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Hemptown Clothing receives largest order to date, opening full U.S. market
Hemptown Clothing Inc. has received its largest ever wholesale distribution order, from TSC Apparel, one of America’s largest promotional wear distributors. TSC will offer Hemptown’s line of environmentally friendly hemp fiber T-shirts and sportswear throughout the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska, from its warehouses in California, Ohio, and North Carolina.
High-tech flax and hemp — from car panels to lightweight concrete
While textile flax produced in France is exported all over the world for the production of high-quality linen clothes and sheets, these natural fibres are now being re-discovered by French manufacturers and put to unexpected and exciting uses. Increasingly, flax is being used by automotive equipment manufacturers as a source of raw material that is environmentally friendly and less dangerous — in the event of a vehicle crashing — when used for interior panels in cars. Hemp fibres are also employed in industry to provide rigidity for plastics and in buildings as a natural insulator.
Hoping hemp will make comeback
So convinced of the potential of hemp and the need to encourage its growth in Britain, Paul Jenkinson left the South of France to return to his native Yorkshire to found Yorkshire Hemp.
House of hemp
Kelly Smith and Greg Herriott built their new home as an homage to hemp. The walls of Smith and Herriott’s 4,500-square-foot house are filled with hemp weed, the floor and ceiling beams are stained with hemp oil, the roof is shingled with hemp composite and they plan to use hemp oil in the furnace.
How to Know if You are on the Far Out Fringe
You agree with the Drug Czar on hemp. Not because you believe legalizing the fibrous weed is just a Trojan Hemp Horse for legal marijuana and ruining our teens’ minds.
I Never Go Anywhere Without My Stash of Hemp
I have rediscovered hemp. Specifically, some wonderful hair products from Alterna. This stuff is so good you won’t even want to sniff it or do anything else except put it in your hair. But I have to warn you that it is addictive. I have tried lots of the Alterna products and even got my nearly 80 year mother to become addicted. Now neither of us ever go anywhere without a stash of hemp.
Looking good, being good
It’s like that old joke about the shortest books in the world (Italian War Heroes, Swiss Comedians etc etc). “Ethical Fashion” could be the shortest story in the world because it really doesn’t exist. There are ethical clothes — baggy, beige T-shirts made in Third World worker co-operatives from organic Fairtrade cotton — but not proper fashion.
New Hampshire hemp legislation send for more study
HB 653, which would have authorized the production of industrial hemp.
Rampant bureaucracy threatens to suffocate New Zealand hemp
Green MP Nandor Tanczos declared today that Medsafe had no business in New Zealand’s hemp industry and that their proposed regulations threatened to suffocate a promising business opportunity for New Zealand farmers. Medsafe are reported to have proposed charging $550 for hemp licenses, ramped up from an existing $11.25, regular THC testing of crops to cost $300 and the continued prohibition of hemp seed foods.
ReusableBags.com Tackles Plastic Bag Mess
Introduced merely 25 years ago, plastic bags are accumulating in our environment at an alarming rate. They’re everywhere: strewn along roadways, stuck in trees, and piled up beneath our kitchen sinks. ReusableBags.com — a proactive, eco-conscious website — is helping battle this growing problem by raising awareness and offering effective, affordable, high-quality products for sale that help reduce plastic bag consumption.