Hemp, you can’t smoke it, but you can use it to build green houses
Hemp fields absorb carbon when they’re growing; after harvest, the crop continues to absorb greenhouse gases as it’s mixed with lime or clay
31 August 2019 - 08:35
London/Calgary — The hemp fields sprouting in a part of Canada best known for its giant oil patch show how climate change is disrupting the construction industry.
Six years after setting up shop in the shadow of Calgary’s tar sands, Mac Radford says he cannot satisfy all the orders from builders for Earth-friendly materials that help them limit their carbon footprints. His company, Just BioFiber Structural Solutions, is the vanguard of businesses using hemp — the boring cousin of marijuana devoid of psychoactive content — to mitigate the greenhouse gases behind global warming...
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