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Not-So-Basic Training

Building with Bamboo

A course on the island of Bali offers intensive in-situ primers on a promising material

Sometimes, the best technology isn’t a technology at all. At one training centre hidden in the forests of Bali in Indonesia, students are learning how to work with one of humanity’s oldest building materials: bamboo.

Established in 2015, Bamboo U aims to inspire people about the fast-growing grass’ potential for green construction. “We’re at the cutting edge of a Stone Age technology,” says

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