News, Facts, and Information about the Hemp Plant
Global commodity prices rise are on the rise, driving up the price of all staples, from food to coffee to cotton. These increases have been severe enough that they even have some G20 leaders worried about food security. On the cotton front, hemp fibers could help consumers save on their clothing purchases. But if hemp [...]
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Came across this interesting article on Hemp vs Cotton. It’s just another reminder of how the plant is not only extrememly versatile, but can how, once again, it’s an extremely eco-friendlier alternative to a very environmentally damaging crop. Here were some key points: It takes about 1,400 gallons of water to produce just 1 pound [...]
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We’ve previously covered how hemp can be used to treat sewage, and how an Australian researcher, Dr. Keith Bolton, was testing it’s full potential as a mop-up crop. Well, it appears that the good Dr. Bolton is at it again. As the Northern Rivers Echo reports, Dr. Bolton has recently used his research to help [...]
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A mop-up crop, simply put, is a crop that pulls contaminants out of the soil. Well, hemp has been shown to pull heavy metals out of the soil, but apparently it can also help used in sewage treatment. You see, raw sewage is a problem for water because it causes eutrophication, which is when so [...]
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Just last week, we posted about an article in the University of Maryland’s student newspaper, The Retriever Weekly about hemp in American history. Well, it seems that the editor at that student paper have are sympathetic toward the cannabis plant, and have just run another piece. This one looks at the environmental potential of hemp [...]
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Today has been a slow day in terms of hemp related news, so I thought I’d post this video on one man’s effort to replace cotton farms in Whales with industrial hemp farms. Hemp has a number of advantages over cotton: it can produce 250% the amount of fibre it requires little to no pesticides [...]
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An opinion piece on OpEd News points to an interesting paper by Lynn Osburn. Appearing to have been written in 1990, Toward a Green Economy outlines some of major environmental dilemmas caused by our economy, and then explores how industrial hemp might be able to solve them. Here’s an excerpt on how using industrial hemp [...]
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Built in New Zealand and valued at $3 million, Earthrace is the world’s fastest eco-boat. In fact, it broke the world record for circumnavigating the globe by almost 14 days when it completed the journey in 60 days, 23 hours, and 49 minutes. Cooler still: it’s hull is made of hemp. As BVI Platinum reports: [...]
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