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Clean “Biocoal” From Hibiscus Cannabinus & Hemp Helps Reduce GHG Emissions
by Carolyn Fortuna Image courtesy Proud Green Building A biorefinery in India will convert bamboo into biocoal, which will be one of the sources used to fuel a combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plant. Clean Electricity Generation and Stork, a Fluor Co., will build and maintain new biocoal production facilities in Estonia in late 2018. Biomass Secure Power, Inc. has entered into a […]
Read more.Pennsylvania researchers trying to grow hemp in coal waste using mine water
JIM LOCKWOOD The (Scranton) Times-Tribune (AP) Ray Angeli gives a tour of the facility next to the greenhouse at the NEET center in Mayfield, Lackawanna County, where hemp will be grown for research. (Jake Danna Stevens / AP) Hemp is coming to Lackawanna County. The state recently awarded a hemp research permit to the nonprofit U.S. […]
Read more.3D Print With Improved Hemp Filament
by Hanna Watkin Save the planet and print using hemp: 3Dfuel is now offering a new, improved Entwined hemp filament with some “pretty big” changes from their v1 first release of the material. Although we believe 3D printing could save our environment by reducing waste and speeding up manufacturing processes, there is yet some way to go to […]
Read more.Building your dream home could send you to the hemp dealer
Bob Woods Source: American Lime Technology Main entrance of the Maui hemp house. One of the oldest and most sustainable building materials of all time is staging a comeback: hemp. Now that several states have legalized the use of marijuana for some recreational and medicinal purposes, a big untapped market is emerging for cannabis to […]
Read more.Back When We Thought Hemp Would Be a Billion-Dollar Crop
By Eric Limer After decades of criminalization and a blatantly racist War on Drugs that has succeeded primarily in putting millions of people in jail, the tide is turning on marijuana. Today, on 4/20, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer came out in support of ending the federal prohibition on marijuana, one of many recent moves by politicians […]
Read more.Jack Herer: Not Just A Marijuana Strain, But A Marijuana Legend
by Steve Davis In the decades-long battle against cannabis prohibition, when growing and possessing cannabis was illegal everywhere in the United States, a handful of brave soldiers stood out as leaders in the battle — and all of them were persecuted because of it. Dennis Peron, long considered the father of medical marijuana, was shot […]
Read more.This Cannabis-Based Mascara Uses CBD Instead Of Beeswax
By Calvin Hughes A new makeup brand is looking to shake things up by introducing a line of cannabis-based mascara. On 4/20, Milk Makeup will be releasing their new Kush Mascara line produced with the cannabis extract CBD. Milk is a vegan company and was looking for something to replace the beeswax often used as the thickening agent […]
Read more.Non-alcoholic, THC-infused beer
by Cat Wolinski Photo Credit: Ceria Beverages (ceriabeverages.com) After announcing his retirement from MolsonCoors earlier this year, Blue Moon Brewing company founder and creator, Keith Villa has announced his next venture: THC-infused beer. The new company, called Ceria Beverages, will be helmed by Villa as co-founder and brewmaster, and his wife, Jodi Villa as CEO. “Ceria” is named for […]
Read more.Centuries old, hemp grows in popularity for home building
By Adam Popescu / New York Times News Service Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times One of the biggest untapped markets for the cannabis plant itself could be as a building tool The Romans have been using it since the days of Julius Caesar, but not to get high. Both Washington and Jefferson grew it. […]
Read more.Healthy Homes With Hempcrete: How Hemp Promotes Healthier Houses
SALLY PERKINS Growing interest in a lesser known building material could create healthy homes all over America. It’s called hempcrete. This combination of chopped hemp shiv and lime binder is durable, sustainable and carbon negative. Lime is an abundant quarried material and hemp is a renewable biomaterial — both safeguarding the sustainable future of hempcrete […]
Read more.Hemp Can Save the Planet
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