Hello Inés,I am thinking that the best thing for you to do is to join bamboo-plantations@yahoogroups.com
. Ask for members who are from Argentina. I am sure there are some.
These people can help you with your project.
Yours in bamboo,
Daphne Lewis
http://www.dogscooter.com
Garden Designer
Bamboophile
Federal Way, WA
On Nov 19, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Ines Reyna wrote:
> Dear Daphne B. Lewis,
>
> My name is Inés María Reyna and I am in my last year of a secondary
> school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Together with three classmates we
> are investigating the uses of the bamboo species from the Delta del
> Paraná, apart from arts and crafts with poorly treated cane.
>
> We allow ourselves to drop you these lines given the fact that,
> searching on the net, we found out that you have written a book
> ("Hardy Bamboos for Shoots & Poles") about bamboo and thought that
> maybe you could help us. We would really appreciate it if you could
> tell us any information or send us some pictures of the species of
> bamboo we found here, which are: phyllostachys aurea, bambusa
> tuldoides, arundinaria simonii (pleioblastus simonii), guadua trinii
> and phyllostachys nigra.
>
> We have chosen to develop this issue as part of the 'Young Masters
> Programme', an interactive distance-learning course on sustainable
> development organized by the Lund University in Sweden. This program
> encourages the youngsters to think about some problems in their
> living town and give any possible solution to it.
>
> Our project consists of showing and promoting to the islanders the
> uses of the bamboo existing in the islands, so as to offer them a
> different possibility for improving their economy taking advantage
> of an available resource. From what we have been investigating, not
> only the bamboo is not efficiently utilized here but also there is
> almost no information on it.
>
> This project has been selected to be presented in the 'Global
> Environmental Youth Convention' of next year in Beijing, China, and
> we are interested in going deeper in the potentialities of the
> species mentioned in order to present an option for sustainable
> development with a local resource.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Inés María Reyna
>
>
>
>
>
> P. S.: If you are interested we can enclose you further information
> on the species from this area, as well as some more details of our
> project or the 'Young Masters Programme' (its website is: http://www.iiiee-ymp.org
> ).
>
>
>
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