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Current Affairs 2007 - Hemp (14 items)
| Nov 21, 2007 | Hemp Helps With Green Movement As environmental consciousness increases, a plant with great potential to accommodate our generation's awareness has re-emerged, but its negative associations leave some obstacles to overcome.
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| Nov 21, 2007 | District Explores Hemp Production Diversity is a key component in any economy and the District of 100 Mile House is exploring the cultivation of industrial hemp as a potential source of economic development.
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| Nov 16, 2007 | Alberta Seeks New Use For Hemp A new two-year, $2.25-million project hopes to find ways to blend Albertagrown hemp fibres with locally produced plastics to create more sustainable materials.
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| Oct 11, 2007 | Great Hemp Hope Is Barrie Farmer's Hemp Oil The Key To The Future Of Ontario Agriculture?
"Rope, not dope" was my slogan some years back, when I was involved in a successful campaign ( yes, we do win some battles ) to legalize industrial hemp in Canada.
My eye was on the 25,000 industrial products hemp was thought to offer, a farm-friendly, pesticide-free, green source for everything from clothing to rope to paper to plastic.
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| Sep 1, 2007 | The Latest From Hemp - Brain Food, Indeed The story: The question these days is what can't be made out of hemp? Clothing, lotions, beer and now this non-dairy "milk" from Manitoba Harvest, introduced earlier this year in original, vanilla and chocolate flavours. The Winnipeg-based company also produces hemp-seed oil, butter and protein powder. Derived from organic hemp seeds, the beverage is rich in essential fatty acids and is touted as a breakfast "brain food" that can be imbibed straight, on cereal or in morning coffee.
The source: Hemp Bliss can be purchased online from www.manitobaharvest.com. The site also contains recipes for dishes like hemp burgers, hemp pesto verde and hempy chicken casserole.
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| Sep 1, 2007 | The Latest From Hemp - Brain Food, Indeed The question these days is what can't be made out of hemp? Clothing, lotions, beer and now this non-dairy "milk" from Manitoba Harvest, introduced earlier this year in original, vanilla and chocolate flavours. The Winnipeg-based company also produces hemp-seed oil, butter and protein powder. Derived from organic hemp seeds, the beverage is rich in essential fatty acids and is touted as a breakfast "brain food" that can be imbibed straight, on cereal or in morning coffee.
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| Jun 9, 2007 | BC: The House That Hemp Built Scarcity Of Straw Bales Leads Saltspring Couple To Use Tough Cannabis Fibres To Fill Their Walls...
"We started calling family and friends in the Kootenays," says Drew, an inventor, "looking everywhere and anywhere for straw."
They never found it, but they did find a rancher with 2,000 hemp bales - -- and snapped them up.
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| May 16, 2007 | Hemp, Canola Studied For BC Bioenergy Even before significant increases in temperature, climate change is starting to prompt shifts in B.C. agriculture.
Increased interest in carbon-neutral fuel sources has put the focus on ethanol and biodiesel options for farmland. One of the crops that has popped up around B.C. is industrial hemp, a fast-growing plant that produces vegetable oil as well as tough fibre used in rope and textiles.
A 110-acre hemp crop was planted in the 100 Mile House area in 2006. The agriculture ministry says smaller hemp plantings have been done in Smithers, West Moberly near Fort St. John and on Vancouver Island.
B.C. Agriculture Minister Pat Bell said the 100 Mile House pilot project is being increased to 200 acres this year, to get to a volume where processing facilities could use it to produce fibre and potentially ethanol. B.C. is following the lead of Manitoba, which has 28,000 acres in hemp, and Saskatchewan with 14,000 acres in cultivation.
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| May 14, 2007 | Possibilities Are Endless For Newest Crop You'll have to excuse Grant Moorcroft if he tells you he's heard every pothead joke around. And with good reason, he is, after all, one of the area's most accomplished growers of a strain of hemp that's all about industrial as opposed to recreational.
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| Mar 2, 2007 | New Bid To Start Hemp Plant In Dauphin Manitoba - FOR the second time in almost 10 years, efforts are underway to develop a multimillion-dollar hemp processing plant in Dauphin.
Parkland BioFibres Ltd. is looking to build a $14-million raw industrial hemp processing operation to make building insulation.
The 50 members of the Parklands Industrial Hemp Growers Co-Op have committed $2 million to the project and promoters are seeking another $3.3 million from private investors.
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| Mar 2, 2007 | Hemp, Flax Could Be Used To Build Your Next Vehicle Auto manufacturers could be just three years away from replacing some of the plastics used in cars with compounds made from hemp, canola oil and flax fibres, says one of Canada's top auto engineers.
And the changes could significantly reduce dependence on oil, Peter Frise said Thursday.
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| Jan 24, 2007 | Industrial Hemp Meeting Tomorrow Night Hemp producers and residents interested in the industrial cultivation of the plant are invited to attend a Town Hall meeting tomorrow night ( Jan. 25 ) at the 100 Mile House Lodge "Valley" Conference Room.
Subjects for discussion are: a review of the 2006 hemp production; status of the hemp industry in Canada and plans for the 100 Mile House hemp industry.
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| Jan 17, 2007 | PUB LTE: Hemp Makes Climate Difference No matter what is causing climate change, one of the best things Canadians could do to reduce greenhouse gasses is grow lots of Industrial Hemp.
We have the people, we have the land, we have the know-how - we just have no political will.
Hemp ( the legal, non-drug version of the Cannabis plant ) produces more ethanol fuel per acre than any other crop. It can be used for car, truck, boat, and airplane fuel, polymer body parts, lubricants, paint, and about 25,000 other things.
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| Jan 3, 2007 | Paper Here to Stay So Let's Make It With Hemp PAPER HERE TO STAY SO LET'S MAKE IT WITH HEMP
The Forest Can't Withstand Our Assault
Paper will always be with us. Electronic media will enhance and broaden our scope for communication, but computer files, documents, sound bytes and photo ops cannot and should not replace paper. Paper provides the way to record thoughts and ideas that cannot be erased or altered with a few keystrokes. Books and newspapers give you something to hold and touch and feel. Reading a newspaper with the morning cuppa is part of the fabric of the day. It is a basic right of life in a civilized society.
Paper lasts longer than electronic bytes. Paper will last on shelves for decades and always be available. However electronic material can be lost in a nanosecond when a tree drops over a hydro line or a hacker makes his way through to your archives.
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