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| August 25, 2009 Permalink Carbon Negative Hemp Walls are 7x Stronger than Concrete Quicklink submitted by Meryl Ann Butler (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Buildings account for thirty-eight percent of the CO2 emissions in the U.S., according to the U.S. Green Building Council, and demand for carbon neutral and/or zero footprint buildings is at an all-time high. Now there is a new building material that is not just carbon neutral, but is actually carbon negative: Hempcrete. (But, alas, it's illegal to grow the raw materials in the U.S.) |
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