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 ...

These words came from a masked man, gloved hands nearly elbow deep in a big tub of moistened chopped hurd—the soft inner core of the hemp plant stem. Surrounding him were about 20 others, students at ...

MORTON, Minn. — The Lower Sioux Indian Community is using hemp plants to build homes in Morton, Minnesota, in an effort to better the community. Project manager Danny Desjarlais says the tribe is ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — From the outside, the home of Henry Gage Jr. and Sally Warren at 74 Foxhall Ave. looks a lot like any other home in the city. But once a visitor walks inside, they’ll notice something ...

Hemp is staging a comeback as a building material in the U.S. Hempcrete is a green alternative to fiberglass insulation in homebuilding. Only 50 homes in the U.S. contain hemp, in such states as North ...

Cannabis is good for more than just medicine—industrial hemp has its uses in eco-friendly architecture too. Haifa-based studio Tav Group built Ein Hod, an eco-minded home for artists, using hempcrete, ...