Susan Hays and contractor Carl Gradek building her hempcrete house in South Austin Credit: photo by Kevin Curtin In a serene South Austin neighborhood, where the houses are so small compared to the ...

When Nick Manuzak first enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder, his path seemed clear: a business degree, a career in finance, and a life in the corporate world. But life, as it often does, ...

As program coordinator for 8 th Fire Solar, an emerging Osage, Minnesota-based provider and installer of solar thermal panels, Gwe Gasco is doing his part to take care of the environment and lay the ...

MORTON, MINN. – Eight-foot-tall stalks of hemp swayed in a field on the prairie here, ready for harvest. But these plants won’t get anyone high. Instead, they’ll be turned into hempcrete, a building ...

Kevin Dupuis from Fond du Lac walks out to look at the hemp in Joey Goodthunder’s field in Morton, Minn., on Sept. 5. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver.

Hemp was never all that rare. Long before it was banned and stigmatized, this ancient plant was already part of daily life, used in textiles, ship sails, ropes, paper, and even building materials.

JAMES ISLAND — As far as April Magill and Matt McQueen know, the building in their backyard is the first of its kind in South Carolina. From the outside, it looks completely ordinary. It’s the size of ...

For now, it's only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern ...

DENVER (AP) — As Americans struggle under backbreaking rental prices, builders are turning to innovative ways to churn out more housing, from 3D printing to assembling homes in an indoor factory to ...

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