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ACMPR Applicant Tantalus Labs Advocates Sustainable Cultivation
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 economic impacts and need for environmental stewardship as legalization rolls out in British Columbia. The report, Into the Light, explores the key challenges…
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UK Farmer Grows his Home from Hemp
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 in an amazing eco-hemp house, held together with…
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Is Hemp Concrete the Future of Construction?
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 engineer, Bob Clayton has made the first house in Florida to be built…
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Hemp House Becomes South Africa’s Most Sustainable Building
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 materials, including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, and fuel. Budden paired up with Dutch architect Erwin…
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Momentum Grows in Call for Hemp to be Legalised in South Africa
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 plant that does not have the intoxicating THC compound found…
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South Africa: High Hopes for Hemp House
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 almost entirely of materials that could be grown on a few hectares…
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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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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…
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Low Carbon Hemp House Put to the Test
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 as a building material. Called the “HemPod,” this one-storey building has highly insulating walls made from the…
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From Concrete to Hempcrete
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 is based in Asheville, North Carolina, see hemp as the way of the future. “It…