Hemp Architects Lose Contract

December 5, 2008

A construction and architecture conference in London next June is slated to feature a house made of hemp. But it now looks like the hemp house isn’t going to be as architecturally distinct as originally planned. The architecture firm that was initially contracted to build it have been dropped in favor of a more off-the-shelf [...]

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Hemp Science Explained

December 5, 2008

The company Naturally Advanced Technology has been on quite a roll lately. They successfully conducted some bulk commercial hemp trials that have already lead to a partnership with Hanes, and the scientists who made those trials a success then won an award for figuring out how to alter hemp fibers so that they could be [...]

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Eyeing the Hemp as a Biomass

December 3, 2008

Hemp’s potential as a biofuel is not exactly a secret, but it’s not common knowledge either. Well, the biomass industry is well aware of it’s potential, and the lawsuit being waged North Dakota farmers seems to have the industry watching hemp closer than usual. A recent article in Biomass Magazine titled US industrial hemp development [...]

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Hemp Hotel

December 3, 2008

You’ve probably heard of ice hotels, but what about a hotel made of hemp. Well, we’re not quite there, but the Hemp Hotel in Amsterdam surely makes an affort. As MetroNews.ca reports: Hemp Hotel – As the name suggests, hemp is the theme of the décor. There are five rooms all decorated with THC-free goods. [...]

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Hemp Ideas for the Holidays

December 3, 2008

Ah, there nothing like hemp for the holidays. Well, there’s more the holiday hemp than just wrapping paper and gift cards, and Yoga Journal has the scoop. In a recent article about how stitched and knitted fabrics are connected to yoga, author Victoria Everman offers up a heads up on some hemp-based ones: Stock up [...]

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Possible Redemption for Hemp Merchant

November 30, 2008

About one month ago, we reported on Randy Caine, the owner a store called Hempyz in Langley, British Columbia, who was forced to dump his hemp stock because of local zoning laws that restricted the sale of hemp products to a particular shopping mall. Caine’s shop was in the town’s core, not at the mall. [...]

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Hough Fights for Hemp Foods

November 30, 2008

Now that Australian the province of New South Whales has legalized hemp farming, the CEO of Australian hemp lobby and research company Hemp Resources, Kim Hough, is wasting no time in pushing the envelope. You see, even though it’s now legal to grow hemp for fiber, it is still illegal for Australians to consume hemp-food [...]

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Hemp for the Holidays

November 30, 2008

We often touch upon how much potential hemp has to help with the environment: it’s preferable to cotton because it’s much easier on the soil and requires much less water; it has a great potential as biofuel; it can actually remove heavy metals form the soil; it can be used to treat sewage; and the [...]

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