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Green market: TexStyle’s new wallcoverings and fabrics exhibit the enduring
Betsy Ross used it to sew our first flag. Columbus used it for the sails of his three ships. For centuries, hemp has been used in sailcloth, rigging, canvas, paper, rope, and sackcloth. Recently, modern technology has softened hemp for use in more interior applications, although it still tests as strong as flax and twice as durable as cotton. It has only 5 percent elongation (ability to hold its shape), one of the lowest of any natural fiber, which makes it a good choice for contract upholstery and wrapped wall panels.
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Green miles
Hempcar will consume about 400 gallons of fuel during a 40-city tour that has Sigler and his pals talking up hemp clothing, granola, ice cream, cosmetics, rope, fibre and paper. The group, however, remains focused on wooing industry with a cheap, biodegradable energy source, if only it became legal to cultivate.
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Green to the bone
Emma Haughton offers some tips on where to look if you don’t want to load your clothes and skin with chemicals.
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Greenpeace co-founder decries ‘ecologically unsound claims’
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore said Thursday that the environmentalist claims promoted by his former organization and others like it are contrary to sound ecological principles. Moore, who left Greenpeace several years ago and recently published a book entitled, “Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer” said deforestation does not have the detrimental outcomes some environmentalists say it does.
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Greens welcome hemp crop trials
The Government’s decision to allow trials of industrial hemp crops paves the way for it to be removed from the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Green Party says. Health Minister Annette King announced yesterday that trials of industrial hemp cultivation would be allowed under strict guidelines.
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Growing International Demand for Natural Fibers
Ecuador’s indigenous and farming communities have used natural fibers for centuries in making crafts and items for daily use, and they are now becoming an important source of income, benefiting sectors that have been hard hit by the nation’s economic crisis.
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Growing a solution to plastic waste
Polymers made from crops could provide an answer to increasingly tough environmental legislation governing the disposal of plastics in carrier bags and car interiors. Engineers and chemists at Warwick Advanced Sustainable Technologies (WASTe), part of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, are developing plastics from triglycerides, the oil extracted from crops such as rape, flax and hemp.
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Grown in the USA?
Americans are used to steeping in the irrational juices of their haphazard legal culture. A vintage crock is simmering over the issue of hemp cultivation. Begin with a good stock of muddy history, throw a revitalized back-to-the-land ethos permeating the mainstream, and you have the base for the policy dish that is ‘industrial hemp.’ What is at stake is not whether there will be a commerce in hemp products in the United States. That is already happening. The question is whether American farmers will participate.
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H.E.M.P. – Healthy Eating Made Possible
H.E.M.P., published this summer by Fusion Press, introduces hemp as the social, environmental, political and nutritional ingredient for the 21st century. Hemp seed has been fundamental to the nutrition of millions of people around the world for thousands of years, and now we in the UK can experience its benefits.
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H.E.M.P. – Healthy Eating Made Possible
Paul Benhaim, founder of the Hemp Food Industries Association and pioneer of the European Hemp Food movement has completed a book about the holistic use of hemp as a food. Benhaim explains how all the benefits of the hemp seed and its by-products in a very practical way. As well as the use of hemp as a food, the history and other industrial uses are touched upon.
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