Have you ever put a horse to bed? Did you know that horses sleep lying down?

Think about how much you love to put your head on your favorite, soft pillow…well, your horse feels the same way about its bedding. Horses and humans all know the value of a good night’s sleep.

A long-awaited digital carbon footprint calculator for building materials is expected to drop within weeks from a Canadian green builders group with a long history in carbon-sequestering hemp building.

An initiative in southern Italy aims to boost hemp growing to clean up polluted land while producing hemp stalks for processing into building materials and other fiber-based outputs.

Hemp building workshops are being hosted around the world in 2022. Here are a few upcoming events:

A North Dakota company has developed a building system based on inter-connecting pre-fabricated panels for the construction of single-story homes.

Hemp building pioneers in Ukraine and Poland have responded to the Russian invasion with courage and generosity.

An Australian bushfire this month put the spotlight on the fire-resistant properties of hempcrete blocks, offering a sustainable construction solution for areas in danger of wildfires.

How Intrigued would you be to receive an invitation to visit a Hemp home on the side of a mountain in the Emerald Triangle of California? For me it was too tempting to resist!

Hemp construction techniques for hemp insulation using spray, block and cast-in-place will be discussed by international and U.S. experts in Denver at the NoCo8 Hemp Expo in March, organizers announced.

Ketchum, ID-based Hempitecture, Inc., manufacturer and distributor of hemp batt insulation products, will close on a seed round of investment for $5.7 million this week, using online crowdfunding platform Wefunder, company founders said.

At a time when many businesses and industries are collapsing under the weight of the restrictions and mandates, many people are looking for ways to pivot from their existing careers into new ways of earning a living and supporting their families.

A current supply crunch on hemp hurd in Europe, while a temporary inconvenience, signals a major shift forward for the hemp building sector and can advance the development of much-needed processing facilities.

Architect, CEO and designer Monika Brümmer is a biomaterials designer and builder and founder of a hemp brick company based in Granada, Spain.

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY say they have developed a hemp‐based rebar reinforcing technology for cement construction.

Join Lillian “Lilibet” Clarke as she travels the globe visiting some of the world’s most interesting hempcrete buildings.

Hemp Building Directory 2022, the definitive guide to hemp building materials and experts, contains more than 350 listings worldwide capturing the growing hemp building industry in 25 countries.

The DIY Hex Hemple was developed for a client in Hawaii where the regulations allowed for a structure under 120 sq. ft. to be built without building department approval.

The professional association representing the US hemp building industry moved forward to certify hemp and lime (hempcrete) insulation in US building codes this month.

New hemp block companies starting up this year in North America show that hemp is creating the building blocks of a new industry.

A startup in India’s Uttarakhand state has completed a hemp-based home it hopes will serve as a model for the expansion of sustainable, affordable housing in the state’s northeastern Himalaya region.