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GM and Danzas to use local technology
When first evolved, grass or hemp was hung in home windows or doors and water poured on to the surface. This then evaporated and, through a process known in physics as the latent heat of vapourisation, incoming air was cooled.
Hemp shortage threatens growing concerns
Until this year, supply kept pace with demand, but now that the products are really taking off, the producers face a supply shortage for the coming summer.
Hollywood’s Delight in Hempola Spurs More Interest
While Chad Kroeger of Nickelback stood back-stage at the 30th annual American Music Awards, a camera veered his way. He held up his new bag of Hempola High Protein Pancakes and smiled a very big smile. Chad and the rest of Hollywood have been pleasantly introduced to Hempola.
Making principles pay
“Doing something which has value to it rather than doing something which has immediate commercial gain,” is how David Ruthenberg describes setting up an ethical business.
Mann’s eco-doc wows festival
His new documentary Go Further, a retro-hippie road odyssey he calls “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test on tofu,” received a standing ovation from Friday’s opening-night crowd.
Natural causes
That first formula eventually led to the birth of Sue’s Amazing Lip Stuff and Sun Dog Hemp body care products, thriving sister companies based in Westby, Wisconsin. Together, Kastensen’s companies grossed nearly half a million dollars last year, with 10% of the profits going to Native American cultural preservation — a way for Kastensen, now 39, to carry on the teachings of her mentor, a member of the Anishaabed tribe who died in 1999.
Nature’s Path Foods: U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency outlaws healthy food
“Ever increasing numbers of consumers are discovering the nutritional benefits of hemp,” says David Neuman, VP of Sales and Marketing at Nature’s Path Foods. “Sales for both our HempPlus^™ Granola and HempPlus^™ Waffles are growing strongly, which is due in large part to the health benefits of hempseed.”
New DEA rule legalizes hemp
Beginning April 21, 2003, Cannabis Hemp will be legal to import, under a new Rule recently issued by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The Rule is a clarification of the gray area under which hemp importers have operated for years, namely, that hemp is exempt from drug laws even if it contains trace amounts of the drug Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), found in almost all Cannabis.
Rapid growth for $775 million natural fiber and wood plastic composites market i
Natural and wood fiber plastic composites are manufactured by combining either wood or such other natural fibers as flax, hemp, jute, or kenaf with polymers including polyethylene, polypropylene, or PVC. In many cases either the polymer or the fiber, or both, can come from recycled materials.
Students for a Sustainable Earth offer Earth Week program
As part it annual Earth Week program at Western Michigan University, Students for a Sustainable Earth presents “Hemp and the Environment” beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in Room 105 of the Bernhard Center.