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Village Voice: Beat weed
DEA agents are on the lookout for anyone growing industrial hemp, a crop the Clinton administration fervently believes can contribute to drug addiction. This is pretty unlikely.
Weaving Technology to Dye For
The technique of weaving cloth first arrived in Japan from China around 300 B.C. After archaeologists found 40 tectile fragments from the first century B.C. to the third century A.D. on the island of Kyushu, a Kyoto Institute of Technology team decided to use traditional methods to re-create the original silk and hemp fabrics.
Whole Earth treefree botanical of plant fibers
Bamboo (Bambusa species) is a grass. It is the second most widely used non-wood fiber on the planet (six percent of global plant fiber production), whose bioattributes just about equal those of pine. Bamboo has become the main non-wood fiber in India, Thailand, and China. (In Brazil the main one is sisal and in Argentina it is bagasse.) Like hemp, bamboo is easy to cultivate and is well known to farmers. Its wondrous versatility in building construction forces bamboo paper lovers to compete with builders for the stems. Not all bamboos are equal. Some have a low fiber content and low yield rate, but there are both warm temperate and tropical species that can become paper yielders.
Wood Technology: Alternate raw materials explored at symposium
To use recording industry parlance, cereal straws and urban wood are rising on the charts with a bullet. Both were subjects of interest at WSU conference. The subject of making particleboard and medium-density fiberboard from cereal straw furnish established a distinct presence at the 31^st International Particleboard/Composite Materials Symposium April 8-10 in Pullman, Washington.
Wood Technology: Canada will let farmers grow hemp—carefully
Canadian farmers have the federal government’s permission to grow hemp this year, but they’d best be careful. The fibrous plant, long used for making rope and more recently touted as an alternative to wood for making particleboard, is perhaps better known as marijuana. Its cultivation has been illegal in Canada since 1938.
Woody Harrelson
Actor Woody Harrelson isn’t one to tread lightly when it comes to environmental issues. Acts of civil disobedience have him awaiting a response from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and facing charges in a Kentucky court. In his 1995 tax return, he withheld money from the IRS and sent them a letter airing his grievances with the government’s disregard for the environment in its spending policies and legislation. His concern about deforestation has led him to promote industrial hemp as an alternative fiber source for paper and building materials. With the planting of four French industrial hemp seeds in a Kentucky field, he is challenging the constitutionality of a Kentucky law that fails to distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana.