September 2010
3 posts
Hemp Houses for Australia : TreeHugger →
One of the people excited about NSW’s newly legal industrial hemp crops is researcher Klara Marosszeky. She has been developing a commercial viable hemp building material, and will now be able to source her raw materials locally rather than trucking them all the way across the country.
The Whole Hemp House : TreeHugger →
The house you don’t need to render, plaster, paint or insulate. The house with the building material that you can grow on one hectare (2.5 acres) of land. The same building material you can process yourself with standard machinery available at your hardware store. The house whose walls lock away over 110 kg (240 lb) of carbon per cubic metre.
Build a House of Hemp | Interior Designing Blog →
Designer Klara Marosszeky, of Northern Rivers Hemp, Inc., standing next to Hemcrete.
July 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
Hemp: the farming of the future | Northern Rivers... →
Klara Marosszeky has a vision for the future that involves revamping of the local farming industry to produce industrial hemp crops. Working with farmers, she has just harvested her first commercial crop of industrial hemp and is looking for innovators who want to utilise the product.
March 2010
10 posts
Application to approve the use of Cannabis Sativa... →
Dec 2009 Application to approve the use of Cannabis sativa with low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, in both seed and seed oil, as a food in Australia & New Zealand.
Food Standards Australia Report on Hemp as Food →
FINAL ASSESSMENT REPORT - APPLICATION A360 - USE OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP AS A NOVEL FOOD
Sale of hemp seed oil as food in New Zealand - NZ... →
The sale of hemp seed oil as food is legal in New Zealand. Hemp seed oil is the only hemp-derived product legally sold as a food or added to a food in New Zealand. Read about the regulations that apply including the dietary supplement regulations.
Lotus announces hemp-based Eco Elise: a new type... →
Sustainable materials, hemp, eco wool and sisal have been developed for body panels and trim and, combined with hi-tech water based paint solutions, showcase new affordable green technologies. The green credentials of the technology on show in the Eco Elise have been analysed throughout the lifecycle of the car.
Sowing the seeds for hemp’s future - The Northern... →
Dr Keith Bolton inspects seeds from the flower of a scarce variety of hemp plant in his trial plot. Seeds from Australian varieties of hemp are scarce and Ecotechnology Australia has lately focussed on producing seed for the industrial hemp industry, which he says is set to go “ballistic”.
Effluence to affluence - Northern Rivers Echo →
Dr Keith Bolton separating the bast fibre from the hurd fibre of an industrial hemp crop
"Hemp Report" Hemp News Headlines →
Selected links to breaking hemp news from online mainstream and alternative media from the past 30 days.
Hemp high on agenda - Northern Star →
AS FAR as Keith Bolton is concerned, the future of farming on the Northern Rivers lies with industrial hemp.
Not just another brick in the wall - The Northern... →
Ms Morasszeky was in Nimbin on Monday to demonstrate the material, building a wall in the Hemp Embassy using hemp concrete, which hardens to a mineral about one day after being mixed with water.
Fibre stories: "Cottonization", hemp's future in... →
November 2008
3 posts
Hemp growers given go-ahead - Local News in... →
JIGGI farmer Kenrick Riley hopes to be one of the first farmers in the region to start growing industrial hemp after the State Government yesterday said it would introduce a licensing system for the legal cultivation of the crop.
High hopes for cannabis - National - smh.com.au →
GROWING cannabis becomes legal in NSW today - provided you are a licensed farmer who will harvest hemp for industrial use.
NSW farmers urged to grow hemp - ABC News... →
New South Wales farmers are being encouraged to start growing industrial hemp.
October 2008
1 post
Good news for hemp growers - OurPatch →
A few months ago, a dedicated bunch of researchers, primary producers, wholesalers, retailers, mums and dads joined forces, in avid support of the establishment of a hemp industry on the North Coast of New South Wales.
May 2008
1 post
NSW legalises hemp crops — what part did the... →
The farming communities of regional NSW, especially in the Griffith area and the northern rivers region near Nimbin, were celebrating this week when the Iemma Government introduced the Hemp Industry Bill.
April 2008
1 post
HEMP- A Viable Crop for the Creation of New Jobs,... →
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