More than two dozen speakers and hemp building experts will appear virtually at an upcoming online fundraiser and conference to raise money to certify hemp as an official building material in U.S. building codes.

Sergiy “Dr. Hemphouse” Kovalenkov’s love for the environment and passion for sustainable construction is driving Hempire quickly towards their goal of “Changing the World Naturally!”

Hemp enthusiasts and professionals will gather in Longmont, CO in late August to promote industrial uses of hemp and give a glimpse of new opportunities in agriculture and industry.

The U.S. Department of Energy is supporting the extensive study of hemp-fiber insulation in a research and development program for entrepreneurs at the Tennessee-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

During my time in Europe I’ve ended up working on three Hempcrete builds for Graham Durrant of Hemp-lime Spray. Graham has been very kind in not only giving me a job, but also always really took the time to really teach me the building science behind the material.

That new-construction-smell might actually be a slurry of chemicals being released from the particle board used in subfloors and walls. The air might also be heavy with guilt about using valuable and slow-growing trees in your building projects.

A few thoughts on using hempcrete in the conservation and renovation of solid wall buildings.

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.