If you are looking for the next big names in hemp, look no further than the Los Angeles-based “Hemp Twins,” Abigail and Noemy Cuevas. From tackling the housing crisis, to leading the way for LA’s Social Equity cannabis licenses, to creating sustainable building materials, the sisters are leaders in the hemp industry as well as their community.

Hempcrete construction brings along a private good through the lower operations cost of healthy houses, and a public good through a lower carbon footprint.

What if you didn’t have to wait 80+ years for an oak tree to grow large enough to be felled? A new innovation in the emerging hemp industry seeks to replace traditional hardwood with a woody product that grows in just a few months.

We realized the need for a comprehensive film about industrial hemp and its benefits for human health and the environment that would hopefully give it the respect and research opportunities we were hearing about in other countries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hemp processing in the United States is a chicken-and-egg problem. But Amazon could be the 500-foot chicken that solves it.

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.

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.