Highland Hemp House

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What do you think of when you see this village?

Photographers Gain Entry into Traditional African Village Where Every House Is a Work of Art The Tiébélé African village is made up of a series of small clay houses that are hand-painted in different geometric patterns and symbols.

https://sahanjournal.com/housing/lower-sioux-indian-community-h**p-h**pcrete-housing/

Lower Sioux Indian Community pioneers new building technique using h**p The Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota is growing h**p to create h**pcrete, which is used to build eco-friendly houses.

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There's a new material being used to build homes—but only one part of the US is using it Grist takes a closer look at how the Lower Sioux reservation will soon have the only facility to create h**pcrete in the country.

I haven’t posted for a while. Here’s a little paragraph I wrote to promote a workshop and a photo from inside my h**pctete (and glass:) greenhouse:

Shortage of affordable housing, environmental degradation, and social inequities are intersectional problems that affect everyone today. Is there hope for the future? The North West Living & Learning Community Collaborative is offering a tangible tool to accelerate hopeful alternatives to these cross paralyzed conventions. The simple building materials of h**p and lime, often called “h**pcrete”, offer an array of physical properties that could be a wellspring for the social and economic transformation. It may sound like a bold claim that a building material can nourish so many aspects of human life, but think of how central to living are the places we occupy as home. If, instead of toxic, energy wasteful, industry-produced materials, our homes are made of a simple plant and mineral blend that is resistant to fire, mold, heat loss, that is carbon capturing, and most of all—is accessible and regenerative, worldwide. Think of how empowered communities could be by knowing how to build with these materials.

How much carbon is sequestered in an acre of h**p?

Last week's equinox from HHH

Last week's equinox from HHH

HHH WENT TO DC TO LOBBY FOR REMOVING PROHIBITIONS FROM INDUSTRIAL H**P THROUGH THE 2023 FARM BILL. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MAKING THAT HAPPEN? LETS DISCUSS.

Natural Building options

There are many recipes for bricks...but the primary ingredient is always clay soil. Clay is a sticky binder/glue. Usually in adobe, you are using clay to bind sand and/or straw together. Many recipes also call for cow or horse manure. And many 'ferment' the mixture before making bricks.

Fermenting simply means leaving the wet mixture to sit for a period of days or weeks. This releases cellulose from any straw, adding to the stickiness...and it makes the mixture more pliable to work with and more resistant to cracking.

Forming the bricks involves filling a mold with your wet mixture, and then almost immediately lifting the form off. The bricks are laid in the sun to dry until they are firm enough to stand up. Then the bricks are rolled into a vertical position to dry further. Baking in the sun increases the strength of the bricks.

Cob is the same mixture as adobe, but it is formed in place instead of making bricks. The benefit of cob, is that it's easier to make curvy walls and sculpt niches right into your wall. The benefit of adobe is that you do the work & allow the material to dry fully ahead of time. Then the wall-building goes extremely quickly and doesn't require a long drying process in situ.

Any clay wall provides thermal mass...that is, they act as a battery for heat energy. Getting warmer when there is a direct heat source (sun, fire, hot air) and releasing heat whenever the surrounding environment is cool/cold.

I believe this is true.

"If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done."

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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Exploring How This Plant Could Replace Concrete Exploring How This Plant Could Replace Concrete. Go to https://curiositystream.com/Undecided to get Curiosity Stream for only $14.99 for the whole year! I've...

Lots of people have been visiting this page, probably because of Steve's book. I'd love to get some inquiries from architects, designers, builders, scientists, policy makers, investors, . . . who are in positions to influence the upscaling of these materials. Thanks, Steve, for showing the world that buildings that help to repair the climate are not only possible, they exist on many scales!

New book published and out now!! H**p Buildings: 50 International Case Studies. ⭐️ A comprehensive overview of 50 projects this latest book from author and h**p expert, Steve Allin, draws on architectural examples of every kind to showcase the vast range of possibilities available when using h**p-based materials for construction. Since the 1980’s, this unique material together with the systems that have developed from it has provided vital pointers to how buildings can become more energy efficient. Through lowering carbon emissions and promoting a healthier environment, h**p has a clear role to play in providing innovative solutions that lead us forward into a cleaner and more sustainable future.

https://seedpress.ie/product/h**p-buildings-50-international-case-studies/

Thanks Kehrt. Reading for the New Year .

Interest in building materials rising fast The market for h**p building materials is still small, but momentum is growing. H**p building not only offers the possibility to create more healthy

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Highland H**p House goes non-profit. We are looking for a retrofit project. Please read the letter of intent in the comments.

OK, I'm going to do it. Participating in this event. I'll be on at 2pm
Sat PDT: https://h**phomeexpo.com/?fbclid=IwAR1lEr8GqaHndY9RDV8gctXm4Fpv6l65Ds1lyAt-CsUWOcnlPnUL1I4Ie5s

H**p Home Expo H**p Home Expo

A network is gathering for a summer build with workshops and educational videos. Starting with some left over h**p bales, some urgent need for housing and climate care, HHH invites your support and participation. Anyone have plans for an 800-1200 sq ft one story h**pcrete house? Open source for affordable housing?

Reading list addition.

Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival - Post Carbon Institute POWER (New Society, 2021) explores how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool-making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources—most significantly, fossil fuels.

Thank you Jean Lotus

H**pBuild Magazine Website for H**pBuild Magazine Online resource for builders, designers and homeowners

Our hero, Alex Sparrow talking about h**pcrete in the UK.
https://irishtechnews.ie/h**pcrete-explained-many-benefits-alex-sparrow/?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=205341258918d9cfe8e0e989e6e14b9dd7b19b35-1614540566-0-ASedT6FA33QeK4RTz82_pZu3Yb3UVyJ6GTA5FJdCHiESjQ9ptFj2wBFFPfedEZeqqZ4BzYUeB3zXadwRBfJiyLjtWoN6Iq3oAfSZF_RtitpydBI2jYCtbrWR-CK26axROkqiT14aYktVRHBGKk14_yOLeK7qXqPv0cyD76qrvF6i2OU3py1_RGGSST_yy1eWQd8Y4aW_9WwLQdbXPEfe3xBk33AOEkEuu4Z3LkR3X5FXwKWoODXagNIciJ3rIWgiKs9zUVTToZdh1PcdKCMRVtzn07KQYLsYJxjdwOTR2YfngWnKeDU2p8MKxqc6TuF7OFH2qKfHMAZmhem2PHN0EH_R3YGN4z8_nkBryqnT3RW6_btlWDY6kiAZp8OHiYBBXcDIf3xGVomI5GVzEx78mdL3Jd6928Q6qhZG6agOP-YnLbhPgzNFQJTlvg7nXFk-ww

Australian firm says it will bring H**pBLOCK system to USA The H**pBLOCK system employs post-and-beam framing of steel and concrete combined with interlocking pre-formed h**pcrete blocks.

HHH shows up in another article about h**pcrete. Isn't she photogenic?https://ensia.com/features/h**p-h**pcrete-construction-concrete-crops-co2/

The promising ways h**p can be used in construction | Ensia “H**pcrete,” made from the woody core of h**p, is showing promise as an environmentally friendly building material. Researchers have found that the material meets the current standards of most building applications, and in many cases outperforms the materials currently used, particularly for ins...

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H**p: The Building Material of the Future - Ma*****na Venture At a glance, the h**p industry in the United States appears to be booming. In just a few short years, the country went from having…

Yes! Thanks for stating what is wrong with the rules and exposing the game of being so heavily regulated that "legal" has no meaning.

Native Sun News Today: Tribes make final push for industrial h**p rule Comments are due on a final rule that tribes and their advocates say makes it more difficult for them to grow h**p on their homelands.

HHH Sept 2020 This is a tour of a house made of h**pcrete in Washington State. The commentary urges developing an infrastructure to facilitate building with these material...

Presented for IHBA, Sept 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MvV6BAqW8E&t=14s

HHH Sept 2020 This is a tour of a house made of h**pcrete in Washington State. The commentary urges developing an infrastructure to facilitate building with these material...