the modern eco magazine for an urban green lifestyle
MAY 2012 ISSUE
Bamboo is always on the hunt for inspiring people who make our green lives a little bit more fulfilling. When we found out about Sophie Uliano and the work she is doing with Gorgeously Green, we knew it would be a match made in heaven. As a New York Times-best selling author with an appearance [...]
Very Veggie features a weekly recipe that showcases the best in vegetarian, sometimes vegan, dishes, with helpful cooking and ingredient tips and tricks. Carob comes from a pod, just like chocolate, but it tastes nothing like the cocoa product. Carob is rich in calcium and iron, but it does not have caffeine. Instead, it has [...]
Green Screen is a monthly column that summarizes and reviews the best in eco documentaries from around the world. The Great Lakes contain about 20 percent of all surface fresh water on the earth. Here in North America, these five bodies of water—along with all the smaller lakes, rivers and waterways that connect them—are an [...]
Green Beauty is the eco beauty authority—a weekly column that highlights the best in eco beauty products, brands, trends and techniques. Beauty can be confusing at times. We hear about undertones and age-reversing creams, and wonder whether we are truly a winter when brown eye shadows look so darn good. If makeup were easy to [...]
Bambini is an ongoing column that features Bamboo’s favourite eco parenting ideas and products, for children of all ages. As any parent who’s readied a young child for school can vouch, the shinier and more plastic-heavy a product is, the more likely your child is to want it. The good news? Not all back-to-school supplies [...]
Food for Thought is an ongoing column-with-a-conscience that focuses on exciting new discoveries in the foodie world. When you consider where to get your favourite treat, do you ponder the impact the business has on the community or how it treats its employees? Do you say, “I wonder if the bacon in this ice cream [...]
Very Veggie features a weekly recipe that showcases the best in vegetarian, sometimes vegan, dishes, with helpful cooking and ingredient tips and tricks. Having a bowl of soup in the fall and winter months is a great way to get in a daily dose of veggies, especially green ones. This soup is full of nutrients [...]
A truly simple solution (and one you’ve probably never heard of), full cutoff luminaries help protect our urban night skies, save energy and improve our health. “If we would only use the light we need, we could reduce consumption by 40 percent overnight,” says Bob Parks, Executive Director of the International Dark Sky Association (IDA). [...]
Green Beauty is the eco beauty authority—a weekly column that highlights the best in eco beauty products, brands, trends and techniques. Skin is our body’s armour, and all armour needs polishing. Weleda has designed a line of body oils that hydrate and nourish the skin so it feels incredibly supple. The Pomegranate Body Oil, for [...]
Green Beauty is the eco beauty authority—a weekly column that highlights the best in eco beauty products, brands, trends and techniques. Sometimes, beauty comes wrapped up in a box: a box the size of a building, and inside that building—an oasis of pampering. Ah, spa! With all of the eco-beauty knowledge that Bamboo has bestowed [...]
