One of the world’s most influential architecture firms is proposing using carbon-sequestering hemp as a vital part of the international built environment of the future.

Lawrence Serbin is a pioneer of the U.S. hemp industry, having started his company, California-based Hemp Traders in the 1990s.

As hemp building and construction gain more popularity across the world, it’s fortunate that some of the most experienced builders and researchers are willing to share their knowledge in the form of high-quality books.

A San Antonio, TX, fresh juice company will take a new direction this spring by offering fresh squeezed baby hemp cannabis greens sold from a walk-up hempcrete juice bar.

As a child of the 1960’s, t-shirts featuring hemp were the rage and everyone was fascinated with it. Little did we know back then that even though Hemp plants and marijuana plants are both the same species, hemp is not the same as marijuana.

Microsoft just funded a new report from the Carbon Leadership Forum at the University of Washington College of Built Environments on the carbon sequestering abilities of hemp and five other construction methods that have the ability to convert our built environments from a source of carbon emissions to a carbon sink.

A new ESG impact fund focused on hemp for food and fiber will inject $500 million into the industrial hemp supply chain by 2030, founders announced at New York’s CWCBExpo last week. One of the first related innovations is a hemp-based “ink” for 3D construction printing.

Attendees at the U.S. Hemp Building Summit in Austin, Texas, last month got a sneak peek of some of the new products and services in the works in the hemp building and construction world for 2022.

Hemp builders may have a shot at inclusion in two government initiatives as the Biden administration makes good on some of its climate action promises.

Affordable housing constructed with hemp-based building material is nearing completion in New Castle, Pennsylvania.

At a massive new 6,000-sq. foot hempcrete home on Cape Cod, insulators had some ‘splaining to do when non-toxic hemp blew onto neighbors’ yards.

Some of the earliest-built hemp structures in Texas will be featured in a series of three hemp-building workshops in mid-Texas in November.

Hemp building industry leaders, construction pros and the hemp-curious will gather in Austin, Texas at the end of October for the 3rd Annual U.S. Hemp Building Summit, co-sponsored by Idaho-based Hempitecture, Inc. and the U.s. Hemp Building Association.

Judy Wicks, Pennsylvania author, businesswoman and fierce advocate of local economies, has turned her attention to hemp through her nonprofit All Together Now PA.

A North Carolina company, staffed with former engineers from SpaceX, hopes to win space billionaire Elon Musk’s XPrize with carbon-sequestering oriented strand board (OSB) and structural timber made from hemp.

A prototype hemp sleeper cabin, created as part of a challenge to create small, fire-resistant healthy emergency housing, will be on display at an open house Oct. 2 on the site of one of Colorado’s first licensed industrial hemp farms.

Industry experts in the emerging industrial hemp building industry gathered online in early September to raise money to submit hemp building materials for acceptance into U.S. building codes.

Belgian hemp block maker IsoHemp has opened a new factory which will increase the company’s production to 5 million blocks per year from 1 million, the company said. The new $5.9 million factory on 2 hectares is meeting a growing demand for hemp blocks for both renovation and new construction.

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When the world came together and signed the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, we witnessed almost 200 countries set their vision towards the goal of limiting global temperature, keeping it below the catastrophic 2°C tipping point.