Green England Special Offers

The Bambienti January sale is extended.

The Bambienti January Sale has been extended with reductions of as much as 50% on offer. So it’s a great opportunity to create a new and eco friendly within your space!

Bambienti is a new brand which designs and produces furniture and accessories made from Bamboo. The products on offer include chairs and seating, coffee and occasional tables, room divider screens, a range of storage items including garment rails and towel ladders, lighting, accessories and garden water features. All of their products are hand made in small to medium sized workshops.



Bamboo has previously been perceived as being too weak for serious furniture projects however with a high bearing capacity and tensile strength comparable to steel this ancient material has impressive credentials as a viable and long term alternative to diminishing sustainable hardwood resources. They include the following:



Bamboo offers support to a planet with increasing amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. It releases more oxygen than the equivalent number of conventional trees, as much as 35% in some cases.



It is also capable of removing as much as 12 tons of carbon dioxide from the air per hectare (10,000 m2).



Bamboo grows incredibly quickly, as much as a metre a day. To compare lifecycles; Rubberwood takes about 25 years to reach felling maturity, Oak takes up to 120 years. Yet Bamboo takes just 2-7 years.



Natural sustainability is one of the most significant advantages Bamboo offers over conventional timber. When a conventional tree is cut down it is gone forever, in contrast Bamboo requires no replanting after harvesting. This is because it has an extensive net like root system that keeps sending up new shoots.



The underlying principle behind the Bambienti brand is that their efforts should not simply stop at the point of sourcing a green material. Rather that any effort to improve long term sustainability for the planet is dependent upon the success brands have in enabling communities who continue to live off of their land access to sustainable materials and methods.



Those communities who have suffered land degradation due to uncontrolled or illegal timber logging have in Bamboo a material that can offer some much needed respite for two reasons.

Firstly Bamboo is a viable alternate that can limit our dependence upon already limited conventional timber resources.



Secondly, unlike with conventional trees the root structure of Bamboo can develop within the top soil of degraded land, the culms (Bamboo poles) tend to grow rapidly, cover land very quickly and prevent soil run-off and produce considerable biomass.



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