nagpur september 18 is celebrated as the world bamboo day across the world and on this day it will be worth discussing the cause and effects of this wonderful grass we need to talk about and celebrate bamboo for the common cause of driving the society towards creating an ecofriendly world of tomorrow where not minerals but natural cultivable adaptable fastest growing sustainable industrial engineering use of bamboo will have a pivotal role to play i learnt a lot from bamboo during my 25year involvement with it the journey into the world of bamboo makes me foresee and forecast in the grass a solution where ecofriendly lifestyle is possible with 0 use wood plastic steel polymer concrete bamboo is a natural resource that invites and will continue to invite challenge and channelize your creative energies it is the natures gift to mankind and is worthy of learning from and learning to live with the idea today is to let people know the phenomenal characteristics that bamboo possesses and which may prove to be of immense help to mankind in the years to come when exploitation of mineral resources is no longer possible and the time comes for complete green development and environment friendly living people will have no option but to turn to bamboo i believe that bamboo can rescue us as it comes handy during natural calamities such as quakes storms etc it can also combat manmade disasters effects of industrialization and also offer partially if not fully ecological food livelihood and economic security grow more exploit more use more and yet remaining ecoresponsive are the advantages of bamboo bamboo is the only plant on earth that grows faster than any other plant and also possesses engineering properties with haunting concerns of global warming climate change depleting forests and mineral resources incessant exploitation and ever increasing pollution robbing us of our rights over the oxygen or lifetrons it is bamboo i believe that will play a pivotal role in offering us a new social order eternal peace material prosperity economic food ecological and livelihood securitybamboo facts was used by the wright brothers to make the first aeroplane for being strong yet a lightweight material survived the atomic holocaust in japan and came back to life on its own has the same lifespan as human beings avg 70 to 100 years is the fastest growing and renewable resource on earth grows a meter a day when it dies it springs forth seeds worthy of giving birth to thousands of new bamboos its shoots beverages have nutritional values is a climate cleansing global warming combatant and climate change retardant resource is hardy light and flexible and has 1500 documented applications in the world has wellknown medicinal properties since ancient times and is documented in ayurveda is a substitute to wood saving forest metal saving energy and plastic saving environment stiches and repairs the degraded soil and can conserve soil and