Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant, it’s woody perennial evergreen that can thrive without the use of pesticides and grow quickly in different climates. In many countries Bamboo plant has high cultural significance and it’s used extensively in gardens and as a building material. Bamboo can play an important role in plant conservation worldwide along with many other natural resources.
Washington-based, biotech lab, Boo-Shoot Gardens has produced a major achievement in tissue-culture science that enables rapid propagation of bamboo plants. Jackie Heinricher the Owner of Boo-shoot launched Boo-Shoot in 1998. Now Jackie Heinricher with their senior scientist Randy Burr, will supply wholesalers with over two million plants annually.
Boo-Shoot’s technology will help to meet the growing demand of bamboo in wood products, soil stabilization, reforestation paper pulp, textiles, flooring, and all sorts of household items. Since bamboo sequesters carbon 4x as efficiently as hardwood trees, growing bamboo will be good for the planet and for the air we breathe.
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This site from Sweden suggests the best suitable outdoor jacket based on your local weather forecast. Depending on the weather conditions in the city, you get a different recommendations on the jacket you should wear during your next destination. The site track your IP address and connect to a weather forecast service and match the product database accordingly.
The site suggested “No Jacket Needed” to me tracking my Indian IP, the city where I am located, which have 27 degree temperature on today. 
I hope this site is quite helpful for the frequent travelers.
Wizehive is a Web-based group messaging and task management service for businesses like twitter. WizeHive just launched in beta which carries task management features as well as enabling users to create a small database for workspace – that comes with customizable data fields.
This Twitter-like startup for organizing stuffs making Twitter service more competition, the tools have an extended features that let you create a task, set a due date, and assign it to someone, each task can be marked as “open,” “completed,” or “in progress.” Great tools for workgroups, developpers, and it is free for up to three people with 50MB of storage space. You can also upload files, and everyone can view them in-browser, this feature can help you to interact with your co-workers and organize your work smoothly.
WizeHive is currently on Beta Invites, just enter “TC2009? when you sign up.
Paul Rawlings, a developer from the UK, launched Tweebay on Christmas Day, tweebay is a classifieds listings service for Twitter. Tweebay- micro-classifieds listing site is a revolutionary idea to sale product automatically notifying all followers through a Twitter account. With tweebay You can easily use your Twitter account to buy and sell stuff without entering your Twitter password, you simply follow Tweebay on Twitter, and confirm your bids through the direct message.
Tweeebay let you alert everyone following you on the service that you have something to sell, if people really need that products or service they can surely buy stuffs from you rather than relying strangers on ebay! This idea of social classifieds is gaining the popularity for a variety of different reasons.
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