VANCOUVER, April 10, 2017 /CNW/ - Tantalus Labs, the B.C.-based designer and builder of North America's first cannabis-tailored greenhouse, and late stage licensed producer applicant, announced today the release of a white paper examining the significant...
August 26, 2015 - When UK farmer Nick Voase switched his croplands from potatoes to hemp after severe flooding in 2007, he probably didn’t know he’d one day be using part of his harvest to build a home. Fast forward to 2015 and the Voase family lives...
April 1st, 2015 - With the advent of the hemp airplane and hemp plastics, the amount of diverse applications for hemp whether industrial or medicinal, is constantly expanding. One of the next up-and-coming hemp revolutions has been spotted out of Florida. Retired...
June 29, 2011 - South Africa has tapped into the eco-mine of sustainable building material: hemp. Tony Budden, an avid hemp advocate in South Africa, has been on the hemp soapbox for years—the versatile superplant can be converted into countless...
April 24, 2011 - Support for an online petition entitled "Hemp Now", calling for the immediate legalisation of industrial hemp, has snowballed with more than 300 signatories and more signing on by the day. The Hemp Now campaign wants hemp - a type of cannabis...
March 23, 2011 - South Africa's building industry has taken another step forward. High up on a hill overlooking the sea in Noordhoek, Western Cape, stands the House that Hemp Built. The first of its kind in South Africa, the building was constructed...
January 25, 2010 - Hemp was among the first crops to be cultivated, and historically it ranks among the most widely cultivated annual crops. Today industrial hemp is enjoying a renaissance in many countries. It is increasingly recognized as a valuable,...
America's first house made primarily of hemp has been built. Using a product known as Hemcrete – a mix of industrial hemp, lime and water – a team of 40 volunteers, sub-contractors and designers have recently completed construction of a hemp house...
September 16, 2010 - A consortium, led by the BRE (Building Research Establishment) Centre for Innovative Construction Materials based at the University, has constructed a small building on the Claverton campus out of hemp-lime to test its properties...
September 15, 2010 - "It's nothing new," says Greg Flavell of Tradical Hempcrete, the hemp-based building product from his company, Hemp Technologies. Yet for most Americans, the material is just that. Flavell and David Madera, his partner at HT, which...
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