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Can You Build a House With Hemp? | National Geographic


some of the most practical uses of
industrial hemp in the modern day of
course are the same as they ever were
building materials paper textiles seed
oil nutrition hempcrete of all the
50,000 known products that we can make
with industrial hemp is my absolute
favorite it is a mold resistant rot
resistant pest resistant fire resistant
carbon negative building material the
most difficult part of pioneering
industrial hemp in Oregon is the lack of
understanding people still believe that
hemp can get you high when in fact there
is no psychoactive components to this so
it’s a matter of educating people and
we’re working on that a hemp of the
United States can be an incredibly
viable commodity since beginning of time
it’s only plant that can feed you house
you clothed you and heal you
it has Hardy fiber strongest fibers
found in nature every part of the plant
can be used you know from the stock the
leaves and the flowers and the seeds and
each one of those components can be used
for thousands of different uses each
these plants will take usually three to
four months they’ll reach heights of
eight or nine feet and we’ll harvest
them and then we’ll separate out the
fibers and the flowers the seeds and the
rest of Education to make different
products
I think in order to launch hempcrete
building to make it real you have to
have a model so my vision is to take
this house and retrofitted with
hempcrete
and demonstrate that it’s a viable
building process in fact it’s everything
that you want in a building in a wall
it’s permeable so it mediates the
humidity in the room but since the wall
absorbs the humidity and the lime that
you build with is a high pH it doesn’t
mold so the wall will hold on to the
humidity and disperse it inside or
outside as it’s needed buildings consume
40 to 50 percent of the world’s energy
so if we could establish hempcrete
building it’s huge and as you get more
into the nature of hemp and its abundant
properties that becomes part of the
imagination of what I have great
building can be the future a hemp is an
opportunity for everyone we’re gonna
find sustainable uses that we’ve never
even thought were possible and taking
advantage of a knowledge base that has
never been created because it’s been
illegal and I would hope to see you know
five years from now just growing in
fields of green I think hemp has a lot
of answers for nutrition for energy
saving for building the ideal future is
that we have enough hemp growing on the
planet in the hands of as many people as
find use for it because it has so much
to give
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