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Rearview Mirror
59 Years Ago: Hoping to find a way to avoid the effects of a steel shortage, Ford Motor Co. unveils a version of its standard production car with experimental composite body panels reportedly made from compressed soybean material. (Other reports indicate that the ‘soybean’ car’s body panels were made from synthetic resin reinforced with material derived from hemp and spruce pulp).
Resource: Alternative crops to ease lumber shortage
Three unusual crops may be the answer to a lumber shortage expected to have a large impact on the building and paper industries in a few years. Duane Johnson, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension alternative crops specialist developed products from pulps derived from three crops-kenaf, sunn hemp and sesbania.
Rethinking hemp
Its use predates Christopher Columbus, but this easy-to-grow plant fiber is capable of replacing wood as the raw material in paper, grows without the use of pesticides or herbicides and is one of the most versatile alternative resources of our time. And, in certain forms, it’s also highly illegal. It’s time to get reacquainted with hemp.
Retro and plush dominate toy fair wares
Binney & Smith Canada is also stepping into new territory. The company, which in recent years has packaged its Crayola Crayons in retro packaging, has another blast from the past: a hemp jewelry kit. The Hip Hemp Creations kit—whose instructions state that “contrary to popular belief, industrial hemp has no hallucinogenic properties”—is designed to appeal to the tween children of baby boomers who remember playing with kits when they were kids.
Review: The Hemp Revolution
Emerald fields of cannabis plants—and smoking petrochemical plants. A bearded Californian lifting trays of hemp paper—and an Australian eucalyptus forest decimated for wood pulp. An elderly Nepalese grinning as he exhales a plume of black-hash smoke—and armed narcs kicking in doors while Drug Warriors from Harry Anslinger to George Bush proclaim imminent victory.
Smoke a rope?
Anyone who hopes that legalization of commercial hemp means they can get a buzz by lighting up a rope or jacket or sheet of stationery will be disappointed, according to a group of farmers and a trade organization that filed a lawsuit to make it a lawful crop again. The Controlled Substances Act of 1972 outlawed hemp growing, but farmers and other advocates of the natural fiber long have complained that the government makes no distinction between marijuana and hemp, which has industrial uses from rope to paper to clothing.
Smokin!
Confirmation that modern-day American revolutions take place at the checkout counter came in October, with the opening of the Austin Hemp Company—the fifth Texas business devoted solely to selling products made from hemp, the plant that in its smokable form is also known as marijuana. Half a dozen other stores around the state also sell hemp products, and no wonder: Sales have been increasing by more than 20 percent a year. The only catch is, all hemp products sold in the United States have to be imported. Although hemp was one of colonial America’s largest cash crops, growing it is presently illegal in the U.S.
Softness slows enviro-paper shipments
North America is awash in paper. The unfavorable currency situation and financial crisis in Asia is drawing tons of paper to our shores. Uncoated freesheet imports are up 30% (from Canada, Asia, and Brazil), and coated paper is up 10% (from Europe and Asia). Mills have done a good job of curbing inventory, but it has not been enough to keep prices firm.
Sprouting sales with ‘green’ products
Lest anyone think that environmentally friendly products are merely a vestige of the past, the success of Wendy Walker’s business in Rockville, Md., proves otherwise.
Structural changes in hemp fibers as a result of enzym
Hemp (Cannabis sativa) was most likely the first plant cultivated by mankind for its textile use. Fast growing and not very demanding as to climate, soil quality, and nutrients, hemp was farmed all over the world until its ban in the 1930s by most Western countries due to increasing drug-related problems.