Cali Bamboo
Cali Bamboo is focused in promoting the expanded use of bamboo as a material for the home. In doing so, the company hopes to make a difference in the future of the planet by encouraging the production and accessibility of rapidly renewable, low emissions home building and hardware products.
Cali Bamboo’s national reach and exponential growth earned its founder/CEO, Jeff Goldberg, and COO, Tanner Haigwood, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for San Diego in June. Moreover, the company contributes one percent of its annual revenues each year to environmental organizations worldwide, and is also an active member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
Check out some recent positive press we got for this company!
Palm Beach Post
Lake Worth woman's bamboo fence places third in project of month contest
For the past six months, Patricia Ward was voting online in a monthly contest held by a San Diego-based company that sells bamboo flooring, fencing and green building products.
Each month, Cali Bamboo customers can enter a "Project of the Month" contest by sending in pictures that showcase their works of art.
Sierra Sun
Truckee resident goes green and develops style using bamboo
Local Truckee resident, Larry Rose, recently showcased his green building efforts and won third place in Cali Bamboo's National “Project of the Month” contest.
Rose creatively used bamboo, one of the world's most durable, sustainable and renewable materials, to build an eco-friendly kitchen with carbonized horizontal bamboo plywood kitchen cabinets and fossilized natural bamboo flooring.Laguna Beach Independent
Table Maker Wins Bamboo Contest
Laguna Beach resident Viggo Torbensen recently took second place from among 3,000 entries in a project-of-the month contest sponsored by San Diego bamboo flooring company Cali Bamboo.
Torbensen, whose Interra Furnishings equips libraries, won for his creativity building a table from bamboo plywood. The table was recently created for a California Libraries Association trade show.
BuildingGreen.com
Bamboo Dimensional Lumber? "Lumboo" Is Here
Dimensional lumber has defined the “stick-built” home for decades, but bamboo stalks were used for centuries before 2x4s came along. Now a trendy green material, bamboo is angling in on its old turf.
Cali Bamboo, a maker of bamboo flooring and other products since 2004, launched Lumboo, a product line of dimensional bamboo lumber, in March 2010, four years after beginning development of the product. Like other bamboo wood products currently sold, Lumboo is manufactured by gluing strips of bamboo together into a block (see EBN Mar. 2006). According to Jeff Goldberg, Cali Bamboo CEO, although Lumboo is in production, the company has not firmly settled on a binder, but he said it will probably be phenol-formaldehyde based and urea-formaldehyde-free.
Kansas City Star
Olathe family’s bamboo deck wins national contest
Jackson, an Olathe resident, recently entered a contest sponsored by Cali Bamboo, a manufacturer of green building products for commercial and residential projects that utilize bamboo.
The San Diego-based company sponsors a project of the month contest to showcase different building ideas and designs using bamboo. Photos of finalists’ projects are shown on the company Web site— www.calibamboo.com—and visitors to the site are encouraged to vote for the winning project. Jackson was surprised when Cali Bamboo selected his project as one of the finalists in January’s contest.
The Daily Bulletin
Shakey's PIzza joins others in green movement
By Wendy Leung
Jeff Goldberg, chief executive officer of Cali Bamboo, the San Diego-based company that installed the flooring at Shakey's, said bamboo has grown tremendously popular in the last several years.
"We started in 2004. At that point you had to educate people on what bamboo is," Goldberg said. "People wondered what is that weird round object and how can you possibly use it on the floor. Now, it's commonplace."
San Diego News Network
Who knew that the business idea of two broke surfer pals would become a $7.2 million company? A yearlong surf trip around the world had left the young duo without a penny to spare, but they returned brimming with ideas on how they might better the world’s environment. Jeff Goldberg and Tanner Haigwood had a simple plan: To sell something they knew would not thrash the earth.
Building Products Magazine
Bamboo Decking: Answers on the Latest Trend in Outdoor Living
By David Koenig
BPD-Building Products DigestBAMBOO may be the fastest growing plant on Earth. Unlike trees, which take decades to reach harvestable height and width, bamboo stalks can be continuously re-harvested every three to seven years. And, say proponents, continuous harvesting of this woody grass actually improves the overall health of the plant.
With these green credentials, manufacturers and importers earlier this decade began marketing bamboo flooring to the U.S. Now, they've turned their sights outdoors-to the turbulent world of decking.
Building Products Digest asked Jeff Goldberg, c.e.o. of Cali Bamboo, San Diego, Ca., to share how bamboo decking stacks up with the competition.
Floor Covering Weekly
Cali Bamboo donates $20,000 to Surfrider Foundation
Cali Bamboo has donated $20,000 to the Surfrider Foundation National Headquarters and their San Diego Chapter.
The company contributed $10,000 to national headquarters and $10,000 to the local chapter in support of their clean water initiatives that aim to protect our world’s oceans, waves and beaches.
“While we aim to achieve business success, it is just as important to make the planet a more environmentally friendly place and our contribution is a testament to this philosophy,” said Jeff Goldberg, CEO of Cali Bamboo. “Being in San Diego, the ocean is our backyard which makes the Surfrider Foundation an organization that our company is passioWaterWorld
San Diego Coastkeeper reaches Watershed Monitoring goal with $14K donation from
The donation will help the non-profit organization enhance the physical condition of San Diego's beaches, bays, watersheds and oceans as well as provide valuable public health benefits to residents and visitors.
"Not only is it our mission to do our part as a company to protect the environment, but a lot of our staff enjoy spending time at the beach; so contributing to a program that aims to improve our local waters was important to us," said Jeff Goldberg, CEO of Cali Bamboo. "As we continue to provide products made from renewable resources, we applaud organizations like San Diego Coastkeeper that are helping to create a healthier planet as well."
Jackson Citizen Patriot
Bamboo transforms room in Lake Columbia cottage into tropical gateway
After Rob and Stacey DeAngelis decorated an entire room of their cottage with Cali Bamboo products, the company featured them as winners and sent them a $250 gift certificate for being named project of the month for July.
The San Diego-based company's CEO, Jeff Goldberg, said customers submit pictures of their completed project that use the products, and employees vote on their favorite each month.
North County Times
Retail: World travel yields Inc. 500 company
In August, Cali Bamboo joined the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies. Ranked 254th on the business magazine's list, the San Diego-based company says it increased revenues by 877 percent over the past three years. That makes it the fifth-fastest growing company in San Diego County.
The company donates 1 percent of its revenues ---- not its profits ---- to an environmental charity, 1 Percent for the Planet.
