Saleb, one of our young artisans, applies a coat of finish on a toy car. This is not your regular industry where every product is the same. The product's finish is defined by his meticulous hand-work, and each contour is shaped by his chisels. Not mass-produced, not die-cast, not machine made, each piece is unique, just like the bamboo it came from and the artisan who made it! Hand-made and hand-finished, each toy is worth many hours of painstaking work! Artisanal work is growing globally,...

The spider and the bamboo. Going back from work late one evening, I came across a large spider perched on the folds of a fresh bamboo shoot. A new thought struck my mind. Something we take for granted, but something so important- habitat. The observations do not stop there. A Brown Boobook (Brown hawk owl) that roosts regularly in the same place in the bamboo grove, the Paradise flycatcher that hawks for insects in the bamboo, the Black-naped Monarch that raises its brood in the bamboo (we...

Global warming, microplastics in food, climate change... enough reasons to go for the most sustainable, green materials we can find. But...