HempBuild Magazine: News About the Hemp Building Industry
Winona LaDuke: Native Hemp Farming, Building Will Lead New Green Revolution
Alex White Plume’s work in hemp restoration has been inspirational towards many projects nationally and a number of people were very happy to see him in northern Minnesota. Winona’s Hemp and Anishinaabe Agriculture in Osage, sponsored the gathering to learn about construction and paper making with hemp.
Is California’s ADU Movement Hemp's Moment?
A movement to create low-cost mini-housing in the state of California may be the golden opportunity hemp building needs to enter the public consciousness, one builder and startup founder believes.
Spotlight: Plug-and-play hemp products are ready for Montana winters
In Bozeman, Mont., where winter often lasts into late spring, homeowners Mary and Richard Elston chose two off-the-shelf hemp building materials to create 12-inch highly insulated walls in their new 2,900 sq. foot home outside of town.
Hemp Building Materials Will Accelerate Environmental Renewal
According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the conventional building sector contributes up to 30% of total annual greenhouse gas emissions globally. Left unchecked, those emissions will more than double in the next 20 years. Hemp can help.
History-Making Hempcrete PA Home Shows Industry Potential
A hempcrete residential remodel of a blighted balloon-frame house in New Castle, PA is providing proof-of-concept for local farmers that there exists a realistic outlet for fiber industrial hemp in Pennsylvania.
Hempitecture Raises $1 Million in 2 Days through Investor Crowdfunding Campaign
Ketchum, ID-based Hempitecture, Inc., a pioneering U.S. company in hemp building materials, raised almost $1 million in the first two days through an online regulation crowdfunding investment campaign this week.
As Lumber Prices Surge, Hemp Blocks Get a Closer Look
The cost of U.S. construction timber is skyrocketing, and a national concern is growing for the carbon emitted by the construction industry. As homebuilders look for solutions, the nation’s small-but-growing number of hemp builders wonder if building with hemp will finally break through into the mainstream construction consciousness.
Field to Shelter: Adobe-Hemp Casita Project
Arnie Valdez, a professor or architecture and owner of southwestern Colorado’s Rezolana Farm, was one of the first licensed hemp growers in the state. Valdez and his team created a field-to-shelter sustainable demonstration casita with homegrown and hand-decorticated hemp and clay to make adobe bricks.
Hair on Fire: Let’s Build with Hemp This Summer
Feeling inspiration being planted is an invigorating feedback loop. I am very fortunate to have had a role in the dawning awareness of the solid reality of a healthy, beautiful, affordable house.
Interview: Pure Shenandoah Hemp's 'Great Pivot' from Cannabinoids to Fiber
Pure Shenandoah Hemp co-founder Jake Johnson talks to Triple P Fund’s Ray Kaderli about the company’s new strategy to move from cannabinoids to fiber.
‘Showcase’ Hemp Homes Community Planned in Northwestern Colorado
A publicly traded Canadian hemp company plans to build communities of 50 -100 modestly priced hemp homes in northwestern Colorado per year, with two demonstration homes being built this year, the company spokesman said.
Southwestern Farmers Gather to Build Hemp-based Emergency Sleeper Cabins
Builders and designers met on one of the earliest licensed industrial hemp farms in southwest Colorado in late April to learn about adobe hemp construction and create a hemp-based prototype for a small emergency shelter.
DIY Hemp Eco-Cabin Released by Pennsylvania Designers
Pennsylvania-based hemp building pioneers CoExist Build have released a build-it-yourself 140 sq. foot hemp cabin that can be used as a home office.
Amazon Hemp Cardboard is My Earth Day Dream: Opinion
Hemp processing in the United States is a chicken-and-egg problem. But Amazon could be the 500-foot chicken that solves it.
Pennsylvania's Hemp Builders: Collaboration and Creativity
Before the 80-year U.S. prohibition of marijuana and hemp, the hemp industry in Pennsylvania was one of the oldest in the United States. Hemp was grown in the colony ever since 1683, when William Penn and the General Assembly declared the plant one of the four staples of the colony.
Hemp Building Innovators in Mexico Await Changes in Cannabis Laws
As Mexico waits at the threshold of a new era of cannabis decriminalization for adult use, medical marijuana and hemp, some hemp pioneers already have a head start.
Build with Hemp: A Call to Action
Hemp building is good for your health, good for the environment, and has potential to be lucrative for entrepreneurs and existing businesses. We have the answer everyone is looking for, we just need to prove it to them.
Hemp Bricks an Immediate Solution to the Native American Permanent Housing Crisis
The pyramids are still standing, we can make toxin free bricks with hemp that will stand generations, 500 mile per hour winds and 9.2 earthquakes. This means homes can be passed down. Indigenous people will no longer be robbed of the opportunity of inheritance.
How to Enter the US Hemp Building Industry
The good news is in 2021, working in hemp building in the United States is more a possibility than at any point in the past.
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