Art, Culture and Environment at Frieze Art Fair London 2015. The Cheeky Panda was at Frieze Art Fair London 2015 listening to fashion designer Vivienne Westwood talking about the relationship between art and culture as well as her commitment to environmental and social activism. In Vivienne’s view, the art itself does […]

In this brief documentary, Cariloha Bamoo introduced some incredible properties of bamboo and the eco process that is made into fabric fibres and eventually apparel and accessories. Bamboo is naturally anti-bacteria, three times softer than normal types of fabrics, which has made it a perfect material for clothings such as underwear and socks, bedsheets and bath […]

Char O’Brien and David Sands talks about what makes bamboo the perfect alternative for building with lumber. Bamboo is grass, unlike trees which take 20 to 30 years to grow, bamboo matures in 3 years fro the shoot to high quality structural material. When you cut the bamboo, you are not killing the root, they grow […]