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Discover: Everyone’s a critic
Modern city dwellers often dismiss the pigeon as the avian equivalent of the rat. But the birds have not always been so maligned. The ancient Greeks considered them sacred symbols of Aphrodite, goddess of love; the more practical Romans valued them as messengers.
Earth Island Journal: Bamboo paper is not forest-friendly
As public interest in ‘tree-free’ paper has grown, some companies within the pulp and paper industry have seized upon tropical bamboo as a ‘green’ alternative to virgin wood fiber. but industrial use of tropical bamboo, combined with an escalating global paper demand, threatens what remains of the world’s last intact bamboo forests.
Editor & Publisher: Alternative fiber sources for newsprint
After seeing the price of their principal raw material double in the space of two years, it’s no surprise that newspapers are paying attention if not yet money, to businesses that hope to compete with their traditional suppliers of newsprint.
Editor & Publisher: Australians try hemp as source of pulp paper
Australian readers could soon be getting a shot of cannabis with their daily newspapers. The South Australian government has planted the first mainland trial hemp crop for use as a source of pulp for making paper.
Fashion police: Our panel of the month; Nicole Sullivan and Chris Hogan of ‘
It’s Euroincognito hemp hip. Woody: “It may look like denim, but I swear it’s hemp. If you light a match near me, we’ll all be arrested.”
Fashionably natural: A Buyer’s Guide to Natural Fiber Clothing.
In the 1990s, consumers are saying “no” to conventional dyes, “wrinklefree” treatments and pesticide-doused fabrics that are harsh on clothes, not to mention your health and the environment.
Field of opportunity: Legal again after 60 years, hemp farming makes a comeback.
Legal again after 60 years, hemp farming makes a comeback. Its May 1998 in southwestern Ontario and the sun has been shining warm and hard for two weeks straight. Farmers have thrown away their calendars, called it mid-June, and planted their crops early. In a bustling family restaurant surrounded by the large, well-groomed farms of Delaware, near London, Geof Kime is taking a dinner break.
Flax and Hemp: From the Seed to the Loom
This country imports almost all of its fibers except cotton. The Whitney gin, combined with improved spinning methods, enabled this country to produce cotton goods so far below the cost of linen that manufacture practically ceased in the United States.
Flax and Hemp: From the Seed to the Loom
This country imports practically all of its fibers except cotton. The Whitney gin, combined with improved spinning methods, enabled this country to produce cotton goods so far below the cost of linen that linen manufacture practically ceased in the United States.
Get Hep to Hemp, The Soybean of Tomorrow: For What It’s Worth
The recent adoption of national standards for organic food is further ensuring a permanent place for natural foods in mainstream grocery. With the recent explosion in the acceptance of soy products by mainstream consumers, many wonder what will be the ‘next new thing.’ Enter hempseed foods.