It really doesn’t look like much, but hempcrete is the green building material that’s got eco-savvy homeowners and architects excited by its potential to be a sustainable alternative to ...

The Lower Sioux Indian Community, near Morton, Minn., has a little more than 1,100 residents and 1,473 acres of mostly sandy soil, but it could soon lead the nation in production of hemp-infused ...

The term “cannabis construction” usually applies to greenhouses and buildings intended as marijuana growing operations, but Rocky Mountain Hemp Build is out to change that. The hempcrete and hemp ...

As program coordinator for 8 th Fire Solar, an emerging Osage, Minnesota-based provider and installer of solar thermal panels, Gwe Gasco is doing his part to take care of the environment and lay the ...

Grassroots Development built a hempcrete house and an identical conventional house for research. A year later, they've discovered some surprising results. The hempcrete house (right) and ...

ROCHESTER, Minn — Two years ago, we introduced you to Danny Desjarlais and the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Morton, Minnesota. The tribe was building homes on the reservation with hempcrete, which ...

MORTON, Minn. — After a decade of research and consulting some of the best hempcrete industry experts in the world, the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota is providing jobs and addressing the ...

For now, it’s only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern ...

A recently published article by The Cool Down (“America’s mainstream climate brand”) detailed how hemp can be “transformed into a material called hempcrete.” “Hempcrete is a carbon-negative building ...

The hempcrete duplex, constructed with a building material made of hemp, lime and water and built on the Lower Sioux Indian Community, will be used as emergency shelter for tribal members in need.

ROCHESTER — On a January day hovering just above zero, there’s a peaceful stillness in the air of a new home in southeast Rochester. The home is about 60 degrees — with no heat on. It’s the walls, ...

Kate Nicklin and Graham Mateer, the directors of Commonbond Architects, an architectural firm in London, work in a self-built studio located in the garden behind their bungalow. Nicklin and Mateer had ...