"Hempcrete is the name for this building technology and, over the past 40 years, France has created a hempcrete industry that is now being adopted by fire-prone governments like Australia which transferred this panel technology because it does not burn," writes Ken Hamik of the innovation.
Better days, inequities in our democracy, removing dams & focus on your health
Editor s note:
Last year, just days after Oregon got its first reported cases of COVID-19, I put an offer on a house in the Orchard District. As a first-time homebuyer, it felt crazy to do so at that time and people tried to talk me out of it but as we ve seen over this past year, 2020 did not bring a real estate crash like other calamities have wrought on Bend in recent memory. Now, seeing homes get snapped up sight unseen or for much more than they were a year ago, I feel like one of the lucky ones, to the extreme.