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In The Future, Your Car Will Be More Plant Than Machine

Ford is using organically derived materials all over their cars. Why? Because oil is too expensive.READ»

Kenneth Cole's Tone-Deaf Tweet! Vodafone's Coerced Texts! Salad Dressing Drug Charges! Business Misadventures in Egypt Multiply

As a revolution unfolds, the forwardly fashionable, mobile operators, and even a purveyor of health foods have been caught up in Egypt's current chaos.READ»

Flax For Victory? Super Seed Bumps Hemp

Naturally Advanced Technologies wants the sustainable fashion industry to get loaded on flax.READ»

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Motive Industries' Cannabis Composite EV Satisfies Your Need for Speed, Weed

Motive Industries recently announced plans for Canada's first biocomposite electric vehicle--made of hemp. Will cops have automatic probable cause to search it?READ»

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Hemp: The Fabric of Our Lives?

Hemp is one of the fastest growing biomasses in existence, uses less water than cotton, and requires minimal pesticides to thrive. Yet it is still illegal to grow under U.S. federal law due to its relation to marijuana. That hasn't ...READ»

From Shipping Containers to Concert Halls: The 10 Oddest Places to Work or Live

Ask yourself: Would you live in a house made of sh*t? What about one made from hemp? Could you see yourself working in an office building comprised of recycled shipping containers? Architects and designers are finding strange, but ingenious ways, of rethinking where we spend our days working and living.READ»

Would You Live in an Earthquake-Resistant Home Made From Straw and Hemp?

You might not think that a straw house could be better insulated than one made of, say, brick, but that's exactly what researchers at the University of Bath in the U.K. intend to prove with the BaleHaus, a home constructed from straw ...READ»

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Would You Live in a Hemp House?

Hemp is useful for more than just summer camp necklaces and niche clothing items, according to researchers at the University of Bath. The university's BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials has discovered that hemp bound ...READ»

The Six Most Fascinating Things on the Web This Week

Robot Makes Its Own Scientific Discovery Scientists at the U.K.'s Aberystwyth University gave a laboratory robot named Adam a database about yeast biology, articulated arms, and artificial intelligence, and it came back to them ...READ»