Institute of Wood Science & Technology (IWST), agarbhatti manufacturers and bamboo growers in State, have urged the government to lift the ban on procurement of bamboo from forests.  The Forest department has imposed the ban to protect forest areas. Unlike in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, Karnata ...

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PEMBROKE HALL, St Mary:A GROUP of St Mary-based agriculturalists are set to embark on a ground-breaking project that could signal a significant increase in the farming of organic produce in Jamaica. In an bid to tap into the lucrative international trade in bamboo products, last week, Oratio Kenned ...

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If you’re wondering what kind of dessert to serve at a cocktail party (or really, any party!) let me offer this suggestion: cake bites! This is a fun little way to serve cake without fussing with plates, forks, or even cupcake wrappers, and their poppable nature makes them tailor-made for a cocktai ...

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Months after her wallet was stolen, a public works employee found it on a ramp to the Parkway, but it wasn’t the wallet she missed. Rather, it was a reminder of her husband tucked inside the wallet that made its return extra rewarding. To Sis Profeta, the story is a miracle. Her husband had a golde ...

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Hockey is sometimes described as a secular religion for Canadians, and now its worshippers have a new relic to oooh and ahhh over, courtesy of the Canadian Museum of History. Admittedly, the world’s oldest-known hockey stick isn’t much to look at – scarred, paint-flecked, just 105 centimetres tall ...

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  With Christmas one week away, you may be running out of time or cash in the hunt for those last few presents. Have no fear, your DIY gift guide is here. 1. Glam Gardener Kit: One of my best friends loves pink almost as much as she loves growing plants and flowers in her apartment. She inspired me ...

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It is Christmastime, and the season of light: everywhere you look, particularly after dark, is the twinkle of hundreds of little lights. As 2015 approaches, the International Year of Light is also being kindled into action – a year designed to make us think about light technologies and global chall ...

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Fifty-year-old German artist Birgitta Volz paints on the trunk of the trees to create wood and bark prints on canvas. For the past two decades, she has been making portraits of old trees. Her works inspire the oldest graphical printing technique — the wood print. Volz claims she’s the only person t ...

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One of the areas in which 3D printing has really excelled as of late is within the jewelry industry. Although we are only in the early stages of this technological revolution, already many large jewelry companies are turning to 3D printing in order to create designs which would never have been made ...

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What does the average Toronto household spend more on, bourbon-flavoured toothpicks or cufflink polishing? If you picked either, welcome to the diamond life. Welcome to my kitchen, where I’m shucking oysters as fast as I can, which is not very fast.   Sometimes I put people together at the dinne ...

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It was a very emotional Guy Lapointe I interviewed on Dec. 5, three days following the death of Jean Béliveau, who was a father figure to the Hall of Fame defenceman who had his No. 5 retired by the Canadiens this season. “I’m getting a little emotional here, I’m sorry,” Lapointe said over the phon ...

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A RELIEVED man has said he “wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry” after learning the agonising pain he thought was CANCER turned out to be a toothpick puncturing through the wall of his stomach. Italian man Facino Nucci was terrified he was suffering from cancer after feeling a cri ...

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