Why is everyone talking about bamboo?

Given that trees take at least ten times longer to mature than bamboo—50 years compared to 5—bamboo is an environmentally sustainable material; it even manages to regenerate itself after cutting! Bamboo has other environmental benefits, too: as it grows, this naturally antimicrobial, anti-fungal, and antibacterial grass eschews pesticides and other harmful chemicals while drawing water up to soil level and improving the soil—it's the self sufficient and independent child of the plant world

Strand-woven bamboo flooring—By most accounts, strand woven bamboo flooring, in which the bamboo is shredded and then compressed with adhesives, is the most durable of the three. It looks the least like traditional bamboo because the manufacturers can blend colors and lengths to create many different styles. Note that the presence of adhesives isn't a bad thing as long as the right ones are used.