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.
Hemp growers given go-ahead | Northern Rivers News |
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.
Application to approve the use of Cannabis Sativa as Food in Australia -
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 Food Safety Authority -
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 of ‘green’ car » Transport 2.0 -
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 Rivers Echo -
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”.