As program coordinator for 8 th Fire Solar, an emerging Osage, Minnesota-based provider and installer of solar thermal panels, Gwe Gasco is doing his part to take care of the environment and lay the ...

It really doesn’t look like much, but hempcrete is the green building material that’s got eco-savvy homeowners and architects excited by its potential to be a sustainable alternative to ...

MORTON, MINN. – Eight-foot-tall stalks of hemp swayed in a field on the prairie here, ready for harvest. But these plants won’t get anyone high. Instead, they’ll be turned into hempcrete, a building ...

For now, it's only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern ...

Hemp was never all that rare. Long before it was banned and stigmatized, this ancient plant was already part of daily life, used in textiles, ship sails, ropes, paper, and even building materials.

The Lower Sioux Indian Community in southwest Minnesota is using hempcrete to address the community's housing and job needs. One of three homes built using hempcrete as part of a program by the Lower ...

Commercial and residential architects will more easily use hemp-lime (hempcrete) thanks to new FREE technical resources. US architects who want to design homes and the big multi-story hemp-lime ...

JAMES ISLAND — As far as April Magill and Matt McQueen know, the building in their backyard is the first of its kind in South Carolina. From the outside, it looks completely ordinary. It’s the size of ...

Words by Kerry Speckman “I consistently read up on all kinds of technologies, from Japanese and sailing knots to rainscreen systems to net-zero projects, hempcrete to micro-homes, furniture to light ...

Two projects demonstrate material approaches to sustaining urban biodiversity, an increasingly critical issue as human population and urbanization increase the effects of the 6th mass extinction of ...