Ketchum, ID-based Hempitecture, Inc., manufacturer and distributor of hemp batt insulation products, will close on a seed round of investment for $5.7 million this week, using online crowdfunding platform Wefunder, company founders said.

At a time when many businesses and industries are collapsing under the weight of the restrictions and mandates, many people are looking for ways to pivot from their existing careers into new ways of earning a living and supporting their families.

A current supply crunch on hemp hurd in Europe, while a temporary inconvenience, signals a major shift forward for the hemp building sector and can advance the development of much-needed processing facilities.

Architect, CEO and designer Monika Brümmer is a biomaterials designer and builder and founder of a hemp brick company based in Granada, Spain.

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY say they have developed a hemp‐based rebar reinforcing technology for cement construction.

Join Lillian “Lilibet” Clarke as she travels the globe visiting some of the world’s most interesting hempcrete buildings.

Hemp Building Directory 2022, the definitive guide to hemp building materials and experts, contains more than 350 listings worldwide capturing the growing hemp building industry in 25 countries.

The DIY Hex Hemple was developed for a client in Hawaii where the regulations allowed for a structure under 120 sq. ft. to be built without building department approval.

The professional association representing the US hemp building industry moved forward to certify hemp and lime (hempcrete) insulation in US building codes this month.

New hemp block companies starting up this year in North America show that hemp is creating the building blocks of a new industry.

A startup in India’s Uttarakhand state has completed a hemp-based home it hopes will serve as a model for the expansion of sustainable, affordable housing in the state’s northeastern Himalaya region.

One of the world’s most influential architecture firms is proposing using carbon-sequestering hemp as a vital part of the international built environment of the future.

Lawrence Serbin is a pioneer of the U.S. hemp industry, having started his company, California-based Hemp Traders in the 1990s.

As hemp building and construction gain more popularity across the world, it’s fortunate that some of the most experienced builders and researchers are willing to share their knowledge in the form of high-quality books.

A San Antonio, TX, fresh juice company will take a new direction this spring by offering fresh squeezed baby hemp cannabis greens sold from a walk-up hempcrete juice bar.

As a child of the 1960’s, t-shirts featuring hemp were the rage and everyone was fascinated with it. Little did we know back then that even though Hemp plants and marijuana plants are both the same species, hemp is not the same as marijuana.

Microsoft just funded a new report from the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington College of Built Environments on the carbon sequestering abilities of hemp and five other construction methods that have the ability to convert our built environments from a source of carbon emissions to a carbon sink.

A new ESG impact fund focused on hemp for food and fiber will inject $500 million into the industrial hemp supply chain by 2030, founders announced at New York’s CWCBExpo last week. One of the first related innovations is a hemp-based “ink” for 3D construction printing.

Attendees at the U.S. Hemp Building Summit in Austin, Texas, last month got a sneak peek of some of the new products and services in the works in the hemp building and construction world for 2022.

Hemp builders may have a shot at inclusion in two government initiatives as the Biden administration makes good on some of its climate action promises.