--- title: How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women description: The future of American warfare in a tiny African airstrip, the missed lessons of the Ebola outbreak and more. canonical: https://time.com/4186619/bamboo-bikes-women/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-20T17:01:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:34.606Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4186619/bamboo-bikes-women/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 20, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 20, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Find out how bamboo bikes can empower women.**](https://medium.com/@ajplus/fancy-a-ride-on-a-bamboo-bike-4cf28eef6930#.o7axtwayw) By Kheira Tami in AJ+ **2\.** [**This tiny airstrip in an African dictatorship is the future of America’s way of war.**](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/01/05/this-small-airstrip-is-the-future-of-americas-way-of-war/) By Joseph Trevithick at Reuters **3\.** [**Here’s how sleeping more on weekends could save your life.**](http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/come-for-the-cat-photo-stay-for-the-story) By Kate Wheeling in Pacific Standard **4\.** [**Is the U.S. about to trigger a new nuclear arms race?**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/01/obama-about-launch-new-nuclear-arms-race-theres-better-way/125174/?oref=d-skybox) By Gordon Adams and Richard Sokolsky in DefenseOne **5\.** [**Did we miss the lessons of the Ebola outbreak?**](http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/01/19/463567887/have-we-learned-the-wrong-lessons-from-the-ebola-outbreak) By Nahid Bhadelia at Goats and Soda  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4186619/bamboo-bikes-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4186619/bamboo-bikes-women/"},"headline":"How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women","datePublished":"2016-01-20T17:01:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:34.606Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4186619/bamboo-bikes-women/","keywords":["Innovation","Sleep","Drones","ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4186619/bamboo-bikes-women/","name":"How Bamboo Bicycles Are Empowering Women"}}]}] ```