With about one week to go before Australia's inaugural hemp building workshop a special guest has been announced.   Marton Marosszeky, Professor of Construction Innovation at University of New South Wales has confirmed his visit to Byron Bay for the Hemp Building Workshop designed to teach the first wave of professional builders, owner builders and enthusiasts how to build a house (or a shed) from hemp.   Professor Marosszeky is very highly regarded in his field having worked on numerous studies for multi-national building and construction corporations. The latest news is a boom for hemp building and certainly boosts the integrity and backing of this truly innovative and sustainable building technique.   Professor Marosszeky was initially skeptical about the use of 'hemp' as a serious building material and probably thought, like many others that it was a fad to support the 'many uses of industrial hemp'.   The announcement that Professor Marosszeky will not only be present at the event, but support the event with his time and advice to participants is a highly valuable and one time bonus to all that attend.   The need for affordable and truly sustainable housing in Australia is really in the hands of those that want it and access to this new and proven technology is very much needed. Builders, architects and self-build enthusiasts are all showing strong interest before this technology is officially launched next year in 2011.   There are still a few (and limited) positions left for this workshop that will involve building much of a small timber and bamboo frame building.   Book now for the Saturday September 4th Workshop by emailing info@thehempbuilder.com or read more at http://www.thehempbuilder.com And if you cannot make it, please do share this extra-ordinary news with your friends and associates on twitter, facebook, email and, most importantly in person!     For those that are interested in all things hemp there is a new facebook page called 'everything hemp' that will launch all new hemp technologies in hemp plastic, building and similar first. Be in front of the news - visit:  http://bit.ly/bznVv7   Here is a video showing more about the many applications of the Cannabis plant.    Presenter Adam Henson discovers why hemp is being hailed as a new wonder crop.   Adam interviews Lee Preston of Lotus Engineering (who shows off the hemp-bodied Lotus Eco Elise), hemp farmer Dan Squire, Mike Duckett of Hemcore, Ian Prtichett of Lime Technology and Jonathan Adnams at the Adnams Brewery Warehouse and Distribution Centre, which is made from hemp blocks.   BBC – Countryfile, Episode 987 – November 2, 2008. http://www.thehempbuilder.com

  Carbon credits are a tradable permit scheme. They provide a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by giving them a monetary value. International treaties set quotas on the amount of greenhouse gases countries can produce. Countries, in turn, set quotas on Industrial emissions. Industries that exceed their quotas must buy carbon credits for their excess emissions and Industries below their quotas can sell their remaining credits. By allowing credits to be bought and sold, a business for which reducing its emissions would be expensive or prohibitive can pay another business to make the reduction for it. This minimizes the quota's impact on the business, while still reaching the quota.  In addition to the burning of fossil fuels, major industry sources of greenhouse gas emissions are cement, steel, textile, and fertilizer manufacturers. The main gases emitted by these industries are methane, nitrous oxide, hydro-fluorocarbons, etc, which increase the atmosphere's ability to trap infrared energy. Our addiction to fossil fuels, coal & oil, has changed the quality of our air, water and earth. Our health is affected by toxic-related cancer.  The cost of production, transport and storage of our food requires energy. Energy in solid, liquid and electrical form in ever increasing amounts. Coal fired power stations are trying to clean up their efficiency. Nuclear power has negative issues. Wind, solar, hydro, tidal, geothermal and plant material (biomass) have all become more viable as the price of crude oil rises and supplies diminish.      HEMP is ENERGY (E=hempseed squared) Biomass from food crops and their byproducts is used to make Biofuel. Bast fibre crops include such species as Flax, Kenaf, Sun Hemp and Industrial Hemp. The “hurd” is the inner woody core of the bast fibre plant’s stem. In general bast fibre crops produce the greatest amount of usable bio-mass, over the shortest period, for the least amount of water. Bast crops are a highly efficient mop crop and can use most types of waste or even brackish water.  Between 1.7 and 1.9 tonnes of carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere for each tonne of bast crop cellulose produced. We typically grow 10-14 tonnes of crop straw per hectare. Another 2-3 tonnes of cellulose mass is produced and stored in the root system. So each hectare of hemp could immediately sequester some 22 tonnes of greenhouse gases. Bast crops are able to sequester more carbon than trees in a short 150 day season cycle and yet leave arable land available for food and other crop production in the remainder of the year.  Pyrolytic Conversion Organic plants are converted into pyrolytic fuel using a thermo-chemical process. Using the same technology as fossil fuels, the conversion of plants into renewable energy is the most efficient method of producing charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas or methanol. Pyrolysis occurs whenever solid organic material is heated strongly in absence of oxygen, e.g. when frying, roasting, baking, toasting. The process also occurs when burning compact solid fuel, like wood.  An ancient industrial use of anhydrous pyrolysis is the production of charcoal through the pyrolysis of wood. More recently, pyrolysis has been used on a massive scale to turn coal into coke for metallurgy, especially steelmaking. Anhydrous pyrolysis can also be used to produce liquid fuel similar to diesel from solid biomass or plastics. Pyrolysis of wood for charcoal was a major industry replaced by coal during the 1800’s Industrial Revolution.  HEMP versus FOSSIL FUEL Biodiesel is composed of methyl and ethyl esters. Any source of complex fatty acid can be used to create Biodiesel and glycerin. Peanut oil, hemp oil, corn oil, and tallow were used as sources for the complex fatty acids used in the separation process. The process for making fuel from biomass feedstock used in the 1800's is basically the same one used today. Currently, soybeans, rapeseed, canola, corn, recycled fryer oil, tallow, forest wastes, and sugar cane are common resources for the complex fatty acids and their by-product, Biofuels.  HEMP versus WOODCHIPS Paper made from hemp is stronger and less likely to tear. It has more wet resistance than wood pulp and is 7 times as recyclable. It is also grown from an annual plant thus saving forest resources. It can produce a wider range of papers, whilst only using a fraction of the dangerous chemicals. No dioxins are produced and less energy/water used. Cannabis can be mixed with other fibre pulp for strength. Hemp produces many times the cellular fibre of trees and is perfect for hemp bricks, concrete framework and particle board. Hemp is very long lasting and highly flexible. The Bible and US currency will both be printed on hemp again as they were before. HEMP versus PETRO-CHEMICALS The petrochemical, drug, and wood pulp paper industries all compete with Hemp products. Hemp plastic is bio-degradable. Until the 19th century about 80% of all rope and twine was made of hemp until replaced by synthetic Petro-chemicals. HEMP versus ATTITUDE As in the 1930's, we are faced with tremendous political and economic pressure creating similar challenges. The enormous influence of the petroleum industries and other industries that might be threatened and/or impacted by a resurgence of the renewable, biomass, and associated industries is being felt on all levels. HEMP versus MONEY When Hemp or Cannabis is a listed commodity on the Stock Market alongside Gold, Crude Oil, Coal, Soybean, Corn and Cotton then the benefits to our health, wealth, air, water, earth and fertility will create a better future for us all. 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The 2010 Variety Clubs B-Shed to Byron Bay Bash is scheduled to stop at the Nimbin HEMP Embassy from 9am on Monday, August 30th. The Hemp Bar will be temporarily converted to a driver-reviver pit stop for the rally drivers with all drivers offered a Hemp Burger, coffee and slice of Hemp Cake.The POLITE will be there with the Big Joint and its live web cam, as will be the Johnny No-Cash Early Morning Nimbin Street Band."This is a great opportunity to educate the drivers about hemps potential as well as help the childrens charity," said Hemp President Balderstone. "Drivers will getting a brochure from our Polite Officers on why hemp is ideal for ethanol production. Few people yet seem to realize the enormous potential of the cannabis plant, which has been lost for nearly a century."http://www.bigjoint.org Further details, contact the HEMP Embassy on 02-6689-1842 or leave a comment on the forum.

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