Building with hemp: Asheville on the forefront of a new green technique

Here’s a really great one about Green building (literally!) with Hemp source materials.

By John Boyle
Asheville Citizen-Times – Asheville, NC

Leave it to Asheville to be the first place in the country to build
not just one, but two houses largely out of hemp.

Well-established as a green building center, Asheville has two homes
under construction – one in West Asheville, another off Town Mountain
Road – that use hemp as a building material. The builders and Greg
Flavall, the co-founder of Hemp Technologies, the Asheville company
supplying the building material, maintain that they’re the first
permitted hemp homes in the country.

“This area is known to walk the talk of being green,” Flavall said,
adding that the Asheville area has by far the largest percentage of
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, builders of
anywhere in the country. Hemp is derived from the same plant that
marijuana comes from. Although it contains very little of the active
ingredient that gets people high and is completely impractical to
smoke, it’s still illegal to grow it domestically.

Continue reading this article HERE at Ashville’s Citizen Times blog.

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  • http://www.thecrunchycoach.com/blog Emily

    Wow, they’ve figured out how to use hemp for just about everything, it seems. I wonder how energy efficient it is?…

  • http://cureyourconstipation.com Mike

    So I wonder what will happen if one of the houses catches fire……would they put it out or all sit around saying ‘dude look at those flames’

  • http://hodgepodgespv.blogspot.com/ HODEGPODGESPV

    do you think we will have to wait for marajuana to become legal before hemp will be allowed to be grown in the usa? it seems so silly to import it. and wouldn’t it be a good product to replace tobacco crops that may not be needed as much any more?

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