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PROOF That This Amazing Hemp Product Can Help (Literally) Build the Future

Editorial, Featured, Hemp News

Hempcrete’s Unique Promise and Properties.  Did you know that construction accounts for nearly 40 percent of global energy consumption? Forty percent! That’s massive. It also means construction offers an equally massive opportunity to make a difference in terms of sustainability.  A fascinating application of industrial hemp is its versatility as a building material. Known for […]

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Hemp Field

Benefits Of Using Hemp In The Construction And Textile Industries

Editorial, Featured, Hemp News

Ever since the industrial hemp legalization process began to gain global momentum, much has been said about its medicinal and therapeutic potential.  Hemp is a subspecies of the cannabis plant; it lacks most of marijuana’s psychoactive effects, but can be used as raw material for several industries -such as textile and construction. In fact, industrial

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Hemp Composites

Composite – Hemp Composite Material

Editorial, Hemp News, Hemp Plastics & Composites

Composite Building Material Hemp Composites and a Sustainable Future A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material made from two or more constituent materials with significantly different physical or chemical properties that, when combined, produce a material with characteristics different from the individual

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Hemp Sustainability

Sustainability

Editorial, Hemp News, Sustainability

Sustainability is more than just a word. What is Sustainability? Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony

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hemp house ashville north carolina video on using hempcrete

Editorial, Hemp News, Hempcrete & Construction

Hemp House-Asheville, NC revisited-Video explaining hempcrete’s use This video from 2009 is an interesting reminder of the simplicity and yet the brilliance of the hempcrete technology.  It is also great for learning about the construction techniques that were used when building the hemp house.  Remember the video is about building a house out of hemp. The sustainability will come

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