In addition to its many other delightful uses, cannabis can also make for a reliable building material. In Ein Hod, Israel, architectural firm Tav Group has created an "ecological house" using all ...
Winter in Paris is notoriously clammy, and this winter was no exception. But Gregory Ferembach didn’t need to turn on his heat much. One reason? The walls in his public housing building are lined with ...
Construction with hemp derivatives is becoming mainstream around the world, and these tracks made with hemp fibers for the 2022 Winter Olympics in China are proof of that. As reported by Green State, ...
In late January 2022, a group of New York state officials collected at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to discuss the "Seed to City Hemp Initiative" leveraging the Institute's expertise in design, ...
An industrial crop that was heavily restricted for nearly a century is returning to the construction sector as an approved building insulation material. The material combines the inner woody core of ...
Hemp has been used inside a BMW electric car, as fiber in jeans and in the walls of a Tarpon Springs, home. Now Florida’s lone statewide elected Democrat, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, will ...
It is perplexing why Haiti, a seismically active country, continues to allow construction of dangerous concrete homes that collapse on residents during earthquakes. So many lives are being senselessly ...
The Romans have been using it since the days of Julius Caesar, but not to get high. Both Washington and Jefferson grew it. Now that several states have legalized the use of marijuana for some ...
Rebar is used to constructing the skeletal framework in buildings as it provides the tensile strength that concrete lacks. Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a private research ...