That's also the subject of our next town hall in Lake Elsinore, California, where the mortgage meltdown has sent many homeowners into foreclosure, but it's also helped create a once-in-a-lifetime buying opportunity for others.
But bamboo is something of a tragic plant -- it only flower oncein its lifetime -- and the Jiuzhai Valley bamboo flowered and died in the 1980s, depriving pandas of the food that makes up 99% of their diet.