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Shoes made with Hemp Sprout Flowers when Planted
February 26, 2010 – Your old sneakers may smell like something found only in fetid corners of nature, but chances are there’s plenty that’s not natural about them. A pair of Dutch entrepreneurs wants to change that. They’ve created a fully biodegradable shoe that will sprout flowers when planted at the end of their life.…
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Canada: Industrial Hemp Making a Comeback
February 9, 2010 – It’s baaaaack! Industrial hemp, that is, the ancient crop which many conventional farmers love to snicker at has returned to Eastern Ontario. It’s pretty easy to poke fun considering hemp’s close association with marijuana. It’s actually the same plant minus significant levels of the hallucinogen THC. Under Health Canada regulations, hemp…
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American Man Could Get Death for Importing Hemp Seed Oil into Egypt
February 04, 2011 – WASHINGTON, DC – The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), the nation’s leading trade organization working to promote non-drug industrial hemp, learned last week of the plight of Mostafa Soliman, an America citizen who has lived in the U.S. for 40 years and was wrongly imprisoned by Egyptian authorities on December 30, 2010…
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Will You Join The Great American [Toilet] Paper Boycott?
January 27, 2011 – The Great American Paper Boycott is a cause begun by environmentalist and musician Lloyd Hart as a way to halt deforestation in the United States. Excerpts from the cause’s Facebook page: The Great American Paper Boycott is about halting deforestation. We at The Great American Paper Boycott are challenging all the…
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Washington Bill Proposes to Sell Medical Marijuana through State Liquor Stores
January 27, 2011 – Washington State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, D-Seattle, is again proposing that the state legalize marijuana and regulate it much like alcohol. House Bill 1550, filed Tuesday, proposes that medical marijuana be sold through state liquor stores to adults aged 21 and over, and that the state Liquor Control Board issue licenses…
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Grassroots Activists Head to the Nation’s Capital to End Prohibition of Hemp and Cannabis
On April 20th, 2011 the “Overgrow the Government” movement is staging a rally in Washington D.C. to demand an end to cannabis prohibition. As of this writing the Facebook page for the rally has over 1,100 people signed up to attend and another 1,000 “maybe attending.” They are looking for one million people to come…
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Hemp Insulation and Building Materials
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, environment-friendly, bio-resource. Selectively bred to minimize the THC (narcotic) content, industrial hemp is licensed…
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Canada’s Herbal Remedy to the Auto Crisis: the Kestrel Hemp EV
January 21, 2011 – (VICTORIA, B.C.) – Environmentalists speak often, and prophetically, about the need for more industry impetus for cars with low or—even better yet—zero emissions. What’s not centre-stage, and should be, is the fact that hemp fibre can be used effectively as a construction material for a vehicle’s shell. Move over Hybrid. The…
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Muse Frontman Matt Bellamy Plans Hemp Farming Future
December 4, 2010 – Muse frontman Matt Bellamy plans to become a hemp farmer and sheep shearer when he retires from touring. Matt Bellamy plans to retire from music and become a hemp farmer. The Muse frontman – who owns a sprawling farm in Devon – wants to transform the land into a factory to…
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America’s First House Made of Hemp
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 located in Ashville, North Carolina (NC). Eco-friendly design and construction company Push Design…