John slideshow
- 1. This is Laurent - an internationally acclaimed bamboo sculptor - but his bamboo is a bit small.
- 2. When he saw our giant black petung, he dreamt of this.
- 3. We are in the process of making it happen for him. It will be fully formed in 3 months and mature in 3 years, when it will be cut and exhibited. He is having to come in and adjust the ropes daily for those first three months because of the speed at which the bamboo grows.
- 4. This is Rudiger - a mad swiss violin maker. We got him playing with bamboo and he made this…
- 5. and then we got him to think big Bamboo is helping him re-imagine music
- 6. Structures as tall and strong and dense as Teak. Joerg - a brilliant timber framer from Germany, lost in the bamboo forests of Colombia, clearly bitten by the bamboo bug. His talents are transforming structural engineering data into bamboo poetry.
- 7. He helped build our bridge at Green School
- 8. ...and in the last 3 weeks he's reimagined the electric vehicle. He's turned a bamboo spring into a buggy.
- 9. It takes 500 clamps to make one
- 12. They come in 3 sizes, the one in the middle is a two seater, the one on the right is a 3 seater and of course a mini one on the left for two kids
- 13. My son Orin recently graduated with a liberal arts degree and asked me why I hadn’t insisted he learn something that would lead to a job. I said, its not about getting a job, it’s about making jobs. He came back to Bali, built his first green house (made out of bamboo and recycled windshields) and founded a business called iBuku Food Gardens.
- 14. He has an amazing permaculturist mentor, Mark. And now he is creating food gardens.
- 15. He's just finished this bamboo house food garden and there is an amazing sense of harmony. Food for people, for animals and the land
- 16. They have recently been commissioned to take a six hectare property of abandoned land, restoring the Balinese garden that has been there for a thousand years. The idea is you have to heal the land before building a healing centre. He's even turning the salaried landscape gardeners into a co-op of profit driven food farmers
- 17. His vision is broad. Car parks are intolerable. He's building a parking farm. Imagine if everyone did this. All you have to do is cut strips in the asphalt, put in nitrogen fixing posts and plant the seeds. Wouldn’t it be amazing remembering you parked the car in the pumpkin patch. This can be everywhere.
- 18. BioChar - We have miles of bamboo scrap and we’re making it into charcoal. The bed on right has bio char, the bed on the left doesn't
- 19. He’s even making these charcoal vases that will suck the toxins out of the box you live in, assuming you don't live in Bali.